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Moorethink
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I'm an NYT bestselling author of "Bush's Brain," co-creator and exec producer of Netflix unscripted hit reality series, "Tex Mex Motors," Emmy-winning TV correspondent, former retained talking head for MSNBC, CNN opinion writer, ride motorcycles and bikes.
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · 12h
Autumnal Texas
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · 3d
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A Soldier's Duty
“The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they’re following orders or not.
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · 4d
They appear to be less than subtly putting their hands back out with an alms cup to dear leader.
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · 6d
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Can new media company fix South Texas' misunderstood reputation?
“There’s more to us than just immigration and this false narrative that we are an area of chaos."
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · 10d
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What the River Remembers
(Below is a rework of a piece I wrote several years ago about the border, Mexico, “Black Jack” Pershing, and politics, an earthy mix of incompatible parts.
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · 17d
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Mississippi Yearning
“The flower that smiles today, tomorrow dies; all that we wish to stay, tempts and then flies.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · 19d
Pretty certain most Americans couldn't answer half of these questions being put before new immigrants. www.borderreport.com/immigration/...
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · 25d
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · 29d
The arc of the online universe is short, and it bends toward idiocy.
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Sep 7
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The Way We Were
We put Scotty at first base because he was unable to really run.
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Sep 5
I’m convinced.
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Sep 5
I’m in a sports bar not pissing distance from the Mexican border and grown-assed adults are wearing pro football player jerseys and screaming at the TV and, as usual, I feel like I’ve landed on another planet amidst a different species.
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Aug 31
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Trust and Us
America has become a country where children cannot trust their parents when they tell them they will be safe at school.
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Aug 30
New football season's stupidest color commentary line: "They're going to need to have really good eye discipline in this situation." Huh? How about watching what's happening? Jaysus.
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Aug 30
“I have never wished another man dead but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” - Clarence Darrow
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Aug 30
Hey Doc - I owe you an email. A bit overwhelmed of late. Update to follow soon.
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Aug 30
Texas just turned Ivermectin into an over-the-counter drug. May every Greg Abbott supporter and Magat buy a bushel and use it liberally.
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Aug 23
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To Look for America
"What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Aug 20
It’s being as naive as Trump to think Putin will meet with Zelensky.
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Ian Masters @ianmastersmedia.bsky.social · Aug 19
NOW at backgroundbriefing.org | David Andelman - Trump's Art of the Giveaway | @origoldberg.bsky.social - Can Israel’s Massive Demonstrations Stop the War? | James C. Moore - The Fascistic Thuggery of Republican Legislators in Texas
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Aug 17
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Autocrats in Alaska
"Who can live with this consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?” - Allen Ginsberg, “The Fall of America: Poems of These States”
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Aug 13
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Aug 10
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The Texas Template
"Texas has a long tradition of expanding democracy, for whites, for landowners, for the wealthy, while systematically excluding everyone else.
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Aug 7
Awesome, dood!
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Moorethink @moorethink.bsky.social · Aug 3
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Banana Republicans
The idea was steeped in silly optimism.
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