@radiofreetom.bsky.social explained it better than anyone; this is from a thread he posted after the 2024 election. For us, it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character. ⬇️
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@radiofreetom.bsky.social explained it better than anyone; this is from a thread he posted after the 2024 election. For us, it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character. ⬇️
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚
And again I scream from the rafters “BITCHES IN THE LIVING ROOM GETTING IT ON” SSTFU
I would walk out of the store on principle
Creole mustard FTW
If you’re Lenny Kravitz ;)
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bluesky trending topics is off by a mile
I’ll never have a DNR that’s for sure
If you’re up for more read Five Days At Memorial
I have a classic 70’s picture of him with my sister at a Texas Power & Light Christmas party. It was strange knowing Mr Peppermint first then learning of the Butthole Surfers.
Texas book banners are in a tizzy about Killeen ISD, a district that looks likely to exercise their legal option *not* to create a committee policing their school libraries. Here’s one trustee explaining his reasoning in a way any American can understand:
I just read The Lilac People based on this. I had no idea. So good
Sadly no picture but I did take a picture of this bike and someone besides me need to appreciate it
They just had his name. Need to see if I took a picture. It was such a surprise.
Love it. We’re so past wheels
I was just in Amsterdam. The coffee (real coffee) shop I was in had a poster of Gibby Haynes who was coming to town soon. Long way from Texas. GH’s dad was Mr. Peppermint, a local icon.
You shared how OZ lost funding due to federal cuts a couple weeks back. I just read they gained it back thanks to an appeal to donors!! Thanks for sharing.
I need a rewatch. Such a good show.
Didn’t feel that way at all. Just noted. I don’t live there. I’m a regular out of towner over the last 30 years and read and paid attention to a lot about that time. But I can’t speak to it like a local. I just know it’s changed.
I spy Kermit ♥️
I did see a comment from a local earlier today that Gov Blanco started the bus evacuation the day before. There are a few key elements the local noted that the Netflix show gets wrong. I’d expect a fact checker. No slight on Honore and all he did. He’s a national treasure. Clone him.
It’s not the same.
BSTFU
Look at her with her extensions auditioning for Trump
Seriously. What the fuck does that even mean. Not playing his stupid games.
Yep - every shooting is on Republicans. They alone have the power to curb this epidemic and they choose not to by every vote.
And they’re all Republican
New Orleans Creole Yaka Mein (Old Sober) Ingredients: 2 lb beef chuck or brisket, cut in chunks 1 lb shrimp 8 cups beef broth 2 ribs celery, sliced 2 Tbsp soy sauce 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce 2 Tbsp Cajun/Creole seasoning 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp onion powder #KitchenWitchery #WitchSky
“What they’re offering people is not health insurance or economic security,” Stanley says. “They’re offering them delight in the torture of others.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
👆🏼Mr Tony was who my son remembered most from his elementary days. He was always cool w/ the kids. He didnt miss a thing. When teachers are down on you it’s nice to have one person who is always happy to see you. No one should discount how much that matters to making school a place kids want to be.
We got to see this in Amsterdam this summer. Very cool. Noticed no one wore helmets. Wild.
So when he rapped about ‘bitches in the living room gettin’ it on’ —— he was just tricking us?
Timeline Cleanse ⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️ Freddie Mercury doing a vocal warmup at Live Aid 1985 with 70,000 people in his hands 💙👏💙👏💙
Snoop’s no longer down with the bitches in the living room getting it on. Noted.
Yes - the tallest capitol building in the US.
One dead, 5 injured in 5 separate shootings in Baton Rogue La from between 1am & 5am this morning.
Loved visiting my grandparents in their little house with a framed picture of JFK on the wall ♥️ there in the 70’s s & 80’s. They’d probably be maga now.This is house insidious maga + fox is. These people are willfully ignorant to how they are being played.
But if your district wasn’t part of the lawsuit they stay up. Hello Midland MISD, who last week decided to rename their high school Lee. Originally named Robert E Lee HS as a middle finger to desegregation laws. In 2020 finally changed to Legacy. Far right school board changed it back last week.
Touchdown Saints!
I remember being in Nola for an NYE back then, seeing the iguanas and Doug Harrison described as Beirut
The magafication of America, Texas specifically has challenged any tiny bit of faith I had. I’ll go to my grave bot being able to reconcile how they voted for him and how it aligns with their faith. That’s not the faith I want any part of.
It’s backed by a church. Definite abstinence only. Which is fine is that’s your deal but not teaching my child about it at a public school. I was concerned with the preaching that would be infused with it. Pass. Of course now they’ve got the 10 C’s on the walls so….
In midland texas they have “the life center” teach sex Ed. I said nope.
Just a really sexy pop track. youtu.be/lKtOo5vwPVg?...
A team went nine games without making a single goal. The fans decided to help.
The board member who suggested the reversal announced it via a FB post on July 4th and used “heritage” in his reasoning of that gives you any clue
Watching America 2025 and reading The Lilac People at the same time. It’s eerie how close we are to things happening during that time.
@deecherrywriter.bsky.social
MISD changed the name of Legacy High School back to Lee last week. Not sure that aligns with those. The hs was originally named Robert E Lee as a middle finger to the ruling on desegregation. In 2020 public demand led then to change it to Legacy. The majority far right school board in full effect.
Midland ISD says “The ruling was related to the district's that were involved. Midland ISD was not, and therefore, we will continue to monitor this new legislation and requirement from the State of Texas. We work closely with our legal counsel on all issues such as this- of course they also chang
You aren’t alone
Just For Men says what?
Please talk about Mayor David Holt’s letter in the NYT. Very important from a red state mayor, especially a “Republican” one. (Old school kind) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
Oh Jesus christ
Jesus wept
Everyone of you paid for a subscription to Technology Review?
Funny how the "only happy talk" rule about America that is going to be enforced on museums about history is not going to be enforced against false depictions of contemporary cities as crime-ridden hellholes.
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
Liberace’s ghost fled the Oval Office, saying, “It’s a bit tacky for me.”
Strolling Tiger
And I got this one with my ice cream at the baseball game, do you want to play with my dinosaurs?
If not mom why mom shaped?
Now I’m wondering which New Orleans people I follow are actually influencers
“Which, and I can’t believe I even have to say this but I’ll play this stupid game with you again, it itself started.
Meanwhile in Texas
Do the Democrats truly knows it?
substack.com/@danielethan...
Speakers at the MISD school board meeting against the change outnumbered the “heritage & tradition” folks 43-6. All were impassioned. Daniel Harris wrote a series on substack on the history behind the naming of the school here.
Sturgeon moon over baseball game in the city that decided to wholly re-embrace their love for the confederacy by changing the high school’s name back to Lee this past Tuesday.
The former Robert E Lee High School in Midland Texas that changed to the name Legacy in 2020 was changed back to Lee this week by the maga school board. Maybe that’s enough.
The news out of DC is consistently awful but it’s still kind of amusing to see all these tough guy members of Congress lining up in front of the cameras to say things like, “I can’t step outside the Rayburn Building when I’m here because if I hear rap music I’ll shit myself.”
Greta idea. My 83 year old mom has Alexa remind her at 5 every day.
Isn’t carrying a pistol without a license their favorite thing?
As in, it was once pretty badass to say you were from Texas but yesterday your local school board in Midland voted to go back to calling the high school Lee. You know, the one they named Robert E Lee in the 60’s as a big f you to the feds that made them desegregate.
That 👆🏼
Is Red Gravy still open?
Not surprising if you live here
true and i watched devout church members who i considered kind hearted friends taunt his size online when hundreds were watching a FB live. Truly disgusting realization of how these “christians” actually felt. And it passed btw. 4-3. Lee rides again.
Tonight in Midland Texas the MISD school board voted to rename the former Robert E Lee High School, which they changed to Legacy High School in 2020, back to Lee High School. In surely unrelated news 80% of Midland voters voted for Trump
It’s giving “and furthermore Susan I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised that all four of them habitually smoked marijuana cigarettes. Reefers.”
What I’ve learned that sucks is the self pay price is exponentially higher than they get reimbursed by insurance. And while I agree their insurance reimbursement is a pittance they aren’t pricing the self pay people - who actually need the break - fairly either. It’s hard not to fault both of them.
Definitely an authoritarian stunt but Orleans is a blue city. Red state but still blue.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social has no more (expletives) to give. And @jbf1755.bsky.social was there for it all.
Definitely true in west texas. We usually start summer with a slew of 100 degree days. We are finally seeing them this week.
He knows not of which he speaks
Cleanliness is a good thing
Do you have the waterspout video
Interesting. I can get cash discounts here in midland but it’s never me paying less than what insurance reimburses them. I’ve checked my past EOB’s. Especially with my dentist who overcharges but I like her so 🤷🏻♀️
French quarter
How aren’t you and @tressiemcphd.bsky.social friends
Is that Randy Rhoads I see?! Allow me some small joy from this news.
Thanks for letting us know. Done. #fmaga
Whatever you decide wait longer than you think need to before they get a phone and then get a flip phone.
Not seeing them in midland texas either where construction and oil business is booming. Odd.
This may spawn which is the front cup holder energy
All you really need to know about the federal prison facility to which Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred is that the official signage looks like the kind of place that offers 2-for-1 slider specials, 10-cent wing happy hours, and a live karaoke band every Tues. night. She sex trafficked kids.
If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.
What’s really going on in Texas? I give you Rep. Jolanda Jones in two parts speaking from temporary exile while they deny a quorum to state Republicans. She lays out every bit of it out - chapter and verse. These Texas Dems are the real deal. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social Here’s Part 1:
Whatever it takes to avoid Decatur