Jody Dean (dfwjodydean.bsky.social)
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My mom was a teacher, my grandmother was a teacher, and I've been honored to work as a teacher. Kirk Cameron and his ilk openly want to destroy public education as surely as the Taliban love to destroy schools. They are the same.
Actor Kirk Cameron on his new movie ‘Home School Awakening:’ “We’ve become grossly aware of the inaccurate and immoral things that the public school system has been teaching our children . The public school system has been public enemy number one.”
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@tedcruz Ted, you don’t remember me, but I interviewed you a few times and met you at a few events. Even sat with your dad at a luncheon once. And I can say without hesitation that of all the people I’ve talked to in 45 years of public life, no one is more full of shit than you are.
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Every time I hear Greg Abbott say Colin Allred "just isn't Texas", I giggle. No, Greg. what "isn't Texas" is your naked ambition, craven cynicism, calculated manipulation, administrative blackmail, rank hypocrisy, and cruel indifference.
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In all my years of working shows I’ve only seen 3 artists for whom everyone backstage stood spontaneously when they entered the room: Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton…and Loretta Lynn.
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Anyone who was around for the televangelist scandals of the late 80s/early 90s can draw a straight line from Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker to Donald Trump. Same audience.
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Exit polls showed Maduro losing 60-40. This is exactly what the Right plans in the US.
BREAKING: Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro is declared the winner in the presidential election amid opposition claims of irregularities.
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Okay, since someone asked, a thread about teleprompters. and why Trump locks up when his do. For starters, I've been around since prompters used paper scrolls (they really did, kids). 1/13.
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@ladyfromdalou Hi, Mel! I teach here in DFW at an HBCU and first want to say Well Done! I also host a weekly TV show about stories just like yours, and would LOVE to use the clip of your mom this weekend! I know it would make my viewers as happy as it did me. Hope to hear from you! - Jody.
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Your morning reminder that Mr. Come and Take It! hid in a closet with the mops.
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That Cruz ad featuring the mom talking about a school transitioning a child without her permission is so egregious. Nowhere does she say it’s happened, or that she’s actually a mother. Just that the thought terrifies her. Fear is all they have.
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For all members of the @GOP upset at Jen O'Malley Dillon's vulgar description of Republicans, warmest Holiday greetings from the First Lady of the United States:. "Who gives a f*** about Christmas stuff and decoration, but I need to do it, right?" - Melania Trump.
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@KelvinLeeJones1 @clarencehilljr First time I met her she was driving around Texas in a van with her dad and Destiny's Child doing local TV. You could tell even then.
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Mattress Mack with special NLCS Game 7 guest, Ken Paxton. How to lose $13 million and decades of accumulated goodwill at the same time.
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@DrPaulGosar @SenTedCruz @ChrisPlanteShow A great example of why this Republican is voting Democrat.
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You could have handed out blankets. You could have helped supply food. You could have helped load generators. You could have stood with Texans. You could have been a leader. Instead, @tedcruz, you went on vacation.
.@tedcruz on his Cancun trip: "I gotta tell you, I don't know how to string power lines. When we had a freeze, when the state was frozen, I don't have the ability to control the weather.". Says his power was out, "so I made a decision to take my kids to the beach." #TribFest23.
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This is Larry. Larry didn't close the beaches either. Don't be Larry, @GregAbbott_TX @RonDeSantisFL
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@RexChapman Worth noting that Rod Serling earned both a Purple Heart and a Silver Star fighting against totalitarianism in WWII. He was later said his experience infused his storytelling, and he suffered nightmares for the rest of his life.
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She wasn't "a young lady", Robert. She was 12. And you're still covering up.
In a statement, Gateway Church pastor Robert Morris admitted to "inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady" 35 years ago. The victim says she was just 12-years-old at the time, and was molested by Morris for years.
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@cullend @erinisaway Blanks can kill. The cartridge wadding can penetrate bone at close range, and just the muzzle force alone can put a hole in a skull. It could also have been a breach or barrel explosion, especially if the weapon was period or had a Damascus barrel.
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Republicans don't want to solve the border crisis. They need it.
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So now Dolly Parton is the enemy. Got it. This is gonna work out just great for 'em.
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Then you have all the side trips - as he wanders into either familiar dogwhistles or Klingon word salads while somewhere in the building a prompter operator has a bp approaching 220/120. "Is he going back to the script NOW???" Imagine that job for 2 hours. 9/13.
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Whether it's a charity function or corporate video that requires using a prompter (or even a few local TV anchors I won't name. for now), review, review, review. Then don't read. Relate. You'll also notice who's really interested in doing so. 13/13.
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The Texas Supreme Court just slapped Ken Paxton's eye straight.
TX SUPREME COURT slams AG’s Office in order allowing State Fair to ban guns. “This Court cannot possibly order the State Fair to allow.handguns to be carried at this year’s Fair when the party seeking that.relief does not even argue that Texas law obligates the Fair to do so.”
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All my life I've been grateful to be a Texan. Today I feel little but shame. A reminder to my Democrat friends in the state: we wouldn't be here if @texasdemocrats ran viable candidates with messaging that connects. Gilberto Hinojosa is never going to get you there.
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If my adopted city of Dallas wants to elect a Republican, okay. If it wants to elect a Democrat, okay. If it wants to elect a little green dude from Mars, okay. What it didn’t vote for and doesn’t need is a turncoat. That’s what @Johnson4Dallas is, and that’s not okay.
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Which brings us to Trump. First start with the way he cranes his back to read the things. That's the posture of someone having trouble making out the words. He's trying to read them, and it's obvious it's his first time seeing them. He doesn't study. 8/13.
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The state of Texas is going to turn even further to the hard right unless good people rise up and vote this November. It's as simple as that.
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@tedcruz I think you're a fascist and I'm not a communist. I'm just a Texan who'll never vote Republican again.
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ERCOT warns blackouts are possible this winter. But…but…but…I distinctly remember @GregAbbott_TX saying he fixed the grid. What gives, Governor Suckhole?
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America: where schools ban peanut butter to protect the 3% of students who have allergies but can't require masks to help protect 100% of them from COVID.
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I'm old enough to remember when the phrase "duped by Russian intelligence" meant the instantaneous end of a career. Now it's just Wednesday in the @GOP.
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Only @DanPatrick could claim with a straight face that crime and murder rates are skyrocketing thanks to Democrat policies when Republicans have held every statewide elected office in Texas since the Cowboys' last went to a Super Bowl.
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Plus, it'd be the size of a small phone book to make allowances for all the riffs. So now you have the perfect storm: scant preparation, complete reliance, and technical fallibility. And besides getting the thing up again you have to find where he was. 12/13.
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Today’s heat index in Dallas-Fort Worth is expected to hit 115. I work construction. I know how important those breaks are. The only thing that’s important to @GregAbbott_TX @GovAbbott is his big business donors.
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Abbott may be more nakedly ambitious, Paxton more unremittingly conniving, and Cruz more spectacularly unctuous, but you will not find in all of God's own Texas a more colossal schmuck than this man.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) says that if officials lock up 15% of the population, there will be no crime:. "Only about 15% of all Americans commit 100% of the crime . If you lock up the 15%, we don't have any crime."
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“My God, is it possible all the people have gone mad?” - Sam Houston
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And then the prompter dies. Noting here that there's a reason it's called a prompter. It's supposed to prompt. It's not called a "reader". Ideally, you also have a hardcopy of what you intend to say right in front of you, or your news copy if you're doing a newscast. 10/13.
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School vouchers remind me of asking a dad years ago about what it was like to send his kids to one of the state's most privileged, exclusive ISDs. "Great", he said, "but the problem is they only ever meet one kind of people.". Which is exactly what voucher scam supporters want.
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Good morning. This is your Monday reminder that Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are the kind of second-rate men that Sam Houston would have beaten with a knotted hickory stick.
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Also note these days how few people on TV actually do that anymore, but I digress. Ever see Trump carry a binder up on stage? Nope, because he doesn't think he'll need the backup and would get tied up turning the pages even if he thought he did. 11/13.
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The day Texas sends @tedcruz packing can’t get here soon enough. Of course, given Ted’s history, he’s probably already packed.
Ted Cruz, securing his border photo op, responds to reporter asking what he has done in 11 years as a Texas senator to secure the border: . “You don’t get to argue with me.” .
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The key being, of course, actually reading through your script enough times to recognize the words - which becomes very obvious very quickly when you see someone who doesn't have that good habit. 513/.
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After 44 years behind the mic, Eric Nadel makes the call he’s always dreamed of.
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Never trust a pastor who loves filters.
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@AndrewFeinberg @Kris_Sacrebleu @VP @SpeakerPelosi @SenSchumer For God's sake, they built a makeshift gallows outside the Capitol. They weren't looking for hostages. They were looking for hangings. Has everyone forgotten what their plan was in Michigan?.
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The couple killed in the Rainbow Bridge crash have been identified, and I think @tedcruz owes their families an apology.
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Now, some people can get up and ad-lib all day. Extemporaneous speaking is their gift. Others, though, only think that it is. Either way, riffers can drive a prompter operator insane - even when the writers allow for the riffs in the copy. 6/13.
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There might not be much sizzle to Colin Allred's ads, but he does say one thing every Texan right, left or middle knows to be true: Ted Cruz is in it for Ted Cruz.
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For the rest of the country not familiar with Dallas' charter, the job of mayor is a non-partisan position - and @Johnson4Dallas is a lying opportunist interested only in his own advancement.
NEW: @Johnson4Dallas speaking at the #RNCConvention: “I’m the proud Republican Mayor of Dallas, Texas, the largest city in the United States led by a Republican. On matters of public safety, the Democrats were never there for me, Dallas, or the American people.”@CBSNewsTexas
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So, you learned to read with your peripheral vision - focusing your eyes on the viewer while recognizing the words you'd presumably already read through by. their shapes. 4/13.
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Nowadays, of course, your speech or copy is usually projected onto a glass screen - either at eye-level or positioned directly in front of camera, like on a news set or in a production studio. 2/13.
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@tedcruz @JoyAnnReid Why are you taking a vaccine for something you guaranteed wouldn't require serious measures after Election Day?.
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Having taught a few courses on corporate crisis response, I think I'm well within some expertise here in saying that Kim Mulkey's WaPo rant is an epic example of everything you don't do. Ever.
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Every supporter of @KenPaxtonTX: is it his corruption or his cruelty that you enjoy most?.
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Stop, start, stop, start. and you can imagine what the software then does if you do that too many times. Also no way to know when (or if) your speaker will eventually wander back to the plot. 7/13.
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But back in the day they stood off camera, or in the case of a newscast, slightly below it. Actually "reading" it was a bad idea, since that likewise focused your eyes away from the camera - and the viewer at home. 3/13.
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If there's one thing I loathe more than Trumpers, it's Texas secessionists.
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If you can watch what happened yesterday at Madison Square Garden and still vote for Trump then one can only conclude that you want to see people hurt.
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For the unfamiliar, the Texas Rangers' home is Globe Life Field in Arlington - Texas' seventh-largest city. It's 19 miles from Fort Worth, 20 miles from Dallas, and sits in the relative center of roughly 8 million DFW-area residents. And @tedcruz is full of sheep dip.
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@tedcruz @Sethrogen How 'bout if I'm just an angry ex-Republican disgusted with what people like you have done to the party? Does that get extra points? . What Seth said. You offered more of a defense to him than you did of your wife and dad to Trump.
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The men who died on the Key Bridge remind me of guys I work with. Hard workers with calloused hands and tender hearts. Quick to smile, slow to anger, with advice that'll help save you an ER visit if you take it. 1/4.
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Texas, proudly pitching for the first new internment camp. Money to be made on the backs of people they can blame. God forgive us.
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She erps for Texas.
Ted Cruz is a major buzz kill…wait till the end 🤣….she’s all of us
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A good portion of Cowboys fans booed Don Meredith out of town, wanted Morton instead of Staubach, never appreciated Danny White, and insisted on Walsh rather than Aikman. Maybe the trouble isn't the quarterback.
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Since @GregAbbott_TX loves to blather about "the majority of Texans", you'd think he'd have noticed that a large majority of Texans - both Democrat AND Republican - favor stricter gun laws. But of course there's no Wilks/Dunn money in that.
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@FashionableRes1 "Reputable" being the key word. Hard to get those when you're notorious for not paying vendors.
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@RexChapman Hey, @mattgaetz: here's a few of the rioters, one holding up a shard of Speaker Pelosi's sign and another wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" t-shirt. Which one of them is Antifa and which one is BLM?
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Oh look, Texas. Private schools increase tuition once vouchers pass. It's never really been about the kids, has it @GregAbbott_TX?.
Hell of a day for the voucher lobby to push this. New research dropped today @eduwonkette_jen showing IA voucher schools raise tuition once vouchers pass:. And @BrookingsEd showing AZ vouchers mostly go to wealthy families:
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The film director I worked for a month ago is Indian. The photographer I shot for two weeks ago is Iranian. The church I worked with this weekend is Nigerian. Immigrants don’t poison America’s blood. They ARE America’s blood.
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I hope whatever Jesse Prado was paid was worth his honor.
Investigator Jesse Prado leaves after announcing that his report found the Uvalde Police department did not commit any wrongdoing in its response to the deadly school shooting at Robb Elementary. @LeighWaldman reports. FULL STORY-- #KSATnews #Uvalde
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Disappointing - but the more I think about it, the more it tracks.
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The kids in Cruz’ ads aren’t Texans, much like Ted himself.
A school district has sent a letter asking Sen. Ted Cruz's campaign to remove an attack ad against his Democratic opponent Colin Allred on transgender athletes that features two Oregon high school students.
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Which bible? Which translation? Who decides? Baptist or Church of Christ? . If you don't want the state telling your kids and grandkids who to worship and how, this has to be stopped.
Texas education leaders unveil Bible-infused elementary school curriculum
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Doing to Texas' water what he's done to Twitter.
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@tedcruz How's it feel being surrounded by 100,000 people rooting for different teams but united in their utter dislike of you?.
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Thanks to @SpeakerJohnson, some of those operations won’t come back.
Cattle ranchers in Texas will be impressed when they find out that USDA Livestock Loss programs are not authorized because @SpeakerJohnson has not prioritized passing a Farm Bill. The old one expired last year. Oh well. @Ruralusapac
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Ya gotta vote, folks. Ted Cruz is not just gonna up and leave one day without a big promotion, and no one likes him enough to give him one of those. Translation? You want to be stuck with Mopcloset McPodcast de Cancun again until 2031? Not me.
NEW TEXAS POLL by @TxPolProject at @UTAustin .TX Senate race:. Cruz: 51%. Allred: 44%. Brown: 4%. 1,091 likely voters.Oct. 2-10.MOE: +/- 2.97%. Early voting begins Monday. @CBSNewsTexas.
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More and more schools are going to be closing across Texas until folks figure out that closed schools is what Republicans want.
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What did these idiots with gauze pads on their ears wear for the children of Uvalde?.
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This is a video of tens of thousands of people who decided it was time give a shit.
This is Berlin today. Calling for resistance against the Far Right. All around Germany, people took to the streets in the last days. History tells us: . We cannot wait until it is too late and Fascists are in power. We have to stand up to them. NOW.
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It sickens me to realize how many people I thought I knew would be just fine with a dictatorship.
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Ted Cruz' ads can go after Colin Allred on whatever, but they can't knock down Allred's simple, effective reminders that Cruz is only in it for Cruz. Right or left, that's the one thing Texans agree on more than August is awful and you don't put beans in chili.
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You might have to know DFW to get this, but the thing #JennaRyan is going to be most upset about will be clients knowing now that The Frisco Realtor actually lives in Carrolton.
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I've known Kay Granger since she was a school teacher. Whatever you think of her politics, whoever made the decision to hide her condition from her constituents ought to be shoveling out horse stalls tomorrow.
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I wonder how many folks who wouldn't get a COVID vaccination have no problem loading up on Ozempic.
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“Rapid unscheduled disassembly” is the perfect description for Musk’s public image.
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Daughter’s graduation. Just like that, she grew up.
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If you ever wondered what “love your neighbor” looks like, meet Jim Finch.
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