Ben Rowen
@ben_c_rowen
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Senior editor @texasmonthly. Big fan of misusing the word "lugubrious." | Email: browen@texasmonthly dot com
Joined April 2015
This is what makes baseball awesome. The worst possible pitch that you're taught in peewee ball to never make (an 0-2 center cut fastball) can be good in a very specific context precisely because everyone thinks its so awful.
Is Nick Pivetta a Sorcerer or Something?
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Point 1 and 2 seem to contradict each other. The Texas GOP won 58 percent of votes in US House elections in 2024. The GOP holds 66 percent of US House seats in Texas. Can you clarify @leachfortexas?.
1) Every state can and should consider Congressional redistricting to more accurately reflect the electorate. 2) Instead of 5 new GOP seats in HB 4, we should take up and pass the map that gives us 9-10 seats. 3) In addition to Congressional Redistricting, Texas House &.
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James Talarico's name ID is exploding. Unfortunately, no one can spell his name:
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It is actually the exact opposite: Texas Senate Dems Walked IN to allow passage of the Trump gerrymander (and purely symbolically walked out).
MASSIVE BREAKING: Texas Senators Walk Out of chamber refusing to vote on gerrymandering. This is how you fight back and for democracy.
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This is, quite literally, fake news. They showed up and established quorum, symbolically walked out, and two returned to vote on the bill anyway. You must never accuse the Texas Democratic senators of fighting back.
MASSIVE BREAKING: Texas Senators Walk Out of chamber refusing to vote on gerrymandering. This is how you fight back and for democracy.
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RT @Forrest4Trees: Hey, it's a buddy movie with me and @cd_hooks . We look at the Texas Democrats who *didn't* leave the state to stop the….
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Most members of the House Democratic Caucus fled the state this week in an attempt to stall a Trump-ordered gerrymander. We tried to talk to the few who stayed.
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NEW reporting from @Forrest4Trees on NWS cuts and how they might have affected the response to the Central Texas floods. NWS had selected a meteorologist to embed with TDEM, but never actually filled the role because of Trump's hiring freeze:
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Months before the Central Texas floods, the National Weather Service selected a meteorologist to embed with the Texas Division of Emergency Management, but they never assumed the job.
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RT @Forrest4Trees: NEW: Trump's hiring freeze scuttled a key, federally-funded role in Texas's emergency response apparatus. The person was….
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Months before the Central Texas floods, the National Weather Service selected a meteorologist to embed with the Texas Division of Emergency Management, but they never assumed the job.
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RT @cd_hooks: putting on my Eric Garland hat: it's time for some game theory. a bit about what's actually going on with the TX Dem walkout,….
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Democrats and Republicans alike are talking a big game about the quorum break and its consequences while awaiting the most probable outcome.
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RT @Forrest4Trees: NEW from me: Jacob's Well is dying & Hays County is running out of water. So why did @GregAbbott_TX veto a bill addressi….
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The Legislature passed a measure to help save the iconic watering hole and Hays County’s dwindling aquifer. Then Greg Abbott vetoed it.
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The real book ending may well be Cuellar switches parties.
This seems like a gamble. Trump's not on the ballot and the GOP is really counting on the 'trend being your friend,' i.e. Hispanics continuing to swing bigly against the Dems. The storybook ending to this saga is that Henry Cuellar saves democracy from federal prison.
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RT @lrnlrsn: “There’s no couth, I guess. That’s probably an old Texan word, but I just wish people had a little more couth right now.�� Wrot….
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After the July 4 disaster, independent content creators arrived in the Hill Country alongside news reporters, marking an uneasy merging of social media and journalism.
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RT @lmcgaughy: Two years ago, a lawyer in Texas AG Ken Paxton's trafficking unit cut a deal for a man accused of forcing two girls into sex….
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RT @Nick_Newman: Bill Maher tells a visibly unimpressed Billy Joel about his attempt to write what would likely be the worst song ever made….
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RT @cd_hooks: The Texas Legislature reconvenes today after an undeserved rest. It's gonna be explosive:
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Rather than accept mid-decade redistricting during a special legislative session, liberal lawmakers are considering fleeing the state.
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No more AL Central pitchers in All Star games or getting Cy Youngs. Their stats are all bogus from getting to face the Guardians, White Sox, and Royals so much.
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I legit cannot think of a worse TV performance this year than Arquette on Severance.
#EMMY nominations — Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Patricia Arquette, Severance.Carrie Coon, The White Lotus.Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt.Julianne Nicholson, Paradise.Parker Posey, The White Lotus.Natasha Rothwell, The White Lotus.Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus
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RT @lmcgaughy: NEW: As part of my effort to track @ElonMusk's influence in the Texas Capitol, I asked for all of his emails with Gov. Greg….
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If you were confused by Angela Paxton's announcement about filing for divorce from Ken on "biblical grounds," read @Sandi:
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