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Jeff N.

@jefferyn.bsky.social

Georgetown, Texas (near Austin). Type 1 diabetes (51-year survivor). Husband. Father. Appellate lawyer. Reader. Activist. Baseball fan. Former Southern Baptist.

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Ann has great genes. Her mom, Carolyn, is a retired Texas judge, and her dad Jake was a Texas legislator. All three of them were and are great lawyers and public servants. So happy to see her out front speaking for her colleagues.

06.08.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Two blue baseball caps that say β€œdemocracy”

Two blue baseball caps that say β€œdemocracy”

We’ve been wearing these hats in the Austin area since the November election and they get a positive reaction whenever they’re noticed.

25.07.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep. Every statewide
officeholder in Texas was a Democrat when we moved here from NYC in 1983. Some of them were progressive Dems like Ann Richards and Jim Hightower.

18.07.2025 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good to see you, Shannon!

16.07.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Same here. Insulin is too damn expensive.

25.06.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This will be good birdcage liner for their remaining 97,000 print subscribers. So happy to be a former WaPo subscriber, along with hundreds of thousands of others.

23.06.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So happy to be a former NYT subscriber

15.06.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So happy to be a former NYT subscriber

15.06.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
No Kings Rally in Pflugerville TX today, showing a large peaceful crowd

No Kings Rally in Pflugerville TX today, showing a large peaceful crowd

No Kings Rally in Pflugerville TX today, showing a large peaceful crowd

No Kings Rally in Pflugerville TX today, showing a large peaceful crowd

Absolutely right. There were more than a thousand people in Pflugerville today. Big happy peaceful crowd.

14.06.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
At the Pflugerville TX No Kings Rally today. Woman holding a sign that says, β€œMake Orwell & Atwood fiction again”

At the Pflugerville TX No Kings Rally today. Woman holding a sign that says, β€œMake Orwell & Atwood fiction again”

Good to see you there!

14.06.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We were there too. Great crowd!

14.06.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I get the point about Mays playing too long before retiring at 42 and know you're talking about his baseball career. But speaking as an old Mays fan, I'm sure happy about his very long life.

21.05.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fortunately, I can participate in democracy without subscribing to the NYTimes and paying it money to cause me headaches and to feel angry at people like Eric Lipton. Life is too short and I'm better off if I get my information from healthier sources.

12.05.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Once again happy that I unsubscribed to the NYTimes last year.

12.05.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amen. We have a friend who has served honorably for 10 years and is now an Army sergeant. There could be no better soldier. This is ruining his life.

06.05.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for all the great reporting in good times and not so. Wait til next year!

05.05.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for your hard work and great reporting!

05.05.2025 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book
Don't know much about the French I took

26.04.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A proud Stetson Hatter. gohatters.com/

25.04.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It could be either, but if it’s coerciveβ€”to compel compliance with the Court’s ordersβ€”it would be civil.

23.04.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ditto

19.04.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So glad to be an ex-subscriber to NYT

19.04.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜†

17.04.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow. He played hard and well after β€˜52. We are so much fortunate now to have better tools to take care of ourselves. It’s still hard, but must have been so much harder for him.

16.04.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Vance was only 16 when we invaded Iraq and apparently too young to have understood what was happening then

15.04.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults - Wikipedia

Books say he wasn’t diagnosed until after he retired. Type 1 diabetes can manifest at any age. Older adults can develop β€œLate Autoimmune Disease in Adults,” or LADA, which fits what I know of Jackie Robinson’s illness. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_...

15.04.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

His type 1 diabetes led to his early death in 1972 when I was a teenaged baseball fan. I was diagnosed 11 months later, when T1D still meant a death. New technology has changed that. Grateful for these medical advances, hopeful for more, and fearful for the future of medical research.

15.04.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The book cover of Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? by Jimmy Breslin.

The book cover of Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? by Jimmy Breslin.

12.04.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whatever it takes to highlight his oafishness

08.04.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rafael Cruz is an embarrassment to Texas

08.04.2025 03:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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