Annise Parker

How to stop an entire generation in their tracks. It’s kinda funny, but really sad at the same time.

My statement on Houston City Council’s passage of today’s ordinance limiting interactions between HPD and ICE.

Join us this Sunday, April 12th from 2pm-4pm for some “Coffee & Conversation” with Pasadena CM Estrada, Commissioner Garcia and myself. Looking forward to seeing you at Silver Sycamore! Register here: mobilize.us/anniseparker/e…

America’s Greatest Military Achievement Since Vietnam: Giving Iran Everything It Wanted Let’s be absolutely clear about what just happened, because the White House press team will spend the next several months making sure you aren’t. The United States of America, master of eleven aircraft carrier groups, and proud inventor of the phrase “shock and awe,” has just concluded a 38-day war against a country with a GDP roughly the size of Romania’s. And it lost. Not lost badly, mind you. Lost spectacularly. Lost in the specific way that only a very confident man can lose, which is by announcing victory so loudly and so early that everyone notices when it doesn’t arrive. Donald Trump told us this would be over in four to six weeks. He was right, in the same way that a man who says he’ll be home by seven is technically correct when he staggers in at half past three in the morning wearing someone else’s jacket. Ahead of schedule. Now, let’s look at what Iran walks away with. Before this little adventure, Iran had a nuclear program under significant international pressure, a regional influence that was widely contested, and a military establishment that was, shall we say, unfashionably equipped. Today? The pressure is gone, the program is intact, and the entire Middle East just watched the U.S. blink first. Iran didn’t just survive. Iran graduated. And America? America got the Strait of Hormuz reopened. The same strait that was open before Trump decided to have a war. Congratulations, gentlemen. You have successfully restored the situation to what it was before you destroyed it. This is the geopolitical equivalent of smashing your own television. What the world has now seen, with uncomfortable clarity, is an America that is surprisingly weak without its allies. Militarily, diplomatically, at the negotiating table. On every level that matters, the United States needed partners it didn’t have. And the reason it didn’t have them is sitting in the Oval Office, furious at the very countries that have kept American power relevant for eighty years. Rumours are already circulating that Trump is considering pulling the United States out of NATO entirely. If that happens, we will know the precise date when America’s tenure as a superpower officially began its closing chapter. It is worth remembering, as it always is when America charges enthusiastically toward a military conflict, that the last war the United States won entirely on its own was against itself. Every significant military victory since 1945 has come attached to allies, coalitions, and partners willing to share both the burden and the blame. Here, they had none. Turns out allies aren’t just decorative. The Strait is open. Iran is stronger. America is exactly where it started, minus the credibility. Ahead of schedule. Tremendous. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

A group of BASE jumpers sued the National Parks Service over not being allowed to jump from high points in various parks. US District Judge Charles Eskridge dismissed the lawsuit recently, for lack of standing. Eskridge also found that Houston is super flat.

I guess the word has spread and the possums are now volunteering…

@TrufusR I stand corrected. A study from 2023. outdoor.wildlifeillinois.org/articles/debun…

@AnniseParker They don’t “eat” ticks. They will clean them from their fur and discard them. So if we are trying to shed truth on these awesome animals, let’s get it right.

Surprised at the opossum haters out there! They are marsupials, so evolutionarily unique. Nothing cuter than seeing joey butts sticking out of mom’s pouch. Or mom with a gang on her back. Not aggressive. omnivores, but like to eat roaches and ticks. They don’t spread rabies. Should not be out in the middle of the day. And, until they are about 7in, nose to base of tail, they should still be riding mom’s back.

@HOUmanitarian They are interesting! And, like raccoons, they are all around the city.

@AnniseParker How do you know so much about opossums?

Grateful to spend Easter Sunday with my son Jovon at The Windsor Village Church and Outreach Baptist Missionary Church surrounded by faith and community. A reminder of hope, renewal, and caring for one another. Happy Easter. 💐✝️

On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted. Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness. I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this. The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon. You know who has nuclear weapons? Israel. They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it. Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing. On Easter, of all days, we as Christians should be reminded that the son of God died and rose from the grave so that we can be forgiven once and for all of our sins. Jesus commanded us to love one another and forgive one another. Even our enemies. Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians. Christians in the administration should be pursuing peace. Urging the President to make peace. Not escalating war that is hurting people. This NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024, I know, I was there more than most. This is not making America great again, this is evil.

A Fresh Take on a Bach Classic Toccata and Fugue in D minor is famously known for its powerful organ sound. But in this solo flute version by Helena Schulthess, the piece takes on a completely different character. Instead of grand and dramatic, it becomes intimate and haunting. Since the flute can only play one note at a time, Schulthess uses breath, phrasing, and tone to suggest the layered complexity of the original. This reinterpretation highlights something remarkable about Johann Sebastian Bach: even when reduced to a single melodic line, his music remains powerful, expressive, and timeless. 🎶

May today bring you peace, time with loved ones, and a renewed sense of purpose. Happy Easter. 💐🐣✝️

Now this is one wild story. The amount of lawsuits coming down the pipeline with stories like this is going to be astronomical.

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Thank you Reverend Steve Hall and Fred Woods for inviting me to Bethany Baptist church annual Good Friday fish fry. There’s nothing better than good food with good people.

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Cheering on the astronauts and crew of Artemis II from America’s Front Yard. Out of this world! 🚀🇺🇸🏛️🌳🌕

We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Thank you to Tom Abrahams for having me on! Go to 10min30secs to watch my interview. abc13.com/post/week-texa…