Thanks again to and its readers for their "Best of 2014" "Public Servant" nod!
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A new ordinance spells out changes for both legal and illegal short-term rentals. The new rules could have a profound impact on short-term rental operators. fortworthreport.org/2023/01/26/for via @FortWorthReport
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PR masterclass over here.
-Graphic sent out Friday, a full day after the hire
-Name not included in the tweet
-Using family as a shield
-Completely unclear which person the graphic is even about
-“Welcome” is about 10 times bigger than the name
-Hat covers part of his last name twitter.com/TCUFootball/st
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#FortWorth has been let down by , and all of today. #ShameonTCU.
Finger: TCU's hiring of Kendal Briles makes us ask if we've learned anything from Baylor scandal
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I am beginning to realize ’s hiring of Briles is the tipping point to the end of AD and . This is heartbreaking, but they should both go. There’s no recovery here. It’s over.
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A regrettable decision that spits in the face of all female students at #TCU as well as many of its fans. Briles has never publicly shown any remorse for what happened at Baylor and the kind of people he and his father recruited. twitter.com/frogstoday/sta
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I couldn’t be more disappointed in and decision to hire Art Briles son Kendal. This is bad for TCU and causes me to reevaluate Dykes. Read this thread and say you don’t agree.
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Quick story about Kendal Briles:
He was at Baylor when I shared my story of gang rape with the Baylor football team. (Coach Grobe had brought me in) Tate Wallis, another coach under Art Briles, pulled me aside after sharing my story and confronted me about why I was there &
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Rep Santos tells reporters “If 142 people ask for me to resign, I’ll resign.”
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The next Speaker of the House:
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Just a reminder that this process took 133 ballots and 2 months to sort out in 1855.
Something to shoot for.
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McCarthy and Trump have now both lost their 2 popular votes.
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That mean moving on from the 27-year old, half-inch-wide #USB-A plugs too. It’s time other electronic manufacturers such as car makers, TV makers, aircraft seatbacks, etc. to all switch to USB-C also. It’s time.
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My #NewYears hope for #2023 (1 of em): @Apple’s US #iPhone 15 in Sept will be the same #USB #TypeC as required in the 27 EU countries and I can stop traveling with different cords for different devices. Lightning was fine for 11 years, but it’s time to move on to USB-C-to-USB-C.
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The story of this shyster Republican Congressman-elect in NY-03, who has lied about everything, just gets more bizarre. He says he’s “been living comfortably as an out gay man for over a decade,” but divorced his wife just 2 weeks before filing for office and kept her a secret.
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SCOOP: George Santos made a historic run for Congress as an “openly gay” Republican, but he never told voters that just two weeks before he launched his campaign, he had been married to a woman. Me @thedailybeast
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We are so much better prepared than last freeze (that took out our kitchen ceiling and dumped 68,000 gal of water into our basement instagram.com/p/CLes2QTnDTG/ ):
✔️ Faucets wrapped, plants in
✔️ Alternate heat source when Texas’s power grid fails
✔️ Coward memes ready
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“Feds open civil rights investigation into Granbury schools after #LGBTQ book removals”
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A fun night at LIGHTSCAPE at the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens. @ Fort Worth Botanic Garden
Fort Worth Fun with our friend Zach. @ Fort Worth, Texas
Sam Bankman-Fried explaining where all that crypto-currency went:
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Besides the dumpster fire he’s created at , let’s see how Musk’s other company has faired these recent weeks.
Oh. Oops. Not so well-managed there either.
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TWITTER ACCOUNTS NOT SUSPENDED TODAY
White Supremacists
Nazis
Domestic Terrorists
Insurrectionists
Spreaders of Disinformation
Criminals
Lying Moguls
Russian Mobsters
TWITTER ACCOUNTS SUSPENDED TODAY
Journalists who keep us informed on the nefarious doings of all of the above.
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Now that we’ve all got multiple #Mastodon accts, #Substack & tried out a host of others, who’s gotten past the waitlist on post.news yet? How do you find accounts to follow? Seems search is currently broken & even login is struggling.
Me: post.news/joelburns
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Man, ’s “free speech” farce and general nutjobbery just escalates. #Maston’s acct just got banned. #joinmastodon
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My friend of a couple decades, Sen. Wiener, is dead-on here.
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QAnon is now resurgent on Twitter, including the slander that LGBTQ people are pedophiles.
Elon Musk is pouring lighter fluid all over it.
Gay men, trans people, drag queens & Jews are being especially targeted.
This will absolutely lead to violence.
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Today, I signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law.
We are reaffirming a fundamental truth: Love is love, and Americans should have the right to marry the person they love.
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"Elon, please don’t mock and promote hate toward already marginalized and at-risk-of-violence members of the LGBTQ+ community."
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🇺🇦 I can’t imagine anyone else. 🇺🇦
(And a true hero, unlike last year’s).
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OMG I’M DYING!!!
Wait for the unbutton moment !
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I've seen enough: Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Herschel Walker (R) in the #GASEN runoff, giving Democrats a 51-49 majority in the Senate.
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Maybe we can get and to show us how they succeed with their event nights and learn from them while preparing for 2024.
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I got official word from today: no official #FortWorth #Rodeo #PrideNight so how about we make an unofficial one that shows them how successful it can be that they want to start an official on for 2024?
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So when is it?
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I didn’t realize the folks (I don’t know who they are) who run the Fort Worth Urban FB page (and instagram.com/urbanfortworth and ) have a new blog/website:
now.town
(Get it? Cowtown ➡️ Now Town… brilliant!!)
Check it out.
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