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Democrats will kill the Texas Special Session today. @GovAbbott called a new session to start Saturday and added covid and school funding to the agenda. @RafaelAnchia said don’t expect there to be a quorum this weekend or Monday. @FOX4 #txlegehttps://t.co/EcaHOfbrRM pic.twitter.com/yq7RY5AmWQ
— Steven Dial (@StevenDialFox4) August 6, 2021
A hearse w/ copies of bills to bury voting rights, a higher federal minimum wage & immigrant rights now leading 151 cars from #Georgetown to the state Capitol in #Austin in honor of 151 yrs since passage of the 15th amendment. #PoorPeoplesCampaign Watch: https://t.co/4FJfoYIFRi pic.twitter.com/Ci50MvPz0E
— Poor People's Campaign (@UniteThePoor) July 31, 2021
This is perverse: we are about to reopen schools during a covid surge, and @GovAbbott is now calling a special session to prohibit schools from mandating masks where necessary. Does Covid have a great lobbyist at the Capitol or is Abbott just pro-Covid as a hobby? #txlege https://t.co/xEYScLMVEj
— James Slattery (@jcslattery) August 5, 2021
“We know that we are going to get pushback for this. We are not going to be able to please everybody. But what we have to understand is: If we have an opportunity to save one life, it is what we should be doing." https://t.co/4ehguuaw0M
— Mike Morris (@mmorris011) August 6, 2021
Experts: Houston's fourth COVID-19 wave to be the largest yet just as we enter peak hurricane season. Public officials should start planning for rules, regulations and guidance for best practices during hurricane preparedness and post disaster situations. https://t.co/QLJeRpGseH
— bryan parras (@HighTechAztec) August 4, 2021
Editorial: Race to the top between Abbott and DeSantis is a race to the death for Texas and Florida as delta surges. https://t.co/8WfEAIjSuh) via @houstonchron
— Lisa Falkenberg (@ChronFalkenberg) August 6, 2021
COVID-19 cases are increasing due to the delta variant and staffing issues are causing limited ICU beds in hospitals across the state. As hospitals continue to see an increase in COVID-19 patients, they may soon have to turn some away. https://t.co/IFhiaATIBH
— Spectrum News 1 Texas (@SpectrumNews1TX) August 5, 2021
Why care about COVID-19 hospitalizations? Houston Public Health Authority Dr. David Persse says at 1pm today, 26 of 104 HFD ambulances were waiting to offload patients at local ER's. Four had waited more than 2 hours...meaning they weren't heading to the next 911 call. #khou
— The Bishop (@BillBishopKHOU) August 5, 2021
Texas officials deny hospitals' requests for hundreds of emergency staff to help with COVID surgehttps://t.co/dAVQUQ4OOi
— Rio Slade lives on land stolen from the Mvskoke (@RioSlade) August 3, 2021
“We live in an era of unprecedented scientific breakthroughs and expertise. But we’re also stymied by the forces of misinformation that undermine the true knowledge that is out there.” - Dr. Laolu Fayanju
— Ed Gonzalez (@SheriffEd_HCSO) August 5, 2021
The Galveston County GOP activist made anti-mask and anti-vaccine posts as recently as Friday, when he shared a meme saying vaccines are useless. He died on a ventilator this week. #TexasCOVID #TexasGOP #DeltaVariant #COVID19https://t.co/NMyg9MDG2F
— San Antonio Current (@SAcurrent) August 5, 2021
Local Flat Earther is a prime example of why. pic.twitter.com/0lvAGkXS6A
— ๐Political Musings Amy Manuel ๐ (@proudtxlib) August 2, 2021
In this essay, @AubreyCalaway writes about how in Deer Park and other chemical corridor communities, the slow seepage of toxics can affect families like hers for generations. https://t.co/ijAVX4SZSA
— Texas Observer (@TexasObserver) August 2, 2021
Life and Death in the Esperanza Community, A Texas Homeless Camp https://t.co/tO1GuMuamu
— IDKWhatsNext (@JeanGenevie1) August 3, 2021
“Otis Thornton changed the way our community addressed homelessness and his impact is still felt today,” the Tarrant County Homeless Coalition said. https://t.co/yLAVOJOdOC
— Fort Worth Star-Telegram (@startelegram) August 2, 2021
At 6'8", J.R. Richard was an intimidating right hander who led the MLB in strikeouts in 1978 and 1979 and started the 1980 All-Star Game for the NL.
— MLB Vault (@MLBVault) August 5, 2021
He spent his entire 10-year career with the @Astros.
RIP ๐ pic.twitter.com/sKLXNVorMa
A fading headstone among a field of bluebonnets in the old cemetery in Livingston, Texas. A reminder that in the end each of us will be gone but that the flowers will continue to unfurl. I'm curiously comforted by that notion.
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) August 2, 2021
Photo by Carol Highsmith. pic.twitter.com/moD64NHJqA
(Former Google unofficial corporate satirist Manu) Cornet was even able to feel the asphyxiating grasp of the Google oligarchy firsthand. When he published a selection of Goomix comics as a book in 2018, the then-Google employee claims a murder of corporate lawyers descended on his office and tried to coerce him into dropping some of the more critical comics of the Glorious Techpublic.
Having seen his satirical art barely affect the decline of the Alphabet utopia into a data dystopia, Cornet finally threw his floppy hat with bells into the ring. In 2021, he tendered his resignation from Google, citing: “I have to draw the line in the sand somewhere.” But since a fool is nothing without a foolish king, Cornet now draws his lines over at Twitter.
Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune @Patbagley pic.twitter.com/g8E2qX454M
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) July 25, 2021
"The ice is really just the canary in the coalmine. To have 97, 98 degrees in Glacier national park for days on end is insane.” https://t.co/CdHMzvuGXX
— Climate Reality (@ClimateReality) July 27, 2021
It’s time to get real. https://t.co/B5RUuoI80I
— Climate Reality (@ClimateReality) July 26, 2021
“This is lake Oroville. The first photo is from 3 years ago. The 2nd photo was taken April 27 2021. The 3rd was taken last week.” - Vern Miller via FB, July 24, 2021.
— ✨ Amesari ✨ (@_SemaHernandez_) July 26, 2021
What are we doing to this planet? pic.twitter.com/mpVevxFb8j
Even if greenhouse gas emissions were slashed drastically tomorrow, extreme heat will still grow more common and harmful in the coming decades due to the delay time in our planet's climate.https://t.co/9lpqHwBftn
— Nick Estes (@nickwestes) July 26, 2021
Hope you recovered from that last crippling heat wave, because here comes another. This is just how it is now, and it's going to get steadily worse throughout our lifetimes. https://t.co/CSuQZWAtIl
— David Roberts (@drvolts) July 26, 2021
"Human-induced climate change has gotten so bad that our only hope isn’t to reverse it, but to simply save what we can." https://t.co/yRCeZhgIBl
— Common Dreams (@commondreams) July 24, 2021
Excellent, evocative and eloquent summary of the spate of extreme weather disasters around the world and in the US, and what it means for all of us, by @BillWeirCNN. Worth your timehttps://t.co/pXStTCRcNg
— Green News Report (@GreenNewsReport) July 27, 2021
A sobering compilation of climate disasters by Chris Hayes. @chrislhayes. I used to worry about the future impact of climate change. Now we can all see the past disasters caused by it. https://t.co/nk0EGpq2pg
— UncensoredNews.US (@GNDNewsletter) July 25, 2021
The Democratic Party leadership believes its voters are suckers.
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) July 13, 2021
"Approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on U.S. public lands are on pace this year to reach their highest level since George W. Bush was president."https://t.co/muEUjsO667
The #txlege isn’t for sale.
— Fossil Fuel Froze (@FossilFuelFroze) July 17, 2021
Oil and gas already owns Texas. https://t.co/qMp7rM05k4
BREAKING: Chevron-Texaco bankrolled the fascist war machine in Spain and Germany and was directly responsible for the deaths of many American soldiers.
— Steven Donziger (@SDonziger) July 19, 2021
Texaco CEO was a major Hitler sympathizer.
They may have locked me up, but history will show who the real criminals are. pic.twitter.com/jerm34XDI5
Jessica Reznicek has been sentenced to 8 years prison + 3 years probation, + restitution of over $3 million to Energy Transfer Partners, for nonviolent direct action to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, due to "domestic terrorism enhancement" of charge. https://t.co/iywitBKPDm
— 350 San Francisco (@350SF) July 24, 2021
ICYMI: @GregAbbott_TX got a $1 million campaign contribution from Kelcy Warren, whose pipeline empire was the biggest profiteer in the Texas grid collapse. Energy Transfer Partners is being sued by at least one utility for alleged price gouging. #txlege https://t.co/Wayq0SIoOQ
— Justin Miller (@by_jmiller) July 22, 2021
Wowser: “Gas producers in the Permian shale basin began to drastically reduce output days before power companies cut them off … sparking one of the wildest price surges in history.” #txlege MUST READ https://t.co/hyzOKsHRJR
— Jay Root (@byjayroot) July 11, 2021
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: https://t.co/gKpJGs17vC #txlege
— ChrisTomlinson (@cltomlinson) July 16, 2021
Tomlinson: Texas is a world leader in clean energy, and Gov. Greg Abbott wants to ruin that https://t.co/g66bclXCBx
— Lisa Falkenberg (@ChronFalkenberg) July 9, 2021
Frackers *permanently* poisoned the planet with their chemicals, in the hunt for more cheap oil https://t.co/h8Q81QAMVq
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) July 12, 2021
Oil and gas fracking has released at least 66.3 million gallons/250 million litres of waste into the Gulf of Mexico since 2010, according to an analysis released last week by the Center for Biological Diversity.
— allan crawshaw (@allan_crawshaw) July 15, 2021
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A 20-year-old law would have made communities more resilient to climate change. FEMA didn’t enforce it. https://t.co/29UzdUb4K2
— grist (@grist) July 17, 2021
If they planned to meet their net zero goals why appeal?
— Justin Guay (@Guay_JG) July 21, 2021
Oh right, how silly of me https://t.co/FKzuZRmLdV
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued an Ozone Action Day for the DFW area for Monday, July 26. Political weakness and neglect at all levels of government have created conditions which are expected to produce high levels of ozone air pollution. pic.twitter.com/1ShU4zBIYQ
— Downwinders at Risk (@cleanerair) July 25, 2021
Houston, TX sits at the heart of a fossil fuel empire, yet loses its power nearly every time disaster strikes.
— Green New Deal Network (@GND_Network) July 26, 2021
Living through frequent 800-year storms, flash flooding, chemical leaks & explosions are just the way things are for Houstonians like Jacob. pic.twitter.com/3hlr7I2GJ5
Researchers at Oregon State University found a 59% increase in the odds of at least one asthma hospitalization among children who lived in Texas ZIP codes with fracking.https://t.co/Kn2GZHaq46
— Texas Observer (@TexasObserver) July 26, 2021
The US is about to go all-in on paying farmers and foresters to trap carbon https://t.co/c4COy60NLH
— Scott Stapf (@stapf) July 9, 2021
JUST OUT: In a new blog post, @CES_Baker_Inst's @magerton & @jimkrane and their co-author @BenGilbertEcon explain why it's time for a federal tax on #methane emissions for oil & gas companies and how this could actually move the needle on #climatechange: https://t.co/abte7aQv78 pic.twitter.com/XvN0I84Afw
— Baker Institute (@BakerInstitute) July 12, 2021
Hey, my @nytimes debut!
— Alex Yablon (@AlexYablon) July 16, 2021
Amidst excruciating negotiations over "paying for" infrastructure and climate legislation that falls far short of what's needed, I look at proposals to cut the Gordian Knot by having the Fed backstop muni bonds for green projects https://t.co/ONZ9qoiJZM
The Texas Department of Transportation plans to spend $25 billion widening highways to fix traffic in Texas cities. What if we tore them down instead? I wrote about @TxDOT's highway prophecy for @TexasObserver & @thenation: https://t.co/rheYdzLT6f
— Megan Kimble (@megankimble) July 12, 2021
“The future does not lie in oil.” Greenland has decided to suspend all oil exploration off the world’s largest island, calling it a “natural step” due to climate crisis concerns.https://t.co/GUdFkuLK2a
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 16, 2021
"The American carbon tax leaves behind dozens of supportive think-tank employees, thousands of politically engaged and idealistic Americans, and 3,589 dejected economists."https://t.co/NmhUBrYCjW
— John Schwartz (@jswatz) July 21, 2021
Renewable power is set for strong growth in 2021 & 2022, but it's not expanding quickly enough to keep up with rebounding electricity demand.
— International Energy Agency (@IEA) July 16, 2021
Fossil fuels will fill most of the gap, highlighting the need for a major surge in clean energy deployment ๐ https://t.co/vaxCZDEL27 pic.twitter.com/42rFFHjzpF
Electric Buses Coming to Houston - @METROHouston fears “the region may not have much time to mitigate #climatechange with lower vehicle emissions.” #EVS #EVbuses #TXEnergy #txlege https://t.co/u6a4hpTFAI
— Texas Electric Transportation Resources Alliance (@TxETRA_TX) July 22, 2021
New cartoon: Land of free-dumb pic.twitter.com/wHAHZTQnby
— Andy Marlette (@AndyMarlette) July 15, 2021
— chris britt (@chrisbritt01) July 17, 2021