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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What the actual fuck is this MAGA fundraising text

A text message from the number 5135481102 that reads:

Trump "left instructions" in case they assassinate him in your state

Patriot, you'll want to sit down for this

The Presidents statement usa-gop.co/oSauu

STOP=END

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pedestrianized 35th reaches its final, lush form

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 20/09/2026

ICE shot a man in the back in Austin this afternoon. But we're also learning this weekend about the death of Carlos Josué Marchena, a 37-year old man from Costa Rica who appears to have died at the Winn concentration camp in Louisiana after 9+ months in ICE detention.

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s not just bad politics and bad morally it’s also wrong on the science

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Anyone in Austin know what’s going on near Hopdoddy on S Congress?

A photo looking up S Congress Ave in Austin, Texas, with fire trucks and emergency personnel in the street with the skyline in the background

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Real cowboys brave the elements. Cars are for sissies.

A photo of a cowboy hat on bike handlebars

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Houston getting an extra 28 days a year with a heat index above 90; same with Travis County. The misery of summer in Texas now extends for a whole extra month — and now nearly half the year. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The chart of the ever-growing heat in Houston

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Me: "I'd like to get to work safely, stop others from being killed, and can point to scientific evidence that bike lanes benefit cities." Them: "Bike lanes are a woke conspiracy to confine people to a 15-minute radius of their homes." NY Times: "How did bike lanes become part of the culture wars?"

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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

How this works: - The implicit default region for Google Maps JavaScript API is the United States - You can fix it by adding `&region=CA` to the call I checked with chrome devtools, that's the fix.

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Rep. Vikki Goodwin @vikkigoodwintx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Reminder to check that your voter registration is active and up-to-date! You can check at VoteTexas.gov, but you must register as a first-time voter in-person or by mail. Deadline for voter updates and registration is October 5.

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joyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

if you are a gay icon STAY INSIDE!!! it’s DANGEROUS OUT HERE!!!!!

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Do y'all ever love your friends so much that you need to just cry because you feel so lucky?

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

See? It's not hard.

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We pedestrianized 4th St last night for Pride. We should do this all year long.

A street at night, full of people, with bars on the sides and towers in the background

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

San Antonio Housing Legislative Workshop! Let’s get more, better, connected homes on the ground — here, there, everywhere! 🤠

A sign placed in front of a short entry staircase that says, “City of San Antonio Housing Legislative Workshop • LISC San Antonio”

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Felt real bad, turns out all I needed to do was move some heavy shit

A view of a leg press machine with 5 plates or 45 lb weight each (which totals 555 with the added starting weight of the machine) and a caption “555 lbs Fuck it up”

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My biological father abandoned me at two years of age and now I have a fear of elevators, I love the human brain

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Beginning my research seminar, as always, with Lynn Hunt's essay How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around). Should be mandatory reading in light of the impact of AI. www.historians.org/perspectives...

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words, whether I am writing an essay like this one, a book chapter, a letter of recommendation, or an email message to a friend. Writing is time-consuming. It’s a great way to pass the time on a long airplane flight because you lose track of the passage of time altogether. It’s even better, from that point of view exclusively, than watching an episode of Mad Men on your laptop. Writing means many different things to me but one thing it is not: writing is not the transcription of thoughts already consciously present in my mind. Writing is a magical and mysterious process that makes it possible to think differently.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Urbanism is really compatible with left anti-authoritarian politics but if you tell potential allies to urbanism that they can't be on the team unless they sacrifice existing deeply held principles, you won't win them over to speed cameras; you're just going to turn them away from urbanism.

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The new plans for Twin Oaks are a generational mistake. We were promised mid-rises with homes, office, and retail that reached the lot line and opened to the street. Instead, we're getting a one-story, suburban mess with a literal wall to the street. This site is where the new light rail ends!

bizjournals.com

New developer picked for long-awaited South Congress redevelopment - Austin Business Journal

H-E-B owns the shopping center site that, in recent years, housed a temporary store for the grocery giant. A new developer has now stepped in to remake the property.

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I saw video of the bulldozers at the Santa Elena trailhead. I want to weep, to vomit, to scream. I don't know what to do here. How are we unable to stop this?

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Bike lanes are "DEI" and congestion pricing is "Jihad." MAGA is just cranking up car advocacy to crazy new levels huh?

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Started the new season of Ted Lasso last night and oh my god I needed this show right now 😭

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Ted Lasso: Believe

Alt: Ted Lasso: Believe

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"There’s no logic. It looks like they’re gonna do all sorts of things which are almost the most destructive things that they can do, for virtually no purpose,”

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Some Centro San Antonio nighttime beauty for your feed

A historic, two-story 19th Century building with large front windows and ornamental trim

A view down a street in San Antonio with the Germany, United States, and Texas flags flying from a roofline.

The angular, jagged silhouette of San Antonio’s glass Frost Bank Tower at night

A view of San Fernando Cathedral at night from across Main Plaza in San Antonio

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I don’t even know how to process this.

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Take no vote for granted. We’re going to flip Texas because we work for it.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 31/07/2026

Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Beyond Police Stenography: How Disembedding Enables Critical Crime News Work

Prior research finds that crime journalists reproduced criminal justice organization standpoints through close working relationships with law enforcement. How do crime reporters relate to police sources today? Drawing on interviews with 58 journalists across 40 local newsrooms in 24 U.S. states, I find that disembedding from law enforcement organizations restructures many reporters’ source relationships, creating conditions under which some journalists enact a distinct professional identity through occupational activism. I argue that the critical crime journalist role is distinguished by a commitment to alternative sourcing practices, structural framing, and reinterpreted objectivity. Informants connect critical orientations to repeated exposure to official dishonesty and the influence of Black-led social movements against police violence. Critical crime journalists amplify civilian and prisoner voices and engage in contextual reporting, treating coverage as a vehicle to shift how readers understand criminalized people and the criminal justice system more broadly. These findings extend scholarship on occupational activism into crime journalism and identify pathways into this form of empirical and expressive occupational activism.

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Nithya Raman is right, and it shouldn’t be a point of contention. DSA urgently needs to improve on housing. Hardline anti-development NIMBYs play useful idiot to the bourgeoisie. Property owners’ investments increase in value when demand is high and supply is scarce.

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Urban Austin Reads @urbanatxreads.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

On the docket this week: "Common Land and Primitive Accumulation" in Against the Commons! Join us for a discussion of this chapter on Friday, July 31, 7 PM at King Bee.

this week we're discussing
AGAINST THE COMMONS
1. Common Land and Primitive Accumulation

[book cover]

Meeting Friday
July 31, 2026 • 7 PM at King Bee

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Even in a bad year like 2024, there are more Democrats voting in Texas than there are people TOTAL in 30 other states. Even in a bad year like 2024, Texas had more Democrats voting than ANY state except California. Collective punishment and “you deserve it” bullshit have no place in our fight.

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Rep. Vikki Goodwin @vikkigoodwintx.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We need YOUR help to elect the first woman Lt. Governor in Texas history… Calling voters is one of the most effective ways to get people to the polls. ☎️ Sign up to make calls from home: www.mobilize.us/texasdemocra...

mobilize.us

Phone Bank with Team Vikki · Texas Together

Join Team Vikki on Thursdays as we hop on the FairShot Texas dialer to call voter across the state to make sure they're voting to elect the first woman Lieutenant Governor in Texas history!

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Texas is growing and urbanizing, making new demands for efficient modes of travel between homes, shops, workplaces, and more. We need to act like it. All Texans deserve safe streets and robust transit options. Better TxDOT spending that prioritizes maintenance — not expansion — of roads would help.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/07/2026

God this makes my skin crawl. I genuinely can't understand how adult men can behave like this & retain any self-respect.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/07/2026

one of the most frustrating things about what Rowling has turned into is how hard it is to explain to offline people that she’s not just another author who has turned out to have shitty views - her entire life and fortune is dedicated to destroying trans people

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

1980's: "In 50 years, we'll be in a post-scarcity world that values not wealth, but the contributions we make to society" Now: "Maybe if I post my scientific findings to a porn site, I'll be able to replace the research grants that have been diverted to fund the dismantling of democracy"

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The burden of virtualizing consumption is massive. Folks from Amarillo to Del Rio were here, bearing the cost of getting all the way to Austin to make us look it in the eye. They face acute, local impacts every day so we can chat with AI from the privilege of glass towers. We need to hear them.

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Incredible testimony from all over Texas today about the impacts of data centers and implications of expansion. Texans are standing up for health, safety, fairness, and our water. We deserve better than sweetheart deals that benefit billionaires and take scarce resources from our rural communities.

Screenshot of the video stream of two testifiers at a public hearing of the Texas Senate Finance Committee.

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Last year, the Texas Legislature passed SB 840, a landmark reform allowing housing in commercial zones. Already, it has unlocked 8,000 homes. The bill is limited to our largest cities and failed to prevent some dubious efforts to get around it. It’s time we fix the policy and broaden its scope.

texastribune.org

New housing laws resulted in thousands of homes in Texas

The laws, which make it easier to build apartments, face stiff resistance from North Texas suburbs. State lawmakers vow to force cities to comply.

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Have you planted the seeds of trees whose shade you will never enjoy yet today??

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