Lucky Kleinschmidt

Sorry, hon - i didn't realize you didn't know

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Terminally online “revolutionaries”: “read theory and burn down a Walmart” (does neither)

Wine moms: commits arson on a possible ICE warehouse in broad daylight

Fascists are using laws and norms against us. Stop letting them. — The McPherson Square Group There’s a reason cops don’t wait for red lights when pursuing a suspect.

My latest today on how strict adherence to the rules is killing Democrats while fascists take cities

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 11, Episode 12

This is why lawyers have an obligation to do pro bono work. To stop moneyed people from using the civil justice system to bully everyone else.

This one hits me in the cockles

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"Money isn't real."

@luanneplatter.bsky.social

Thanks. Signed it.

"This is a song that deals with the rapidly approaching 200th birthday of the United States of America, ladies and gentlemen! This is a song that warns you in advance that next year everybody is gonna try and sell you things that maybe you shouldn't ought to buy"
Frank Zappa: Austin, Texas, 5/20/75

The worst of both worlds

1. There are pros and cons to be debated about having a 6- month lege session every other year.
2. There is lots of governance and representation going on in the interim.
3. Don't underestimate the power of incumbency.
4. Texas state senator annual salary is $7,200.

Always important to remain amused, no matter how dark things get

I'd like to think your description in the review of how it should have been done is close to how Kubrick would have done it. Anyway, thanks for sharing - I saw the movie in the theater when it was first released, but not since. Think I'll give it another go

I live in Austin, but I worked for a Fort Worth state rep way back in 2010-11, so I visited the district several times. We had whole committee hearings on the issue of URBAN gas production

Then I painted her nails too. It was fun

Me like this theory!

❤️

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

ICE doesn't get to escape. "ICE out" means out of existence.

The Shovel Next Time Liberation from tyranny is also liberation for the tyrants.

Today I wrote about a good man summarily executed on the streets by Republican death squads, and how, given the inevitable alternatives, even tyrants should hope for a people's liberation from tyranny. www.the-reframe.com/the-shovel-n...

Andromical

Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939

youtu.be/QDO-HpnCmdM?...

I know multiple people who have driven from austin to Nuevo Laredo for dental work.

I agree, but I propose that you are leaving cards on the table if you dismiss the entire profession because a lot of lawyers suck.

Reposting again, in light of recent events

Apologies For Being White How supremacists convert responsibility into blame to avoid paying natural costs and to make everyone else pay unnatural ones.

Today I wrote about our white supremacist political movement's perverse insistence that "we don't have to apologize for being white anymore."

Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.

www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...