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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It’s been 8 months since the mayor of the fourth largest city started giving its newspaper of record the silent treatment. Truly Trumpian behavior from a so-called Democrat who ran as a no-nonsense coalition builder.

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Been waiting for someone (Chronicle??) to explain this. The answer: highest call-out rates in the country thanks to long commutes. You can thank Trump and the GOP for the shutdown, but credit goes to urban sprawl and car-centric planning for making it worse.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I hate how stupid everything is.

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

a friend pointed out that daycares should encourage teacher gifts *after* the holidays rather than before and she’s so right bc I have never seen more love for childcare workers than today on the internet

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The silence of many Houston officials on the redistricting scheme, an assault on the voting rights of the people they represent, speaks volumes

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

convinced the local obsession with this empty slogan is a symptom of carbrain/too much time stuck in traffic

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

some highlights from houston hands off

man holding sign that says “if not fascism, why fascism shaped?”

woman holding sign that reads “the gulf of fragile masculinity”

woman holding sign that reads “honk if you’ve never drunk texted war plans”

man holding sign that reads “they’re eating the checks! they’re eating the balances! mundus sine caesaribus!”

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

remember when the nyt website was a bunch of headlines and when you clicked on a headline it took you to an article? I miss that

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Not just Houston, but like, downtown Houston and some of the blackest neighborhoods in the city.

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

can we please stop holding protests at city hall on a weekend or holiday? one of the reasons the immigration protest two months ago was so powerful was that it met houstonians where they are: on the freeway, at restaurants and in hermann park

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

DINO Mayor John Whitmire will take time to listen to Republican donors but not his own constituents, who he labels “paid activists” when they don’t agree with him. I don’t think a recall effort is the perfect solution but I do think it might remind him who he works for: recallhouston.org

Invitation to a fundraiser for Rep. Dan Crenshaw with special guests Mayor John Whitmire and Commissioner Tom Ramsey

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

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Sara Cress @saracress.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

AND HOUSTON WAS THERE

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Every Dem should be doing this right now. What we’re experiencing now is that political capital is for. If you can’t burn your political capital when the opposition is trying to destroy everything that upholds a liberal democracy, what are you waiting for?

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

mayor whitmire and metro board chair brock (his appointee) quoted two days apart in the chronicle about the need for getting homeless people on to transit and keeping them off of it. so which is it @cityofhouston.bsky.social?

"What we probably are going to do very soon (is) approach council about changing the ordinance that allows people to sleep on the streets," Whitmire told reporters after Wednesday's council meeting. "We really want the ability to tell people,
'It's not lawful for you to sleep in these conditions... Metro will deliver you,
MetroLift, to wherever you need to go."

"We understand that when you do not feel safe, you will not ride Metro," Brock said. "So we appointed a new police chief, Chief Tien, to develop a workforce deployment strategy and to ensure that we address our officer
shortage. This means that we will have a police presence on our buses and trains... We will take back our buses and our shelters and our transit
system from the homeless and get back to our intended mission."

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

east montrose has a coffee shop again (a good one at that) 🤠 go support little dreamers during their soft launch

the hand of me, basic millennial white girl, holding a latte with a building (little dreamers coffee) in the background

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

this beautiful idiot is 7 today 🦗🩷

a long-haired tabby stares vacantly into the distance

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

it’s not just about montrose boulevard. it’s about a community being denied its democratic representation. if he can do this to montrose, he can do it to your neighborhood.

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

If you care about building a safer and more beautiful corridor to Buffalo Bayou, tomorrow is your last chance to demand the Montrose TIRZ Board vote NO on the city’s dangerous redesign of the Montrose Blvd Improvement Project. 6:30p at the Havens Center or on Zoom montrosehtx.org/meeting/febr...

montrosehtx.org

February 2025 - Montrose TIRZ 27

The Board of Directors of Reinvestment Zone Number Twenty-Seven, City of Houston, Texas (the “Zone”), and along with the Board of Directors of the Montrose Redevelopment Authority, City of Houston, Te...

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

me daring the cars to run me over when stepping onto a crosswalk

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

let’s not forget that sam houston would have HATED this

crowd of protestors surround sam houston monument

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

what a beautiful day in houston, texas

protestors stand on a bridge holding mexican flags and signs in support of immigrants

protestors hold signs near the sam
houston monument

a woman with a sign that reads “what would yall do without us?”

protestors hold signs and mexican flags among live oaks

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

no one tells you how much other people’s trash you will touch when you become a parent

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 28/01/2025

“Oh, that’s what that was for” - the American public over the next few weeks

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

the irony of “gulf of america” is that in spanish “américa” refers to the continent, so if anything the new name is more inclusive.

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

when someone’s fb profile photo is from 1975 you know they’re about to invite you to sign their minimum lot size petition

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

rip marvin zindler you would have loved rats in the marijuana

houston mayor john whitmire explains rats in the marijuana to the press

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

tonight! come feel some hope again.

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

moms in my normally apolitical neighborhood moms fb group are all commiserating about wanting more kids but being afraid of getting pregnant again in texas. these “pro-life” policies are not only hurting those already pregnant, they’re discouraging eager couples from even trying.

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

been thinking a lot about (clinging to) these words from @annagalland.bsky.social from her interview with @chrislhayes.bsky.social. yes things are bad and we should prepare for more bad things, but it would be foolish to assume we know where we’re heading.

Excerpt: “And the reason I think I feel steady is both, as you said, that as an organizer, we’ve been through tremendous ups and downs in my own organizing history, in my own lifetime, but also actually where you just went, I feel super humble about what we know about what’s coming. I have some hypotheses. I have some instincts. I have some, I’ve been thinking a lot about what we should learn from the first Trump administration actually, and carry forward and what we need to unlearn. But I feel like it is a kind of act of an overactive ego or narcissism or something to be too pessimistic right now about what exactly is going to come, how this is going to play out. Yes, there will be severe damage. Yes, people that I love and care about are very scared. Yes, I’m scared, but I just think a little humility is in order intellectually and also emotionally, given where we are.”

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm really excited to share some news about our @propublica.org @texastribune.org collaboration!! In the new year, we will be launching a new initiative to work with five newsrooms in the state to cover an issue of importance to Texans.

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Senator Molly Cook @mollyfortexas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

To create the future we envision for Texas, it’s going to take work in and outside the Capitol. I am so excited to announce the launch of something big tomorrow. Let’s get ready to organize, y’all.

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

love stumbling upon houston deco. how did I go so long without knowing the clarke & courts building on w clay? (annoyingly rebranded “tribeca lofts” by some developer)

White building in Art Deco style with decorations in orange, yellow, and teal and lettering that reads “Clarke & Courts”

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nathroom @nathroom.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

5 dollars to the first reporter to start asking whitmire about this. Any pressure from city council?

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

new montrose library looking good 🌞 opening dec. 14

a mixed-use building with a store on the bottom floor and a library sign on the top floor and a rooftop pergola in the colors of the progress pride flag.

a red building and staircase behind a large sign marking the Eleanor K. Freed Montrose Public Library

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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

buy a radio for emergency info when power/internet go out. get involved with the community and help each other. subscribe to local news so you know what is happening where you live. keep your favorite stuff high up when a storm is coming. and please remember to vote ❤️

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

my corner of montrose is getting both a new library and coffee shop in the weeks to come. throw in a shared use path on montrose blvd and the anti-car activists’ disgusting vision for the neighborhood will be complete 🥲

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

would love a count at the top of starter packs so I know what I’m getting into

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

having experienced the 2016 election in dc, it’s been surreal to be in houston this past week where the vibe feels largely indifferent (and in some cases jubilant). on repeat in my head is “meu caro amigo” by chico buarque, written in 1976 under brazil’s military dictatorship 🧵

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

the majority of montrose residents want safer, more walkable streets. see letters here from parents, organizers, an architect, and other neighbors being ignored by the montrose TIRZ in favor of whitmire’s dangerous redesign. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/lett...

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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

tomorrow texas lawmakers begin filing bills for the upcoming legislative session that kicks off in january. we'll start to see what's next for texas. bluesky #txlege nerds unite

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Beth Shook @bshook.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I recently discovered the playground the cool parents hang at and now can’t stop dragging my son there to recruit people to speak at TIRZ meetings and I think I’m starting to get an idea of the kind of parent I’m going to be

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