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Houstonian | Perpetually outraged | feral 🏳️‍🌈 | Writer for brands you probably buy
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Not just Houston, but like, downtown Houston and some of the blackest neighborhoods in the city.

LOL

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

I know crashing the economy on purpose seems harsh, but it’ll all be worth it when the seventh Little Mermaid is white

pretty crazy they straight up told the country that they would crash the economy and no one really brought it up or cared

“liberation day” and it’s just me getting banned by nextdoor

Attorney General Seeks Death Penalty For All UnitedHealthcare Customers

NEW - Last week, a federal judge said that extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional." I thought it was worth looking at one of the biggest reasons Texas prisons don't have air conditioning: Former Senator-turned-Houston Mayor John Whitmire. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

i love seeing a million posts like "it's funny that he is suffering" and not only do we all know who he is but we all want the same thing. like who's the pronoun now dipshit

wisconsin ushering in new age of Woke

Says the guy who spent millions to elect a judge that will soon be the deciding vote on a case involving Tesla’s ability to sell cars in the state.

Is it normal for a law enforcement officer to post something like this

1. An internal Trump administration document claims that having a Michael Jordan "Jumpman" tattoo and wearing "high-end urban street wear" makes you a likely member of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang. This kind of "evidence" is used to justify summary deportations to a Salvadoran prison

BREAKING: Judge Myron Thompson declares Alabama A.G. Steve Marshall's threatened abortion-fund prosecutions unconstitutional. Yellowhammer Fund and healthcare providers sued; Thompson ruled that Marshall violated the right to travel and the First Amendment with his threats. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Pillars making a come back

who amongst us

NPR animator and illustrator Jackie Lay tells the story of Victoria Woodhull, who wrote a letter to the New York Herald in 1870 announcing she was running for president — 50 years before women would be allowed to vote.

Measles

MUST READ: An investigation into the TX child welfare system found it's so intent on reducing contact with troubled families that kids are left with violent parents — while authorities walked away. Reporting by @paulflahive.bsky.social. ip.whenhomeisthedanger.org/mishandled-f... #txlege

The white supremacist gunman who murdered 23 people at an El Paso WalMart in 2019 believed he was acting at the direction of President Trump, his defense lawyers say. "“He thought he had to stop the invasion because that’s what his president was telling him."

The conference’s speakers included far-right media figures and Pizzagate conspiracy theorists with ties to white supremacists at a hotel and conference venue operated by the University of Texas in Austin. Latest from @stevanzetti.bsky.social thebarbedwire.com/2025/03/31/e...

"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery

Foreign students are getting caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet, transported 1000s of miles away to an isolated network of lockups in the South called "Detention Center Alley". Critically important reporting from @oliverlaughland.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In THEORY the point of jail is to make sure people show up to court - but since 2018 LASD has often failed to get them there At one point >80% of buses were broken & 1/3 of inmates were missing court dates. My latest @latimes.com is a deep dive on how it came to this www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Trump administration is preparing to fire every single worker at the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy.

NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.

BREAKING: Louisianans just rejected a ballot measure that would have paved the way for more children to be prosecuted as adults. It lost by roughly 30%. Here’s how a supporter had justified it: “Some of these kids are already lost when they’re two years old.” Context: boltsmag.org/louisiana-am...

Not all who wander are lost. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

do they think she’s a witch that caused Mike Waltz to fat finger the wrong person into the group chat I don’t understand

They’re going to throw out the ruby slippers for turning people gay

What a headline, oof. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...

sure the stock markets looking bad and everyones grandparents won’t get their social security check but at least the white house is posting based memes

People are taking things into their own hands

“Welcome to the show that almost didn’t happen,” the host announced. “But guess what? It did!” The crowd exploded. Draggieland 2025 had officially begun. Today’s must-read story is this‬⁩ dispatch from Texas A&M’s annual #drag bonanza‬⁩. www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...

Our top story: The federal Health Resources and Services Administration designates 192 Texas counties as mental health provider shortage areas. Nolan County, home to Sweetwater, ranks worse than 155 of those.

"freedom seeds" is somehow both cringe and incredibly dystopian

I never imagined that the most dangerous moment in America's democracy would also be its stupidest.

they are literally prosecuting thought crimes. this is fascism

She’s a New York abortion provider. And he’s just Ken

Under Trump, conservatives are ramping up calls to reverse same-sex marriage rights www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.

Forgotten in jail without a lawyer: how a Texas town fails poor defendants www.texastribune.org/2025/03/25/t... via @texastribune.org

Trump Orders All Children Born Under Biden To Be Renamed After Confederate Generals theonion.com/trump-o...

Is it good when diseases jump between species

"The United States now has a tropical gulag."

Creatives when an account person shows up to what was supposed to be a creatives-only meeting