Bill Holston
@billholston.bsky.social
Human rights lawyer, naturalist, hiker, reader, lover of my wife of 40 years, live music and beer. Ally to 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Enemy of Fascists. Law Man Walking
You should follow @progresstexas podcast, I say why today! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Daily Dispatch 2/4/25: Protests Against Trump and Abbott Immigration Policies Spread, and More
Podcast Episode · Progress Texas Podcasts · 02/04/2025 · 9m
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Real Texans welcome immigrants and distribute Know Your Rights information
Today. We’re in Mexico City. Went to the museo de arte Moderna in CDMX. Our Uber driver recommended a Mexican Surrealist I didn’t know. Remedios Varo. I hope this small fact busts some stereotypes. This is one beautiful city, so much beauty.
Highly recommend this podcast.
Progress Texas@progresstexas.bsky.social · 2y agoFrom the Daily Dispatch: Ken Paxton's lawsuit against a NY doctor for prescribing abortion medication for a Texas woman seems likely to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court - yes, the same that started all of this by overturning Roe V Wade. Podcast: bit.ly/3Z0lr7x Story: bit.ly/4fDGVh7
Headed to court where our team fights illegal evictions. Wanna know how to fight back? Find the fighters and support them. #housingisahumanright
Un amanecer espectáculo. Im thankful for this Beautiful National Park, for being here with my two beautiful gay children and my badass public school teacher wife . And for all my comrades who lead me into the Beloved Community. I love yall.
Reading the Economist by a Spring fed creek. Reading Mary Oliver which I unwisely personalized Eastern Wahoo color.
This short video shows off our great legal team fighting illegal evictions. Stuart is a badass abagado!
Stuart Campbell@stu-tx.bsky.social · 2y agoAt DEAC, the plurality of our clients are single women of color, most of whom have at least one child in the home. DEAC has an unwavering commitment to those who are most vulnerable, and in Dallas, that’s often our moms, grandmas, sisters, and daughters. youtu.be/bXWX83RHfYU?...
Coming to Texas via our fascist overlords. It pays to be a rich religious christofascist here, meanwhile real xtians helping migrants get sued. Maybe they should read those Bibles they are pushing.
Nick Knudsen@nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 2y agoNortheast Academy is a small Christian school in rural NC. Last school year, it received $438,500 from the state-funded private school voucher program. As of 2022, “the school’s enrollment was 99% white in a county that runs about 40% white.” This is their plan for America. 👀
Before h added to court to support our team fighting illegal eviction, a sunrise walk. Be kind to yourself, there’s a long fight ahead. #restisresistance
Lovely morning walk and the perfect Mary Oliver poem for our current state of tyranny
thehill.com/homenews/hou... mean nasty politics I guess you are gonna go the genital checks? Jesus wouldn’t recognize your christofascism…on second thought he would. He often condemns people just like you.
Speaker Johnson announces policy barring trans women from Capitol bathrooms
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Wednesday that transgender women are not permitted to use bathrooms in the Capitol that match their gender identity, taking a stance on the hot-button issue t…
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We’ve been resisting our so called leaders for years, this last election just motivated us more. #bluedotsintexas
Texas is approving the Bible for public schools. I am a non fascist xtian. Here is my heavily underlined Bible. I have read it and studied it in Greek and Hebrew. It does not belong in a Public School. Shame on these Christofascist politicians . www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/u...
If you really want to understand Immigration, this is who you should follow
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2y agoBrief intro to those who don’t know me from Twitter. Hello! I’m a Senior Fellow (formerly Policy Director) at @immcouncil.bsky.social, a pro-immigrant nonprofit aiming to defend immigrants through litigation, advocacy, and more. I help break down the confusing world of immigration law and policy.
One of the very best immigration writers. I trust her completely
Texas Observer@texasobserver.org · 2y ago“An unrelenting sun drenches its light on the huge tombstone’s image of a rust-robed San Isidro, the Catholic patron saint of farmworkers. ...” Immigration journalist Dianne Solis on the fear hanging over migrants and those who work with them as a second Trump term approaches:
Howdy from the Texas Blue Dots. We’re gonna win this state back. There will be much harm until we do. But resist these fascists and raise your voice. It is no a time to be timid, especially if you are an old white man like me.
I was born in Alabama in 1956 I’ve spent 68 years trying to get into an exclusively progressive echo chamber.
Roxane Gay@roxanegay.bsky.social · 2y agoIt’s mostly white people who talk about echo chambers. Maybe you need the internet to meet people with different ideas but the rest of us do not. We know what the “other side” thinks because we deal with it every day! Everywhere! We’re fine. Carry on. Happy Saturday!
I just wrote about the ruling by the Trump appointed federal judge in Texas that just took away overtime pay from at least 4 million Americans. The case is Texas v. Department of Labor, E.D. Tex., No. 24-00499, and I bet you’ve never even heard of it until now. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
A Trump Judge Just Blocked Overtime Pay for Millions… Media is Silent
Written by Ben Meiselas
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