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Houstonian. Pulitzer finalist. Constant gardener. "Bastion of the area.” I no longer love our technodystopian future. Build the Ike Dike.
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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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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.
Dan Patrick with a white hot take on Tucker Carlson that boils down to “trust me, old people are willing to die for Wall Street”
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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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And there it goes...
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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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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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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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Castro was mayor of a red state city
@washingtonpost
Buttigieg is the only red-state executive running for president. He understands how to talk to the rest of America.
The last time Democrats nominated a candidate like that was 1992. And he took down the Republican incumbent.
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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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Republicans know better than to mess with Warner Brothers ever since G. Gordon Liddy was crushed by an anvil
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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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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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“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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@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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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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I think people generally underestimate just how many Republican voters there are in Texas, how much they like what Republican politicians do, and how much they dislike Democrats
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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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NEW: A mid-day power outage knocked Houston's 911 call center offline for several hours via
@houstonchron
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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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My entire life I've heard that Texas Republicans will suffer for taking more and more extreme positions and I have never seen it happen so color me skeptical that anything will happen except Rs getting a clean victory on this and moving on to their next issue.
One TX politico tells me, on the GOP abortion win: "As long as the dog is chasing the car, it's all fun. Once that dog plants his teeth in the tire, it's likely that he's going to get the hell beat out of him, as the car goes down the road."
#txlege
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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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Half Price Books in the village getting intentionally pushed out by higher rent, sitting vacant for months, then replaced by a Halloween store is truly the worst timeline
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Like the Seinfeld finale
A twist in Jacob Wohl's felony case for voter suppression in Michigan: prosecutors want to call the fake Pete Buttigieg sexual assault accuser as a witness against Wohl. All the schemes are coming back for this trial.
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Maybe the ‘70s really are back?
The main reason gas prices are so high is because Saudi Arabia is withholding oil production, which Biden suggested is retaliation for his refusal to meet with crown prince MBS.
A senior senate aide I spoke to compared it to “economic sanctions”
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Texas is becoming smaller, weaker, poorer, dumber
More than 25% of Texas professors plan to look for positions in other states this year because of political interference and widespread dissatisfaction on college campuses. via
@williammelhado
@TexasTribune
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Alas now students won’t be able to read my thriller about a state Senator who puts up with being cuckolded by her cheating husband, who happens to be the state attorney general, in exchange for a donor buying her new kitchen counters
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In a new Netflix show, eight strangers will share a house in Austin because that's the only way they can afford it.
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Why focus on the weird militaristic July 4th celebration in DC when you can think about the irony of Venezuelan oil company Citgo sponsoring the Freedom Over Texas celebration in Houston.
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@amandawtwong
Loving Beast as the most balanced, healthy member of the X-Men. His copacetic exterior isn't covering anything. He truly has a joie de vivre. Probably because he has his own hobbies and interests unrelated to his mutant powers.
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If states are sending Texas their employees we could use some civil engineers and public defenders
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Texas Democrats laughing about Gov. West as if we didn’t just have four years of President Trump
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Seriously, does nobody remember Swift Boat Veterans for Truth?
@marysdesk
Have to emphasize what a head-snapper it is to see Republican members of Congress and their staff questioning the veracity and even the loyalty of a military service member. A departure from history.
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The Houston Texans
What's the most bland but appropriate name your city could give a sports team? I'll go first: LA Observers
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Looks like he’s meeting Mr. Peanutbutter for lunch
Trump supporters are streaming into downtown DC. Most are wearing trump hats or carrying flags and posters but this guy is in full eagle regalia
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“I want my daughter back,” Kim said. Her voice began rising. “If I can’t have her, then those who failed her will never know peace!”
But what this piece makes depressingly clear is that those lawmakers do know peace.
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And now would be an ideal moment for a 2022 Democratic gubernatorial candidate to ride the sudden burst of national media attention and do some quality fundraising that could pay off later down the line
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There's a reason why you saw an awful lot of Beto signs in River Oaks in 2018
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Can the fed bail out the post office by buying just like a ton of stamps or something?
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Kinda funny that democrats lost in Virginia and progressives won in Texas
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