Reposted by AustinRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18/01/2026The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work. Really depraved shit. 18878062063
Reposted by AustinAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic. 714244585601
Reposted by AustinJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/12/2025"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...time.comThe Real Way Schools are Failing Boys“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls." 713421928
Reposted by AustinLiliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Hey, isn't there a book about this? Yes, yes there is...bookshop.orgRise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police ForcesThe Militarization of America's Police Forces 218850
Reposted by Austinwhet moser @whetmoser.com · 10/11/2025"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes." 5586284
Reposted by AustinAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." 597497509720
Reposted by AustinChristi👻n Rinc🎃n @christianrincon.com · 23/10/2025“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.”nbcnews.comPregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates sayThe ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing. 07349
Reposted by AustinDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/10/2025*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What 42953725
Reposted by AustinRemora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Trying to connect with your unhoused neighbors? Here’s supplies we’ve found are always welcome & needed: - socks - bug spray in summer - hand warmers in winter - batteries (AA & AAA always, D or C for fans & radios) - water Pack em in a ziploc, bring a $5 & go meet your neighbors that live outside 321391
Austin @abogado-avocado.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Idk I think it's fine. It's the Colorado River running through the city, and maybe the 360 bridge. It looks pretty corporate, but that's just the vibe now. Weird Austin died when lululemon opened on SoCo 000
Reposted by AustinSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/08/2025The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social 25680703106
Reposted by AustinThe Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 17/07/2025Exclusive: For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump.on.wsj.comJeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’ 1732033834
Reposted by AustinJ.J. @jdotj.bsky.social · 05/07/2025I want to be 100% clear because I have a friend whose daughter is missing: fuck him as hard as possible. This is a horrible, ghoulish thing to say. Fuck him and anyone that thinks this. 813811
Austin @abogado-avocado.bsky.social · 29/06/2025This has been here for decades; I pass through it several times per year. Unconstitutional bullshit every time! 020
Reposted by AustinJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 27/06/2025"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."slate.comThe United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass StatelessnessThis scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical. 13855802408
Austin @abogado-avocado.bsky.social · 22/06/2025@scottbraddock.bsky.social I think Reitz pronounces his name like "rights" (ironically enough) 020
Reposted by AustinDavid Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable. 578365389385
Reposted by AustinJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/06/2025AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.” 3267065516136
Reposted by AustinVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 21/06/2025In Florida, “free speech” and “institutional neutrality” mean that a Nazi arguing that nonwhites have no rights wins a prize while a course with “race” in the title is censored for violated the law. Congratulations to all the credulous centrists who helped this along. 262064615
Reposted by Austinjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.” 296385728780
Reposted by AustinTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 09/06/2025Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide) 1093132415238
Reposted by AustinJeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off. 10864442111808
Austin @abogado-avocado.bsky.social · 08/06/2025A Harvard international student from Hong Kong/China just won first prize in Texas's prestigious Cliburn International Piano Competition fortworth.culturemap.com/news/arts/va...fortworth.culturemap.comPianist from Hong Kong wins 2025 Cliburn Competition in Fort WorthAristo Sham, a 29-year-old pianist from Hong Kong, China, won the Seventeenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth. 141
Austin @abogado-avocado.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Democrats are incapable of being real for just one second. 130 dodgy dealings in 130 days? It just happened to match up!! Cute alliteration! Either she inflated them or undercounted; either way, insane way to meet the moment. 000
Austin @abogado-avocado.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I've been to two West Point commencement ceremonies (my brothers'), and honestly I can't imagine a more humiliating experience for the people there than having this guy give one of his insane rambles on those grounds. 010
Reposted by AustinDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/05/2025"Woke" -- changing norms through social pressure -- is not, contra the reactionary centrists, another form of tyranny. It's the *alternative* to tyranny. It's new norms winning through the marketplace of ideas. The alternative is what we see now: enforcing norms via the threat of state violence. 412170510
Reposted by Austinm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 04/05/2025congress should consider stopping the stupidest person who has ever lived from destroying the economy 21085431397
Reposted by AustinYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I’ve spent the last month interviewing people expelled to Costa Rica under the “invasion” proclamation. The treatment they were accorded at the border by CBP is some of the worst I have heard in 6.5 years of interviewing asylum seekers. Reports to come— some of the hardest I’ve worked on. 12785291
Austin @abogado-avocado.bsky.social · 01/05/2025@badlawyerpod.bsky.social v excited for my new merch, just in time for the National Law Day of Action protest tomorrow 220
Austin @abogado-avocado.bsky.social · 30/04/2025@scottbraddock.bsky.social I thought you'd appreciate this photo I took of the late Justice/Senator Mauzy's plaque from his time in the Leg 010
Reposted by AustinHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 30/04/2025Happy Hitler Shoots Himself In The Head day to all who celebrate. The 80th anniversary. May his ignominious end, with his body doused in petrol and burned by his last remaining loyalists, be a model for all tyrants. 3459071860
Austin @abogado-avocado.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Love it when Gorsuch joins Roberts and the liberals for a majority. It's always going to be technical and spicy. 000
Austin @abogado-avocado.bsky.social · 09/04/2025There are other, much more important passages in this op ed, but I gasped when I read this: "President Donald Trump has been in office for less than 80 days; he has about 1,400 days left." 010
Reposted by AustinPaul Rosenzweig @rosenzweigp.bsky.social · 26/03/2025My thoughts on Big Law caving www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comThe Pathetic, Cowardly Collapse of Big LawTrump’s actions are an attempt to tilt the scales of justice by using the raw power of government coercion—and they’re working. 57116
Austin @abogado-avocado.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Maybe he's planning to fuck off to Laputa for four years 000
Reposted by AustinThe Book Burrow @thebookburrowtexas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025All right y’all, so here’s the deal. We’re struggling. Our monthly goal is to sell 1500 books. This month, we’ve sold less than 400. We need your help. We HAVE to sell 1500 books by the end of Feb to keep our doors open. This was supposed to be a video, but Bluesky can't do 2 mins of video(Thread) 24635630
Reposted by AustinGarnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 30/01/2025NEW: Yesterday, the Department of Transportation issued a memo that says DOT and DOT-supported programs should "give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average." www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...transportation.gov 34927991369
Reposted by AustinAaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 20/01/2025This offer still stands. If you're trans and considering relocating from a red state to trans friendlier Colorado, hit me up and I'll help in any way I can. 210948