Cindy Nelson

@TomPenders DelConte Highway has a nice ring to it.

You are the best AD that Texas has ever had. When you retire the state of Texas will rename highway 35 from Austin to Waco The DelConte Highway!

TODAY'S SWEET 16 GAMES: Purdue/Texas Arizona/Arkansas Nebraska/Iowa Houston/Illinois

@AustinJustice @zoforaustin Bringing receipts.

Austin councilman Zo Qadri’s constituents have never been less safe. Here are the number of offenses in his district in 2025: Assault with Injury – 658 Assault by Contact – 296 Assault with Injury (Family/Dating Violence) – 237 Aggravated Assault – 131 Assault by Threat – 116 Assault on Public Servant – 41 Assault by Contact (Family/Dating Violence) – 29 Assault on Peace Officer – 25 Assault by Contact (Sexual Nature) – 18 Assault by Threat (Family/Dating Violence) – 12 Aggravated Assault (Family/Dating Violence) – 15 Assault of Pregnant Woman (Family/Dating Violence) – 7 Aggravated Assault on Public Servant – 2 Aggravated Assault with Motor Vehicle – 1 Sexual Assault – 89 Indecent Assault – 28 Sexual Assault with Object – 11 Sexual Assault of a Child – 3 Sexual Assault of a Child with Object – 3 Aggravated Sexual Assault – 4 Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child – 4 Aggravated Sexual Assault with Object – 1 Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child (Super Aggravated) – 1 Sexual Coercion – 3 Voyeurism – 4 Sexting / Transmission of Sexual Images – 2 Robbery by Assault – 54 Aggravated Robbery (Deadly Weapon) – 32 Robbery by Threat – 15 Aggravated Robbery by Assault – 5 Murder – 8 Capital Murder – 1 Terroristic Threat – 127 Terroristic Threat (Mass Casualty) – 4 Terroristic Threat (Family/Dating Violence) – 4 Deadly Conduct – 8 Deadly Conduct (Family/Dating Violence) – 1 Display / Use of Firearm or Deadly Weapon – 32 Bomb Threat – 3 Injury to Elderly Person – 21 Injury to Child – 11 Injury to Disabled Individual – 6 Injury to Elderly (Family/Dating Violence) – 7 Injury to Child (Family/Dating Violence) – 1 Injury to Disabled (Family/Dating Violence) – 1 Family Disturbance – 506 Family Disturbance (Parental) – 25 Continuous Violence Against the Family – 3 Violation of Protective Order (Family Violence / Sexual Crime / Trafficking) – 35 Harassment – 446 Harassment of a Public Servant – 15 Kidnapping – 1 Intoxication Assault (Crash-Related) – 2 Felony DWI – 18 Failure to Register as Sex Offender – 153

More than 400+ Austinites showed up last night to kickoff my re-election campaign. That’s what momentum looks like. This campaign has always been about showing up for one anointher— and for the kind of Austin we know is possible. Join the movement: zoforaustin.com

You can't hate @JosePGarza enough. 🤬

AUSTIN MAN pulls a gun on strangers at a 7-Eleven with a toddler in his car and gives cops a fake name -- all while out on bond for two felony knife assault charges against a pregnant woman. Deontae Jones: In November 2024, he spent a day shoving his girlfriend into walls. When she slips into the garage to call 911, he follows her, grabs the phone out of her hand, and smashes it on the ground. Then leaves before police arrive. The next night: Jones backs his BMW into another car at a 7-Eleven on Airport Blvd and flees. When the other driver catches up to him, Jones grabs a Taurus 9mm in his pocket and tells him he's going to shoot him. When the man's girlfriend starts recording his license plate, Jones turns on her: "I should shoot you." A three-year-old is in his car. Jones gives police a fake name when they catch him. Gun found in trunk. DA José Garza's office filed no charges on the gun. That arrest came with an active warrant for two felony knife assaults on a pregnant woman from three months earlier. Jones had been out on bond he hadn't answered for. In Dec 2025, while wearing a GPS ankle monitor, under a stay-away order: shows up at the victim's home at 11pm. She won't open the door. He kicks it until the hinges break and the frame splinters. She and her children run upstairs. Next month: Does it again, same house, same door. GPS records confirm he was there. Two weeks later: bond on the knife assault case -- reduced to $1. Travis County has had this man in its system since 2011. Burglary of a habitation, family violence with prior convictions, felony evading -- deferred, discharged, dismissed. 0 prison time.

@chrisharris904 That’s pitiful. And so unfair to Mr Perry.

MISTRIAL in Daniel Perry Trial (manifest necessity). Apparently someone in the jury office didn't do the correct scheduling.

Soros-backed Austin DA Jose Garza faces resignation calls over alleged ‘secret meetings’ in case against cop share.google/5x8fCKQG63qyQb…

@TexasMBB 🤘🤘 well done

A go fund me has been started for the hero who jumped in to stop the Cap metro bus stabber on Friday gofundme.com/f/support-aida…

Here’s the situation: An Austin cop is on trial related to conduct during the 2020 protests. His lawyers just accused DA José Garza's office of hiding evidence and holding secret meetings with the City of Austin - meetings never disclosed to the defense. The lawyers are asking for a court of inquiry, which is a rarely used Texas proceeding to investigate whether Garza's prosecutors committed felony evidence tampering and official oppression. Garza's response is: let's just go to trial. That's the same DA office that decides which charges get filed, which get dropped, and which repeat offenders walk. Now accused of secretly shaping the outcome of a case while telling the court it had nothing to hide. If the court of inquiry finds what the defense alleges, the question isn't just whether this trial was compromised; it's what else was.

Travis County DA Jose Garza has been prosecuting an Austin cop for four years for using force during the 2020 protests -- while secretly meeting with city officials about whether the CITY was the one that should have been indicted. Garza's office believed the city handed officers defective equipment and gave the orders. He negotiated with them directly. Then certified to the court that all evidence had been disclosed. But it hadn't. When your political brand is built on holding police accountable, you can't let the city quietly take the fall. So you bury it and keep prosecuting the guy who followed orders.

AUSTIN MAN walks up to a stranger using a computer on the fourth floor of the Central Library, punches him in the head so hard he's knocked out of his chair, stomps on his head multiple times while he lies unconscious on the floor -- then calmly walks back to his own computer and sits down. The victim is in critical condition with life-threatening injuries. Police Chief Lisa Davis (@APDChiefDavis) happened to be in the building and made the arrest herself. On a city bus in 2024, Vasquez threatened an 11-year-old boy, cocked his leg back to kick him full-force, then stood up and punched the kid's mother in the face. She's a Spanish speaker and couldn't even understand the threats. A female bystander tackled Vasquez to protect them. He punched her in the head repeatedly. All was on video. Child endangerment charge and two assaults charges. Dismissed. Six months before that, he punched a CapMetro bus driver in the mouth hard enough to cause a bloody laceration. During the arrest, he called an officer a racial slur and spit directly in his face. Felony harassment of a public servant. Dismissed to "pre-trial diversion." He also had a felony terroristic threat against a public servant. Also dismissed. His Travis County record: • 10 cases • 3 felonies -- all dismissed • 4 assaults -- all dismissed • 0 jury trials Now someone is fighting for their life in a hospital because a man with a documented pattern of unprovoked violence kept walking out of the courthouse.

I visited Cunningham Elementary in Austin to see firsthand how they serve real, scratch-cooked meals on a tight budget. Schools like this prove we can deliver high-quality food that fuels learning and builds lifelong health. We’re expanding programs like this to Make America Healthy Again.

America is facing a massive physician shortage, but the cause isn't what you think. We aren't just losing doctors to burnout or long hours. We are actively driving our most experienced physicians out of medicine through the endless, punishing cycle of Maintenance of Certification (MOC). Doctors with decades of pristine practice and excellent patient outcomes are being handed the exact same recertification demands as a newly minted attending. For thousands of mid-career physicians, this is the final straw. They are choosing early retirement rather than continuing to "prove" their competence through another standardized test. We lose: 📉 Invaluable mentorship. 📉 Community-focused specialists. 📉 Decades of clinical intuition. It's time for a structural realignment. A rational maintenance model is necessary to keep our doctors practicing and our communities served. What's your experience with MOC? #PhysicianShortage #Healthcare #MOC #PhysicianAdvocacy #FutureOfMedicine #PatientSafety #MedicalCommunity

@anneparkercole1 That was a pitiful performance from Texas MBB.

"They jumped all over us." Against Arkansas the Longhorns looked like a pelican stuck in a net: stuck, confused and out of place #Texas | #HookEm

It’s clarified in the thread - but there are NOT criminal charges currently being brought against the officers. It’s still early on in the internal investigation so it hasn’t even been referred to the District Attorney yet as all officer involved shootings are. However, the DA seems to still intend to put this before a grand jury where anything can happen as the DA controls that process and doesn’t allow APD involvement. This is an extraordinary case and I believe sufficient information is already out there to show grand jury isn’t necessary. There’s no need to subject these officers to that especially since it’s taking the DA over a year in almost every case to present these to the grand jury. That’s way too long and added stress for officers who have already been through a lot.

WOW: The Democratic Travis County District Attorney, José P. Garza, is being BLASTED after allowing a career criminal to walk free, REFUSING to prosecute the man on three separate g*n charges before he mu*dered a father of five. Brooke Taylor: “Caleb Anthony Jenkins was charged for mu*der connected to a shooting that happened last year… José Garza had MULTIPLE chances to keep the suspect with a lengthy criminal history behind bars.” “His office either dismissed or declined to prosecute three separate gun charges dating back to 2022.”

For the general audience: Medicaid alone is 10% of our nations entire spend. ( defense is 13%) It is joint federal state, the spend is an average of 15% of state budgets. Looking for fraud doesn’t mean you want to defund Medicaid, it means you are keeping it economically solvent so you are able to pay for the care that is truly needed. 22% of Pennsylvanians are on Medicaid. Tagging @GovernorShapiro @PAAttorneyGen @PAAuditorGen @ValArkooshPA

Perfect messaging.

@AnwarRichardson Now do the Moody Center. $8.00 for a Rambler water. I can get a 12 pack at HEB $7.

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