The emotional rollercoaster of being a #texasrangers fan continues, but I'll take a win over the #seattlemariners and a #houstonastros loss any day of the week.
Baseball is the best!
https://apnews.com/article/mlb-al-west-playoffs-texas-rangers-seattle-mariners-a13d17055779855477bd1...
Baseball is the best!
https://apnews.com/article/mlb-al-west-playoffs-texas-rangers-seattle-mariners-a13d17055779855477bd1...
10:13 PM - Sep 23, 2023
Here's a horrific example of why we have to move beyond #autismawareness to #autismacceptance .
This little boy was murdered because his own mother refused to accept that his #autism was a neurological condition and thought he was possessed by a demon.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/autistic-boy
This little boy was murdered because his own mother refused to accept that his #autism was a neurological condition and thought he was possessed by a demon.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/autistic-boy
08:07 PM - Sep 21, 2023
This is absolutely despicable. #Autism is a neurological & developmental condition w/no "cure".
It's way past time for us to move from #autismawareness to #autismacceptance .
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3w5xw/this-rapping-preacher-is-selling-bleach-to-parents-trying-to-...
It's way past time for us to move from #autismawareness to #autismacceptance .
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3w5xw/this-rapping-preacher-is-selling-bleach-to-parents-trying-to-...
vice.com
12:08 PM - Sep 21, 2023
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03:50 PM - Jul 01, 2023
This is what it's come to here in Texas. We expect more from our kids and their teachers facing down a #schoolshooter than we do from the Republican run #txlege .
As a Texan and a father, this is fucking disgusting.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/winnie-the-pooh-books-teaches-
As a Texan and a father, this is fucking disgusting.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/winnie-the-pooh-books-teaches-
05:16 AM - May 26, 2023
#GunDeaths have increased in Texas every year #GregAbbott has been in office, and there have been 11 #MassShootings in Texas that have claimed 5 or more victims.
You might recognize some of the names: #SutherlandSprings , #santafehighschool , #ElPaso , #uvalde , #clevelandtexas , & now #allentexas .
You might recognize some of the names: #SutherlandSprings , #santafehighschool , #ElPaso , #uvalde , #clevelandtexas , & now #allentexas .
05:33 AM - May 07, 2023
Testimony I wrote on behalf of ourvotetexas.org, a 501c3 voter education org in Texas, showing our strong opposition to #SB1039 .
"Our state’s election officials and voters should not be held hostage by the whims and unfounded accusations of sore losers and conspiracy theorists". #txlege
"Our state’s election officials and voters should not be held hostage by the whims and unfounded accusations of sore losers and conspiracy theorists". #txlege
09:09 AM - May 04, 2023
#SB1039 bill would ensure that voters across Texas are held hostage by the whims and unfounded accusations of sore losers and conspiracy theorists. This bill is that bad folks.
#txlege #DemocracyInDanger
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-election-takeovers-no-on-sb-1039?clear_id=true
#txlege #DemocracyInDanger
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-election-takeovers-no-on-sb-1039?clear_id=true
01:36 PM - May 03, 2023
This morning, OurVoteTexas.org submitted this written testimony that I wrote opposing #SB1750 to the TX House Elections Committee because it would harm the voters of #harriscounty .
As legislative sessions continue across the country, make sure you find ways to participate in the process. #txlege
As legislative sessions continue across the country, make sure you find ways to participate in the process. #txlege
05:27 PM - Apr 27, 2023
The most important takeaway from #tuckercarlson getting fired by #FoxNews & #RupertMurdoch is that one of America's most malignant purveyors of right-wing lies & hatred lost his biggest platform.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-04-24/tucker-carlson-is-out-at-
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-04-24/tucker-carlson-is-out-at-
04:46 PM - Apr 24, 2023
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If for some reason you hate yourself (you shouldn't because you're great!) & want to see what the Silicon Valley #TechBro version of the #Quiverfull movement looks like.
I’ll pass on being lectured to by people who think the only problem with #eugenics is p.r. related.
https://www.telegraph.
I’ll pass on being lectured to by people who think the only problem with #eugenics is p.r. related.
https://www.telegraph.
02:00 PM - Apr 20, 2023
"A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man."- Frederick Douglass
08:35 AM - Apr 15, 2023
Happy #FirstContactDay ! May you live long and prosper and bring glory to your house.
And may we all strive to keep Gene's vision of a better future for all alive with the intensity of a thousand warp coils. #StarTrek
https://www.space.com/star-trek-first-contact-day
And may we all strive to keep Gene's vision of a better future for all alive with the intensity of a thousand warp coils. #StarTrek
https://www.space.com/star-trek-first-contact-day
05:57 PM - Apr 05, 2023
For anyone who buys the bullshit "both parties are the same" argument, a study in contrasts:
Virginia- https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/22/youngkin-virginia-felon-rights-restoration/
Oregon- https://boltsmag.org/oregon-tries-again-to-restore-voting-rights-in-prisons/
Virginia- https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/22/youngkin-virginia-felon-rights-restoration/
Oregon- https://boltsmag.org/oregon-tries-again-to-restore-voting-rights-in-prisons/
10:34 AM - Apr 04, 2023
NASA's #ArtemisII crew has been announced: #VictorGlover , #ChristinaKoch , #JeremyHansen , and #ReidWiseman .
They will go down in history as some of humanity's greatest explorers.
Thanks to the skill and ability off all those involved in this mission, we are now the #ArtemisGeneration .
They will go down in history as some of humanity's greatest explorers.
Thanks to the skill and ability off all those involved in this mission, we are now the #ArtemisGeneration .
12:41 PM - Apr 03, 2023
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History lesson for those baying that the #trumpindictment is "just politics". In 2012, 2004 Democratic VP nominee, John Edwards, was tried for "violating campaign finance laws by not reporting donations & payments to silence a mistress". Sound familiar?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/ma
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/ma
11:15 AM - Mar 31, 2023
1st President to be impeached twice
1st to never have an approval rating over 50%
1st to incite an insurrection
1st to refuse to peacefully leave office, & NOW
1st Ex-President to be criminally indicted
Tired of winning yet?
#trumpindictment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-secu
1st to never have an approval rating over 50%
1st to incite an insurrection
1st to refuse to peacefully leave office, & NOW
1st Ex-President to be criminally indicted
Tired of winning yet?
#trumpindictment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-secu
11:02 AM - Mar 31, 2023
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01:37 AM - Mar 16, 2023
When you have no policy solutions, you just shout #Woke at the top of your lungs right #GOP ?
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/what-absurd-woke-bank-svb-talking-point-says-about-gops-inabil...
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/what-absurd-woke-bank-svb-talking-point-says-about-gops-inabil...
03:31 PM - Mar 15, 2023
“From attempts to address worker fatigue, lack of coherent mandatory safety plans, increasing transparency to the public and first responders about what trains are carrying, the dangers of such long trains, or establishing floors for minimum train crew, the railroads blocked everything."- Ed Wytkind
theguardian.com
Leaked audio reveals US rail workers were told to skip inspections as Ohio crash prompts scrutiny to industry | Ohio train derailment | The Guardian
Exclusive: employee says manager told her to stop marking cars for repair, as Ohio derailment brings hard look at industry’s record of blocking safety rules
03:41 PM - Mar 03, 2023
In case you need a reminder of what a #MAGA run America would look like.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/us-child-labor-laws-violations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/us-child-labor-laws-violations
06:50 PM - Mar 01, 2023
A sobering look at a 50 yr old #scotus case that established the pernicious idea that our Constitution doesn't guarantee our children the right to an education. "Shockingly" it was predicated in large part on racism.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23584874/public-school-funding-supreme-court
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23584874/public-school-funding-supreme-court
12:42 PM - Feb 27, 2023
Can't help but think of this cartoon whenever I hear right-wing Putin apologists saying we should stop supporting and sending aid to #Ukraine because we have issues to deal with here in the US.
09:59 AM - Feb 27, 2023
In case you were wondering how we're doing down here in Texas with the #GOP in charge.
#HB2390 #votingrights
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/voting/2023/02/17/444142/polling-sites-voting-texas-coll...
#HB2390 #votingrights
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/voting/2023/02/17/444142/polling-sites-voting-texas-coll...
10:09 PM - Feb 24, 2023
Eighty-one years ago today, FDR signed #executiveorder9066 which ordered the internment of almost 120,000 Japanese-Americans. That order, and the racism and paranoia that led to it, must serve as a warning to never go down that dark path again.
#NidotoNaiYoni
https://www.stripes.com/histo
#NidotoNaiYoni
https://www.stripes.com/histo
stripes.com
‘The lost years’: A Japanese American survivor of WWII incarceration camp tells her story | Stars and Stripes
It took over two decades for Karen Hirai Olen to truly understand where she’d come from. For over two years, starting in the summer of 1942, her parents were incarcerated at the Minidoka Relocation Center in Southern Idaho.
09:26 PM - Feb 19, 2023
Join my colleagues, Val and Roxy, from https://ourvotetexas.org/ on Wednesday, March 1st at 630-730 Central as they discuss what bills our organization is tracking and sharing opportunities to plug into our voter education work this year.
Don't miss it!
Registration required: bit.ly/txlegetime
Don't miss it!
Registration required: bit.ly/txlegetime
02:59 PM - Feb 19, 2023
Everything #JimmyCarter did in office, and especially afterwards, speaks so highly to his character and his true compassion for others.
The world will be a little darker when he passes.
"The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices."- Jimmy Car
The world will be a little darker when he passes.
"The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices."- Jimmy Car
04:32 PM - Feb 18, 2023
If you're a fellow Texan, you should know that our state has over 17 million registered voters, but the #txlege has allocated just $3.5 million for voter education in the current proposed budget (20¢ per voter). Please write your state Senator and demand better.
via: https://ourvotetexas.org
via: https://ourvotetexas.org
01:10 PM - Feb 16, 2023
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Here's #NikkiHaley 's "brilliant" take on the #CivilWar :
“I think you had one side of the civil war that was fighting for tradition and one side of the civil war that was fighting for change.”- Nikki Haley
One side fought for the tradition of owning people & the other side fought to end that.
“I think you had one side of the civil war that was fighting for tradition and one side of the civil war that was fighting for change.”- Nikki Haley
One side fought for the tradition of owning people & the other side fought to end that.
07:10 PM - Feb 15, 2023
As a baseball fan w/a mid-Feb birthday, pitchers & catchers reporting for #springtraining is always a nice (usually slightly belated) present as it means that #TexasRangers baseball is back!
https://rangerstoday.com/wednesday-newsletter-time-rangers-spring-training-is-live-today/
https://rangerstoday.com/wednesday-newsletter-time-rangers-spring-training-is-live-today/
rangerstoday.com
Wednesday newsletter time: Rangers spring training is live today - Jeff Wilson's Texas Rangers Today
Rangers Today is your source for everything Texas Rangers. From major league to minor league the in-depth coverage of the Texas Rangers entire system is unmatched. Join Jeff Wilson, veteran Texas Rangers beat reporter and John Moore weekly for the Texas Rangers Baseball Podcast.
11:47 AM - Feb 15, 2023
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