Matt Simpson

Y'all means all!

[Victoria Neave @Victoria4Texas]

🚨 URGENT HEARING NOTICE 🚨

This Thursday, November 9, 2023, the Texas House State Affairs Committee will be hearing testimony regarding HB 4.

HB 4 is…

🔘 Bad for business.
🔘 Harms police-community relations.
🔘 Will separate families.
🔘 Unconstitutional.

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

Feels like 2017.
Latino members are told to sit down and shut up while their communities are threatened by the same hateful governor.
And when the Sanctuary Cities ban passed back then, Abbott didn't even invite GOP lawmakers to the bill signing to share credit
#txlege

[Chris Harris @chrisharris101]

Unaffordable housing in a city drives homelessness in that city.

NOT mental illness or substance use or "loss of community" or unhoused people moving to that city.

UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING.

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

round up of some of the attempts to stop new TX laws from going into effect tomorrow

[Greg Casar @GregCasar]

.@GregAbbott_TX just accidentally posted a satire article because he wants to hate on queer Texans and Garth Brooks so bad.

The Texas Country Jamboree doesn’t exist. Hambriston, Texas is not real. And the Governor is not fit to tweet, much less govern.

Happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈

[Ash Hall @LGBTActivist]

Not surprised he would sign the healthcare ban on a Friday, the worst day to break news. He knows messing with trans kids is wrong.
We’ll see you in court, Abbott.

[Aarón Torres @AaronTorres_]

Looks like HB 7 by @RyanGuillen — a GOP priority border security bill that was amended to include the Texas Border Force & making unauthorized entry into TX from a foreign nation a new state crime — is basically dead with no CC report before midnight Saturday.
#txlege

[Matt Simpson @MattKSimpson]

House Investigations Committee is speaking with AG Paxton whistleblowers in a hearing...
https://t.co/KzZd4DIiuz

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

Monday at 7pm, I’ll join Rio Grande Valley-based community organization @LUPE_rgv and Austin groups at this vigil at the TX Capitol.

The vigil will honor the lives of the people who were killed in Brownsville today and call for end to policies that dehumanize migrants.

[Equality Texas @EqualityTexas]

Lawmakers insist on debating the value of trans lives, but they are silencing trans voices. This is not a fair fight. Join us at the Capitol.

We won't be silenced!

📌 Sign up: https://t.co/J77X7PmTdm

#txlege #lgbtq #lgbtqrights #transtexas

[Legal Defense Fund @NAACP_LDF]

"The Department of Education says DEI initiatives do not violate the Civil Rights Act." - Allen Liu, LDF Policy Counsel

[Matt Simpson @MattKSimpson]

The state is taking over Houston's schools and now TEA is targeting Austin.

[Gina Hinojosa @GinaHinojosaTX]

My statement on @TEA's intent to place a conservatorship over @AustinISD

[ACLU @ACLU]

Trans youth deserve to be kids, without having to show up in court to defend their right to exist.

To all trans youth across the country: We're with you.

[Brian McGiverin @BrianMcGiverin]

The Council's vote on Vela's proposal was postponed to this Wednesday.

Starting at about 8am Monday, the public will be able to register online FOR Item #1, to show support for negotiating a one-year deal. https://t.co/QbcVcAK263

That's what I will do. You should too.

[Matt Simpson @MattKSimpson]

@ryanwoods_ @dailythunder @ryenarussillo This take is something a national voice would say that real fans know is wrong. Starting with Durant going to GSW, OKC chose to tread water with Russball for 4 seasons - first round playoff exits - and now we are in the middle of season 3 of tanking with no real end in sight.

[Matt Simpson @MattKSimpson]

Did you all hear that the next Bourne movie is just Jason Bourne trying to buy his partner a holiday gift without spoiling the surprise?

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

Reasons for Austinites to vote early this election:

✅ You stop getting texts from (good) campaigns!
✅ Campaigns can focus on turning out less-likely voters!
✅ Shorter lines than the last few days of early voting!
✅ You can scare the GOP with high(er) ATX turnout numbers!

[Greg Casar @GregCasar]

Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay!

Today, we honor the Comanche, Caddo, Cherokee, Coahuiltecan, Lipan Apache, Karankawa, Tonkawa, and Wichita tribes who first called Central Texas home. #TX35

[ACLU of Texas @ACLUTx]

BREAKING: We're calling on @TheJusticeDept to investigate the Texas Department of Public Safety for civil rights violations committed under Operation Lone Star. DPS's deadly vehicle pursuits and illegal practice of racial profiling during traffic stops must end.

[Matt Simpson @MattKSimpson]

@jakem I can’t resist jumping in…the first thing I remember buying online was a pretty decent guitar - for cheap - off of Ebay. I played that thing in Toronto and Waco and on the rooftop of Maggie Mays on 6th street and from behind chicken wire. I wore out the frets eventually.