This is great. The Dells show up many other area billionaires in funding good works.
AND, is anyone at Austin ISD connected to the Dell Foundation?
A non-recaptured donation to fund librarians, music teachers, and counselors for the next decade would go a long, long way right now…
One of the best personal“finds” in my 10 year stint in Austin was The TX Observer
Two (more) great reasons to subscribe to the @texasobserver.org — a cover story by the amazing @jessicawluther.com on the benefits of trans athletes in Texas sports and the coinciding beautiful cover art!
Can't wait to read it!
C’mon Chris, it’s comprehensive immigration reform 4eva
Someone is dying in ICE custody EVERY WEEK.
And that doesn't even include the American citizens ICE has killed in the middle of our streets in broad daylight.
It could not be more clear, ICE needs guardrails, not a blank check from Congress.
I'm hoping to (virtually) testify on behalf of @sentencingproject.bsky.social.
No eligible New York voter should lose their voice in our democracy because they are behind bars. 🗳️
Jails should not be a democracy dead zone. My written testimony 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
www.sentencingproject.org/testimony/te...
Today, I'm (virtually) joining a joint hearing on Voting on Rikers Island. The joint hearing is brought by the NYC Government Operations and Corrections Committee.
You can follow along here.
council.nyc.gov/livestream/
this is what i meant weeks ago when i said so much of the aggressive surge in migrant policing felt like a boundary test, where a period of highly visible violence would eventually recede in favor of less visible and more "professionalized" migrant policing at a level beyond its baseline pre-trump.
Can we find out what is going on?!? It feels like we had the nucleus to run it back and now we have like three folks from last year
Normalize 30 minute meetings
Retire her number!
Put #3 in the Moody Center rafters.
Rori Harmon did more to bring Texas basketball back to national prominence than anyone.
Wouldn’t be surprised to see her back as our coach some day.
If she was shooting 25% from the field we’d be tied… it’s a bummer of a time for their to be a bucket on the rim
We are so fortunate to be in it. Book 1/12 and we could have tied it with that Crump three attempts
It’s heartening to know I follow so many women’s college basketball fans.
And that all of them seem to love Dawn Staley. And not one person defends Geno.
Anyway, hook em! 🤘🏼
Austin's best union country band. Check out their "Fuck ICE" on all your streaming channels
A reminder, in the context of the SCOTUS hearing today, that Greg Bovino, et. al. say they want to deport 100 million people.
That is more than every immigrant AND every Latino American AND every Asian American person in the US COMBINED.
I mean there it is.
We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs.
Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.
The biggest story in rights restoration this year
It's hard to overstate how depraved immigrant arrest quotas are... and combined with driving arrests to certain neighborhoods with enhanced technology to be carried out by masked men.
Truly police state activities.
ICE Detention Kills Afghanistan War Veteran Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 12th Custodial Death This Year
Immigrants in ICE detention now dying at the steady rate of one every six days since January 1, projected to reach over 60 deaths by end of year.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...
Whoever says Austin doesn’t still have it, hasn’t been to opening day at the Long Time
The TPM team is heading to Austin for a special event w/our friends @texasobserver.org
Join us on 4/8 for a live taping of our flagship podcast with @kateriga.bsky.social and @joshtpm.bsky.social plus a chat with @byjustinmiller.bsky.social
Get your tix here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
The effort to unite the country around this war is not going great...
via @dropsitenews.com
This dude fired all the "woke generals" (who happened to be Black and/or women) to get back to the substantive work
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of banning people who take unflattering pictures while launching catastrophic wars of choice
Journalist friends! 👀
