Emma Balter

senior editor @TexasMonthly | former EIC @HoustoniaMag | other past lives: @chron @HoustonChron @WineSpectator | she/her

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

🚨 Houston (Harris County) has a new voting sticker this year (I am hearing it is limited edition, you gotta go right now)

[Sam Gonzalez Kelly @sgonzalezkelly]

NEW: Orlando Sanchez is trying to run a moderate campaign for Harris County judge, but far right figures like Bo French and Steven Hotze may not let voters "ignore the 'R'" next to his name as he has asked. Sanchez hasn't explicitly rejected them either.

https://t.co/qKSujL1U9e

[Forrest Wilder @Forrest4Trees]

EXCLUSIVE: Texas has been considering selling Boca Chica State Park to Elon Musk https://t.co/7Pqp7aDxhX

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

Exclusive: Texans will soon have a new spot to delight in the spoils of a summer spent lakeside. With the intention of helping open a new state park, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation has purchased a 650-acre lakeside pecan farm. https://t.co/kxWqSFMcZx

[Emma Balter @EmmaBalter]

new state park drop https://t.co/IHTHGgJQeg

[Emma Balter @EmmaBalter]

orlando sanchez: 13
talarico: 3
paxton: 1
middleton: 1
abbott: 1
hinojosa: 1

[Emma Balter @EmmaBalter]

i know yard signs don't vote, but each election cycle i spend here i find their distribution fascinating as kind of a capsule of enthusiasm

yesterday on my usual 45min loop around my southwest houston neighborhood, which is relatively politically mixed but leans dem, i saw:

[Emma Balter @EmmaBalter]

he’s running

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

My father died of a heart attack at only 39 years old.

I’ve always kept an eye on my health because of that history. Now, I’m walking every day and taking a GLP-1 so I can be around for my family.

My health journey isn’t over, but sharing this might help others.

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

They're talking about the Texas Railroad Commission at the Comedy Cellar

[Emma Balter @EmmaBalter]

“like i was the child george bush personally left behind” one of the best sentences i’ve read i fear

[Mia K. @miakhalifa]

I asked the Amtrak employee in DC if I’m on the right acela cause I’m going to New York, but it says “Boston? He looked at me like I was the child George Bush personally left behind and said “What do you think is on the way to Boston?”

[Jack Herrera @jherrerx]

The Colorado makes headlines. The Rio Grande is in a worse state of collapse. Last year, I traveled 1900mi along the river. I saw the worst drought in 1200 years; I saw 15 million people about to lose drinking water.

And I met people fighting—and killing—over water. READ NOW:

[Emma Balter @EmmaBalter]

Welcome to Goat Island, Texas. It’s Exactly What You Think. @TexasMonthly https://t.co/CVmyXaEiF1

[Matt Lanza @mattlanza]

The replies to this are filled with a bunch of angry people from Austin that can’t accept the reality Houston is simply a superior city.

[Emma Balter @EmmaBalter]

"[They] came to power hollering about states’ rights, the Tenth Amendment, and the spirit of 1836. And yet these Texas Tough politicians—with a couple exceptions—are struggling to find their tongues..." https://t.co/VX3Yj1M9Fd

[Taylor Prewitt @tayloraprewitt]

Thinking about bulldozers ripping through one of the most peaceful, silent places I’ve visited. https://t.co/QBcDmZolCc

[Forrest Wilder @Forrest4Trees]

Porvenir, Texas, is a massacre site and a sacred place for those whose ancestors—unarmed men and boys—were slaughtered here by the Texas Rangers. So of course the Trump administration is destroying it for a border wall.

Great reporting by @peterjholley

https://t.co/ca4cynfWzl

[Emma Balter @EmmaBalter]

houston: the only place on earth you can be going 60 in a 35 and still get tailgated

[Emma Balter @EmmaBalter]

@evan7257 @kissphoria i have a lovely green vase

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Mbappe and Kane in the 3rd place match realising they can let each other score hattricks and stop Messi from winning the golden boot

[Emma Balter @EmmaBalter]

how’s it going since

[Italy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @Azzurri_En]

20 years since our 2006 World Cup triumph 🏆

#Azzurri #VivoAzzurro