gwen howerton
@kissphoria
texas culture reporter, @chron native texan, aggie, film photographer ⚧️ not related to the actor
for @chron's running series on media that depicts Texas, I wrote about how OFFICE SPACE wouldn't be the same movie if it wasn't filmed in suburban Texas circa 1998: chron.com/culture/tv/art…
After requests by two Texas Democrats, Texas Senate redistricting committee has asked U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillion to testify before the committee. #txlege
Testifiers line up in the @UHouston Student Center to speak on redistricting—this is one of few public hearings happening across the state
If you didn’t hear this story from Anas Baba on NPR today, you should take a listen. He walked 3 hours to find a working internet connection to file the story. npr.org/2025/07/25/nx-…
pardoning ghislane is the thing you do in the hour before the next president is inaugurated and hope everyone forgets, it's not something you do six months into your presidency during a scandal you caused
it's a little telling where the Republican electorate is at that Capriglione immediately copped to the affair but the abortion allegations were the ones that he denied
Talarico: We are focused on the wrong 1%. It’s not trans people, Muslims etc. it’s billionaires that are the problem. “The culture wars are a smokescreen.” “Billionaires want us fighting each other instead of them.”
fellas is it child sacrifice to have a dog park at your apartment complex
Societies that worship animals always participate in child sacrifice
Me and @CaraReports on the bombshell allegations out of the Texas Capitol today about state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione — who authored Texas’ “trigger ban,” which banned abortion in Texas when Roe v. Wade was overturned. thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/25/tex…
been thinking about this one for a long time, but since Billy Wagner is going into the HoF this weekend, and it's 25 years since the opening of Daikin Park, here it is: My impassioned defense of the Astros' much-hated brick red 2000s uniforms for @chron chron.com/culture/articl…
Texas doesn't have a state income tax, but between property taxes and the sales tax you pay on everything, we might as well.
Texas has never had income tax You actually don't need to pay the slave-owners 🤷
Tomorrow, the Americans with Disabilities Act turns 35. You frequently hear that the ADA could not get a vote in Congress today (and that's true). But we should also probably prepare for a world where the Supreme Court overturns it.
I'm sorry, Giovanni Capriglione making his exotic dancer mistress meet him at a Chuck E. Cheese tops Ken Paxton using an uber account to have meetings at Church's Chicken
the rockies made a trade in july? hell has frozen over
Yankees reportedly acquire 3B Ryan McMahon from the Rockies per multiple reports including MLB's @Feinsand.
Wow. Planned Parenthood Southwest is where I got my hormones for a while when I moved to Houston.
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast is closing two clinics on Sept. 30 but said services will not be affected at four others in the Houston area. houstonchronicle.com/health/article…
Alex Grace, alleges she had a long-term affair with Republican State Representative Giovanni Capriglione (HD 98) beginning approximately in 2004. She said she decided to share her story publicly out of ethical concerns and a sense of personal obligation due to Capriglione’s…