Judge Alan Albright (Trump appointee) just ruled that Texas CANNOT stop Wall Street from boycotting our energy companies.
Translation: Your teacher pension funds are REQUIRED to invest with firms that refuse to do business with Texas oil and gas.
Teacher Retirement System manages $173 billion for 2 million Texas educators.
A judge with a lifetime job just told them they can't protect Texas jobs with Texas money.
Are you a Texas teacher? Your retirement fund is funding this.
https://t.co/ETou4wUXsT
1/ 27 Virginia counties voting to leave.
Maryland counties too.
Happening right now.
Austin's worst nightmare isn't that it might work—it's that Texas might try it too.
190 years ago today, Texians drew a line. When Mexican troops came for their cannon in Gonzales, 19 men became 140. They unfurled a white flag with a lone star, a cannon, and two words: "Come and Take It."
That defiance sparked a revolution. That spirit lives in every Texan who refuses to surrender their rights.
Good morning.
The reason you feel Charlie’s death so deeply is because grief doesn’t measure itself by proximity. It measures itself by meaning. You didn’t have to know him personally to feel the sting of his absence, because when a voice like his goes silent, something in the atmosphere shifts.
The reason it feels heavier than so many other tragedies is because your spirit recognizes that this is not just about a man, it is about a battle. Scripture says eternity is written on our hearts, and when someone who carried truth with boldness is suddenly gone, eternity aches within us. It’s like our souls know instinctively that the darkness celebrated, and that strikes us at the core.
The reason you can’t shake it is because psychologically, we don’t only attach ourselves to people…we attach ourselves to symbols. Charlie became a symbol of conviction in a time of compromise, courage in a time of fear. And when a symbol is struck down, it rattles something primal and eternal inside us.
That’s why even those who never met him feel it. There is a strange thread pulling at us, and it is not imagined. It is real. We are bound together by shared purpose, by shared longing for truth, by the Spirit of God Himself weaving us into a fabric that cannot be torn apart. This loss pulled at that fabric, and every one of us felt the tug.
So if you’ve wondered why this hits so hard, it’s because your soul knows. This is bigger than news. This is bigger than politics. This is about eternity, about truth, and about the weight of a man whose life carried both.
Love y’all.