Tina Amplify 🇺🇸💙♥️💜🤎🐶

PROGRESS4all Grateful immigrant givingback #WorkingFamilies #WomensHealth #AAPI #GunSafety Kids dying from gun deaths not drag shows😢Tweets my own. she/her

[Tina Amplify 🇺🇸💙♥️💜🤎🐶 @AmplifyTina]

Yes. #ActNow! Inaction is complicity.
#SilenceIsComplicity

These are extraordinary times requiring extraordinary actions from all of us. #Texas

Join up w neighbors & activist groups. #Together we can fight!

@MomsAGAbbott @MomsDemand @asiantexans

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[Yoni Appelbaum @YAppelbaum]

Of all the stories I've read or heard the past few days, @amirtibon's is the most remarkable—capturing the horror, the failures, the heroics, the hope, and the despair of this moment in Israel. https://t.co/dTf4yJEw72

[Dylan McGuinness @dylmcguinness]

Houston! You have until Tuesday to register to vote in November's elections. Fill out the form below, sign it and mail it to P.O. Box 3527, Houston, Texas 77253:

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[Kerry Kennedy @KerryKennedyRFK]

Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment. Today's announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country. @roryekennedy @joekennedy @KKT_Kennedy

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

If Defend Texas Liberty detests Nick Fuentes so much, then I hope @RepStickland will provide a detailed account of how Fuentes ended up at his firm's office for 6.5 hours while more than two dozen people were also there. #txlege

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

This list that was just shared by Tim Dunn - whose PAC leader just met with white supremacist - is from 2022 and also includes San Antonio preacher John Hagee, who has said that "God sent Hitler" to drive the Jews out of Europe and into Jerusalem. #txlege

[State Rep. Eddie Morales, Jr. @moralesfortexas]

As we are set to gavel in for the 3rd Special Session, it should not be lost on Texans that our public schools require a $40 BILLION investment for Texas to match the national average for per-pupil funding. Now is not the time to use taxpayer dollars to pay for private school tuitions. Fund public schools, not vouchers. #txlege

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Teachers earned 73 cents for every dollar that other professionals made in 2022.

This is far less than the 93 cents on the dollar they made in 1996.

Once again: Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the dignity and pay they deserve?

[Progress Texas @ProgressTX]

"In Texas, the problem we face is not a lack of school choice but a lack of giving schools what they need to best serve our kids." @TMFtx @ExpressNews https://t.co/42Dp0j4qpp Texas has plenty of school choice, but lags in education resources

[Tina Amplify 🇺🇸💙♥️💜🤎🐶 @AmplifyTina]

Yes, there is good in this world. #Immigrants #LoveNotHate

Thanks for the inspiration Sara. Congratulations!

[Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi]

I just experienced one of my first ‘full circle’ moments.

I bought this bottle of water on my train to Dublin and noticed the name - Tipperary.
Almost immediately, I began humming a tune. I searched “Tipperary song” on Google and learned that it was an old wartime song during World War 1.

There’s a backstory to this.

When my mother, brother and I arrived to Canada as refugees from Afghanistan, we didn’t know a word of English. My mother, having to work 3 jobs, entrusted us in the care of a Norwegian-Canadian woman named Marit. Other than her routine 5 am hug, I barely saw my mother throughout my childhood.

Marit was uncommonly kind to everyone she met. She was also dedicated to her church. While my mother focused on ensuring we maintained our Dari and Islamic values as children, Marit would also bring us to church on Sundays, welcoming us to her community. She always told us that Christians are brethren to the Muslim faith - we knew nothing but solidarity and respect as children.

Marit’s husband, Merrill, was Irish. It was a routine practice of his to sit on the porch of his house, staring blankly into the forest behind their suburban home, with a pipe in his mouth. “It’s a long way to Tipperary..” He would hum.

He would raise his arms like a conductor’s baton and usher my brother and I to join in.

Within a few months, you could mistake us for an Irish choir.

Now, at 28, I’m in Northern Ireland heading to Dublin, having just won an award as ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ for my work dedicated to my country of origin, Afghanistan.

My brother smiled solemnly to himself yesterday while we walked around Belfast. I asked him what he was thinking about.

“Wouldn’t it have been amazing if Merrill was with us right now?” My throat closed tightly.

I guess it really is a long way to Tipperary.

[Laney Hawes @LaneyHawes]

Not one word about increasing funding for public schools or educator raises. This man is wholeheartedly anti-public education even though the Texas Constitution requires free quality public education for all Texas children.

[Ryan Autullo @RyanAutullo]

New from us at Bloomberg Law: a key witness who ducked AG Ken Paxton's impeachment trial has been subpoenaed by the feds.

Kevin Wood, a contractor who worked on a Paxton home remodel, is scheduled to testify before a grand jury this month. @blaw #txlege
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[Sara Spector @Miriam2626]

Please know I am from Midland, home of oligarch Tim Dunn. I am Jewish. Tim Dunn is trying to indoctrinate our children with a anti semitic Christo fascist agenda. This is his goal with the school voucher program. #MorningJoe

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[Jim Boyle @JimGBoyle]

A woman from FL was paid to block the driveways of Texas House members with a truck with loud speakers and digital signs supporting private school vouchers. Rep. Philip Cortez of San Antonio was the first to receive such treatment. Another tool in the pro-voucher tool box.

[Kathleen Vale @SanAntoGuera]

SUPPORT TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS — where passionate teachers light the fire of learning in the minds of 5.4 Million Texas schoolchildren all over our state in places where @GovAbbott, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks *NEVER VISIT.* It’s damn shame bc our kids deserve better. #txlege #txed

[Gene Wu @GeneforTexas]

Shhhhh! Don't tell anyone ---

There's a reason why Governor Abbott did NOT add a call for increasing school funding or teacher pay.

The goal is to force schools to switch lower pay UNCERTIFIED teachers. (He's already testing it out in the Houston ISD state takeover. 😉)

[Mike Hixenbaugh @Mike_Hixenbaugh]

🧵Last August, I was listening to a feed of a heated North Texas school board meeting while juggling my nightly dad duties.

Which is why I was getting my 3-year-old to bed when I heard a mom make a shocking statement that @ahylton26 and I have now spent a year investigating. 1/

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Texas is too big and too great to be sold to the highest bidder.

We cannot let two billionaires turn our beloved state into a Christofascist theocracy.

Help us stop them: https://t.co/eKhibERrEu

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Now they’re taking on their most ambitious project: replacing public schools with Christian schools.

Abbott just called a special session to pass Dunn & Wilks’ voucher scam.

Republican Sen Bob Deuell said: “They want to destroy the public school system”

https://t.co/WRBLlZq9Bh

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

And they've even created their own right-wing media bubble.

Dunn & Wilks fund Texas Scorecard, the top far-right publication.

Wilks owns the Daily Wire and bankrolls PragerU, a right-wing "education" platform they’re trying to force into our schools.

https://t.co/pYbCfVdu4o

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Dunn & Wilks also control influential legal, policy, & advocacy organizations.

One of those orgs argued in court that pharmacies shouldn't sell birth control.

The lawyer who argued that case later became a federal judge.

He banned the abortion pill.

https://t.co/OZYNcKcer3