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Christopher Hooks
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Journalist in Austin. Let me explain something to you, Walsh. This business requires a certain amount of finesse.
Austin — christopherdhooks@gmail.comchristopherhooks.comJoined August 2011
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lomikriel
@lomikriel
In just a few hours, the
@TexasObserver
has raised nearly 50k, to be spread among its journalists if laid off in four days or go to the board if they try to save it: gofundme.com/f/laid-off-tex
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Sewell Chan
@sewellchan
NEW: @TexasObserver editors are protesting staff layoffs and have set up a GoFundMe to try to save the magazine. The chief fundraiser quit today. texastribune.org/2023/03/27/tex
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff
Part of the fundamental asymmetry between left and right in America can be summed up in the fact that a single donor will happily subsidize Rod Dreher’s entire career while liberal donors let publications like this die
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Emily Ramshaw
@eramshaw
Holy shit. Texas Observer, legendary crusading liberal magazine, is closing and laying off its staff texastribune.org/2023/03/26/tex via @TexasTribune
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Christopher Hooks
@cd_hooks
Really sad about this.
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Sewell Chan
@sewellchan
EXCLUSIVE: The Texas Observer, the crusading liberal magazine founded in 1954, which Molly Ivins edited in the ’70s, is closing down and laying off its staff. The board voted on Wednesday, and again today, to proceed with the shutdown. texastribune.org/2023/03/26/tex
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@cd_hooks
Earlier speakers urged attendees to re-elect Trump so he could finish building the wall.
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Azi™️
@Azi
Trump, on the wall that did not get built. "Completed that task, totally as promised …"
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Mark MacKinnon
@markmackinnon
Is Russia planning a further retreat in Kherson oblast (this time conceding a city on the east bank of the Dnipro)?
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Svidomi
@Svidomi_En
⚡️All Russian troops stationed in Nova Kakhovka have left the city - AFU General Staff Before that, the military "went around" the homes of the local population. They took household and electronic appliances, jewelry, clothing items, and cell phones.
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Ben Rowen
@ben_c_rowen
"The thought of the novel coming out of high school libraries in a brown paper bag, like a copy of Maxim, made Patterson’s whole bill seem more ridiculous than it already was."
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on the Lonesome Dove debacle:
texasmonthly.com
Loathsome Dud: School-Library Bill Would Ban McMurtry’s Novel
The lawmaker from Frisco has rallied right-wingers by promising to remove “explicit” books from shelves. But he may lose them by targeting a beloved Texan classic. 
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@cd_hooks
had a brief moment of confusion here where I thought he forgot what the West Bank was called and was making a major policy reversal
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Senator Ted Cruz
@SenTedCruz
Like so many Americans - I watched with dismay at the horror that unfolded in East Palestine. I'm optimistic that we can achieve agreement on policies that will improve safety and protect our communities.
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Texas Tribune
@TexasTribune
Many of the illegal voting cases Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has boasted about are unraveling after a key court ruling. But a justice of the peace in Medina County said the pursuit of charges against him has taken its toll.
texastribune.org
Ken Paxton’s campaign against election crimes ensnared a Texas justic…
Many of the illegal voting cases the Texas attorney general has boasted about are unraveling after a key court ruling. But Tomas Ramirez III said the pursuit of charges against him has taken its toll.
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Bob Libal
@blibal
A new report from Rice University's Baker Center looks at Governor Abbott's $4.5 billion Operation Lone Star and similar deterrence programs. These programs have "very little to no deterrent effect" on migration patterns. #txlege
houstonpublicmedia.org
Politically motivated border policies, coverage of migrant caravans have done little to curb...
The study tracked coverage of 30 migrant caravans between 2017 and 2022 as well as the policies in place at the departure of each one.
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Christopher Hooks
@cd_hooks
I was raised in Texas, but culturally my upbringing reflected the Irish-American communities of central New Jersey–from biannual church attendance to an ingrained respect for numbers rackets. This made me God-neutral, prone to get-rich-quick schemes and ambivalent about Italians.
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mindy🌷
@mindyisser
genuinely made me LOL
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