This is how to friend!

The tweets/skeets etc. are solid but who is paying for the billboards & full-page newspaper ads in small town papers in light red GOP districts with the incumbent’s name & face & number of ppl kicked off Medicaid PLUS the name of the D challenger?

1) The new detention center in Florida promises to be as inhumane and awful as existing ones. 2) Did they coin “Alligator Alcatraz” to distract him & get him to stop talking about re-opening the actual Alcatraz? 3) This is not normal and this is not right.

I continue to carve & print row houses like a woman possessed. Found some blue paper and gold ink …

In the year of 2025, someone needs to tell my doctor's office that it is 100% possible to have 2 clinic locations but one central calendar.

I constantly remind my boyfriend to lock the back door when he’s been in the backyard. He’s gotten really good at it, I realize as I sit here in my nightgown after watering the plants waiting for him to drive back from the office to let me in.

That special feeling of dread knowing that the 1st storm of the hurricane season will bear your name… Come on, Hurricane Andrea - be a fish storm!

Y’all we need to up our game because I’m telling you Twitter is freaking hitting it out of the park today.

I don't want a "Democratic Joe Rogan," whatever that is. I'd love to have truly progressive voices halping to pull the Overton window back our way. But my advice to the Dems who are prepared to spend money on Rogan lite is this: However much you are planning to spend, triple it. 1/

Do you do better when you're winning, or when you're chasing the lead? I do better when I'm the underdog - as least, I prefer feeling positive about my chances. When I'm worried I'll fail, that worry consumes me. Fear motivates but it doesn't feel great. Wonder what psychologists say...

Honestly, Clippy really missed a chance to be useful by not popping up any time someone hit REPLY ALL to an email but before they hit send.

I wake up many mornings & check to see if there’s news from Syria about #AustinTice. My heart goes out to him and his family. Something has to give.

I’ll say it - I’d like to have @betoorourke.bsky.social run for US Senate again. He hasn’t stopped working since his last race. The stakes are higher & the differences starker in 2025-26 v. 2017-18. We need his energy & commitment. #YouBetoYouBet

Are you a leader or board member of a 501(c)(3) public charity, like arts orgs or food pantries coping with massive funding cuts & revoked grants? You CAN lobby the gov't about these cuts & encourage supporters to do the same. And you should. I'd argue your mission obligates you to do so. 1/4

LOL Bishop Robert Barron, Trump appointee to White House Commission on Religious Liberty, quoting one of his mentors in an interview with CBS last week as saying: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope' Rest of Barron's comment in next - 1/2

My lord if the only reason he keeps going to games is the high cost of streaming them, I bet we can do a GoFundMe and reach our goal in a hot minute if it would keep him away! #Houston #HouNews #LoseCruz

#Houston lawyers, judges, law students - this Thursday 5/1 take 20 minutes at noon at the Jury Assembly Plaza to affirm your oath & demonstrate your commitment to the Constitution, justice system, and rule of law. More info here: actionnetwork.org/events/houst...

One of many reasons I love seeing permutations of the Grateful Dead is being able to walk up to strangers in the airport b/c they’ve got on a tie dye & have a groovy little conversation about your shared interest making it a much more enjoyable flying experience. Even for an introvert like me!

In case you were wondering if things were stabilizing, they’re arresting judges now… Lawyers in Houston consider joining us on May Day - actionnetwork.org/events/houst...

#Houston friends in the arts - I feel like we need guarantees that this proejct, paid for with HOT funds thx to a bill passed by now-Mayor Whitmire in his final Senate term, will not take funds away from public art & Houston Arts Alliance funds. #HouNews 1/3 secrethouston.com/entertainmen...

Hey @dartmouthcollege.bsky.social - I'm not a major donor by any means, but I do have capacity to give & unless you stand up RIGHT NOW for democracy, foreign students & faculty, & the 1st Amendment, any time you ask me for money, I'll happily give to @harvard.edu. #GoBigGreen

If he manages to strip Harvard of its tax exempt status, he'll go after other universities, but you know who else he'll go after? - Planned Parenthood - Charity care clinics - Food pantries But would people stop donating? Is losing exempt status a problem? (1/19)

Revoking Harvard's tax-exempt status b/c they disagree with the POTUS is a radical departure from how the IRS has approached regulating / removing exemptions from organizations because of beliefs / politics. Wildly unprecedented action is not too strong a description. www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/p...

Bird protocol. Take a bird, leave a bird. Bird.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has made an appearance at the Final Four championship game, despite fans claiming that when the Texas senator attends the game for the team he is rooting for, they are "cursed" and lose the game. trib.al/shyAwHJ

That's some bullshit, Guv Greg, and I don't have representation for a year because of your partisan grievances. 🧵 1/3 www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...

The Association of Fundraising Professionals international conference is later this month in Seattle. The Chronicle of Philanthropy's Philanthropy Today newsletter reports that many Canadians planning to attend are staying home to avoid being detained. Trump is killing the country.

If you’re going to an action today, be safe. Focus on the message, de-escalate, and don’t let anyone goad you into doing something if you’re not prepared to deal with the consequences. nonsequiteuse.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/h...

I am supporting my friend Christian Menefee for Congress - TX-18. This is the district I live in & #Houston needs his leadership & experience. NOW. #TX18 www.christianmenefee.com

Well #Houston - looks like our mayor, a "career Democrat," has picked a team. And it is not Team Democrat. He will be the special guest at a fundraiser for GOP Congressman Dan Crenshaw. He can spin this as needing to have a big tent for the city's benefit, but don't buy it.

Ok @brittanieshey.bsky.social I’m not the only one who watches the fish report on fish doorbell to see & listen to the cute Dutch guy right?

Fantastic Protest in Big Bend National Park in Texas today. Not far from Terlingua. Many Park Rangers out of work from cutbacks. Population in the region is less than 1 person per square mile!

Feels like shouting into the void but - anyone have any ideas about how we can get Greg Abbott to call a special election for #TX18 that is currently vacant due to the death of the sitting congressman? It's likely too late for the May ballot, but maybe for the runoff date in June?

Well, it's 2025 in America, so here are some of my thoughts on how to prepare and participate in a protest or demonstration if you're fairly new to things like this. nonsequiteuse.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/h...

White House dropped an EO on voting. Name-checks DOGE. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Do you ever play the 'if I wont the lottery' game? I do, and generally speaking, after I've taken care of a couple of houses and cars for myself & a few other folks, I turn to how I could help other people. (1/14)

Sure they know about mix tapes. But make sure to tell the children that sometimes your friends made you copies of their studio tapes and records. Exhibit A: Pink Floyd, The Final Cut and The Dark Side of the Moon.

This is how you do it h/t @charlotteclymer.bsky.social from whom I copied image & alt text. Rachel Cohen, an associate at Skadden Arps, which is big-big law, wrote this & 300+ other associates joined on. Next will post link to her LinkedIn statement. She graduated from Harvard Law in ‘22.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable has never been a more salient maxim. *Most* big law lawyers - the well-established ones with generational wealth who are setting policy for their firms - are the comfortable who ought to be afflicted if they give in to Trump’s threats.

Judges to a large extent can’t speak up - our system depends upon their unbiased approach to the law. This makes it even more critical for lawyer to speak out. What Paul Weiss has done is a shameful & dangerous abdication of their obligation to the law. abovethelaw.com/2025/03/paul...

Over the weekend, the executive branch used a war-time powers law - although we are not at war - & then said that a district judge shouldn't be able to stop the POTUS from doing what he wants.  People are being taken without due process, and some are in a prison in El Salvador. (1/8)

This is a @dwightsilverman.com appreciation post - 2 years ago, he posted this article about pairing a MacBook Pro with a Dell monitor that has a built-in USB-C hub. I'll post the link to the article at the end of this thread. (1/6)

This is the way. The time for sitting politely and listening to a demagogue rant is over.

Every time I see one of the billboards from Sesame Street that say hey, Elmo just wants to know if you're doing ok, I get a little sniffly. Enough so I can't quite remember the exact wording or fumble to take a photo. I'm just so glad at least Elmo is checking in on us.

From the same guys who brought us Avocados-at-Law, which has their faces in clip art avocados, ladeez & gents, Houston’s own!

Terrifying allegations. It is worth noting that judges must follow laws passed by the Texas legislature when it comes to setting bail. So if you want to assign blame, consider that Republicans have held the majority in the #txlege since 1994. #HouNews www.khou.com/article/news...

Maybe I missed it, but has anyone said what they're going to do with all of the money they are "saving" by this slash-and-burns at all of the federal agencies? Is it all going to tax cuts?

@genefortexas.bsky.social speaking at Annette Ramirez’s investiture as Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector and I co-sign every single word he’s saying about my dear friend & the best TAC & Voter Registrar this county could possibly have.

Trapping it is one way to clean excrement out of the ocean but it feels like a losing battle.

Elon Musk is what happens when pick-up artists read Ayn Rand.