Alterdox
@alterdox.bsky.social
Former history professor; retired IT professional.
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Our online Lunch & Learn With The League series begins Wednesday! You'll learn what's on the election schedule in 2026, with time for discussion and questions. These sessions will NOT be recorded, so bring your lunch and join us live from 12-1pm.
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January 12, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Our online Lunch & Learn With The League series begins Wednesday! You'll learn what's on the election schedule in 2026, with time for discussion and questions. These sessions will NOT be recorded, so bring your lunch and join us live from 12-1pm.
Sign up & get full schedule: www.LWVWilco.org
Sign up & get full schedule: www.LWVWilco.org
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TEXANS: ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE AT YOUR CURRENT ADDRESS? Register or update your info by February 2 in order to vote in the March primary. More info here: buff.ly/dD5ftME
January 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
TEXANS: ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE AT YOUR CURRENT ADDRESS? Register or update your info by February 2 in order to vote in the March primary. More info here: buff.ly/dD5ftME
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LEANDER: Get ready to choose your new mayor! Voting begins soon, so check your voter registration and mark your calendar. More voting resources here: buff.ly/8Pv6Q1M.
January 14, 2026 at 3:13 PM
LEANDER: Get ready to choose your new mayor! Voting begins soon, so check your voter registration and mark your calendar. More voting resources here: buff.ly/8Pv6Q1M.
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🚨 USPS POSTMARK RULES HAVE CHANGED! 🚨
The USPS has changed how postmarks work, and it could impact mail-in ballots.
❌ Old: mail that has been RECEIVED by the post office.
✅ New: mail that has been PROCESSED by the post office.
📬 Postmark ≠ day you mail it anymore!
The USPS has changed how postmarks work, and it could impact mail-in ballots.
❌ Old: mail that has been RECEIVED by the post office.
✅ New: mail that has been PROCESSED by the post office.
📬 Postmark ≠ day you mail it anymore!
January 15, 2026 at 6:45 PM
🚨 USPS POSTMARK RULES HAVE CHANGED! 🚨
The USPS has changed how postmarks work, and it could impact mail-in ballots.
❌ Old: mail that has been RECEIVED by the post office.
✅ New: mail that has been PROCESSED by the post office.
📬 Postmark ≠ day you mail it anymore!
The USPS has changed how postmarks work, and it could impact mail-in ballots.
❌ Old: mail that has been RECEIVED by the post office.
✅ New: mail that has been PROCESSED by the post office.
📬 Postmark ≠ day you mail it anymore!
-Trump is threatening invoking the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis.
-The US is stealing Venezuelan oil, selling it, and sending the money to Qatar for "safekeeping."
-NATO is sending troop to Greenland to defend it from the US.
I don't even know what to say.
-The US is stealing Venezuelan oil, selling it, and sending the money to Qatar for "safekeeping."
-NATO is sending troop to Greenland to defend it from the US.
I don't even know what to say.
January 15, 2026 at 2:13 PM
-Trump is threatening invoking the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis.
-The US is stealing Venezuelan oil, selling it, and sending the money to Qatar for "safekeeping."
-NATO is sending troop to Greenland to defend it from the US.
I don't even know what to say.
-The US is stealing Venezuelan oil, selling it, and sending the money to Qatar for "safekeeping."
-NATO is sending troop to Greenland to defend it from the US.
I don't even know what to say.
When I heard about Trump's plan for 50-year home mortgages, I think I heard Tennessee Ernie Ford's voice singing
"Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store."
"Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store."
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
When I heard about Trump's plan for 50-year home mortgages, I think I heard Tennessee Ernie Ford's voice singing
"Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store."
"Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store."
For some reason, I decided to read up on the Hollywood blacklists of the McCarthy era today.
September 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
For some reason, I decided to read up on the Hollywood blacklists of the McCarthy era today.
TX has a problem with abandoned babies. Maybe instead of posting the 10 Commandments every classroom, they should post instructions on how to surrender a baby safely. They won't instruct kids on how to avoid getting pregnant, but maybe they could do this.
wapo.st/42eXTOD
wapo.st/42eXTOD
wapo.st
September 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
TX has a problem with abandoned babies. Maybe instead of posting the 10 Commandments every classroom, they should post instructions on how to surrender a baby safely. They won't instruct kids on how to avoid getting pregnant, but maybe they could do this.
wapo.st/42eXTOD
wapo.st/42eXTOD
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We’re being governed by monsters. Just absolute monsters.
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras
A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.
www.wunc.org
August 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
We’re being governed by monsters. Just absolute monsters.
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As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous.
Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
August 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous.
Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Just a former historian cruising on the Internet. Decided to read the Texas Declaration of Independence of 1836. Gave me a lot to think about.
www.tsl.texas.gov/exhibits/tex...
www.tsl.texas.gov/exhibits/tex...
Texas Declaration of Independence, March 2, 1836 | Texas State Library
www.tsl.texas.gov
August 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just a former historian cruising on the Internet. Decided to read the Texas Declaration of Independence of 1836. Gave me a lot to think about.
www.tsl.texas.gov/exhibits/tex...
www.tsl.texas.gov/exhibits/tex...
It is disheartening that, in a nation that supposedly under the rule of law, this is the headline that has to be written. One would have hoped that judges would rule on the basis of the law, not based on who appointed them. But here we are.
www.texastribune.org/2025/08/07/g...
www.texastribune.org/2025/08/07/g...
Abbott’s bid to expel the House Democratic leader goes to a court filled with his appointees
The Texas Supreme Court said in 2021 the Constitution allows members to thwart legislation by leaving the state. Abbott wants them to reconsider.
www.texastribune.org
August 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It is disheartening that, in a nation that supposedly under the rule of law, this is the headline that has to be written. One would have hoped that judges would rule on the basis of the law, not based on who appointed them. But here we are.
www.texastribune.org/2025/08/07/g...
www.texastribune.org/2025/08/07/g...
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington
George Washington
July 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington
George Washington
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
James Madison
James Madison
July 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
James Madison
James Madison
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
July 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
July 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
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The Supreme Court approved this today.
Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.
June 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The Supreme Court approved this today.
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U.S. Citizens Spend on Average 180 days in ICE Detention when wrongfully detained!
Spend a couple seconds watching this 👇🏽
youtube.com/shorts/9xjOv...
Spend a couple seconds watching this 👇🏽
youtube.com/shorts/9xjOv...
U.S. Citizens Spend on Average 180 days in ICE Detention when Wrongfully Arrested | #sneakpeek
YouTube video by The Latino Vote Podcast
youtube.com
June 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
U.S. Citizens Spend on Average 180 days in ICE Detention when wrongfully detained!
Spend a couple seconds watching this 👇🏽
youtube.com/shorts/9xjOv...
Spend a couple seconds watching this 👇🏽
youtube.com/shorts/9xjOv...
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Satellite imagery shows trucks at two key sites the day before the American strikes, suggesting uranium could have been moved.
Satellites show damage to Iran's nuclear program, but experts say it's not destroyed
Satellite imagery shows trucks at two key sites the day before the American strikes, suggesting uranium could have been moved.
n.pr
June 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Satellite imagery shows trucks at two key sites the day before the American strikes, suggesting uranium could have been moved.
Not sure I understand how banning foreign students from one of the US's top universities actually attracts the world's best minds to the country. There must be some 10th dimensional chess marketing plan here ...
May 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Not sure I understand how banning foreign students from one of the US's top universities actually attracts the world's best minds to the country. There must be some 10th dimensional chess marketing plan here ...
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Paging @nathankalmoe.bsky.social. I take back what I said yesterday. The most important social science idea that most people don't understand is that correlation does not imply causation (despite what the GOP tends to claim).
The only mention of Medicaid in the report is the insinuation that feeding children through SNAP is harming them: "Roughly 60% of SNAP participants received Medicaid in 2019, highlighting the connection between healthcare costs and suboptimal nutritional services."
How Trump’s ‘one, big, beautiful’ tax bill could impact programs for women and children
House Republicans approved a sweeping package early Thursday morning that contained deep cuts to programs assisting low-income Americans, including Medicaid and SNAP food stamp eligibility.
19thnews.org
May 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Paging @nathankalmoe.bsky.social. I take back what I said yesterday. The most important social science idea that most people don't understand is that correlation does not imply causation (despite what the GOP tends to claim).
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May 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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You are invited to an URGENT community conversation about the SAVE Act and the Texas version of the SAVE Act on Monday, May 5, at 6:30 pm, hosted by League of Women Voters of Williamson County.
We'll discuss how this legislation will affect us & share actions you can take to oppose it.
We'll discuss how this legislation will affect us & share actions you can take to oppose it.
May 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
You are invited to an URGENT community conversation about the SAVE Act and the Texas version of the SAVE Act on Monday, May 5, at 6:30 pm, hosted by League of Women Voters of Williamson County.
We'll discuss how this legislation will affect us & share actions you can take to oppose it.
We'll discuss how this legislation will affect us & share actions you can take to oppose it.
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Shutting down Head Start might seem at odds with the administration's pronatalist aims. But they're actually closely aligned. Because moms who can't find/afford childcare often end up leaving the workforce. And once they're home full-time, it often seems reasonable to have more kids.
April 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Shutting down Head Start might seem at odds with the administration's pronatalist aims. But they're actually closely aligned. Because moms who can't find/afford childcare often end up leaving the workforce. And once they're home full-time, it often seems reasonable to have more kids.