THA 89(1) #SEVVIE AWARDS HAVE ADJOURNED SINE DIE. CONGRATZ 2 OUR SMALL, ELITE GROUP OF WINNERS, ALL OF WHOM R DESTINED 4 ONGOING #TXLEGE GREATNESS🤩 TBD IF #SEVVIE AWARDS RETURN IN 89(2). NOT ALOT OF MATERIAL 2 WORK WIT LATELY. PLUS I GOTTA FINISH TEXAN NEWS TWEETERY HEATERY 🤷

The h/t here goes to all the work Laura Duclos does 🤠

Danny Glover

The “local reporter” The Washington Post refers to here is Renzo Downey. We’re covering this redistricting fight and all things Texas politics and power. Support us support.texastribune.org/donate?install… Texas Tribune! washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

I finally interviewed Amy Madigan about playing Aunt Gladys in WEAPONS: “I think she’s a very misunderstood woman! For lack of a better term, I am the bad guy in the movie, but a girl’s just doing what she has to do to get through…” Gift link in the comments!

Texas House Democrats return to Capitol, ending walkout over redistricting plan texastribune.org/2025/08/18/tex… via Kayla Guo

Texas Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, was confined in the Capitol overnight after she refused a police escort that Republican leaders imposed on lawmakers who participated in a two-week walkout over a GOP mid-decade redistricting plan. bit.ly/41bsz2Z

Five Democrats are joining Rep. Nicole Collier in refusing a police escort and thus getting confined in the Capitol. #txlege Reps Morales Shaw, Bowers, Garcia Hernandez and Plesa. And Dean Senfronia Thompson.

Please give me this moment in October

Well before superheroes were all the rage, Eduardo Serra was breathing life into comic panels in 3 dimensions. A great loss for cinema.

And the legal battle begins: texastribune.org/2025/08/23/tex…

Mariam, killed by Israeli strike today, had the chance to leave Gaza to be with her son but she chose to stay to report and to look after her parents, her friends told us. She gave a kidney to her father. Her mother, unable to get proper treatment, died from cancer 4 months ago

Hey, hey! Celebrating my one-year anniversary at The Texas Tribune today. It's been a great and very, very busy first year, and I'm grateful to be working with this wonderful staff, especially Ayden Runnels. Onward and upward. 💛

For my Americans, this is the British national soccer tournament version of App State - Michigan

Texas bill allowing pharmacists to dispense ivermectin without a prescription, passes Senate. HB 25 now goes to Gov. Abbott. Texas will become 5th state to do so.

Going to remember this night for the rest of my life. Oasis at MetLife were incredible, once they hit the stage beer went flying in the air, people were hugging strangers and lighting up cigs like it was 1996.

3 months ago, Bill Simmons gave Pablo Torre a hard time for “pretending to be a journalist” for spending slightly too much time covering the Bill Belichick-Jordon Hudson story. Since then, Pablo has broken like 5 major stories and does not appear to be slowing down.

Public Health committee chair Gary VanDeaver tells me there are no plans for the committee to meet tonight to take up a substitute bill regulating the hemp industry in Texas following day of last minute negotiations: “Right now we do not see a path.” #txlege

A Houston mother of 9 was detained by ICE after an altercation that led to no charges. Uriel J. García spent months w/ the family as they waited to find out whether she'd be deported, narrating the painful impact of this separation on her husband and children. texastribune.org/2025/09/08/tex…

Texas A&M professor fired after a viral video showed a student confronting her for teaching about gender says the university never instructed her to change her course content. 📄 Full statement + story: texastribune.org/2025/09/08/tex…