Tula Karras ☮️ 🟧 BLM. LGBTQ+. Animal adoption.

Texas Republicans can't pass rigged maps next year if they have a governor who will veto them.

Today we honor Austin Police Officer Ralph Ablanedo. He was fatally shot with an AK-47 during a traffic stop on East Live Oak Street after ticketing the driver and beginning to check the passenger. He served APD for under 5.5 years and left behind his wife and two sons.

@EvilMopacATX Here's what APD posted on their site, apparently the shootings are random so far. austintexas.gov/police/news/ap…

SCARY AND VAGUE

I wasn’t super worried about the hantavirus, and then RFK Jr. said “We have this under control, and we’re not worried about it” and now I’m super worried

A Mexican couple held in an ICE jail was finally released and able to reunite with their 18-year-old son just a day before he died of cancer. Kevin González was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer and died Sunday in Mexico. His parents, Isidoro González Avilés and Norma Anabel Ramírez Amaya, had been arrested in April while trying to reenter the U.S. to visit their dying son after their request for humanitarian visas was denied. More headlines: democracynow.org/2026/5/11/head…

A lesson on social democracy that is not from a lying billionaire.

Happy Star Wars Day

The Dallas Morning News and Texas Monthly both producing Pulitzer winners is so dang cool. Two of the three AAJA awards named today were Texans too, and the third an ex-Texan. There's so much journalism talent in this state and we should never take it for granted.

how it feels to live through one trump news cycle

Tomorrow, @TexasMonthly will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.

US troops are not in Germany to protect Germany. They’re there because the US needs bases to conduct operations beyond the North American continent. If Trump withdraws them, he will harm the United States, not Germany. It’s absurd how many Americans fail to grasp this.

This is at East Riverside & I-35 near Lady Bird Lake. Luckily the car and pedestrian made it through, but a friendly reminder to turn around, don't drown! ☔Video courtesy of: Diana Zamora

When my fellow Marines and I were being shot at by al-Qaeda and ISIS, I kept thinking, “if only we had a ballroom.”

The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank. It just published a 30-year study showing immigrants paid 14.5 trillion dollars more in taxes than they received in government benefits. Every single year. For thirty years. Without exception. The country was lied to. Here is what the study found.🧵

Lena Dunham visits the Criterion closet.

Its never too early to be thinking about your Halloween costume

Here’s my doctor dining with pharmacy reps.

The man who spent a year literally begging for a Nobel peace prize is attacking the pope for advocating for…peace.