Beth Shook

@bshook.bsky.social

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texas to dc 🚇 to cdmx 🇲🇽 and back. civic-minded software engineer, urbanist, toddler mom, grackle whisperer 🐦‍⬛

crowd of people standing under trees, many holding signs
man holding sign that says “if not fascism, why fascism shaped?”
Invitation to a fundraiser for Rep. Dan Crenshaw with special guests Mayor John Whitmire and Commissioner Tom Ramsey
"What we probably are going to do very soon (is) approach council about changing the ordinance that allows people to sleep on the streets," Whitmire told reporters after Wednesday's council meeting. "We really want the ability to tell people, 'It's not lawful for you to sleep in these conditions... Metro will deliver you, MetroLift, to wherever you need to go."
the hand of me, basic millennial white girl, holding a latte with a building (little dreamers coffee) in the background
a long-haired tabby stares vacantly into the distance
crowd of protestors surround sam houston monument
protestors stand on a bridge holding mexican flags and signs in support of immigrants
houston mayor john whitmire explains rats in the marijuana to the press
Excerpt: “And the reason I think I feel steady is both, as you said, that as an organizer, we’ve been through tremendous ups and downs in my own organizing history, in my own lifetime, but also actually where you just went, I feel super humble about what we know about what’s coming. I have some hypotheses. I have some instincts. I have some, I’ve been thinking a lot about what we should learn from the first Trump administration actually, and carry forward and what we need to unlearn. But I feel like it is a kind of act of an overactive ego or narcissism or something to be too pessimistic right now about what exactly is going to come, how this is going to play out. Yes, there will be severe damage. Yes, people that I love and care about are very scared. Yes, I’m scared, but I just think a little humility is in order intellectually and also emotionally, given where we are.”
White building in Art Deco style with decorations in orange, yellow, and teal and lettering that reads “Clarke & Courts”
a mixed-use building with a store on the bottom floor and a library sign on the top floor and a rooftop pergola in the colors of the progress pride flag.