While we wait, here are some things that we could do to address the 60M+ delusional, frankly dangerous Americans who voted for Trump after 4 years of near- and actual disasters: 1. Rebuild high school civics curricula. There is no reason on God's earth that grown-ass people should be so easily duped about the bedrock processes of democracy their society rests on: How votes are cast and counted. The limits of executive power. Where taxes go.

As promised, here’s a thread on #PipelineChip, aka @chiproytx aka @Repchiproy, the stinkeroo of a GOP Congressman currently soiling the carpets in #TX21 (and being vigorously challenged by @wendydavis). This will be long so, as Chip would say, saddle up! NB: I’m not accusing Chip of anything illegal here. All kinds of corrupt behavior, on both sides of the border, are perfectly legal. Certainly Chip isn’t doing much that @sentedcruz isn’t also doing. Chip is just noisier.

I first learned about the Tulsa massacre in college when I read an old short story, "Oklahoma Race Riot," by Frances W. Prentice. Originally published in Scribners, August 1931. It's . . . not an easy read. You can find it online but the list of trigger warnings required dissuades me from linking. It is somewhat educational, for a white reader, as it purports to give the perspective of a white Tulsa resident during the massacre. The narrator is not sympathetic, nor intended to be.

I’m a South Austinite since 1985, been eating at @kerbeylanecafe since I got here, and I have NEVER seen them do something this short-sighted and thoughtless to their customers: That’s Kerbey Lane’s CEO Mason Ayer, giving a warm and obsequious shout-out to Chip Roy, the GOP trainwreck of a Congressman who has united Austin's TX-21 residents in a two-year effort to remove him from office.

Since my pathetic excuse for a Representative is bleating about purported corruption today, let's do a quick dive into one of his own conflict of interest problems, involving a gas pipeline company, seized land, polluted well water, and an ill-advised stock portfolio: /1

https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1263095865872388097

Here's Chip's financial disclosure forms, filed last year with the House of Representatives: clerk.house.gov/public_disc/fi… You can see that Chip, a former investment banker from Maryland (what, you thought he was a BBQ-gulpin' Lone-Star-lovin' Texan by birth? /2

I've been avoiding chiming in on the Maga-hat-wearing larval Catholics. But since one of them is now claiming he was trying to de-escalate the situation, and since I teach de-escalation, and since some of you may be heading off to marches today: /1 On protest safety generally: At any protest or rally or crowd gathered in public, the identities, agendas and actions of the various factions there MATTER. If you don't know much about them, find a way to orient youself fast, or stay the fuck away. /2

In trying to assess what I'm feeling in this final month before the election, I come back to the difference between fear and anger, and how today's GOP fundamentally fails to appreciate the distinction. All their insults about "triggering," all the delight they express in making vulnerable people upset, betrays this misunderstanding. I was seeing it from the gun nutters for years before Trump came into the picture. Here's their mistake: