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Grits for Breakfast

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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

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 5d

Remember when smallpox broke out in Laredo and the Texas Rangers were sent in to overcome armed resistance by antivaxxers, killing one person, wounding 13, and arresting 21 others? Happened in 1898. Weird to think that, if RFK were telling this story, the Rangers wd be the bad guys.

The Laredo Smallpox Epidemic of 1898-1899: A Historical Overview

Explore the events surrounding the smallpox epidemic in Laredo from October 1898 to March 1899, including the violent confrontations between Mexican Americans and Texas Rangers.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 1d

Repost if you see one of the most patriotic signs in American history. 🦅 🇺🇸

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 17h

this was quite nice

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 17h

And ofc, the 4A doesn't include the term "reasonable suspicion," which was coined by SCOTUS in 1968.

Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 17h

+1. This would definitely have Kris Kristofferson-Toby Keith vibes

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 18h

I'd pay to see Steve Earl and Lee Greenwood interact in a greenroom.

Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 17h

I have not, but I kinda lived this stuff for 30 years, so I'm not the audience. I'm headed to the library this weekend, I'll put it on the list of books to peruse. :)

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 17h

tbf, what a great bill!

I like the idea of McMurtry at the Super Bowl. In my mind's eye we'd get Choctaw Bingo for 12 minutes w/ McMurtry backed up by the Kilgore Rangerettes and TSU's Ocean of Soul marching band. Admittedly, there may not be a national audience for it, but it'd kill in Tomball.

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 18h

bro lee greenwood is not even top billing at a bar in Tomball, Texas

facebook post of james mcmurtry showing a bar in tomball texas playing steve earle, marc broussard, crystal gayle and lee greenwood

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 21h

Ah yes. The core principle of science that says one should start with the conclusion and then construct the evidence to support it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 18h

Reasonable suspicion, of course, is nowhere mentioned in the 4A, if you wanna get all originalist about it. The Fourth Amendment speaks only of "probable cause." The lesser "reasonable suspicion" standard was manufactured out of thin air by SCOTUS in 1968 in Terry v. Ohio.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

Florida Highway Patrol said this back over the summer -- people who stare at a cop OR who look away; if you speed up OR slow down; if you look TOO relaxed or TOO anxious.

digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

They claim the right to stop anyone and demand their papers based solely on the discretion of masked, cos-playing thugs who've decided you "look scared" or are "gripping the steering wheel tightly."

Miller is telling us, "Brown people today, the rest of you tomorrow." Listen to his words.

Trump Watch @trumpwat.ch · 1d

Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino: "We need reasonable suspicion to make an immigration arrest. Notice I did not say probable cause, nor did I say I need a warrant? Perhaps you look panicked when you see a Border Patrol agent. Perhaps you look scared ..."

So they scare people and then can arrest them.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 2d

I have, tho I use ESPN mostly, theirs are pretty detailed and user friendly. But most game stories don't have them. In generations past, compiling it was basically what a journo did w/ their time during the game. A game reporter w/o their own scoresheet is suspect IMO. Are they even following it?

Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 2d

It's all still being compiled, we just don't get the data in routine news stories. I don't quite understand why, unless maybe they don't format well on phones, etc..

Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 2d

I miss baseball box scores. It's still possible to hunt 'em down, w/ even more detail online than we used to get in printed newspapers. But I want to see them embedded w/ coverage of every game and it always feels like a glaring absence when they're not there.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2d

Man, if you're going to share a screenshot of the story and a screenshot of an X post of someone else sharing the story, just share the fucking link! wacobridge.org/2025/10/06/d...

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

We have reached a level of authoritarianism, let’s use the word FASCISM, where the President, based entirely on lies about violence and disorder, and against the will of the governors of the states, can send hostile state’s National Guard to invade and sit on citizens

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is deploying these goons for the visuals. He wants imagery to promote on social and traditional media. But I wish all the liberals out there mad at these ICE deployments had been as angry when Obama did even worse. If they'd been fighting all along, they'd have more practice by now.

Who deported more migrants? Obama or Trump? We checked the numbers · Factchequeado.com

We received a question through our Instagram account asking "if it's true what people say" that President Barack Obama deported…

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 2d

This is even better than the ICE fishing w/ donuts. Mockery is the correct response. Yes, they've been empowered to do a lot of damage (though I doubt their competence to reach Obama levels of deportations). But these goons are silly little boys playacting, why not confront cosplay w/ cosplay?

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 2d

It basically became impossible to construct bipartisan coalitions based on the horseshoe theory -- left and right against the middle -- bc rightists started to CHANGE their opinion if a liberal happened to agree w/ them. Made it impossible to build coalitions, even if ideologically they made sense.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 2d

In TX, those IRL democratic processes stopped functioning in the 2019-2021 period, by the end of which, I began openly using the term "fascism" in public writing to describe the new worldview of Texas governance. For the 20 years prior to that the #cjreform movement here got a fair amount done.

Fascism Unsheathed: Let's be very clear about what just happened at the #txlege

For many years, your correspondent has sought to work in a bipartisan fashion at the Texas Legislature on criminal-justice reform, and I've ...

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 2d

Before they all died off, it was also all the old WW2 vets still wearing their old division hats into their 90s, but there aren't too many of them around anymore. We provided eldercare to my Canadian-RAF-veteran father-in-law and if ever there was an antifascist, it was that man.

Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 2d

60 Minutes was important bc of the quality of journalism they produced, and Mike Wallace isn't walking through that door. Bc she is a grifter and at most an editorialist, and her "journalism" has been mainly propaganda, it's unlikely she will replicate those feats. That brand is toast.

Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 2d

Portlanders baiting ICE thugs with donuts on a fishing line ("ICE fishing) reminds me of Charlie Geren tying a cookie on a string on the floor of the Texas House and casting it toward John Stickland repeatedly like he was trying to land a chubby, bearded catfish. www.threads.com/@sleepymiss2...

Melissa Coffey (@sleepymiss218) on Threads

Portland is fabulously unserious taunting “cops” with donuts.

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