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Columnist for the Houston Chronicle and SA Express-News, author of NYT bestsellers Tomlinson Hill and Forget the Alamo.
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Just got a note from a friend whose uncle died of hypothermia last night in Dallas. Her family and hundreds of thousands of others beg to differ.
Perry says Texans wiling to suffer blackouts to keep feds out of power market
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OK, very clear now Paxton will remain Texas attorney general. If GOP senators don't think he violated the law by firing the whistleblowers, which is black letter law, then the fix is in. The 14 senators who are blocking impeachment clearly don't care about the law.
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Texas has 1 million kids in private or home school. If they each got a $8,000 voucher, it would cost taxpayers $8 Billion. A major transfer of public money to mostly religious institutions. More:
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Unarmed college kids are apparently a lighter lift than a lone gunman in Uvalde.
Update: As of 9 p.m., 34 arrests have been made by law enforcement on the UT Austin campus related to today’s protest.
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A Texas ranger just testified that Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened to fire him if he didn't take Nate Paul's side against the FBI. Even if the senators don't take him seriously, I imagine a federal grand jury will.
#PaxtonisDone
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We've said all along that Paxton's impeachment was a political trial, not a criminal one. I am embarrassed that I thought the evidence mattered. The extreme right wing of the Republican party has won. I expect to see a lot of moderates decide not to run.
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Consequences of the Texas Senate acquitting AG Ken Paxton: Whistleblowers will not report their bosses. Statewide officials can do favors for their friends under criminal investigation. No elected official has to worry about impeachment if their party holds the Senate.
#txlege
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Liar! I don't have kids, but I pay school taxes, does that make it MY money? Are you going to refund all of the money I put into schools? Taxpayer money IS public money because public elected officials choose how to spend it. The money does not come from the parents!
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Impeached and indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton may return to office thanks to oil billionaires who spend tens of millions on Republican politicians and causes. Find out which Texas senators have taken their money: FREE LINK:
@HoustonChron
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BANNED at the BULLOCK MUSEUM! Tonight
@bryanborrough
and I were supposed to talk about the craft of writing with Becka Oliver from
@WritersLeague
. Just hours before the even,
@BullockMuseum
canceled without contacting Bryan or I with an explanation.
#ForgettheAlamo
A thread ...
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What is most infuriating about
@GregAbbott_TX
and
@DanPatrick
response to the blackout is that they pretend they and their party did not create this system. Abbott appoints the PUC! GOPers blocked reliability standards. Do not let them blame the poor
@ERCOT_ISO
folks for this.
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@BullockMuseum
@GovAbbott
@DanPatrickTX
@DadePhelan
@DrSchwertner
@WSJ
@washingtonpost
@nytimes
@VanityFair
@kirkus
But we don’t regurgitate the propaganda that Abbott’s Texas 1836 Project wants to promote. We reject the Heroic Anglo Narrative that came from white supremacists in the 19th century. We promote a more holistic and honest view of Texas’s glorious history.
#ForgettheAlamo
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Texas Gov. Abbott, Lt. Gov. Patrick have crossed the line from power politics to authoritarian bullying at
#txlege
. They are holding important bills hostage to get their unpopular priorities passed, despite widespread opposition.
@HoustonChron
#txlege
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A
@BullockMuseum
employee says they had to cancel following a social media campaign by rightwingers and an order from the board, which includes
@GovAbbott
,
@DanPatrickTX
,
@DadePhelan
and
@DrSchwertner
. Apparently, they worry true Texas history might get out.
#ForgettheAlamo
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Republicans have controlled Texas for two decades and repeatedly cut per-student funding for public schools and made Texas teachers among the lowest paid in the nation. The GOP made this mess so they could bring back segregation and creationist schools. Can’t blame Ds for this.
@cltomlinson
DEMOCRATS will say anything to protect their failing public schools...
They don't want Parents & Students to have a choice...
Texas =
#35
out of 50 states
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@BullockMuseum
If you want to read the ideas that conservatives can’t handle, you can buy
#ForgettheAlamo
here:
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If you wanted proof that Abbott and the GOP leadership is inclined toward dictatorship and punishing dissidents, here is your proof. Kicking us out of an event
@BullockMuseum
would have been unthinkable five years ago, what do they have planned for the next five?
#ForgettheAlamo
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Abbott and Patrick are giving in to authoritarian impulses. When did killing good bills approved by elected lawmakers in order to pass bad bills rejected by elected lawmakers count as democracy?
#txlege
@HoustonChron
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Why yes, that is the president
@TAMU
asking a dean to delete texts to cover up malfeasance. This all you need to know about public servants in Texas.
Then-President Kathy Banks* traded bitter texts with Then-Interim Dean Jose Luis Bermudez** on July 11 about Kathleen McElroy after she backed out of the
@TAMU
Jour. director job.
*Banks resigned 10 days later
**Bermudez resigned 6 days later
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@BullockMuseum
@GovAbbott
@DanPatrickTX
@DadePhelan
@DrSchwertner
After all, we’re in demand following glowing reviews from Texas history professors writing in
@WSJ
and
@washingtonpost
. Our book has been recommended by
@nytimes
,
@vanityfair
,
@publishersweekly
and
@kirkus
. We’ve done many events where historians praise our work.
#ForgettheAlamo
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Texas business leaders have warned for years this would happen because the GOP is more worried about the culture war and Trump than what's good for the economy. Abbott ain't crowing this year!
#txlege
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@BullockMuseum
@GovAbbott
@DanPatrickTX
@DadePhelan
@DrSchwertner
@WSJ
@washingtonpost
@nytimes
@VanityFair
@kirkus
Oliver at
@WritersLeague
wants to reschedule because she believes in freedom of speech and an open exchange of ideas. We will not be censored by
@BullockMuseum
's clumsy cancel culture. Ironic that the state’s conservative leaders would pull a stunt like this.
#ForgettheAlamo
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How to turn off your water at the street if your pipes burst. Had to do it myself two days ago.
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@BullockMuseum
@GovAbbott
@DanPatrickTX
@DadePhelan
@DrSchwertner
@WSJ
@washingtonpost
@nytimes
@VanityFair
@kirkus
@WritersLeague
If
@GovAbbott
,
@DanPatrickTX
,
@DadePhelan
and
@DrSchwertner
are not behind this decision, then we will graciously accept
@BullockMuseum
’s invitation to reschedule. If we don’t get an invite, well, we’ll have confirmation of what happened.
#ForgettheAlamo
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Two things I'll be keen to watch in the weeks ahead. Will the federal grand jury in San Antonio produce an indictment? How much West Texas oil money is going to flow to the 14 who saved Paxton?
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ICYMI: Texas Republicans are jamming through a $10 Billion boondoggle that will show up on our electricity bills. Electricity executives hate it. Grid experts hate it. Environmentalists hate it. A bill only Dan Patrick could love.
@HoustonChron
#txlege
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We have to wonder, how far will they go? Will they ban us from state college campuses? Will they ban our book at the Alamo and Bullock gift shops? Will they ban us from the State Capitol during the Texas Book Festival?
#ForgettheAlamo
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I know from experience, Dan Patrick will try to silence anyone who criticizes him. Texas academics are terrified of him.
Hullabaloo over a comment made by Aggie prof as guest lecturer at UTMB. Joy Alonso, opioid expert, evidently made some offhanded comment criticizing Lt Gov Dan Patrick and was suspended by A&M. Evidently the autocratic Patrick is beyond criticism.
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Since
@ERCOT_ISO
press call, the amount of available power on the grid has gone down. As management said, the problem is natural gas going offline. We need more renewables, not less.
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“Well before the freezing temperatures arrived, Defendants began to decrease production of natural gas to drive up the price.” PART 2 in my series on the lawsuits accusing natural gas pipeline companies of triggering the 2021 freeze.
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I am so tired of men who think because they are successful at one thing, they are geniuses about everything.
Ad in today’s
@HoustonChron
. Guessing
@MattressMack
and
@LinaHidalgoTX
won’t be sharing a Thanksgiving parade float anytime soon.
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If a gas station price-gouges during a storm, the owner goes to jail. When natural gas pipelines did it in 2021, they got rich when Texas officials let them get away with it. The final part in my series, "Pipelines, Blackouts and Politics."
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I feel a temporary restraining order coming on. You know, federal waterway, partially governed by International Boundary Water Commission, and who knows how many other interested parties who might think drowning people and interfering with navigation is a bad idea.
The buoys have arrived and the installation of the marine barrier on the Rio Grande begins today.
#OperationLoneStar
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No more mugshot galleries on
@HoustonChron
. “Not what we want to be known for” says
@MarkLorando
Staff applauds.
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Hilarious! If you oppose eliminating property taxes, just say so. If you plan to limit school vouchers, give details. And when you meet some real historians, let me know, because the folks you came up with were political hacks who planned a kangaroo court, not a debate.
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Chris Tomlinson is a total embarrassment to the Houston Chronicle. He’s one of the authors of "Forget the Alamo." The book was a disgrace, attempting to rewrite Alamo history. When called out, he refused to debate real historians. Now he writes a misleading editorial on my
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Texas is the worst state in the nation for health care access and affordability. We're at or near the bottom in all health statistics. Why aren't we making any progress?
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Lt. Gov, Dan Patrick takes credit for oppressing free speech and policing thought in Texas.
@BullockMuseum
proves it is a propaganda outlet. As for his fact-free comment, well, a dozen people professional historians disagree.
#ForgettheAlamo
#txlege
As a member of the Preservation Board, I told staff to cancel this event as soon as I found out about it. Like efforts to move the Cenotaph, which I also stopped, this fact-free rewriting of TX history has no place
@BullockMuseum
.
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Why don't Texas officials investigate allegations pipeline companies triggered the Winter Storm Uri blackouts? Seven top officials have 6.3 million reasons why:
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You’ve heard of yellow journalism. Let me tell you about pink slime journalism and the Christian nationalists behind it. Because there are now more pink slime websites than local news sites.
@HoustonChron
@ExpressNews
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Thank you
@PENamerica
for your support. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has confirmed he ordered
@BullockMuseum
to cancel the talk because he doesn't like the content of
#ForgettheAlamo
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Reminder that Texas is a single-party state with no checks and balances.
BREAKING: the Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked mask mandates in Dallas & San Antonio, siding with Gov. Greg Abbott
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Texas has spent two years and billions of dollars on the most aggressive attempt by any state to take control over federal border security. There’s no indication it has worked. Not me, but the Wall Street Journal.
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My latest project:
Most Texans believe cold weather in February 2021 shut down natural gas power plants and froze wind turbines, triggering one of the state's deadliest blackouts. But the true cause was corporate greed, according to a growing number of lawsuits filed across the country.
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Hey Texas business people, how do you feel about the
@GregAbbott_TX
telling you how to run your business? Don't be naïve and think it will stop here. He will spare no one's rights to get win the GOP primary.
New:
@GovAbbott
issues an executive order banning vaccine mandates by any "entity," including private businesses:
Abbott also adds the issue to the special session agenda:
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Wondering why
@ERCOT_ISO
is not worried about the Texas electric grid today? Because of that West Texas wind and sun.
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Too many people don’t realize this until AFTER they move here.
I just paid my property taxes and anyone who tells you Texas is a low-tax state is LYING.
The tax structure in Texas is designed to soak the middle class and protect the richest earners (with zero income tax) and the landed gentry (with agricultural tax exemptions on ranches).
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Some parents may want children to learn Christianity is the only true religion, that African Americans benefited from slavery, or that LGBTQ people are perverts, but most Texans don't. Texas business leaders should stop school vouchers.
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Well, there's the time he cancelled my speaking engagement:
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Thank
@MotherJones
for this great piece on
@DanPatrick
censoring us
@BullockMuseum
#txlege
#ForgettheAlamo
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Dan is demagogue who lies to rile up his supporters. He is a danger to democracy. But I would never try to silence him the way he violated my
#freespeech
by canceling our talk
@BullockMuseum
. This deceitful fundraising proves white supremacy is alive in Texas.
#forgetthealamo
This is why we don't want critical race theory taught in schools. It breeds false narratives about our history, just like several 'woke' writers did with their book about the Alamo. Read this article and learn how they debunk the book.
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The GOP extremists saved Paxton, now they are coming for our public schools like night follows day.
When we empower parents to choose the best education path for their child, Texas students thrive.
A majority of Texans from EVERY community support school choice.
NOW is the time to deliver on our promise to bring school choice to every family in Texas.
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School board members backed by Christian nationalists begin purging ideas they don't like, in addition to books.
#txlege
@HoustonChron
@ExpressNews
#TxEd
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Worth remembering that Stickland's financial backers for Defend Texas Liberty PAC are Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, who objected to a Jew serving as the speaker of the Texas House. Christian nationalists and anti-Semites flock together.
New: Far-right GOP activist Jonathan Stickland hosted white supremacist activist Nick Fuentes Friday at his office in Fort Worth.
Texas Republican Party leader Matt Rinaldi was also seen briefly entering the building, though he denied meeting Fuentes.
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Gov. Greg Abbott perpetuated Texas's tradition of condoning racist violence. The Daniel Perry pardon in context.
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I'm very curious to hear why Atmos couldn't deliver enough natural gas during this cold snap. Something has gone seriously wrong, and Atmos refuses to say what.
#txlege
Grand Prairie opens warming center for residents without heat due to low natural gas pressure. The city said the Grand Peninsula and Westchester area are experiencing "very low" natural gas pressure due to cold weather.
#EnergyTwitter
#NatGas
#TxLege
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Turns out natural gas, coal and nuclear-powered electricity aren’t all that reliable. The future of the Texas grid requires a mix and new technologies are a big part of the answer. FREE link:
@HoustonChron
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How an oil billionaire and Gov. Greg Abbott donor is helping Elon Musk's SpaceX take over 43 acres of sensitive parkland in South Texas in a land swap scam:
@HoustonChron
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Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton owe their ascendancy to the Texas GOP's fundamentalist wing, financed by billionaire oilmen who also gave money to at least 7 senators. Now those billionaires are coming to Paxton's defense, gathering the 10 voted needed to acquit.
Impeached and indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton may return to office thanks to oil billionaires who spend tens of millions on Republican politicians and causes. Find out which Texas senators have taken their money: FREE LINK:
@HoustonChron
#txlege
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My
#LifeLesson
of the last 24 hours for my fellow writers. Based on social media metrics, people care a lot more about your score on
@ratemyskyperoom
than your New York Times Book Review. Both on Twitter and Facebook. Just sayin'.
Room Rater Book Club. Love the poster art. Lamp. The book is Forget the Alamo. Available everywhere. Even Texas. Minor cord violation. 9/10
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Our leaders wanted Texas open for business, they just didn’t say what business.
Texas has requested 5 mortuary trailers from the federal government in anticipation of an influx of dead bodies as Covid-19 surges across the state, state officials say.
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Yup, I know exactly what it’s like when the ruling class tries to silence you, because
@DanPatrick
has done it to me multiple times and keeps doing it on this platform.
Patrick: What happens when the courts come after you because you said something that the ruling class didn’t like? That’s what these other countries are all about. They shut down the ruling class. They want to be sure that anyone who speaks up against ruling class disappears
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Thank you to everyone who expressed outrage over
@BullockMuseum
canceling our speaking event last night with
@WritersLeague
. The pressure is working, director Margaret Koch is sending out apologetic emails to supporters who are dropping their memberships.
#ForgettheAlamo
#txlege
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Wrong, wrong, wrong. Why must you turn every crisis into a culture war about political identity? Why are you dividing Texans with such a misleading thread? Have you even looked at the ERCOT data?
With electricity blackouts across Texas, many are wondering: what happened? How does the energy capital of the United States run out of power?
Here’s what happened. THREAD
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Wow, this is pure misinformation.
If the last few days have proven anything, it’s that we need oil & gas. Relying solely on renewable energy would be catastrophic. Many of these sources have proven to be unreliable. We must move towards an all encompassing approach to energy.
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Texas has a new billionaire in town, paying Gov. Greg Abbott $6 million to destroy public schools. He promises to use the money to take out reasonable Republicans in the primary. But there is something you can do to stop it:
@HoustonChron
#txlege
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BREAKING: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick got his white elephant, SB6, approved on a party-line vote. Energy executives and electric grid experts denounced this lousy idea, but the Republican majority passed it anyway. On to the House:
@HoustonChron
#txlege
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Bitcoin and crypto miners are costing Texans more than $1.8 billion in higher electric bills, and a top energy firm says that price will only go higher. Here's what lawmakers can do to protect consumers.
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Over 65% of Texans support vaccine mandates, poll says. But our state leaders only worry about the 15% of anti-vaxxers that vote in the GOP primary, so Texas is seeing the highest infection rates since February. Bad for business.
@HoustonChron
#txlege
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I’ve covered a lot of rigged elections in Africa. I know every trick. Rule number one: a rigged election is never, ever close.
Without evidence, President Trump falsely attacks voting integrity and alleges election interference as he trails Biden in electoral votes
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Mexico is our largest trading partner. Hispanics are the majority of Texans. Yet 8 GOP governors have sent National Guard troops to militarize the border. Audits show they do very little to improve security. What's really going on?
#txlge
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Once upon a time, on a dark and stormy night, Texans could sleep with confidence that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas would keep the lights and heat on. Not anymore.
#txlege
@HoustonChron
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The
@WSJ
editorial board says
@DanPatrick
rigged the impeachment to save Paxton and strengthen his power in Texas. "Texas Republicans in Austin risk becoming the Albany Democrats." Funny, no MAGA-heads are emailing me this WSJ hot take!
#txlege
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Vaccinologist
@PeterHotez
is doing perhaps his most important work yet, defending against the authoritarian attacks on scientists specifically, and intellectuals more broadly, that endanger our prosperity. Will you help?
#txlege
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Texas oilmen have a history of extreme right-wing politics, but this generation employs antisemites and Christian nationalists. They also have Republican politicians marking in goose step:
#txlege
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They know they are wrong, and they are trying to avoid a paper trail. This is the definition of a cover up.
Wow. In court hearing, CPS supervisor says her boss told her not to put *anything* about cases investigating gender-affirming care for trans kids in emails, texts, etc.
Being told not to put things in writing has never happened before and is "unethical," she says.
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True,
@ERCOT_ISO
as an entity has a legal obligation to maintain the grid, but Republican legislatures wrote those rules, and GOP governors appoint the agency's overseers, the PUC. What I should say is do not let Abbott and Patrick blame-shift.
@cltomlinson
@GregAbbott_TX
@DanPatrick
@ERCOT_ISO
Your article actually says ‘While we may not know the details for months, the fault lies ultimately with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the grid that supplies power to most Texans.’ I’m sure they share some blame but they primarily enforce the rules.
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The highest outdoor temperature I ever experienced was in Iraq, while I embedded with an infantry unit in 2003. The heat seemed unbearable, especially under body armor. But that was nothing compared to what’s coming to the Middle East. Here’s a thread:
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During
#BannedBooksWeek
, Lt. Gov.
@DanPatrick
is trying to cancel our book (Forget The Alamo) again — this time w/ a show trial masquerading as a panel. He says he doesn’t care whether we show up or not, he aims to make an example of us. THREAD:
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Honestly, Abbott has been wanting the feds to do something. The publicity of fighting with Biden is the whole point. Every independent review has shown Operation Lone Star has made no appreciably impact.
As feds threaten to sue, Gov. Abbott sends letter to President Biden blaming him for forcing Texas to take its own actions to stop migrants from crossing the Rio Grande.
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Small-town Texas sheriffs and law enforcement. An investigative reporter could make a career out of them:
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Shocking how Texas institutions fold under
@GovAbbott
and
@DanPatrick
's political oppression. If you say something they don't like they will shut you up quick.
#ForgettheAlamo
We will not be deterred by
@GregAbbott_TX
’s radicalism in support of his own political prospects and reelection campaign.
We’re not finished with Governor Abbott.
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Lawmakers promised they would ensure there is never another
#TexasBlackout
. They failed. Instead, Texans will pay $9B in extra charges on their utility bills and companies that caused the
#FebruaryFreeze
will get guaranteed profits.
#txlege
@HoustonChron
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We’re up to
#50
now.
Yep. Sales skyrocketing. Penguin has ordered a second printing. Guess we should thank Dan Patrick.
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Laissez-faire markets are fun until someone puts an eye out. Nearly 200 people died in Texas during the rolling blackouts of 2021’s winter storm. But greed, not the weather, was to blame, a four-part series.
#txlege
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The New York Times Book Review liked Forget the Alamo. So will you and your dad! A perfect Father's Day gift.
#ForgettheAlamo
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No need since he already accepted $3,000,000 from Paxton’s main supporters.
New this morning:
@DanPatrick
says he won’t fundraise during Paxton impeachment trial. Senate Dem and GOP caucuses also say they won’t accept donations
#txlege
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The problem is not Centerpoint, it’s the natural gas and coal plants that are not weatherized. Wind is producing more than expected. The transmission companies cannot deliver power that is not produced.
The power situation is disastrous, and it likely won’t be fixed tonight – Space City Weather
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Let me tell you about my Great Aunt Luke and Mary Beth. They taught me what true love looks like. They couldn't celebrate
#PrideMonth
, but they are why I do, and everyone should.
@HoustonChron
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Only Texas would unveil a statue honoring an enslaver, illegal immigrant and sexual predator at a public institution in 2023.
#txlege
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He’s suspended private property rights, free speech and the state Legislature. Have to imagine he’ll declare a state of emergency and suspend the state constitution next.
Texas is open 100%.
Texans should have the freedom to go where they want without any limits, restrictions, or requirements.
Today, I signed a law that prohibits any TX business or gov’t entity from requiring vaccine passports or any vaccine information.
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The more we learn about how the electric grid failed, the more apparent our state regulators’ failure becomes. Texas regulator needs to explain why natural gas wells were shut down BEFORE the February Freeze and caused Texas Blackouts. My latest:
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No socially responsible corporation is safe in Texas.
Party officials in several counties have adopted resolutions against the grocery store magnate for a litany of alleged offenses against the state Republican platform.
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Our refusal to care for the needy is costing the Texas economy $7 billion a year. Climate change will make it worse. We need to expand Medicaid.
@HoustonChron
@ExpressNews
#txlege
#healthcare
#ClimateCrisis
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Because natural gas traders do not want us to know how they are taking advantage of us.
I wish gas markets in Texas were transparent & showed real-time & day-ahead prices w/ geographic fidelity.
We can do it for power prices, why not for gas prices?
Access to high-quality information is an important precondition for efficient markets.
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And you wonder why kids hate capitalists.
Property developer and CEO Tim Gurner: "We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around."
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Impeached Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton offered top donors an unrivaled benefit: a get-out-of-jail-free card. His defenders think that's OK:
#txlege
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Texas business condemns GOP authoritarianism. Will it make a difference?
#Texas
business community comes united against SB1 & boldy standing up to
@GregAbbott_TX
&
@DanPatrick
. “Texas biz groups come out in force against ban on vaccine mandates for private employers”
#econdev
#policy
@Richard_Florida
@RonBrownstein
@matthewjdowd
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