Beth Shook
@bshook.bsky.social
texas to dc 🚇 to cdmx 🇲🇽 and back. civic-minded software engineer, urbanist, toddler mom, grackle whisperer 🐦⬛
The silence of many Houston officials on the redistricting scheme, an assault on the voting rights of the people they represent, speaks volumes
July 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The silence of many Houston officials on the redistricting scheme, an assault on the voting rights of the people they represent, speaks volumes
convinced the local obsession with this empty slogan is a symptom of carbrain/too much time stuck in traffic
🖌️🎨 Houston teens just made the city proud.
"Be Someone" is back—and here's the story behind how they brought it back: bit.ly/45aHUUh
"Be Someone" is back—and here's the story behind how they brought it back: bit.ly/45aHUUh
June 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
convinced the local obsession with this empty slogan is a symptom of carbrain/too much time stuck in traffic
anyone know what happened with this? why is dasean jones not on the may 3 ballot? www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/ele...
Judge sets Harris County 2022 judicial election redo for May 2025
One of Harris County's 2022 judicial races could be back on the ballot in May 2025 after a visiting judge from Bexar County ordered a redo earlier this month.
www.houstonchronicle.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:44 AM
anyone know what happened with this? why is dasean jones not on the may 3 ballot? www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/ele...
some highlights from houston hands off
April 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
some highlights from houston hands off
remember when the nyt website was a bunch of headlines and when you clicked on a headline it took you to an article? I miss that
April 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
remember when the nyt website was a bunch of headlines and when you clicked on a headline it took you to an article? I miss that
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Not just Houston, but like, downtown Houston and some of the blackest neighborhoods in the city.
It's getting buried, but Houston will almost certainly not have representation in Congress until January 2027.
Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner died nearly a month ago and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has simply decided not to call a special election to fill the seat.
Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner died nearly a month ago and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has simply decided not to call a special election to fill the seat.
Hakeem Jeffries threatens lawsuit over delayed Texas special election
One month after Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner's death, Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott has yet to call a special election to fill his seat.
www.nbcnews.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Not just Houston, but like, downtown Houston and some of the blackest neighborhoods in the city.
can we please stop holding protests at city hall on a weekend or holiday? one of the reasons the immigration protest two months ago was so powerful was that it met houstonians where they are: on the freeway, at restaurants and in hermann park
April 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
can we please stop holding protests at city hall on a weekend or holiday? one of the reasons the immigration protest two months ago was so powerful was that it met houstonians where they are: on the freeway, at restaurants and in hermann park
DINO Mayor John Whitmire will take time to listen to Republican donors but not his own constituents, who he labels “paid activists” when they don’t agree with him. I don’t think a recall effort is the perfect solution but I do think it might remind him who he works for: recallhouston.org
April 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
DINO Mayor John Whitmire will take time to listen to Republican donors but not his own constituents, who he labels “paid activists” when they don’t agree with him. I don’t think a recall effort is the perfect solution but I do think it might remind him who he works for: recallhouston.org
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If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
March 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
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Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
March 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
shameful
The 10 Democrats who voted to censure Green are Reps. Ami Bera, D-Calif.; Ed Case, D-Hawaii; Jim Costa, D-Calif.; Laura Gillen, D-N.Y.; Jim Himes, D-Conn.; Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash.; and Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y.
March 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
shameful
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AND HOUSTON WAS THERE
March 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
AND HOUSTON WAS THERE
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Every Dem should be doing this right now. What we’re experiencing now is that political capital is for. If you can’t burn your political capital when the opposition is trying to destroy everything that upholds a liberal democracy, what are you waiting for?
Like Tim Walz said, “You don't win elections to bank political capital — you win elections to burn political capital and improve lives.”
March 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Every Dem should be doing this right now. What we’re experiencing now is that political capital is for. If you can’t burn your political capital when the opposition is trying to destroy everything that upholds a liberal democracy, what are you waiting for?
mayor whitmire and metro board chair brock (his appointee) quoted two days apart in the chronicle about the need for getting homeless people on to transit and keeping them off of it. so which is it @cityofhouston.bsky.social?
February 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
mayor whitmire and metro board chair brock (his appointee) quoted two days apart in the chronicle about the need for getting homeless people on to transit and keeping them off of it. so which is it @cityofhouston.bsky.social?
east montrose has a coffee shop again (a good one at that) 🤠 go support little dreamers during their soft launch
February 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
east montrose has a coffee shop again (a good one at that) 🤠 go support little dreamers during their soft launch
this beautiful idiot is 7 today 🦗🩷
February 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
this beautiful idiot is 7 today 🦗🩷
it’s not just about montrose boulevard. it’s about a community being denied its democratic representation. if he can do this to montrose, he can do it to your neighborhood.
After replacing four of the seven board members last year, Houston Mayor John Whitmire wants to install new appointees in the remaining board positions on the Montrose TIRZ. The proposed leadership shuffle has drawn criticism.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire seeks replacement of three more Montrose TIRZ board members
If approved by Houston City Council, the appointment of three new members would wrap up Whitmire’s complete overhaul of the board, which decides how to spend localized tax revenue. The shakeup has drawn criticism from some community members and the area’s elected council member.
www.houstonpublicmedia.org
February 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
it’s not just about montrose boulevard. it’s about a community being denied its democratic representation. if he can do this to montrose, he can do it to your neighborhood.
If you care about building a safer and more beautiful corridor to Buffalo Bayou, tomorrow is your last chance to demand the Montrose TIRZ Board vote NO on the city’s dangerous redesign of the Montrose Blvd Improvement Project. 6:30p at the Havens Center or on Zoom montrosehtx.org/meeting/febr...
February 2025 - Montrose TIRZ 27
The Board of Directors of Reinvestment Zone Number Twenty-Seven, City of Houston, Texas (the “Zone”), and along with the Board of Directors of the Montrose Redevelopment Authority, City of Houston, Te...
montrosehtx.org
February 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
If you care about building a safer and more beautiful corridor to Buffalo Bayou, tomorrow is your last chance to demand the Montrose TIRZ Board vote NO on the city’s dangerous redesign of the Montrose Blvd Improvement Project. 6:30p at the Havens Center or on Zoom montrosehtx.org/meeting/febr...
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me daring the cars to run me over when stepping onto a crosswalk
February 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
me daring the cars to run me over when stepping onto a crosswalk
let’s not forget that sam houston would have HATED this
February 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
let’s not forget that sam houston would have HATED this
what a beautiful day in houston, texas
February 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
what a beautiful day in houston, texas
no one tells you how much other people’s trash you will touch when you become a parent
February 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
no one tells you how much other people’s trash you will touch when you become a parent
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“Oh, that’s what that was for” - the American public over the next few weeks
January 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
“Oh, that’s what that was for” - the American public over the next few weeks
the irony of “gulf of america” is that in spanish “américa” refers to the continent, so if anything the new name is more inclusive.
January 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
the irony of “gulf of america” is that in spanish “américa” refers to the continent, so if anything the new name is more inclusive.
when someone’s fb profile photo is from 1975 you know they’re about to invite you to sign their minimum lot size petition
January 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
when someone’s fb profile photo is from 1975 you know they’re about to invite you to sign their minimum lot size petition