#TXSEN: James Talarico announces a Republicans for Talarico coalition. Some unsurprising former Republicans here, some who haven’t been this public before.
Today I'll be reporting live from the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, TX, for @dmagazine, which applied for press access but never received a response. Consequently, I will have the general admission experience. First step: drive ~30 mins outside of Dallas to Grand Prairie.
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my only thoughts on the lindsey clancy trial are one woman kills her kids and suddenly “women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.” but 100s of men kill other people’s kids in school shootings and “we need to talk about mental illness.”
In all seriousness, Greg Abbott’s and Ken Paxton’s (and all the Republicans’) refusal to debate their opponents is such an on the nose representation of how little respect they have for the people that they are running to serve.
They are flat out declaring that they are too high on their horses to be bothered with answering questions from us little folk. It’s how they campaign, and it is also how they govern.
We deserve leaders who show up. We deserve leaders who will listen. We deserve better.
Vote wisely this November.
@ThymeToBeBorn I love this idea & the terminology! When people take the time to really reflect on their experiences as kids & apply that to raising their own kids, I think that’s a beautiful way to love. I also firmly believe people’s attitudes toward cats reflect theirs twd women, consent etc
@kiesha9i I never thought about the possibility of the lyric, “Buy the paint in the color of your eyes and graffiti my whole damn life” could be about a kitty’s eyes. Much to think on
techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”
I hope that after today I never hear about a woman’s self worth and purpose tied to only having children. Dolly Parton is everything and more and she wasn’t a mother. I NEVER want to hear anyone say that there is no purpose outside of being a mother after today
I was working at @930Club when Dolly Parton played and a drag queen dressed just like her stood in line all day to get in the front row and Dolly LOVED it. She changed the words of "Jolene" to sing "Drag queen" and sang them right to her. A class act and icon
@LalalalAala2212 “You had to make your own sunshine
But now the sky is opalite”
Represents so well how it’s time to finally be ok after a period of struggle. You’ve worked hard. You’ve got this, and you won’t have to be alone. It’s “dust off your highest hopes” coded, joyful and unapologetic.
As a woman, here is what bothers me in public restrooms:
• pee on the seat
• hand dryers rather than paper towels
• empty soap dispensers
• no purse hook
• people using a speaker phone while peeing (just why)
• no full length mirror near the exit
Here’s what has NEVER bothered me in public restrooms:
• Transwomen existing
PROTECT THE DOLLS
For all you who live outside Texas or moved here in the last decade, if you think Paxton represents the best of Texas....you dont know
sh!t about Texas.