It’s been 8 months since the mayor of the fourth largest city started giving its newspaper of record the silent treatment. Truly Trumpian behavior from a so-called Democrat who ran as a no-nonsense coalition builder.
Been waiting for someone (Chronicle??) to explain this. The answer: highest call-out rates in the country thanks to long commutes.
You can thank Trump and the GOP for the shutdown, but credit goes to urban sprawl and car-centric planning for making it worse.
I hate how stupid everything is.
I know we’ve all been taught to be savvy tourists and not get ripped off but given the economic reality in mexico I would recommend not haggling unless you really feel someone’s taking advantage (there’s been a movement around this among leftists in cdmx recently)
I’m with Joe because we need a progressive who can get legislation passed. I think he’s the best prepared for the reality of council and the strong mayor system - if you look at his time freeway fighting and reviving the Freedmen’s Town SN, he knows how to adapt and build a coalition
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
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
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.