Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc

Dad. Husband. Organizer. Immigration & criminal justice advocate.

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

I'm going to keep this account live, but will be tweeting regularly from https://t.co/kpoyQ4x5HQ

Hope to see you there!

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Quite a scandal: Biden was prepared to spend a few hundred thousand dollars on Teslas for the State Department, and the Trump administration altered that to $400 million, then back-dated the records to make it look like Biden did it.

State canceled the contract after @DropSiteNews exposed it.

DOGE should ask us for tips in saving actual money for the taxpayer, beyond just canceling Reuters subs

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

"Musk is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the taxpayers’ coffers."

https://t.co/IDDB2ZXZOd

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

New from me and @HRW:

Vehicle pursuits by TX troopers and local law enforcement have killed at least 106 people and injured 301 in counties participating in Texas’ Operation Lone Star.

https://t.co/iSl3QOaNAH

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

Important piece from the @statesman today.

Commercial vehicle roadside inspections — important tools to keep highways safe — have plummeted since Gov. Abbott deployed hundreds of highway patrol officers to his troubled border program Operation Lone Star

https://t.co/KrS88Bj6CJ

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

Buried in this excellent @FrancescaDnunz Texas Observer story, a revelation that incoming border czar wears a Punisher skull on his windbreaker.

The Punisher skull has been by some law enforcement to show support for right-wing vigilante justice.

https://t.co/F8yNyos07x

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

Today (Saturday) is an important run-off election day in Austin.

Get out and support progressive candidates @MikeSiegelTX for Austin City Council D7 and Fernando de Urioste for AISD board! You can vote at any of these locations until 7pm.

https://t.co/eRnsLG9AtV

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

Today is the last day to EARLY vote in Travis County run-off. Get out and support @MikeSiegelTX for Austin City Council D7 and Fernando de Urioste for AISD board today!

You can vote at any of these locations until 7pm.

https://t.co/xwfUnDOeOs

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

Austin run-off early voting starts today! I strongly recommend folks vote for:

✅ @MikeSiegelTX for ATX City Council, D7

✅ Fernando de Urioste for AISD Board

Polls are open 7am-7pm. Early voting runs through Dec. 9th. Election day is Dec. 14

https://t.co/eRnsLG92En

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

The people who profit from incarceration of human beings are feeling great right now.

If you need another reason to get involved in fighting this administration, here's a good one.

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

Joe Biden should not hand the keys to a mass deportation machine to Donald Trump.

Take action, @POTUS!

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

"One of the ways that deportation is facilitated is by having detention capacity," says Silky Shah, executive director of @DetentionWatch. She says the Biden administration could hamper the Trump team's promised mass deportations if they “start shutting down facilities now.”

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

Going to try to make the migration: https://t.co/kpoyQ4x5HQ

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

Some rare good news in my email:

Great to see @gusbova named the permanent editor-in-chief of the critically important @TexasObserver!

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

I've watched Texas' treatment of immigrants devolve to depths I couldn't imagine a decade ago.

But even I'm unprepared for the wanton cruelty to immigrant children we are going to see in 2025...

[Aarón Torres @AaronTorres_]

Rep. @NateSchatzline's HB 1072 would create a database of undocumented children

An employee participating in Operation Lone Star would also conduct a wellness interview with the child

Database would include the fingerprints of a child
#txlege
https://t.co/jPd9v9PXDr

[Francesca D’Annunzio @FrancescaDnunz]

Tom Homan was picked as Trump's next border czar.

Before the election, Homan ran Border 911, a non-profit that started out as part of The America Project, an org founded by serial election deniers: Patrick Byrne and Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.

https://t.co/L8ffySKjeB

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Elon Musk once fired someone at Twitter for not laughing at his 69 joke, so let's just say his staffing decisions are not exactly going to be high quality.

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

The prison profiteers are celebrating

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

This is interesting to me, given the narrative... And San Diego County's vote is only 3/4 in.

Obviously a huge swing towards Trump, but the border as a whole is much more Democratic than the rest of the country

[Julio Ricardo Varela @julito77]

Border Counties Popular Vote, as of today (CA, AZ, NM, TEX)

Harris: 1,371,340
Trump: 1,187,683

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

@julito77 @nytimes San Diego votes being only 3/4 in in will influence the results, but would be interesting nonetheless