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This is what needs to be said.

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, told this to a DPS honcho yesterday in Eagle Pass, referring to DPS troopers:

“Tell those guys if we find out that people were putting kids back in the water, we’re going to encourage the Department of Justice to charge them with murder. Or attempted murder.”

Good.

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The featured photo is the Ohio state flag, and it is flying proudly this morning. Pro-Choice forces put a 57% arse kicking on the Ohio GOP yesterday.  They voted down Issue 1 which would have moved the goal posts on changing the vote percentage needed to amend their state constitution. This sets up a key vote this November on codifying abortion. Congrats! Nice job! Way to go!

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This was from the Chron yesterday:

Several of the ousted Houston ISD elected trustees are hosting a virtual meeting on Tuesday night to help inform the community about upcoming policy decisions at the district. 

Trustees Kathy Blueford Daniels, Myrna Guidry and Elizabeth Santos will host a meeting to review the agenda for the Thursday night school board meeting, which includes several suggested changes to board policies concerning finances and personnel, among other items. 

And from the Chron this morning:

An unofficial meeting of some of the ousted Houston ISD trustees Tuesday evening briefly descended into chaos after anonymous attendees repeatedly shared clips of sexualized videos of furries and messages containing expletives with everyone in attendance.

Four of the HISD elected trustees held a meeting over Zoom for about an hour and a half to discuss the agenda that the newly appointed school board is scheduled to vote on on Thursday. The trustees hosting the meeting no longer have any official power or oversight of HISD after the state took over the district and installed a completely new board. 

The trustees leading the meeting — Myrna Guidry, Kathy Blueford Daniels, Elizabeth Santos and Dani Hernandez — made the meeting open to anyone to attend without restrictions. They initially did not limit any attendee’s ability to speak, share their screen, type in the chat, change their names or draw on the screens during the meeting.

The broad access gave attendees free reign to disrupt the meeting for several minutes as the trustees struggled to stop the disarray during the meeting, which had a peak attendance near 100 people. The hosts and co-hosts eventually wrestled control back by repeatedly muting and removing disruptive attendees.

During the meeting, at least one attendee shared at least three different suggestive videos from Youtube and Twitter for several seconds of “furries,” which are anthropomorphic animal characters that are frequently sexualized. One video — shared multiple times — was titled “big butt furry girl twerking” and another was titled “extra bouncy butt crush.”

Here is the entire read: HISD elected trustees’ Zoom meeting disrupted by explicit furry videos (houstonchronicle.com).

Sad. Plus, they couldn’t even get a quorum. Oh, well.

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We were down 6-3 with one out in the ninth inning when King Tuck hit a grand salami. We won 7-6. Nice.