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Sharing News, Information, Opinion & Networking for Houston's Humanitarian Sectors - Health, Education, Social Services, Philanthropy, Environment, & More

Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
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@ExpressNews Chefs kiss on this tweet headline. 😘
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@GregAbbott_TX Seriously?! You’re going to gaslight the victims by calling them illegal, and evading your own complicity in creating this gun violence mess. You said less than a year ago “it could’ve been a lot worse,” and boy are you proving it.
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@GregAbbott_TX Maybe you’d like to send your dog Pancake to comfort families in Cleveland TX, today. Seems the least you might do. 😐
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@NBCNews "Are you my Uber, or not?"
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@tplohetski FOIA Request: How many suspected felons do Texas prosecutors let hang out on bail for 9 years and then offer them community service and a fine?
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@AP Should Iowa farmers still get farm subsidies, if the state isn’t going to participate in USDA nutrition programs? Are they gonna tithe a portion of their fields?
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@PeterHotez ‘Now, I am become Downer, Debbie of worlds.’ JK 😉
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@MorePerfectUS That’s no municipal autonomy.
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@davidfrum @RadioFreeTom @semafor Credit to Dan Rather for predicting this…
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By the time Donald Trump is back on Twitter, it will be Truth Social.
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Aidy Bryant as Ted Cruz. #SNL “Now I’m in hot water, which I’m told most people in Texas don’t have.”
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@ExpressNews Don’t see Ted on the birth certificate, Raphael.
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@thisisroxanne @MikalaCompton 🎶 “This diamond ring doesn’t shine for me anymore.” 🎶
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@JordanUhl @CCofNavarro We should be ashamed of ourselves.
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@DanPatrick Because prayer and the 10 commandments certainly stopped a school shooting at a religious school in Nashville. And sexual assaults and inappropriate behavior in religious schools everywhere else too Amirite, Dan? 🙄
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@torchystacos 👍 Now who had @torchystacos taking a harder line against Nazis than @DanPatrick on their 2023 Texas Bingo card?
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@reportbywilson Not a long cigarette holder or monocle among them. That’s some lame cosplay.
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@TexasTribune @JoshuaFechter What are they all afraid of?
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@PeterHotez @houstonpolice @ADL We hanging with you, Doc.
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@JJWatt That’s our boy. 🥲❤️
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@JJWatt @taylorswift13 Who had JJ coming out as a Swifty on their 2023 bingo card? 😉
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@PeterHotez Reported and forwarded to FBI & ATF.
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#DYK : A Harris County state legislator who pushed to stop a modest guaranteed income experiment, had a $623,500 PPP loan forgiven? But he fears giving a few poor people $500 for just 18 months ($9000 total, or 1.4% of his “loan”) is a slippery slope to socialism?
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Today, based upon an opinion letter I sent to Attorney General Paxton (), the AOG filed a lawsuit against the clearly Unconstitutional Universal Basic Income, UBI, program started by the leftist progressive majority on Harris County Commissioners Court.…
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During Hurricane Harvey many Texans were saved by members of the Cajun Navy. So maybe during a pandemic a few of y’all might be saved by the Cajun Army. Louisiana’s own @ltgrusselhonore , hero of the Katrina response, wants y’all to “take the shot.”
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@AnniseParker We had your back, mayor.
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Thank god Houston is not as seriously damaged as you are, Ann. #houstonstong
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@_SJPeace_ @NonprofitAF Reminds us of the Emmy moment from last year.
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@MikeSington Story link?
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@jen_rice_ Oh no. @MamaRedfield was warning about this late last night. 😢
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Survivors...the Washington Post has been working on a story about the AR15, mass shootings, & the physical & emotional trauma left in the wake of these tragedies. There are videos & photos that may be activating to you. Please take appropriate steps for your wellbeing.
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@BCross052422 That was the very first thing we thought about too, Brett.
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@meganmmenchaca @UTAustin How much time passed between this announced occupation and then the DPS response? (Asking for parents of Uvalde.)
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@jtrebach And to think older generations just watched 3 Stooges as humor, not as influencers.
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@WUTangKids Just like we’re saying about the masks here in Texas… “It’s not about YOU, it’s about Y’ALL.”
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@HarrisVotes Sheldon is all of us, right now.
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@MerriamWebster I’m sorry, but Jay is never silent.
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@PeterHotez Let’s meet halfway. Lets see RFK publish something in a reputable, peer reviewed science journal FIRST.
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"BA 2.12 is the mother of all variants in terms of transmissibility. It's getting up there with measles. Have respect for it because it can come and get you." [Dr @PeterHotez - Baylor College of Medicine] Doctors warn of possible sub omicron variant wave.
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@notcapnamerica @ehanks2208 He was just found this weekend. Not several weeks ago. There’s a lot of moving pieces here still, I’d advise waiting for more investigation and mental health assessment before rushing to judgement. It’s already turning into re-traumatizing media circus.
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@BVKImages And to think, their preferred pronoun is “law abiding citizen.”
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1 year
Some awful suit in a Mercedes is about to find out, Twitter style.
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On the official @HoustonTX Bike to Work ride, I experienced the violence I often experience biking in Houston. This driver almost ran me over, I believe intentionally because cyclists were slowing him down.
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@KrutikaKuppalli @PeterHotez @RonDeSantisFL @FoxNews They even called him notorious. So we’re running with it.
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@jenphillipsnews @GovAbbott Always fashionable, Paris TX
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"We aren't seeing 2,000 or 3,000 COVID deaths a day anymore, but we are seeing 400 to 500, which is still a lot of deaths.” [Dr @PeterHotez ] Houston experts agree annual COVID-19 shot best way to keep people protected
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@MerriamWebster IDK. We brought the Heathers together once and that got messy.
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@GregAbbott_TX Texas vs Humanity.
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@lmcgaughy I’ll ask again: How often do Texas prosecutors allow an indicted felon to hang around on bail for 9 years then offer a fine and community service?
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ICYMI: Governor Abbott last week bluntly said he’s holding up $4 billion in new education spending until he gets a school voucher bill. (ESAs). This impacts both the state’s student allotment to districts and teacher raises. #TxLege
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@GregAbbott_TX “Parents know what’s best for THEIR kids.” [Greg Abbott] …Unless of course those parents should think they also know what’s best for their kids health and sense of self. Then the governor & attorney general have other ideas. [🎨 @Nick_Anderson_ ]
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Interview: Dr @PeterHotez , dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine discussed the latest variant, what could be emerging from China and his ongoing conflict with what he describes as “anti-science aggression.”
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@DanCrenshawTX Dude! You are not even wearing a tie on Twitter.
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@marklewismd Also used by some Texas state benefits offices. It’s an intentional roadblock.
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@davidhogg111 We here in Texas are ahead of you Florida. Forget football, this should be our new fall challenge.
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@JJWatt Wait! This is how y’all are spending your honeymoon?
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#MarchForOurLives Houston crowd arrived at Sen @tedcruz office downtown.
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@GovAbbott You called the session to bully legislators and hold Texas school funding hostage. You even said so.
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October is Bullying Prevention Month, but during it Gov. Abbott is holding up $4B in new education funds until he gets his school voucher bill. This impacts both per student allotment funding (currently 43rd in US) and teacher pay raises ($7,700 behind US pay avg) . #TxLege
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@GregAbbott_TX It’s like a SpongeBob episode at this point. 🙄
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“…It wasn't mental health that killed these people, it was an automatic rifle. I'm a gun lover. I have guns. I'm a former police officer. I’m a former Army officer ... prayers won't bring these people back. We need action in our legislatures.” #TxLege 🗣️
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@HFT2415 Okay kids, you can look at the books. But you can’t read them.
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@PeterHotez @TXMedCenter @TAMESTX @NASA @SpaceX Sam Houston diagnosed those kind of Texans years ago…
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@ERCOT_ISO Y’all keep trying to put this on wind and solar when they have been saving your 🍑 all summer long. Maybe it’s your poor grid improvements, 2 years after Uri.
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@RobertDownen_ Everyone knows Jesus was NOT a long hair hippie, and he wore a proper coat and tie when he preached. 🙄
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@monitornews Normally we dislike reboots of classics but this 2023 version of ‘Little Women,’ was 💯
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This is literally a coming of age movie 😭
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@Mike_Hixenbaugh @taygoldenstein Has anyone attacked Powder Puff Football games yet? Girls in pads. Boys in cheerleading skirts. It’s a Texas tradition.
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@davejorgenson Decaf Espresso?!! The Oxymoronic Maneuver
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@RollingStone @dwallacewells They can have this one for free.
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@ERCOT_ISO @RedCrossTXGC This is getting to be a thing, y’all. Maybe we need to talk about our relationship with profiteering gas & pipeline firms. #txlege
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The $11 billion in excess profits collected by natural gas companies during the 2021 freeze was one of the largest wealth transfers in state history.
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@NC5PhilWilliams What happens when you try this in a small-minded state legislative committee.
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"You're damn right I left Texas and I'm glad I did. And you know why...I left Texas to give my people a right to be able to vote without them being infringed upon." Senfronia Thompson TX State Rep - HOU Today before Congressional panel on voting rights
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@cltomlinson But how long before parents demand more money? Pretty quickly if demand rises and there are a limited number of seats middle income folks grab. But for low wage families it’s little more than a coupon for a luxury brand store in a far away neighborhood.
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😳 WOW! Houston’s own @MarcelMcClinton was on John Oliver’s #LastWeekTonight raising questions about protecting voting rights. 🤩
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The Young People Will Run: In 2016 @MarcelMcClinton was locked down in his church during a Houston mass shooting. In 2018 he helped organize Houston’s March for Our Lives rally. And today he announced he’s running in 2019 for city council.
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@JimGBoyle 𝟑𝟎 𝐀𝐃: “The meek shall inherit the Earth.” 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒: “The meek may replace us.” (SMH)
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Happy Cinco de Mayo & Birthday to all who celebrate tonight. @PeterHotez *celebrate responsibly
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Hotez: 'I'll take the first FDA-authorized vaccine offered'
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@leahmcelrath @PeterHotez The naysayers a few weeks ago called him notorious. We can work with that.
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🤠 Texans of the Year 🤠 Congrats to Houston’s Dr @mebottazzi & Dr @PeterHotez ! It’s a marvelous recognition. Made even more so because they managed to impress our ornery Dallas cousins. 😉 via @dallasnews
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@BrentTerhune Kid Woke.
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. @PeterHotez : 'I'm very upset' about the amount of kids hospitalized with Covid-19 in Texas…'this is just the beginning, unfortunately'
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@TheSGTJoker @Franklin_Graham 𝟑𝟎 𝐀𝐃: “The meek shall inherit the Earth.” 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒: “The meek may replace us.” (SMH)
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Vaccine scientist Dr. @PeterHotez ’s advice for getting through the new COVID-19 wave: - Pick the individuals you want to pod with - Avoid others when you can - Look after your mental health
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@GovAbbott Why aren’t you proudly tweeting about the voter suppression too? When the state wants its money for vehicle registrations, they let you do that business at hundreds of grocery stores in the area? But only ONE county run voting drop-off site? C’mon @GovAbbott .
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@TracesofTexas Are we not going to acknowledge those bell bottoms?
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@broncofan4life @GAFollowers That’s a captcha, init?
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@SSWorks Gen-X only asked for one thing. SMH.
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@PeterHotez Brush them off, Doc. We made much better memes for ya.
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Dream Big, Work Hard, Give Back Spotted in my @HEB today. But better then seeing @JJWatt on the cover was the solid community service message on the back and mention about @WattFoundation . 👍 Now when is the softball charity classic coming back, JJ?
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@GovAbbott If Texans had “mastered the safe practices” we wouldn’t be in the mess (again) that we find ourselves now. Self responsibility is not working.
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@AlexMealerTX Funny 🤔 this was obviously not filmed from a METRO bus. Dozens go down that street every day and you are never riding them. Why are you on the @METROHouston board?
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Some stars know Texas so well. We remember Houstonians still laughing over this joke after the movie, heading out to the parking lot. L🤣L RIP PeeWee/Paul Reubens.
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@RadioFreeTom @JVLast @FT Same as crime stats. We should do cross tab analysis for where these people get their news.
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Every year since 2006 at least 60% of Americans thought crime in the US was increasing. In reality, the violent crime rate (there aren't national stats of low level crime) is down >20% since then. via @Crimealytics
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@BetoORourke A message for Governor Lopez de Santa Abbott 😷
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Texas appeals court upholds Harris County mask mandate. "The Governor does not possess absolute authority under the Texas Disaster Act to preempt orders issued by local governmental entities or officials that contradict his executive orders.”
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“We are on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe…I can’t think of a more important time in modern American history when we need a smooth transition. The fact that this is the time it won’t occur will only mean greater loss of life." [Dr. @PeterHotez ]
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@GregAbbott_TX Governor please, if parents decided what kids should/shouldn’t be taught, we would never teach things that parents can’t remember, or never understood. After all, no child should be ashamed to realize a parent can’t diagram a sentence, or do simple fractions 🙄
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😳😳😳 And just last week the White House declared some chemical safety regulations were “overly burdensome.”
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BREAKING: 2nd explosion at TPC plant in Port Neches.
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@JJWatt Don’t read the comments, JJ.
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