Daniel Braaten

Turning Point USA continues to carry on the sainted work of Charlie Kirk by singling out innocent high school teachers for death threats.

How Two Billionaire Preachers Remade Texas Politics (Published 2024)

you think about the scale of the Wilkes and Dunn empire and you just kind of go blank at the way they have their hands in everything www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/m...

Trump-Vance’s ICE Blocks Catholic Bishop From Delivering Eucharist at Detention Center Responding to Pope Leo's call, it was their second attempt in three weeks to minister to detained migrants, and once again the answer from the Trump Administration was simply “no.”

Donald Trump and JD Vance are orchestrating a full frontal assault on Pope Leo’s Catholic Church.

album of the day - Wrecking Ball from Bruce Springsteen

Chinese Government Threatens Academic Freedom in the UK Sheffield Hallam University in England terminated a project about Uyghur forced labor after Chinese state security officers reportedly interrogated a staff member in Beijing and a Chinese company name...

Threats to academic freedom in the UK - Sheffield Hallam University terminated a project about Uyghur forced labor after Chinese state security officers reportedly interrogated a staff member in Beijing & a Chinese company named in a report filed a defamation lawsuit. www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Thanks to the Editorial Board of the Austin American Statesman for this strong editorial opposing the Compact!

album of the day - Chama from Soulfly

I agree, Wikipedia is an amazing resource

Refugee Resettlement Must Remain a Safe and Secure Legal Pathway, Says Bishop Seitz Bishop Seitz’s remarks follow the Administration’s formal publication of the Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2026, which...

The U.S. Catholic Bishops oppose Trump's draconian refugee resettlement cap and his apparent use of race to determine who can come to the U.S. as a refugee.
www.usccb.org/news/2025/re...

Cool that renewables have become the cheapest source of energy in the world just as a bunch of reactionary-centrist US pundits have taken up the right-wing "climate vs. cheap energy" framing.

Flights delayed across US amid air traffic controller shortages as shutdown drags on Nearly 50% of 30 busiest airports facing absences as staff are forced to work without pay and shutdown hits 31st day

To take pressure off ATC, let's suspend all private jet flights. It's an issue of efficiency. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

some things never change

Bears special teams today have been not so special #BearDown

with the firing of Hugh Freeze at Auburn, US universities now owe nearly $200 million to ex-football coaches

not great

Donald the Dove Strikes Again

The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.

Thirty years ago, “The Californian Ideology” was published, critiquing the dotcom neoliberalism of the 90s. Today Silicon Valley has headed to the Lone Star State. Fred Turner writes on “The Texan Ideology.”

but anyway Wemby for MVP

I mean I love the Spurs as much as the next person but we have decades of research telling us the stadium deals do not bring the prosperity their advocates claim. Sorry if that lacks vision

the more the Express News and assorted San Antonio bigwigs say we need to support Project Marvel otherwise we "lack vision" the more I am inclined to oppose it

‘Students Are Terrified’: How Trump’s Higher Education Compact Puts Queer Students at Risk The heavy-handed document promises federal funding in exchange for ideological compliance. So far, it's unpopular.

“Trump’s compact is the greatest single incursion into the freedom & autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

#DefendHigherEd

same at Texas A&M. why would we want a no-nothing accredidation agency

TXST President Damphouse is ruining a great university

The Republican propaganda trifecta was talk radio --> Fox News --> social media

again JD Vance hates his family

album of the day - Returning to Myself from Brandie Carlile

part of me thinks that J.D. Vance just straight up hates his wife, kids, and in-laws

couldn't agree more with this thread

album of the day - Under the Table and Dreaming from the Dave Matthews Band

sign this letter to the Texas State regents demanding the reinstatement of Dr. Tom Alter