Beth Shook

a friend pointed out that daycares should encourage teacher gifts *after* the holidays rather than before and she’s so right bc I have never seen more love for childcare workers than today on the internet

He’s nothing if not consistent www.reformaustin.org/texas-legisl...

The silence of many Houston officials on the redistricting scheme, an assault on the voting rights of the people they represent, speaks volumes

after hurricane beryl the chronicle asked people how they felt about “houston strong” and I remember one response: #HoustonTired

convinced the local obsession with this empty slogan is a symptom of carbrain/too much time stuck in traffic

Judge sets Harris County 2022 judicial election redo for May 2025 One of Harris County's 2022 judicial races could be back on the ballot in May 2025 after a visiting judge from Bexar County ordered a redo earlier this month.

anyone know what happened with this? why is dasean jones not on the may 3 ballot? www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/ele...

crowd of people standing under trees, many holding signs

crowd of people holding signs including one that says “stop the idiocracy, oust trump!”

great turnout in a city that doesn’t always turn out

man holding sign that says “if not fascism, why fascism shaped?”

woman holding sign that reads “the gulf of fragile masculinity”

woman holding sign that reads “honk if you’ve never drunk texted war plans”

man holding sign that reads “they’re eating the checks! they’re eating the balances! mundus sine caesaribus!”

some highlights from houston hands off

remember when the nyt website was a bunch of headlines and when you clicked on a headline it took you to an article? I miss that

according to ballotpedia it has the 29th largest share of nonwhite residents out of *all* congressional districts

Not just Houston, but like, downtown Houston and some of the blackest neighborhoods in the city.

can we please stop holding protests at city hall on a weekend or holiday? one of the reasons the immigration protest two months ago was so powerful was that it met houstonians where they are: on the freeway, at restaurants and in hermann park

Invitation to a fundraiser for Rep. Dan Crenshaw with special guests Mayor John Whitmire and Commissioner Tom Ramsey

DINO Mayor John Whitmire will take time to listen to Republican donors but not his own constituents, who he labels “paid activists” when they don’t agree with him. I don’t think a recall effort is the perfect solution but I do think it might remind him who he works for: recallhouston.org

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

“Whoever wins the Democratic nomination” - there will be no primary so this is not a thing

shameful

AND HOUSTON WAS THERE

can’t wait for this birth/death arithmetic to show up in the math portion of the new bible curriculum

Every Dem should be doing this right now. What we’re experiencing now is that political capital is for. If you can’t burn your political capital when the opposition is trying to destroy everything that upholds a liberal democracy, what are you waiting for?

"What we probably are going to do very soon (is) approach council about changing the ordinance that allows people to sleep on the streets," Whitmire told reporters after Wednesday's council meeting. "We really want the ability to tell people, 'It's not lawful for you to sleep in these conditions... Metro will deliver you, MetroLift, to wherever you need to go."

"We understand that when you do not feel safe, you will not ride Metro," Brock said. "So we appointed a new police chief, Chief Tien, to develop a workforce deployment strategy and to ensure that we address our officer shortage. This means that we will have a police presence on our buses and trains... We will take back our buses and our shelters and our transit system from the homeless and get back to our intended mission."

mayor whitmire and metro board chair brock (his appointee) quoted two days apart in the chronicle about the need for getting homeless people on to transit and keeping them off of it. so which is it @cityofhouston.bsky.social?

the hand of me, basic millennial white girl, holding a latte with a building (little dreamers coffee) in the background

east montrose has a coffee shop again (a good one at that) 🤠 go support little dreamers during their soft launch

a long-haired tabby stares vacantly into the distance

this beautiful idiot is 7 today 🦗🩷

it’s not just about montrose boulevard. it’s about a community being denied its democratic representation. if he can do this to montrose, he can do it to your neighborhood.

In a time of unprecedented attacks on democratic institutions, you’d think you could still rely on your neighborhood development board to hear your concerns. So far that’s not the case in Whitmire’s Houston. Let’s turn out tomorrow and let them know we’re paying attention.

The redesign was conceived by Sue Lovell, an unelected friend of the mayor, and removes key elements of the original plan, including the 10-foot shared use path that the majority of the community supports. Board members in support of this plan have one-by-one been replaced by Lovell and Whitmire.

If you care about building a safer and more beautiful corridor to Buffalo Bayou, tomorrow is your last chance to demand the Montrose TIRZ Board vote NO on the city’s dangerous redesign of the Montrose Blvd Improvement Project. 6:30p at the Havens Center or on Zoom montrosehtx.org/meeting/febr...

me daring the cars to run me over when stepping onto a crosswalk

crowd of protestors surround sam houston monument

let’s not forget that sam houston would have HATED this

protestors stand on a bridge holding mexican flags and signs in support of immigrants

protestors hold signs near the sam houston monument

a woman with a sign that reads “what would yall do without us?”

protestors hold signs and mexican flags among live oaks

what a beautiful day in houston, texas