@IDLKAAA @blaireerskine I think you missed the idea. If we consider fetuses people, then forcing someone to keep a pregnancy is forcing them to use their body to keep someone else alive at risk of arrest. Same as if I threw you in jail for not giving me your kidney, even if it killed you
If you go out again tonight watch your back! APD is using other @austintexasgov department vehicles for cover, deploying pepperball cops and snatch squads.
When you head to the polls, remember that Save Austin Now sued to make sure utterly deceptive language appears on our ballots for Prop A.
Prop A does nothing to meaningfully improve police accountability, oversight or transparency. It just vastly increases the police budget.
@austintexasgov Homeless Strategy Officer Dianna Grey responds to Jackie, former resident of Riverside Camp, with a shocking/not-shocking bureaucratic lack of urgency. Jackie demands immediate housing for all who’ve been pushed into unsafe conditions by city.
You know what countries don’t need so called foreign aid, missionaries, NGO’s, non profits etc?
Ones that are free from settler colonialism & the aftermath of colonization! Sovereign nations! France & the U.S. owes #Haiti#ReparationsNow & most americans are ignorant to this!
I know the album’s been out for 2 months now, but Lorde making an album for people in their mid-20’s who don’t really drink anymore and want to move closer to family feels extremely narrow cast at me
It's too easy to succumb to doomerism, so here's a reminder that a lot of our self-inflicted environmental problems are solveable now, with current technology.
Ten of the proposed collection systems would be enough to reduce the Pacific Garbage Patch by 50% in five years.
Hey @austinmobility can we get these barriers for our protected bike lanes?
One bollard every ten feet just invites cars to use the lane for parking like in the photo below
Texas redistricting also on the front page of today’s NYT. (BTW, @SenSchumer, @POTUS, the Freedom to Vote Act would stop this gerrymander in its tracks- if it were law that is). #txlege#FreedomToVoteAct
🚨Help find 13 yo Leilana Graham. She's believed to be in danger. Leilana was last seen on 9/20/21 at 10510 Rockaway Dr. in NE Houston. She was wearing a white and yellow striped shirt, unknown color pants, black shoes and a clear backpack. Call 713-693-5000 #HouNews @MissingKids