Texas Republicans:

Blue Lives Matter --- unless we want guns everywhere
Private Property Rights --- unless we want a wall
Personal Autonomy --- unless it's women
Local Control --- unless it's big cities
Justice --- unless it's Black people
Stay Out of Bedrooms --- unless your gay
Stay out of doctor's offices --- unless your trans
Let Teachers Teach --- unless its something that makes us mildly uncomfortable, like race and slavery
Small Government --- unless it's creating a massive police state
Before you cry and moan about the Black people bit... the bills that tired to delete "Confederate Heroes Day" in Texas went no where.

The bill to actually allow ethnic studies count for school credit... dead.
BTW ... there was real opposition by Texas Republicans to the RESOLUTION honoring and remembering the murder of #vanessaguillen.

Think about that. A slain service member.

They tried to kill a non-binding resolution that simply honored her memory.
Oh, and that Vanessa Guillen shit is on video.

I'll wait for the people who took it to decide when to release it.
Almost forgot:

Our non-binding resolution that recognized and condemned Anti-Asian hate and violence... DEAD.

Because "it wasn't important" to them.

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1 Jul
Let not be shy about it. The Republicans' push on "Critical Race Theory" is about creating a government Thought Police.

The point is to have schools limit what kids can learn, and what we can talk about.

If they can BAN certain thoughts and ideas society, then they can win. Image
There's a reason why when they talk about it to their followers, they says it's about defending against "anti-Whiteness."

But, in actual legislation that they pass into law, the bills are about what schools can teach... affecting teaching about Slavery and the Holocaust.
Actually read the (now deleted) screen capture.

This tells you everything you need to know about their true motivations.

Their theory is: If Black and Brown kids can't learn about the atrocities of the past. If they can't learn about their ROOTS. Then they won't demand change.
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19 Feb
While #FlyingTed was doing his walk of shame through IAH Airport, we delivered over 800 Asian lunch boxes and about 1500 street tacos to needy families in SW Houston who haven't had a hot meal in days.
The wonderful @SandraRdgz27 helped coordinate deliveries and rounded up volunteers to pick up and drop off a ton of food.

(No comments about how we stacked these, we did the best we could.)
Judge @israelgarcia4jp took 300 box lunches to Pelican Pointe apartments.

Many residents there not only had to deal with the cold, but they had a massive fire that took out a unit a few days ago.

Kids there were coming up to me saying it was the best food they've ever had. 🥲
Read 13 tweets
18 Feb
Guess which US Senator from Texas flew to Cancun while the state was freezing to death and having to boil water?
I have so many expletives.
Read 9 tweets
18 Feb
Removing and replacing the heads of ERCOT does nothing.

1- They'll just be replaced with identical clones selected by Abbott.

2- All 3 PUC Commissioners are still Abbott appointees.

3- The same unregulated system stays in place but with new heads.
Prediction: the Texas GOP leadership will perform reform kabuki, but nothing will really change.

Lots of reports and commissions. Any meaningful change will be quietly edited out.

Someone will file a bill for the remaining reforms, and that bill will die quietly in the lege.
Here's the biggest problem:

The reforms that are actually needed? The people that make big donations to Republican campaigns hate them.

The reform that are needed go against what the GOP has been saying for years. They would have to admit they were wrong.
Read 5 tweets
18 Feb
Hey y'all. Just like after Harvey and COVID19...

The Asian groceries are well stocked even if HEB and others are running low on stuff. Do yourself a favor and try it.

You may not know what everything is, but broccoli, eggs, and beer are basically the same everywhere.
Fair warning. If you go to an Asian shop without a mask, they will toss your ass. They don't play around with that.
Read 5 tweets
16 Feb
Just got off statewide elected officials call with ERCOT. Trying to relay from memory:

-17 GigaWatt still off line.
-Trying to bring stuff back on line ASAP.
-Combination of gas, coal, solar, wind, and nukes went off line. (Nukes?)
-500 MW (0.5GW) came back during the call
Sun warming up wind turbine blades and shed off ice that formed during cold rain will put wind farms back on line quickly.

Water vapor in gas lines freezing up sensors and regulators in LNG plants.

LNG well heads frozen at the pump.

All cold related outage.
There were cold related measures taken after the freeze of 2011.

But the measures were for 2011 level storm.

2021 far exceeded what was planned or expected.

Just didn't expect this cold and across the entire state.
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