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Houstonian. Pulitzer finalist. Constant gardener. "Bastion of the area.” I no longer love our technodystopian future. Build the Ike Dike.
Joined October 2008
[guy who owns a ton of Pokémon cards]: the United States needs a federal Pokémon card reserve.
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Hot take: Democrats are impressed with Beto directly confronting Abbott. Republicans think it was absolutely inappropriate.
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Mickey getting dragged as part of an anti-LGBT campaign while Bugs Bunny is over here crossdressing since the Truman administration and nobody says a thing.
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Judging by my informal yard sign count, Kamala is going to win West U 10 to 1
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When he's right, he's right!.
This is inflation. Higher prices at the grocery store. A supply chain crisis that is killing businesses along the border. This is what Greg Abbott is doing to Texas.
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Ted Cruz was literally born in Canada but ok.
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To think Texans survived Jade Helm and transgender bathrooms only to be sacrificed by Dan Patrick himself. What a twist.
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Reminder that Sam Houston resigned from office rather than join the Confederacy
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He's worried that antifa will use knives so he got roman armor. Asked if I knew what Pepe was.
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The driver intentionally tried to scare the cyclists. He hit them in the process. He still hasn’t been arrested.
“The reason he couldn’t stop is because he was accelerating to blow more diesel fuel on these cyclists.”
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MS-13, scrolling through Zillow: Oh, look, this one has a full bath in the pool house!.
In Joe Biden’s America your job is illegal, you are locked in your home, borders don’t exist, MS-13 lives next door and the police aren’t coming when the mob arrives. This is all of us.
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Move it to Houston.
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I hope Doug restarts the White House garden. America could use some Yard Dad energy.
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All the millennials in my family are self quarantining and all the boomers (who we’re quarantining for) are going out to dinner.
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CenterPoint doesn’t have to care about you. They’re a monopoly. You can’t go anywhere else. They just have to keep state officials happy to avoid accountability. You think anything is going to happen in the next legislative session?.
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My Amtrak hot take is that a Houston-New Orleans high speed route makes more sense than a Texas Triangle route because the drive is longer and more miserable and you're probably hung over in at least one direction.
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Well, marijuana does affect short term memory, and long term memory, and also short term memory.
Kamala Harris claims to have smoked pot in college while listening to Tupac and Snoop. Tupac's first album came out in 1991. Snoop's first album came out in 1993. Kamala Harris graduated college in 1986. 🤔🤔🤔
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FYI there are no antifa. Or BLM. Or anyone besides suburbanites with guns and internet weirdos.
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Don't 👏call 👏yourself 👏a 👏Justice 👏League 👏unless👏 you 👏provide 👏pro 👏bono 👏legal 👏defense.
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All of the "Texas Ds aren't working for their constituents" miss the fact that 1. D constituents absolutely want them to do this and 2. Nothing on the special session agenda helps individual Texans.
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I remember when Republicans tried to unpack the DC circuit by removing seats so Obama couldn’t fill them.
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In 2013 Cornyn declared Obama’s appointees to the DC Circuit to be “court packing” and tried to eliminate those seats
Did Obama appoint Justices, too? Of course, it is in the Constitution: Art. II, sec 2, US Constitution: .[The president] shall have Power, . by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate . appoint Judges of the supreme Court ….
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Wait, why has Abbott been allowing rapes up to this point? And when did his rape tolerance position change?.
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Happy Father’s Day to me, a dad. Nobody else in my family is online and none of them know what I do here and when I try to explain it my wife gets very sad.
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At Hermann Park and there's enough guns here to lead a mild insurrection.
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"CenterPoint is a monopoly. Customers have no direct way to hold the firm accountable. The Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) granted it the exclusive right to distribute energy in the Houston area, and CenterPoint spends lavishly to maintain the privilege.".
Houston's post-hurricane power meltdown has been as much a crisis of communication as of operation, argues @cjblain10.
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Republicans know better than to mess with Warner Brothers ever since G. Gordon Liddy was crushed by an anvil.
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I’m starting to think this Abbott guy might not be a good governor.
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Texas creating brand new courts after Democrats started winning the existing appellate courts seems like one of those Threats To Democracy we hear so much about but what do I know.
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Houston, normally: Please no hurricane.Houston, now: Please just a little bit of hurricane.
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But he went to UT so this could mean anything.
Texas @GovAbbott just now says there is progress in the Texas House on school voucher program. “We are on the 1 yard line,” he tells the Texas Public Policy Foundation @TPPF
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"[Ex-police officer] Aguirre ran his SUV into the back of a truck belonging to an air conditioner repairman he had been surveilling, convinced the truck contained 750,000 fraudulent ballots. Aguirre then pointed his gun at the repairman. ".
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Texas political leaders aren’t going to address grid issues because there are no political consequences for their failures.
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So are we pro-life or not?.
INBOX: @GovAbbott slams @JoeBiden @POTUS for providing baby formula to undocumented immigrants during a national shortage #txlege #tx2022
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Reading this line over and over again: "The University of Austin is not in Austin. Not yet. It’s 200 miles northeast, in Dallas, on an office complex owned by Mr. Harlan Crow.".
Inside the "Forbidden Courses" at the billionaire-backed University of Austin—the campus of the “anti woke” commentariat. Student names have been anonymized.
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Million dollar idea: museums should be open late on weekends so I can go on date nights. Also there’s a wine bar.
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Texas statewide Republican judge
As a judge, I try very hard to avoid controversy. But saying that I am against religious intolerance should not be considered controversial.
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They wouldn't need to mail them if you could just register online.
NEW: AG Ken Paxton threatens to sue Bexar and Harris counties if they mail out voter registration forms #txlege.
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How does banning late night voting, drive-thru voting, or voting super-centers accomplish that?. It doesn't of course. This is just an act of spite toward Harris County.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in Houston says election reforms need to insure every eligible voter can vote but says we need to “ensure only eligible votes are the ones cast at the ballot box.”
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I can't believe no Democrat has stepped up to run for governor if only to have fun telling Texans in all 254 counties how much Greg Abbott sucks.
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@ABC13Miya Anyone blaming the media for the panic must be watching different media than I am. Coverage has been balanced, slow and steady for a long time coming.
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“Abbott has been governor for a decade, and it is difficult to say what he has succeeded in doing to improve the lives of his constituents. His legacy consists entirely of keeping a few people out, at fabulous expense.”
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Now that’s a quote.
“The people have control of this area.” - MSNBC a few minutes ago about Minneapolis.
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Curious to see if Beto wins on an anti-SLAPP motion and gets his legal fees covered.
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"Many Houstonians are marveling that the Energy Capital of Texas is quite literally powerless. But it’s true in the figurative sense, too. In the state Capitol, Houston has no power.".
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“You can rage against the dying of the light in Austin and spend 50 percent of your income on housing, or you can be reborn a sweaty, home-owning phoenix in Houston.”
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"The time for reasoning and negotiating with these people have passed"
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It's hard to break through the news cycle these days, but Texas Democrats are actually running on a cohesive, statewide message of improving people's material conditions by expanding Medicaid.
Houston Democrats join together with @texasdemocrats from all over the state to talk about our top priority: expanding the ACA to cover more Texans and prove better coverage during this healthcare crisis.
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Reporters coming to Houston for the Kamala event should note:.1. How Trump's tariffs will hurt the Port of Houston.2. How Trump mocked the Ike Dike and Harvey heroes while Biden-Harris got the project approved.3. How oil and gas production is at record highs under Biden-Harris.
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@brad_polumbo @TianaTheFirst But “anti-gay” isn’t a protected class so as I understand it that was never an issue.
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Me baking a strawberry rhubarb pie: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! . Me waiting four hours for the pie to cool: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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🤠: Move your manufacturing to Texas. Energy is cheap here!. 🏭: Wow, so I won’t have to pay as much on our power bill?. 🤠: No, like, it’s cheap as in poorly made and falls apart easily.
Breaking: Texas’ main power grid struggled to keep up with the demand for electricity Monday, prompting the operator to ask Texans to conserve power until Friday.
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I don't know how the lie began that refugees are being foisted on people. Texas cities and communities are literally asking for refugees. We want to help. We're good at it! Let us do our jobs.
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@kylejack @mattyglesias Lots of forgotten history how various orgs banned Nazis and white supremacists and it just worked. I remember hearing on NPR about how magazine distributors refused to carry the anti-semitic American Mercury magazine.
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@GoingMedieval @Vomit_Dragon I recognize all of those colors. Needs more unrecognizable colors.
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My advice for young professionals? . Move to Houston. Live next to the house where they filmed Reality Bites. Get thrown out of Valhalla for refusing to remove your tie. Feed the Hermann Park ducks at midnight. Tweet at TxDoT. Move to Houston in your early career. No regrets.
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Patrick to Texas: Drop Dead.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) was just on Fox saying he agrees with Trump. He cast it as an opportunity for seniors to sacrifice in order to keep the country intact for their grandchildren. “Let's get back to living. And those of us that are 70+, we'll take care of ourselves.”.
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@ABC13Miya I think the panic comes if you haven't been paying attention, or if you've been paying attention to people who said this would all go away, and then you suddenly realize it's on your doorstep.
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Houston is walkable if you're strong enough.
It’s very annoying that the US doesn’t have a warm, generally walkable city with decent transit. The closest you can get are like DC and San Francisco lol. But seriously, out of the entire American south + SoCal, essentially nothing.
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@jayrjordan How long did Waller County take to investigate Sandra Bland's traffic violation before deciding to arrest her?.
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When Beto and Sid Miller both say that Abbott is wrong on this. .
Sid Miller says @GovAbbott should abandon his new truck inspection policy at the border that's led to long backups at ports of entry. "You cannot solve a border crisis by creating another crisis at the border," Miller says in a news release.
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Not that it objectively means anything but massive lines for a Kamala stadium event vs. a small airport hangar event for Trump could certainly be turned into a narrative about Texas.
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At what point did we cross the national threshold into a ruling ideology that declares in the face of an epidemic that only the wealthy should be allowed to have vaccines?.
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Why don’t we pay for the postal service by eliminating the wasteful and unnecessary space force?.
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