Sunday, July 12, 2020
Thursday, July 09, 2020
Lone Star Round Up: #CancelCulture comes for TXGOP-Con
Breaking: Houston officials have canceled the Texas GOP’s in-person convention due to public health concerns.https://t.co/sv3ItxZDhM
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 8, 2020
Steve Hotze, @TexasGOP secretary Josh Flynn, former RPT chair Cathie Adams & others, repped by Jared Woodfill, just sued @SylvesterTurner for ordering the cancellation of next week's in-person state GOP convention, alleging various violations of the Texas Constitution. #txlege https://t.co/4wN2KwWGZX pic.twitter.com/u8sLGQgliV
— Jasper Scherer (@jaspscherer) July 9, 2020
There's been a spike in people dying at home in Houston.
— ProPublica (@propublica) July 8, 2020
That suggests coronavirus deaths may be higher than reported.
Produced in partnership with @NBCNews: https://t.co/ezA6zrjP5v pic.twitter.com/BcsR2VTxwQ
BREAKING: Austin Convention Center being prepped as field hospital for coronavirus patients https://t.co/IFKaBPTByM
— Austin Statesman (@statesman) July 7, 2020
After new research was released showing that the novel coronavirus strain in Houston is potentially more infectious than the original strain, a top Houston doctor and researcher is offering more insight on what the new information means. https://t.co/WUa62JTdS8 pic.twitter.com/DXQbVcbn2E
— Laredo Morning Times (@lmtnews) July 9, 2020
Pandemic may be making human trafficking worse in Houston https://t.co/epwVZ1tnx0 #COVIDγΌ19 #HouNews
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) July 8, 2020
#BREAKING - The attorney representing the family of Vanessa Guillen said Sunday that the remains found in rural Bell County have been positively identified as those of the slain Fort Hood soldier. pic.twitter.com/xdZqZ0j90n
— KWTX News 10 (@kwtx) July 5, 2020
Multiple female veterans say there's a negative stigma to reporting assault and harassment in the military.
— Texas Standard (@TexasStandard) July 6, 2020
According to Vanessa Guillen’s family, that’s what happened in her situation. https://t.co/DUoNGaIeeP
This is fucking disgusting.
— πΎππ (@mo0nlitruby) July 6, 2020
"I DEMAND A FEMALE OFFICER"
Austin, Texas PD @Austin_Police pic.twitter.com/eAiIejUP8j
Editor’s Note: LGBTQ leaders are spearheading Houston's #BlackLivesMatter movement. https://t.co/eCVGlHRgPr
— OutSmart Magazine (@outsmarthouston) July 2, 2020
“This movement is not just in this moment, but continuous,” he says. “Take the way you’re feeling and responding, and continue with this movement. Don’t step out.” Brandon Mack, @BLMHOU
— END HIV Houston (@ENDHIVHou) July 3, 2020
Read more at @outsmarthoustonhttps://t.co/kD76lhvE79 pic.twitter.com/Y2PwcYlc8F
So, it got a lil heated at city council this morning --> 'He's not listening': Acevedo, council members spar over delayed helmet vote https://t.co/cY1jYFYD3v #hounews
— Matt Schwartz (@SchwartzChron) July 8, 2020
Kinder Morgan’s 430-mile Permian Highway Pipeline faces a maze of litigation, and the legal action against other pipelines around the U.S. could have ripple effects in Texas.
Higher than expected rates of lung, liver, esophagus and larynx cancers were found in 12 of the 21 census tracts included in the analysis. https://t.co/NJlxfKeHBW pic.twitter.com/r0cQVDvPgO
— bryan parras (@HighTechAztec) July 9, 2020
In case you needed another reason to support @donnaimamTX, she's NOT this person https://t.co/H5QzALPORl
— Katie Halper (@kthalps) July 7, 2020
How my congressional race in #TX10 relates to the most notorious incident of racist Texas law enforcement in the last 20 years, a THREAD:
— Mike Siegel (@SiegelForTexas) July 5, 2020
(π·= @courthouselover on Flickr) pic.twitter.com/YqamZie7NW
@teneshiaforHC has impeccable experience & accomplishments.
— Jill Moffitt π§’ππ (@MoffittJill) July 2, 2020
She is the best person for the job.
I, as a Harris County Precinct Chair, will be voting for her at the August CEC meeting to put her on the ballot in November.
Precinct Chairs must participatee https://t.co/fjbZkX44qM
Texas’ 24th Congressional District, which covers much of the suburban area between Dallas and Fort Worth, is considered by many to be a key political battleground.
— Texas Standard (@TexasStandard) July 2, 2020
There, two Democrats are fighting it out over who gets to run in November: https://t.co/awgZgT7WfC
Champion of Texas election law and ethics, Buck Wood, dies at 75 https://t.co/NjR4u97DNp
— Bob Garrett (@RobertTGarrett) July 4, 2020
Space history: Neil Armstrong’s El Lago home is for sale > https://t.co/VOqjrwSZpC #kprc2 #hounews pic.twitter.com/IKVa3ASB1F
— KPRC 2 Houston (@KPRC2) July 7, 2020
Astros release 2020 schedule pic.twitter.com/jGt4mqQIBZ
— Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) July 6, 2020
Wednesday, July 08, 2020
White House Update: Duck, Tucker! plus: Mary T's book, Greens convene, and Jo J's Boogaloo
Duckworth emerging as a contender to be Biden’s running mate, via @WaPoSeanhttps://t.co/dI1kEpWosE
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) July 5, 2020
I still marvel from time to time that the Hashtag Resistance has more love for Rick Wilson, David Frum, and George W. Bush than Bernie Sanders, Nina Turner, or Ilhan Omar.
— Pre-Ordered 200 Copies of Matt Yglesias' Book (@RuckCohlchez) July 7, 2020
9 of the most shocking revelations about the president from Mary Trump's book https://t.co/3Kdu03RJbj
— The Independent (@Independent) July 8, 2020
“First, Biden should declare that he will take part in a debate only if Trump releases his tax returns for 2016 through 2018. ... No more gifting Trump something he can attack while hiding his own questionable finances.”“And second, Biden should insist that a real-time fact-checking team approved by both candidates be hired by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates -- and that 10 minutes before the scheduled conclusion of the debate this team report on any misleading statements, phony numbers or outright lies either candidate had uttered. That way no one in that massive television audience can go away easily misled.”
Kanye West says he's running for president. There is no evidence of that yet. https://t.co/X5UYM8etPy pic.twitter.com/giSJwHg6IF
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) July 6, 2020
- He’s running for president in 2020 under a new banner -- the Birthday Party -- with guidance from Elon Musk and an obscure vice presidential candidate he’s already chosen. “Like anything I’ve ever done in my life,” says West, “I’m doing to win.”
- He no longer supports President Trump. “I am taking the red hat off, with this interview.”
- He’s ok with siphoning off Black votes from the Democratic nominee, thus helping Trump. “I’m not denying it, I just told you. To say that the Black vote is Democratic is a form of racism and white supremacy.”
- He’s never voted in his life.
- He was sick with Covid-19 in February.
- He’s suspicious of a coronavirus vaccine, terming vaccines “the mark of the beast.”
- He believes “Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work.”
- He envisions a White House organizational model based on the secret country of Wakanda in Black Panther.
Life as a shitlib pic.twitter.com/l9wOh6nGPW
— comrade boomer culture πΉ (@CultureBoomer) July 6, 2020
if I was the Democratic Party and didn’t want Kanye west to split the votes from my candidate I would simply have not engaged in a massive campaign to undercut the progressive front runner and replace him with a candidate less inspiring than stale bong water
— first-mate prance (@bocxtop) July 7, 2020
A vote for Kanye is a vote for Trump.
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) July 7, 2020
A vote for the Green Party is a vote for Trump.
Staying at home is a vote for Trump.
A vote for Joe Biden is a vote for Trump.
Everything is a vote for Trump.
Everything is Trump.
You are Trump.
Trump is all there is.
There is no escape.
The Marijuana Superweapon Biden Refuses to Use -> how much money does he get from the prison industrial complex, organized crime, the police and big pharma? https://t.co/Ieah3o42I1
— bring Bernie back (@AmyCMcintosh) July 7, 2020
Register for access to workshops, our online convention floor on July 11 and much more! https://t.co/5hJbDSJCWa
— Green Party US π» (@GreenPartyUS) June 25, 2020
With the @GreenPartyUS nominating convention this week, we have a number of campaign team members who will be doing workshops as part of the convention. Check out our teams workshops and the rest of the schedule!
— Howie Hawkins (@HowieHawkins) July 5, 2020
Register for the convention at https://t.co/AopN8uLjId pic.twitter.com/VhXF7XzTaM
The Guardian today published an article from Jason Wilson reporting on 2020 Libertarian presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen’s appearance on “Roads to Liberty” podcast, which Wilson claims is associated with the “Boogaloo” movement. “Boogaloo” is the right wing codename for a second civil war. Supporters of the movement want to bring about civil war either for racial or anti-government purposes.
Wilson connects one of those asking questions on the podcast, named “Squid,” to a Facebook group he says is “strewn with memes that reference insurrectionary violence, and appear to invoke white nationalist and neo-Nazi imagery and subject matter.” Squid asks Jorgensen about “boogaloo” on the podcast but she does not seem to know much about it.