Gulf Coast Reads: http://gulfcoastreads.org
Public voting to choose the new [Fall] 2025 Gulf Coast Reads book opened today and ends Monday June 9, 2025.
Voting: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GulfCoastReads2025
#libraries #librarians #librarianship #voting #books #BookClub #BookSelection #Texas #Southeast #Houston #GulfCoast #reading
In case any of you (non-librarians) are unfamiliar with the program, Gulf Coast Reads: On the Same Page is an annual regional reading initiative focused on promoting the simultaneous reading or listening to a selected title by those living along the upper #Texas #GulfCoast.
(Details: Each year, a representative committee of librarians selects a title that has a broad appeal to adults in our communities, is recognized in authoritative and professional journals, is available in multiple formats +
Here is Hawk's #fleece. 😍 This is my favorite fleece! It's EPIC! 🥰 It is like a lion's 🦁 mane.
It's a huge fleece, very curly and crimpy, with a long staple, and next-to-skin soft. I just drool everytime I shear Hawk. I think his #wool is MARVELOUS. I could keep taking more and more pics of it; I'm literally obsessed. 😄
We are done #shearing, but I have three more fleeces to skirt. To be continued...
Heron's #fleece is off. 🐏
#shearing #SheepOfMastodon #GulfCoast #FiberArts #HandSpinning
We have two more rams to go and then we are done #shearing ! Yay!
Get a load of this guy's horns! His name is Indus and he is for sale. #GulfCoast #SheepOfMastodon
From 2021: “Brownsville is an area that’s been colonized and recolonized and has done so much to benefit people who come from somewhere else but not the people from here.”
Elon Musk as a modern day colonizer of South #Texas ...
https://www.texasobserver.org/the-final-frontera/
#politics #USpol #SouthTexas #GulfCoast #ElonMusk #pollution #environment #space #TXlege #news
More #fleece coming off the #SheepOfMastodon today! #Wool #FiberArts
#HandSpinning #Shearing #GulfCoast
Scientists Map Where Orphan Wells Pose Threats to Aquifers
A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey finds that groundwater in Appalachia, the Gulf Coast and California is susceptible to contamination from orphaned oil and gas wells
#Appalachia #GulfCoast #California #USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
China SHOCKS Global Energy Market: US LNG Imports HALTED!
Breaking News: China halts US LNG imports, causing chaos in global markets! We delve into the immediate halt, Gulf Coast export terminal congestion, and the shockwaves felt in Europe and Asia. Discover the implications and future uncertainties in our analysis of the energy market. #ChinaLNG #USTrade #EnergyCrisis #GlobalMarkets #LNGImports #GulfCoast #EconomicNews #TradeWar #SupplyChain #BreakingNews from Famozo
New today from @josephinelee: Sheria Smith, an attorney at the Department of Ed's Office of Civil Rights, described Trump's anti-DEI effort as “witch-hunting school districts and schools that might be providing services that benefited Black and brown or students of color.” https://www.texasobserver.org/beaumont-pepper-spray-school-department-education/
#education #racism #Trump #DEI #politics #USpol #GulfCoast #police #HumanRights #PoliceBrutality #news #Texas
“All I remember is my eyes started burning. And then after that, I remember the cop kicking me in my face. She had me by my hair. She kneed me.”
New: @josephinelee reveals how the destruction of the Department of #Education is hampering the search for justice in this case of police brutality in school ... https://www.texasobserver.org/beaumont-pepper-spray-school-department-education/
#police #Texas #politics #USpol #news #Trump #schools #GulfCoast
National Weather Service pauses Spanish and non-English services citing a contract lapse | "With less than a few months before the start of hurricane season [June 1 - Nov 30], the halt adds another layer of uncertainty for thousands of Houstonians who depend on emergency alerts."
This will undoubtedly cost lives.
#Houston #Texas #GulfCoast #SouthernUS #Weather #NWS #NationalWeatherService #SpanishLanguage #PublicServices
https://houstonlanding.org/national-weather-service-pauses-spanish-and-non-english-services-citing-a-contract-lapse/
At a time when Lyford was in decline, Duke Energy Renewables arrived in 2012 to build the first phases of a massive new wind farm—installing 171 turbines across 23,000 acres of leased farmland here (an area roughly the size of Disney World), 30 miles west of the Gulf of Mexico. https://www.texasobserver.org/willacy-texas-largest-wind-farm/
#GulfCoast #energy #environment #farming #agriculture #economy #politics #USpol #SouthTexas #renewables #news
In our magazine: The local wind energy boom has provided a small lifeline to the cash-strapped city and to Willacy County, especially the tiny local school district. https://www.texasobserver.org/willacy-texas-largest-wind-farm/
#energy #environment #GulfCoast #farming #agriculture #politics #USpol #news
Our top story: In one direction, the wind sweeps from the wintry north through the South Texas plains. In another, it rolls from the southeast over the chilly blue-green waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Harnessing the wind has revived this small farming town. https://www.texasobserver.org/willacy-texas-largest-wind-farm/
More than 50 years later, some Houston families still wait for confirmation that their sons and brothers were among the victims of serial killer Dean Corll.
Out this month, the new book from Lise Olsen: https://www.texasobserver.org/the-scientist-and-the-serial-killer/
#books #history #CriminalJustice #science #Houston #GulfCoast
“Sometimes their last words speak not only for the victim but for society and we ignore them at our peril.”
Now out from Lise Olsen: A forensic anthropologist spent decades identifying the victims of a notorious serial killer.
https://www.texasobserver.org/the-scientist-and-the-serial-killer/
#books #bookstodon #CriminalJustice #Houston #GulfCoast #Texas #history #science
The new book from Lise Olsen traces a forensic anthropologist’s decades-long attempt to restore the identities of the victims of one of #Texas’ most prolific serial killers—and explores the shocking reasons why so many boys who were kidnapped, tortured, and killed by a murderer trolling #Houston neighborhoods in the early 1970s remained anonymous for so long.
https://www.texasobserver.org/the-scientist-and-the-serial-killer/
#history #CriminalJustice #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #GulfCoast
A friend of mine is collecting experiences of Vietnamese people who lived along the Gulf Coast during Hurricane Katrina. It will be 20 years since the "storm of the century" changed the lives of so many.
These experiences will be part of a book chapter about the lives and reflections of Vietnamese-Americans in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
Message me if you are interested.
She also shares this beautiful folktale
Mississippi restaurant gives out straight-couples-only offer and is roundly lambasted for it.
https://www.advocate.com/news/mississippi-restaurant-lambasted-for-homophobia #LGBTQ #Hate #Bigots #GulfCoast #Discrimination #Homophobia
