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HeadStrong Girls' Boxing Summer Scholarship Fund Help HeadStrong Girls' Boxing fund scholarships to Austin Women's Boxing Club's Youth Program, so more girls can learn to box!

In case anyone is feeling the need to support something that is not another PAC or politician, how about donating to a nonprofit that offers free boxing instruction to young women in Austin, Texas? Now there’s something that can make a difference! 🥊✊🏻 givebutter.com/hsgb-summer-...

Same. Respect for human life, please.

**sigh**

Great news! He's now openly planning to leave office!!

Escalation Without Strategy On Easter Sunday, April 5, 2026, the president of the United States posted a message on Truth Social threatening Iran and warning that the United States could begin destroying the country’s power plan...

I remember the Vietnam war. open.substack.com/pub/converse...

Sometimes I get a little creeped out when current events start mirroring fiction I wrote ten years ago. open.substack.com/pub/donnabir...

Biruté Galdikas, Champion of Endangered Orangutans, Dies at 79

So much great work came from Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas. 🙏 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...

This month alone, Democracy Docket has published 49 articles on the SAVE Act — on top of tracking more than 160 voting and election cases nationwide.

This is why I built it in 2020 and hope you subscribe today. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Valero shuts Texas refinery after explosion rocks diesel unit, sources say Valero Energy Corp has shut its 380,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) oil refinery ​in Port Arthur, Texas, following an explosion and fire ‌at a diesel hydrotreater unit, people familiar with the plant operati...

Cause of explosion under investigation. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

And Trump's just making shit up, again www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I look forward to hearing more about that "witch" that will "continue throughout the week." 😅

Actually, you CAN make it up and I'm pretty sure somebody did. This just reeks of AI.

I thought the Great Enemy was Women.

Unless he means to task ICE agents with filling in for TSA where they have a shortage, then this is just bullying behavior. Again.
I think Trump misunderstood the concept of the Presidency as a "bully pulpit."

Trump said he had no plans to send ground troops to Iran.

A lack of plans has never stopped him before...

I really wish this was surprising.

Et tu?

If Joe Biden's son-in-law was flying around the Middle East as an unofficial Secretary of State while also working on business deals for his company with the same people he was meeting with on behalf of the US government, I'm pretty sure it would be a bigger story 🤔

It is hard to overstate, for non-lawyers, just how milquetoast the ABA is in normal times. It’s supposed to be boring insurance lawyers leading workshops with boring tax lawyers, trying to drum up business.

A pissed off ABA is like dentists manning the barricades and singing Le Marseillaise.

Rubio would have been better off if both of these ethnocentric, xenophobic yahoos had kept their mouths shut.

The disrespect is overwhelming.

Walk into a sandwich shop. It’s regulated for health and safety.

But AI, which will transform the world economically and socially, is completely unregulated. That’s insane.

We need to make certain that AI works for ALL humanity, not just the billionaires who own it.

‘Same Ingredients, Different Recipe’ in Proposed U.S. Book Ban House Resolution 7661, introduced on February 24, would withhold federal funds from public classrooms and school libraries alleged to have “sexually oriented material” on their shelves.

They're coming for our books again.

Introduced by far-right idiot Mary E. Miller and co-sponsored by 17 GOP congressmen, HR 7661 would use the hammer of federal funds to force schools nationwide to remove books the GOP doesn't like from library shelves.

#bookbanning #censorship

Hell, I remember Walter Cronkite. PBS at least has some intelligent experts commenting, though their worldwide staff of journalists isn't as comprehensive as I'd like.

I miss having an articulate president. And one who knows how to honor the greatness of someone like Jesse Jackson

No lies detected.

A clean white library space across three floors.

The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) is about to turn 100 ... so they're asking what the next 100 years hold for libraries and librarianship.

They're holding a short story competition (Judged by @maryrobinettekowal.com !!!!)

Details at the link: www.ifla.org/news/li-sci-...

Texas Tough Scrappy Fighters Thoughts on the Texas Primaries

Texas Democrats are ready for the big fight in November.
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