Josh Grenier

Did my duty today by changing the hotel breakfast TV off of fox news to ESPN. Pretty sure I just saved our country.

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

Just going to say this article is awesome and a great overview of everything I’ve enjoyed about SATURDAY SIX. For me, a must read every week.

Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine has it figured out. I couldn't agree more. Fuck fascism.

CONGRATS, TEXANS!

CJ Stroud tonight

Great No Kings event in Clear Lake, TX, today. ~1,700 great Americans there in this small suburb. Contrary to the nonsense coming from MAGA, it was peaceful, very pro-America, and nobody was paid! There were some scary dinosaur and frog costumes and funny signs though.

Egypt has extremely strict gun control laws. Civilians are only permitted to own handguns -- no rifles or shotguns -- and only if they can prove they need the weapon for a specific purpose. Background checks for licensing are extensive and include vetting of family members and psych evaluations.

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

it’s a real testament to the intellectual traditions of these centuries-old institutions, folding to authoritarian pressure like paper in a storm and kneeling to naked financial extortion

Everything about this story is horrific: 1. The student never mentions Jews 2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide 3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist 4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved

Trump is so desperate to put a lid on the Epstein files that he will literally risk global thermonuclear war in order to do it. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Texas Republicans held SEVEN hearings about their plan to gerrymander the state before even one about flood relief. They’re not interested in helping flood victims.

Correction on one of my observations: While Visa Waiver Program country visitors do not need a Visa, they still need an I94 (www.usa.gov/arrival-depa...). I don't want to believe that's going to happen, but I do believe it is possible. If we hit every VWP visitor with a $250 fee we're so fucked.

The US already charges incredibly high fees to many people applying for a visa. Now it is about to get much, much worse. It does not seem to apply for visa-waiver country visits, which is good. But based on the CBO numbers in the reporting it is more than 11 million annual visitors. 🤬

Hogg’s organization, Leaders We Deserve, is pushing progressive primary challengers at a time when the Democratic Party is already facing a reckoning over sharp generational divides, neglect of young progressives, and the white-knuckling of aging incumbents. Now, Hogg doesn't plan on backing down. ⤵️

NEW in @chron.com Houston faith leaders organize in renewed fight against Texas redistricting Pastor Charles Turner believes politicians want to "weaken the political vote and representation" of Black and Latino communities. www.chron.com/culture/reli...

I alluded to my court case at the top of the thread. The latest is a countersuit by Avelo accusing me of cybersquatting and demanding an injunction to take down my website because people going to www.avelno.com might be confused into buying plane tickets there. Which is absurd. So we fight.

It’s true, I see a lot of Christians on social media sharing quotes by a middle eastern leftist influencer named ‘Jesus’ who espouses the toxic empathy of caring for the poor and the sick. You better stop that guy!!

Can’t believe this God let all those innocent children die at Camp Mystic. Seems like a real dick.

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Like watching someone dunk Prometheus's flame in a lake.

Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane. This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.

@wandrme.paxex.aero Emergency Notification was issued through cell phones but…

By extension, I guess all the people who died just didn't pray enough. Similar to all that nonsense a year ago about Trump getting "divine intervention" from the bullet — the natural extension is to then assume that the guy who died must have deserved it. I dunno, doesn't seem very Christian

www.fox26houston.com/news/houston...

Fascinating...

Abbott is one of the most evil fucks in the country. I hope he enjoys Hell when he's gone.

so wwe's going where next week

When they fire me for refusing to put these up in my classroom, I’ll come back on Bluesky seeking some pro bono legal work.

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

Just my two cents... A million bucks is light for a multibillion dollar organization, but it's a start. IMO the bigger deal is they're acknowledging ICE is harming their community and they are taking action. The bar is hell. The Lakers, Clippers, Kings, Rams, Chargers remain silent.

I just don’t see AI working all that well for the average tourist in an unfamiliar location. Trails are there for a reason, whether for safety or ecological reasons. Just stay on the trails or reap the consequences.

"Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Reminder that I’m happy to help you move your Substack newsletter to a self-hosted Ghost newsletter that you fully own and control (and that scales more cheaply than Substack if you’re monetized.)

This is key. What ppl dislike about Bluesky isn’t really about Bluesky, it’s about people, where we’re at, everything that led us here, the state of the world, the state of social media & the internet. We want this to be an app from a better time, but it is by far the best app for the time we’re in.

Why is what the CDC recommends (or does not recommend) important? Insurance companies typically refuse coverage to things that aren't recommended by the CDC. And COVID vaccines can cost hundreds of dollars.

This is what I try to live up to, every day of my life

we have a secretary of -transportation making it more dangerous to travel -education making kids stupider -defense making us more vulnerable to attacks -homeland security making us feel less secure than ever -health and human services trying to spread illness everything’s fine.

Less than a month to go til hurricane season, so let's check in on the current state and proposed future funding of the National Weather Service. And, well, yeah, we're just going to have to see how all this goes.

This style of deeply trollish posting on previously sober official accounts was pioneered by the UK Russian embassy during the run up to the Brexit vote. It felt shocking at the time. The collapse of a kind of official decorum has been a hallmark of the slide into authoritarianism