Woman gives birth. Tells doctor, tie my tubes. Doctor doesn’t. Woman gets pregnant, has another kid. Woman sues doctor for medical malpractice. Texas Supreme Court dismisses case, because life is a gift from God. 9-0.
There is an election in November.
BREAKING: Joel Searby, Chief Strategist for Evan McMullin 2016 Presidential campaign, arrested in Florida for allegedly soliciting sex with a teen boy. Searby is managing director of the
@Fwd_Party
and often speaks on faith based initiatives in politics here in Utah.
#utpol
Houston first got rich in the era where rich people did actually major philanthropy and built things of major public value. Investing back into the towns that make them.
By the time Austin got rich, rich people had just become pure parasites.
Yeah. Houston has produced Beyoncé and entire subgenres of country and rap. It has nasa and a food scene that is the envy of the nation.
Dallas is most famous for murdering a president and a tv show mostly filmed at a California studio.
Unfortunately for Greg Abbott, we don’t live in the Monsters Inc. cinematic universe, so electricity is generated not by the screams of vulnerable children but by power plants and windmills.
There isn’t a Hermann Park or a Jones Hall or a Hobby Center in Austin because there wasn’t ever a Hermann, a Jones or a Hobby. There are just Tech Bros who cosplay their anarcho-capitalism shit politics and do drugs.
Arrests being made right now & will continue until the crowd disperses.
These protesters belong in jail.
Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period.
Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled.
Word on the street is that Carnival and Royal Caribbean are investing money and lobbying for grants to turn Scholes Airport into a real commercial airport and both American and Southwest are amenable to flying to Galveston.
People told me this constantly when I was younger and when I finally went it confirmed literally everything I thought and then some. Your problem with young Jews isn’t that they know too little about Israel. It’s that they know it all too well.
In reversal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to send two top Israeli officials to Washington as early as next week for talks about a possible military operation in Rafah, four U.S. and Israeli officials told me. My story on
@axios
Molly Cook is going to be a superstar. The type of Democrat in Texas that goes on CNN and gets $300 checks every day from little old ladies in cape cod and California.
@alisoncook
Looking forward to the editorial board endorsing the three Republicans up for election by just writing “BUTLER BARKER !! ❤️🥹” over and over again in magic marker on a Big Chief tablet.
You can basically draw a straight line from Fox News being on in the locker room at the River Oaks Country Club to here. Rich, powerful men basically have mush for brains and have the politics of Clevon from Mobile.
Stunning French country estate for sale in Beaumont, Texas outside Houston
Swimming pool, guest house, and a well-manicured 1.88 acres
On the market 18 days
Absolute bargain for what is essentially a palace
Listed at $800k
In a coat and tie, tonight I took a metro bus from my office downtown to a work dinner in River Oaks.
With the keys to a car in a driveway in my pocket.
I vote in municipal elections. Every one. And max out too.
I will remember.
@lyndonbajohnson
“Do basic constituent services” is why someone as good at amassing power as Crowley went down and why someone as bad at it as SJL keeps going back.
Received the following statement from
@METROHouston
interim president and CEO Tom Jasien:
“Since most of the new board members haven’t had a chance to review the proposed projects, we wanted to pause items that appear to be advocacy.”
I’m inquiring further into that pause.
Journalism in Texas is like
Chron: A new 10,000 word feature on the exact ways the Department of Family Services is violating a federal judge’s consent order
TX Monthly: Chris Hooks spent two years chasing the story of Azerbaijani bribes in Austin
KHOU: Crime leads to Bussing!!
@nikicaga
Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo and Azerbaijan aping the U.S. position is to be somewhat expectant. UAE and KSA ambivalence a bit too. IMO, the biggest surprise is Modi’s India and Lula’s Brazil taking the U.S. position. Cf Ukraine.
When the Abu Ghraib pictures came out, there was such intense blowback **in America** that Bush went — using a Republican phrase — on a world apology tour. The lack of any comparable Israeli outrage is indicative of some pretty serious moral rot.
i still can’t get over the fact that israel can’t maintain enough military discipline to prevent their soldiers from posting tiktok’s of them doing war crimes or looting civilian homes like some kind of medieval army
@souljagoytellem
Carlin had an entire bit in a routine that went “Israeli murderers are called commandos but Palestinian commandos are called terrorists,”
It’s absolutely incredible that the seal of Houston is a giant fucking train given our politics the past 35 years.
It’s like if a middle eastern country had bacon on a flag.
Trains work so much better within 500 miles or so for three main reasons:
1. Time. Airports are hour out of town; get there hour early; baggage claim.
2. It sucks. Security lines; small seats; no meals.
3. The WiFi **fucking works** on a train and you have cell service.
My mom and her friends have soured on Whitmire. I cannot emphasize enough how much 68 year old college-educated white women who have voted Democratic for president since the 80s but still identify as “ticket splitters” hold the Mandate of Heaven in municipal elections.
@souljagoytellem
@WealthyAutocrat
In 2014, carpetbagging lizard Ken Paxton beat a man whose name was literally Sam Houston and actually sounded like a real Texan by like 20 points.
Houston should annex basically every unincorporated part of Harris County that voted for Biden and then figure out how to conquer Bellaire, West U, Southside, Missouri City, Stafford, Pasadena and …. THE WOODLANDS.
My most normie lib partisan opinion is that, if someone like Sotomayor were the median vote on the Supreme Court, America would be so much better it would be near unrecognizable.
@souljagoytellem
I feel like there are better examples of gotcha California racism than “a bunch of people who are very much dead now made Reagan the governor 60 years ago”
@IRHotTakes
Oh my god a biopic "Showa” would be incredible but I’m pretty sure the cia would intervene to stop an American studio from making it for the geopolitical and diplomatic consequences
A dozen years ago I graduated high school at the helm of the Houston Mayor’s Youth Council. Today basically the entire group has brain drained out of Houston. Certainly all the ones who stayed politically active. Except me. There is a lesson here.
Educational polarization means my new precinct — which went for Bush 75-20 — just sent Molly Cook to the state senate. Upper middle income is much more liberal than it was when I was a kid. But the truly rich? They are racist, incestuous and dim. Same as it ever was.
Attended fundraisers for Judge Mike Engelhart and Judge Kyle Carter this week. Two excellent, excellent judges that the Democrats of Harris County need to keep on the bench. It’s so important.
Italy is Florida but France is Texas. A relatively rich and urban and multiethnic place that cosplays as pastoral and rustic and gets really into racism because of said multiethnic. Incredible food. And obnoxiously proud people everyone else hates.
Undocumented immigrants who came here yesterday are more American than you because they understand this country and what it means far more than you and your Nazi blood and soil shit ever will.
This was a sham show trial. The Kangaroo Court will never stand on appeal.
Americans deserve better than a sitting U.S. President weaponizing our justice system against a political opponent— all to win an election.
We must FIRE Joe Biden in November.
@lefttwick
This is the thing that makes my blood boil about people trying to convince American Jews “it could happen here, like in Germany.” It can’t. Not without a civil war. France almost had a civil war in 1900 because of it. There’d be a shooting war here before there’d be pogroms.
One thing that’s important to remember is that while stupid lefties think the economy is terrible, most smart lefties know the economy is good but also believe the stupid lefties hold the mandate of history and shouldn’t be disagreed with too much
This is a bad idea under the maxim of “if you come for the king, you don’t miss.” A successful recall would be followed by a special election 30 days thereafter. Until you have a prominent person preemptively campaigning, you can’t wet your gunpowder.
I’d like to offer my congratulations to Alexandra del Moral Mealer
@AlexMealerTX
on her overwhelming victory as the newest METRO Board member. Out of the nine METRO board positions, two positions represent the 14 “Multi-cities” who participate in METRO (two positions are
Hidalgo is going to beat Parker 2-to-1. It will be like when Fred Hofheinz tried to run against Kathy Whitmire in 1989. Just total career and reputation demise.
Olive Garden serves as a living reminder of how bad all American food was in the 90s until millennial hipsters upgraded everything to above European standards
Who is buying $3M houses in West U? Like doctors don’t even make that type of money. There’s only so many Butler Barker partners they can’t be singlehandedly driving the real estate market.
@souljagoytellem
My conspiracy theory is that Bibi blackmailed him with the Epstein stuff circa like 2006 and that’s why he seems to have had an ice cream scooper taken to his brain since relative to statements like this.
Norman Rockwell freedom of speech dot meme: America does, in fact, have magic soil that assimilates us and puts us all into the melting pot that turns us into gumbo that is greater than the sum of the parts.
Omg more people live in the Houston metro than in all of Scotland??? Dude why do I hear about them so much they must have the population density of like Iowa.
This has happened enough time that the City and CenterPoint are on notice that what they do is not working and repeatedly leads to calamities. We just had an election where it was just all bullshit. It’s just so bleak. I can understand why some are giving up on this town.
A DC judge just sentenced 75-year-old Paulette Harlow, who is in poor health, to 2 years in prison for praying outside an abortion clinic. Her husband fears she might die there.