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zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/matt_zdun/status/1136348737314447360


lmao the man is without shame

He's doing the Connor O Malley auditioning to be Howard Schultz' campaign manager bit irl

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zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Sardonik posted:



"I'm not owned, I'm not owned!" I continue to yell as I turn into yet another failed Texas Democrat.



Guess the state

Oops this one was an accidental double

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/rebekahallen/status/1136682282754985985

My opinion is you should vote for people who agree with you, politically.

Lol ET's scorecard is out

zoux fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Jun 6, 2019

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Shifty Pony posted:

Stickland at the top, checks out.

Lol at Briscoe being a full CI more conservative than anyone else in the goddamn House and still losing to Sticky.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Shifty Pony posted:

Oh man the list of bills they scored is great reading.

Did you know that emergency cutoff switches on motorboats are a threat to Texas taxpayers?

That's the bill Lyle Larson loving roasted Cain over. When it passed in the Senate the Lt. Governor recognized the parents of the kid for whom the law is named after, they were in the gallery, and said good things about the bill lmao

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Also
https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1136809459706224640

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1137535225582575616

Lol SA is fixin to have a Republican mayor

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Pulcinella posted:

Kingston is also out of city council.

Also crazy storm in Dallas yesterday out of no where. Tremendously high winds. Some poor woman was killed when a crane crashed through her apartment.
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/10/731188105/crane-collapses-in-high-winds-smashing-through-dallas-apartment-building

Most traffic lights are down and lots of people without power.

https://twitter.com/oncor/status/1137883326591774722

Stay cool up there homies

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Lol “medical weed expansion”. This is another example of overblown media coverage to get clicks: the bill permits docs to prescribe cbd oil for neurodegenerative diseases like MS. And since you can just go to the store and buy CBD oil anyways, you might ask “what’s the point” to which I can only shrug

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Oh also, just as a trivia and not related to this bill per se: unlike the federal level, where anything the President doesn't sign after ten days is "pocket vetoed", in Texas, the governor has 10 days (or 20 for bills passed in the last two weeks of session) to sign or veto bills. Anything he doesn't outright veto becomes law. That 20 day period is up a week from today I think.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

AmericanBarbarian posted:

What are the odds now on Abbot signing the medical weed expansion? Any news leak about it yet, or is it still just hanging out with all the unsigned bills?

https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1138477042490630145

I was one of the founders of a NORML chapter on my campus at the turn of the century (I know, I know, impressive college student activism) and industrialized hemp was a HUGE priority for us. Weird seeing it legal now. In fact it's weird that states are legalizing recreationally one-by-one, I thought that was an outside chance within my lifetime.

If you want to see how close we are here in Texas, go watch Birdwell's questioning of Donna Campbell on the Senate floor during presentation of her CBD bill. Here's a choice quote "I don't want to see this become another opioid crisis in the state, I don't want what happened in Colorado to happen here"

zoux fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Jun 11, 2019

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/andreazelinski/status/1138486748265291781

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Also we'd get way more than 6bn because we have almost 6x the population. Do we have data from CA yet?

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

All gonna depend on what happens in 2020. If 2018 is at all indicative, 2020 is going to be a bloodbath for the GOP. There's a reason very little of that culture war bullshit moved this session, and that's with dudes winning by 3 instead of 20 points. Sticky's in big trouble, he's the only GOP rep returned who got less than 50% in '18

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Tribune has a tool to uncover the density of mommy bloggers in your school district



NOT GREAT FOLKS






This is where all the wise parents move out of Austin to for "good schools". Leander is 5.6%. Herd immunity for measles is 90-95% vax rates so...


:prepop:

zoux fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Jun 12, 2019

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

They should just straight up ban non-medical exemptions. I'm sympathetic to religious exemptions but I don't know how you preserve that without opening the door for a bunch of fake claims to dodge vaccines.

Like, I think the religious people are wrong but a handful of Christian Scientists skipping vaccinations isn't a public health issue as long as you don't have a poo poo load of wise moms who tapped into generational female historical maternal wisdom through the mysteries of Prana-bindu and the inscrutable Weirding Way of the Bene Gesserit to learn that vaccines are bad.

zoux fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Jun 12, 2019

zoux
Apr 28, 2006



Here's the Senate ideological map, much wider than the House it seems.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Seliger had a bill that would break out data by campus but he didn’t actually get recognized to pass any bills this session

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

I didn’t say decent I said moderate.

https://twitter.com/mikedebonis/status/1138915041036705793?s=21


E:oh for sure I bet

https://twitter.com/patricksvitek/status/1138936442066018306?s=21

zoux fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Jun 12, 2019

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/JohnnieMo/status/1139278062665646080

Hopefully this hastens the demise of the Sunset process

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/JimVertuno/status/1139562554525724672

https://twitter.com/JimVertuno/status/1139561802654769155

Now's the perfect time to scab up some plumbing jobs

zoux fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Jun 14, 2019

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/JasonWhitely/status/1139567833820684288

Triple posting for some real rear end news.

quote:

Trott runs one of the most secretive investment banks in the world, BDT Capital Partners, which caters to the world's wealthy elite who value privacy and discretion. It's in-house merchant-bank, BDT & Company, acted as financial advisers to Keurig on the transaction, the company said. Entities affiliated with BDT Capital Partners are also investing alongside JAB.

Not heard of Trott or his eponymous company? That's by design. Despite having more than $12 billion in assets under management, the firm doesn't even have a public-facing website.

Cool, turn our beloved Waterburger over to the European aristocracy.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Enjoy our ice free colas and complimentary mayonnaise for chip dipping.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Badger of Basra posted:

was ein burger!!!

lol but ugh

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/fox6now/status/1139540675509280770

Did you know that Texas only has one natural lake? And that Louisiana is stealing half of it!

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

JJ's right everyone.

https://twitter.com/JulieChang1/status/1139617333994020864

Lol FOH charter schools

https://twitter.com/JulieChang1/status/1139613516225220608

Lmao this is some real black helicopter poo poo

e: Whoa drat Trump just named Knife Alligator as his interim Homeland Security director

zoux fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Jun 14, 2019

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

"if the party of results"

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/Whataburger/status/1139666248323784704

Oh really, then why did you use the collective pronoun "you" rather than the proper collective "y'all"

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Dan's is good. So was Fran's until it closed and turned in to a goddamn TORCHYS

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Sab0921 posted:

Abbot vetoed a few of the bills I was working on. I hate him so much.

Were they Dem bills vetoed for Whitley revenge?

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Sab0921 posted:

Partially - but mostly special district bills vetoed to gently caress with TML.

What like MUDs

E: ooh he vetoed at least one bill by every Senat D and especially hosed up Zaffirini. He also vetoed a bill designating the Bowie knife the state knife of Texas

quote:

This is the kind of resolution that a Texas Governor would sign without thinking. Fortunately, with a little thinking and study, it was learned that a statement contained in the resolution is factually incorrect: it identifies the location of Jim Bowie’s “Sandbar Fight” as “near Natchez, Louisiana,” when in fact the fight occurred near Natchez, Mississippi. So, as a thinking Governor, I think it best not to sign a factually incorrect resolution and instead to allow the Legislature to consider this next session.

zoux fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Jun 16, 2019

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Is ol Sly term limited?

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://mobile.twitter.com/jamesrhenson/status/1140494133582336000

Hey Beto you moron, you loving idiot

https://mobile.twitter.com/dallasnews/status/1140656385899814912

What a shot

zoux fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Jun 17, 2019

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

That dude was 22

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

LanceHunter posted:

Cruz’s numbers were in the toilet at the same point before his election.

not really

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

quote:

In one picture posted Saturday, 10 magazines are laid out on the floor. In the caption, Clyde said he is no longer going to dress up for the local yearly anime conference in Dallas because he “decided to finish getting all of my mags.”

Lol

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://mobile.twitter.com/StricklandPhoto/status/1140694246938337282

Wow I figured the same, good job dude. Photojournalists have insane guts.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

I'm not sure it's fair to call Seliger furniture because he was sidelined by Patrick. Put Rodriguez or Menendez or any of the other resist D's who stand up and make principled speeches on the floor but pass nothing.

Glad Watson got recognized though, he passes an insane amount of significant legislation every session despite being in the minority (because he knows how to pick his battles and where he has room to work). Fuckin Rodriguez filed a bill to ban anti-abortion laws and got to have a big ol woke presser about it in January but it didn’t even get a hearing.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Are Montessori schools legit

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zoux
Apr 28, 2006

DangerZoneDelux posted:

Does my son need to start his day off with yoga?

:catstare:

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