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https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1193024792351379456 Gonna be nuts when Abbott has the dude murdered anyway
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# ? Nov 9, 2019 18:16 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 07:42 |
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we're gonna run out of lethal injection drugs and just sit them under pecan trees in an ice storm
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# ? Nov 9, 2019 19:00 |
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I lived in Bastrop County most of my life and Rodney Reed has been a perpetual background noise, so this rush of national attention is real weird.
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# ? Nov 9, 2019 19:20 |
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I'm not sure if you want the Zodiac Killer on your side in a murder investigation.
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# ? Nov 9, 2019 20:08 |
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i say swears online posted:what do you not like about the current latina woman incumbent Oops, I got that district mixed up with the 21st that Wendy Davis is running for. Charlz Guybon fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Nov 11, 2019 |
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https://twitter.com/rebekahallen/status/1194278720988680193 I have no idea if the HISD board was mismanaging poo poo or sucked or whatever (I do know the state's pretext is bullshit) but regardless: this is going to be a complete disaster
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# ? Nov 12, 2019 16:42 |
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/rebekahallen/status/1194278720988680193 Greg Abbott to announce he is sending all HISD students to a state-owned field outside IAH
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# ? Nov 12, 2019 16:52 |
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https://twitter.com/madlinbmek/status/1194284169632927748 Since individuals can only be mutilated as children up to the age of 18, we rate this claim mostly false. quote:Castilla said state lawmakers "left children able to be sterilized and mutilated at any point in their life" by failing to adopt a law prohibiting minors from undergoing medical or surgical gender transitions. I loving hate fact checkeres
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# ? Nov 12, 2019 17:05 |
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If theres one thing the state government is capable of, its fixing the social and economic issues of a high school in the fifth ward of houston !
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# ? Nov 12, 2019 18:59 |
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/rebekahallen/status/1194278720988680193 I am going to assume that Abbott found out HISD was teaching evolution and sex ed.
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# ? Nov 12, 2019 19:00 |
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I'm happy to announce that Wheatly High School will now be IDEA Wheatley, partnered with KIPP. the school will have half the enrollment of before and we are going to spread all the bad students throughout the rest of the schools to meet metrics. Numbers are infallible and will show that this area is performing better in the aggregate. Thank you.
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# ? Nov 12, 2019 19:03 |
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Doom Rooster posted:I am going to assume that Abbott found out HISD was teaching evolution and sex ed. If I had to guess at a state pol with sinister motives behind this, I'd point at Dan https://twitter.com/DCPolitics2016/status/1194320020274393090 Oh boy. zoux fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Nov 12, 2019 |
# ? Nov 12, 2019 19:06 |
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dan patrick is a child rapist
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# ? Nov 12, 2019 19:56 |
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The HISD takeover was odd timing. The Board was was an utter shitshow that routinely violated the Open Meetings Act to engage in secret meetings to snipe at their rivals on the board while also being blatant criminals directing contracts to their friends (my Trustee, Diana Davila did this) They almost came to blows on multiple occasions and it is amazing that HISD was able to accomplish anything with their board in utter disarray. However, last week, every incumbent up for re-election lost, it was a de facto new board chosen by the voters (some of the old ones stayed on because their seats weren't up). The state announced the takeover after this happened. I would feel differently if I thought the state GOP was even capable of acting in remotely good faith, but they aren't, and used a flimsy pretext to depose an elected school board so they can destroy the district from the inside to use as their evidence of the failure of public schools. Anyway. If you're from Houston, please run for school board and dont be corrupt. Thanks.
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 02:37 |
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Sab0921 posted:The HISD takeover was odd timing. The Board was was an utter shitshow that routinely violated the Open Meetings Act to engage in secret meetings to snipe at their rivals on the board while also being blatant criminals directing contracts to their friends (my Trustee, Diana Davila did this) School boards always attract the loving worst of the worst because of their taxing authority and power to dole out projects to contractors (read: relatives) they favor. The boards in the Valley are basically run by one family and the nepotism is some next-level poo poo.
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 03:27 |
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IT BURNS posted:School boards always attract the loving worst of the worst because of their taxing authority and power to dole out projects to contractors (read: relatives) they favor. The boards in the Valley are basically run by one family and the nepotism is some next-level poo poo. Wait so in Texas school boards have the power to raise revenues for schools through taxation?
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 03:30 |
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Ogmius815 posted:Wait so in Texas school boards have the power to raise revenues for schools through taxation? Texas schools are funded by property taxes, and the district itself is the taxing authority. They are always the largest portion of the property tax bill. It is helpful in some cases (avoids Dan Patrick being in charge of doling out school funds to his favorite evangelical charters) but harmful in a lot of others (small boards without a lot of oversight lend themselves to corruption)
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 03:43 |
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Sab0921 posted:Texas schools are funded by property taxes, and the district itself is the taxing authority. They are always the largest portion of the property tax bill. It is helpful in some cases (avoids Dan Patrick being in charge of doling out school funds to his favorite evangelical charters) but harmful in a lot of others (small boards without a lot of oversight lend themselves to corruption) You know, I'll take some small time local corruption over whatever intense and vile rot the state is about to inject into any school system they seize.
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 03:49 |
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Sab0921 posted:Texas schools are funded by property taxes, and the district itself is the taxing authority. They are always the largest portion of the property tax bill. It is helpful in some cases (avoids Dan Patrick being in charge of doling out school funds to his favorite evangelical charters) but harmful in a lot of others (small boards without a lot of oversight lend themselves to corruption) The bolded portion is the part that’s novel. I can’t decide if that’s awesome or horrible.
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 03:52 |
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Ogmius815 posted:The bolded portion is the part that’s novel. I can’t decide if that’s awesome or horrible. It's usually better because in our current political climate, the school systems can generally avoid the WASTE AND FRAUD FIRE ALL THE ADMINS method of operating government favored by state leaders because of how close the actual underlying operating costs to the elected board.
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 03:59 |
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My school district keeps jacking the price up ~10% a year but now I get hella youtube ads from them. They're smart.
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 04:03 |
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Marxalot posted:My school district keeps jacking the price up ~10% a year but now I get hella youtube ads from them. They're smart. The state government has been starving them of funding for a decade necessitating the 10% year over year increase in property taxes. Everything can always be traced back to the shitheads in charge in Austin.
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 04:11 |
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Sab0921 posted:The state government has been starving them of funding for a decade necessitating the 10% year over year increase in property taxes. I think the recent property tax and school finance bills will ultimately do more harm than good to homeowners (GET OFF MY LAWN). Most districts way overappraised this past year in anticipation of major changes in the funding formulas, so they'll likely be 15-20% higher in coming years now that most people are essentially locked into a higher appraised value. Housing affordability has reached an unsustainable level for many.
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 04:34 |
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yeah the +30% years were great. +10% is relatively nice
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 04:39 |
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Marxalot posted:yeah the +30% years were great. +10% is relatively nice So how is life in the Heights/Montrose?
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 05:00 |
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IT BURNS posted:School boards always attract the loving worst of the worst because of their taxing authority and power to dole out projects to contractors (read: relatives) they favor. The boards in the Valley are basically run by one family and the nepotism is some next-level poo poo. The Cantu's are a cartel and it's amazing how much of their money infests the RGV as a whole even so far as to try and worm their way into the UT School system.
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 05:03 |
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Sab0921 posted:So how is life in the Heights/Montrose? Baytown actually. Haven't had anyone try to rob me in a few years so I guess things are nice e: there's an heb now!
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 07:50 |
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Yeah but there is also Baytown Brown and ain't nobody should have to suffer that.
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 15:50 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG6xMglSMdk Barbara Jordan's 1974 statement at the Watergate hearings was a career maker, and as we begin what is sure to be a complete debacle, it's worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 16:23 |
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https://twitter.com/time/status/1194627215960481792?s=21
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 16:24 |
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https://twitter.com/replouiegohmert/status/1194638706130505730 The chair recognizes the Gentle-egg from Tyler
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 16:58 |
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Dameius posted:Yeah but there is also Baytown Brown and ain't nobody should have to suffer that. Ngl, never heard of that.
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# ? Nov 14, 2019 00:09 |
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Marxalot posted:Ngl, never heard of that. Slang for either or both poo poo water and weed.
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# ? Nov 14, 2019 00:31 |
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The water beats the hell out of the "am I drinking unfiltered water out of the trinity river?" Richardson system I dealt with for a few years. Can't speak for the weed, I live in an extremely normal country that requires me to piss in a cup regularly, or make <$12/hr.
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# ? Nov 14, 2019 00:54 |
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https://twitter.com/eramshaw/status/1194985511141724161?s=21 Guess we know why he retired
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# ? Nov 14, 2019 15:30 |
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Lol I thought it was because he wanted to take a run at SD 19. Poncho being a cokehead explains a lot.
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# ? Nov 14, 2019 15:37 |
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drat I thought canales would get busted first. Amazing that he would put it all in an envelope with his name on it
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# ? Nov 14, 2019 18:42 |
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Marxalot posted:Can't speak for the weed, I live in an extremely normal country that requires me to piss in a cup regularly, or make <$12/hr. The drug testing donut hole will never stop being sadly hilarious to me.
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# ? Nov 14, 2019 18:50 |
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Yeah I'm detoxing at the moment to have a shot at okay jobs because I'm not having much luck with very good jobs that pay double and don't test Tech interviewers have brought up their weed habit when speaking to me lol
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# ? Nov 14, 2019 20:22 |
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For job interviews just use Quick Fix. They don’t watch you pee at that level of test and it’s super easy if you pay attention to the temperature. More difficult if it’s a random one though.
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