Please join me in wishing aMeRicA’s maYoR thoughts and prayers. #vigil #fourseasonstotallandscaping

Chris Hollins, our Houston Controller is now on Bluesky! Added to the starter pack. Give him a follow! houcontroller.bsky.social

The indictments that Kim is proud of were dismissed by Ken Paxton. When Ken Paxton can't even find a reason to continue a political prosecution, you know there's absolutely nothing there.

She’s going to drag Annise down with her isn’t she? www.chron.com/politics/art...

Yeah

The memo discusses staffing at Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, a critical high security facility in Virginia containing the nuclear bunker where congressional leaders were taken on 9/11. "The facility is at risk of not being fully mission capable.”

Bananas

ICYMI: A little-known Republican's entry into the race to replace Lina Hidalgo was unremarkable save for one detail: Her campaign's ties to a '24 SuperPAC that used antisemitic tropes to undercut Harris's appeal with Muslims in Michigan. In @newrepublic.com: bit.ly/3SiSWzc

My guess is that there are at least 150 people at this anti-Whitmire town hall hosted by West Street Recovery. They’ve had to bring in extra seating. Line out the door. Whitmire and team dismissing this backlash would be well advised to change direction.

"This is what we were voting for!" From a friend in academia: >>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<< Great work.

Ooof. And the same White House tour open to the general public 

Republicans win while doing the exact opposite of this, firmly taking unpopular views and relentlessly hammering them (and lying about them). Hence the 180° turn the public has done on legal and illegal immigration over the past few years. If all they did was "respond," they'd lose, like Dems do.

Congratulations again to all the corporate media folks who refused to stand by the Associated Press and now get to stand shoulder to shoulder with their peers, including this guy who asked a batshit crazy rambling question about the "Clinton Body Count"

“‘For years, former DA Kim Ogg used the courtroom to settle political scores and advance her extreme agenda,’ Ellis said. ‘She consistently weaponized prosecutions with a double standard, consistently attacking and defaming Black and brown officials. One by one, those cases collapsed: dismissed….’”

Most people interface with PBS via tv shows and news coverage but I want to point out another critical service PBS provides: a database of national warnings. warn.pbs.org

Happy Mother’s Day from the GOP #Resist #SaveMedicaid #WomensRights #SupportWorkingFamilies

If you’re attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke about the toddler cancer patient they just disappeared despite her being a citizen. Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.

I am working on a Bayou City Sludge post about how the #txlege is a canary in the coalmine for platforming conspiracy theories in government because today the House had a hearing on a bill that would ban the federal government from, uh, changing the weather. A tidbit:

When you vote for republicans in Texas because they care about “public safety”, just remember they want to give felons back their guns (even in courthouses). #txlege #MomsAreEverywhere @momsdemand.bsky.social

Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison theonion.com/judge-g...

Just bewildered that this hasn’t gotten more national attention www.khou.com/article/news...

This is why we elected @mollyfortexas.bsky.social 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Subsidies? Socialism!

Hell yeah, bring this energy to every hearing, ladies.

Imagine what the GOP would do if a Dem president started confiscating assault weapons and when courts objected the. called for impeaching or eliminating eliminating the federal judiciary.

As we continue our work this legislative session, here’s your guide to accessing and learning about legislation using the Texas Legislature Online website! Visit www.legis.texas.gov to research legislation, explore committees, and track bills. #txlege #Houston

put together a short list of journalists in both houston and greater texas whose work i love and who think deserve more followers. give their work some love: go.bsky.app/UR7umMd

In what world are these Whitmire people living in where they think the modern Republican party (in Texas no less) is willing to compromise with cities they literally want to destroy? Unreal.

Any Whitmire staffer or operative enabling the DOGEing of Houston gov’t should be excommunicated from working in democratic politics forever.

This is Amerikkka. Don’t catch you slipping up. www.gethattiesburgnews.com/post/lamar-c...

Welcome @magegordon.bsky.social to the pack, and back to work!

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Musk/DOGE aside: who is executing these nefarious acts within the agencies? Like, who let them access the server room? Who actually released reservoir water in CA? The EOs themselves aren’t doing it. Musk is being aided and abetted from within.

If you're feeling shame or anger about yesterday's despicable meeting in the Oval Office, you can donate directly to Ukrainian defense efforts here: donorbox.org/help-ukraine... It's tax deductible through Ukraine House Fdn and you might end up winning a cool tshirt.

JFC. The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID

This guy is a radical extremist and I hope he’s gone forever but it’s more likely he’ll run ICE. Never buy Goya products.

If you want to keep track of some of investigative reporting we at The NYT are doing--abt Trump, Musk, AG Bondi, EPA, Interior, etc, you can follow this account. Our coverage is not perfect. Nothing is. But we are digging every day to bring transparency/accountability www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/u...

Reminder this happened and a good chance to buy a great T-shirt metropolitanafricanmethodistepiscopalchurch.itemorder.com/shop/home/

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

It is beyond me why Democrats aren't Neville Chamberlain-ing Trump on his Russia/Ukraine policy. He's not strong, he's weak.

Seems like news Houston might be interested in www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Ninety nine USAID public servants gave their lives in the line of duty.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo called former District Attorney Kim Ogg "a dirty cop" and blasted the yearslong investigation into her staffers, which had charges stemming from it dismissed this week, as a waste of taxpayer money. www.chron.com/politics/art...

Hey! Added @harriscountydao.bsky.social and @hcphtx.bsky.social Give ‘em a follow!

Hey #Houston, this is an A+ starter pack for all things H-Town! Props to @raflemaitre.bsky.social for putting it together!

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If Petro retaliates, it’ll make life harder for American corn, soy, and oil producers.

I still think about this a lot thehill.com/homenews/adm...

I made a gingerbread panopticon