Jeannie Kever

BREAKING: 49 Senate Republicans just VOTED DOWN our simple bill to pay TSA workers. Republicans have now blocked TSA pay SEVEN times. It’s a slap in the face to the men and women who have been working without a paycheck for weeks.

Team Italy has an espresso machine in their dugout at the World Baseball Classic.

Well, what do you know? *76%* of Texas school voucher applications come from families whose children are not enrolled in public schools. Less than 1% of public and charter school families have applied for vouchers. It's straight up welfare for the wealthy #txlege

BREAKING: A district judge has ordered the Democratic primary in Dallas County to remain open until 9 p.m. tonight, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins just told me. The delay comes in response to hundreds of voters being turned away for going to the wrong locations.

Backlash to President Trump in South Texas looks significant: Early voting in the 5 border counties from Webb County (Laredo) down to Cameron County (Brownsville): Democrats outvoted Republicans 103,000 to 25,000 #txlege

@jen_rice_ @emilyebytx 🙋🏼‍♀️

happy TX election day to all who worry

But also it’s not only measles, pertussis (whooping cough) is also returning, and based on latest ACIP (or what used to be ACIP) stunts, we’ll see rotavirus, meningococcal meningitis, HBV liver cancer, return after that. A public health disaster built by design since Jan 2025

Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing: Harris County is going the wrong direction, poll finds houstonchronicle.com/politics/houst… via @houstonchron

Oh dear Mike. I literally couldn’t make our argument better than you do. The bad guys wear masks. The good guys don’t.

just decades of kids growing up feeling loved by their working moms, who they feel proud of and grateful for

Ouch!

Siri what is the Streisand Effect

Love this for Louisiana

Unsurprising, but terrible news

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5 @JeffBezos

Here's a photo from an anti-COVID lockdown protest in Odessa, Texas. Nobody got shot. vice.com/en/article/the…

What if we did not have those videos? How many Americans would have believed this? Or given the Administration the benefit of the doubt? This raises another — and rather urgent — question. What else is happening that we are not seeing on camera? open.substack.com/pub/charliesyk…

Jessica Hauser, Alex Pretti’s final nursing student, posted this on Facebook: “I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. There he trained me to care for the sickest of the sick as an ICU nurse. He taught me how to care for arterial and central lines, the intricacies of managing multiple IVs filled with lifesaving solutions, and how to watch over every heartbeat, every breath, and every flicker of life, ready to act the moment they wavered. Techniques intended to heal. Alex carried patience, compassion and calm as a steady light within him. Even at the very end, that light was there. I recognized his familiar stillness and signature calm composure shining through during those unbearable final moments captured on camera. It does not surprise me that his final words were, “Are you okay?” Caring for people was at the core of who he was. He was incapable of causing harm. He lived a life of healing, and he lived it well. Alex believed strongly in the Second Amendment and in the rights rooted in our Constitution and its amendments. He spoke out for justice and peace whenever he could, not only out of obligation, but out of a belief that we are more connected than divided, and that communication would bring us together. I want his family to know his legacy lives on. I am a better nurse because of the wisdom and skills he instilled in me. I carry his light with me into every room, letting it guide and steady my hands as I heal and care for those in need. Please honor my friend by standing up for peace, preferably with a cup of black coffee in hand and a couple of pieces of candy in your pocket, just as he would. He would remind you that caring for others is hard work, and we must do whatever it takes to get through the long shifts. Step outside with your dog, breathe in the world, hike or bike as he loved to do, and let yourself find peace in the quiet moments within nature. Stand up for justice and speak with those whose views differ from your own. Hold your beliefs with strength, but always extend love outward, even in the face of adversity. Take one step, no matter how small, to help heal our world. Through these acts, carry his light forward in his name. Let his legacy continue to heal.”

Deer prancing around the frozen streets of Central Texas! 📸: Karen Baranauskas

At nearly every crisis point over the last year - and there have been so so many 🫠 - totally ordinary people have been exponentially braver than the billionaires and elite. Turns out, you can’t buy courage!