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Presented without comment b/c honestly ...
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Going downtown to protest the NRA & GOP in
#Houston
tomorrow? Please be prepared and take care of yourself. Allow me to offer tips based on my decades of experience as a lawyer (tho this is NOT legal advice), activist, and person who hates hot weather. A thread:
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Please, man who lives on a street where houses cost well over $1M each, sends his kids to the city's most elite private school, and is married to a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, please tell me about being part of the working class.
@tedcruz
you are so tiresome.
Today’s Dems are the party of the rich.
GOP is and should be the party of the working class.
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Per WaPo, "Donald Trump now says 'a global power structure' is out to stop him."
We are, but most people just call us women.
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Remember, you may not intend to use anything as a weapon & you may be committed to nonviolence. You cannot control what the police might claim about your intentions. Sorry to be cynical, but this is the NRA. It'll be hot out. GUNS WILL BE PRESENT.
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If you want to commit civil disobedience, which is legit but which can get you arrested, do it only as part of pre-arranged plan with a group of people providing support. Don't risk you own safety or others' safety by making this up on the spot. Seriously, just don't.
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Practically speaking, be prepared for the weather. Hydrate, wear sunscreen & a hat, sturdy walking shoes, have a minor first aid kit (bandaids, mostly), a soft plastic water bottle, and a couple of small quick snacks in case you have a dizzy spell.
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Commit to be safe & nonviolent, but have a plan for things getting bad. Have a place to meet your friends if you have to disperse quickly. Don't wear jewelry or baggy clothes that can be grabbed and yanked. Let someone know if you are going alone & check in when you get home.
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Do not bring or carry ANYTHING that the police or an opponent can claim you used or construe as or treat as a weapon. Assume it will used against you. That means no wooden flagpoles. No wooden stakes on signs. No metal water bottles. No umbrellas.
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For real. This is critical. Don't make a decision that can affect others. Don't do something that gets someone else arrested, trampled, or shot. You can't make those decisions for other people.
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And look, even if you assume the absolute BEST intentions about the police, very, very few are well-trained or experienced with managing protests. Hope for the best, but assume the worst. And consider that even if you are willing to risk something, those around you may not be.
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Respect the role of legal observers. They are not there to take sides or provide legal advice. They are there to document what happens so that if things go wrong, there is a record and people will have recourse.
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I'm not trying to tone police or tell people what they should and should not do. Civil disobedience is a legit option in many cases and for some people, but it includes an obligation to the larger crowd.
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When in doubt, step out of the way and sit down. If you're sitting with your back against the wall away from the action, it is hard for anyone (cops) to falsely accuse you of instigating violence or breaking other laws.
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Likewise, respect the requests of demonstration organizers. They may know things you do not, as they are connected to a network of people who can see different parts of the crowd. They're trying to keep you safe and keep the focus on the targets of the demonstration.
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Here are some tips specifically about filming at demonstrations.
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Why should an Aryan Brotherhood member get to plunge a Black man into debt? AJ’s a friend of a friend & has huge bills as he’s recovering from being shot.
Here’s a concrete way to counteract racism.
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I'll add to this if I think of other things but please:
- Be safe.
- Speak up.
- Demand accountability from elected officials who again and again ask for thoughts and prayers, but prioritize Guns Over People.
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The First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Note that it has limits.
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And here's a reminder that Discovery Green is not exactly public property. Different rules apply there. And keep in mind that while you can be on a public sidewalk, rules change once you are on private property or in the street.
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OK adding to the
#Houston
#NRAconvention
demonstration thread - do not get into spaces so tight they prevent a quick exit. Think of how quickly (horrible to say) the Astroworld concert turned deadly because of barricades & loud crowds.
Barricades all along the sidewalk between Discovery Green, where protests are planned for tomorrow’s NRA convention, and the GRB Convention Center already
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Be very aware of your exit routes when you protest, and do not let yourself get trapped against a barricade.
Watch out for others.
Don't press in.
Don't push through or push anyone.
Step back.
Don't get swept up.
Background -
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Other things to carry-Sharpies for writing key info on your arm, your ID and a few bucks but not your whole wallet. Your necessary keys. but not your whole key ring. And a backpack is fine, but pockets are better. Bags can be grabbed and (broken record) used as a weapon.
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Whatever it is, remember:
1- you can't control how others will react.
2- you don't get to opt anyone else into civil disobedience without their consent.
3- if your protest goal is holding people accountable, consider whether it serves that purpose to become the story yourself.
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Sincere or not, some are asking about eggs & fruit as weapons. Assume a bad actor will misconstrue or weaponize that tomato before you make the decision to throw it. A pie in the face is battery, even whipped cream on a paper plate.
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Another good point (sorry to the person who added - can't find you) - phone chargers/extra batteries are great to have. Just have a place to stash them so no one calls them projectiles/weapons.
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@AChambersTaylor
@iamodus_
TY. I want the craven and wanton behavior of the NRA and GOP elected officials to be the story, and I don't want friends getting hurt. If this helps then I'm glad.
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Here's how Republican-driven voter suppression is working in Texas.
In Texas, you must register to vote by January 31, 2022 to vote in the March 1, 2022 primary election.
You cannot register to vote online, but must fill out a paper card & mail it.
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#HouNews
today on the
#TxGov
race:
@BetoORourke
has a Latinos con Beto rally at a park in the working class, industrial East End.
@GregAbbott_TX
will have a "fireside chat" about issues facing "our community" at a private club in River Oaks.
Which side are you on?
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Houston seems to have our own My Pillow guy and wow, nobody needs that.
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@lyzl
Was at a Tex-Mex place in Houston once & the hosted came on the PA system to say there was a blue vulva in the parking lot with its lights on. She repeated blue vuvla several times & it got super quiet. I said loudly WELL I KNOW ITS NOT MINE, MINE’S PINK and everyone died.
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"She doesn't have the look. She doesn't have the stamina," said Trump, sniffling constantly while gulping water.
#debate
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If you've heard about the Texas Democrats who left the state in order to break quorum and stop some really bad legislation, & you think they are somehow 'not doing their job' or 'running and hiding,' you should know a few things that might change your mind. 1/
#txlege
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Voter suppression isn't just one tactic. It is a whole host of them, small ways to manipulate the system at every point so you can't just point to one small thing and fix it. IT IS SYSTEMIC. And in Texas, endemic. And that is the legacy of almost 30 years of Republican rule.
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@BitterOldPunk
Feel your pain. Ppl working in abortion care for the past 30yrs have been warning about anti-abortion activists branching out & aligning with white supremacist & anti-gov't activists but people kept telling us to find common ground & not be single-issue voters & HERE WE ARE.
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@JessicaValenti
A friend was living with a guy who walked in on her while she was cleaning the toilet. He asked what she was doing, & he told her toilets were self-cleaning. Needless to say, that didn't last long at all. I'll never forget her telling me the story.
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@Krissy_Lyn
@AnaMardoll
Gee, it's too bad she had to blow up and burn her car and never get in another one ever again.
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@Team_Mitch
It is in incredibly poor taste to display tombstones announcing the dates you “killed” political opponents. But
#TeamMitch
doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt—this display is incitement & provocation. And now is the wrong time to provoke & incite.
#MoscowMich
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We were 12, sitting silently. There were 6 men sent to monitor us. Some days, Gilead seems pretty real.
#FightBackTX
#TXhandmaids
2 DPS officers, Senate door guy & sergeant at arms have positioned themselves around a group of
#handmaidstale
activists in Senate
#txlege
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Tomorrow,
#PlannedParenthood
clinics across US will open b/c staff are there to provide care no matter what. Terrorists won't win.
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@BitterOldPunk
Yep. I get no joy in pointing it out. At a certain point, when every bomber and assassin gets called a lone wolf, you have to face the fact that wolves are pack animals.
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My
#HurricaneLane
tips as a Houstonian for Hawaiians: 1) you can store extra water in ziplock bags. Freeze some flat. If you lose power, you can use to keep food cool, then drink when melted. Fill all pots, pans, pitchers too. 2) Get charcoal for your grill. If power is out 1/
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The ripple effects of breaking HISD will be catastrophic for Houston.
Did you know that with over 27,000 employees,
#HISD
is one of the largest employers in the city?
The
@GHPartnership
doesn't include HISD on its list of top employers though. Why not? 1/x
#HouNews
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Republicans love to talk about personal responsibility unless and until someone tries to hold them personally responsible.
Abbott has got to go.
"You’ll be shocked to hear this, but it’s not me that’s responsible for this,"
@GovAbbott
said about school budget problems around Texas.
Even though he tied extra funding for schools last year to a voucher plan that couldn't pass, Abbott points the finger at feds & schools.
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So, all of a sudden, voter registration APPLICATIONS are being rationed. The Sec. of State's office told the League of Women Voters to raise the money they needed to print some. And warned them not to use old forms. 3/
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There is a super-easy solution to this, on the one hand - allowing people to register online. Texas already allows registered voters to update certain information online. Online registrations would go through the same process as paper registrations in terms of being verified. 5/
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Quorum-breaking is a legitimate tool in representative democracy - otherwise we wouldn't require a quorum for laws to pass. This was their only option.
So cheers to our Texas Democrats, risking arrest to ensure Texans' voting rights are protected. 16/16
#txlege
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Of course, the GOP does not want people to register to vote online.
If we get an online option, you can bet it will be clunky by design. One that you'll have to fill in, hit a red button that looks like submit but really takes you to a confirm screen, etc. 6/
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But there are shortages in the number of cards available. The Sec. of State's office issued a statement -
“We are limited in what we can supply this year, because of the paper shortage and the cost constraints due to the price of paper and the supply of paper." 2/
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So if the League can fundraise to print more forms, why can't county election offices, which are also experiencing shortages?
Republicans passed a bill outlawing the use of private funds by county offices for election purposes.
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Hey Senator
@JohnCornyn
I’m going to tweet each and every one of these stories I see to you until you say, publicly & without hedging, that children can & do get COVID & can die from it.
Hope others will do so as well so you don’t miss any.
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But even if we got online registration, we should still have paper cards. At the post office, for the League to hand out at citizenship ceremonies, at high school civics fairs. (Which presumes high schools fulfilling their obligation to register students but I digress). 7/
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Apparently
@NathanFillion
will be looking down on me this visit to the OB/GYN ... So unsettling.
http://t.co/FDinE7i5Hl
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@MsLindsayGraham
Excellent & true - we’ve both seen it.
Lord but this place is testing us. Be safe tomorrow ok?
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So...if you, like me, find Ted Cruz tiresome, might I suggest something uplifting to do to help with a Ted Cruz detox? Support my favorite Third Ward black-founded, black-led nonprofit & their campaign to give their residents a break this holiday season.
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32 minutes ago,
@GregAbbott_TX
started a press conference.
28 minutes ago, video showing SWAT in a Houston classroom.
Chaotic reports - active shooter? drill?
Nearby schools went on lockdown. LE responded.
Abbott kept talking. Guess he assumed it could have been worse.
This is the new reality for our kids who are just trying to learn and live another day!
There was an incident at Heights High School in Houston Texas and SWAT is going classroom to classroom
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@katsuzak
@timheidecker
Yeah the public/private partnerships are kind of a sneaky end run around the 1st amendment, intentional or not. Between that & everyone talking about "free speech" instead of terms of service for things like Twitter, things have definitely changed.
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@murraynewman
@HoustonChron
So, who, I wonder, paid for the ad. Those aren't cheap. ISD funds?
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I think registering voters, GOTV, and heckling Ted Cruz are the highest & best uses for 99% of celebs as far as politics go. (And I put Matthew McConaughey in that 99%)
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Believing abortion providers are murderers so you can kill them isn't mental illness. It is terrorism.
#PlannedParenthood
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I'd rather pay $23.47 in taxes to improve infrastructure & healthcare & hire more chemical plant regulators in Texas than fork over the several thousand dollars I pay for the inhalers I need on days when the air is so thick here in the PetroMetro that I can barely breathe...
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The Democrats leaving the state to break quorum isn't them giving up or chickening out. It is them shining a light on anti-democratic legislation promoted by anti-democratic Republicans who want to restrict the right to vote. 15/
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So whether or not he speaks, we have to keep calling him out. Because we need him to lose now, before he fails up again. Stranger things have happened.
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@synapse2000
I lol’d. Visiting Denver f/ work, I was on Tinder to find someone who wanted to go out for a drink or several. Everyone very politely offered to take me for a hike or bike ride or maybe coffee or ice cream.
It’s Tinder. Stop being so wholesome, Denver!
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I only allow myself to look at
#KateGate
gossip after checking an item off my (impossibly long) to-do list follow me for more productivity & time-management tips.
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#Houston
- next year we vote for mayor. John Whitmire, who has been in elected office since 1972, is one of the candidates.
His campaign kickoff speech showed what kind of campaign he'll run--divisive--and what kind of mayor he'd be--not good on the details.
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@asymmetricinfo
I was born 2 years before you and I remember VIVIDLY how terrifying the HIV/AIDS epidemic was, especially the panic of older people before anyone understood what was going on and fear instead of facts were ruling the day. So lucky you seem to have missed that.
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Hold the presses. I agree with Donald Trump. Bring back Law & Order. I'm tired of re-runs. I want new episodes!
#debate
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In the regular legislative session after a catastrophic power grid failure during a winter storm that killed hundreds of Texas, Republicans passed NO substantial regulations to fix to the grid or protect consumers. 2/
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But the worst - by far - is this guy calling 5th Ward a blank slate.
It.
Is.
Home.
To.
Generations.
You.
Are.
Pricing.
Out.
And.
Erasing.
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I know I said this earlier, but it is literally headline news that a man managed to do his job while kids were interrupting.
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They did try to pass really punitive bills to restrict access to voting. Bills contained things like different rules voting in counties bigger than 1M people than in smaller ones. Guess what? In Texas, the big counties vote Democratic. 3/
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Annoyed Mealer got got voted on to the METRO board?
On May 4th, Harris County votes on 3 elected HCAD board seats, positions we’ve never filled by voting before.
Republicans are hoping you won’t notice & wont vote.
Curious?
A thread.
#HouNews
#HarrisCountyHustle
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Oh, this game is going to distract the Internet for hours...
Replace the caption on every / any New Yorker cartoon with “Jeffery Toobin took his dick out on a Zoom call.”
#zoomdick
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But Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants to be president, so to score points, he vetoed the part of the budget that pays legislative staff & agency salaries. Some Republicans publicly opposed this move, calling it tyrannical and questioning its legality. 7/
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The game is rigged.
The GOP is not open to negotiation or collaboration, even on simple changes that would make it easier for voters with disabilities to vote.
The hearings are a farce. The GOP does not feel it is accountable to voters. 13/
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Many waited all day to testify about a specific problem, easy to correct with just a few words, with the oath assistants to voters with disabilities would have to take. Not a single Republican was willing to change the oath to help voters with disabilities. Not. One. 10/
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When they got called out on offensive parts of bills that obviously targeted Black voters, like making Sunday early voting start later in the day so people couldn't go straight from church to vote, they pretended those changes were typos. 4/
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The non-cop
#McKinney
men in videos who act like their whiteness deputizes them to intervene/try to block kids' cameras? Dangerous.
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Harris County has 2 elections in May & early vote for the 1st one has begun.
Republicans really hope Democrats & progressives & the left won’t show up.
A thread on why these are high stakes races.
#HouNews
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So,
@GregAbbott_TX
is skipping the NRA speech but making sure to keep up the racist dog-whistles to distract Texans from the fact he doesn’t intend to do a damn thing to protect kids. He’s way too focused on running for President.
"I hate to say this, but there are more people shot every weekend in Chicago than there are in schools in Texas...And so, if you're looking for a real solution, Chicago teaches that what you're talking about is not a real solution."
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@CSMFHT
Reminds me of very cool friends’ kid who, after uncle inquired (hopefully) about how kid liked 1st time at Sunday School at their evangelical church, basically said he liked the cool Jesus stories, just like he likes all mythology. Not the takeaway the uncle wanted!
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Stop erasing Black history in
#Houston
.
Stop erasing Fifth Ward, and keep your paws off Fourth & Third while we’re at it.
Stop renaming neighborhoods.
Stop calling people’s lives & homes a blank canvas.
Black Lives Matter.
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In my testimony, I held up a hand-drawn copy of the map of drive-thru sites. Not a single Republican asked to see it, or asked questions. Not. One.
Their minds were made up.
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@saletan
I’m sorry - you just don’t get the SAME VIBES from him, and that justifies making the incorrect statement that Buttigieg is the only exec from a red state?
Are you getting any vibes about how Texans in this thread feel about you at the moment?
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OK
#Houston
- I am here to officially call out
@CReyesRevilla
- a candidate for
#HouCouncil
District H.
When she campaigned in 2019, she engaged in a homophobic whisper campaign against one of her opponents, then denied doing so.
#thread
cc
@HoustonChron
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When Gov. Abbott called the special session, the grid issues were absent, but bills attacking trans kids joined bills trying to limit access to the polls on the agenda. More campaign posturing at the expense of Texans' fundamental rights. 8/
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Thanks for your willingness to sacrifice your own life for our 401(k)s, Lt. Gov.
@DanPatrick
. Here's a Texas-approved Do Not Resuscitate form you can fill out plus links to TxDSHS-approved vendors for DNR bracelets.
#DNRDan
Pls RT so he gets this.
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