Kevin Sanchez
@captswing
Scrutineer/bloviator: #BadTakesSATX.
"Republicans have been dreaming of overturning the New Deal ever since it was passed and returning America to an imagined 19th-century utopia with a federal government that barely exists." prospect.org/2026/07/16/h... via @ryanlcooper.com & @prospect.org #MakeAmericaGreatAgain
"The federal government rapidly hired 12,000 officers and agents to staff it without requiring they meet rigorous standards or background checks".
"The amount of wealth held by the top 1% increased at more than double the rate of the bottom 90% in the first nine months of last year, according to Federal Reserve figures. ... [T]he richest 10% of households own around 90% of all stocks".
#UnofficialSXSW shows this week, courtesy Showlist Austin (austin.showlists.net) and KVRX (kutx.org/live-events/...). #SXSW www.facebook.com/shift917/
New Green Horizons published an updated version of my second-to-last #BadTakesSATX column this morning: newgreenhorizons.us/be-wary-of-t... via @newgreenhorizons.bsky.social. Snuck in a #Parenti quote at the end.
environmentalintegrity.org/news/environ... via @envirointegrity.bsky.social
“Our kids are playing in this, and no one is helping us clean this up.” -- Councilwoman Wanda McCoy, former mayor of Roseland, Louisiana capitalbnews.org/roseland-oil... via @adamlmahoney.bsky.social & @capitalb.bsky.social #EnvironmentalRacism