There are still some rainbows to find in Texas

In retrospect, I highly recommend not contracting bronchitis while trying to cover Texas politics. Immunity issues are so stupid!!!

"As part of the settlement, Texas Children’s has also agreed to fire, permanently and irrevocably terminate all existing privileges, and never again hire or credential five woke doctors who performed harmful medical interventions on Texans"

If he’s going to endorse, he’s gotta go quickly. Early voting in the Texas runoff starts Monday!

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

Rising from the depths of bronchitis to analyze a dissent from Clarence Thomas about mifepristone that heavily relies upon an obscenity law from the 1800's.... pray for my immune system

What Trump said running for president: “Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again.”

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

Hamilton was fired last year the day after he told Congress that the agency should not be terminated... also Kristi Noem apparently subjected him to a lie detector test (!). The current acting director of FEMA is a cybersecurity official with no background in disaster relief.

Important to keep two things in mind at the same time in regards to these efforts to strip citizenship: - It's mostly spectacle for the base; numbers will be in the dozens to the low hundreds. - That spectacle is designed to send a message that "you don't belong" to immigrants.

Once again, output not what I would have liked this week. I had a cold that my immune system treated like a flu. A nurse who was giving me fluids said she appreciated doing this for somebody who was not a drunk college student. So I am glad I was able to facilitate that for her.

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I was not worried about this, but now I’m panicking

I know there's a lot going on, but it's odd to me there isn't more of an intense social focus on the wide epidemic of sexual abuse scandals in evangelical churches. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

SCOOP: Deported Dreamer released from Texas detention after ICE brought him back to U.S. Last week ICE flew Jose Contreras Diaz back to TX and then detained him. DHS said “he will not be able to remain in the U.S.” Today he was released and met his newborn son www.ms.now/news/deporte...

Fox News: "A very influential Democrat from Virginia, state senator Louise Lucas, is the center of a major FBI corruption investigation. Right now, in fact, agents are executing search warrants at her office."

This is appalling and alarming, and the Supreme Court is not only largely to blame, but all but blessed it last night.

Unfortunately I had a pretty bad autoimmune saga last week, BUT I am feeling much better and back on my feet (with my glasses 🤓). Lots of good Signal stuff coming down the pipeline. Thanks as always for bearing with me!

BREAKING: Justice Sam Alito issues an administrative stay of the Fifth Circuit’s mifepristone ruling through 5p ET May 11, setting briefing for this week. The stay means the mifepristone can be mailed currently. The FDA’s 2023 REMS is in effect during the stay.

In West Dallas for an event sponsored by Stonewall Democrats for @juliejohnsontx.bsky.social and other candidates in the May runoff. Johnson is facing former congressman Colin Allred in the redrawn #TX33.

Working on a recap of the municipal election, but at the end of the month we have a runoff! Here in West Dallas for an event (a pachanga!) with @juliejohnsontx.bsky.social and other candidates.

Greg Abbott loves to threaten Texas cities with funding, but he also needs them for Boomer jokes (he also posted this on Facebook)

We are definitely in graduation season in Texas. Today, Senate candidate @jamestalarico.bsky.social is the guest speaker at Paul Quinn College, an HBCU in Dallas.

BREAKING: Danco Laboratories, maker of Mifeprex, goes to the Supreme Court, seeking an immediate stay of the Fifth Circuit's Friday mifepristone ruling. Under the Fifth Circuit ruling, FDA's rule that allowed mailing of the medication abortion drug is to be blocked. More to come: www.lawdork.com

And of course it’s the fifth circuit that decides for women everywhere in the country, Mifepristone no longer available unless you can pick it up in person. Reminder: in Dobbs, the court said this should be up to each state. That’s not what this does. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Major ruling here regarding the mailing of abortion pills. And just to note, medication abortion accounts for about 63 percent of abortions nationwide.

The word for this is "coup."

What a day to spend in a doctor's office. I'll be discussing the Callais decision in the Signal newsletter (which is free!) on Friday. But this is how the Texas Mexican American Legislative Caucus describes it: “The most dangerous setback to voting rights since Jim Crow."

"The decision upended the pivotal civil rights era voting law that Congress initially passed in 1965 and reauthorized several times since, leaving the section at issue 'all but a dead letter,' as Justice Elena Kagan said with a somber, nearly stone-faced dissent she announced from the bench."

NEW: The Callais plaintiffs have asked SCOTUS to rush release of the certified judgment citing the new for a map redraw before the 2026 midterms. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Quite a lot of people had in their head that “mass deportation” meant that they were going to arrest a bunch of bad people and that nobody good would be impacted. Seriously. They never thought further than that, and “get the bad people out” felt like a good idea to them.

On #WorkersMemorialDay we have a new report from @texasaflcio.org about the safety and health dangers for Texas workers: - 557 Texas workers died on the job in 2024 - the state’s worker fatality rate is above the national average - rate of young worker deaths has nearly doubled since 2020

Feel like this might be something for y'all to bookmark

She was a hostess at Sur, who alleged James cheated with her when he was dating Raquel (now known as Rachel)… I will show myself out now.

Today and tomorrow, the Texas House and Senate will be meeting for testimony regarding the July 4 flooding. You can watch the House testimony here (I'm going to try and watch and report as well) house.texas.gov/videos/22678

Redistricting! That’s difficult for a Texas reporter!

Texans, don’t forget many of us have municipal elections on May 2nd! Early voting for that goes until Tuesday.

The entire premise of the WHCD betrays the very purpose of *real* journalism. But you can see that same level of betrayal in this "question." These are deeply unserious and unethical folks.

Every publication should publish the names and outlets of the people who attend tonight because most of us will want to be sure we never make the mistake of listening to them again.

Okay, I listened to that audio from the Summer House reunion. Those demons really seem to have no remorse!

Is it just me or does Apple TV really not promote their shows? Like wtf do you mean there's a new spooky New England show with Matthew Rhys, Stephen Root, AND DALE DICKEY that I'm just learning about as it's dropping today.

We got this up -- also I really liked talking to Kelley Robinson from @hrc.org and hearing the perspective of someone who is very progressive with a faith background. I think these are crucial voices to hear now.

Hey y’all, still working on a story about this historic event at Baylor for Signal but a small health hiccup took a lot of my energy today. I am feeling much better, and hope to have this up tomorrow!

Chip Roy literally has a bill that would denaturalize and deport immigrants for advocating such socialist beliefs

This is why I subscribe to Law Dork and read Chris: While so many outlets made this about a big Trump move, the context that this got started under Biden, then languished for a year under Trump, got lost or minimized. In other words, you don’t have to hand it to the Trump DOJ.

I knew the day would come when I finally had to learn who this MrBeast was

Wait to y'all see what happened in Texas!

Pleased to report the event went great, standing room only, press present - @hrc.org @interfaithalliance.org were🔥🔥 & students were inspiring…. meanwhile TPUSA event appeared to have um challenges, leading TPUSA to ban reporters & cameras? 🤔 keep going folks (and thanks again @democracyforward.org)

I have spent a lot of time writing about Turning Points USA. I have also spent a lot of time (re)watching Summer House. Has any journalist actually done the definitive account of Erika Kirk's time *on* Summer House?