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Evan
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Houstonian. Pulitzer finalist. Constant gardener. "Bastion of the area.” I no longer love our technodystopian future. Build the Ike Dike.
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After weeks of heartbreak, a judge answers Maria’s prayers for her son | Editorial

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After weeks of anguish, a judge answers Maria’s prayers for her son | Editorial
Maria Garcia's son Emmanuel was detained at a federal immigration center. Now a judicial order could answer her prayers, writes the editorial board.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Houston remembers Greta Toranzo, who died at Camp Mystic. Will our leaders? | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
Houston remembers Greta Toranzo, who died at Camp Mystic. Will our leaders?
One of the 27 campers and counselors killed at Camp Mystic during the July 4 floods, Greta Toranzo's birthday party was a chance to celebrate and remember her.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Texans want THC to stay legal. But for lobbyists and lawmakers, Trump's ban means big bucks. | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
Why the Trump THC ban means big bucks for Texas lobbyists and lawmakers
Trump's national ban on THC means big bucks for Texas lobbyists and lawmakers, writes Sarah Stogner.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Here we try again! Did @evan7257.bsky.social help me understand politicians? Probably not, but let’s check.

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I Don't Understand... Politicians
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November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Well, I don’t often praise a Libertarian essay, but Jessi is absolutely right, and that LIFT concept actually matches my feelings about immigration law!
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Police don't want to be ICE. Leaked proposal is a good first step. | Editorial

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Police don't want to be ICE. Leaked proposal is a good first step.
The Houston Police Department should focus on keeping local communities safe, not enforcing federal immigration laws.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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No, e-scooters are not one of Houston’s number one security risks | Editorial

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No, e-scooters are not one of Houston’s number one security risks | Editorial
No, e-scooters are not one of Houston’s number one security risks, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Even the highway gods want better transit in Texas | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Even the highway gods want better transit in Texas
The kings of concrete, the champions of all things automobile, the almighty leaders of TxDOT have an ambitious transit plan. Houston should too.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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It would be helpful to share that this Y’all St play is really a back office play. The high paying jobs remain in the financial centers. Guess which jobs get cut first in downturns and for tech innovations?
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Hate big government? Then you should oppose ICE raids. | Opinion

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Hate big government? Then you should oppose ICE raids. | Opinion
Hate big government? Then you should oppose ICE raids, writes Jessi Cowart, the vice chair of the Libertarian Party of Texas.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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New York can keep its socialism. Texas is building Y’all Street. | Opinion

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New York can keep its socialism. Texas is building Y’all Street. | Opinion
While NYC attacks big business, Texas is creating our own stock exchange with low taxes, less red tape, and no lectures about profit, says talk radio host Kenny Webster.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Don’t be surprised a Trump judge struck down the Texas gerrymander | Editorial

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Don’t be surprised a Trump judge struck down the Texas gerrymander | Editorial
Don’t be surprised a Trump judge struck down the Texas gerrymander. Judge Jeff Brown has a reputation for putting precedent ahead of partisanship, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Data shows that Texas boys and men are in trouble. So why aren’t we doing something?

After all, Texas has a commission for women. Why not one for men?
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November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Can Camp Mystic regain parents' trust? With the Aggie Bonfire tragedy, Texas A&M shows how. | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
What Camp Mystic can learn from the Aggie Bonfire tragedy. | Opinion
The camp says it's not legally accountable for the tragedy. To trust it with girls' lives, we need more than that, writes Bob Fleming. And Texas A&M can show how.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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!!!!
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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were getting so close for them to finally say "Mr. Luckman we need a lawyer in space"
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A former Air Force intelligence officer pleaded guilty last week to lying to law enforcement when she falsely accused her estranged wife — who is an astronaut — of illegally accessing her bank account from space.
Wife of Astronaut Pleads Guilty to Falsely Alleging Crime in Space
Summer Worden admitted lying to federal agents when she accused her spouse, the astronaut Anne McClain, of illegally accessing her bank account from space.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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This Thanksgiving I'll be thankful for @embaleez.bsky.social regularly documenting Houston City Council meetings.

Read her exclusive op-ed in the @houstonchronicle.com about what she's learned over the past five years of watching local government.
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The stuff normal people don’t know about Houston City Council
Councilmembers don’t have that much power. A new mayor alters the vibe. And other stuff most Houstonians don’t realize.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Houston police fractured a loving family. Mayor Whitmire calls it a 'model for the U.S.' | Editorial

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Houston police broke a family. Whitmire calls it a national model. | Editorial
At the end of the day, a mother is still without her son tonight. A scared teen is still without his mom. For no good reason. Shouldn’t that be of concern to Houston's leaders?
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November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Cloudflare outage destroys all human communication except Bluesky, this is the weirdest sci-fi scenario I’ve ever seen
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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In this week’s @houstonchronicle.com Says Hou newsletter, I reflect on something missing from #tribfest25: Republicans

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Why weren't more Republicans at TribFest?
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November 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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I worked for Trump. Here’s how Mexico can help us crush cartels. | Opinion

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I worked for Trump. Here’s how Mexico can help us crush cartels. | Opinion
Cartels get rich exploiting gaps between U.S. and Mexican regulations.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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As Bovino and masked DHS officers sweep another Home Depot looking to round up day laborers, a reminder of the meeting in May when Stephen Miller screamed at ICE to stop doing targeted enforcement, start hitting Home Depots and 7/11s and “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”
Even with the high-profile arrests of suspects by masked immigration agents and the plane loads of migrants swiftly ferried out of the U.S., President Trump was falling short of the number of daily deportations carried out by the Biden administration in its final year. So in late May, Stephen Miller, a top White House aide and the architect of the president's immigration agenda, addressed a meeting at the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. The message was clear: The president, who promised to deport millions of immigrants living in the country illegally, wasn't pleased. The agency had better step it up. Gang members and violent criminals, what Trump called the "worst of the worst," weren't the sole target of deportations. Federal agents needed to "just go out there and arrest illegal aliens," Miller told top ICE officials, who had come from across the U.S., according to people familiar with the meeting. Agents didn't need to develop target lists of immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, a longstanding practice, Miller said. Instead, he directed them to target Home Depot, where day laborers typically gather for hire, or 7-Eleven convenience stores. Miller bet that he and a handful of agents could go out on the streets of Washington, D.C., and arrest 30 people right away. "Who here thinks they can do it?" Miller said, asking for a show of hands.
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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the connections trump had to multiple "modeling agencies" that were actually fronts for human trafficking is pretty interesting! i mean, maybe not AS interesting as the question of whether tim walz visited china in may or june of 1989, but like, at least moderately newsworthy imho
July 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM