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Wake up, Texas! @ashleyhopeperez.bsky.social @txfreedomread.bsky.social @frankstrong.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social www.statesman.com/opinion/outl...

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Calling all Texans. If you can’t show up in person, please submit public comments against Todd Hunter’s HB 4 which further gerrymanders Texas to appease Trump. comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c055 House Public Comment

Texas Republicans are trying to silence your vote with their MAGA Maps. @juliejohnsonTX and I want you in this fight. Get on the bus from Dallas to Austin so YOU can testify.

It’s time to stand up and fight back to demand fair maps!

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#StopTheSteal #FairMaps #TXLege

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Jeffrey Epstein’s friends sent him bawdy letters for a 50th-birthday album. One was from Donald Trump. - The Wall Street Journal

Failing to address a stark public safety need — one with a staggering death toll and compounding grief — would be a dereliction of duty.

The time has come—first anti-malaria pill down the hatch as @librarianjones.com, @captainlibrary.bsky.social & I prepare for our adventure to Kenya to build a library. Learn more about this work and get updates for our journey at buildinglibraries.org. TY to all who helped make this happen! #TLsky

We’ve lost civility in our language. I remember reading old 1900 headlines, “a Negro fiend” and feeling we’d progressed. No. Even the SSA parrots Trump’s way of speaking.

Holiday tragedies: Flash floods and wildfires haunt Central Texas - Austin American-Statesman

Pray for the girls at Camp Mystic. About 20 girls remain missing from Kerr County summer camp after 'catastrophic level' floods

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"Well, we are all going to die." --Senator Joni Ernst

That has to be the glibbest way any politician has ever told a constituent that they didn’t give a shit about them.

www.statesman.com/story/news/p... @txfreedomread.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social

ZELDIN: I understand you're an aspiring fiction writer. I see why.

SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes

We couldn’t agree more. Say no to HB3225.

Trump Claims Springsteen Not Born in USA
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Rubio spreads misinformation about Van Hollen's trip to El Salvador and meeting with Abrego Garcia: "We deported gang members, including the one you had a margarita with. And that guy is a human trafficker. And that guy is a gang member."

So we thank the authors, parents, grandparents, veterans, librarians, and citizens who spoke up for library access today. We ask the legislature - Don't mess with Texas libraries! @aclutx.bsky.social @equalitytexas.bsky.social @aabbri.bsky.social @everylibrary.bsky.social #txlege

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

Texans!

If you want me to continue to believe that everything is bigger in Texas, then you gotta gin up the biggest book banning backlash ever seen north, south, east, aaaaaaand west of the Pecos!