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What @GregAbbott_TX doesn't want you to know is that since he's been Gov of Texas everything costs more, groceries, gas, rent and families are getting squeezed. Greg Abbott works for billionaires, not Texans #txlege #AbbottWorksForBillionaires

A federal judge just ruled that videos of DOGE staffers must stay up — and they are devastating. Under oath, they couldn't define DEI. They admitted they never reduced the deficit. And they wiped out $100 million in humanities grants — including a Holocaust documentary — using ChatGPT. The regime tried to bury this. It didn't work. dworkinsubstack.com/p/shut-it-down…

In Texas we are running out of water, our hospitals are closing, you can’t get your medicine, we are a leader in child hunger. 30 years of GOP rule, giveaways to out of state billionaires and international corporations. We need a change

ICE put a young American in a chokehold and threatened to blow a mother's brains out. We cannot allow any more funding for this rogue agency.

Drawing Castiel from 91 Whiskey. I'm considering making a small animation of this AO3 story. #fanart #supernatural #spn #castiel #drawing

His house it literally in the middle of nowhere. It was a hit.

We are four weeks into a war where both sides have targeted each other's nuclear facilities. We risk nuclear disaster. Yet the main Trump official on arms control refused to answer my question on Israel's nuclear capabilities and told me to ask the Israeli government.

Everyone should be pushing to shut down all detention centers

We cannot normalize ICE inserting itself into our daily lives. Here is a reminder: ICE agents do not belong at airports. ICE agents do not belong at polling stations. ICE agents do not belong undermining our rights and hurting our communities.

"I had never met a soul who could speak my language, until there was you. You, are fluent in me." Art credit: frijolebean #Supernatural #Destiel #fanart

The Trump Administration just deported a deaf 6 year old, ripping him away from his school and ASL community.     They aren’t targeting violent criminals like they said they were going to. They're going after families and children.   I'm demanding answers.

Oh god if Abbot loses this would feel so good, he's genuinely one of the most evil people in this country

When Texas had a woman as governor, it led the nation in education. The last three men to “lead” Texas have dwindled their public education rankings to mid- or bottom-tier! If you need a job done, hire a woman. Vote @GinaHinojosaTX

Last year Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz invited a high school mariachi band to perform in Congress. A year later, two of them were detained by ICE. But thankfully, @JoaquinCastrotx did her job for her—and secured their release yesterday.

The Gámez-Cuéllar family has been released from Dilley! We just picked them up.

Some personal news. Today, I’m leaving The Atlantic after almost 17 years and moving my writing to Substack. It would be convenient, for the purposes of crafting an exciting departure announcement, to have a dramatic exit story: a fight, a grievance, a shouting match with an editor that ended with me hurling a bunch of leather-backed Thoreau volumes across the open-plan office. That is not the case here. I love The Atlantic, and I'll remain a contributing writer there. But after almost two decades at one publication, I wanted to write for myself. The things I've published that I'm most proud of—whether it was the original abundance agenda essay, or my piece on workism—emerged from a very personal expression of frustration, or confusion, or curiosity. I want to know what my thinking and writing is like if I lean into a more independent and personal writing life. That's brought me to Substack, which is already home to an astonishing share of my overall reading. I'm excited to join their community and excited to build my own. The name of the newsletter should be easy to remember: Derek Thompson. The newsletter will have three main pillars 1. Abundance 2. The frontier of science and technology—GLP1s, AI, biotech, energy breakthroughs—covered in a way that’s both curious and skeptical 3. The anti-social century & the social crises of anxiety and aloneness Thanks to The Atlantic for 16.8 incredible years and thanks to everybody who follows me across the river. - dt

"so you've been job hunting over a year and still have no interviews?"

I don't usually share this stuff but the head writer & executive producer of this series once supported my art with a donation that covered two whole months of my expenses when I needed the most and I'll always be grateful for that