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🚨 incredible 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💙😎

NASA mapped the entire ocean floor using gravity from space. 😮

Studying a cohort of ~300 1800s Catholic migrants from Hungary to Kansas City and eastern Kansas. Adding family links to Find a Grave, connecting sources on FamilySearch, reading newspapers and the census, deciphering Latin and Hungarian in parish records. #OnePlaceStudies #Immigrant=American

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Opinion | Trump Could Interfere With the Midterm Elections. You Can Help Defend Them.

To see this as a headline in @nytimes.com is truly quite something. This is a gift link. You might want to read it and pass it on.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

Ice dogs No. 190

Some Field Notes from our Texan dose of real winter, with edgeland Ents, spectral coyotes, cold light, and the passage of a canine companion: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/ice-dogs

Waves crashing against the cliffs of Inis Meáin, Ireland 🇮🇪 ☺️💙☘️

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Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

I’m doing this too, as I build trees for others in the small cemeteries where my people are. Thanks for the inspiration to look for more than obits

Trump is going to keep saying unhinged things.

But here's what he and Democrats are really fighting about: whether millions of people are going to lose their health care and millions more are going to have their premiums double.

Every American should know this.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Add more depth to your #OnePlaceStudies by asking a native to give you a walking or driving tour of places significant to them. I've learned a lot about areas I thought I knew well. Fun to see old places with new eyes! Family homes, schools, workplaces, churches, favorite haunts.

The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics.

Fifteen years after Citizens United opened the floodgates of corporate and dark political money, the Center for American Progress has figured out how to slam them back shut.

CAP published its groundbreaking how-to report today: "The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant."

Fire this guy

Trump aides plan megabill marketing reboot for GOP lawmakers A Wednesday briefing will urge a focus on "working families" after the president questioned his "big, beautiful" branding.

They can’t disappear the tax cuts for billionaires (lower rates than plumbers) and huge corporations (some zero tax)—big political donors.

Signed before flood relief. Before flood warning sirens. Before any other bill on his desk.

The governor's no. 1 priority was always the racist, rigged maps.

#txlege

No Bill! The Good News You Need

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Heritage Came In Hot…and Burned Down Their Own House Fifty years of scheming and the Heritage Foundation managed to destroy the foundation for any chance of the dystopia they wanted to create.

substack.com/@rosietheres....

August 25, 2025 This morning, President Donald J.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-25-.... JB is not playing along

In the Matter of Lisa Cook Trump’s attempt to fire a Fed governor is illegal. Now we find out whether that matters.

I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/

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Not So Fast, Donald Trump’s plan to “deploy troops” into blue cities is a paper tiger. We can’t let its roar provoke us into escalation.

Good advice from Jay Kuo. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

There is wisdom in his words.

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

Holy shit. This legit gave me chills.

Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.

WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.

Boycotting Airbnb: Why Some Are Leaving and Where to Book Instead In recent weeks, Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia has drawn controversy by publicly shifting his political stance, expressing support for Donald Trump, and joining Elon Musk’s Department of Government Eff...

Maybe this is why. letterkenny.substack.com/p/boycotting...

It amazes me that they thought they could steal all those billions of words so painstakingly produced and get away with it. But questions for publishers who have clearly colluded without remunerating authors. I've belatedly been asked to sign an agreement for use of work already in use by AI bots..

mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants.

RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.

Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common

Fantastic piece by @jamellebouie.net on the VRA and the long arc of the American Republic(s)

(gift link)

Pure Americana.

Ken,

TX Constitution, Article 3, Sec. 14:

PRIVILEGE FROM ARREST DURING LEGISLATIVE SESSION. Senators and Representatives shall, except in cases of treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during the session of the Legislature, and in going to and returning from the same.