Godzilla de Harina

Sure looking like the TX lege is setting up (Dem and GOP) local gov officials to take the fall for the floods while making further limiting their ability to raise and spend money on services a top priority during this special session

❗️Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice asks #txlege to consider changing land use & property tax policies, saying they should consider:

-regulatory authority in the ETJ
-negative effects of property tax & spending caps
-floodway & floodplain rebuilding + policy
-grants

NOW: Marathon #txlege flood hearing is kicking off in Kerrville.

Lawmakers will hear from officials, meteorologists and flood victims. Will share updates on this thread as the day goes on:🧵

From some of these responses I gotta say it seems like blue state people think government interference in academia is an entirely new phenomenon that is only just now happening, and only to blue state universities

That’s what we meant by keep Austin weird

The San Antonio Flood of 1921 Held Lessons We Refuse to Learn There is nothing unknown about what triggered the brutal Hill Country flood of 2025 and so many others dating back to the nineteenth century.

Featured story: We forget what we don’t want to remember. While I understand that impulse, there are dangers embedded in our forgetfulness. This is especially true for anyone living in Flash Flood Alley, or what we like to call the Hill Country. www.texasobserver.org/san-antonio-...

I am entitled to damages in the form of reopening Liberty Lunch but only cool people can go

In fact I am entitled to a permanent injunction on the passage of time

lol

The Explosive Early Days of Elon Musk’s SpaceX City We’re already learning a lot about the new powers—and bureaucratic headaches—Starbase, Texas, gives the aerospace-industry leader.

We’re already learning a lot about the new powers—and bureaucratic headaches—Starbase, Texas, gives the aerospace-industry leader.

Tough but fair

Ha ha

I'd be fine with him running for a US House seat again

hey it's not too late for the Texas legislature to file a bill requiring schools to buy this system using lunch money funds

That's the Texas Capitol

On day one a pipe burst in the ceiling of the auditorium where they were giving the exam, dousing the table immediately below in water. The people sitting there were completely undone; everyone else kinda looked up for a second then back to their exam papers

So so so much will be stolen

It’s now less than three hours before the first Texas redistricting committee hearing and, as of yet, there are no official draft maps for public to engage with and/or comment on. #txlege

oh and lets cap city and county spending

I've never heard evening primrose refered to as pinkladies

grounds for appeal to heaven

sweet christ

Meet the Californian who pushed Texas lawmakers to help fix the state’s housing crisis A bipartisan coalition, organized by Nicole Nosek, played a role in getting the Legislature to pass laws tackling the state’s housing affordability woes.

Meet the Californian who pushed Texas lawmakers to help fix the state’s housing crisis www.texastribune.org/2025/07/23/t... via @texastribune.org

oh dear

Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under T...

HUD plans to halt its probe into allegations that a Texas agency diverted $1B in disaster mitigation money from Houston and other communities of color hit hard by Hurricane Harvey toward more rural, white communities less damaged by the storm.

By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

For low profile bills like this, the governor's veto statements are typically conclusory and ideological in a superficial way. This one just said the data to run a warning system should be collected by locals and not the state, even though the state is the one with the capacity to collect it

Texas Lawmakers Largely Ignored Recommendations Aimed at Helping Rural Areas Like Kerr County Prepare for Flooding Texas lawmakers’ inaction on flood prevention often hits rural and economically disadvantaged communities the hardest, experts said.

NEW: Over the years, Texas legislators have declined to pass at least three bills that would create siren or alert systems, a tool that Kerr County officials tried to secure for years before the July 4 flooding.

By Lexi Churchill & @lomikriel.bsky.social, w/ @texastribune.org

lol how did hickland get on there

The #txlege joint committee on disaster and flood planning is meeting in the Capitol on Weds starting at 9am. They are hearing invited testimony primarily from the river authorities and possibly some other water agencies/associations.

FYI in case you want to tune in.