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Tweet of the Day: Your Uncle Appointed The Judge
Little brown one has been taking up the cultural war to bring Latinos to the GOP. Today, he tweeted a complaint about a Federal Judge ruling two sections of Texas’ newest anti-woman law...
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#GetCovered – Houston Dept. of Health Will Be Open on Sunday
From the Inbox: The Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) will open four of its multi-service centers on Sunday and extend their business hours next Monday to help people sign up for...
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Update: Houston Dept. of Health Extends Hours for ACA Sign-Up
From the Inbox: The Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) will open four of its multi-service centers on Sunday and extend the business hours late into the night at six centers...
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Strong ACA Sign-Up Results in Texas
Despite Texas Republicans not expanding Medicaid and fearmongering regarding the Affordable care act, various health care nonprofits worked hard to to get 734,000 Texans covered by private insurance...
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Make Your Donation To the Walk for Mental Health Awareness-Houston
A little bird tells me that the 5th Annual Houston Walk for Mental Health Awareness is already 68% (and counting) of the way to meeting its goal of $25,000. Make your donation today–or sign up to...
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A State Rep Working On Real Issues
With today’s news that Dan Patrick is more interested in potties and sending back billions in federal education dollars to DC, it’s time to remind folks that there are folks representing us in Austin...
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OCT 6: Senator Garcia’s Senior Crafts and Health Fair
From the Inbox: Senator Sylvia R. Garcia of Senate District 6 invites the public to attend a Senior Crafts and Health Fair on Thursday, October 6th at the Aldine M.O. Campbell Center. During this free...
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Houston Food Bank Food and Resource Fairs – Various Locations
Beginning September 5, 2017, Houston Food Bank and South Texas Dental will be hosting Food and Resource Fairs across the Houston area to assist those affected by Harvey. Click on image to enlarge:...
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An Interesting Poll of Brown Folks
NALEO and Latino Decisions have just released a poll on where Latinos stand as the presidential primary gets going. And the results are not surprising–at all. Latinos are paying attention to the...
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Leslie Contreras Schwartz Chosen as Houston’s Poet Laureate
Congrats to Leslie Contreras Schwartz! Here’s the press release from Mayor Sylvester Turner making the announcement: Writer Leslie Contreras Schwartz has been selected as Houston’s fourth poet...
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The Day 2 Dems: We Need To Thin The Top Tier By 1
If anything has become obvious after two days of Democratic debate, it’s that most of the white dudes want to keep criminalization of border crossings and the candidates of color and women want to do...
View ArticleState Rep. Gene Wu on COVID19 Situation
Here’s a note my State Rep. Gene Wu posted on Facebook providing an update regarding the COVID19 (Coronavirus) health emergency. It’s got all the right information and links. Thanks, Rep.! Friends, The...
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Local Republicans To Create COVID Spit Cloud in Downtown Houston
COVID Spit Clouds Matter! [Original: LATimes]Apparently, a local bigoted, hormone-shot giving, unelected chair of the Republican party is organizing the creation of Houston’s very own Right-Wing COVID...
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COVID19 in a Small South Texas Town
Here is your daily reminder that Greg Abbott and the Republicans are awful, evil people. I just saw a Facebook live press conference of the leaders of my hometown/county reporting 4 COVID19 cases. The...
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People Modeling Behavior Of Their Leaders
Some people get it; others do not. And some outright refuse to get it! Yes, when it comes down to it, protesting not being able to get haircuts, not wearing masks in public, lashing out at government...
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Re-Living History
I noticed some Tejano music nighclubs are getting ready to re-open. It’s too damn soon! I even read that Grupo Intocable, one of my favorites, is going to have a “drive-in” concert out in the boonies...
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Abbott: Follow The Rules I Didn’t Impose!
UPDATE 4PM: Well that had to be the most useless press conference ever. Abbott and his minions basically assured Texans that there are enough hospital beds for all the COVID19 patients and that the...
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Why So Surprised at Abbott’s Destruction of Texas?
The Chron, an avid endorser of Greg Abbott, wrote a critical op-ed about Abbott. The Chron still supported Abbott after the multi-billion dollar shit show that has been the “border surge,” the...
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Latinos and COVID-19
The LA Times recently featured an article about COVID-19 in South Texas, specifically, the Rio Grande Valley. I wrote a post about bad state leadership and COVID-19 in South Texas in early May. I had...
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