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Resident of NW Harris County with family & friends throughout Texas. Want to make Texas & the USA better places for everyone. Not a bot (but occasional typos).
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Houston is showing up and there’s no way I’d miss it. After wrapping up a Senate hearing in Austin, I’m hitting the road back home for a redistricting double header. See y’all soon!
We're at UH today to hear public testimony on this unjust attempt to dismantle black and brown Congressional Districts, and the PUBLIC has shown up!! 🔥 Thank you ALL for coming out today! It's important and your voice matters! I hear you and I see you. #txlege
A willingness to redraw congressional lines means either: 1. You’re doing what Trump demands because you are incapable of saying no, or 2. You actually want *more* of what is happening now. Both are bad for Texas.
RIP Tom Lehrer Frequently featured on the Dr. Demento Show Saturday
Tom Lehrer, Influential Satirist Whose Topical Songs Poked and Prodded America in the '50s and '60s, Dies at 97 variety.com/2025/music/obi…
URGENT! REGISTER TONIGHT to Testify Virtually at the TX Senate Redistricting Hearing for the Harris County Region Register to Testify Virtually zoom.us/meeting/regist… DEADLINE TO REGISTER: July 28 at 3 AM Submit Written Comment senate.texas.gov/redistrictingc… #txlege #hounews #SD13
Here’s what’s different between breaking quorum in 2021 and potentially a repeat now over #TexasRedistricting…
WHAT’S DIFFERENT NOW: @RepJulieJohnson says implications today for mid-decade redistricting are quite different than they were in 2021 during the last @TexasHDC walkout over Voting Rights. #txlege STORY: wfaa.com/article/news/p…
Here is a picture of a t'storm approaching our office in New Braunfels. Isolated to widely scattered storms across the area are producing locally heavy downpours, gusty winds up to 40-45 mph, and cloud-to-ground lightning. When thunder roars, go indoors! #txwx
The president is calling for the prosecution of Beyoncé…for something that did not happen. It’s not like a dispute of fact. He’s calling for her to be charged with a crime over a nonexistent payment conjured up by supporters on social media. cnn.com/2025/07/27/pol…
My advocacy work is centered in my family, students, & community. ICE & “mass deportation” have rocked my students and community this summer—so much so that I haven’t known what to say. But my wife, Hannah, is an amazing writer. Please read her op-ed in today’s Statesman.
The ambassador below is Tilman Fertitta. His is the owner of the NBA’s Houston Rockets and the chair of the University of Houston System Board of Regents ⬇️
Trump's billionaire ambassador to Italy refuses to live in the sumptuous official US residence in Rome and instead stays on his 250-foot super yacht moored 60 miles from the capital and helicopters to work, per Italian media reports. @mattiaferraresi airmail.news/issues/2025-7-…
What year did this guy drop in from? Here in Texas we have utility-scale battery banks we charge when the sun shines and the wind blows. And then we draw power WHENEVER we need it. Some of us have battery backups at home, too.
Thiessen: Just so people understand wind and solar only work when there is wind and sun. We don't have technology to store the energy from wind and solar…
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In current job listings, Rilla explicitly states that workers are expected to log more than 70 hours a week, warning them not to join if they aren’t “excited” about the schedule. Three meals are provided at the office every day—even on Saturdays. wired.com/story/silicon-…
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College still serves the same purpose it has for more than a century: you'll learn. You'll be exposed to some things you'd otherwise not have considered. You'll start some long-lasting relationships. You're paying for the privilege of an experience most don't get to have. -OS
The use of the verb “rescued” here for the 13,000 is false. It’s pure propaganda (so too is the claim of Biden “losing” 320,000 kids). While the admin has provided zero transparency, we believe the 13,000 number is total “wellness checks” carried out in six months.
NEW: The Trump admin has located and rescued more than 13,000 migrant children who crossed the border without parents — after more than 320,000 kids were lost under the Biden admin, The @nypost has learned. In one frightening case, ICE agents in Newark arrested a sponsor who…
Official portion of University of Houston redistricting hearing is over but Dems en route to Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church to listen to anyone that didn’t get to speak.
Republicans voted to adjourn the hearing after five hours of testimony. Dems will take unofficial testimony at the nearby Wheeler Baptist Church gymnasium. Rosenthal says there will be pizza 🍕 #txlege
The committee clerk told my buddies at @TXCivilRights that nearly 1000 people signed up to testify today 🔥🤯🇺🇸
Testifiers line up in the @UHouston Student Center to speak on redistricting—this is one of few public hearings happening across the state
Well that’s some BS (May also translate as: no competent IT person is willing to work on that kind of thing for that kind of management)
Weeks after opening, Alligator Alcatraz to begin on-site legal services, state says “We had some technology issues," FDEM Director Kevin Guthrie said. "We have now worked those things out.” miamiherald.com/news/local/imm… by @SienaDuncan
The death of expertise at the hands of Silicon Valley brogrammers who think an LLM can know which of Chesterton’s Fences to bulldoze.
SCOOP: DOGE has built an AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations. The goal is to kill 100,000 regs by the one year anniversary of Trump's inauguration. wapo.st/451U8wD w/ @JStein_WaPo @ddiamond @rachsieg