Ale Checka

Y'all, I was on the 817 Podcast to talk about Texas school vouchers. They are disastrous policy! Give a listen - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

he is (For so I know he is, they know he is) A most arch-heretic, a pestilence That does infect the land

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The state of public education in Texas hinges on the governor’s race and the stakes are so, so, high. I know so many teachers and parents holding on til the election results to decide to stay or not

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The arrest — for using the word "shit" during a city hearing — took place more than a week after the fact. What is going on in Fort Worth?

A Fort Worth podcaster named EJ Carrion was arrested at 3am on Wednesday morning and charged with disrupting public proceedings because he said "shit" during a contentious Tarrant County legislature meeting: www.star-telegram.com/news/politic...

So basic and yet so important, @plainy.bsky.social bringing us actual useful school advice alechecka.substack.com/p/dear-paren...

I didn't know anything about the Artemis II astronauts a week ago and now I would fight my way into Hell for any of them.

Looking forward to ICE ending these long lines at TSA checkpoints the only way they know how -- dispersing tear gas and savagely assaulting anyone who's left

If you want to go slightly insane about city bureaucracy this article is for you

I hear this but it is an ongoing issue with people needing people to win only FOR THE RIGHT REASONS. A messy win is a win. An accidental win is a win. I get wanting people to understand, uh, grid investment and aggregate demand before they want the right thing. But why?

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

Hundreds of voters showed up at the wrong polling place after the Dallas County GOP forced both parties to abandon countywide vote centers in the March primary. www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

There are no more adults in any of these rooms

Delightful

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

shame is back on the menu boys

The thought lodged in my head — intrusively, as I’d rather not connect the names of these two people, frankly — is that Claudine Gay is owed _such_ an apology.

Note that norms have shifted so completely that there is no expectation at all, from anyone, that the President of the United States should apologize to a gold medal Olympic team representing the US

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

4 Minnesota guys

EN DIRECT, violences au Mexique après la mort d’« El Mencho » : 73 personnes ont été tuées lors de l’opération militaire et des représailles du cartel

I have a friend who will occasionally say something like "All this work we're doing is in the computer. When you close the computer, it's no longer there. I try to remember that perspective and prioritize things outside of the computer."

“El dinero me ha dado una mayor libertad y el mayor regalo es la capacidad de devolver, de cambiar la vida de las personas”. Kunal Nayyar, actor de ‘The Big Bang Theory’, usa su fortuna para pagar las facturas médicas de desconocidos

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing