Charlie Kirk started the Professor Watchlist, which caused friends of mine and their families to be terrorized by right-wing assholes. So, you know, fuck everyone trying to find some nugget of decency in that shitpile.
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Charlie Kirk started the Professor Watchlist, which caused friends of mine and their families to be terrorized by right-wing assholes. So, you know, fuck everyone trying to find some nugget of decency in that shitpile.
Almost as if that social emotional learning stuff they rail against and ban actually means a fucking thing.
In case it's not clear, the incompetence by law enforcement.
I was just fired from my firm for filing this case lol
Also, love the username!
For all their criticism of LE, the same folks will ascribe to proficiency what can easily be ascribed to incompetence.
Will be? Have been.
You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
The number of white people who think the marginalized communities most harmed by Kirk's evil rhetoric --and that includes U.S. children, owe them Civility Discourse exemplifies the very white-coded priorities that allow Kirk's brand of evil to persist in broad fucking daylight. Miss me with it.
“So what if he disagreed with you, he didn’t deserve to die” But he thought I did. This isn’t disagreement. It’s someone who was not only opposed to my existence but was called a good and faithful servant by the church for doing it. I don’t have to mourn that. And asking me to is violence too.
Problematic white man blocked!
Charlie Kirk was a fucking ghoul. And prioritizing internet tone policing over acknowledging that is a hell of a choice.
criticism of AI is not reactionary, it’s grounded in years of study, analysis, and dialogue. making the choice to resist and refuse involves deep, slow, and careful considerations of our impact as library workers
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It's nice to have nice things sometimes.
#Trumpstein
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Today there were multiple instances of gun violence that made the news, including one in a high school. No amount of innocent lives are worth unrestricted gun ownership. #EveryoneTakesCareOfEveryone #GunsKill
Nazis are Nazis. We call it like we see it, Fasc-hole Trump!
Blech
The Minnesota Hortmans were assassinated and the Hoffmans were shot less than 3 months ago. If you check her feed, you'll see that Bluesky CEO Jay Gruber had no comment. Now that Charlie Kirk has been shot, see this pointed note of concern.
Reid Todd moved into her north Houston “dream home” in 2018. The house in a booming suburb was built in a 500-year floodplain, but the developer assured her they were safe. They were wrong.
I have NO love for that sonofabitch. But I don't relish violence and gore. Geezuz.
The footage was hard. I stumbled on it on Bluesky looking for news on Charlie Kirk being shot. I don't see how he survives. I'm not a doctor, but gottdam.
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That's so wonderful
Searching for a discussion elsewhere brought me here. /JustInterwebzStuff
Not me gravedigging by mistake, but it's still relevant!
Disliked BUT HER EMAILS - from the right? Check out the sequel: BUT MY FOLLOWS - from the performative left whew
You are my hero. THANK YOU FOR THIS.
Today, my hero is Kay Slater Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library muse.jhu.edu/article/968497 #genAI #libraries #librarians #librarianship #AI #CriticalRefusal
How long until Little Miss Hitler Youth arrives at the Find Out stage? I'd have Thoughts and Feelings, as a student, about Far Right classmates who deny me a comprehensive education and the spineless administrators who empower them, but that's me. www.them.us/story/texas-...
Leaked Ice document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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UNITE HERE Local 23 is ON STRIKE in Texas! Workers at the huge Hilton Americas hotel in downtown Houston have been on strike since Labor Day. Hospitality workers are fighting for jobs that are enough to raise a family on in the South!
It’s day 9️⃣ of @unitehere.org Local 23 members’ STRIKE at the Hilton Americas-Houston hotel! 💥 We are all in. Workers need a fair contract now!
Just a little authoritarianism at Texas A&M University. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...
English-speakers: learn to speak anything other than English for The Resistance. urbanists.social/@danwentzel/...
James Talarico will be running against Senator John Cornyn. Let's help him win that race! | Saturday September 13th 12:30PM - 3PM #TXPolitics #TX #Texas #Politics www.mobilize.us/bluefuture/e...
Satire is a tough business these days.
John Cornyn Houston Office Protest, Week 448, tomorrow, 9/9, 5300 Memorial Dr., 11:30-1. Supreme Court allows ICE to stop anyone for any reason & Trump plans more troops in cities. They are coming for rights, representation & our lives. Voting not enough. We must meet challenge ahead. #Houston
Thank you for that and good idea
I'd like to lay eyes on Wet Bulb Global Temperature averages for Houston. Where might I find that data if available publicly...? :D
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @Rattoons1776)
Young folks, consider that part of the reason so many conservatives don't want you to use the library is because we're the hottest MFing thing in town.
I missed this January 2024 gem. www.cbsnews.com/news/florida...
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Please get off Substack. Ghost is a great alternative. www.reddit.com/r/Blogging/c...
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I don't know when it became common practice for folks to "share" information originally written by someone else and not give them a lick of credit for it. Especially when the original writer gets untold amounts of personal abuse and pain for it. Credit. People. Share, add, w/e. CREDIT YR SOURCE.
“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it. Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day. They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.
A comrade's beautiful pupper. Just THE sweetest, softest floofiest boy.
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we’re going to have to throw a lot of people in jail after all this is over
This. Is. Fascism.
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Archdiocese of Houston-Galveston could NEVER. After this happened [https://www.osvnews.com/20-us-bishops-join-interfaith-effort-opposing-big-beautiful-bill-as-moral-failure] and Archbishop Joe S. Vásquez did NOTHING, I wrote to him. Twice. He ignored me of course.
The notoriously woke Tom Hanks www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
Fascists & Oligarchs making nice in OUR HOUSE. #USPolitics www.wsj.com/video/tech-c...
#50501Movement is live in Washington D.C. right now for the Free DC March! Give them some love and support remotely if you can. Livestream at: m.youtube.com/watch?v=8YjQ...
Please help get far right extremists off the #CyFairISD board and their agendas out of our classrooms. The only way that happens is if everyone does something and anything is better than nothing. #BeSomeone #Election #Election2025 #GeneralElection #GeneralElection2025 #Houston #Cypress #TX #Texas
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He's doing more madcap Beto announcements. Please understand that this is not hyperbole: I think he might be deranged.
Newest communication subject: "Attorney General Ken Paxton Appeals Flawed Injunction and Continues to Order That the Ten Commandments Be Displayed in Texas Schools" Our AG is a MESS.
Office Professionals copypasta starter pack: This conference could have been a training! This training could have been a meeting! This meeting could have been an email! This email could have been a swift kick in the ass!
Data & Society-Understanding AI: What the Public Needs to Know. Fri 5 Sep, 5p CT www.showclix.com/event/unders... What do we need to know about AI and automated decision-making tools today? How can we better understand the technology’s influence... #genAI #Tech #Ethics #PublicInterestTechnology
Nunez is accused of towing the federal vehicle during the August 15 arrest of Tatiana Mafla-Martinez, a TikToker who had been documenting immigration raids in Los Angeles. He faces 10 years in federal prison. By @shoton35mm.bsky.social The full story: lataco.com/tow-truck-dr...
On the morning of a holiday weekend, Trump launched an effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied children to Guatemala without due process. This kind of lawless enforcement flies in the face of our laws. The courts must safeguard the basic rights of these vulnerable children.
Early reporting on 11yo Julian Guzman's murder suggested the take-away is 'kids shouldn't prank.' Uh no. Why's a child more responsible for their safety than an adult? If you're a hothead adult who'll GUN DOWN A FLEEING CHILD cuz ur mad, YOU, adult are the problem. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
This is what Texas school librarians are facing starting this week. Let the state government know what you think about Moms For Liberty taking control of what books your child has access to.
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
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Their version vs My version. #ICE #DHS #UncleSam #USA #TheResistance #Resist
THEY VOTED TO RESTORE THE IMLS FUNDING. This isn't the end. It's nowhere near the end. But the House and Senate subcommittees voted to restore the IMLS in their budget markups. Full House budget markup is tomorrow.
Neil Aquino is speaking sense. Is anyone at Houston City Hall listening? I hope so.
From Tech Workers Coalition (TWC) - AI Adoption Survey - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Houston Democracy Project Blog reports on heavily policed Labor Day democracy march in Houston. Why do people who just want to live freely merit such police presence & if city can find such police resources at Labor Day pay, why can’t mow grass at parks? #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...
Oh look. Women's March Events finally approved the daily copypasta email reminder I tried to send to attendees who signed up via that platform days ago just 24 minutes ago. Golly, thanks Women's March Events. /s
I lack the skills to make a bot that posts the WILD BULLSHIT coming out of Paxton's comms office. This shit needs to be seen to be believed. If you have that skill, please help, or to tell me how, so I can help. People need to see the multiple-times-a-day fuckery that Christofascist is up to.
"Attorney General Ken Paxton Encourages Texas Schools to Begin Legal Process of Putting Prayer Back in the Classroom and Recommends the Lord’s Prayer for Students" No. I support the separation of church and state. Stop trying to indoctrinate my children, you asshole. #Texas #USA #politics
Thank you to everyone who turned out today. You could've been barbecuing, or shopping, or Netflixing, or pretending we don't live under authoritarianism, but you were out on the streets, with us, in the heat, and the humidity and rain, trying to make a difference. I see YOU. It MATTERS.
Take back your hat. THEN eat the rich.
The numbers are in. It wasn't a hot summer in Houston, right? Wrong. It was the 6th hottest summer on record. Why? Nighttime lows. We averaged 77 degrees in Houston officially. We just trailed 2023's record of 77.4 degrees. Each of the last 10 summers has finished in the top 30 of warmest nighttimes
We Rise Up event in Conroe next weekend with more to come that are listed on mobilize. mobilize.us/s/MQPq3t #conroe
Hey #Houston #LaborDayMarch attendees! Please read Space City Weather for forecast info about Mon. Sep. 1. So far, no change in plans, but we'll be watching the weather closely. Can't wait to get out there tomorrow with you all! #WorkerSolidarity #CommunityPower #WorkersOverBillionaires #FashIsTrash
If you’re willing to sacrifice trans-kin, you’ll be willing to throw other minorities under the bus when it’s convenient. We have to win together or it’s meaningless. There is absolutely nothing I’ve seen that convinces me that exclusion leads to victory.
The people in charge of this country are not solving problems. They are being evil. Purely, unadulterated evil.
Houston Democracy Project Blog has info on Labor Day protests in the Houston region. All volunteer & rank and file organized. We must show up for ourselves for the difficult days ahead. Find one near you! #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...
If you are unable to make it out to our Labor Day March, please consider supporting this taco fundraiser happening 9am - 4pm the same day #Houston! bsky.app/profile/eved...