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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

5 years

"The wise man does not break into his fellow's speech. He is not in a rush to reply. He asks what is relevant and replies to the point. Of what he has not heard he says, 'I have not heard,' and he acknowledges what is true." -- Talmud (Pirkei Avot)

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

4 years

On the left, an armed man entering a government building to exercise his right to peaceful protest. On the right, an armed man entering a government building to murder people. In all sincerity, how is any ordinary person supposed to know the difference & respond appropriately?

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

1 year

No Republican can win the speakership because the vote isn't gerrymandered.

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@bestoneTX

2 years

Beto is sharpening and refining his message. This is a hell of a stump speech.

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@BetoORourke

2 years

Greg Abbott is not pro-life.

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@bestoneTX

6 months

On the one hand, Texans pay a lot more in state tax than Californians. But on the other hand, we get a lot less in return.

Julie Chang

@JulieChangRE

6 months

“Texans actually pay more in taxes than Californians do, unless those Texans are in the top one percent of all earners. “

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 months

This is gold.

Monty Boa

@MontyBoa99

6 months

Governor Anne Richards of Texas had a point-blank answer for people who proposed imposing their religious views about abortion on everybody else. She was loved for her blunt, no-nonsense manner and her common sense thinking.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

I wonder if @BetoORourke would consider becoming chair of the Texas Democratic Party? No other Democrat knows every county better, energizes voters more, and has a better understanding of what does and doesn't work here.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 years

A community college professor lives in the White House.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 months

Interesting way to choose to frame this. Wouldn't it also be true to say that five out of six men ages 16-29 say feminism has done more good than harm?

Morning Joe

@Morning_Joe

3 months

One in six men, ages 16-29, say 'feminism has done more harm than good,' study shows

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

1 month

One of the UCLA attackers identified as "pro-Israel counterprotesters" also "took part in several demonstrations over the past year where he was photographed making Nazi salutes. His social media history is rife with antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ+ posts."

Why far-right groups are disrupting US campus protests: ‘When there’s so much attention, they show...

Gaza counter-protesters at UCLA took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across southern California, researchers say

www.theguardian.com

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

This guy gets to stand in his taxpayer-funded pulpit and endorse Republican political candidates, but I'm not supposed to stand in my public college classroom and teach that the Civil War was about slavery.

Pastor Ed Young, known for talking politics from the pulpit, calls Sen. Tim Scott an ‘ideal’...

U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R- South Carolina) was the guest speaker at Second Baptist Church...

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

Austin, Texas, May 20, 1991.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 months

Just going to put a pin in this idea: The overwhelming state police response at UT-Austin today is happening so Greg Abbott can claim events there are so out of control it necessitates a government takeover of the university.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

There's nothing Texas Republicans can promise to do now that they haven't had thirty years to do already.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

1 year

Me, a Texas resident: My neighbor's dog is barking all night. What can I do? City website: We recommend discussing it with your neighbor. Me, still in Texas: Hell no I'm not doing that.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

We should let states decide things and just live with the outcome, says a guy who ordered a state to stop counting its ballots so he could have the president he wanted.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

1 year

In the early 1990s, #SouthwestAirlines led the fight to kill a plan for high-speed rail in Texas.

The Little Engine That Might

From Paris to Dallas, everyone’s asking, Will the bullet train ever get on track?

www.texasmonthly.com

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

1 year

Imagine any other kind of trial where the defendant owes money to the jury foreman, is married to another juror, and also owes her money.

Dan Patrick’s $125,000 loan to Ken Paxton adds to conflicts in Senate impeachment trial

Paxton has $125,000 in outstanding campaign loans to the Senate leader. And state Sen....

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

I honestly don't understand why they think massive numbers of arrests and drug seizures is proof Biden is failing. Shouldn't they be impressed?

Senator John Cornyn

@JohnCornyn

2 years

The number of migrant arrests at the southern border have already hit a record and are on track to reach two million by the end of the fiscal year.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 years

I'm sure @GovAbbott has a plan for safely evacuating patients out of every maxed-out ICU on the Texas coast. Closest available beds are in New Mexico, but he must have a plan.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

#AnnRichards at the Democratic National Convention, New York City, 1992. "Chairman Ron Brown, my fellow Democrats, señors y señoras. My name is Ann Richards and I am pro-choice and I vote!"

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

9 months

Sitting here in Texas reading about people who have autumn and libraries and Democrats — it's like reading about Narnia.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

4 years

I'm going to say it again: No one should be in possession of blank pages with an incapacitated president's signature on them.

Ivanka Trump

@IvankaTrump

4 years

Nothing can stop him from working for the American people. RELENTLESS! 🇺🇸

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

8 months

An $8,000 voucher won't provide enough for anyone to send their kids to private school who isn't already doing so. It's a coupon for rich Christians.

ChrisTomlinson

@cltomlinson

8 months

Texas has 1 million kids in private or home school. If they each got a $8,000 voucher, it would cost taxpayers $8 Billion. A major transfer of public money to mostly religious institutions. More: #txlege

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

Good goddamn, this is a great response.

BetoMedia

@BetoMedia

2 years

BETO X SXSW “The Governor knew there was a problem for 4 months and did not do SHIT to help those kids out!” Beto links recent revelations of the sex trafficking of youths in a state care facility in Bastrop directly to Governor Greg Abbott (background article attached) 3/12/22

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

1 year

One of Texas's beloved oil refineries spilled about 14,000 gallons of crude into Corpus Christi Bay on Christmas Eve then lied about it.

Officials: Corpus Christi Bay oil spill larger than first estimated; 5 animals affected

About 14,000 gallons of light crude oil spilled into Corpus Christi Bay, compared to the 3,800 gallons originally estimated.

www.caller.com

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

Any random hundred feet on I-35 through Austin.

Murph ‘n Andy

@Murph_Andy

2 years

What's the worst drive in America of at least 3 hours or more? Tag with #LongDrive

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

4 years

@tedcruz If a Court composed mostly of justices appointed by presidents you voted for, whose appointments you fought for, whose seats you stole to make room for, keeps ruling that your views are unconstitutional, it's because your views are unconstitutional.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

May you live in times that don't alarm historians.

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@bestoneTX

3 years

Don't you forget about me.

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@bestoneTX

1 year

People who think Social Security funds should be dumped into the stock market forget why Social Security was needed in the first place.

Acyn

@Acyn

1 year

Pence: I think we can replace the new deal programs with a better deal… give options to younger Americans to invest a portion of their social security in a private savings account

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

4 years

They want public schools to fail. They want public school teachers to suffer. They want students and their families to feel desperate enough to demand an option to attend private schools instead. This isn't a failure of leadership, it's deliberate sabotage of public education.

Heidi Przybyla 🌺

@HeidiReports

4 years

Trump is demanding schools reopen & threatening to withhold funding over it; but what if there's an outbreak? "Schools should have plans," says Edu Sec. Betsy DeVos, repeating declining to say how they should respond to an outbreak. She also cited "private sector examples."

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@bestoneTX

2 years

A student asked me if I was just a history professor or actually a historian. 🤔

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@bestoneTX

7 years

@FoxNews @seanhannity Better question: "If @POTUS could cure cancer and make people in wheelchairs walk, would he?"

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

Beto's speech in Uvalde was highly inappropriate. If you have a concern about how the government is doing things, the proper course of action is to storm and ransack the Capitol.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

Here's @GovAbbott today in Corpus Christi hosting a George Strait lookalike contest.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

Um, @GovAbbott , what's the thermostat set to at the governor's mansion? I won't set mine higher than that.

Matt Largey (real)

@mattlargey

2 years

🚨 BREAKING: After 6 power plants go offline, @ERCOT_ISO is asking Texans to conserve power.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

I'm a college professor, which means I can grade papers just by thinking about it.

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@bestoneTX

6 months

The moment we switched timelines.

Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

6 months

Supreme Court decides the outcome in Bush v. Gore Presidential election, as reported by New York Times today 2000:

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 years

Private and parochial schools in Texas are exempt from @GovAbbott 's mask ban, so they can act to keep their students safe. Abbott's ban is a strategic attack on public education.

Diocese of Corpus Christi catholic schools starting school year with mask requirement

The diocese said in their release the decision is based off the most up-to-date recommendations from public health experts and the data surrounding cases and hospitalizations in the region.

www.kztv10.com

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

4 years

The statue's at the bottom of a lake, but it thinks it's in India.

WTVR CBS 6 Richmond

@CBS6

4 years

BREAKING: A statue of Christopher Columbus in Byrd Park has been removed by protesters and dragged into the lake. This is a developing story.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

9 months

In a shocking turn of events, it's possible the jury in the Paxton case wasn't entirely on the level.

Scoop: How GOP pressured Texas senators over Ken Paxton's impeachment trial

An unofficial team operated independently of the Paxton legal operation — like "a super PAC without the money," a top GOP strategist said.

www.axios.com

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

6 years

@jaynordlinger @davidharsanyi No matter. Republicans got their way, and they'll forget their anger about this the moment Fox invents some shiny new grievance. Democrats -- women especially -- will feel renewed motivation to organize and vote every day Kavanaugh sits on the Court.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

4 years

Dear *Mr. Biden*: I guess you can be president now. Just so you know, I did everything right and nothing wrong. Here's some stuff about me. More me. Trump had nothing to do with it. I barely know who he is. If my office can help in any way, here's a subordinate you can call.

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4 years

#Breaking : GSA’s Emily Murphy signs off and says the transition can begin, per @KristenhCNN

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

1 year

Sure, Texans are blowing up about this because it's "Lonesome Dove" and its scriptural. But the important point is the second one: people who don't read are making decisions about which books to prohibit other people from reading.

Scott Braddock

@scottbraddock

1 year

"They might need to ban Lonesome Dove" - @JaredLPatterson says, admitting he's never read it. One educator says that it might help to have a legislator who's better read be the one to carry the bill on what people can read in libraries #TxLege

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

1 year

There is literally no reason to do this except to make it harder for college students to vote. I can find no explanation by the bill's author, @CarrieIsaac , of why she thinks it's needed or what problem it's supposed to solve.

Kate McGee Balagia

@McGeeReports

1 year

New: a bill has been filed in Texas to prohibit counties from putting a polling place at a college or university. It follows another bill filed earlier that would require counties to put a certain # of polling places on college campuses depending on enrollment size.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 years

In Texas the first sign of winter is people recommending generators to each other.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

Finished the first half of the U.S. history survey today with a lecture on Reconstruction and the Lost Cause. Students went home angry. I'd say that's a job well done.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

4 months

This was a public park.

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@GregAbbott_TX

4 months

Thanks to the Texas National Guard for guarding the southern border and denying illegal entry into Texas.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

Maybe the answer isn't to teach more about antisemitism in schools but to teach more about Judaism.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 months

Texas pays $6,160 per public school student.

Lisa Falkenberg

@ChronFalkenberg

2 months

On the Texas border, Gov. Greg Abbott spends $435K per migrant stopped | Opinion

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

10 months

Parental rights means other parents shouldn't be able to dictate what your kids can't read.

HISD library rally draws large crowd in opposition to dismantling libraries

Educators, parents and elected officials spoke out against Superintendent Mike Miles' plans for some HISD libraries.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

1 year

The GOP House is going to pass some wildly destructive stuff because they know Biden's veto will protect them.

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@PhilipWegmann

1 year

Biden pledges to veto bill that would eliminate IRS.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

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The main point of school choice is Christian religious indoctrination. Didn't miss anything.

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@NealMcCluskey

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People keep missing the main point of school choice: Liberty. Government schooling is inherently at odds with a free, diverse society.

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@bestoneTX

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He wants kids to understand that the Tulsa victims were not murdered for the color of their skin but for the content of their character.

🔥Brianna Bailey🔥

@briOKC

11 months

Ryan Walters just said he wants the history of the Tulsa Race Massacre to be taught in public schools but objects to the teaching that the event happened “because of the color of people’s skin.”

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

5 years

@bruceholsinger @JimTheD There's ALWAYS a book.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 months

Where the hell does he think he is? Everyone in Eagle Pass speaks Spanish. Everyone.

Acyn

@Acyn

3 months

Trump: People who don't speak languages. We have languages coming in to our country, nobody that speaks those languages. They're truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them

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@bestoneTX

1 year

Every member of every university board of regents in Texas was appointed by Greg Abbott. There are no liberals among them.

Don Huffines

@DonHuffines

1 year

Stop appointing liberals to the board of regents for TX Universities.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

It isn't about whether a fetus is a person or not. It's about whether a woman is a person or not.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

11 months

The guy who did nothing when children in his town were slaughtered, defended the police who let it happen, stood behind Abbott while he lied about it, and called Beto O'Rourke an "asshole" and a "sick son of a bitch" for pointing it out—that guy wants to be in the legislature.

Patrick Svitek

@PatrickSvitek

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Scoop: Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin is announcing he’s running for the newly open seat in #HD80 . He’s the second Republican to announce for the seat, a top GOP pickup opportunity, since Democratic Rep. Tracy King announced his retirement Tuesday. #txlege

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

@BarbMcQuade It wasn't a question because Judge Jackson wasn't permitted to reply. It was an inflammatory and racist allegation made to someone prohibited from defending herself.

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@bestoneTX

1 year

I'm not going to forward the video — you can find it if you want — but I watched it and admit I'm shaken by it. It's one of the most aggressive, confident, and upsetting displays of antisemitism I've seen online. This one literally kept me up at night.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

If he could throw all the blame onto Uvalde PD, you know he would. He's covering up the facts because they implicate him personally and/or state police under his authority.

Texas Tribune

@TexasTribune

2 years

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has joined the growing list of state and local officials fighting the release of records that could help clarify how the emergency response unfolded during last month’s deadly shooting in Uvalde.

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@bestoneTX

3 months

Going out on a limb to suggest that what's wrong with Paxton won't be fixed by 15 hours of ethics education.

Tony Plohetski

@tplohetski

3 months

UPDATE: Paxton perform 100 hours of community service in Collin County, take 15 hours of legal ethics education and pay a restitution of about $300,000. At the end of 18 months, the charges will be dismissed.

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I think if I was ever invited to visit the Oval Office I'd be so overwhelmed with the historical weight of the place that I'd be totally incapable of talking about whatever I was invited there for. I'd just want to walk in ovals around the room gawking at everything.

President Biden

@POTUS

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We had a very good feeling about this. May the 4th be with you, America.

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@bestoneTX

1 year

Did you realize that in Texas some of our state parks are not actually owned by the public but are leased at taxpayer expense from energy corporations? Neither did I.

Texas Parks & Wildlife

@TPWDnews

1 year

With heavy hearts we announce that Fairfield Lake State Park will close to the public on Feb. 28. We received notification from Vistra that it will terminate the land lease for the park. Details at

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3 years

I'm free now to report that I was a historical consultant on this case. I haven’t posted about this before because I was waiting for the process to play out. But now that the judge has ruled, I'd like to describe my experience.

Texas Judge Urges New Trial for Death Row Inmate, Citing Jurist’s Antisemitic Remarks (Published...

A judge’s recommendation paves the way for an appeals court to decide whether Randy Halprin, a Jewish man who was convicted and sentenced to death in 2003 for his role in the killing of a police...

www.nytimes.com

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@bestoneTX

1 year

"As SB 16 is written, a historian of modern Europe would have to teach that the Nazis weren’t any worse than their victims."

Opinion: Texas SB 16 set to undermine academic integrity

As SB 16 is written, a historian of modern Europe would have to teach that the Nazis weren’t any worse than their victims in the 1930s and '40s.

www.caller.com

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@bestoneTX

2 years

Three Queens. Austin, May 20, 1991.

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@bestoneTX

1 year

The Texas higher ed anti-CRT bill under consideration now doesn't threaten action against individual faculty who violate it, it revokes state funding from *entire institutions* that violate it. This will encourage admins to remove faculty, possibly entire programs, preemptively.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

Are there people on "both sides" who would restrict others' speech? Sure. But the people doing it on the left are people; the people doing it on the right are legislatures. They aren't equivalent.

David French

@DavidAFrench

2 years

Yes. This. Speech codes. Shout-downs. All of it is found on the illiberal right and the illiberal left. It’s one reason why I think the more meaningful American culture war isn’t so much right v. left as liberal v. Illiberal.

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@bestoneTX

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When the police stay out of it, nothing happens and everyone goes home.

KUT Austin

@KUT

1 month

Despite the tension of the past week, Sunday's pro-Palestinian protest on the UT Austin campus concluded peacefully. Speakers warned demonstrators not to engage with police or others seeking to antagonize them.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

5 years

@JohnJHarwood His deferment was in 1968. Some people had heard of Vietnam by 1968.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

11 months

You can only con people so many times before they get angry and demand to be conned again.

Ron Filipkowski

@RonFilipkowski

11 months

Charlie Kirk sold too many tickets to his event w/Trump & people are pissed & can’t get in: “Send Charlie out here! After standing on line for 4 hours in 115 degree heat! 100s of people came from all over the country! I just spent $1K to fly here from NYC!” 🎥 @ScooterCasterNY

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 months

Abbott's ignoring a wildfire to attend a garbage fire.

Auden B. Cabello

@CabelloAuden

3 months

President Trump, along with Gov. Abbott, waving to the people in Piedras Negras, Mexico.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 years

Blue counties on the left are where everything's fine. Why aren't the El Paso area, Panhandle, & far East Texas affected by outages? Because, as the second map shows, they're not part of Texas's secessionist power grid. They're letting the rest of the country save their lives.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 years

Today is Confederate Heroes Day in Texas. It's still an official state holiday. Yes, really. A hearty "Drop Dead" to all who are celebrating.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

Why do college students insist on referring to authors and historical figures by their first names?

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

5 years

@TheRaDR I've long been an indifferent Jew, but after #TreeofLife I joined a synagogue. I attended High Holiday services for the first time in my life. I've participated in Torah study every week since, and I will continue to do so. The shooter wanted fewer Jews. He has made more.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

1 year

Reminder: Grand juries are comprised of ordinary citizens selected at random.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

@KevinMKruse @GregAbbott_TX If he resigns we get Patrick, who's even worse. The only answer is to elect Democrats.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 months

I'm going out on a limb to suggest that not one of those Texas state troopers thinks he's there to protect Jews.

Lauren McGaughy 🎧

@lmcgaughy

2 months

State police in Texas are attempting to disperse a pro-Palestine protest on @UTAustin 's campus. #Texas #UT #txlege

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

What I like about this is how he starts with a strong statement on abortion, obviously the thing on everyone's minds, then connects it logically and emotionally to a series of other crucial failures of Abbott's leadership. "This guy doesn't care about life" covers everything.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 years

@mattlargey @GregAbbott_TX Local officials, who are also elected by Texas voters, should challenge this order in court. Abbott does not have unilateral power to set the terms under which they govern.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

7 years

@KentFallin @MereMnM @GregAbbott_TX @NRA Guns might make responsible owners feel safer, but they make everyone else fearful and intimidated. That’s counterproductive in a classroom.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

Remember when we weren't supposed to raise taxes on billionaires because they would use their surplus wealth to invest in businesses and create jobs?

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

5 years

@bruceholsinger Yes 52. However, I wonder if everyone responding yes knows it from the original use you're (I assume) referring to? It became a familiar expression that was redeployed in lots of other contexts.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

1 year

With a heavy heart I must report that I have exhausted every excuse I can think of not to grade these papers.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

Me to freshman history students : History is not about a bunch of dead people, it's about us. American Historical Association to me: Actually it's about dead people.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

1 year

At least Brooks and Sumner were members of different parties.

CSPAN

@cspan

1 year

Kevin McCarthy confronts Matt Gaetz during 14th House Speaker vote. #118thCongress

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 years

And for her sake, I hope their wifi works.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 years

There was a shooting at a Texas high school today that injured four people, and the legislature spent the day discussing how trans athletes are dangerous.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 years

@MollyJongFast @mtgreenee @AOC Wait, do we each have our own space laser, or do we all share control of one big one?

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 years

These photos were taken in the same room, thirty years apart. Left: Ann Richards proclaiming Women's History Month, March 1991. Right: Greg Abbott overturning women's reproductive rights, May 2021.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

1 year

Clinkerbell

Thomas Kennedy

@tomaskenn

1 year

Ron DeSantis just threatened to build a prison at Disney as retaliation against the company. This stuff is just goofy as hell and embarrassing. Our state deserves so much better.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

1 year

They think they have a branding problem.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

3 years

I'd like to go on the record to say that I am a Texan and I am against book burning.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

. @ERCOT_ISO , what concessions are you asking from Texas industrial, commercial, and transportation consumers, who use many times more power than residential customers? Residences use only 12.7% of the state's energy. Why are we the only ones being asked to sacrifice?

Texas Tribune

@TexasTribune

2 years

ERCOT, the state’s power grid operator, has asked Texans to turn up their thermostats and postpone running major appliances between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Monday. ERCOT has also called on large electric customers to lower their electricity use.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

2 years

In case you hadn't heard, Texas is big.

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Bryan Edward Stone 🗽 (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestoneTX

10 months

It can't be said often enough: Every member of every Texas public university board of regents is a Greg Abbott appointee. They're political operatives, not educators, and they work for the Texas GOP, not for the universities they govern.

Don Moynihan

@donmoyn

10 months

The initial reporting on this was that it was outside alumni. But here are two A&M Regents working to tank this appointment, boasting about trying to “control the liberal nature that those professors brought to campus”

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