Molly Cox

Was the woman killed by ICE today “an innocent, wonderful, incredible woman” who “was murdered at the hands of someone who should have never pulled the trigger of his gun," or is that kind of presidential comment only reserved for insurrectionists? Asking for a country.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Over and over again, Republicans show us they prefer money and power. They don’t care that millions of people will lose health insurance or that children will go hungry.“Will the richest among us become richer and will they give me some of it?” This is what they ask. This is how they vote.

Greg Abbott deployed the National Guard to San Antonio, when he could have deployed the Coast Guard. ‘Cause everything went peacefully (as expected) at the protests, but we need boats to get to work due to crumbling infrastructure and heavy rains.

San Antonio’s election showed people-powered campaigns prevail. Rolando Pablos’ Campaign relied on racist, sexist rhetoric (+ sky planes & PAC money) to rile up an electorate, while Gina Ortiz Jones’ Campaign knocked on doors & built a diverse coalition. You show up for people, they show up for you.

That dude & Greg Abbott-aligned PACs spent upwards of $1.5 million to buy the mayor’s seat in San Antonio, & they were trounced by a grassroots campaign for a first-generation, lesbian woman of color veteran. San Antonio, Texas just said pretty clearly, “This is who we are,” and that’s cool as shit.

🌈💫 Sharing rainbow memes on your timelines is one way to show allyship. Voting for policymakers who see us as humans is a better way. In this sense, I’m a one-issue voter: you must believe in my inherent rights and worth as a human to earn my vote. In San Antonio, vote Gina Ortiz Jones for mayor.

Really putting that Abbott cash to good use!

He put tariffs in place due to a “national emergency” before heading out to a golf tournament during said emergency. Congress could stop this today. If Republicans would put people over…golf tournaments.

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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

@booker.senate.gov is showing us what it means to disrupt “business as usual” when “usual” is anything but. And I am here for it.

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**pulls up soapbox, gets on it**
If San Antonio media outlets spent half as much time on *who* is running for elected office as they do on how *no one knows* who’s running for elected office, we’d have a more informed electorate.
**screams into the abyss, steps down from soapbox**

Here we go.

I want elected officials who bring SA to DC direct flight energy to affordable housing, true living wages, and better roads and sidewalks with ample street lighting. That’s how I’m calculating my vote in San Antonio’s municipal election on May 3.

When hostile dudes govern, we get hostile government.

When a random ass bookstore from a city I’ve never been to or hardly visit finds their way into my feed, you can bet I’m gonna follow them. ‘Cause if I do find myself in their city, you can also bet I’m gonna visit and buy books.

To watch San Antonio’s elected and appointed leaders cave so quickly is unsurprising and disappointing. And to watch the coverage of this closure fail to interrogate their talking points is also hella disappointing.

The rage that stems from this administration’s desire to create fear and chaos lives alongside the pride in community for pushing back so hard that they had to rescind their bullshit. It shouldn’t be this hard, and I wish our elected leaders had as much backbone as our community leaders.

More of this, please.

Eddie Vega stands behind a podium.

Y’all. @eltacolico.bsky.social, San Antonio’s current Poet Laureate, closed out the annual Blessing of the Peacemakers yesterday, and…I think I love him. Funny, poignant, smart—exactly who we need right now to have the mic.

Bad Takes: Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s defense of San Antonio’s failure to aid poorest residents flunks the test Nirenberg’s progressive grandstanding has frequently stood in contrast with the city's less-than-inspiring governance.

“Leaders aspiring to some degree of honesty should level with us: If this is the best we can do, then our best isn’t good enough.” by Kevin Sanchez for @sacurrent.bsky.social.

#SanAntonio City elections are in May this year. We can do better, y’all. We must.
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My grandma was prolific, full of lessons and good sense. She died before my 11th birthday, and at 46, I still rely on the wisdom she imparted. One of her best: “Not everyone else can always be the asshole. But there are a lot of assholes out there.” In short, check yourself and trust yourself.

Damn.

“To love this country and to work to strengthen it requires first a proper diagnosis of the weaknesses that lie at its core. We cannot protect against that which we refuse to diagnose and name.” @sifill.bsky.social

Here’s hoping you’ve got the space and time today to do what you need for yourself. And should you be the person who can give folks the space and time that they need today, do that.