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'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

dude. there are 8 billion people on Earth, plus countless NGOs doing good things, meaning a lot of people and groups are nominated for the prize. stop.

Rent Debtors Strike Against Abusive Corporate Landlord The Debt Collective is leading the charge against the real estate behemoth Equity Residential.

A group of former tenants has organized the first rent debt strike in U.S. history. They are refusing to pay back unjust debts to Equity Residential, a corporate landlord accused of widespread misconduct. I wrote about their campaign for @prospect.org. prospect.org/infrastructu...

Fellow Texans, here's a link to prepare for the elections this November.

black text: one extra large helping of urban reality, served up on a silver platter. (pixelated isometric chunk of a city, including skyscrapers and a stadium, sitting on a shiny round cd).

simcity 2000: cd collection, print ad, imagery (1995) www.mobygames.com/game/2313/si...

Texas Vignette Returns For A Seventh Year A groundbreaking woman-only artist art fair runs again this weekend in its new permanent facility in the Dallas Design District

I wrote about the innovative art fair/exhibition Texas Vignette , running through today in the Dallas Design District, for @texassignal.bsky.social. It's free. Lots of parking. Artists get 100 percent of sales. Go. texassignal.com/texas-vignet...

so this new compact for higher ed will just make all universities into reactionary grifts like the university of austin and the new new college of florida. cool

I barely built my humble town in Sim City 2000 and already the National Guard took over.

alamo plaza hotel courts, shreveport, louisiana, 1982

alamo plaza hotel courts, shreveport, louisiana, 1982

under her tutelage at a grifter right-wing think tank she called for abolishing agriculture subsidies: www.texaspolicy.com/wp-content/u...

this is the same department who on the day of a looming shutdown emphasized her government agency canceled “woke” grants supporting ”transgender ideology” while also not noting multiple farm bill provisions also expired

Carthage, once a powerful ancient city, faces a new existential threat: climate change. Rising seas, saline winds and erosion are visibly damaging its Unesco-listed ruins, including the Baths of Antoninus and Punic Port.

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'Public trust has been broken' | Clinton County Commissioners calling for sheriff, wife to resign after misappropriating funds A court ruling last week found Sheriff Richard Kelly and his wife, Jail Matron Ashley Kelly, personally liable for the misappropriation of more than $329,000.

One of my "radical" reform opinions is that more states should regularly audit local budgets. www.wthr.com/article/news...

or go to the kennedy school. isn’t that a thing has beens do?

kennedy’s primary to markey may have been the best thing to happen to him, who was otherwise a little known white geriatric. his messaging as a progressive and anti-establishment incumbent. he also defeated a more conservative congressman in the primary when the seat opened up. moulton should pass.

that was not in my playbook.

Ok but what if Jimmy Kimmel is raptured

didn't think so! I should've caught it. I also just came out as someone who reads The Hill.

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KXAN and KXAS? I only know of Austin broadcast media because of the QR newsclips lol

oops! Nexstar. My bad. I like this little act of rebellion on this reporter's part

Did not expect a story about hostile, or discriminatory, architecture from Nextstar. thehill.com/homenews/nex...

Check out my list on Amazon

Y'all, my school has a great big population of kids from all over the world learning to speak English, and not very many accessible books for them, so I'm passing around the hat. If you're able, please send a book for the kids my way:

www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Huston-Tillotson University receives $150 million gift for campus upgrades and scholarships It's the largest gift the Moody Foundation has ever given and the most money ever donated to a single Historically Black College or University in the country.

An astonishing gift to Huston-Tillotson. Some good news. www.kut.org/education/20...

Trinity University closes the book on its esteemed publishing house The highly regarded academic press affiliated with the private liberal arts college in San Antonio is closing, Trinity University confirmed Wednesday.

Horrible news about Trinity U Press closing. Academic presses are some of my favorites. They are committed to campus + community intellectual life. Trinity excelled in Texas architecture and landscape architecture and the stories of SA and South Texas. bit.ly/4229Xmp

Fun fact: Texas is a one party consent state when it comes to recording conversations, which means that you can legally record any conversation of which you are a part — and can share it with a journalist, such as me

Parking spots used as colorful protest against Florida crackdown on rainbow crosswalks An Orlando restaurant owner has turned 49 parking spots outside her eatery into art spaces. This move is in response to a state mandate removing rainbow-colored crosswalks and other street art in Florida.

An Orlando restaurant owner has turned 49 parking spots outside her eatery into art spaces. This move is in response to a state mandate removing rainbow-colored crosswalks and other street art in Florida.

The Quaker jokes in ”Veep” make no sense. Quakers go to strip bars! And drink! Sometimes at the same time!

‘Never Again’ at the Texas Border Fighting for immigrant justice is a Jewish religious and cultural obligation.

Out today: The Torah that says, “You must not oppress foreigners. You know what it’s like to be a foreigner, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.”

In this sense, fighting for immigrant justice is, to Jews, a religious and cultural obligation.

Why The JFK Assassination Still Matters The seminal Texas event gets the spotlight at the third annual "It Came From Texas" Film Festival with the screening of a documentary highlighting local news

Screening today at 3 pm the It Came from Texas Film Festival is the 2003 documentary JFK: Breaking the News told from the perspective of journalists who covered it. @texassignal.bsky.social executive director @jmcoggins.bsky.social. A panel follows.
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