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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · 17d

I wish—mine just plays Christian rock. 🤢

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · 25d

Texas friends, get involved!

Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · 25d

It's finally ready! October's most anticipated release, w/ the possible exception of The Life of a Showgirl, is The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the November School Board Elections. If you hate book bans, read this to know who to vote for and who to campaign against! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the November 2025 School Board Elections

The Book-Loving Texan’s Guide to the November 2025 School Board Elections (This is a mobilization tool. Use it to volunteer, donate, and organize in your community.) Election Day: Tuesday, November 4...

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · 28d

We binged season one two weeks ago and have been SAVORING the new season. When David Giuntoli showed up my wife was like, “it’s EDDIE from A Million Little Things,” and I was like, “You mean Nick from Grimm!”

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Sep 12

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Sep 1

For years my wife and I would walk down to Kendall Square, get ice cream, sit on the MIT quad, and count the moving trucks (waiting for one to get stuck on Storrow Drive). Happy Allston Christmas!

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NPR @npr.org · Aug 28

More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers. n.pr/4n46GLs

What books shaped you in high school? Here's what you said

More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers.

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Aug 16

Considering what we now know about brain chemistry, psychology, and obesity, it might be interesting to see how much they blatantly and knowingly got wrong.

PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Aug 16

I did get hooked on it, and it didn’t help with my “weight-loss journey.” I seem to remember that the only people who managed to keep their weight off were people who either became trainers themselves or they started running marathons religiously. I will likely hate-watch this. Sigh.

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Aug 15

At the very least, they should specify that we are Gen Goonies—That We Recorded On The VCR, So All The Dubbed Curse Words Are Weird. “I’m going to kick him in the dirt.”

PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Aug 8

This is madness.

Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · Aug 8

CLASSROOMS WITHOUT BOOKS.

This is the fruit of SB13. Melissa ISD is forbidding class libraries, book bins, & reading corners after book banners forced the law over objections of Texas parents.

The law doesn’t require it. But we @TXFreedomRead told legislators it would happen.

Directive from Melissa ISD administrators demanding that teachers remove their classroom libraries by the first day of school in response to SB13.

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Nadra Nittle @nadrakn.bsky.social · Jul 23

Texas ended in-state tuition for undocumented students, reversing a 24-year policy in just six hours in June. The move blocks college access for thousands and may lead to higher tuition for all as enrollment drops. 19thnews.org/2025/07/texa...

Texas was first to expand college access for undocumented students. Now it’s leading the rollback.

After 24 years, the Texas Dream Act was dismantled in just six hours. Advocates warn the move could spread nationally — jeopardizing the future of thousands.

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Jul 23

Foots-path?

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Jul 11

Season 1 or 2. Whales or Mayan archeology?

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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · Jul 9

State BOE Member Byrd recommended districts skip the review process and go right to removing every title on their shelves that has appeared on the state’s annual removal lists.

Well, it appears Volusia listened. Here are 10 of the disappeared titles we have been monitoring, now banned in Volusia.

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Jul 2

Brilliant satire.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Jul 2

"Children understand the dynamic of a woman who attracts a fairy godmother through her tears. They cannot handle the benign existence of one class mom who attracted the other class mom during their first year at Oberlin."

Why I, Cinderella, Support the Supreme Court’s Book Ban

“Parents with religious objections to storybooks with LGBTQ. themes may withdraw their children from public schools when the books are discussed, t...

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Jun 29

And Margaret Atwood’s PENELOPIAD is wicked good!

PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Jun 24

I want to second Wrong Island ICE Tea!

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Jun 24

@theferocity.bsky.social , I just wanted to alert you that Rihanna is the voice of Smurfette in the new Smurfs moving coming out (new tracks are promised). I hope you can break the news to @samsanders.bsky.social gently. youtu.be/_MQnZgH0ZmQ

Rihanna - Friend Of Mine (from the Smurfs Movie Soundtrack)

YouTube video by RihannaVEVO

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Jun 22

When I was marathon-training last summer, I developed the mantra that “Sometimes you run with the weather, and sometimes you run against it.” Not about setting a PR, just finishing is enough.

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Jun 21

50th #parkrun achieved! Hot and humid outside of Houston. What’s next?

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Jun 17

Time for a salty marg’ @strictscrutiny.bsky.social .

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Jun 17

And to think, I didn't even know that Martha-Ann Alito was running the SBA!

Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · Jun 17

NEW: A far-right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag was flown above the Small Business Administration's headquarters in DC.

The flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists, was waved by January 6 rioters and spotted at Justice Samuel Alito's vacation home.

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Jun 15

I look forward to not reading this, but listening to @strictscrutiny.bsky.social hosts rage/rant about this in a brilliant TLDR segment.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jun 15

On the bench and in her opinions, Justice Amy Coney Barrett speaks the language of the law. But she has given numerous speeches and lectures that help illuminate her personal outlook, life experiences and approach to her job. Take a look.

Justice Barrett: In Her Own Words

Off the bench, the Supreme Court justice has discussed her judicial and personal philosophies, having a son with Down syndrome and running away from television trucks in high heels.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Jun 15

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Jun 14

I want to remind everyone that the White House and the GOP have been systematically dismantling protections for abortion providers and clinics ever since Trump took office

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PJ Elliott @beowulftx.bsky.social · Jun 14

I just love that your range goes from poetry to Paddington to Perrin Aybara! YOU… contain multitudes.

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