C Wilson
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Old fart- long retired Texas lawyer- with opinions
Texas, and America, need to except and embrace the fact that slavery is a part of our history. Denying it and "whitewashing" the truth about it does not change historical truth.
Texas State University canceled Black history exhibit, citing anti-DEI climate www.statesman.com/news/educati...
Texas State University canceled Black history exhibit, citing anti-DEI climate www.statesman.com/news/educati...
Texas State canceled Black history exhibit, citing anti-DEI climate
Civil rights organizations say the move to uninvite the Black history museum is viewpoint discrimination that is part of a pattern of silencing diverse voices.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Texas, and America, need to except and embrace the fact that slavery is a part of our history. Denying it and "whitewashing" the truth about it does not change historical truth.
Texas State University canceled Black history exhibit, citing anti-DEI climate www.statesman.com/news/educati...
Texas State University canceled Black history exhibit, citing anti-DEI climate www.statesman.com/news/educati...
Mr. Ramaswamy has some good ideas. Too bad he chooses to be a Republican, where he probably never be accepted, first, because he's brown and second because, in some ways, kinda liberal.
What Is an American? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
What Is an American? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
Opinion | What Is an American?
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December 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Mr. Ramaswamy has some good ideas. Too bad he chooses to be a Republican, where he probably never be accepted, first, because he's brown and second because, in some ways, kinda liberal.
What Is an American? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
What Is an American? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
Republicans in Congress always block Immigration Reforn to keep the false issue of "illegal aliens" alive. It appeals to their racist voter base.
He is a handyman, not a criminal. Houston must face our immigration reality. | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
He is a handyman, not a criminal. Houston must face our immigration reality. | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Why is this Houston handyman in immigration detention?
Houston must acknowledge we are part of the immigration crackdown and crisis, and advocate for our families, writes the Editorial Board.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Republicans in Congress always block Immigration Reforn to keep the false issue of "illegal aliens" alive. It appeals to their racist voter base.
He is a handyman, not a criminal. Houston must face our immigration reality. | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
He is a handyman, not a criminal. Houston must face our immigration reality. | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Idealizing the past and failing to remember that it was not really "great" causes the MAGAs to yearn for a return to a time when America, while not "great," they remember as "great."
What Happens if You Refuse to Recognize That We Are in a Death Spiral www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
What Happens if You Refuse to Recognize That We Are in a Death Spiral www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | What Happens if You Refuse to Recognize That We Are in a Death Spiral
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December 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Idealizing the past and failing to remember that it was not really "great" causes the MAGAs to yearn for a return to a time when America, while not "great," they remember as "great."
What Happens if You Refuse to Recognize That We Are in a Death Spiral www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
What Happens if You Refuse to Recognize That We Are in a Death Spiral www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
When will Mexican Americans living in Texas learn that Trump, and Republicans in general, are not their friends?
Texas colleges grappling with loss of $64M after Trump cuts to HSI grants www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Texas colleges grappling with loss of $64M after Trump cuts to HSI grants www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Trump's grant cuts slam Houston's Hispanic-serving colleges
In the Houston region, at least three colleges and universities had a combined $8.4 million in budgeted grants left on the table over the next few years.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
When will Mexican Americans living in Texas learn that Trump, and Republicans in general, are not their friends?
Texas colleges grappling with loss of $64M after Trump cuts to HSI grants www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Texas colleges grappling with loss of $64M after Trump cuts to HSI grants www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Are they finally learning life in America was not so "great" when Trunp thinks America was "great."
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MAGA leaders warn Trump the base is checking out. Will he listen?
President Donald Trump is taking criticism from supporters for not addressing cost-of-living issues while focusing too much on foreign policy and billionaires.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Are they finally learning life in America was not so "great" when Trunp thinks America was "great."
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I guess American citizens should know better than to be non-white in what Trump and MAGA consider a "white country"?
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Immigration agents grab and mistreat citizens - Salon.com
Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by ICE and CBP.
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December 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I guess American citizens should know better than to be non-white in what Trump and MAGA consider a "white country"?
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The bottom line for little men like Trump and Hegseth, is just videos of speeding boats exploding in a cloud of smoke is "good TV." Later, having to explaining murder may be unforeseen bad politics.
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How a U.S. admiral decided to kill two boat strike survivors
The controversial order given by Adm. Frank Bradley is under scrutiny from Congress. Inside the most consequential deliberation of his career.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The bottom line for little men like Trump and Hegseth, is just videos of speeding boats exploding in a cloud of smoke is "good TV." Later, having to explaining murder may be unforeseen bad politics.
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It's easier to just kill them?
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
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December 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It's easier to just kill them?
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Withholdings judgement on whether, or not, Cuellar is a crook but kudos to him for dissapointing Trump, who, by the way, is clearly a crook.
After pardon, Trump rails against Henry Cuellar for running as a Democrat www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/art...
After pardon, Trump rails against Henry Cuellar for running as a Democrat www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/art...
After pardon, Trump rails against Henry Cuellar for running as a Democrat
“Such a lack of LOYALTY, something that Texas Voters, and Henry’s daughters, will not like,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Sunday morning.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Withholdings judgement on whether, or not, Cuellar is a crook but kudos to him for dissapointing Trump, who, by the way, is clearly a crook.
After pardon, Trump rails against Henry Cuellar for running as a Democrat www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/art...
After pardon, Trump rails against Henry Cuellar for running as a Democrat www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/art...
The cruelty is the point. And of course, as the ICE lady explained "This is the best health care many aliens [brown people?"] receive in their entire lives."
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Wrenching Pain, a Severe Infection: An ICE Detainee Is Ordered Released
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December 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The cruelty is the point. And of course, as the ICE lady explained "This is the best health care many aliens [brown people?"] receive in their entire lives."
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Rounding up the "worst of the worst"?
Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student
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December 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Rounding up the "worst of the worst"?
Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
In spite of our MAGA embarrassment (running things in Austin) Texas is an interesting place and home to interesting people.
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Dr. Peter Hotez shares how to have the best day ever in Houston
Dr. Peter Hotez shares his best day ever in Houston, which includes a banh mi, a walk in Montrose and shopping for blues records at Cactus Music.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
In spite of our MAGA embarrassment (running things in Austin) Texas is an interesting place and home to interesting people.
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Winter is here, the most perilous period for the Texas electric grid. It’s struggling to keep up. #txlege www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...
Tomlinson: Winter is here. Is the Texas electric grid ready?
A blackout is unlikely in Texas this winter, but it always remains a possibility with the stressed ERCOT grid.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Winter is here, the most perilous period for the Texas electric grid. It’s struggling to keep up. #txlege www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...
I suspect the real problem with Roy, French, and Abbott is not ignorance, but opportunistic, political hypocrisy.
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A cure for GOP’s Islamophobia? Visit Houston
A cure for GOP’s Islamophobia? Visit Houston
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December 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I suspect the real problem with Roy, French, and Abbott is not ignorance, but opportunistic, political hypocrisy.
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Wonder how the Roberts Court will "explain away" the clear language of the 14th Amendment, in this case.
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The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump's birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Wonder how the Roberts Court will "explain away" the clear language of the 14th Amendment, in this case.
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The people on the boat may have been engaged in criminal activity, but they were not enemy combatants engaged in war against the U.S. Their killing was murder.
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Opinion | There’s no middle ground on the boat strikes
The second strike matters less than the warped policy that justified the operation at all.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The people on the boat may have been engaged in criminal activity, but they were not enemy combatants engaged in war against the U.S. Their killing was murder.
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When I was a kid, we were taught that our country was a "melting pot" that amalgamated peoples from other countries and made them "Americans." But those other counties were all European and white.
We Rejected This Practice 60 Years Ago. We Must Do So Again Today. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
We Rejected This Practice 60 Years Ago. We Must Do So Again Today. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | We Rejected This Practice 60 Years Ago. We Must Do So Again Today.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
When I was a kid, we were taught that our country was a "melting pot" that amalgamated peoples from other countries and made them "Americans." But those other counties were all European and white.
We Rejected This Practice 60 Years Ago. We Must Do So Again Today. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
We Rejected This Practice 60 Years Ago. We Must Do So Again Today. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
When schools only teach their students what the students think they already know, they are not teaching. They are just validating beliefs, including ignorant and mistaken beliefs.
A Right-Wing Playbook to Weaken Colleges from Within www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
A Right-Wing Playbook to Weaken Colleges from Within www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
Opinion | A Right-Wing Playbook to Weaken Colleges from Within
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December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
When schools only teach their students what the students think they already know, they are not teaching. They are just validating beliefs, including ignorant and mistaken beliefs.
A Right-Wing Playbook to Weaken Colleges from Within www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
A Right-Wing Playbook to Weaken Colleges from Within www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
Disappointing, but what is to be expected of the majority of the Court that started it all by giving us Citizens United.
Supreme Court Clears the Way for Republican-Friendly Texas Voting Maps www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Supreme Court Clears the Way for Republican-Friendly Texas Voting Maps www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Supreme Court Clears the Way for Republican-Friendly Texas Voting Maps
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December 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Disappointing, but what is to be expected of the majority of the Court that started it all by giving us Citizens United.
Supreme Court Clears the Way for Republican-Friendly Texas Voting Maps www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Supreme Court Clears the Way for Republican-Friendly Texas Voting Maps www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
So, the racist, Trump, wants, not only to deport all none-whites from the U.S. He wants to "save" white Europe, by keeping them out of, or expelling them from Europe?
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
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December 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
So, the racist, Trump, wants, not only to deport all none-whites from the U.S. He wants to "save" white Europe, by keeping them out of, or expelling them from Europe?
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
A long, important read. Is Israel committing genocide?
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Opinion | ‘This Is Illegal,’ He Said, Spreading His Arms. ‘This Is Illegal.’
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December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A long, important read. Is Israel committing genocide?
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Yep, he's Puin's American "Useful Idiot."
The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute
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December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Yep, he's Puin's American "Useful Idiot."
The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
A pretty flimsy set of arguments to justify killing people.
U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance
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December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A pretty flimsy set of arguments to justify killing people.
U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Why doesn't Trump (and MAGA) want Somalis in our county? could it be racism?
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Trump calls Minnesota’s Somali community ‘garbage’
President Donald Trump on Dec. 2 accused Somali migrants of having “ripped off” Minnesota and used dehumanizing language to attack the community.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Why doesn't Trump (and MAGA) want Somalis in our county? could it be racism?
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