Whitney Mitchell, who was engaged to Foster before his death at the hands of Perry, laid out her feelings about the pardon in a statement sent to the Observer.
“I loved Garrett Foster. I thought we were going to grow old together. He was the love of my life. He still is. I am heartbroken by this lawlessness,“ she said. “With this pardon, the Governor has desecrated the life of a murdered Texan and US Air Force veteran, and impugned [the] jury’s just verdict. He has declared that Texans who hold political views that are different from his—and different from those in power—can be killed in this State with impunity.”
"The Santa Fe Ten Memorial Foundation unveiled the design Saturday for its memorial honoring those who died in the 2018 school shooting at Santa Fe High School.
The announcement came six years to the day when eight students and two faculty members were killed during a school shooting at Santa Fe High School."
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Riesgo de calor "extremo" del NWS para el miércoles - sábado del 22/05/24 al 25/05/24 en el área del Valle del Río Grande (RGV) de Texas, desde Ciudad Acuña hasta Brownsville, e incluyendo Nuevo Laredo. #OlaDeCalor#alerta#Texas
"power plants do annual maintenance in April. That takes thousands of megawatts offline, making it harder for the grid to handle a burst of heat..."
It wasn't particularly hot in Texas in April, but the electricity grid was strained.. "Thanks to crypto mining, data centers, electric vehicles, manufacturing, and more people moving to the state," plus global warming.
#Michigan bound. The boys & I are loading up to head east for the summer. Who would not want this setting if it was an option? Dreading this drive; it does not get easier as I age! And there is no realistic option for not going through at least some of the MagaT bastion of #Texas. And I'll be darned happy when that is over. Glad I'm not pregnant. 🤦♀️
Stand by for sunset photos from the #GreatLakes. 😃 🙃
Lawmakers turned to toll roads to boost the TX economy & address population growth without raising taxes, but the consequences spiraled.
Some state leaders rightly regret the policies & laws that drove the toll road construction boom. “We were sold a bill of goods. We were just looking for how to find money. We now know that this was the wrong way to do it.”
In the US, some people call natural disasters "Acts of God." As they're usually the same ones who don't believe or don't care about the climate crisis, have they been wondering why God is so fucking mad at them these days? #UnitedStates#ClimateEmergency#ActOfGod and a shout-out to #Texas today.
#Texas#AnimalRescue > As a result of severe storms that ravaged parts of #Houston, Houston SPCA had taken in almost 100 displaced or injured wild #animals.
SPCA officials expected the surge of #animal intakes to last for a few days as cleanup efforts continued.
"In the Fowl River’s case, unusually high tides slowed floodwaters as they went downstream to drain. This increased the water’s depth and flooded a wide expanse — even several miles upstream. The result was deluged roads, washed out cars and damaged houses from a flood that was larger, deeper and longer-lasting due to #RisingSeas."
#Mosquitoes are swarming around Houston. The future could bring even more.
"After flood-inducing rain pummeled much of #Texas over the past few weeks, another sort of inundation is now swamping the Houston region: Mosquitoes. Lots of them. More than many longtime residents can ever remember.
In tests last week, between 50 and 70 mosquitoes a minute were landing on staffers in some spots in Harris County, Vigilant said."