She plans to live with her maternal g'parents. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras has a nursing program at several campuses; tuition is $360/yr (?!) and her GFM is at $39,000. Would be nice if someone could get her connected to continue her education there with little friction or time gap.
Hope Morano supports funding for public libraries...
This month, Jill Stein is facing criminal charges for protesting the genocide and was interviewed about the latest Israeli campaign to starve Palestinian babies. Earlier this year, she was invited to speak at several universities about US foreign policy.
I appreciate your round-up of favorites! In thanks, I'd like to share with you one of mine: Deborah Madison's coconut curry with tofu and lime. Rich, fresh, colorful, and easy.
Bright Skies, Wild Lands Prairies, Pines & Progress
No bran cereal? 🙂Fortune had a very alarming article yesterday, I wonder if you're hearing the same:
'People enrolled in traditional Medicare who live in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington State will be included in the experiment, which is expected to start in January and last for six years.'
Adelson is awful, and has a Jewish name, but that PAC is about legalizing casinos not Israel.
Wish we had detailed instructions and cash costs for non-citizens, for vaccines and other basic med care no longer available to us, in Mexico, Cuba, Canada, other neighbors.
For those of you who don’t like to open links or don’t have instagram. I downloaded the video for you. If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight
Yes. Since 2023, the Covid vaccine has been available in Mexican pharmacies instead of only through hospitals, private doctors, government agencies, etc. The article provides a list of names of the larger pharmacy chains. Access in Mexico is not new, but American need to travel for access is.
I believe Americans can visit public pharmacies in Mexico to get the vaccine. For less than half the cost, too. mexiconewsdaily.com/news/pfizer-...
There's a much, much bigger story in the empire Joe Liemandt has built under the umbrella of his privately-held ESW Capital company. Wish an investigative reporter would unravel all of it for us - maybe a thousand companies worldwide. Alpha is just the tiniest sliver.
We're making the same mistake again. Beto in 2018, Hillsboro town hall, 150 people, biggest crowd we've ever seen, this is the key, we're so excited.... Volunteers: 0-ish. Votes for Ted Cruz: 78.1%. Focus on cities.
Anti-ICE banner drop in #Houston.
Houstonian kills 2 men dressed like ICE (ski masks, no IDs) www.khou.com/article/news...
Get well soon!
2012: www.forbes.com/sites/kashmi...
I think it might be 2 sleeves (I don't know the word for it/them) - a puffed/ruched short sleeve plus a (detachable? basted on?) longer sleeve. I also would like to know the words for this!
In Texas, our State Attorney General is threatens to arrest Beto, one of our best-known opponents of the GOP. Here he is, 10 days ago, spelling out what we all know, deep down: bsky.app/profile/zola...
Some good reporting on energy issues in Texas comes from @douglewin.bsky.social and @cltomlinson.bsky.social....
What's the general residential cost per kWh? In deregulated TX we sign up for contracts - I'm currently in year 1 of 3 for a contract to pay 0.152 per kWh for 500 kWh usage, or 0.148 for 1,000 plus a flat fee that's under $5. For example, if I use 300 kWh, it's $47.41; if I use 700, it's $104.78.
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Remembering a simpler time, when Safeway would print hurricane tracking grids on our paper grocery bags, and Doug Johnson Channel 2 (KPRC) would keep us informed.
The billboard was an ad for a company that makes trailers. The company name is Alaska. alaskatrailers.ru
Related: Slavery Remembrance Day is this Saturday, 8/16. Rep. Al Green has been giving a countdown, and mentioned the sugar plantations yesterday: bsky.app/profile/algr...
Link to the reddit thread and comments: www.reddit.com/r/Professors...
I like her paintings so much, they contain so many possible stories. Here's one of my favorites of hers:
![La Llamada [The Call, or The One Who is Called] (1961). A tall, thin woman with large eyes walks towards us, down a hallway with no roof. She wears a long, flowing saffron dress and robe that is encircled with swirls of stardust, and a blaze of red hear twists up in the air until its tip curls around an orb hovering in the sky. On each side of the hallway people are gathered. They are part of the tree bark that makes the walls. One bark-person considers descending the stair.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gplfsrdktdohpzwtdy5bp3yp/bafkreiflocqdi7z4zum7l44mup5g4hdbpo342gxzz4gkeqphg6i5lmfymu@jpeg "Click to view full size")
It would be a shabby way to treat Beto bsky.app/profile/beto...
That was the state Senate, not the state House, and it passed not because two Dems showed up (they voted against it), but despite their votes. Here's an article about the same, but maybe clearer: www.texastribune.org/2025/08/11/t...
They’re trying to jail me to silence anyone who has the courage to fight back. We will not back down. We will not be intimidated. We will fight these corrupt thugs with everything we’ve got.
Who has enough money to change Democrats' hearts and minds?
People who don't log into twitter cannot see that thread. Here's how to give a link we can access: xcancel.com/brownecfm/st...
The CDC shows Texas with "Very High" COVlD transmission. I noted last week that many high-transmission TX sites were offline & the dip into "Moderate" territory was likely an aberration. Sadly, true. PMC estimates that 1 in 38 Texans are now actively infectious.
But I’m not going anywhere. I plan on speaking at our rally to stop the power grab in Fort Worth tomorrow afternoon.
Disagree! Those Canadians are making us proud, sharing our cuisine. Sure, you won't get poppers in Lockhart, but it is our cuisine and it fits. And they are doing 1000% better than Cornyn, with that sorry brisket he steamed in his casserole dish. That was unforgivable and quite possibly illegal.
I expected it to be in Calgary, but Ontario?! Looks pretty good! 4.7/5 stars on Google reviews. Notice also pulled pork breakfast burritos, Texas sausage (!), peach cobbler with ice cream - very authentic dessert offering -- very nice, very nice indeed!
I don't think we'll have midterms. It'll be something like this: We can't have elections until we redo the Census. We can't do the Census sans undocumented people until they are all imprisoned. So, elections "on hold" instead of having another post-election attempted coup w/ wild-eyed MAGA rioting.
It's going into the general account at the US Treasury. After that, only Congress can appropriate it. Here's an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about exactly that question: archive.is/FGSC8
And when countries can't afford to give him bugged used jets, they nominate him for the Nobel prize since that's also on his want list. I'm surprised how cheaply we're being sold, honestly.
I think the blowback surprised them. Sam Altman says they are bringing back 4o, for Plus users.
Weaponized Incompetence #art #comicart #webcomic
Nope 😢My library has both on DVD though, so I'm adding them to my list there! Thanks for the recommendation!
Cave of Forgotten Dreams is on Kanopy for Toronto library patrons. Any chance we could get it for Houston, Texas library patrons? (Houston Public Library or Harris County Libraries system) bsky.app/profile/paul...
Dallas does their protests on alternating Wednesdays: www.mobilize.us/indivisibled...
Every Tuesday for the past 8 years, Indivisible has been protesting in front of Cornyn's Houston office. He avoids his responsibilities, never meets with concerned constituents. Details here: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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In a system inspired by FedEx, these people are lost packages. Soon we'll affix barcodes on them.
The pet owner got an "emotional support" certificate from a Facebook-based vendor, and Viva Aerobus flew them from Mexico City to Vallarta (emotional support pets fly free). The owner and vendor are cross-promoting each other on their platforms.
Twitter blocks your tweets for people who no longer have an account.
The music was dubbed in. The instagrammer takes videos of people dancing and sets it to different music for humorous effect, to... drive sales to his t-shirt shop...? Any 4/4 song would've worked. Watch it while listening to Uptown Funk w/ Bruno Mars, or Buona Sera w/ Louis Prima, for example.
2 weeks ago: House Speaker Johnson calls for early summer recess to avoid vote on Epstein files.
$400 billion net worth, $29 billion pay. He could end world hunger, and he chooses not to. That's what evil looks like. bsky.app/profile/kath...
Good job! I hope journalists will name the Dems who snuck back during the last walk-out, shame them into standing firm with their colleagues this time. None of this ⬇️ www.texastribune.org/2021/09/10/t...
I wish FIT would post bigger and more photos of each of their items! It looked to me like black velvet trim, but at least some of it is fringe!
@krime.bsky.social the cover art is yours? Looks very nice.
More choices: gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...
Already in progress: www.texastribune.org/2025/07/29/t...
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Screenshot with only emojis & no alt text, of a tweeted comment about an unlinked & uncited article, which itself is a rehash of reporting from an outlet called Techie + Gamers. This is how we get low-information people who feel constantly enraged but impotent to make effective decisions & change.
People move to TX (and stay) for the relatively good wages and low cost of living, but it's hard to move with that lower amount of money to a high-COL state when things turn bad.
Gen X may enter retirement with a 24% cut in their Social Security.
Especially brutal for Gen X: Small generation sandwiched to take care of larger ones (parents and offspring), already had savings and earning potentials wiped out with multiple recessions, and no time left to save for these Social Security cuts.
This 2001 article was the first I read about the problems with organ donation: web.archive.org/web/20140925... and the same writer in 2014: archive.ph/S1OJH
Grifters knowingly posting lies for engagement is pretty sad.
It's from reddit, where the creator marked it as an artistic recreation. www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalH...
That image isn't at your link
In Houston, water has become very expensive because of the way the state is addressing subsidence. My water authority is building a 55-mile, 8-foot-diameter pipeline to move surface water from the city's far-east to far-west side. The fees are astonishing, so water bills are unaffordable to many.
Fort Bend Co. Roads & Bridges/FEMA/Ashbritt only gave info about Hurricane Beryl storm debris pickup via FB and Twitter, and then it was incomplete, incorrect, and usually 24 hours out of date. They are too busy bickering to fix real issues, and don't want to hear from the residents they serve.
In NL, a "low-car" urban design is called "autoluw". The "Not Just Bikes" youtube channel is about autoluw. Pretty interesting to see specifically how the Dutch are changing their cities to low-car. Not exactly what you're asking for, but you might like it. www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes/
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It's Friday, and there's a 1917 Carnegie library/house for sale... www.rarebookhub.com/articles/3893
Mexicans help Texans after Kerrville flood. Grateful for such good neighbors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Workshopping their "dead in the water" joke in a 2017 discussion about a sirens project was just... Pollard was a lawyer. Moser was a NASA engineer. Both would rather kids die than to improve their county under a Dem Pres. Will take the state money Dan "Die for the Dow" Patrick offered y'day, tho.
Have you see this already? Transcript excerpts going back to 2016. They had the money and the knowledge several times but... Obama... Biden... communism... and only "outsiders" need it. www.reddit.com/r/TexasPolit...
Chris, one redditor dug up some interesting transcripts of Commissioner Court proceedings from 2016 to now, pulling together all the times they did nothing, and their stated reasons at the time. Might be of interest to you... www.reddit.com/r/TexasPolit...
The siren system was going to cost $500 million. That's a lot of money! To put it in perspective, Texas taxpayers spent $3 billion to keep us safe with wall segments like this:
Abbott, Cornyn, Noem, and Kidd share a laugh before a press conference about the mass casualties in Kerrville. At least 66 dead as of July 6.
The Texas National Guard *are* out there.
One Republican has called for killing all Latinos bsky.app/profile/elno...
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
davidsonboswell.substack.com/p/the-people...
"Agonized" is just a lazy word politicians use when they make unpopular decisions. REAL agony is, say, when you need healthcare, food, liberty, personal freedoms, and you watch it all stripped away for a massive wealth transfer from regular folks to the ultra-wealthy.
Most people wanted us to gut programs that help regular people or simply didn't care one way or another. They will learn some painful lessons, dragging us along with them, the country may never fully recover, and they better never complain about their suffering.
Jasmine Crockett uses slurs against LGBTQ and people with handicaps to go viral and then fundraise off it. She's not the hero we want her to be. We deserve better, and she owes us all an apology.
Trump said he didn't understand Bush's "thousand points of light", literally didn't understand the phrase, and now the GOP is the party that attacks faith-based NGOs. Bleak times.
Pretty interesting: The copy of the Emancipation Proclamation at auction was originally created to fundraise health care for soldiers. www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
Israel has been committing genocide for quite a while now, while the world sits by and is mildly entertained, tossing out the occasional social media post for clicks and outrage-engagement. The entire thing is evil.
Why the rectangle?
Feedback about the app notifications, since you're working on it: I have an Android v. 2.0.225, with all notifications set to Off, and yet still get notifications.
Here are the 128 House Democrats who voted to table (kill) the Rep. Al Green D-TX impeachment resolution against President Trump over the Iran attacks.
![Headline: 'Young US Open fan has signed gift from player brutally snatched from his hands by rich CEO. An owner of a successful Polish company allegedly [sic] stole a signed US Open hat from a young fan after a video of him taking Kamil Majchrzak's hat went viral on social media.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gplfsrdktdohpzwtdy5bp3yp/bafkreiewbhy2k3jrwgz5h4gwsqnodseonc3a3cduna75o7aygp7zgkzvqu@jpeg "Click to view full size")
