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Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Looks like HellWeather starts this week!



:unsmigghh:

The RGV is well and truly hosed.

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zoux
Apr 28, 2006

How did anyone live here before climate control

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

i work out in my garage which is not climate controlled, even in the summer. its doable but you just need to drink a lot of water. did it all through the heat dome last year.

ideally i would just get up at 5 am and lift before it gets too hot but my son stays up so late that isn't doable. hard physical labor in triple digit temperatures builds character.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

zoux posted:

How did anyone live here before climate control

before 2000 i think the july average high in austin over the preceding century was like 86 lol

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





We really need to bring back the siesta so we don’t melt

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

*laughs in ERCOT rolling blackouts*

actually not rolling, just straight up grid failure

Dameius
Apr 3, 2006
If I remember right, Santa Ana was snowed in during the winter while in the RGV, delayed his full entry into Texas. poo poo used to be colder.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

nowadays you'd fall right through the ice on the rio grande. doesn't even freeze solid

Jake Gittes
Jul 11, 2006

me irl
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/hpd-chief-troy-finner-retirement-whitmire-email-19445507.php

IT BURNS
Nov 19, 2012

Jiro posted:

Looks like HellWeather starts this week!



:unsmigghh:

The RGV is well and truly hosed.

There's always a few days like that around this time. 80s-90s and then suddenly 116, then back to the normal range. I remember one time in early march out of nowhere it was 107 after a string of 80-84.

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

its too hot this morning already. summer of bullshit.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/RobertDownen_/status/1786078874696061045

Hard to appease the ushering in the apocalypse wing and the neo-nazi wing of your party at the same time

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Surprised they didn’t darken the shadow of his hair crown to make it look like a yarmulke

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Governor Abbott: put swangas on your chair

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1788238586803847332

OK so apparently the Azerbaijanis were after general good feelings in America so we wouldn't say anything when they did war crimes against Armenia in 2020. And we didn't. :)

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

i say swears online posted:

lol at least it's not a gold brick like menendez

who knows about their targets but if there was any tamping-down of the US response to the azeri invasion of armenia, it was probably money well spent

geopolitical analyst Swears stays winning

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1786067163050135868

Abbott walks a very winding path.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/houston_tsta/status/1787833904025538674

JFC nice job Harold

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

removing ClassSize Reduct seems counterintuitive

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

https://suburbs101.com/biggest-losers-in-the-texas-housing-market/

Fredericksburg homeowners saw the largest absolute dollar drop in home prices where homeowners lost $84,832 in equity in the course of a year.

IT BURNS
Nov 19, 2012


Here's the complete list, starting on page 67:

https://houstonisd.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=PA&ID=1125557&GUID=4BD9802C-89E8-4468-B361-76A52F15D775

It's really everything you can think of. While there's a line in there that says this doesn't mean that we're mandating cuts, the message is obviously that changes are coming and that entire programs will be eliminated or "reorganized."

litany of gulps
Jun 11, 2001

Fun Shoe

IT BURNS posted:

It's really everything you can think of. While there's a line in there that says this doesn't mean that we're mandating cuts, the message is obviously that changes are coming and that entire programs will be eliminated or "reorganized."

The same thing is happening all over the state. This isn't even necessarily a Mike Miles or Mike Morath thing. The buzzword I'm seeing from the vultures that are watching this all gleefully is that districts need to "rightsize" their programs. But it's an ugly combination of federal pandemic funds disappearing, post-pandemic chronic absenteeism and drop-outs (with funding being based on enrollment and attendance for schools), inflation, and no additional state funding to counter any of these shortfalls.

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

not feeling too good about having a kid in hisd next year

remembertorelax
Aug 16, 2023
To anyone who has never watched the recording from the Houston ISD board governance training around October 2018 you should check it out. It's linked in this article if you just want to read about it:

‘A step below hell’: Video gives inside look at HISD board’s dysfunction

Or here's the full video on the Chronicle's vimeo.

IT BURNS
Nov 19, 2012

lobster shirt posted:

not feeling too good about having a kid in Texas next year

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

jesus christ

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/hisd-custodian-layoffs-19448413.php

who needs clean schools with functional air conditioning!

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018
Women are wonderful animals, they should be making music and writing novels about having a complex relationship with your mother.
I can’t wait for the first school to be closed due to cholera.

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

Gripweed posted:

I can’t wait for the first school to be closed due to cholera.

Neither can the republicans, because that'll make charter schools more appealing.

Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.



lol lmao

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

hottest May temp in McAllen in 40 years. It's the 9th lol

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

i say swears online posted:

hottest May temp in McAllen in 40 years. It's the 9th lol

Just going to lock myself in the freezer till November

I'm 41 that means the year before it was just as hot if not hotter. Perfect beach weather. :unsmigghh:

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
public education is the white whale for consevatives for a variety of reasons(school integration and teachers being mandatory reporters) so yeah theyve pretty much won every other culture war in texas so this is it

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

https://www.tpr.org/government-poli...t-investigation

:sickos:


Texas Public Radio posted:

A former aide and a political strategist for Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar pleaded guilty to assisting the lawmaker with an alleged bribery scheme.

In court documents that were first reported by the San Antonio Express-News, Colin Strother and Florencio Rendon — Cuellar’s former chief of staff and campaign manager — took plea deals earlier this year in relation to Cuellar’s indictment last week.

The plea agreements detail that Strother and Rendon acted as middlemen for Cuellar in order to transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars between a Mexican bank and Imelda Cuellar.

Documents allege Cuellar and Rendon arranged a money laundering scheme while attending a conference in Mexico City in 2015.

Mexican bank executives needed lobbying help from Cuellar to establish relationships with U.S. banks for Mexican workers in the U.S. sending money back to Mexico. Those executives then allegedly sent money to Cuellar for that lobbying.

At Cuellar's suggestion, Rendon sent the money received from bank executives to Strother, who deposited the money into a “sham” consulting business account owned by Imelda Cuellar, the plea agreement said.

The indictment said she provided little to no services for the bank despite being paid more than $200,000.

The Cuellars face bribery, wire fraud, foreign interference and other conspiracy charges. In a statement sent to the media hours before the indictment was unsealed, Cueller denied all the charges.

The next court appearance for the Cuellars is July 1 in Houston.

Arcella
Dec 16, 2013

Shiny and Chrome
Imelda…

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Cuellar is a cartel asset.

Oil!
Nov 5, 2008

Der's e'rl in dem der hills!


Ham Wrangler
Mattress Mack, noooooooooooooooo. Completely unsurprising though.

https://x.com/GFToday/status/1789327032884810091

Dameius
Apr 3, 2006

Oil! posted:

Mattress Mack, noooooooooooooooo. Completely unsurprising though.

https://x.com/GFToday/status/1789327032884810091

It's pretty funny that all it took was the existence of a brown woman in charge for him finally slip mask.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





drat you don’t even get it all free like the other gambles. Republicans continue to gently caress over the little man

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Oil! posted:

Mattress Mack, noooooooooooooooo. Completely unsurprising though.

https://x.com/GFToday/status/1789327032884810091

He's always been a crazy bugfuck conservative but I wonder if his cynical business sense is trying to hedge it's bets come November while his bugfuck side hopes he loses a ton of potential revenue just to get Trump back in office.

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DangerZoneDelux
Jul 26, 2006

He has another video offering same deal to vote for the Democrats…


I mean he is awful but that’s cherry picking

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