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There's a group that hosts queer MTG nights at Dragon's Lair in Austin, I'll send you their @ s

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

I asked John Cornyn about this and he said about Paxton suing Tylenol’s company
“He wants to line the pockets of every trial lawyer in the state. He ran off all of his professional staff, and now he has to hire trial lawyers, so and they're some of his biggest supporters.”

Vaccine subterfuge: How vaccine-makers fooled the Nazis from inside a concentration camp lab Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald, a Jewish microbiologist conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front.

Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.

A flight with a 40 minute layover in CLT? tbh I'd rather just walk there than have another layover in that accursed place

This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.

Wrote up how you can find help if you'll lose benefits and how you can help others if not:

Unless the shutdown ends before Monday, Texans on SNAP will lose November benefits. WIC could also end later next month.

Please consider donating to Central Texas Food Bank if you can: www.centraltexasfoodbank.org/get-involved...

Games for people who lack object permanence

Had another dream about baby last night 😊

YouTube video by Ekko Astral Ekko Astral - "horseglue" [Official Music Video]

good morning happy new music friday

“horseglue” by ekko astral is available everywhere you can listen to music

listen to it share it stream it playlist it tell your friends tell your enemies tell your dog tell your cat tell the politicians you yell at on bluesky

TCU has been under immense public pressure from elected officials in North Texas to stop teaching LGBTQ+ topics or offering gender studies degrees.

*heavy sigh*

Yeah?

I’m a reporter for @TexasTribune writing about new policies limiting the discussion/expression of trans identities at public TX K-12 schools. I want to know how these policies have affected you or your school. Students, parents, educators, email lindsey.byman@texastribune.org

lindsey byman at the texas tribune is looking for some sources for a story on trans identity in texas k-12 schools. she's a great journalist. Help her out if you know someone who can speak to this. she's not here, so here's a screenshot of her post.

her email is lindsey.byman@texastribune.org

Only thing I'll say about the tattoo discourse is that some pundits are woefully under-informed about what the SS was and did.

If I had a time machine, I'd go back in time and watch Polish survivors beat Oskar Dirlewanger to death.

"money goes nowhere / but in my throat" 🔥🔥🔥

Any Texas attorneys/law profs want to chat with me about sovereign immunity?

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean Total reported killed: 34 people Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View September 15, 2025 3 “in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

The Court agrees with Defendant’s premise that Texas has an interest in safeguarding children against sexually explicit material—especially materials purchased with public funds for public schools. But the Court cannot agree with Defendant’s assertion that Plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights are not violated by READER. Defendant’s continued attempt to recharacterize READER is still unconvincing. Both the third and fourth factors favor injunctive relief here. Even though the interest Defendant points to is a good and noble one, that does not outweigh the fact that READER tries to serve that goal in an unconstitutional way.

A Trump-appointed federal judge in Austin ruled Texas' HB 900 unconstitutional. Again.

TBD on if it'll go before SCOTUS, but here's my latest for KXAN about the 2023 law's two-year court fight: www.kxan.com/news/texas/t...

Hormone Therapy For Trans Women Shifts Dozens Of Proteins To Align With Their Gender Identity The protein changes observed in a group of trans women after gender-affirming hormone treatment were similar to what is seen in cis women receiving HRT in menopause.

Bodies are so cool.

Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.

I don't want to be too critical of this report (otherwise good!) but I wish the authors had considered bills targeting transition-related healthcare as "anti-science"

NYT Magazine headline “‘I'm on Fire': Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive - and Then Some There is no F.D.A.-approved testosterone product for women. Insurance won't cover it. Many doctors won't prescribe it. It's become a cultural phenomenon.”

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence”

when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of US strike in Caribbean committed any crime He was released by authorities in the South American nation.

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Liz Graff, a law student in criminal justice at the University of Texas at Austin, has felt a shift in how they are treated on campus. Graff is one of a dozen transgender and nonbinary students the Tribune spoke to that describe college campuses as increasingly hostile environments. (Lorianne Willett/Texas Tribune)

Blown away by this story from The Texas Tribune. Amazing work by the team over there, and I'm glad they let us republish it to KXAN: www.kxan.com/lgbtq/trans-...

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

NEW RESEARCH confirms:

Countering far-right messaging by repeating it mainstreams extremist ideas and amplifying extremist terminology cedes the framing of the issues to the right.

(I’ll add that social media “dunking” only serves to spread undesired content.)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to su...

Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability.
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

“¿Te vas a comer todo eso?”: The Latinx body image crisis in Texas New research reveals that over half of Latinx Texans struggle with body image and disordered eating, yet don’t seek help. Experts say family dynamics play a key role and support is available.

For many Latinx Texans, family comments about food and body image are more than just words: New research shows a growing mental health crisis, but also a path to healing. https://www.kxan.com/news/simplehealth/te-vas-a-comer-todo-eso-the-latinx-body-image-crisis-in-texas/ 

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Early voting is underway! 🗳️ Find out what's on the ballot and lots more important info in the KXAN Voter Guide: https://www.kxan.com/news/your-local-election-hq/nov-4-2025-voter-guide/