Share this page!

Houston Chronicle Profile picture
Twitter logo
Feb 8 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
WATCH: Shelley Luther, a Texas GOP candidate and former teacher, said transgender children make her uncomfortable, and she complained that their classmates weren’t allowed to make fun of them. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
2/ During a candidate forum Saturday, Luther cited the presence of transgender children in Texas classrooms as the reason she supports “school choice” in response to a question about what she'd do to enact conservative priorities in a divided Legislature. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
3/ Luther’s comments drew rebuke from Equality Texas, which advocates for the rights of gay and transgender Texans. The group’s CEO said all Texas school children should “feel a sense of belonging in school so they can focus on academic success.” houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t… “Lamenting not being able to allow students to laugh at, b
4/ Luther said in an email to the Houston Chronicle that she “respected and supported all students” but claimed it became hard for her to teach because “the topic of gender transition became the top discussion every day in my classroom.” houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
5/ It’s not the first time Luther has gotten blowback over divisive rhetoric. In January, she came under fire for tweeting that Chinese students should not be allowed to enroll in state universities. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
6/ Though she deleted the tweet, her website still says, “We should not allow Chinese Nationals into our colleges where they can obtain classified information, steal technology, and essentially learn how to defeat the United States.” houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
7/7 Luther initially garnered national attention in May 2020 when she defied emergency orders to shut down her Dallas salon and was sentenced to a week in jail.

That made her a hero to far right Republicans and those fighting pandemic lockdowns. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Houston Chronicle

Houston Chronicle Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @HoustonChron

Houston Chronicle Profile picture
Feb 6
The doctor walked into the room and took a seat on the lid of a red trash can. Your baby has bleeding in his brain, he told Gabe and Zahava Edery, and there are broken bones, too.

They were stunned.
✏️@ByEdMcKinley
➡️houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t… Image
The Ederys had taken their 3-month old son Mickey to the hospital that evening after he grew unresponsive following a family trip to synagogue. It was the Sabbath, a family day, and the couple and their three children had spent it together. ⬇️houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
The combination of the initial diagnoses —

📋the brain bleed,
📋plus fractured ribs,
📋plus a retinal hemorrhage

— made the doctors think the child was a victim of “shaken baby syndrome,” which kills between 1,000 and 3,000 children each year. ⬇️houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
Read 12 tweets
Houston Chronicle Profile picture
Feb 2
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the winter weather set to grip Texas later this week, the state’s gas regulator says 98% of facilities are winterized.

But inspectors say that data is flawed.
✏️@shelbywebb
📷@Bloomberg
➡️houstonchronicle.com/business/energ… Flares burn off excess natu...
@shelbywebb @Bloomberg At a Tuesday press conference, @JimWright4Texas repeated a claim the @txrrc has made for weeks: Inspections found that 98% of 4,000 natural gas facilities - helping to generate electricity for 26M customers on Texas’ power grid - have been winterized. houstonchronicle.com/business/energ…
But the results of those inspections - obtained by the @HoustonChron - raise doubts that Texas' natural gas infrastructure is as prepared as state officials would have residents believe. houstonchronicle.com/business/energ…
Read 8 tweets
Houston Chronicle Profile picture
Jan 29
The National Butterfly Center is a nonprofit dedicated to the conservation and study of wild butterflies.

This weekend, they’re closed after a scrape with a GOP candidate led to “credible threats” against their staff.
✏️ @caylajharris
📷 @ExpressNews
➡️houstonchronicle.com/news/legislatu… A Queen takes nectar from i...
@caylajharris @ExpressNews @NatButterflies @NatButterflies’ executive director made the decision after a confrontation last week with @kim4va, a Republican congressional candidate from Virginia, who was hunting for border chaos. houstonchronicle.com/news/legislatu…
Marianna Wright told police that Kimberly Lowe visited the center in Texas and demanded to see “illegals crossing on rafts,” echoing baseless conspiracy theories linking the butterfly sanctuary to sex trafficking. houstonchronicle.com/news/legislatu…
Read 9 tweets
Houston Chronicle Profile picture
Jan 19
THREAD: Defense attorneys say Gov. Greg Abbott’s border operation — Operation Lone Star — has allowed thousands of migrants to bypass two of former president Donald Trump’s signature immigration policies: Title 42 and the “Remain in Mexico” program. houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…
2/ When Abbott deployed thousands of Texas National Guard troops and state police to arrest migrants along the border, he pitched it as a way to deter them from crossing into the country illegally, out of fear they could be jailed for months. houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…
3/ Since ordering state authorities to jail migrants on trespassing charges last July, Abbott has repeatedly slammed President Joe Biden for diverging from Trump’s immigration policies. But now, his operation is also straying from those policies. houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…
Read 6 tweets
Houston Chronicle Profile picture
Jan 17
Ahead of the 2022 primaries, former President Donald Trump is throwing his political weight behind more candidates in Texas than any other state so far.

➡️houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas… Image
Trump has endorsed at least 20 candidates across the Lone Star State, with Michigan the next highest state at 14. The endorsements have mostly been limited to incumbents in reliably red districts. houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…
Trump’s intense focus on Texas is likely linked to its political importance, experts say. Though 2022 is a midterm year, Republicans’ results here will foreshadow the political tides ahead of 2024, when Trump may run for president again. houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas… Image
Read 5 tweets
Houston Chronicle Profile picture
Jan 11
After 40 years, a murdered Houston couple has finally been identified. But where is their missing baby?
✏️ @stjbs
➡️ houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t… Tina Gail Linn, Hollie Marie Clouse, and Harold Dean Clouse,
@stjbs When he left his home in Florida to build houses in Houston, life seemed promising for Harold Dean Clouse, his mother said.

But he was sometimes prone to poor decisions, his sister said. In the mid-70s, he’d run off and join a cult and dabble with drugs. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
It wasn’t until he’d returned from that misadventure that he met Tina Gail Linn, his brother-in-law’s sister.

Soon enough, he became infatuated with her. They then married and had Hollie. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t… Tina Gail Linn and Harold Dean Clouse. The young couple were
Read 12 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @HoustonChron has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @HoustonChron!

Read all threads by @HoustonChron

:(