Grits for Breakfast
@gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social
Nom de plume of Scott Henson, Austin, TX. Cancer survivor, househusband, recovering policy wonk (justice systems, civil liberties; innocence). Retirement focus: TX negro-league baseball, female lion tamers. Zines: https://www.gfbpubs.com
Pinned
I'm a lifelong fan, not a fighter, promoter, or ref, etc., and I have no professional skin in the game. But I do understand how government works, and the Combat Sports division of TDLR is a broken, dysfunctional entity that's muddied its mission and is throwing Texas fighters and fans under the bus.
Head of Texas’ largest business organization accused of sexual assault in lawsuit www.texastribune.org/2025/11/24/t...
Head of Texas’ top business group sued for sexual assault
An unidentified woman on Monday sued Glenn Hamer, Texas Association of Business president and CEO, alleging he sexually harassed and assaulted her, then retaliated when she rejected his advances.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Head of Texas’ largest business organization accused of sexual assault in lawsuit www.texastribune.org/2025/11/24/t...
I had no idea that stories of German settlers in Texas had this sort of (now waning) resonance in Germany. I've certainly been fascinated by that cohort over the years, but never to the point of cosplay.
Before Berlin’s Cowboys Are Booted Off Their Land, One Final Hoedown
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November 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I had no idea that stories of German settlers in Texas had this sort of (now waning) resonance in Germany. I've certainly been fascinated by that cohort over the years, but never to the point of cosplay.
May the ghost of Katie Sandwina forever haunt her persecutors
Yulia Lymeshchenko, Ukraine’s powerlifting champion sentenced in Russia to 19 years for partisan acts in defence of her home
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Ukraine’s powerlifting champion sentenced in Russia to 19 years for partisan acts in defence of her home
“I decided to fight against Russia’s military aggression. Perhaps my words are worsening my position, but, your honour, my conscience is more important for me.” From Yulia Lemeshchenko’s final…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
May the ghost of Katie Sandwina forever haunt her persecutors
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I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
W/ his record, I'd be like Br'er Rabbit saying "Please don't throw me into that briar patch!" Make him the poster child in court. I dare ya!
The Pentagon says it's opening an investigation into Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly in the wake of a video of Democratic lawmakers urging servicemembers not to comply with 'illegal orders." n.pr/480zD6s
Pentagon investigates Democrat senator for telling troops to refuse 'illegal orders'
The Pentagon says it's opening an investigation into Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly in the wake of a video of Democratic lawmakers urging servicemembers not to comply with 'illegal orders."
n.pr
November 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
W/ his record, I'd be like Br'er Rabbit saying "Please don't throw me into that briar patch!" Make him the poster child in court. I dare ya!
I'm so busy lately being embarrassed by A&M, UT, TX State, Tech, etc., I haven't had time lately to feel embarrassed for OU. But I'm embarrassed for OU. They've tried so hard to level up at that university, against all odds, and arresting profs w/ foreign accents isn't going to help matters.
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I'm so busy lately being embarrassed by A&M, UT, TX State, Tech, etc., I haven't had time lately to feel embarrassed for OU. But I'm embarrassed for OU. They've tried so hard to level up at that university, against all odds, and arresting profs w/ foreign accents isn't going to help matters.
In TX, billionaires used to recognize their limitations and let the smart ones take the lead. So Teledyne's George Kozmetsky directed UT's industrial policy bc he was he only one who knew wtf he was doing. Now, every racist cretin w/ 9 zeroes in their bank account thinks their opinions are relevant.
These days, billionaires feel the need to weigh in about everything now from universities to dating to whatever. But they are so poor, all they have is money, so the STFU backlash is coming: Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
In TX, billionaires used to recognize their limitations and let the smart ones take the lead. So Teledyne's George Kozmetsky directed UT's industrial policy bc he was he only one who knew wtf he was doing. Now, every racist cretin w/ 9 zeroes in their bank account thinks their opinions are relevant.
San Marcos is jam packed w/ short term rentals, there's no need whatsoever for a taxpayer funded "boutique hotel" at Texas State except for fat cats who think they're too good for the available accommodations. But that's not the taxpayers' problem.
Hotel to be built on Texas State campus
The new development will be located on Guadalupe Street, on the campus' south side.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
San Marcos is jam packed w/ short term rentals, there's no need whatsoever for a taxpayer funded "boutique hotel" at Texas State except for fat cats who think they're too good for the available accommodations. But that's not the taxpayers' problem.
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Crime reporting be like
November 22, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Crime reporting be like
Here's wishing them all coal in their stockings and a well funded primary opponent
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Here's wishing them all coal in their stockings and a well funded primary opponent
Good Lord! Isn't Kathy Hochul up for reelection next year? NY Democrats shd be holding her feet to fire on this. How can Dems credibly criticize Trump over jackbooted thugs beating up handcuffed prisoners if Dem governors turn a blind eye to the exact same thing?
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
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November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Good Lord! Isn't Kathy Hochul up for reelection next year? NY Democrats shd be holding her feet to fire on this. How can Dems credibly criticize Trump over jackbooted thugs beating up handcuffed prisoners if Dem governors turn a blind eye to the exact same thing?
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So, one reason to slow-walk EVERYTHING in the Trump era is that you need to give the procedural and paperwork fuck-ups time to emerge. You don’t grant UC. You don’t yield back post-cloture time. You don’t concede that paperwork is properly filed, or that signatures or appointments are validly made.
Oh, Tish James case dismissed too. Now Miss Hannigan has to start her orphanage.
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Federal judge dismissed indictments against Letitia James and James Comey | CNN Politics
A federal judge dismissed the indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
So, one reason to slow-walk EVERYTHING in the Trump era is that you need to give the procedural and paperwork fuck-ups time to emerge. You don’t grant UC. You don’t yield back post-cloture time. You don’t concede that paperwork is properly filed, or that signatures or appointments are validly made.
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Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
It's a telling statement on the real-world economic value of cryptocurrencies that they could lose a trillion dollars worth of value in just a few weeks and for all but those specific, dilettantish investors, it's a big nothingburger.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
Why Crypto’s Slide Is Rattling Wall Street
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November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It's a telling statement on the real-world economic value of cryptocurrencies that they could lose a trillion dollars worth of value in just a few weeks and for all but those specific, dilettantish investors, it's a big nothingburger.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
This jackass is like a bad penny. Good 🧵
Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
How Baylor Happened
WACO, Texas — There’s not much to recommend spending four years in Waco. Driving into town up Interstate 35 from the south, the endless stretch of Texas nothing fills out slowly. It’s flat in the way ...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This jackass is like a bad penny. Good 🧵
"orders are presumed to be lawful," but presumptions are rebuttable and can be overcome with facts. And the fact is, much of what's happening is unlawful and evil.
The "Department of War" is going after a political opponent of Donald Trump.
We are a country being run by petulant, dangerous children.
We are a country being run by petulant, dangerous children.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"orders are presumed to be lawful," but presumptions are rebuttable and can be overcome with facts. And the fact is, much of what's happening is unlawful and evil.
Trump stiffed Texas on rural broadband $$$
Two years ago, $3.3 billion was pledged for Texas to improve broadband access through a bipartisan infrastructure deal signed by President Joe Biden.
But a year later, Texas submitted a new plan and was awarded just shy of $1.3 billion from the Trump administration.
But a year later, Texas submitted a new plan and was awarded just shy of $1.3 billion from the Trump administration.
Texas is getting less for broadband expansion than expected
Rural leaders who have worked years to improve broadband access said they were disappointed by the sharp decrease in federal dollars.
www.texastribune.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Trump stiffed Texas on rural broadband $$$
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WTF 🤬
ICE in DC is setting up racially driven checkpoints and roadblocks. This is one on Canal Road. A large number of vehicles can be seen waiting to be towed after these agents disappeared their owners.
ICE in DC is setting up racially driven checkpoints and roadblocks. This is one on Canal Road. A large number of vehicles can be seen waiting to be towed after these agents disappeared their owners.
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
WTF 🤬
ICE in DC is setting up racially driven checkpoints and roadblocks. This is one on Canal Road. A large number of vehicles can be seen waiting to be towed after these agents disappeared their owners.
ICE in DC is setting up racially driven checkpoints and roadblocks. This is one on Canal Road. A large number of vehicles can be seen waiting to be towed after these agents disappeared their owners.
"Slipping standards"?! Texas was already at the bottom of the pack on free speech when UT Austin ran Wahneema Lubiano out on a rail in the early '90s. We're far past slipping standards and are at the moment where academic freedom in Texas higher education is finally being obliterated outright.
Texas colleges and universities are becoming nationally notorious for our slipping standards regarding free speech rights on campus. Podcast: bit.ly/3Z0lr7x https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/free-speech-ut-college-protest-trump-21198378.php
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"Slipping standards"?! Texas was already at the bottom of the pack on free speech when UT Austin ran Wahneema Lubiano out on a rail in the early '90s. We're far past slipping standards and are at the moment where academic freedom in Texas higher education is finally being obliterated outright.
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Your business strategy really really really should not read like an excerpt from Enron's Wikipedia page
![A portion of the Wikipedia entry on Enron, especially the part that got them into so much trouble: "Enron used a variety of deceptive and fraudulent tactics and accounting practices to cover its fraud in reporting Enron's financial information. Special-purpose entities were created to mask significant liabilities from Enron's financial statements. These entities made Enron seem more profitable than it was, and created a dangerous spiral in which, each quarter, corporate officers would have to perform more and more financial deception to create the illusion of billions of dollars in profit while the company was actually losing money.[53] This practice increased their stock price to new levels, at which point the executives began to work on insider information and trade millions of dollars' worth of Enron stock. The executives and insiders at Enron knew about the offshore accounts that were hiding losses for the company; the investors, however, did not. Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow directed the team that created the off-books companies and manipulated the deals to provide himself, his family, and his friends with hundreds of millions of dollars in guaranteed revenue, at the expense of the corporation for which he worked and its stockholders." The sentence about Special-purpose entities masking significant liabilities in Enron's financial statements is highlighted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zgrga5twhrss665vepfgqgxj/bafkreigi4wbyij2sqr4p2vusc3gklwbwpfj5xnpc3kg7kdlxka3visq54y@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Your business strategy really really really should not read like an excerpt from Enron's Wikipedia page
I first poked my nose into Texas' regulation of combat sports after the Austin bout in 2023 when referee Kerry Hatley allowed fighter Bobby Green to get beaten half to death. Earlier that year, at a Fury FC fight, referee Frank Collazo hadn't intervened when a fighter went unconscious. 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I first poked my nose into Texas' regulation of combat sports after the Austin bout in 2023 when referee Kerry Hatley allowed fighter Bobby Green to get beaten half to death. Earlier that year, at a Fury FC fight, referee Frank Collazo hadn't intervened when a fighter went unconscious. 🧵
Romeo and Juliet is one of the "required readings" being considered by the TX State Board of Education. FWIW, Juliet's age is specifically mentioned in the text: She was 13. In the era of the Epstein files, somehow mandating schoolchildren contemplate the sex lives of 13 yos feels bizarrely apropos.
Texas will soon issue a mandated reading list for all K-12 students. Here's what to know
The GOP-led State Board of Education will set the list. Early title suggestions include "Romeo and Juliet" and "The Outsiders."
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November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Romeo and Juliet is one of the "required readings" being considered by the TX State Board of Education. FWIW, Juliet's age is specifically mentioned in the text: She was 13. In the era of the Epstein files, somehow mandating schoolchildren contemplate the sex lives of 13 yos feels bizarrely apropos.
The Wall Street Journal on Saturday published a "News Quiz" on current events and the answer key provided "incorrect answers for all but the first question" www.wsj.com/articles/cor...
Corrections & Amplifications
Corrections & Amplifications
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November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The Wall Street Journal on Saturday published a "News Quiz" on current events and the answer key provided "incorrect answers for all but the first question" www.wsj.com/articles/cor...
"Artificial intelligence, meet artificial accounting"
Meta’s data-center accounting gets the Jon Weil treatment:
It’s “financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet. That outcome looks too good to be true, and it probably is.”
@wsj.com $META
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It’s “financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet. That outcome looks too good to be true, and it probably is.”
@wsj.com $META
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Artificial intelligence, meet artificial accounting"
A friend asked me to help her figure out who Lydia St. in East Austin was named for, and I found it: "It is named after a daughter of the late Dr. Robertson," who owned the French Legation, "which is located two blocks west of Lydia Street." -LTE in the Statesman, July 20, 1930.
Lydia Street
Clipping found in Austin American-Statesman published in Austin, Texas on 7/20/1930. Lydia Street
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November 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
A friend asked me to help her figure out who Lydia St. in East Austin was named for, and I found it: "It is named after a daughter of the late Dr. Robertson," who owned the French Legation, "which is located two blocks west of Lydia Street." -LTE in the Statesman, July 20, 1930.