@jphicks.bsky.social
Yes, I’m the same 4th generation (that I know of anyway) Texan as I was on the bad place. Migrating to here is a breath of fresh air even though I left 14k followers. Starting over. Let’s make this place as good as it can possibly be.
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This is all-hands on deck. RFK Jr. wants to destroy vaccination in the US. COVID and HBV vaccination were the first step. These diseases WILL come back. And your personal vaccination status is important, but so is the coverage in your community. So up your game and fight. www.vox.com/2015/3/25/82...
The lives vaccines have saved in the US, in one chart
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...
www.vox.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is all-hands on deck. RFK Jr. wants to destroy vaccination in the US. COVID and HBV vaccination were the first step. These diseases WILL come back. And your personal vaccination status is important, but so is the coverage in your community. So up your game and fight. www.vox.com/2015/3/25/82...
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Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
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I can never unsee this so neither can you
December 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I can never unsee this so neither can you
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To be honest I get much more interaction there than here. It’s hit about 430,000 views over there. Without George posting it here it wouldn’t have made hardly any impact. I like Blue Sky but they have some work to do to help boost engagement.
January 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
To be honest I get much more interaction there than here. It’s hit about 430,000 views over there. Without George posting it here it wouldn’t have made hardly any impact. I like Blue Sky but they have some work to do to help boost engagement.
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Denise Lugo has been a home care worker supporting aging adults and people with disabilities in North Carolina for over 30 years.
Now, the Labor Department wants to strip her and millions of other caregivers of minimum wage and overtime protections that could wreak havoc on their livelihoods.
Now, the Labor Department wants to strip her and millions of other caregivers of minimum wage and overtime protections that could wreak havoc on their livelihoods.
Home Care Workers Are Losing Minimum Wage Protections — and Fighting Back
Three million care workers, many of them Black and Latina women, could be classified as “companions” instead of professionals.
capitalandmain.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Denise Lugo has been a home care worker supporting aging adults and people with disabilities in North Carolina for over 30 years.
Now, the Labor Department wants to strip her and millions of other caregivers of minimum wage and overtime protections that could wreak havoc on their livelihoods.
Now, the Labor Department wants to strip her and millions of other caregivers of minimum wage and overtime protections that could wreak havoc on their livelihoods.
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Steyer: We have to break this cycle of rising costs so we can continue to deliver care, and single-payer is the way to go.
Meiselas: What do you say to critics who say, “I remember when Tom ran for president and ran ads saying he didn’t support the single-payer?”
Steyer: I was wrong.
Meiselas: What do you say to critics who say, “I remember when Tom ran for president and ran ads saying he didn’t support the single-payer?”
Steyer: I was wrong.
December 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Steyer: We have to break this cycle of rising costs so we can continue to deliver care, and single-payer is the way to go.
Meiselas: What do you say to critics who say, “I remember when Tom ran for president and ran ads saying he didn’t support the single-payer?”
Steyer: I was wrong.
Meiselas: What do you say to critics who say, “I remember when Tom ran for president and ran ads saying he didn’t support the single-payer?”
Steyer: I was wrong.
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"Fog of war" 😂. They're using billion dollar technology to kill people that aren't even aware of their existence.
Not exactly the jungles of Vietnam
Not exactly the jungles of Vietnam
December 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"Fog of war" 😂. They're using billion dollar technology to kill people that aren't even aware of their existence.
Not exactly the jungles of Vietnam
Not exactly the jungles of Vietnam
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What? Congress hasn’t declared war on any country or non-state actor.
How can “fog of war” exist without a war?
I think #PeteHegseth may had just admitted that the killing of non-combatants in the Caribbean is unlawful and a war crime?
How can “fog of war” exist without a war?
I think #PeteHegseth may had just admitted that the killing of non-combatants in the Caribbean is unlawful and a war crime?
BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cites "fog of war" in defending follow-on strike in September attack on alleged drug boat in Caribbean Sea.
Live updates: Trump hosts Cabinet meeting amid scrutiny over boat strikes
President Donald Trump is hosting a Cabinet meeting as the administration insists that secondary strikes on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea were lawful.
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
What? Congress hasn’t declared war on any country or non-state actor.
How can “fog of war” exist without a war?
I think #PeteHegseth may had just admitted that the killing of non-combatants in the Caribbean is unlawful and a war crime?
How can “fog of war” exist without a war?
I think #PeteHegseth may had just admitted that the killing of non-combatants in the Caribbean is unlawful and a war crime?
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Florida and Texas where a lot of elites live will be the first to get the biometric data blockchain banking fleece functional. TURN THEM BLUE.
December 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Florida and Texas where a lot of elites live will be the first to get the biometric data blockchain banking fleece functional. TURN THEM BLUE.
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Texas voters proudly allowed their government to lock them out. Now they have no recourse.
Most aggressively ignorant people in the US gave away all their rights for a handful of beans.
Most aggressively ignorant people in the US gave away all their rights for a handful of beans.
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Texas voters proudly allowed their government to lock them out. Now they have no recourse.
Most aggressively ignorant people in the US gave away all their rights for a handful of beans.
Most aggressively ignorant people in the US gave away all their rights for a handful of beans.
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7/7
Weakened courts, powerless and cash strapped cities beholden to the Governor & the statehouse, predetermined outcomes and a fiscal noose are not random. They are components of a single long-term strategy concocted and funded by billionaires. Texans deserve better.
Weakened courts, powerless and cash strapped cities beholden to the Governor & the statehouse, predetermined outcomes and a fiscal noose are not random. They are components of a single long-term strategy concocted and funded by billionaires. Texans deserve better.
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Weakened courts, powerless and cash strapped cities beholden to the Governor & the statehouse, predetermined outcomes and a fiscal noose are not random. They are components of a single long-term strategy concocted and funded by billionaires. Texans deserve better.
Weakened courts, powerless and cash strapped cities beholden to the Governor & the statehouse, predetermined outcomes and a fiscal noose are not random. They are components of a single long-term strategy concocted and funded by billionaires. Texans deserve better.
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Now add the fiscal trap. Texas slashed local revenue, cut off alternative funding paths, and shifted schools onto unstable revenue streams. Cities like Houston and Dallas face impossible long-term math because the state engineered it that way. youtu.be/WLQFoOwNPug
Now add the fiscal trap. Texas slashed local revenue, cut off alternative funding paths, and shifted schools onto unstable revenue streams. Cities like Houston and Dallas face impossible long-term math because the state engineered it that way. youtu.be/WLQFoOwNPug
How Texas Will Bankrupt Its Cities
YouTube video by Daily MindBrew
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Now add the fiscal trap. Texas slashed local revenue, cut off alternative funding paths, and shifted schools onto unstable revenue streams. Cities like Houston and Dallas face impossible long-term math because the state engineered it that way. youtu.be/WLQFoOwNPug
Now add the fiscal trap. Texas slashed local revenue, cut off alternative funding paths, and shifted schools onto unstable revenue streams. Cities like Houston and Dallas face impossible long-term math because the state engineered it that way. youtu.be/WLQFoOwNPug
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Texas is being quietly reengineered into a system where voters have shrinking power, cities lose control over their own budgets, and courts can no longer check the executive. This is happening through constitutional traps most Texans never saw coming. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
Texas is being quietly reengineered into a system where voters have shrinking power, cities lose control over their own budgets, and courts can no longer check the executive. This is happening through constitutional traps most Texans never saw coming. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Texas is being quietly reengineered into a system where voters have shrinking power, cities lose control over their own budgets, and courts can no longer check the executive. This is happening through constitutional traps most Texans never saw coming. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
Texas is being quietly reengineered into a system where voters have shrinking power, cities lose control over their own budgets, and courts can no longer check the executive. This is happening through constitutional traps most Texans never saw coming. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
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Rahmanulla Lakanwal is the National Guard shooting suspect.
Interesting that there were 36 searches for his exact name.
4 hours before the shooting.
I bet Stephen Miller knows why.
Interesting that there were 36 searches for his exact name.
4 hours before the shooting.
I bet Stephen Miller knows why.
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Rahmanulla Lakanwal is the National Guard shooting suspect.
Interesting that there were 36 searches for his exact name.
4 hours before the shooting.
I bet Stephen Miller knows why.
Interesting that there were 36 searches for his exact name.
4 hours before the shooting.
I bet Stephen Miller knows why.
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The Regime is cutting funding that provides housing and wrap around services (mental health etc) to the homeless.
Abbott and Paxton are NOT suing the Regime because they don’t really follow Jesus. Hypocrites.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Abbott and Paxton are NOT suing the Regime because they don’t really follow Jesus. Hypocrites.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
20 states sue the Trump administration over cuts to homeless permanent housing funding
A coalition of attorneys general and governors filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration's new conditions and cuts to a Department of Housing and Urban Development permanent housing program.
www.politico.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The Regime is cutting funding that provides housing and wrap around services (mental health etc) to the homeless.
Abbott and Paxton are NOT suing the Regime because they don’t really follow Jesus. Hypocrites.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Abbott and Paxton are NOT suing the Regime because they don’t really follow Jesus. Hypocrites.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
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Swalwell: Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, you should familiarize yourselves with this room. Get to know that witness chair — you’re going to be parked in it for a long time. Accountability is coming.
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Swalwell: Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, you should familiarize yourselves with this room. Get to know that witness chair — you’re going to be parked in it for a long time. Accountability is coming.
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Veterans from across the country met with over 40 members of Congress today to demand they stop President Trump's unprecedented deployment of military troops to our cities.
The time to act is now.
The time to act is now.
Veterans Urge Congress to Stop Trump’s Militarization of American Cities
Former U.S. Army Captain and ACLU Senior Project Manager Jessica Apgar praises the more than 40 veterans demanding Congress take action against the Trump administration’ abuse of military powers.
www.aclu.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Veterans from across the country met with over 40 members of Congress today to demand they stop President Trump's unprecedented deployment of military troops to our cities.
The time to act is now.
The time to act is now.
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mandates statewide to provide indigent healthcare and legal defense, CPS and juvenile justice, election administration while taking 55% of local tax revenue away. It is bankrupting and destroying rural counties while overburdening urban property owners.
https://county.org/resources/reso…
November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
mandates statewide to provide indigent healthcare and legal defense, CPS and juvenile justice, election administration while taking 55% of local tax revenue away. It is bankrupting and destroying rural counties while overburdening urban property owners.
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Al Capone died in prison for taxes, not murders. This could do the same to Texas MAGA.
Texas Democrats need to see this sledgehammer of an issue for what it is. IMHO it could flip the state. Austin MAGA has decreed 159 unfunded
Texas Democrats need to see this sledgehammer of an issue for what it is. IMHO it could flip the state. Austin MAGA has decreed 159 unfunded
November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Al Capone died in prison for taxes, not murders. This could do the same to Texas MAGA.
Texas Democrats need to see this sledgehammer of an issue for what it is. IMHO it could flip the state. Austin MAGA has decreed 159 unfunded
Texas Democrats need to see this sledgehammer of an issue for what it is. IMHO it could flip the state. Austin MAGA has decreed 159 unfunded
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