Talking tweets for @TexasStandard, heard on @NPR. @KUT is the label that pays me. Ex-@AustinChronicle. Weird music & movies, weirder news & politics. He/him/dad
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🎵What do you get with a feral hog?
A pig that's 200 pounds of trouble
With nasty tusks and bristly stubble
I’ll … never love a hog again … 🎵
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BREAKING: TX Supreme Court GRANTS @TXAG Ken Paxton's request to block his deposition (+ 3 aides) in the whistleblower case.
Says the trial court abused its discretion by ordering depos "w/o considering that the only fact issue ... is now uncontested." Bg:
houstonchronicle.com/politic…
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Love that the LBJ museum is commemorating the ninth anniversary of George Costanza visiting
#OnThisDay: Nine years ago today, comedy legend, @IJasonAlexander, stopped by the #LBJLibrary! We had a blast taking him on a tour around the museum.
📷 Jay Godwin | 11/19/2015
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imagining the protracted email thread in which the Misfits insisted on their logo being on the bill here
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Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead are women and children, UN says bbc.in/4fH3RfP
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#Breaking: Chairman of the Texas Democrats resigns after election losses, controversial comments. kut.org/politics/2024-11-08/… #txlege
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Just an absolutely unreal graphic showing Trump's gains in Texas-Mexico border counties since 2016. Starr County, population 65,920 and 97% Latino, shifted 75 PERCENTAGE POINTS in Trump's direction. texastribune.org/2024/11/06/…
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Sorry Mr. Chairman, I cannot follow you down that road. Y’all means ALL - especially our trans siblings and kids, who have been demonized and bullied not just by Republicans, but by conservative Democratic elected officials in our legislative delegations, too.
I spoke with the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party today about yesterday’s losses.
He brought up transgender rights. Here’s what he said.
kut.org/2024-11-06/donald-tr… #txlege #LGBT #LGBTQ #Election2024
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What’s ahead for Texas? Well, we’ll likely be the center for mass deportations texasobserver.org/how-mass-d… @TexasObserver
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UPDATE: With 100% of precincts reporting, incumbent Austin mayor Kirk Watson is poised to avoid a runoff and win his reelection campaign with 50.01% of the vote. Watson avoids a run off by a margin of 31 votes, according to KVUE.
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The story of the Texas Senate race: Ted Cruz won Latino voters by 6 points, per NBC News exit polls. In his last race in 2018, Cruz *lost* Latinos by 29 points.
A 35-point swing.
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There are 32 contested races in Texas appeals courts.
Republicans are leading in all but one.
We're on track for a lot of blue-to-red flips in Houston and Dallas.
#txlege
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#Breaking: The South just elected its first openly LGBTQ member of Congress. And she’s from Texas. kut.org/politics/2024-11-05/… #LGBT #LGBTQ
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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has been reelected to his seat in the U.S. Senate.
Read more: texasstandard.org/stories/te…
#electionday2024 #Vote2024
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if the nyt workers are able to successfully prevent the needle from being published it will be one of the greatest achievements for organized labor since the invention of the weekend
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I didn't grow up in Texas, and this election cycle I got curious as to why Texas doesn't have direct citizen ballot initiatives. So I looked into it! My newest for the @TexasStandard
texasstandard.org/stories/wh…
