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Gerrymandering is voter suppression and a threat to democracy. And I really appreciate Tangle's take today.

Republican gerrymandering in Texas, and Democrats' response. Plus, why did Congress introduce rescissions in 1974?

"I’m rooting for them. Not out of any preference for one party or support for or opposition to any one politician, but because gerrymandering is that big of a crisis...that I’d support just about any political maneuver from any politician to stand in its way."
www.readtangle.com/texass-gerry...

For acceptance. For calm. For compassion. For empathy. For faith. For forgiveness. For grace. For joy. For justice. For kindness. For love. For patience. For peace. For all of this. For so much more. For all of us. For the best possible outcome. For everyone. Each day. Every day.

45,000. Each of the angels of my better nature.

If you feel the need to threaten a pitcher's children's lives because he has a bad night, you don't love baseball, you don't love Jesus, and you clearly don't love yourself. Go get an actual life and ALL the therapy.

nashville

April 11, 2011. On your birthday. Sometimes it still feels like it was just yesterday.

de regreso a casa (just another George Edward Snyder appreciation post)

...as SX starts its annual romp through Austin.

raining in recoleta

What do I want with sleep after a day like today? Especially when the water noise seems to be catching up, code switching as necessary. Good wine and just forty pages of the very last Cormac McCarthy left to go. Knowing all my rowdy friends back home will be up for hours yet...

gratitud gratuita

first impression

all in the name

Unequivocally.

nuevo

37,000.

The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.

I mean... "So while the legislation would unfairly disenfranchise women as a whole, the requirement to present a birth certificate would disproportionately disenfranchise conservative and Republican women."

www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

I am DECEASED. Figuratively, mind you. There will be literal deaths because of these SOBs though.

The ACCURACY, the unbearable fucking accuracy

A New Photo Book Captures Relics of Texas' Past Photographer Kat Swansey's second book seeks to capture the state's abandoned buildings, ghost towns, and small town treasures.

Lookit my badass almost 35 year old bestie - it's literally one week until her birthday! - in Texas Highways, Y'all! Tonight's THE NIGHT for @katswansey.bsky.social's opening reception at Hangar Studios. See ya there! (But get in line for anything from Van Horn.)

texashighways.com/travel/a-new...

"Even if our children are lucky and their environment isn’t irradiated by whatever Pete Hegseth greenlights at the Department of Defense after Elon buys him a round of shots, we know that climate change will make parts of their world functionally uninhabitable." bsky.app/profile/elie...

New Frontiers | Glaciers, Europa, OSIRIS | Season 2025 | Episode 106 Snow4Flow: Studying Glaciers from Arizona, Europa Clipper, OSIRIS APEX

Host Erika Hamden gets ready for 3 upcoming University of Arizona NASA missions: www.pbs.org/video/glacie...

"...The arts may be different from those agrarian institutions his grandfather wrote about, but the threats they face are similar: disruptive new technologies, the same old greed."

Larry McMurtry’s Grandson Makes Music That Surprises ‘Lonesome Dove’ Fans Curtis McMurtry writes and records songs that are more Austin than Archer City.

"Like the young Texans in Larry’s novels who found themselves yoked to struggling ranches and dried-up oil fields, destined to inherit a dying way of life, Curtis has taken over an endangered family business.
.." www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

De'Aaron Fox 🤝 Wemby

For the Spurs, acquiring De'Aaron Fox is the first high-priced personnel strike of the Victor Wembanyama era, bringing in a legitimate perimeter co-star in his prime to speed up the rebuild process.

Trade news ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

I wonder if Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran are looking forward to testifying about their actions one day...

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

YouTube video by Isaac Basil - Topic Buena Vista

A childhood friend's kiddo released this, and I think it's gorgeous: youtu.be/HqFv9-U2cIQ?si

To Hell With Despair. This is the Darkness We Were Made For I just returned from a few days in Austin, Texas, speaking at a progressive seminary to a diverse audience of ministers, activists, educators, and compassionate human beings.

I needed this today, perhaps you do too.

"How bad things will get isn't a question we can answer. How good we will be in response is all we have within our hands and all we will ever have."

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-hell-wi...

The NBA needs to coordinate with Beyoncé better this can’t happen again.