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sometimes Muffin thinks he can smell like lizard.

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the way Republicans talk these days is like “what if Vogan poetry and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E had a BUTT TITS UH BAY BEE?” only more annoying.

no, Article III Section 10 allows the Senate to adopt rules to penalize state senators who break quorum—the House can adopt rules to penalize state reps who break quorum. all you have to do is to read the words. #txlege #HB18

A Holenijosa is advised that the governor has the authority to apply veto period fundraising restrictions during special sessions. he doesn’t do it because it would also apply to him. he is further advised that he is NOT in the House so #HB18 would violate the state constitution. #txlege

upon hearing that Jodie Laubenberg has passed, I'd like to remind you that in 2013 she said, "the emergency rooms they have what’s called rape kits, that the woman can get cleaned out, basically like a D and C." Politifact rated the statement #PantsOnFire. #txlege

Cyrus Reed knows how I feel about "ISLE B BRIFF". he should not use it. no one should. #txlege

pretty sure perpetuity is NOT defined as "until the good lord breaks the crowd and takes them home" as Perry just said. #txlege

T Boone Pickens reference. DRRRRINK! #txlege #HB27

these guys couldn't put down a number that didn't scare the fuck out of people with private wells? #txlege #HB27

this does not set a dangerous precedent. we use moratoriums all the time. we saw with Lost Pines and Post Oak Savanah that people were lied to when they thought they were selling *part of their own* groundwater rights and turned out to be selling their whole neighborhood’s. #txlege

it took way too long for them to answer the question “is the DFC modeling of the Carrizo Wilcox separated for convenience or because there are geological features that separate the water supply within the aquifer?” it’s the former. #txlege #HB27

the chair of the Trinity and Neches Valley GCD says they have 1.5 FTEs and a budget of $200K. they've never seen an application like the one they received. they had 500 people show up angry about this permit application at one of their meetings. so that's fun. #txlege #HB27

so these water export fucks applied for pumping permits for the Carrizo-Wilcox and in one permit it is 120% and another 200% of the water in the aquifer. so let's not. #txlege #HB27

but if we don't have the moratorium, these dorks can start exporting water and then say they're too big to fail if the study says, "Texas does not have enough water to export it." #txlege #HB27

we did a moratorium of activity for the concrete crushing factory they want to put next to the silicon chip factory to study the issue. but, again, this is not the right committee to put #HB27 in. #txlege

you should know the science before you vote for bills, Campbell. unfortunately, y'all often don't care about science one little bit. at least you care when someone is trying to take all the water in East Texas. #txlege

"LISSEN, COTTONFART! U NO GET INTO TOPO CHICO GRAPHIES COZ ADUMB GONNA GET A CONFUZE. WE DO DA BIRB I VIEW!" ~ Dobby #HB27 #txlege

wondering why this is in the disaster committee and not WARA. because AHolenijosa has not been here long enough to get into water policy. #HB27 #txlege

Perry wishes we had talked about water during the regular session even though he's the chair of the committee and the day before (5/10/22) the hearing that viral video came from (5/11/22) was an interim hearing on water. it was a much better hearing. #txlege

Shrodinger's Conversation About Texas Water: both 179 years old and never happened before. we believe in science and we also don't believe in science. we believe in property rights and purchased surface water rights and also slurping groundwater water out from under people. #HB27 #txlege

common sense is pedestrian. it should cover how to use a bathroom stall, but Orr can’t even figure that out. so she doesn’t even have common sense. #txlege #SB8

Orr is not gonna be able to answer this anymore than she’ll say she was wrong about RRISD. #txlege

Bryant has had 2 years to not misgender that little girl and… nope. #txlege #SB8

I know WHY it’s called the screw worm, but SCREW WORM sounds like something you’d call a legislator. #txlege

a win for Uvalde. good job with the amendment, Don. #txlege #HB15

SCOT just denied Ken Paxton's motion to quash the El Paso District Court's restraining order awarded against him to Beto and PXP. #txlege

great question. #txlege #HB7 #SB8

tokophobia (aka fear of pregnancy and childbirth) is extremely common. it affects around 14% of pregnant women and up to 43% of women of childbearing age. 1/4 #txlege #HB7

they're fighting for the rights of imaginary children to be treated as incubators. awesome. #txlege

a dude who wants to end a woman's pregnancy is not gonna tell her he's putting abortion pills or rat poison in her food. he may just get a gun. pregnancy increases risks to women of all kinds including being murdered. #txlege #HB7

this is an attack on Wes Virdell's imaginary granddaughter. #txlege

sorry, Rep. J. Jones. ivermectin is approved for use in humans as an anti-parasitic, but it is only available with a prescription except for some topical lice treatments. it is most commonly used in areas of the world where diseases associated with intestinal parasites are common. #txlege

Tinderholt makes me vomit because he looks like a walking penis. pretty sure that could have been on the list if the list was "things we don't like about Republicans". #txlege

so basically if Slaton had knocked up that intern and she had an abortion, since she didn't seek to hold him accountable, he could have gotten a $100K check from it. #txlege

Republicans like to redefine viability as "whatever medical technology allows for", but the decision in Roe v. Wade recognized that not everyone has access to the newest technology or healthcare at all. so viability is a 50% likelihood of survival *without medical intervention*. #txlege

remember that when women started dying in Texas under the previous bill Jonathan Mitchell advocated for, he was unavailable for comment because he was shopping it in other states. #txlege #HB7

lol. Representative Blow won't be voting for #HB7 because it's not XTREME enough. #txlege

the Texas Shartbeat Act has resulted in women dying for lack of timely care. I would think that would NOT be working the way it was intended to work. #txlege

do the unborn babies have the right to use the bathroom? #txlege

so he thinks you'll remain pregnant if you don't expel the now dead fetus? #txlege #HB7

not sure I can hang in there through #HB7, y'all. hearing about how we're protecting more imaginary children when there are real children we could protect is not exactly going to go well. with their imaginary fingers, toes, eyelashes and buttholes. #txlege

Angelia Orr for Texas is advised that for generations, bathrooms that separated people based on the color of their skin were also the norm. it's not radical to reinstitute that kind of bigotry, but it is terrible. #txlege

Virdell is talking about an IMAGINARY GRANDDAUGHTER that he is "protecting" and saying that trans people are living in a "fantasy land". riiiiight. #txlege

oops! mixed-up Troxclair and Hickland because they look like clones and I don't think we should have clones in our public bathrooms. Troxclair supports "a strong second amendment" and is endorsed by TSRA and the NRA. #txlege

Hickland is endorsed by Gun Owners of America--an astroturf group created after the Texas State Rifle Association endorsed a safe storage campaign that GOA members simply could not stomach. it's a little rich for her to pretend she cares about kids being killed by gun violence. #txlege

this bill creates a loophole in statute large enough to grab women by the genitals and let the potential sexual assaulters sue our local governments when we rebuff their advances. #SB8 #txlege

people who care about the safety of women and girls don't vote for a sexual predator. yet Angelia Orr has voted for several of them. #txlege #SB8