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Husband, father of 4 kids. From NPT ⚓️ to MTL ⚜️ to ATX 🎸 to PFTX 🍻. In TX since 2000

Joined July 2009
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If twitter goes down, let's all meet up at the library.
My books looking at me as twitter burns to the ground
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The media needs to treat Brett Favre like it did Michael Vick and Colin Kaepernick dlvr.it/SYpq8F
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Minor league players make near poverty wages while serving as some of MLB’s best ambassadors in communities across America. Unionization would finally allow minor leaguers to negotiate for better pay and working conditions. I welcome this step by MLBPA.
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A former detective admitted to helping mislead a judge into authorizing the raid of Breonna Taylor’s apartment that led to her killing. She admitted to working with another officer to falsify a search warrant application and lying to cover up their act. nyti.ms/3CoGJlN
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I keep refreshing the Kansas results and smiling. (Also I’m apparently in a gif-y mood today.)
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Bill Russell definitely struggled to turn door handles
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Meet the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate: @adalimon!!! 🎉
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would like to politely but firmly remind kate bush that making deals with supernatural beings is perilous at the best of times, but to do so whilst running up (or down) a hill is bordering on delinquent
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County’s largest mental health provider comes to terms with workers. austinchronicle.com/news/202…
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Tonight at 7 ET! Learn about issues baseball workers face, get tips from DSA Baseball fans on planning a fun chapter baseball outing that supports workers, and have a great time hearing from our special guest speakers! Register now: dsausa.us/DSABaseball
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We welcome another faith based socialist group to the scene! @UUDemSocialists are the Unitarian Universalists of the DSA
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File Under: You Can't Make This Up IDEA 'Public' Schools has selected a new superintendent: Dr. Jeff Cottrill. Do you know what Dr. Cottrill's current role is? He oversees the TEA division CURRENTLY investigating IDEA for misuse of public funds. 🧵 #TxEd
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Democrats want to posture as the defenders of democracy and gender equality. But as long as they continue to coddle the anti-choice reactionaries within their own party, their rhetoric will ring hollow. jacobinmag.com/2022/05/democ…
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If you ever feel bad about yourself, consider that three days trapped in a cabin with lord byron was enough to traumaspawn two *distinct* schools of supernatural horror story
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Today on the 2 year anniversary we remember #BreonnaTaylor we say her name and continue to speak up for ourself and others against police brutality.
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Austin DSA joins the calls for the immediate release of political prisoner Leonard Peltier. Read our full statement here: redfault.com/free-leonard-pe…
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Keep Leonard Peltier in the public view in these turbulent times. He needs to go home or to a hospital where he can get some help. Call the white House Comment line. 202-456-1111
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L., a mom who lives in Austin, was recently notified by an agent at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services that there had been “multiple reports of abuse” filed against her. Her transgender son turned 18 last month. nbcnews.to/3J1JjyG #NBCNewsThreads
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