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On 4/10/2025 at 9:57 PM, Willfully Horn said:

My wife is apoplectic. Tonight is the third night in a row Spectrum has engaged the emergency broadcast system almost the entire PBS News Hour. No broadcast audio, just the emergency alarm and the emergency message. Over and over. For an hour(?). (I don’t know, I’m just reporting what she says. I like to be in the studio after dinner). But, what she is apoplectic about is these Spectrum carpetbagging SPUTUMSUCKERS also ran the emergency broadcast inTo the ACL Celebrates 50 Years special.

YMMV. We live within pissing distance of Hays City, West of Buda. 

Just now seeing this, but NewsHour streams each show live and keeps them available on-demand afterwards. https://www.youtube.com/@PBSNewsHour

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On 4/10/2025 at 9:57 PM, Willfully Horn said:

My wife is apoplectic. Tonight is the third night in a row Spectrum has engaged the emergency broadcast system almost the entire PBS News Hour.

Shit man, we all have problems. Sorry that this one is yours. 

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11 hours ago, sasquatch69 said:

This is interesting. 👀  The Quorum Report is well-sourced and pretty reliable (although I really wish they'd update their 1998-era website layout).

https://quorumreport.com/

I've never heard of the Quruom Report, but if that's true, you have to think these reps are hearing it from their constituents and getting queezy. 

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On 4/8/2025 at 10:15 AM, bolverk said:

So much of social conservatism is rooted in self-loathing.

That’s funny.  None of the conservative posters we typically see around here seem to have any issues.

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In July 2022, Lauralei Crouch searched the Internet for advice on how to report child abuse.

 

Her inquiries were not academic: Prosecutors say Crouch had for weeks been watching her boyfriend pummel his 2-year-old son, Wyatt, slapping and flinging him into tables and door jambs as punishment.

 

But Crouch never made that call. Later that month, Randall Pickett, 29, beat Wyatt so viciously that Crouch told police the boy appeared drunk. Rather than calling police or rendering aid, Crouch beat the toddler herself.

 

Horrible, awful story 

 

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-child-endangerment-dangerous-homes-safety-services-removal/

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On 4/10/2025 at 9:57 PM, Willfully Horn said:

My wife is apoplectic. Tonight is the third night in a row Spectrum has engaged the emergency broadcast system almost the entire PBS News Hour. No broadcast audio, just the emergency alarm and the emergency message.

I can come over tonight to fix that for your wife.

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4 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

Well why would Abbott fear having his wonderful proposal put before the people? Surely we would all line up to vote for it?

 

abbott is extremely modest and winning this vote 80/20 would just be too embarrassing for him 

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Amendment to put voucher up for statewide vote goes down in flames, 84 voted against it. All over but the crying and talarico (wasting everybody’s time) making them look foolish. 
 

will the dems have the balls to go nuclear the rest of this session

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5 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Enjoy spending your tax money on schools with no academic accountability ratings, no requirement to provide certified teachers, no requirement to provide special education services, no obligation to accept kids from tough circumstances, and no legal requirement to report staff fired for questionable behavior with students. 

And not accountable to our elected school boards. Just over there stealing out money and handing it off to their private equity buddies.

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29 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

And not accountable to our elected school boards. Just over there stealing out money and handing it off to their private equity buddies.


Complain about wasteful spending in eduction.

Solution: hand money over to schools with zero oversight, accountability, or regulations.

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37 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Everything republicans have ever preached about accountability for public schools is a farce. 

FIFY

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The sad part is that even if this platonically perfectly, even if we did get really high quality private schools that took all of our students, regardless of disability, and did a great job educating them and blew the Public School system away....it would still be disastrous since this would pretty much only happen in urban and suburban areas. The rural parts of the state and the small towns would still be screwed.

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44 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

I also hope that the residents of the 158 Texas counties that don’t even have a private school

The ones coasting on that sweet AISD recapture money?

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1 minute ago, Larry T. Spider said:

52.4% of local tax money paid. 821 million a year.

I know. We did this when the Democrats controlled Texas. For them. We agreed to share our tax money with them because we wanted to help.

And they hate us for it.

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2 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

So where do I send the paperwork to get my future Muslim Fundamentalist Private School certified to get some of these sweet, sweet taxpayer provided school vouchers?

Department of Homeland Security

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12 minutes ago, tx ind said:

Are there limitations on who can receive the vouchers?

As in like income limits?  no you goofus, bc then there wouldn’t even be enough kids to fill the program. 😂

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35 minutes ago, bluto said:

As in like income limits?  no you goofus, bc then there wouldn’t even be enough kids to fill the program. 😂

Yeah that’s what I was asking about.  Really no income limitations? 

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1 hour ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Thank god im white, in times like these

Let's take a peek at your voting record and social media before we determine what kind of white you are.

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19 minutes ago, tx ind said:

Yeah that’s what I was asking about.  Really no income limitations? 

There was a back and forth when an amendment was presented, the gop challenged the dem to present a number of how many billionaires there are in Texas and how many of them have kids school age. Thats the level of thought that went into it. 
the dem did have a good poke about Elon being a resident and having double digit offspring. 

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13 minutes ago, RPM said:

Let's take a peek at your voting record and social media before we determine what kind of white you are.

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honestly we're probably not that far off...

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1 hour ago, Valmy77 said:

The sad part is that even if this platonically perfectly, even if we did get really high quality private schools that took all of our students, regardless of disability, and did a great job educating them and blew the Public School system away....it would still be disastrous since this would pretty much only happen in urban and suburban areas. The rural parts of the state and the small towns would still be screwed.

Keep the poorly educated poorly educated. It’s the GQP’s base.

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Now they are pushing hard on property tax rebates for those who choose to pull out of public ed and send their kids to private.   This could be even more devastating to the small rural schools due to how many they stand to lose to home schooling.  Especially in the elementary years.  Then after jr high, they want to send them back to the public system for a variety of reasons.  A public ISD that will be damaged by the loss of those tax rebates in the lower grades.

 

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Future generations will be indoctrinated in religious schools, taught a superficial understanding of history, and undereducated (at best) in hard science and critical thinking. A recipe for a permanent Republican majority.  And the best part--we're paying for it.

If the Robin Hood system is still going to exist, the City of Austin should refuse to make any more payments into it.

 

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