EricaGrieder
@EricaGrieder
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Business reporter, @HoustonChron.
Joined November 2008
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is now a key driver of inflation.
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God bless and comfort the young woman, Darnella Frazier--a child at the time--who had the presence of mind to document this vicious murder and the fortitude to testify so eloquently.
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Not that I was planning to pick a fight for absolutely no reason with @0liviajulianna, but now I’m adding that to my “things not to do” list
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I think I’ve said this before, but Beto’s “hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15” comment really makes more sense in context. This is the kind of conversation we need to have, Texans. It’s certainly not a conversation we as Texans should be afraid to have—>
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This 95-year-old Texan, a WWII vet, can't get a mail-in ballot because. when he originally registered to vote, the state didn't ask for his SSN or his DL #, and there's no way to retroactively add that to his file:
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So do we all agree we can stop talking about McConaughey for Governor now?.
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Supporter says no GOP leader visited his neighborhood in 30 years, Beto won him over by showing up via @houstonchron.
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“Fortunately, Attorney General Paxton’s opinion is non-binding, Governor Abbott’s letter is unenforceable, and neither obligate DFPS to take action.” #txlege.
I wholeheartedly condemn attacks on our transgender neighbors and their families. Please see my statement here: #txlege #protecttranskids
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I encourage everyone to try this at their next job interview.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott and his campaign are refusing to answer questions from the press in El Paso.
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Good Lord. It sounds like the cops were literally working harder to stop the mom, than to stop the obviously-still-active shooter.
The mom that ran in and saved her kids after being handcuffed in Uvalde finally spoke out.
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Feels like Crenshaw is trying to set up camp in the “Pro-Trump/anti-grifter” zone but that zone is contradictory in its nature and completely uninhabited.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw says Marjorie Taylor Greene is either 'a Democrat - or just an idiot' amid COVID-19 testing spat
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There are approximately four times as many people in Harris County alone as in the entire state of Delaware.
Enough with the misinformation campaign. Here are the facts:. Texas already has two weeks of early voting, while Biden's home state of Delaware has 0. The election integrity bills in the #txlege increase the hours of early voting to provide more access.
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hard to imagine why we’d have teacher shortages in texas.
Directing @teainfo to create task force addressing teacher shortages across Texas. Teachers play a critical role in students’ success & we will ensure that every student has access to a quality learning environment.
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“In their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile our national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit and it is our continuing duty to confront them.” 🇺🇸.
President Bush actually went there. What an eloquent rebuke.
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“The Texas electric grid is the most reliable and resilient it’s ever been,” says the governor.
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Fwiw, @BetoORourke has been working on mental health care for veterans, and the suicide crisis among veterans, since he was in Congress. (There are a lot of veterans in El Paso.) Here’s an example from 2014:
New: Abbott dismisses criticism of National Guard pay issues and suicides, accusing opponents of ‘playing politics’
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Texas State Bar sues Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for professional misconduct in 2020 election cases via @houstonchron.
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"We've come to the conclusion after talking to lots of candidates that they want to join Solugen but they don't feel comfortable coming to Texas, so for us it's become a no brainer to have R&D facilities elsewhere. " #txlege.
First sign of jobs moving out of Texas because of the abortion law
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Meanwhile, @BetoORourke has spent the afternoon in Kashmere Gardens and Houston Gardens meeting with homeowners affected by Winter Storm Uri (and Harvey, and everything in between and prior to that. ).
Rittenhouse -- NOT GUILTY!.
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Here at this press conference, where Black clergy and Texas NAACP leaders plan to address Texas’ voter suppression bills…and, the power just went out
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Yes, I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news but it is entirely legal for American citizens to travel freely across state lines and to their nation’s capitol, and it is also consistent with the rules of the Texas House for legislators to break quorum.
@EricaGrieder Is it even legal what the Texas Democrats are doing?.
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Hello Texans, here's a question I'm pondering this afternoon: could the grid (its failure and the subsequent failure to fix it) be a decisive issue in next year's gubernatorial race?.
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On Wednesday, I asked if @GregAbbott_TX has a plan for the delta variant. On Thursday he unveiled his plan: further tie the hands of anyone who MIGHT have a plan. It's not the best plan I've ever heard, tbqh: .
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My brother's friend lost his wife to COVID last night, after two weeks fighting on a ventilator. She was young, healthy. Had two little boys, one 3, one still just a baby. Just get vaccinated, please. The vaccine won't kill you.
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@cd_hooks It’s like aristotle said- we should just establish a new federal department of derogatory nicknames and tap trump to lead it in perpetuity.
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Texas: sometimes we run low on power, sometimes we run low on paper.
If the Secretary of State can't keep up with the demand for paper registration forms, Texas should allow online voter registration. It would be more secure, save money, and expand access for voters. #Txlege.
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Let's say there are 17m registered voters in Texas. There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream. So say we need 34,000 reams of paper, at a cost $10 each (you can get them for less, but let's say). That would be $340,000, against a biennial budget of $248 BILLION.
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[brainstorming] Just think of the mask as a border wall for your face!.
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This is even worse—and it’s awful enough!—when you realize that Crystal Mason cast a provisional ballot, meaning she clearly wasn’t trying to mischief the system. .
Bruce Bartman, white guy in PA who illegally voted for Trump on behalf of his dead mother, gets 5 years probation. Crystal Mason, black woman in TX who voted on supervised release when she didn't know she was ineligible, gets 5 years in prison. Two justice systems in America
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y'know if you've been in statewide office for eight years, people might expect you to campaign on YOUR record.
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Ok, I'm just going to put this out there: to me it seems obvious, inarguable, that Britney Spears, (b. December 2, 1981) is the first millennial. If you were born after her, you're a millennial. Before, you're Gen X. That's just the case. Can we all agree?.
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Some thought @BetoORourke irretrievably damaged his statewide prospects, by being unequivocal about gun safety . Instead he has @GregAbbott_TX playing defense on the issue already. New column:
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This has apparently been painted over . Priorities, eh?.
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Rape victims can take Plan B instead of having abortions, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says
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Well, this is fairly disgusting.
Democrat @BetoORourke is set to speak in Austin momentarily, and @GregAbbott_TX’s campaign was on the ground distributing these *empty* pill bottles…before being escorted from the event.
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. the governor really said "it could have been worse"?.
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Re: gas stoves. Striking how many Texans are objecting on the basis of “what if the power goes out for days?” rather than “cooking.” A real measure of how vividly we remember the Feb 2021 disaster….
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Even if this is true, it's completely irrelevant. As a Texan my standard--for the grid, for schools, etc--isn't whether we're better than California; it's whether we're good enough for Texas. And as it stands, we are not.
@EricaGrieder @GregAbbott_TX TX grid during the storm was still better than the grid in CA or IL on your average Tuesday. .
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I wonder who was the first person to look at a potato and see, instead of a weird lumpy dirt thing, a whole world of possibilities.
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NEW COLUMN: It is reprehensible to prosecute people for making obviously innocent mistakes--and the fact that Republicans are doing so should have you questioning their motives, if you weren't already: #txlege.
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. Ag Commissioner Sid Miller says here that in the seven years they've held their respective offices, he hasn't had a meeting with the governor and the latter's office hasn't even returned his calls or emails.
Evidently Gov Abbott does not get enough money for his campaigns from farmers. He won’t meet with or return calls of the Ag Commissioner, Sid Miller.
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A lot of @BetoORourke’s rallies these past two weeks have had pretty impressive turnout, especially given that it’s 11 months before the election . Given that + the polls, I think we have to consider this a genuinely competitive race.
Lotta really excited people here in Fort Bend. Not sure who they're waiting for.
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If nothing else, @GregAbbott_TX needs to rescind this executive order, from May, barring Texas cities, counties, and school districts from imposing mask mandates: . Maybe some ISDs don't want a mask mandate! But others clearly do! #txlege.
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Why on earth would we do this? #txlege.
Abbott ends federal unemployment assistance early in Texas via @houstonchron #hounews.
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Is there any single company in Texas that’s analogous to Disney in Florida? Or, what would the closest analogue be—HEB?.
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Click through for more, but: in 2021 @GregAbbott_TX also vetoed a bill, which passed #txlege with overwhelming support, meant to shore up the Texas Universal Service Fund - so there would have been no need for this.
And Texans get another kick in the teeth courtesy of @GregAbbott_TX who has appointed EVERY member of the TX Public Utility Commission. Read @EricaGrieder:.
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Meanwhile, here in one of the largest cities in the world’s largest economy: the camp stove has arrived
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The govenor might want to workshop this one a bit more.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX): “If the president is so focused on this border between Russia and Ukraine, he should be focused on the border between the United States of America and Mexico.”
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How much did Texas taxpayers waste on this one, @KenPaxtonTX?.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects the constitutional challenge to Obamacare in 7-2 opinion. The court tosses the lawsuit because the challengers do not have legal standing to sue.
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Ok!…Texans don’t have to register to carry a gun? But we do have to register to vote; in fact, we have to register quite carefully and at risk of criminal penalties if we make any mistakes on the paperwork, etc….(?) #txlege.
Now do gun rights.
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Texas Gov. Tweets Fake Article About Garth Brooks Getting Booed
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who makes the monoclonal antibody infusion therapy.
5/ I can attest that, after this experience, I am even more dedicated to fighting against vaccine mandates. Instead of enriching the pockets of Big Pharma and corrupt bureaucrats and politicians, we should be advocating the monoclonal antibody infusion therapy.
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“Abbott thinks banning local mask mandates, and saying it repeatedly, makes him look tough. It doesn’t. It makes him look cruel, craven and small — like a man moved by personal ambition rather than public interest…”
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Question: if Texas had an independent redistricting commission, would we even need to have this third special session? (Asking bc that in itself would be a good argument for an independent redistricting commission) #txlege.
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Texans--if you've requested a mail-in ballot this year, or sent in a ballot, you can check its status here:
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Fyi folks, in Texas, you register to vote as a voter, not with a party. If you think you are registered as a partisan, it’s possible you signed up for something else. Either way, good idea to check your registration, you can do so here:
I'm a registered Democrat in Texas. After seeing several other posts, I checked my registration. I'm "suspended." It says I can still vote if I update my information (it's already correct) but this has never happened in my 20 years of voting in Texas. Check your registration.
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As others have noted, Rs in #txlege were warned that they were inviting such situations by passing #HB3979….
Carroll ISD posted a statement on social media tonight in response to our latest story from Southlake. @ahylton26
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We asked all 143 Texas GOP congressional candidates about Biden's win. Only 13 call it legitimate. via @houstonchron.
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<—heartened to see this competition among local officials in Texas over who can do the most to protect public health/stand up to an overreaching governor #txlege.
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New: District Judge Jan Soifer is granting Harris County's TRO request against @GregAbbott_TX's July 29th executive order.
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A credible candidate, even if he or she is seen as a long shot, would have the immediate effect of forcing @GregAbbott_TX to feign some degree of moderation for the next months. How much distress could Texans be spared, simply by virtue of such a campaign? #txlege.
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It’s strange, isn’t it, what we’re accustomed to? You don’t even have to register to own a gun. It is easier to acquire a potentially deadly weapon, in Texas, than it is to vote—our most fundamental right as citizens. How does that make sense?.
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One of his staffers took me aside in 2016 and was like, "Erica, you should write some *nice* things about Abbott! That would be good for you!" Me: "I would welcome the opportunity! But he needs to do something good first?".
@EricaGrieder The bar was especially low after Trump got elected—especially low now! For this session he just needed to do the bare minimum & not actively make things worse. But he took the Trump approach & decided to play “own the libs” politics in a way that made life worse for all Texans.
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Well, Texans, if you’re worried about our grid perhaps you’re right to be
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$124.99 for the only at-home COVID test currently on the shelf at this Houston drugstore…. Maybe the market supports that, but if we want Americans to have the tools they need to stop COVID, no one else should
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Do the “cancel culture” critics of Texas want to denounce this particular cancellation? #txlege
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Worth emphasizing: Texas had poll taxes into the 1960s.
I keep a copy of my parent's poll tax receipt framed above my desk to remind me how sacred & fragile voting rights are for Texans. I traveled to D.C. to ask for backup for our cause. Every eligible Texan deserves the right to vote. Adelante. #txlege #VotingRights
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Why on earth would Houston build 88 affordable-housing units for $15 million rather than 362 for $16.2m? New column:
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In 2018, @GregAbbott_TX practically ignored his Democratic opponent. This time around, that won’t be an option…and @BetoORourke is going to want to talk about the grid failure and COVID, among other things:
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Considering going as @KenPaxtonTX’s process server for Halloween - or would that be TOO scary.
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A GREAT recruit for @TexasGOP, Cassy is a lovely, wonderful person with deep roots in the RGV and conservative principles that well predate Trump etc—>.
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They haven’t experienced any labor shortages either, per HQ. A mystery for the ages 🧐.
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Gonna be hard to take everyone to court #txlege.
Any school district, public university, or local government official that decides to defy GA-38—which prohibits gov't entities from mandating masks—will be taken to court. The path forward relies on personal responsibility—not government mandates.
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Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, fielding questions about water management in three languages in Houston this evening 👑
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I wonder if they shared a good chuckle over Houston/Harris County getting not one nickel of those Harvey funds.
Great to speak with President Trump to discuss the future of Texas and how we are keeping up the fight to put America first. I appreciate the words of encouragement and support. Big things coming soon!
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I saw this live and Fox also completely missed @crampell’s overarching point, which was that the media is focusing on the top-line number and political machinations over the bill rather than what it actually proposes to do—a good point with which many Americans would agree.
Ah, so this is why I am getting so many angry emails right now. Because Fox does not understand the difference between net and gross costs
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Programming notes. Only 10% of Uvalde residents are foreign-born, compared to 17% of Texans and 13% of Americans. Trump got 57% of the vote there in 2020 . It's not *on* the border--people aren't going back and forth every day for school, church, family, etc
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Pro tip: remember not to immediately put your vaccine card in the wash 😭
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I cannot imagine what officials are trying to cover up about #Uvalde at this point. The facts as we know them are horrific, and one is that bereaved families are being cruelly and deliberately deprived of basic information they should have had weeks ago. Inexcusable.
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An important point . Note also that border counties are leading Texas in vaccination rates!
See, the thing is: That's not true. Border counties have not seen a surge in cases.
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Agreed. We really shouldn’t prosecute people when it’s clear from their actions—casting a provisional ballot, waiting in line six hours—that they weren’t trying to pull a fast one ☹️ #txlege.
We have an indicted AG who rails abt fraud, can only find cases where those who have basically served their time but are unaware of the law prohibiting them from voting cast a ballot (after required notification was vetoed by Perry) & throws the book at them. Outrageous. #txlege.
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“Rep. Chris Jacobs of Orchard Park on Friday made a surprising about-face on gun control issues, becoming perhaps the first congressional Republican to call for an assault weapons ban in the wake of the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas.”
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Folks, I have interviewed many, many, many elected officials over the years. If you have this concern, let me assure you it is virtually impossible for you to be *less* qualified than some of the individuals currently in office. your concern itself is a qualification.
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I like how 11 is directly at odds with 3 and 5.
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I’m keeping an eye on this, as are others—as a gun owner and voter, it is wild that @TexasGOP is trying to relax restrictions on gun owners while increasing them on voters—either you’re serious about rights or you aren’t, @TexasGOP #SB7 #HB6 #txlege.
Hey @EricaGrieder - is anyone besides me watching permitless carry of handguns advance out of committee and feeling nauseous? No training or req'd background check to carry a loaded handgun in public. Ummmm. plus the signage junk. HB1911. Ughhhh. #txlege.
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Is anyone keeping a running list of the jurisdictions challenging/suing/ignoring @GregAbbott_TX's orders yet? #txlege.
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Lawyers of Texas: please step up and be available to Ms Gomez, and the teacher who did in fact shut the door, and everyone else in Uvalde who’s now being bullied, threatened, and intimidated into silence.
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"There are states worse than Texas — states even more regressive, states even more oppressive, redder states and madder states and states without its complicated charisma and pockets of charm. But is there a state more meanspirited these days?"
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He was vaccinated and (per his spox) isn't having symptoms. In other words it DOES work. Get vaccinated pls.
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Grieder: Grief, anger, and anxiety persist a year after Winter Storm Uri triggered Texas catastrophe via @houstonchron.
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wow. this dad says he survived a school shooting himself, in the early 80s (and two people were shot but they just went back to class).
A sobbing father tells @BetoORourke during a rally in Fredericksburg, Texas, that his Republican family will vote for him because he’s taking on the issue of gun violence: “My sons are very tough, but they can’t stop a bullet.” #txlege
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