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Niala Boodhoo’s interview with Sister Norma Pimentel was easily the most uplifting experience at the 2026 Texas Tribune Festival. ❤️

Sister Norma Pimentel
President and CEO, Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley

Niala Boodhoo, Events Host, Religion News Service.

Sister Norma Pimentel and Niala Boodhoo at Texas Tribune Festival.

At Texas Tribune Festival 2026, responding to the shooting by ICE in Austin this week: “I believe that the way ICE treated Wilber [Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez] was equivalent to torture.” - Joaquin Castro, U.S. Representative, D-San Antonio.

Joaquin Castro, U.S. Representative, D-San Antonio.On stage at Texas Tribune Festival 2026.

Melissa Murray said that we see now what the founders saw. Our Constitution was a response to Britain’s colonial law. Now, America tiptoes toward tyranny. Her new book is “The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader” at the Texas Tribune Festival today.

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Melissa Murray today at Texas Tribune Festival: “Our government is held together with gum and friendship bracelets.” Murray said that government needs strength to serve us, but with limits to prevent tyranny. /1

Melissa Murray, Stokes Professor of Law, NYU School of Law. At 2026 Texas Tribune Festival.

Constitutional panel at Tribfest: David Blight, Yale; Melissa Murray, NYU; and Sanford “Sandy” Levinson, UT Austin’s School of Law. At 2026 Texas Tribune Festival.

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Watch live: National Book Award-winning author and historian @ibramxk.bsky.social discusses the arguments behind his new book, "Chain of Ideas: How Authoritarian Thinking Takes Root in America" with Peniel Joseph, the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at UT-Austin. #TribFest26

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Ibram X Kendi on "Chain of ideas"

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges

The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.

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Clairwil @newosity.com · 25/09/2026

“There is not a lot of solidarity right now. They target us individually to make us feel alone. We are all in the same fight.” - Angel Huang

Angel Huang, Partnerships Director for Texas Students for DEI, emotional over the way that anti-DEI attacks on students who deserve to know the truth and feel that they belong at Texas Tribune Festival

Angel Huang, Partnerships Director for Texas Students for DEI.

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At Texas Tribune Festival, Angel Huang, Partnerships Director for Texas Students for DEI. Becoming emotional at the description of attacks on public education curriculum for young students, Angel said, “They are taking away the little that we had.” /1

Angel Huang, Partnerships Director for Texas Students for DEI. With Yasmin Cader, ACLU.

Angel Huang, Partnerships Director for Texas Students for DEI, speaks with a UT Austin student.

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Sarah Longwell is a realist. She said she’d like to say how things *should* be. But years of talking to voters had led her to say, “This is how things really are.” Politics must be grounded in reality. Huge crowd for Sarah.

Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, at Tribfest 2026.

Crowd at Tribfest 2026 for Sarah Longwell.

The term “democracy” is now a polarizing term with MAGA. What most voters want is to feel that a leader will keep them safe and protect their well-being. And Trump polls are tanking because gas prices are high. (Sarah Longwell at Tribfest).

Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark

Sarah Longwell today at Texas Tribune Festival: “Republicans talked about ‘character ‘ and ‘personal responsibility’ - and they did not mean any of it.”

Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, with Astead Herndon (Host of America, Actually) at Texas Tribune Festival 2026.

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Sarah Longwell today at Texas Tribune Festival: “Republicans talked about ‘character ‘ and ‘personal responsibility’ - and they did not mean any of it.”

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Rahm Emanuel advised that If Dems want to win in 2028, go back to the seven swing states that determine the outcome - and win the independents.

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Ambassador Rahm Emanuel at Texas Tribune Festival today. He’s considering a 2028 run for president. His take: Dems are enraged. But independents are “disappointed” with the Faustian deal they made with the devil. /1

Ambassador Rahm Emanuel with WAPO’s Naftali Bendavid on stage at Texas Tribune Festival.

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Just ran into her leaving the Omni. Marjorie and her fellow were in exercise togs, heading out for a run. Odd how much she looked like a local. I suggested she stay hydrated.

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lauren Hough discusses her new book, “Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America” at the Texas Tribune Festival.

Lauren Hough at Texas Tribune Festival. Great stories of travels across America with her dog, Woody.

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1st sign this guy might be in a cult--he says he'd do it all over again (even though he barely saw his 4 yr old for 11 months). 2nd sign--he's monetizing his failure. That he's getting free advertising from the man who won't let his delivery drivers take bathroom breaks is the cherry on a moldy cake

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Elizabeth Holmes tests boundaries of fact”; “Bonnie & Clyde test boundaries of bank lending”; “Jeffrey Dahmer tests boundaries of tasteful cuisine.” See, it’s easy once you get the hang of it. I can does a WSJ headline, too!

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

After Pretti was killed, Savageford, who is Asian-American, said she was taken to a warehouse near the Whipple detention center where immigrants were being detained. She was strip-searched, including by male agents who Cook told HuffPost on Friday were “touching her privates.”

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Edit: with KNOWN Nazi connections

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Clairwil @newosity.com · 11/09/2026

Scruffy loudmouth JD Vance, working to make the rest of us poorer.

A scruffy loudmouth on the left. JD Vance on the right.

Clairwil @newosity.com · 11/09/2026

Scruffy loudmouth JD Vance, working to make the rest of us poorer.

(Observed for years by everyone in central Austin and unrelated to lame grndr joke going around tonight)

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As a resident of Austin, the Texas state Capitol, I know what political operatives are doing after the Dallas convention. Every other year, when the TX Lege is in session, sex workers flood Austin to service the politicians. Dallas tonight; same.

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They have a tiny handful of deplorable tokens. Where’s that scoundrel, Nicki Menaj?

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Last time I saw a traitor broadcasting from a rooftop it was Ali Alexander during the Jan 6 Capitol riots.

Traitor Ali Alexander posting from a rooftop about overthrowing the U.S. presidential election January 6, 2021.

Last time I saw a traitor broadcasting from a rooftop it was Ali Alexander during the Jan 6 Capitol riots.

He proclaims a dream “of keeping the….majority”??? I am thinking….What??

Lil Jon might be thinking: “What???” If he saw the opening of the GOP Trump rally in Dallas.