We wanted Elon out of Austin, but not like this. -OS

When the Convention Center Is Demolished, 30 Years of Public Art Is Going With It City won’t save iconic pieces from building redevelopment

When the Convention Center is demolished, 30 years of public art is going with it.

Julianne Moore says her book about embracing differences was removed from Pentagon-run schools | CNN Oscar winner Julianne Moore claims her children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry” was banned by the Department of Defense’s Education Activity, a global network of 160 schools serving military families.

It’s about having red hair and freckles FFS and how to be cool with that when other kids make fun of it. By that twisted logic, you’d have to ban pretty much every children’s book, old and new www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/e...

It’s a cult.

A sign with a photo of Elon Musk that says "I am stealing from you."

A sign that says, "We the people reject fascism."

A sign that says, "This is how dictatorships start. Wake up!" The Capitol Building is in the background.

A sign that says, "Stop the Coup." The Capitol Building is in the background.

Signs from the 50501 Protest in DC today. Shared by the Women's March.

Best Texans based on where they say their from:

Houston (actually from Houston)
East Texas (actually born and bred)
San Antonio
Austin (actually from Austin)

Worst Texans:
Californians
West Texans
Say Houston (from Woodlands)
Austin is ruined (moved there 5 years ago). -OS

INSTEAD OF DEPRESSION try calling it hibernation. Imagine the darkness is a cave in which you will be nurtured by doing absolutely nothing. Hibernating animals don't even dream. It's okay if you can't imagine spring. Sleep through the alarm of the world. Name your hopelessness a quiet hollow, a place you go to heal, a den you dug, Sweetheart, instead of a grave. Andrea Gibson

Feeling this very much today. Via poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram.

🎤

jamelle is correct

Money talks

RFK Jr. wants to ship Adderall users to labor camps RFK Jr's proposal includes sending Americans on psychiatric medications to government-run agricultural communes for "reparenting."

Nothing says "I care about mental health" quite like sending people with psychiatric prescriptions to government farm camps for four years.

RFK Jr. wants to send people addicted to antidepressants to government "wellness farms" The farms will "reparent" them.

RFK Jr said he wants to send folks who are taking antidepressants and ADHD medications to "wellness farms" in rural America where they will be forced to labor by growing organic food to "cure their addictions."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

Centers for Disease Control cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health in U.S

EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad

www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

Planned Parenthood in Crisis as Patients Report Botched Care and Tired Staff The health care provider ​of last resort is working to shore up affiliate clinics that are in dire financial straits. Patients report failed abortions, misplaced IUDs and inadequately trained staff.

Many Planned Parenthood clinics are in dire financial straits with a critical lack of resources, which has compromised care, with patients reporting failed abortions, misplaced IUDs and inadequately trained staff, a New York Times investigation found.

“He who saves his Country does not violate the Law.” - Donold Trump

Good news, everyone! You get to do whatever you want! As long as you say you were trying to save the country, it’s all legal now.

Photo featuring an embroidery hoop with texile divided into twelve sections for the months of the year and with a circle in the middle with the year, each section has many tiny embroidered representations to note particular personal experiences, events or happenings for the maker, such as a flag to represent a journey or a food to represent a festival

In 2021 textile artist Emma Dyer documented her year in embroidery #WomensArt

Square dancing in front of the Alamo, 1960s.

Elon Musk has 'unexpected 13th child' with MAGA influencer Elon Musk is reportedly the father of a thirteenth child, according to 26-year-old conservative influencer Ashley St Clair, who made the revelation on Musk’s social media platform, X, on Friday night.

I thought this fool was supposed to colonize Mars, not colonize the U.S. with 7,000 Musk mini-mes. 🤢

YouTube video by WillieNelsonVEVO Willie Nelson - Valentine (Live From Austin City Limits, 1990)

Summertime ... we could run and play like summertime ...

If you want to score some easy points with your sweetie, text them this link.

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NM Rep Melanie Stansbury:

Musk has installed the CEO of Citrix as the DOGE person at the Treasury Department while he’s actively head of a company that has millions of dollars in federal contracts.

How is that even legal?
Is it legal?
I don’t think it’s legal!

@repstansbury.bsky.social

The Strange, Lonely Childhood of Neko Case In a new memoir, the singer-songwriter peels back the mystery of her life—and her lyrics.

The singer-songwriter Neko Case peels back the mystery of her life in a new memoir, “The Harder I Fight the More I Love You.”

On Radio Atlantic, she speaks with @hannarosin.bsky.social about a lonely childhood and the music that helped her through it.

YouTube video by Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America

Yikes. This is a great summary of the dark ideology behind Musk, Thiel, & Yarvis. This is why they're burning it all down.

Trump suggests we erect 10 new "freedom cities" on federal land... the precise blueprint for feudalism.

You own the land, no government regulates you, you create serfdom.

The ‘Gulf of America’ Is an Admission of Defeat Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico is not triumphant but pathetic.

“To rename the Gulf of Mexico ‘the Gulf of America’ is to reconceptualize the United States,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social. “No longer a country that stamps itself upon history, but a country upon which history is stamped”:

Unpeeling How Texas Legislators Are Working to Restrict Sex From porn to sex toys to education to birth control, why does the state hate bodily pleasure?

From porn to sex toys to education to birth control, why does the state hate bodily pleasure?

This guy is as dumb as a box of hammers

Musk standing next to Trump in the oval office. While Musk's son sits by, picking his nose.

Maybe it's just me, but Republicans having two daddies seems kind of woke. -@acnewsitics

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.

How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65

Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?