Mike’s new best friend & founder of HISD Parental Advisory Board? KHOU 11 News Houston @WFAA michaelfromtx San Antonio Express-News Houston Chronicle Texas Tribune Houston Teachers & Parents United MothersAgainstGregAbbottPAC/MothersforDemocracyPAC #KHOU Stephanie Ruhle #EssentiallyGrateful 🧵1/4

Yesterday, I was laid off by Texas Tribune after nearly 9 years. New leadership got rid of its longest-tenured reporters and said they’ll no longer cover the criminal justice beat. No one on police, prisons, courts, the death penalty. In Texas. Here’s some of what we’ll lose:

Consensus cheat sheet - updated with CAP decentralizedthoughts.github.io/2021-10-29-con…

Here’s the truth about Ted Cruz:

UT police don't want to release body camera footage from the first day of the major pro-Palestinian protests on campus last month. They've asked the AG to let them withhold the videos. #txlege #TPIA #FOIA

An undisclosed number of Houston Independent School District teachers and principals received notices this week that they will be out of a job, state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles said Thursday. trib.al/NlZKt2q

Never forget that they want a national database for pregnant women but not one for guns.

They called us hysterics when we said Roe cld fall, and they said we were overreacting when we said they’d come for IVF. Those of us on the Christian nationalist beat will tell you: contraception will be at risk in many states.

This is a level of going viral I haven’t experienced before 😂

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"Leave it up to the states"

Want an example of a broken system? Florida DIDN’T “reject” the proposal to include a right to abortion in the constitution — they voted 58.2% in favor of abortion rights. But it needed 60% to pass, so it failed WITH A MAJORITY. Can’t imagine what Florida women must be thinking.

“Freedom means you decide who you are, and then when things change around you, you continue to be that person. And in so doing, you do constructive work. You set an example for other people. You meet new people who are also trying to remain themselves.” msnbc.com/ali-velshi/wat…

To empower parents, ANY voucher legislation must require private schools comply with/ state laws & public records requests. A history of child sexual abuse & cover ups in some private religious schools/orgs necessitates such protections/parent rights. Texas AFT MothersAgainstGregAbbottPAC/MothersforDemocracyPAC

Elon Musk floods X with spending bill misinformation trib.al/gLL3haf

This is what people think of Trump’s cuts to Medicaid and research funding.

These kids grew up in Texas & will likely stay—many of them know no other home. Some of them don’t even know they are undocumented. Their parents pay the same state taxes that everyone else pays. This decision doesn’t help anyone; it only hurts these young people & our state.

You don’t have to lack self awareness to be an associate dean but it definitely helps!