In honor of Poe (my child's former school) making the "choice" to move to the district curriculum, I thought I would post a summary of a 10th-grade lesson so people can see what these "High Quality" materials look like. This every day for 10 years?? HoustonCVPE Supporters of HISD Magnets &Budget Accountability

🚨New FindOutPAC poll shows that when voters hear about the TX Supreme Court's dangerous anti-abortion decisions—and the suffering taking place across our state as a result—voters move our way. To a statistical tie between the Dem & GOP candidates. Can you share our new ad?

A must read article by CNN, which correctly warns that Elon Musk’s posts, and the lack of scrutiny they receive from his company’s own fact-checking system, “lay bare how Musk has turned X into a pro-Trump machine.” cnn.com/2024/09/03/med…

Important finding-Majority of families in the Indiana voucher program today were previously paying for private school on their own. This as cost of vouchers jumped from $15.5 million to more than $300 million indystar.com/story/news/inv… ⁦⁦Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣🌴🥥⁩ ⁦AFT INDIANA⁩

Mike Miles is a failed leader who has lost the trust of parents, educators, and the broader Houston community. His allegiance lies with Governor Greg Abbott who appointed him, and his state-installed board of trustees are not accountable to Houston voters. #NoTrustNoBond

🇺🇸 🗳️UNCONTESTED: “In the 2022 midterms, Democrats failed to field a single candidate for fully half of all partisan offices — well over 3x the rate of Republican no-shows… You get extremism that only reinforces itself if there’s never any competition.” nytimes.com/2024/09/04/us/…

I Have A Real Problem With Trump's Arlington Visit - Esquire apple.news/AT_RuGzSfQe6FH…

We must ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines again, require safe storage of firearms, enact universal background checks, and end immunity for gun manufacturers. Thoughts and prayers are not enough.

Our uniquely American nightmare continues - school shootings. A function of an angry, isolated, & destructive individual w/i a society where a faction of politicians care more about ideology, holding the party line, & reelection than taking substantive action to stop the now

Russian state media echoed these claims, and published a flood of articles with headlines featuring phrases like “Civil War 2.0.” They also spread conspiracies claiming that “US elites will keep the border wide open.” wired.com/story/russia-d…

These Are the U.S. Senators Who Have Taken the Most Money from the NRA (2023 Katie Couric Media) (Shocker: all Republicans) 1. Mitt Romney, Utah: $13,645,387 2. Thom Tillis, North Carolina: $5,611,796 3. Joni Ernst, Iowa: $3,688,078 4. Marco Rubio, Florida: $3,303,355 5. Todd

Kremlin “documents showed that Kremlin 1st deputy chief of staff Sergei Kiriyenko had directed a network of political strategists to promote American isolationism, stir fear over the United States’ border security & attempt to amplify U.S. economic & racial

Greg Abbott is not serious about protecting Texas’ voter rolls. If he was he would not have allowed Texas to withdraw from the Electronic Registration Information Center. A tool that allows states to share voter registration data and helps make sure voters are not registered to

It is absolutely jarring to walk out of your 1st day of school feeling excited + proud + exhausted and then to open your phone and see that a day of school across the country had turned into absolute horror + heartbreak, instantly + permanently.

This is a good time to talk about @ElonMusk and Russia. THREAD 🧵

He STOOD ON TOP of our WAR DEAD, SMILING with a THUMBS UP. NO ONE CAN DEFEND THAT. BUT WE CAN MAKE SURE HE NEVER GETS NEAR THE OVAL OFFICE AGAIN. VOTE. BLUE. 🇺🇸

We need more than thoughts and prayers. It’s time to: ☑️Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines ☑️Require safe storage of firearms ☑️Enact universal background checks ☑️End immunity for manufacturers ☑️Pass a national red flag law

What are the odds that Colorado political consultants, from the same state as Miles' Third Future Schools charter network, are the ones pushing a bloated, half-baked $4.4 billion bond on Houstonians? houstoncvpe.org/grh_pushes_bon…

Justin Caporale. Named as one of the assaulters of the woman at Arlington Cemetery by NPR. Was also Jan 6 organizer.

School shootings are not just a fact of life. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can take action to protect our children—and we will.