#houstontx — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #houstontx, aggregated by home.social.
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I don't follow or understand football, I don't even approve of football due to the seemingly mandatory brain injuries, and I don't know who any of these players, coaches, or owners are. Nevertheless this WYTS from @defector warmed my heart. The fan comments in particular make me miss Houston real bad.
⭐🏈🐂
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Oh shit, #Eddie9V is just hitting the stage to open for #TheBlackKeys. He has an actual rotary speaker cabinet on stage!
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#ICE says agent faced danger in #HoustonTX Witnesses say that’s not what happened
A fatal ICE encounter in Houston is continues questions about transparency, use of force and accountability
By CK Smith, July 11, 2026
"A fatal shooting involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Houston is under growing scrutiny after witnesses challenged the federal government’s account of what happened.
"ICE officials said #LorenzoSalgadoAraujo, a 52-year-old Mexican national, was shot after he allegedly used his vehicle as a weapon during an enforcement operation.
"But three men who were inside the vehicle with Araujo dispute that account, saying the encounter unfolded differently and that officers were not in the path of the vehicle when shots were fired.
"The conflicting accounts have turned the shooting into another test of transparency and accountability surrounding federal immigration enforcement. The witnesses’ attorney has said their statements contradict the government’s description of the encounter, while officials have maintained that the agent acted in response to a threat, despite reports that #Araujo was not the person ICE was searching for.
"The case is also drawing attention because the witnesses themselves are now part of the immigration enforcement system. The men who were in the vehicle have disputed the official narrative while facing their own potential immigration consequences, raising questions about how investigations involving undocumented witnesses are conducted and whether those witnesses can safely participate.
"The central question now is not simply whether ICE agents had legal authority to use force. It is whether investigators and the public have access to the full picture of what happened."
#DefundICE #AbolishICE #USPol
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#Mexico to request criminal charges over deaths following shooting of #HoustonTX man by #ICE
By María Verza, July 9, 2026
MEXICO CITY (AP) — "Mexico will request criminal charges over 17 Mexicans who died in ICE custody or during immigration enforcement operations by the #Trump administration, officials said Thursday.
"Mexican Foreign Minister #RobertoVelasco’s announcement Thursday morning further escalated tensions with the United States, as Mexico’s government has sharply criticized the treatment of its citizens under U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to increase deportations.
"The request, which carries no legal weight, will be submitted to state prosecutors’ offices and the U.S. Department of Justice, asking them to consider criminal charges against those responsible for the deaths.
"It will be accompanied by civil lawsuits against the companies that operate the #DetentionCenters in an effort to put an end to #HumanRightsViolations in those facilities, Velasco said.
"President #ClaudiaSheinbaum said Thursday that Mexico decided to “move beyond diplomatic channels” and escalate its complaints after an ICE agent killed Mexican citizen #LorenzoSalgadoAraujo in Houston this week. Sheinbaum said the killing 'is not only sad and regrettable, but also appears to have been targeted.'
" 'We are going to do everything in our power, because we cannot stand silent' in the face of the deaths of Mexicans 'whose only crime is working honestly in the United States,' Sheinbaum said."
Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-ice-houston-shooting-immigration-9c3998a2666d7cb60fd095545f7bc866#ICESucks #JusticeForLorenzo #LorenzoSalgado #HumanRights #USPol #WorldPol #VictimsOfICE #DetentionCenters #CoreCivic #AcquisitionLogistics #CampEastMontana #AbolishICE
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#HoustonTX - #UrbanHarvest Mobile Market
"Launched in the summer of 2020, the Urban Harvest Mobile Market Program is committed to providing individuals in food-insecure areas with expanded choice and purchasing power, promoting healthy dietary habits, and fostering a robust local food ecosystem in Houston.
Feeling the pinch? Urban Harvest has expanded Double Up to help!
Show your #SNAP, #WIC, #TANF, or other federal assistance card (no balance required) — or mention your health or community resource agency — and get $1 in free produce for every $1 you spend at any Mobile Market site.
Eligible payments for the Double Up match include SNAP, cash, or card.All Urban Harvest Mobile Market and Farmers Market sites:
BakerRipley Gulfton
4th Tuesdays
6500 Rookin St.
10am – 1pmNortheast Community FM at LBJ
1st and 3rd Saturdays
5656 Kelly, Entrance 4, Houston, TX 77026
9am to noonTrinity United Methodist Church
4th Saturday
2600 Holman St., Houston, TX 77004
10:00am – 1:00pm "Source:
https://www.urbanharvest.org/mobile-market/#SolarPunkSunday #MobileFarmersMarket #FoodInsecurity #FoodSecurity #MobileMarkets #BuildingCommunity
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CW: Vor 40 Jahren in Houston, Texas: das damals größte Konzert überhaupt
Heute vor 40 Jahren fand in Houston, Texas, das bis dahin größte Konzert in der Musikgeschichte statt: Rendez-vous Houston – A City In Concert.
Der Name ist wortwörtlich zu nehmen: Der französische Elektronikmusiker Jean-Michel Jarre (Oxygène) bezog die komplette Wolkenkratzer-Skyline von Downtown Houston in seine Show mit ein, und zwar inklusive gigantischen Projektionswänden, die auf mehrere Wolkenkratzerfassaden montiert worden waren. Diese Kulisse war mit deutlich über einem Kilometer nicht nur breiter als die von Roger Waters’ 1990er Aufführung von The Wall in Berlin, sondern auch bedeutend höher. Jarre ist bis heute der einzige Musiker, der derartig gigantische Lightshows aufgefahren hat.
Zur Show gehörten Skytrackers – die keine wirklichen Skytrackers waren, sondern ausgewachsene Flakscheinwerfer, die auf die Dächer dreier Wolkenkratzer geschafft worden waren, weil normale Skytrackers zu schwach gewesen wären. Außerdem wurde von den Wolkenkratzerdächern bei mehreren Stücken ein Höhenfeuerwerk und andere Pyrotechnik abgebrannt – in einem US-Bundesstaat, in dem Feuerwerk eigentlich verboten ist.
Mehr als 1,5 Millionen (!) Zuschauer sahen das Konzert vor Ort. Also, mehr oder weniger vor Ort, denn direkt bis vor die Bühne kam man sowieso nicht. Direkt vor der Bühne hätte man eh nichts gesehen: Die Bühne war so hoch, darunter konnte man aufrecht stehen, und die Lightshow hätte man von da auch kaum mitbekommen. Die meisten Menschen hörten das Konzert über Kofferradios oder Autoradios, weil keine PA so weit reicht. Die Leute kamen den ganzen Tag über herangefahren, und als sie nach dem Konzert wieder losfuhren, brach für Stunden in Houston der Straßenverkehr komplett zusammen. Selbst der gewaltige Katy Freeway war von Stunden vor dem Konzert bis Stunden nach dem Konzert komplett verstopft.
Übrigens war das Jarres zweites Konzert mit Millionenpublikum – von sechs. Auch das hat außer ihm sonst kein Musiker je geschafft. Mit der Zuschauerzahl brach Jarre seinen eigenen Weltrekord von 1979 und sollte den danach selbst mindestens einmal wieder brechen. Er ist nämlich auch der einzige, der mehr als einmal vor mehreren Millionen gespielt hat.
Die Anlässe für das Konzert waren drei Jubiläen: 150 Jahre Texas, 150 Jahre Houston und 25 Jahre NASA. In den ersteren beiden Fällen war der Grund für diese Riesenshow vermutlich: „Everything’s big in Texas.“ Und für ein Konzert zum 25jährigen Bestehen der NASA war damals kaum ein Musiker besser geeignet als der Godfather der elektronischen Musik himself. Folglich wurden bei der Show auch Kennedys „We choose to go to the Moon“-Rede und Armstrongs „The eagle has landed“-Monolog eingeflogen, erstere gar als Film.
Das heißt: Fast hätte Jarre das Konzert abgesagt, denn im Januar 1986 ist ja das Space Shuttle „Challenger“ beim Start explodiert – die bis dahin größte Katastrophe für die NASA und nicht unbedingt ein Grund zum Feiern. Noch dazu sollte der Astronaut Ron McNair an Bord des Shuttle auf seinem Sopransaxophon ein Stück für Jarres neues Album Rendez-vous einspielen und dann das Stück live während des Konzerts spielen. NASA-Leute und Freunde und Angehörige von Ron McNair haben Jarre dann aber umgestimmt und gesagt, „Ron’s Piece“ sollte im Angedenken an die verstorbene Shuttle-Crew und besonders Ron McNair gespielt werden.
Leider ist das offizielle Video stark gekürzt und musikalisch nachbearbeitet. Eigentlich war das Konzert zwei Stunden lang.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=GYio7l7B940
#Konzert #Konzertvideo #Texas #Houston #Houston TX #NASA #Elektronische Musik #Jean-Michel Jarre #Rendez-vous Houston -
Meet the Houston mom who built a gourmet dessert business for her son with spina bifida
HOUSTON LI…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchdesserts #artoffrenchdesserts #asmagowher #desserts #francais #france #French #frenchdesserts #GourmetDesserts #Houston #HoustonLife #HoustonTX #Macarons #supportingindividualswithdisabilities #trifles #triflesgourmetdesserts #TVShow
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2561886/meet-the-houston-mom-who-built-a-gourmet-dessert-business-for-her-son-with-spina-bifida/ -
#HoustonTX - #UrbanHarvest #FarmersMarket
Saturday, February 14th (and every Saturday)
"Our Saturday Farmers Market in Houston is one of Texas’ largest. We support over 100 local vendors and producers – including Atkinson Farms, Animal Farm, and Pat Greer’s Kitchen – all within 180 miles of Houston. Join us every Saturday, rain or shine, at the St. John’s School parking lot from 8am – 12pm. Be a part of the good food movement and patron our Saturday Farmers Market in Houston this weekend!
Saturdays, 8am – 12pm, Year round, rain or shine
Location:
St. John’s School
2752 Buffalo Speedway
Houston, Texas 77098Free Parking
Parking entrance on Buffalo Speedway. Please park in the garage. We have 500+ parking spots!Amenities
SNAP, Credit Cards accepted by 95% of vendors, ATM onsite by coffee booth.No Pets Policy Strictly Enforced."
FMI:
https://www.urbanharvest.org/farmers-market/saturday/#SolarPunkSunday #HoustonEvents #EatSeasonally #EatLocally #BuyLocally #FarmersMarketsTexas
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Houston getting the Comets back needs to be Job #1 for further WNBA expansion 👏🏽 ☄️ 🏀 ⛹🏽♀️ #WNBA #WNBAExpansion #Houston #HoustonTX #HoustonComets
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Time once again to #compost those #pumpkins
Posted on November 2, 2025 by Charles Kuffner
"You know what to do.
The City of #HoustonTx Solid Waste Management Department, in partnership with Council Member #SallieAlcorn, is excited to announce the return of the 5th Annual #PumpkinCompostDropOff Program.
Don’t toss your pumpkins in the trash, compost them instead! From October 25 through November 29, Houston residents can drop off their used or unused pumpkins at two City of Houston facilities. All collected pumpkins will be transformed into nutrient-rich compost to help grow a greener Houston.
Please remove any candles, stickers, paint, or other non-pumpkin decorations before dropping off your pumpkins.
Last year’s event was a smashing success, diverting more than 25,260 pounds of pumpkins from Houston’s landfills, making it the most successful year yet. The city hopes to break that record in 2025 and divert even more #compostable material from the landfill.
'We’re proud to see Houstonians embracing composting and taking action to reduce waste,' said Director Larius Hassen, Director of Solid Waste Management 'It’s amazing to see how something as simple as a leftover pumpkin can help grow a more sustainable Houston'
'Pumpkins are everywhere, and I love seeing them. They get me excited for Halloween and Thanksgiving. And while pumpkin season is upon us, we know it won’t last forever. When your once-glorious pumpkin is ready to be retired, don’t throw it in the trash. Take advantage of the city’s pumpkin composting initiative. Turn your pumpkin into glorious compost to be used in city parks and green spaces,' said Council Member Sallie Alcorn.
Join us in turning holiday leftovers into something good for the earth. Together, we can make Houston cleaner, greener, and more sustainable, one pumpkin at a time.
Drop-off Locations:
City of Houston Reuse Warehouse
9003 N Main St, Houston, TX 77022
October 25th – November 29th
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Westpark Recycling Center
5900 Westpark, Houston, TX 77339
October 25th – November 29th
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Same as last year, more or less. You may find other options – as noted before, there’s a house in my neighborhood that collects them as feed for livestock – and that’s fine, pick what works best for you. Just don’t throw ’em in the trash, there’s no need for that."
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Want to speak at the PyTexas Conference next year? Now's your chance! Submit to our CFP by 12/7!
View our CFP https://pretalx.com/pytexas-2026/
#PyTexas
#pythonprogramming
#techconference
#CFP
#AustinTX
#HoustonTX
#DallasTX
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KAMEO x YEEZ – THE MOTHERSHIP
#HipHopRap #HoustonTX #beattape #hiphop #soul #underground #Houston
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
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@elbeejay Practically everything I've quoted and commented on here in this thread has been authored, in part or wholly, by R.A. Schuetz. She has an account on the fediverse, but doesn't appear active sadly: @[email protected] (and apparently my instance might not federate with them?)
I want to recommend this page on the Houston Chronicle's website:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/author/ra-schuetz/
But alas, no matter what I do, I cannot get past a scraper blocker. Apparently, it wants unrestricted canvas AND WebGL access to pass through. Fuck AI. She also has a website here:
Matt Zdun, also at the Houston Chronicle, provided the data visualizations to these articles:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/author/matt-zdun/
Alas, no fediverse presence from him.
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And the second:
And this one, which is a rare case of using vertical scrolling through the "page" as a way to effectively produce a slide deck mechanism --- a common trope in data journalism that I normally find annoying as shit --- effectively.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2024/houston-arrow-homeless-encampments/
>A Houston Chronicle analysis found that, outside of downtown, Midtown and Memorial Park, Houston police officers are not writing the most tickets where the most homeless people live. They’re also not writing them solely in the areas that have been decommissioned. Instead, they’re writing them primarily in a swath of the city that radiates outward from downtown to the west – an area colloquially known as the “Houston arrow,” where the population tends to be wealthier, whiter and have better health outcomes.
I suspect the same pattern plays out in Austin, where wealthy Northwestern Austinites came out in force in favor of reinstating the camping ban there.
>Officials have focused on decommissioning encampments along major freeways.
Where the homeless are most visible.
>On a recent Tuesday, a list of people whom the church had given permission to stay on the porch was taped to the window of Lord of the Streets. But Brad Sullivan, vicar of Lord of the Streets, said that the church may not be able to shield people looking to sleep there for much longer. “I don’t want to be a bad neighbor to the folks in Midtown,” he said.
It's your neighbors who are bad, not you trying to help.
>Here is a map of median household income, with the highest earners represented by the deepest shades of purple. The high earners in neighborhoods west, northwest and southwest of downtown form an arrow shape: the "Houston Arrow." That is also where most of the encampment tickets were issued.
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>The Houston Arrow also shows up when mapping race. Here the deeper shades of yellow are the areas with a higher concentration of white residents. Again, the encampment tickets match up with the arrow.That map looks damn near identical to the map of Prop B election results in Austin in May 2021 (which reinstated, and *expanded*, the camping ban).
The map I included is by Eli Spencer Heyman, on Bluesky at @elium2.com@bsky.app. Alas, he is not on Mastodon. He has a website though:
A similar map was replicated by Jayaram Hariharan, who *is* on the Fediverse :D (though, sadly, he appears inactive)
https://jayaramhariharan.com/misc/atx-map/
https://github.com/elbeejay/ATX_PropB_Map
He also put his work up on Github, which is nice :)
#osm #OpenStreetMap #gis #homelessness #Houston #HoustonTX #htx #Austin #AustinTX #atx #HoustonChronicle
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Finally, two excellent data-driven journalism pieces. The first one:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2024/houston-homeless-tickets-hpd/
>Houstonians who cannot afford basic housing currently owe more than $9.5 million in fines from 2020-2024, money the city is unlikely to see paid. And municipal court data shows those who received these tickets related to homelessness often just find new places to camp nearby. Many who’ve been chronically homeless said ticketing did little to deter future infractions — after all, they have nowhere to go — and did not come with interventions leading to permanent housing. Often, they were unaware they had even received a ticket.
That's a substantial fraction of the total budget Houston has for homelessness.
>Millions of dollars in fines are ultimately dismissed while the city continues to pour time and money into court operations and enforcement. Police officers who write the most tickets receive more in overtime than a typical officer in their position, according to a Chronicle analysis.
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>And yet, police officers who write the most tickets receive more overtime than the typical officer in their position. The senior officer who wrote the most tickets received nearly $53,000 in overtime between July 2022 and the end of June 2023, about 10 times what the typical senior officer earns in overtime pay.
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>“Sometimes, the enforcement of illegal encampments is performed in an overtime capacity,” said Houston Police in a statement. Certain officers have specialized training and know-how “to prioritize the well-being of persons experiencing homelessness by engaging individuals with care, compassion, and accountability.”I'd call those incentives perverse, but that would imply that something is going wrong. This is expected behaviour under capitalism.
>When Houston City Council made encamping illegal in 2017, the ACLU of Texas and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty argued that Houston’s law was unconstitutional because penalizing someone for living in public spaces when there are no alternatives available is cruel and unusual punishment. (The Supreme Court heard a case originating in Oregon based on the same argument in April, and their decision is still pending.)
It's not pending anymore. #SCOTUS decided that it actually was fine and dandy and not a cruel and unusual punishment.
>When Burton died in the early hours of Jan. 21 [,2024], he died under the Heights underpass he could not seem to escape.
That was a few short days after the coldest low of the winter season (January 16, 2024, at 20 degrees Fahrenheit). Probably not completely coincidental.
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