I got the goosebumps reading this. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
It's beautiful.
It's for your son that I wrote "Electroboy."
I'm deeply touched like you can't imagine.
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Former journalist, hate corruption, MArch, AIA Assoc, LEED AP BD+C, Climate change is real, y'all Mom to 2 border collies ๐๐๐๐๐๐
I got the goosebumps reading this. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
It's beautiful.
It's for your son that I wrote "Electroboy."
I'm deeply touched like you can't imagine.
My son's reading this book rt now
He made himself slow up bc he was tempted 2 burn thru it
Now he processes as he goes
Taking notes & everything
He's a voracious reader w/GOOD taste
He CANNOT say enuf about its
"Stream of consciousness"
Also-the author is exactly how you'd want an artist 2 beโฅ๏ธ
Texas House Democrats left the state Sunday in a bold move to prevent a vote on the Republican effort โ backed by Trump โ to unfairly rewrite the stateโs congressional map.
04.08.2025 02:45 โ ๐ 970 ๐ 200 ๐ฌ 33 ๐ 7The fact that nobody around him has told him this isnโt how numbers work shows you how afraid of him everyone who works for him is.
04.08.2025 03:16 โ ๐ 4149 ๐ 1133 ๐ฌ 350 ๐ 115UPDATE: Governor Abbott just threatened to REMOVE THE TEXAS DEMS FROM THEIR SEATS if they donโt return by 3pm Monday (so Republicans can steal 5 seats in Congress using a special session about the flooding as cover) โ and charge them with FELONIES.
We are over the cliff.
So they have nothing substantive to compel the legislators from coming back to Texas. They just have concepts. youtu.be/Nx4RauBWXOM
04.08.2025 03:21 โ ๐ 286 ๐ 23 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0The opinion by Paxton explicitly takes no position on whether breaking quorum is unconstitutional because, as Paxton said, it was tied up in litigation at the time www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/defaul...
04.08.2025 03:20 โ ๐ 559 ๐ 87 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 3NOTABLY the Paxton opinion that Abbott cites doesnโt actually say lawmakers who break quorum are removable โ in fact it says this is a fact-specific question only resolvable by a court.
The opinion also does not say itโs unconstitutional to break quorum.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/defaul...
JUST IN: Abbott says he may treat fleeing lawmakers as having โforfeitedโ their offices and move to replace them. He also suggests they could be subject to felony charges if they accept payments to cover impending fines gov.texas.gov/uploads/file...
04.08.2025 03:10 โ ๐ 2236 ๐ 1027 ๐ฌ 467 ๐ 288๐๐ฝ
04.08.2025 03:27 โ ๐ 1585 ๐ 514 ๐ฌ 33 ๐ 26This is pretty fucking insane. Abbott says heโll remove any Democrats who donโt show up tomorrow from office.
04.08.2025 03:29 โ ๐ 1237 ๐ 386 ๐ฌ 169 ๐ 56Just realized I never posted this, my apologies!
I wonโt be posting much over the next week or so. Everything is fine, Iโm just taking my own advice and getting away from the shitshow - spending some time at the beach and a national park with the family before school starts back up!
WWE getting rid of PLE press conferences to avoid having to answer questions about rape, their MAGA ties, and bringing back brock lesnar while theyโre in the midst of a sexual trafficking lawsuit that heโs also involved in makes complete sense for them. please fucking stop supporting this company.
04.08.2025 01:50 โ ๐ 160 ๐ 59 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 4My ex takes a pill for $850/month. He's going to have a windfall!
04.08.2025 01:14 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Getting pharmaceutical companies to do that is probably something you have never even dreamed of before, since for-profit pharmaceutical companies are usually trying to make, you know, a profit. So, make that two things that Trump was right about.โ
04.08.2025 01:10 โ ๐ 463 ๐ 41 ๐ฌ 22 ๐ 0โWell, thereโs one thing that Trumpโs probably 100% correct about: nobody else can do that. Getting a 1500% price reduction would presumably mean that pharmaceutical companies would be paying you to take their medications not just a little but a lot. ...
www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
He changed his mind... ๐๐ ๐คฃ #dog #dogday #bluesky
04.08.2025 02:26 โ ๐ 767 ๐ 149 ๐ฌ 34 ๐ 13This is what is happening right now.
04.08.2025 02:27 โ ๐ 15866 ๐ 5800 ๐ฌ 439 ๐ 271Crockett: Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shitโwe know that. But in a functioning democracy, he still wouldnโt be able to get away with this. Heโs been able to get away with it because Republicans are complicit andโmost importantlyโthe Supreme Court is complicit.
04.08.2025 01:51 โ ๐ 6098 ๐ 1808 ๐ฌ 180 ๐ 133I hate Republican sycophants almost as much as I hate Donald Trump.
03.08.2025 13:27 โ ๐ 257 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0Rejecting climate science dooms our children to a destructive & calamitous future. youtu.be/dK__tC-HRMU
03.08.2025 13:25 โ ๐ 72 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1So sick of these lying fraudsters.
04.08.2025 02:24 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Let me help you:
Zeldin is lying.
This is the man who is reinstating the President Fitness Test. ๐ฅด
02.08.2025 22:27 โ ๐ 7618 ๐ 1546 ๐ฌ 708 ๐ 107She couldnโt get Robert Durst!
04.08.2025 02:22 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Trump claims Jeanine Pirro was โdrafted into show businessโ
04.08.2025 00:15 โ ๐ 364 ๐ 62 ๐ฌ 67 ๐ 15๐๐ 5 railcars carrying ship fuel derailed in Russia on August 2, route to Vanino port.
โ๏ธTwo tankers overturned, 1 million rubles damage.
Yes! I thought it was either my internet or my phone.
04.08.2025 02:19 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Is anyone else finding that links are often wonky or that you canโt watch entire video clips here on Bluesky? @support.bsky.team for example, this link works from iMessage and my notes app and email, but not hereโฆ www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-...
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