nomandates
@nomandates.bsky.social
Democratic Texan. Self-appointed arbiter of who does not have a mandate.
"If we do not wake up to this threat, then we, as a country, will die in our sleep."-Beto O'Rourke (8/15/2019)
Slava Ukraini!
"If we do not wake up to this threat, then we, as a country, will die in our sleep."-Beto O'Rourke (8/15/2019)
Slava Ukraini!
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@nomandates.bsky.social
· Jul 5
Must read: David Pepper's 🧵 on the racist history of referring to certain humans, including children, as "alligator bait."
Please also read his full post at substack: open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...
bsky.app/profile/davi...
Please also read his full post at substack: open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...
bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
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Tax credits for clean energy initiatives, which could be used by homeowners across the country, are being phased out under the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed earlier this year by the Republican-controlled Congress.
The cost of energy efficiency is going up as clean energy tax credits are set to expire
The tax credits, which could be used by homeowners across the country, are being phased out under the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed earlier this year by the Republican-controlled Congress.
www.houstonpublicmedia.org
December 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Tax credits for clean energy initiatives, which could be used by homeowners across the country, are being phased out under the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed earlier this year by the Republican-controlled Congress.
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This has been a hard year for all of us 😢
There’s not much I alone can do but remind people of the good in the world worth fighting for to keep hope alive. So I resolve to keep sharing flowers I see while keeping this skyline MΛGΛt free. Better days are ahead if we work at it #BloomScrolling 2026 👍
There’s not much I alone can do but remind people of the good in the world worth fighting for to keep hope alive. So I resolve to keep sharing flowers I see while keeping this skyline MΛGΛt free. Better days are ahead if we work at it #BloomScrolling 2026 👍
December 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This has been a hard year for all of us 😢
There’s not much I alone can do but remind people of the good in the world worth fighting for to keep hope alive. So I resolve to keep sharing flowers I see while keeping this skyline MΛGΛt free. Better days are ahead if we work at it #BloomScrolling 2026 👍
There’s not much I alone can do but remind people of the good in the world worth fighting for to keep hope alive. So I resolve to keep sharing flowers I see while keeping this skyline MΛGΛt free. Better days are ahead if we work at it #BloomScrolling 2026 👍
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"For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry," she continued. "Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”
“[My family has] held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it,” Schlossberg wrote last month. “This has been a great gift, even though I feel their pain every day.”
“‘Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,’ read the post, which was signed by ‘George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.’” people.com/tatiana-schl...
December 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry," she continued. "Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”
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“‘Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,’ read the post, which was signed by ‘George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.’” people.com/tatiana-schl...
Tatiana Schlossberg, Writer and Daughter of Caroline Kennedy, Dead at 35
Tatiana Schlossberg, the middle child of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, died on Dec. 30 at age 35
people.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“‘Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,’ read the post, which was signed by ‘George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.’” people.com/tatiana-schl...
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They took health care away from millions of Americans and called it waste, fraud, and abuse.
What are you saying about those Americans?
What are you saying about those Americans?
December 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
They took health care away from millions of Americans and called it waste, fraud, and abuse.
What are you saying about those Americans?
What are you saying about those Americans?
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Five experts weigh in on the future of human intelligence, including:
👓 The art of paying attention
🤖 The limits of AI
📚 How to save the humanities
👓 The art of paying attention
🤖 The limits of AI
📚 How to save the humanities
Five voices on the future of human intelligence
How can we all stay smart in a changing world? We asked the experts
newhumanist.org.uk
December 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Five experts weigh in on the future of human intelligence, including:
👓 The art of paying attention
🤖 The limits of AI
📚 How to save the humanities
👓 The art of paying attention
🤖 The limits of AI
📚 How to save the humanities
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"Please be kind enough to explain when and where and under what authority you gained access to this material.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"
December 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"Please be kind enough to explain when and where and under what authority you gained access to this material.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"
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So let’s get this straight:
Trump’s DOJ buried Epstein’s crimes but kept flight logs on Julie K. Brown, the reporter who exposed them. Her 2019 American Airlines booking shows up in the files.
That’s not a data glitch or an oversight.
Trump’s DOJ buried Epstein’s crimes but kept flight logs on Julie K. Brown, the reporter who exposed them. Her 2019 American Airlines booking shows up in the files.
That’s not a data glitch or an oversight.
December 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
So let’s get this straight:
Trump’s DOJ buried Epstein’s crimes but kept flight logs on Julie K. Brown, the reporter who exposed them. Her 2019 American Airlines booking shows up in the files.
That’s not a data glitch or an oversight.
Trump’s DOJ buried Epstein’s crimes but kept flight logs on Julie K. Brown, the reporter who exposed them. Her 2019 American Airlines booking shows up in the files.
That’s not a data glitch or an oversight.
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It's really frustrating how all of the bad things that are happening are happening for no good reason
December 30, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It's really frustrating how all of the bad things that are happening are happening for no good reason
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THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
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Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
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I went to Texas to write about the sudden end of one of America's most successful experiments: the six decades of welcoming India's most educated and ambitious citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
Opinion | One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I went to Texas to write about the sudden end of one of America's most successful experiments: the six decades of welcoming India's most educated and ambitious citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
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BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.
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Favs, missed opportunities, and some anticipated books
Books are the best.
open.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website https://theonion.com/doj-removes-all-mentions-of-justice-from-website/
December 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website https://theonion.com/doj-removes-all-mentions-of-justice-from-website/
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I actually do not want allow men off the street to come gander at my children and the woman that kept him out sounds heroic
At one point, the two men in this video don’t identify themselves to daycare workers, demand to know where the children are, and then try to yank open the door as the female employees pull on it to keep them out.
December 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I actually do not want allow men off the street to come gander at my children and the woman that kept him out sounds heroic
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Just would like to remind everyone a private citizen with massive foreign financial exposure was brought in to handle sensitive diplomatic negotiations and no indication anyone questioned giving him a clearance again.
Life of nepo baby Jared at its finest.
Life of nepo baby Jared at its finest.
December 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Just would like to remind everyone a private citizen with massive foreign financial exposure was brought in to handle sensitive diplomatic negotiations and no indication anyone questioned giving him a clearance again.
Life of nepo baby Jared at its finest.
Life of nepo baby Jared at its finest.
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One of the best paid family and medical leave programs in the entire country is starting here in Minnesota on January 1st.
I've been organizing for over 12 years, and we finally got it done.
I've been organizing for over 12 years, and we finally got it done.
December 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
One of the best paid family and medical leave programs in the entire country is starting here in Minnesota on January 1st.
I've been organizing for over 12 years, and we finally got it done.
I've been organizing for over 12 years, and we finally got it done.
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Trump guys on Twitter are using Grok to “hunt” daycares in their nearest city to see if there are kids in them and, if there are, if they’re Somali.
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Trump guys on Twitter are using Grok to “hunt” daycares in their nearest city to see if there are kids in them and, if there are, if they’re Somali.
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So many lies in this story... DHS agents shot an unarmed man with his hands up. They claimed self-defense and charged him with assault. All charges against him are now dismissed with prejudice after DHS refused to turn over the footage to the defense.
December 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
So many lies in this story... DHS agents shot an unarmed man with his hands up. They claimed self-defense and charged him with assault. All charges against him are now dismissed with prejudice after DHS refused to turn over the footage to the defense.
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This Christmas, WCK shared moments of warmth across Ukraine—preparing special holiday meals for families displaced by the war and whose homes have been damaged. The menu featured familiar Christmas flavors: kutia, a baked meat dish, and mandarins. #ChefsForUkraine
December 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This Christmas, WCK shared moments of warmth across Ukraine—preparing special holiday meals for families displaced by the war and whose homes have been damaged. The menu featured familiar Christmas flavors: kutia, a baked meat dish, and mandarins. #ChefsForUkraine