Editor-in-Chief, The Texas Observer. Not “objective.” I tell the truth instead. ✍️🏳️🌈🇲🇽👨🍳🐕
Operating as usual
Please help me welcome Pulitzer Prize winner Michelle Pitcher to the Texas Observer staff! 👏🎉
Anti-“critical race theory” crusaders picked up seats in May elections around the state as part of a nationwide movement.
This essay from James Dobbine on Texas history and the 1836 Project is really something.
The 1836 Project will indoctrinate new Texans with fables about our history.
I needed to read this this morning from Evan Wolfson.
There are many reasons to hope that the freedom to marry victory remains secure—even while there is reason, of course, to fear.
It’s official. I’m honored and proud to announce I’m queer and the new editor of the Texas Observer. Austin, here we come! 💕
Obergefell v. Hodges is not safe.
The South has risen again. Anything that involves privacy is gone.
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When do you think political violence is necessary?
Senator Ted Cruz claimed Joe Biden is "literally threatening the lives" of the Supreme Court's justices because of the explosive fallout over Roe v. Wade.
Progressives need to draw a line in the sand. This isn't Gore v. Bush or the 2020 election.
Don’t ask me again for my vote if you’re just going to sleepwalk through the end of reproductive freedom—and democracy.
This decision is going to split the country apart and I'm already on one side.
State GOP leaders have spun the leak as the rightful return of abortion regulation to the realm of red-state rights—and a crusade against the conservative Court.
This is going to tear society apart.
A majority of the court privately voted to strike down the landmark abortion rights decision, according to the document, obtained by Politico.
No, Texas teachers are not "teaching explicit pornography" to students.
With bans on books and “critical race theory,” Republicans are scapegoating the state’s teachers for political gain.
This is barely satire.
PLANO, TX—In a purported effort to stop the rise of woke, leftist Critical Race Theory in the classroom, a local school district issued a decision Thursday censoring all of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain except for its copious use of the n-word. “This move will allow educators ...
Read this excellent analysis at the Texas Observer on the politics of South Texas this cycle by my brilliant colleague Gus Bova.
A resurgent GOP makes 2022 a year of possibilities in a Democratic border stronghold.
Read this poignant, pressing essay about being a teacher during COVID by Marina Roberts at the Texas Observer.
I thought remote instruction during the pandemic would be the worst of it. I was wrong.
How likely is the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade? Before Trump, I couldn't imagine they would, but now ...
The Justices seemed poised to allow Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban to stand.
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It’s like running for class president but only your friends can vote.
It’s time to give your relatives who delight in triggering a lib a taste of their own medicine.
Avoiding political conflict at the dinner table is overrated.
Happy Thanksgiving!
No amount of fear can stop the future.
My parents used to be Republicans before the party went off the deep end. They celebrate everything abhorrent and ungodly and still imagine they have any kind of moral authority.
This 👇 As with Zimmerman and all these Jan. 6 assholes, the real real America with a conscience is coming for you. #demographicwave
Among liberalism’s best communicators is AOC, my representative in Queens.
Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, a far-right MAGA Republican and conspiracy theorist who has never been shy about making inflammatory remarks, has been drawing vehement criticism from Democrats for posting a cartoon that depicts him murdering Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York City and inflicting....
Sometimes it depresses me that there’s no afterlife because that also means there’s no justice.
Rittenhouse, 18, is charged with five counts — including homicide and attempted homicide — for shooting three people during the August 2020 unrest in Kenosha, Wis., that erupted after a police shooting.
Alongside Obama, our greatest president
The debt increases when you cut revenue (taxes) but don’t cut the size of government. No Republican president has ever cut spending.
Otherwise they’d have gone to Yale.
A whopping 43% of white students weren’t admitted on merit. One might call it affirmative action for the rich and privileged
Tucker Carlson’s hero
Jacob Chansley, who wore a horned helmet and a fur pelt as he stormed onto the Senate floor during the Capitol riot, had earlier pleaded guilty to a single felony count.
From my brilliant colleagues at Texas Observer, Sophie Novak and Mike Barajas.
As part of a months-long investigation, the Texas Observer reviewed more than 400 Rangers investigations into jail deaths over the past decade.
Build the wall!
No, Andrew Cuomo, being a father does not absolve you of misogyny, nor of narcissism. Joan Walsh hits the nail on the heat at The Nation Magazine.
Resigning, he blamed “changing mores” that “demonize” his behavior and cited his three daughters as “jewels,” proving he’s learned nothing from his career-ending sexual harassment scandal.
Don’t know if this is a joke or not, but am in Paris and I’d pay money to see someone present this to a French bouncer at a club.
An editorial guest cartoon by Ed Hall of Artizans.com🎨
This #DeathSantis article is barely a joke.
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Bad Lip Readings always make me laugh: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC67f2Qf7FYhtoUIF4Sf29cA
Watch this parody SNL trailer for "Kim Davis: An Angel in Denim," laugh.
Happy Friday
Visit Mississippi, we're even worse than North Carolina! H/T Brad Jenkins/Funny Or Die
I should start narrating nature programs.
CNN mistakes flag with di**os and butt plugs as ISIS flag, runs with it as a breaking news alert. #fail
I love this interview.
Here's me on "The Insider." I actually talk for more than a sentence at 1:10.
