KitFrieden
@kitfrieden.bsky.social
Former editor, AP, Houston Chronicle.
Texas GOP’s gerrymander for 2026 is blocked by federal court. Likely headed to Supreme Court. This was the gerrymander that led Gavin Newsom to push redistricting in California.
BREAKING: a federal court has BLOCKED the TX congressional gerrymander
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Federal Court Blocks Texas Gerrymander for 2026, Appeal Expected
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Texas GOP’s gerrymander for 2026 is blocked by federal court. Likely headed to Supreme Court. This was the gerrymander that led Gavin Newsom to push redistricting in California.
Houston area HS student just learned about gerrymandering: “Its’s about power,” she said, testifying against Trump’s ordered redrawing of Texas congressional maps in an attempt to rig the 2026 midterm election.
a high school student speaking at today's TX redistricting public hearing in houston (who has been waiting for hours to have her chance at the mic)
July 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Houston area HS student just learned about gerrymandering: “Its’s about power,” she said, testifying against Trump’s ordered redrawing of Texas congressional maps in an attempt to rig the 2026 midterm election.
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Democracy in Texas is in trouble. Taking away more than 40% of the population’s ability to elect a candidate and establish an unbeatable single-party regime is, by definition, totalitarianism. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col... #txlege
Tomlinson: Texas redrawing political maps to rig 2026 elections
Democracy thrives or dies on how we draw political districts, and the prognosis for Texas is not good.
www.houstonchronicle.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Democracy in Texas is in trouble. Taking away more than 40% of the population’s ability to elect a candidate and establish an unbeatable single-party regime is, by definition, totalitarianism. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col... #txlege
Under orders from Trump, Greg Abbott and the Texas GOP plan to redraw congressional districts to further dilute the votes of black and brown residents. Houstonians can voice their views at Univ of Houston at 11 on Saturday.
the TX GOP is redrawing the congressional map so houston voters won't be able to elect democrats to represent them
houston: you can speak at the public hearing saturday 7/26 at 11am
University of Houston Main Campus
4455 University Drive
Student Center, Houston Room (Room 220)
houston: you can speak at the public hearing saturday 7/26 at 11am
University of Houston Main Campus
4455 University Drive
Student Center, Houston Room (Room 220)
July 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Under orders from Trump, Greg Abbott and the Texas GOP plan to redraw congressional districts to further dilute the votes of black and brown residents. Houstonians can voice their views at Univ of Houston at 11 on Saturday.
Wired magazine reports that since January, more than 40 companies have mentioned the impact of deportations in SEC filings with many saying it could hurt the labor force. The companies include food production, tech, and construction.
Since Trump took office, ICE arrests have more than doubled. Now, companies are taking the highly unusual step of noting deportations as a key business risk in their SEC filings. From @carolinehaskins.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/compan...
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Companies Warn SEC That Mass Deportations Pose Serious Business Risk
Since Trump took office, ICE arrests have more than doubled. Business throughout the US economy are sounding the alarm on the potential impact.
www.wired.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Wired magazine reports that since January, more than 40 companies have mentioned the impact of deportations in SEC filings with many saying it could hurt the labor force. The companies include food production, tech, and construction.
There were plenty of foreign flags and melded Mexico/US flags at a Houston protest in February. I guess it's OK if it's in Texas. Houston PD even handled traffic control for the protest led by FIEL.
June 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
There were plenty of foreign flags and melded Mexico/US flags at a Houston protest in February. I guess it's OK if it's in Texas. Houston PD even handled traffic control for the protest led by FIEL.
RFK Jr is on a mission to destroy modern medicine. And Trump and the GOP own this. wapo.st/43sc0Bz
RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said the agency will create “in-house” publications instead.
wapo.st
May 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
RFK Jr is on a mission to destroy modern medicine. And Trump and the GOP own this. wapo.st/43sc0Bz
Congratulations @houstonchronicle.com on Pulitzer for editorials on Houston’s dangerous railroad crossings putting schoolchildren in harm’s way.
🧵 The Houston Chronicle's Editorial Department has won its second Pulitzer Prize in four years, this time for its work outlining the failure of state officials to protect residents from stopped trains. See the stories in the thread below. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Houston Chronicle Editorial Board wins Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
The Houston Chronicle's editorial board has won a Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing for its coverage of the dangers of stopped trains across the city.
www.houstonchronicle.com
May 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Congratulations @houstonchronicle.com on Pulitzer for editorials on Houston’s dangerous railroad crossings putting schoolchildren in harm’s way.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
May 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
Re SCOTUS and birthright citizenship, in 2016 Texas settled a lawsuit over the state’s sudden hurdles created in 2013 impeding immigrants seeking birth certificates for their US-born babies. apnews.com/article/26e4...
Texas reaches deal on birth certificates for immigrant kids
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Parents who entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico and Central America will have an easier time getting birth certificates for their children born in Texas following a lawsuit set...
apnews.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Re SCOTUS and birthright citizenship, in 2016 Texas settled a lawsuit over the state’s sudden hurdles created in 2013 impeding immigrants seeking birth certificates for their US-born babies. apnews.com/article/26e4...
Promising news in Texas where some women have died or developed sepsis during miscarriages because of our draconian abortion law. Bills filed in the Texas House and Senate would protect doctors from prosecution for doing their jobs. www.texastribune.org/2025/03/14/t...
Texas Republicans seek to clarify when doctors can intervene under abortion bans
A Senate bill filed Friday does not expand abortion access, but aims to give doctors clarity while operating under laws that come with up to life in prison.
www.texastribune.org
March 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Promising news in Texas where some women have died or developed sepsis during miscarriages because of our draconian abortion law. Bills filed in the Texas House and Senate would protect doctors from prosecution for doing their jobs. www.texastribune.org/2025/03/14/t...
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A group of unqualified, unelected bureaucrats, including a teenager with alleged links to hacker groups, is now seeking access to the personal identifying information of every U.S. taxpayer.
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Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
www.washingtonpost.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
A group of unqualified, unelected bureaucrats, including a teenager with alleged links to hacker groups, is now seeking access to the personal identifying information of every U.S. taxpayer.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![TOTE ASTRICT COLOR
DOCTORS FOR AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB)
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al.,
Defendants.
ORDER
Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8]
Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the
hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the
accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that
1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food
and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on
February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset
identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for
a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1];
2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members
rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or
after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall,
by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifoaihlyxzbiko32lmralzpicfxnzwfoxp3ki5w4wniiihonzxira@jpeg)
February 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In Houston today, hundreds of young Hispanics powered a rousing pro-immigrant march in a city that rarely has muscular protests. Noteworthy it was happening as Texas’ Trumpist governor was giving his State of the State address. (Sorry don’t know how to post photos here or I would)
February 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
In Houston today, hundreds of young Hispanics powered a rousing pro-immigrant march in a city that rarely has muscular protests. Noteworthy it was happening as Texas’ Trumpist governor was giving his State of the State address. (Sorry don’t know how to post photos here or I would)
Opening day of Texas Legislature. More extremism on the agenda. #txkege
The Texas Legislature is proof that campaign megadonors are eroding democracy. Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick are using billionaires' donations to turn the House into a rubber stamp for their priorities. @houstonchronicle.com #txlege www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...
Tomlinson: Billionaire campaign donors buy fealty from Texas Legislature
Texas Legislature takes another step toward becoming a rubber stamp for Lt. Gov. Patrick and his billionaire donors.
www.houstonchronicle.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Opening day of Texas Legislature. More extremism on the agenda. #txkege
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What happens when you “leave abortion to the states”
December 13, 2024 at 11:02 PM
What happens when you “leave abortion to the states”
“Men did not want to see a woman with that much power. There was a lot of that.”
Democrats search for answers as blue Philadelphia turns towards Trump
Democrats search for answers as blue Philadelphia turns towards Trump
Trump grew his support in nearly all of Philadelphia’s wards – what went wrong for Harris in a key Democratic city?
When Kamala Harris stopped at the west Philadelphia barber shop Philly Cuts just days before the election, its manager, James Browne, said…
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:12 PM
“Men did not want to see a woman with that much power. There was a lot of that.”
Terrible news for consumers of news in Houston.
Bad news for Houston
some news: i'm leaving the chronicle. i have absolutely loved being part of the houston community (both online and IRL) and getting to know many of the people who care about this place as much as i do. 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Terrible news for consumers of news in Houston.
From Philly Inquirer’s Will Bunch. “We ought to be paying less attention to the utter absurdities of these nominations and focus more on how he plans to impose them on an American public that mostly just wanted lower prices at Chipotle.”
The insanity is the point of Trump's increasingly wild cabinet picks, not the media's focus on a "confirmation fight" that probably won't happen, either by bullying GOP senators or the recess ploy
Trump wants to create a world of disbelief. My new column🎁 share.inquirer.com/GlcsMN
Trump wants to create a world of disbelief. My new column🎁 share.inquirer.com/GlcsMN
The real reason Trump picked a sex fiend, dog killer, and anti-vaxxer for his cabinet
The names of Trump's insane cabinet picks aren't even what matters. America's strongman is already creating a new reality.
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November 18, 2024 at 2:28 PM
From Philly Inquirer’s Will Bunch. “We ought to be paying less attention to the utter absurdities of these nominations and focus more on how he plans to impose them on an American public that mostly just wanted lower prices at Chipotle.”
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Must read. "If we want to have a real hope of reversing Trump’s authoritarian course, we all need to stop playing tee-ball and start playing legal hardball."
November 17, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Must read. "If we want to have a real hope of reversing Trump’s authoritarian course, we all need to stop playing tee-ball and start playing legal hardball."
Climate change leads to higher costs of food, energy and housing and fuels global migration. On-point column from Houston which reflects all those problems.
The cost of living is too damn high, millions of desperate people are fleeing their homes, and natural disasters are damaging our communities worse than ever before. Here's the one thing driving all of it. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...
Tomlinson: To tackle inflation, immigration and disasters, fix this one thing
The cost of living is too high, millions of desperate people are fleeing their homes, and natural disasters are damaging. Climate change is the answer.
www.houstonchronicle.com
November 17, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Climate change leads to higher costs of food, energy and housing and fuels global migration. On-point column from Houston which reflects all those problems.
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Feel like every tv host needs a crash course in the actual science on vaccines, so they are fully prepared for the firehose of anti-vax nonsense they’re going to get almost every time they interview Republicans now
November 17, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Feel like every tv host needs a crash course in the actual science on vaccines, so they are fully prepared for the firehose of anti-vax nonsense they’re going to get almost every time they interview Republicans now
@lynndom.bsky.social I am so happy to see your name here! Please connect.
November 12, 2024 at 8:28 PM
@lynndom.bsky.social I am so happy to see your name here! Please connect.