Austinite. Research Analyst, Texas Appleseed (but all views my own). I hate cars and I like soccer. Tryingtogetbanned@mastadon.social

Joined March 2012
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The shadowy government cabal dictating where and how you live isn't the UN and city planners and 15-minute cities; it's CAMPO, CTRMA, TXDOT, and all the other highway builders building massive roads to greenfield suburban housing and big box stores.
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Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500. If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.
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🚨 BREAKING: Claude has a feature called ADHD Executive Function Mode. You can use it to hack your brain’s dopamine and finish a week’s worth of work in 4 hours. Here are 7 prompts to access it: 👇
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They gotta quit letting these small schools like James Madison and Texas A&M in the playoff
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Repost if you support Starbucks’ striking workers!!! #NoContractNoCoffee
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🚨NEW: Texas Democrat James Talarico comes out in opposition to the GOP shutdown proposal: "Any 'deal' that kicks 1.7 million Texans off their health insurance isn't a compromise; it's surrender." RETWEET if you stand with @JamesTalarico!
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🗳️I voted today! Did you? Please don’t forget the polls are open until 7pm this evening. You may vote at any Vote Center in Austin/Travis Co. To locate your nearest polling location, click the link below. It’s our civic duty, let’s get it done! ✅ votetravis.gov/current-elect…
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Even Mississippi State couldn't blow a 24 point lead.
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The SEC has 11 ranked teams, which also means it has 5 unranked teams. Texas is scheduled to play ALL 5 of those teams - Florida, Vanderbilt, MSU, Kentucky, and Arkansas.
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16 Jun 2025
How we feelin' this Monday morning?
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8 Dec 2024
Make America Walkable Again
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Last night was the first time Texas A&M failed to score an offensive point at Kyle Field since October of 1971, when Gene Stallings' Ags were shut out by Cincinnati.
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The City's big "cap & stitch" bond needs to be TRIMMED. We need to focus on bread-and-butter urban needs & pocketbook capex, not planner fantasies. And we can't have another capital project cost overrun fiasco. Cesar Chavez-4th (Austin KWP) and that's it.
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Donald Trump brags about having put an extreme Supreme Court in place that took a fundamental constitutional right away from women. Just think about how much damage he could do if he names 1, 2, or even 3 new justices to the Court with a GOP Senate.
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29 Oct 2024
Just participated in a huge poll. They asked about President and Senate, plus local elections and referenda. Weirdly, no demographic questions, but they’re anticipating a sample size of around 160,000,000. They’ve been in the field since Sept, release date is next Tuesday
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And Aggies don't say BTHEAUXlsu? Opportunity lost.
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Is A&M playing Creed?
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Indiana over Texas A&M is the national championship we deserve.
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By deciding not to editorialize, @washingtonpost and @latimes are violating rule 1 of Timothy Snyder's warnings "On Tyranny." 1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
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