ShipWrecked in Texas

Texas Union Membership Numbers Reach 10-Year High TEXAS – Today, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its annual report on union density in the country, showing that the number of Texas union members is the highest it's been in ten years and ...

New data shows the number of Texas union members is the highest it's been in ten years — and has been steadily growing since 2021.

Workers throughout Texas are rising up, organizing, and winning!

Fortunately, dipshit is still spelled exactly like it sounds..along with my favorite word, fuckwit.
Actually, a group of fuckwits is most applicable.

Been lowering my Amazon purchases and no longer have prime. Now an estimate for a couple things that 'ship from Amazon" is two weeks. 😂 It's like they don't want my business.
Believe me Amazon, I tried to find these couple things elsewhere.

Jack Hughes Sheds Blood And Teeth For His Country, U.S. Wins Olympic Gold | Defector In the third period of Sunday’s USA-Canada gold medal men’s hockey game, the American forward Jack Hughes spit blood after he took a high stick to the mouth from Sam Bennett. The ensuing four-minute…

Jack Hughes sheds blood and teeth for his country, U.S. wins Olympic gold: defector.com/jack-hughes-...

It's never really about the kids

Plastic Gavin Newsom agrees with this fascist

Make It Nice: Curtains, Linens, And How To Figure Out What You Like | Defector Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defector’s best interior design advice column. Today, we have a curtain dilemma, replacements for “ratty” linens, and advice on how to figure out what you like. Aileen…

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ICE's purchases for big detention centers are marked by secrecy, frustrating towns At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers.

Right now, the two biggest commodities in Texas are cattle and prisons.

Abso Lutely!

All of us agree on expanding Medicaid (though it took some longer than others). But that’s the floor, especially since the bipartisan coalition is there. The question is what comes next? Our campaign is the only one laying out that vision.

Dug out my 2006 iPod. Found the charger which I had wrapped partly with electrical tape around one end (exposed wire at some point I'm sure). iPod currently says "Please wait. Very low battery"... there's a chance.
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All this in hopes I put down a CD I've since lost and cannot repurchase.

Reading a book on Magnus Hirschfeld, a contemporary of Sigmund Freud. Holy cow! was Freud a dick.

That's how I try to approach life, right on

Alysa Liu Is Untouchable | Defector When athletes are said to thrive under pressure, that generally does not mean that they do not feel it. Rather, the common understanding is that athletes, or at least the great ones, are capable of…

Where ordinary—or even extraordinary—athletes might be fueled by pressure, Alysa Liu simply doesn't feel any, ever.

Hah! Even Utah is better than Texas!

Utah does one right.

If there is not an ASMR channel on YouTube for this, there should be.

NEW: @summerlee.bsky.social will deliver the official Working Families Party Response to the State of the Union!

On Tuesday night, she will spell out where this country really is right now, why working people are angry — and how we are fighting back.

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Good call!
Looks like the weasliest, douchebag on the high school debate team

I see an AF on that mug, so I think Crazy AF is the theme here

Wow. Charlie Kirk augmented. This seems so crazy I want to think it's AI, but my reason tells me it's real.
That's the weird thing today, the batshit crazier something seems, the more real it likely is

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Had a moment of pure joy today.
One of my dogs was asleep on the bed, obviously dreaming...
It's the first time I've ever seen a dog wag their tail in their sleep.

Couldn't get a picture or a vid. Just one of those moments you gotta remember.
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Because the complicit gerontocracy that runs the Democratic Party are cowards who would rather compromise with fascists than stand for anything.

Two old, pastey, white guys with Nazi looking eyewear, one supporting ICE, another in charge of the FCC, in my feed consecutively.

All of a sudden my feed has plantation owners popping up...WTF is my algorithm?
These people certainly have a look do they not?

F'n hilarious. Boils down to, "I knew somebody once that kind of liked him."

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YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken 30 Days of US Healthcare: Pharmacy Benefit Managers

along those lines ...
youtu.be/5rw4kNHNZyk?...

Ugghhmmm. This feels like the opening theme of a bad situational comedy.
"Last week on 'Don't ask, Don't tell'..."

Crockett is a badass, no doubt. I just appreciate how Talarico can cut Republicans down with kindness. Helluva skill he has consistently used in the Texas House. That and he is NOT a lawyer like Crockett. I'm so tired of Democratic legalese going nowhere. We have enough lawyers in government.

Crockett is a badass, no doubt. I just appreciate how Talarico can cut Republicans down with kindness. Helluva skill he has consistently used in the Texas House. That and he is NOT a lawyer like Crockett. I'm so tired of Democratic legalese going nowhere.