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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 11h

An autopsy found that Tierra Walker of Texas (who repeatedly asked for an abortion to save her life only to be repeatedly told "the baby is fine") died of “hypertensive cardiovascular disease with superimposed preeclampsia.” The real cause of death was the Texas abortion ban.

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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable

Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bsky and all other Twitter-rehash social media are great for analyzing policy and public debates, but terrible for more personal topics. Just tried to write something abt a weird, complex family topic, but it cdn't be done w/o stating a fact that was 280 wds but elided important context.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Headline is purely aspirational techbro nonsense, poverty still has a big leg up in the standings

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Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Texas Tribune, one of the most reliable news outlets in Texas, just named the ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Gregory Feathers www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rs are outspending Ds in Texas abt 4 or 5 to one on advertising this cycle and I doubt it will help them at all. A few ads lean into the old less-government brand that was popular 2 decades ago, but they seem laughable in this era of Big Government conservatism. Rs have no message to sell Texans rn.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026

NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co

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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life

Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There was a chapter in the the book on the poisoning of fish in Town Lake in Austin -- today, Lady Bird Lake -- that led to its eventual cleanup. It took many years bf the lake was deemed safe again.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My brother lives in Mike Johnson's district and we had lunch today. He may be the first US Speaker in history whose district got poorer and worse off while he held the gavel, he's done almost nothing for them except preside over their ascension to the nation's meth capital.

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Research: Caddo Parish wastewater shows highest methamphetamine levels in world

SHREVEPORT, La. — New research from Louisiana State University Shreveport reveals that methamphetamine levels found in Caddo Parish wastewater are among the highest recorded in the world.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'd never seen this student note on Texas' habeas law re: bad forensics, which was my brainchild when I was policy director at the Innocence Project of TX; the main complaint seems to be practitioners after the fact calling it the "junk science writ." But we never called it while pushing it.

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New science, old convictions − Texas Senate Bill 344: identifying further necessary reform in forensic science

Abstract. In June 2013, Texas Senate Bill 344 (SB 344) was signed into law after strong Innocence Project support. SB 344 has since transformed the Texan j

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Crazy that Trump lickspittle Nick Saban thinks bringing friggin' Ted Cruz on Gameday wd make ppl support their bill. They shd have asked a Texan: Bringing Ted Cruz w/in rock throwing distance of any sporting event will only make ppl hate you and any team he supports will lose. This is a known fact.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Notably, this is the TX Cattle FEEDERS Association, so stockyards/meat packers. OK and KS are actual ranchers groups. Texas ranchers are represented by the Cattle *Raisers* Association, which is an enthusiastic, nativist cheerleader for every bigoted ICE action you can imagine.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've said bf, any lawyer continuing to work at DOJ under these circumstances has abandoned ethics and integrity to the point that it should threaten their bar cards. This person was willing to tolerate a *great deal* of misconduct and mendacity till the day the leopard tried to eat her face, too.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

TIL that there's a tradition in Christian apologetics from Eusebius into the 20th c that the death of Pan was a literal historical marker for the birth or death of Christ, depending on which apologist was speculating -- the idea being that the death of paganism made room for Christianity to ascend.🧵

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Worth mentioning also that the spiritual adviser during his first term was the pedophile pastor of Gateway Baptist Church in Southlake, Robert Morris, who is also a big Greg Abbott ally. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Former Trump spiritual adviser faces charges of lewd acts with a child

Texas megachurch founder Robert Morris indicted in Oklahoma on five counts over alleged misconduct in 1982

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Revisited Tennyson's poem, The Brook, and the final lines border on melancholy when considered in light of Boggy Creek's imminent dewatering. And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 23/09/2026

The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin was not using a body camera during the Sunday incident, according to news reports. The officer was issued a body camera, but it is unclear why he was not wearing the device during the shooting.

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Reports: ICE officer in Austin shooting was not wearing body cam

The recent ICE recruit was issued a body camera, reports said. It’s not clear why he was not using the device during the Sunday shooting.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...

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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Large swaths of African American newspapers in Texas have been lost bc of bigoted archive policies. Framing historical archives as "indoctrination" is disingenuous and silly. This debate is solely about which history gets remembered and whether portions right wingers don't like can be excluded.

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Susan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is why I make sure to crash my car once a month. To use my auto insurance.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Puerto Rico has more residents than than Wyoming, Alaska, and North and South Dakota combined.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This woman's daughter died because she voted the way she did and she STILL can't acknowledge that everyone paying any attention knew the "eating the dogs" guy intended to do exactly what he did. I'm truly tired of pretending any of these people are now surpised. It's just a self serving lie.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.

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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)

At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Once again, I'm pleading with Texas media to stop promoting new Blue Bell flavors as some cute, nostalgic news story: they're a terrible company run by corporate criminals who make a shoddy, overhyped product. HEB Creamy Creations is a better product every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

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EEOC sues Blue Bell, says worker fired for religious reasons

A Jewish body shop technician was fired “less than a month after he refused to shave his beard due to his religious beliefs,” the EEOC says.

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He still has the bullet in his neck. It was too close to the spine to remove quickly, and the staff at Dell Seton Medical Center, which is affiliated with @universityoftexas.bsky.social 's medical school, refused to treat him and instead turned him over to ICE.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The "small government conservative" thing turned out to be 100% a grift, didn't it? As soon as the right wing took power, every last one of them abandoned it, and it's all Big Government Conservatism now. 20 years ago there were a few who seemed to actually believe that schtick. Pero, no mas.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What's described in this story is straight up criminal behavior and should be prosecuted as such.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Turnout's gonna be the whole shebang in the November election. There are no TX swing voters: Rural Rs who don't like Trump or Paxton may stay home, or may vote R anyway out of habit, spite, etc.. But to win, Dems must turnout Dems, esp in urban and suburban settings. Base appeals are everything now.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

These are members of the Aggie Corps, not the U.S. military. It's more of a college dress-up club, like a drag show for right-wing straight kids. Corps membership carries no military obligation. FWIW, notice how few kids are there. Only 3-4 showed up for his "Send Me" workout earlier in the day.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Free concert by the UT-Austin Trombone Choir Oct 29. That's an awful lot of trombones! music.utexas.edu/events/6093-...

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Trombone Choir

Nathaniel Brickens, director

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There's a great line in Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses to the effect that all cowards betray themselves and their own principles first, and after that it becomes easy to betray anyone and everyone else. I think about that framing a lot in the Trump 2 era.

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Why Did These Powerful People Kowtow to Donald Trump? (Gift Article)

In “Profiles in Cowardice,” Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy’s collection of heroic biographies.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is what's angering: Nobody will change their votes bc Talarico throws trans kids under the bus. But he's going to piss off a bunch of his base and at a minimum ↓ their entushisam. I'll still vote for JT, and eveyone else shd too, but this was a punk, low-character, coward's play.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don't agree w/ this personally but wdn't tell anybody not to go there: It's Talarico who went there. I don't have to like him or think his values match mine to vote for him over Ken Paxton. But I'm not going to pretend I trust him any further than I cd pick him up and throw him. This is why.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I love this story and smile whenever I see it recounted. Draggieland is a brilliant name for a College Stateion drag show.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There are about 2,500 cadets in the Aggie Corps and apparently only 3-4 could be enticed to go on a run with Colonel Vodka.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

Anyway UT Austin had the largest African and African Diaspora Studies program in the country sure wish there was as much energy for it when it was running as there is now for condemning its closure.

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