my dad, too cheap to pay for a hair cut, had me cut his hair last time, but he did it himself this time, in his wheel chair with a mirror propped on his lap, using his electric clippers in his one good hand while unable to lift his chin due to spinal deformity. That’s how much he disliked my attempt
Just venting to the uninterested universe that my 84 y/o dad and 58 y/o brother believe they can not make a decision about what type of adult diapers to buy, money being no object, without my in person input.
Hope he drives safe. We don’t want the Oklahoma senator exiting through the windshield in a hurry.
Then what tradition are you talking about here? I’m not a lifelong Texan, but was here for the quorum break in 2003 when the democrats ran to Oklahoma to block redistricting. It wasn’t new then. In 2020 they gerrymandered away my opportunity to vote against Chip Roy.
🤷♂️gerrymandering is the tradition in Texas.
Republicans drew them and Republicans were defending them in court.
Yeah, it’s not arrested as in going to jail. It’s arrested and hauled in to Austin to establish a legislative quorum.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2019, in Rucho v. Common Cause, that federal courts cannot address claims of partisan gerrymandering.
Texas special sessions can run for 30 days. This one times out on August 19 and then another will be called.
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To try to be on topic with the thread, I feel like first year teachers especially need the easiest ways possible to reach out for support, and maybe, since they’re willing to enter this profession just now, it isn’t the best time for hitting them with the ethics of propping up a crappy system
Thanks for being an art teacher. We could use more visual literacy. I taught art until 2019, spending earnings on the classroom. And this year I held my nose and bought from Amazon wish lists for a couple of my former co-workers’ kids who just graduated and got their first teaching jobs.
a DHS spokesperson chose to use the word “laughable” for a response to this resignation. are taxpayers paying to get laughed at?
So he’s not really serving antivaxers. The idea is to break public health and faith in existing medical systems in general to get more customers for quacks?
Otter people. Thanks autocorrect. Perfect.
How did we get here? Did we somehow lose sight of the power of minding our own business? Why do antivaxers need the power to shut down otter people’s access to vaccines? To protect themselves from hearing that they ought to vaccinate their kids?
This is not an understatement.
It’s dangerous, but I’ve been trying to count my dad’s cat’s toes. #caturday
That helps.
I am finding it hard to accept that he would have the skill level to execute a drawing, let alone a crude doodle.
Well, my cousin just shared an article explaining that because crocodiles swallow rocks as ballast, evolutionary theory is bunk.
Surely it would have been possible to acknowledge the families’s feelings in some way - if he understood that people feel things
What’s a right answer to that question? I mean, we have heard often enough his deflection of calling the questioner nasty, evil or crazy if they ask something he doesn’t want asked. And it is a pass through question, so he’s calling angry families evil. How would a decent leader answer?
Ask the real questions. What will the cuts do going forward.
I was raised by a state government bureaucrat. I can’t help thinking they do worthwhile jobs like getting rural fire departments equipment and lobbying for the volunteer fire fighters.
Meanwhile American citizen criminals are doing what? Filling vacancies?
I feel blessed to have had coworkers who were willing to err on the side of caution to save me from erring on the side of not wanting to err.
NYT says staffing vacancies lead to questions if it was harder to forecast the event. In fact the event was forecast and state officials mobilized resources two days ahead. Looks like NWS can actually do it with reduced staff. Trump/DOGE is reprehensible, but this flood tragedy isn’t where it shows.
This round of flooding was forecast, predicted and Texas state government mobilized resources and notified local officials ahead of it. Prediction isn’t the problem. It’s so predictable that people get flood warned every time it rains. Can the Feds fund or defund the local’ folk’s complacency?
This disaster isn’t down to a failure in prediction or forecasting. We can question what local officials did with that forecast information and whether the emergency plans and procedures at the camp stood a chance of meeting the moment, but none of that is on Texas voters.
The flooding was forecast and predicted on July 3.
I want to see trustworthy reporting on that camp’s emergency preparedness policies, if they had anny way to evacuate hundreds of kids and what they normally do down by that river under a flash flood watch.
Texans didn’t vote for a tropical storm to dump 12 inches of rain all at once in Kerr County any more than Californians voted for wildfire in LA county.
As great as it is to hear the Austin Symphony Orchestra on the 4th, I am glad we’re not turning the park into a mud pit. www.austintexas.gov/news/2025-fo...
Are you sure he’s not just mad that there weren’t more cuts?
It would look suspicious for Abbot and the Texas reps to be taking a lot of gold to the pawn shop.
I think the idea is for Texas lawmakers to have a way to launder the gold and silver bribes they get.
Think it’s more like a lawmaker gets a bribe from a foreign government in the form of gold bars, then the state of Texas launders it.
Greg Abbott already vetoed the Texas bill for summer feeding for school kids. He did it last week because the cut was in the federal bill.
I feel like the idea is to prevent Medicaid from being any use in order to help them get away with cutting it from the budget.
What’s wrong with my brain I just read that tree behind the ice cream shop as a smoke stack with a huge cloud of pollution above it 😭
And the visitors. And the American who thought the signs were a good idea, for that matter. They cast us all in a negative light.
You can scan the code in this photo to tell them these snitch signs are inappropriate in out national parks.
Yep. Volunteer cherry tomato plants took over and shaded out my herb garden when I got tired of “weeding” them. We’re having to eat tomatoes every day to keep the supply down.
Allegations aren’t evidence. 🙄
al·le·ga·tion /ˌaləˈɡāSH(ə)n/ noun plural noun: allegations a claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically one made without proof.
When your decline start at sea level, you’re under water pretty quickly.
We can use the QR code in the photo to leave feedback about this sign, since it provides negative information about the living American who decided to put this verbiage on the signs, all the other living Americans, who it implies are too weak to face history.
Yes. My elders bemoaned the prep so much I was filled with dread, but I experienced that as easy as well.
4 out of 5 dentists recommend Trident (for their patients who chew gum)
It surprisingly cool. 84 degrees.
I know how the locals say it in Miami, Oklahoma. . . How’s it sound in Texas?
Do you not consider the offer a sack of steaming shit?
101 in May doesn’t hit the same as 101 in August
I remember when the idea was for grandparents to willingly sacrifice their lives/health to covid to keep the economy/ stockmarket humming for (supposedly) their grand kids.
Yeah, I’m so confused about who they’re trolling and who is supposed to be clapping along with this crap.
Where are they on red flag laws? Concerned about the due process rights of the gun toting abusers or standing up for the scared?
And this guy who already used the Trump bible for personal fundraising has made blasphemy and insanity so commonplace and unnewsworthy he has to come up with new extremes on the daily to maintain our attention
Same guy who took Oklahomans’ taxes funding their schools and turned them into a Trump campaign donation by ordering the schools to buy Trump bibles?
Wouldn’t he just say people join him?
Of course I get to judge what you say in a public post. You don’t have to feel scolded though, unless you want to.
What happens when the fundamental norms that constitute and protect decent behavior crumble?
Sorry you are letting this administration change you like this.
This month my dad couldn’t get a prescription for narcan a filled when his doctor ordered it at the same time as pain meds dad needs due to bone cancer. The pharmacy was just a nope on it.
Ouch
this administration just says people are illegal or says they’re gang members or says they’re terrorists and then uses the fact that they said it as justification for whatever they decide to do next.
This is terrorism by the Trump administration
Did anyone tell them that teaching people how to avoid getting a STI might be teaching them how to avoid infertility?
Maybe you have to be old enough and privileged enough to know that it could be crushingly expensive without those social safety net programs to support your parents through their final years.
Same.
Ken says Texas kids deserve the best education in the world- in that case, they should have been doing better at funding schools all these years they’ve been in charge
He’s not addressing Congress. He’s still just talking to his rally goers.
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Uniquely bad and historically stupid.
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What I learned from arguing with my trump-voting cousin is that corruption, fraud and waste means using tax money to pay for things she disapproves of-
I just figured out, after a frustrating conversation with my Trump-voting cousin, that to her “fraud, waste and corruption” what means tax money paying for stuff she disapproves of, while I was thinking it meant illegal stuff like bribes, embezzlement, misappropriations and mismanagement of funds.
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Why wait for a hurricane? Don’t we have a historic winter storm red states will need assistance with right now?
SCOTUS upheld the ban so Trump could wave it away? So China could grin at the demise of American democracy? Is that how it was?
I’d say it’s unprocessed trauma from Uri, only Austin has always acted this way about winter.
Texas already does this to itself. Ask Harris county about flood abatement dollars.
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Watching random episodes of a series of tv series based on mid 20th century topics with my 84 year old dad who stops and rewinds them to tell me about makes and models of all the cars the cars and which years they belong to.
Weird how that happens with Texas being in the top 5 states that make voting as difficult as possible.
Impatiently waiting for the sun to rise this winter solstice to be happy while the light lasts.
They don’t all have the right to vote.
Did he borrow some orange makeup?