OhThisWorld

A podcast for those inclined to take action, hosted by @rockontinyrebel and @LucasESchaefer

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

If private religious schools want to accept voucher money, they should be required to open their board meetings to public comment and release their curriculums to the public. Then we can have a real talk about indoctrinating children.

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

Reminder that when Texans were facing an actual disaster—the freeze—Chip Roy’s grand contribution was to send an email out to constituents blaming the outages on renewables and including a link to an outage map for which he’d forgotten to include the URL.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Casar: Will members of the oversight committee raise their hands if you believe both Hunter and Trump should be held accountable for any of indictments if convicted?

Democrats: *raises hands*

Republicans:

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

The paper of record

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

This is perhaps not a well thought out opinion and I’ve never been to the tribune thing but a bunch of people getting kind of chummy with the worst politicians the state has to offer kind of leaves a sour taste in my mouth?

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

Kind of feel like the annual ideas conference should highlight people with actual ideas

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

Increasingly believe the divide among everyone to left of reactionary right is between people for whom politics is about the actual lives affected by policy and people for whom everything is an abstraction or an “intellectual” exercise & have zero skin in the game

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

Weird that none of the “forbidden courses” at the “university” of Austin seem to cover any of the topics that Republicans have actually forbidden

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

Amazing sold out crowd at Quack’s for Queer to Tell: Austin, put on with wonderful ⁦@ReverieBooks1⁩ and featuring ⁦@gregrmarshall⁩ and many talented other writers ❤️

[SwR @SouthwestReview]

We’re back at the @msbookfest this year & teaming up w/ our buds @endofallmusic in Jackson to help host the heat we got comin’ to the capital 🔥

Feat. readings by Lee Durkee @gregrmarshall @laurenrhoades @LucasESchaefer & music w/ DJ @JaredJayBBoyd

FREE! Come one, come all! 😎

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

This morning at Barton Springs a bride and groom in full garb got on the diving board for photos but didn’t ultimately jump. The woman treading water next to me was appalled. “Posers,” she said.

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

Here’s a take: if your religious faith informs all of your policy decisions then voters deserve to know the full details of those beliefs. If you’re charged with representing people you think will burn in hell, I dunno. Seems relevant!

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

given that texas republicans believe any mention of gay or trans people existing makes a book "sexually explicit," sort of think those words should be in quotes in headlines and newspaper stories?

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

Said it before but hard to see why Texas needs University of Austin for reactionary representation when we already have UT and A&M

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

I am joining no more things. I am writing no more profiles. If in a year plus you decide you miss me pls buy my book 🙏

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

Beyond chutzpah for Chip Roy, whose entire political career has been dedicated to forcing his version of Christianity on all Americans and punishing anyone who doesn’t submit, to accuse others of social engineering

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

Husband's purchase of matching Speedos for us completes our transition from chroniclers of Austin characters into Austin characters

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

This is not a serious country

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

So does a gay designer have the right to refuse to design an evangelical couple’s website?

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

Conservatives are addicted to the idea that we live in a meritocracy because most of them know they'd be unsuccessful if we actually did.