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  1. 9 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    Yeah, because they have local affiliates, I'm sure.

    But I'm watching CNN talk about proposed Medicaid cuts, which is a big deal, don't get me wrong.  But when they flood me with breaking news alerts 8 times a day even when there is no breaking news, how are they not all over this?

    Sunday afternoons are typically the most thinly-staffed time of week in newsrooms (other than overnight). Especially now.

  2. 29 minutes ago, Covri said:

    Regarding the gift giving culture that permeates elementary school classrooms these days, it’s fucked up I should be expected to give gift cards 4-5 times a school year to teachers for doing their jobs instead of being able to send my kids to public school I pay for where the teachers are paid enough not to need my Target and Starbucks gift cards to supplement their income. Plenty of people work for similar salaries and don’t have  these expectations. Also it’s mainly a middle class and up school districts where this happens and those teachers are not dealing with the worst of worst conditions that lower class and poverty stricken schools and districts are dealing with. So yes we fall into the peer pressure of a couple hundred bucks a year to help our kid’s teachers out that my mom never got teaching in lower income areas. But my wife’s mom taught in nicer areas and thinks it’s the norm so then so does my wife.

     

    /rant over

    While I don’t entirely disagree with your premise, I want to note a key distinction here: these teachers are not using those gift cards to “supplement their income”. In the case of my wife and many of her colleagues, they’re using those cards to buy classroom supplies that they are given no budget to purchase because of the continued degradation of school funding in our state - or, using them to buy protein bars to keep on hand since budgets for free breakfasts and lunches have been severely cut by our esteemed governor.

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  3. 14 hours ago, tokamak said:

    I still cannot wrap my head around How to Train Your Dragon getting a live action remake. Zero interest in seeing that. Evidently I’m in the minority. 

    My 18yo saw it, loved it and said it was about as good as the animated original. That surprised me. 

  4. 1 hour ago, Underdog said:

    Married to Jay Mohr… Jay. Mohr. 

    If the team suddenly hires a consultant named Bob Sugar that's a 🚩.

  5. 7 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    When you’ve lost Fayetnam…

    This so great, but F’ville is very much a blue dot within a sea of red. Walking around town there last week, I saw lots of pride and trans flags, and local elected officials there are mostly progressive. It’s starting to spread as NWA grows as a metro area, but the rest of the state still makes up for it. :/

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  6. On 5/2/2025 at 11:43 PM, CooterBrown said:

    Just got home from Ministry, Nitzer Ebb, and Die Krupps.

    This was great top to bottom. Die Krupps hasn’t played Austin since ‘96 even though Jurgen lives here. They killed it. I would love to see a full set. Nitzer Ebb is always good for just being two dorks on stage. Ministry is only playing Twitch, With Sympathy, and earlier Wax Trax singles on this tour and it absolutely killed. Yeah, Al has to use a vocal track to keep up but the crowd loved it and the reworked versions of the songs were great.

    Sadly, Douglas from Nitzer Ebb died today. He has been ill and wasn’t on this tour (it was just Bon and another dude). He had a commanding stage presence and voice, for sure.

    https://www.brooklynvegan.com/nitzer-ebbs-douglas-mccarthy-has-died-at-58/

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  7. 6 minutes ago, Zeus said:

    How else are you going to get the property values down so it can be bought up by big corporations and turned into a Smart City (TM)?

    The projectiles have arrived and the independent media is too scared and doxed to go get hit by them now. 😞

     

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    That photo is from a construction site in NYC from a few years back, and just keeps getting recycled for these "aNtIfA sOrOs DeMoCrAt CiTiEs" posts.  Please stop.

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  8. 8 hours ago, HiggyBaby said:

    Been nice knowing y’all IMG_1744.thumb.jpeg.eb389e9309412ed9b6eeb2f319b58607.jpeg

    Rick Mitchell on NBC5 says the really bad stuff should hit D/FW around midnight. Just moved in all the patio furniture. We’ll see what happens…

  9. 17 hours ago, Exposition said:

    Every time I hear the ad I'm convinced that company is going for a very specific demographic, and I'm lost on exactly which demographic that is. I cannot be the only who ignores medical ads I've heard on a sports radio station, and especially so if the voice-over sounds like someone helping me choose fertilizer at Ace Hardware. But maybe there's some market research out there that points to a group who has a connection to that and will buy in... 

    “Call Big Lou - he’s like you, on meds too!”

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  10. Quote

    President Trump took yet another step Tuesday to place NPR and PBS at the center of his broader clash with major cultural institutions, formally asking Congress to take back the $1.1 billion it has set aside for all public broadcasters for the next two years.

    A simple majority of lawmakers in each chamber must approve what's technically known as a "rescission request" within 45 days for it to become law. With their slim leads in both the House and Senate, Republicans can afford just a few defections.

    https://www.npr.org/2025/06/03/nx-s1-5418080/pbs-npr-trump-rescission-public-broadcasting

  11. 8 minutes ago, royiv said:

    TEA announced today that it is extending the takeover of HISD for an additional two years, now through 2027. Once the state moves in, they will never go back to local control. It’s a cautionary tale for AISD.

    I noticed in the TxTrib story about the STAAR bill failing that the Senate had slipped a provision into their version of the bill that would allow the TEA to take over, and appoint a conservator for, any district that sued the state/TEA, about anything.  It's a blessing that bill failed.

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  12. In essentially one generation, we have gone from having folks in state and national leadership who, while differing on policy sometimes to an extreme level, were still generally respected, knowledgeable, and held in high esteem -  to cretin like this  in many crucial roles. I don’t see any easy way to recover from this.

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    NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit Tuesday morning in federal court against the Trump White House over the president's executive order purportedly barring the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for NPR and PBS.

    "It is not always obvious when the government has acted with a retaliatory purpose in violation of the First Amendment. 'But this wolf comes as a wolf,'" states the legal brief for the public broadcasters. "The Order targets NPR and PBS expressly because, in the President's view, their news and other content is not 'fair, accurate, or unbiased.'"

    The line about the "wolf" was drawn from a 1988 dissent by the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

    The lawsuit says the administration is usurping Congress' right to direct how federal money will be spent and to pass laws. It names President Trump, White House budget director Russel Vought, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Maria Rosario Jackson, the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, as defendants.

    https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5413094/npr-public-radio-lawsuit-trump-funding-ban

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