Dr. G. (JG, he/him)

Fantastic coverage, Michelle. I wasn't too upset about most of the amendments because I figured most of them were destined to pass by the time they reached the ballot. Half of them are worded in such a way that voters who aren't primed in advance won't know what to make of them in the voting booth

That's a four year old with good taste 😊

Texas is not where the exciting elections are going on, but there is a huge line at my usually fairly quiet polling place, partly because the county Republicans here have decided we're doing old fashioned paper ballots, but also people are like, screw you, I'll stand in your stupid line, fascists

I'm so sorry to hear that. Everybody deserves better, and you do too

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

That was my take too. An absolute failure of empathy.

A conservative colleague once told me during a CPR training that he would never administer it because he didn't believe our good samaritan laws would give him total protection if he somehow got sued.

This was at a school.

He would let a kid die rather than take on the remotest legal risk.

I'm sure it's less depressing than Cops!

I think he needs some calibration. When there's a far-right party and a center-right party, aiming between them puts you well right of center

If the bit about the booting cars show weren't true (I assume it is) it would be the most hilarious joke ever. I'm dying 😆

I'd sue, tbh

And meanwhile I just got a Substack notice from Colin Allred about his (re-)run for Senate. Hang it up, man!

I thought so but now I'm seeing this comment and I can't stop reading "rigged" as "rigg-ed," two syllables 😭

The Supreme Court just needs to hang it up for this session. It's been one capitulation after another. What even is the point

You're right. Between when I read the post and put up this comment, I forgot about their statement. I do appreciate groups like that that are local and doing the work and showing up. I did appreciate the overall sentiment. Living in this environment is just a daily mental struggle 😞

that this is an asymmetrical struggle, just like it always is and has been. And the political struggle is as asymmetrical as the one happening on the streets. We want to raise taxes (on the richest). They want to take away rights (from the most vulnerable).

Intended with respect and gratitude. 3/3

and more disturbingly, this on the same day that a person murdered a MN lawmaker and attempted to murder another? Along with their spouses. I LOVE your coverage of Texas politics, and I get your point on messaging, but every piece like this one at the very least needs to come with the disclaimer 2/3

I hear you on property destruction, but it's property paid for by the DAR and similar movements for the express purpose of glorifying the Confederacy during the height of the Lost Cause era of historical revisionism and particularly for the purpose of reminding Black people of their place. 1/3

Can we just have a normal Atty General for once?

Thanks for updating. Heartbreaking.

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

Tbf some of those Ikea cabinets are pretty smart. And those soft-shut drawers 🤩

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top.

#HandsOff2025

Elon’s coming for the Peace Corps, an American initiative he will never understand. Unlike Elon, PCVs are welcome in South Africa.

PC Volunteers live on small stipends and a tiny support staff. The budget is $400m, the same amount of money Elon wanted the State Dept to spend on “armored” Teslas.

Headline and capsule text reading "Supreme Court Lets Trump Suspend Grants to Teachers "The justices allowed the Trump administration to temporarily suspend $65 million in teacher- training grants, which helped place teachers in poor and rural areas."

I'm tired of being polite to people who vote for Republicans and frankly I'm very sick of the Democrats' shit too. So it is past time to just start talking frankly and openly, yes in "polite" company, abt how Rs want to keep people stupid. What is this shit (today's NYT)

At the beginning of Half-Life 2, the game works hard to establish a mood of oppression and fear. A masked cop grabs a soda can out of the trash and throws it on the ground. "Pick that up" he says to you in an electronically distorted voice. In 2007 I picked it up. In 2025 I throw the fuckin can back

someone give kathy griffin a bastard sword