Healthcare Increases for Federal Employees and Retirees. (It ain’t good)

November 1, 2025

Sweet Holy Moses!

As I said, it ain’t good news. Social Security recipients will see an increase of 2.8% but Medicare will increase. According to AARP:

But next year the Part B premium is projected to jump 11.6 percent, $21.50, to $206.50, the Medicare trustees reported in July. That would raise the Part B annual deductible by 12 percent, $31, to $288 in 2026.

For Federal Employees and retirees the Cost of Living Adjustment is also 2.8% but there are significant increases in their healthcare cost. For example a retiree on Blue Cross Blue Shield Standard “self plus one” plan will see an increase of 16.5%. Last years premium was $593. In 2026 it will be $691. BCBS Federal is one of the most popular plans among retirees.

Changes to other plans can be found on the Office of Personnel Management website. Good luck. You will need it. Hopefully the great healthcare plan that Trump has been promising for over 10 years will finally kick in.


Guess Who is Hiring Illegal Immigrants in the Bay Area?

October 31, 2025

The ONLY people who support illegal immigration are those who hire them. It’s time we start naming them.

ICE was in the Clear Lake yesterday. Instead of going after the people who have invited illegal immigrants into the Bay Area, offered them jobs, and protection they raided a school next to a church. They raided a couple of apartment complexes. They raided Home Depot. They covered their faces. They wielded automatic weapons. All in all they probably caught a couple of moms and dads trying to make life better for themselves instead of going after the real criminals.

Who do you think are hiring illegal workers? It’s plain as day and it’s in writing! An Op-Ed written by a number of business owners was published in the Dallas Morning News calling on Congress to fix our broken immigration system so they can legally profit off these workers. This list of businesses include homebuilders, restaurant owners, chicken processing owners, car dealerships, and others. Here are the owners who signed the OP-Ed:

But instead of going after the owners, who by the way, donate to the Republican Party, they go after those who work for them. $170 Billion is being spent on guns, ICE costumes, face masks, and cool sunglasses to catch a few people caught in the trap instead of raiding home building work sites, arresting the owners and foremen, and putting them in cages.

So, the next time you buy a home, eat at a restaurant, wash your car, just remember ICE should be coming after you for supporting illegal workers.


La Marque Police Responds to Council Member’s Terrorist Threat Complaint

October 29, 2025

There is a new Sheriff in town and he ain’t taken shit from Lowry.

In an unprecedented move by the La Marque City Police Department led by the new Police Chief, police are openly discussing the ‘Terrorist threat”complaint filed by City Councilman Joseph Lowry. In this day and age threats of any kind should not be taken lightly. Here is the report of the visit to LMPD documenting the threat.

Mr. Joseph Lowry entered the department at around 3:45 in the afternoon. He was out of breath, spoke in short bursts, and seemed quite upset. I was afraid he was going to pass out and summoned our medical staff. Lowry attempted to describe the terrorist threat that faced his family but quickly collapsed into a nearby chair. Medics provided oxygen to revive him. Lowry quickly regained his composure and staggered to the snack table where he chowed down on two day old bear claws and a carton of chocolate milk. We cautioned him about the milk which might have been spoiled. He ignored our warnings.

Lowry said the attack had left him breathless. “I truly believe he farted in my general direction. I couldn’t breathe. He must have ate some bad Mexican food. I was never more scared in my life. I was afraid he was going to teabag me.”

After continued discussion Mr. Lowry retired to the bathroom for the next 30 minutes as a result of the chocolate milk. The milk proved what we, at the station already knew, that he was full of shit. After dropping off his kids, he left the station with two additional bear claws rambling about conspiracies, cabals, criminal enterprises, political favors, EDC handouts, bribes, and backdoor deals.

Satire. You have to love it!


Citizens call for an Investigation of La Marque City Council Member

October 29, 2025

In the words of the author of this demand “If yall think it’s a game!!!! Welllll, think again. Nobody is gonna keep dancing around the bushes on yall ass. F”””” that!

La Marque City Council Members were provided a copy of a demand for an investigation into CM Joseph Lowry concerning his history of harassment, official misconduct, and his possible illegal occupancy of his seat on Council. If you have kept up with Lowry’s many escapades you’re probably wondering why action has not been taken already. Maybe this demand will result in a serious investigation and finally clear the air. Here is the demand in a nutshell:

  • Action is requested in 5 days
  • Investigate whether Lowry is legally on Council, remove if he is not
  • Investigate his numerous acts of harassment
  • Investigate his harassment at citizens work place
  • Investigate official misconduct
  • Investigate stalking allegations
  • Investigate civil rights violations

TO: Mayor Keith Bell, City Manager Barbara Holly, City Attorney Gus Knebel, District Attorney Chief Rodriguez, Council Members

FROM: Devonya Greenwood
“La Marque Citizens for Integrity”
DATE: October 28, 2025
IMMEDIATE LEGAL DEMAND:

Action Required Regarding Councilman Joseph Lowry’s Illegal Occupancy, Harassment, and Official Misconduct – 5-Day Deadline

Dear, Mayor, Council, City Manager, City Attorney, District Attorney, and Chief of Police

This serves as a Formal Legal Notice that as a concerned citizen of La Marque I demand immediate, decisive action regarding the continued presence and misconduct of Councilman Joseph Lowry.

Our community has conclusive evidence and documented testimony that requires your immediate legal and administrative intervention.

I. THE LEGAL BASIS FOR IMMEDIATE REMOVAL (5-DAY DEADLINE)

The citizens s well as I have verified information that Councilman Joseph Lowry is ineligible to hold public office due to a final felony conviction, a direct violation of the Texas Election Code \S 141.001(a)(4).

His continued service constitutes an ongoing fraud upon the City and a violation of state law.

DEMAND 1 (To the City Attorney & District Attorney):

I formally demand that the City Attorney and/or the District Attorney immediately prepare and file a request for a Writ of Quo Warranto proceeding, as authorized by the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, Chapter 66, \S 66.001, to judicially determine and enforce Councilman Lowry’s removal from office.

II. DOCUMENTED MISCONDUCT, HARASSMENT, AND CIVIL LIABILITY

The citizens and i have all compiled an extensive log of incidents demonstrating a pattern of egregious official misconduct, including:

• Harassment and Stalking: Utilizing his position to engage in physical following, sending strange, unsolicited packages, and making anonymous harassing calls to citizens’ private residences (Texas Penal Code \S 42.07 and \S 42.072).

• Economic Interference: Maliciously and anonymously contacting citizens’ places of employment, resulting in job suspensions, firings, and loss of livelihood.

• Civil Rights Violations: Using discriminatory and defamatory language against Black citizens, referring to them as “thugs and gangsters,” demonstrating a violation of public trust and creating a hostile environment.

DEMAND 2 (To the Mayor, City Manager, & Chief of Police):

I formally demand that the Mayor, City Manager, and Chief of Police immediately launch a comprehensive investigation into the documented criminal and ethical complaints, including the misuse of office to interfere with employment, and provide full cooperation with victims pursuing charges of stalking and harassment and all other charges as well.

III. THE DEADLINE FOR ACTION

We are committed to peace, discipline, and structure, and we expect the City to uphold the law.

You are hereby given five (5) calendar days from the date of this notice (October 28, 2025) to provide a written response and a concrete plan of action outlining how your respective offices will comply with these demands.

Failure to act by Monday, November 3, 2025 will be interpreted by the community and my legal counsel as a deliberate decision of complicity and calculated indifference, leaving me no recourse but to immediately proceed with the filing of a broad-based Civil Lawsuit against Councilman Lowry and the City of La Marque.

I expect and demand accountability. Now and not later


Catholic Church Condemns the Posting of the 10 Commandments

October 26, 2025

Praise the Lord.

Bay Area’s State Senator, Mayes Middleton, has purchased posters of the 10 Commandments to be posted in all classrooms in CCISD in direct violation of a Judge’s ruling. Currently the law is being challenged as unconstitutional in violation of the First Amendment prohibiting laws respecting an establishment of religion. Middleton sponsored the 10 Commandments bill in Texas.

The Catholic Church, which supported the passage of the law, has now soured. According to the Catholic Times Archbishop of the Houston Area, Jose Vasquez, stated the following:

“We are very disturbed by the posting of the 10 Commandments in class rooms across the state. When we voiced our initial support of the bill we were guaranteed the version of the Commandments would be the Catholic version not the version adopted by the Baptist church. As everyone knows the Catholic Church created Christianity and leads the world in this religion. Any other versions of Christianity are simply spinoff religions and does not truly represent Christianity.”

Catholics are overwhelmingly the majority of the 2.6 Billion Christians in the world and demand their rightful place public schools.

“If Senator Middleton wants to post the 10 Commandments then post the Catholic Version since we are the dominant religion of Texas. If any child or parent does not approve they can simply sit down quietly, look the other way, and not follow them, like they currently do anyway. Just remember all other versions of Christianity are bastard religions. Now take the g*ddamn things down. We have spoken.”

Welcome to Satire Sunday.


Who’s Funding Cy-Fair ISD Elections? (Extremists)

October 25, 2025

In November Cy Fair ISD parents will decide if billionaires and millionaires will control their elections and their schools.

So who is funding the election of the 3 extremists running for CFISD? The Political Action Committee Cy Fair 4 Liberty PAC was created in 2023. Since then they have raised a whooping $187,000 for a damn school board race! More than half, $81,495, coming from outside the district.

12 out of the 438 donors donated $153,172 or 82% of the entire total. The largest contributor was William Ely for $40,178. Ely is a sales rep for SAP America and works with the Harris County Republican Party. Ely’s republican buddy, Terry Wheeler donated $16,086. Ranteur Media of Austin donated $15,000. Senator “Money” Mayes Middleton from Clear Creek ISD donated $5208.

When you have partisan, extremist money coming into the district mailers such as the one below will be sent. It’s pretty sick. Sick enough for even republican voters to react according to the Houston Chronicle:

“Is this the example we want to set for our children? Using the tragedy of Charlie’s death and martyrdom in exchange for a vote?” said Judi DeHaan, Harris County Republican Party precinct chair. “They are on the wrong side of history with this divisive narrative.”

School boards should be non partisan. CCISD parents took a stand and removed Scott Bowen from the Board. Bowen is responsible for recruiting unqualified, extremist candidates for local elections including CFISD. Luckily the parents of CCISD voted everyone of them out. Now CFISD parents have that opportunity. Here are the top 12 donors to the PAC:

ContributorAmount
William Ely$40,178
Terry Wheeler$16,086
Ranteur Media$15,000
Clark Denson$12,665
State Rep Oliverson$12,000
C Club Pac$10,000
Christine Kalmbach$9,924
Todd Lecompte $9,524
George Edwards$9,463
Ray Justin$9,124
Senator Middleton$5,208
Cypress Republicans$4,000
$153,172

UPDATE: La Marque City Councilman’s Delinquent Taxes

October 24, 2025

Once again it’s Lowry.

Every day it is something new with La Marque City Councilman Joseph Lowry. You would think a grown ass man of 45 years, someone who served time in prison for drug possession, and eventually was able to start his own business and become an elected official would start acting like a grown ass man. One way to act like an adult is to pay your taxes like everyone else does.

It’s not like he doesn’t have the money as he bragged about it on Ch13 waving stack of money and crying fake tears. At that time, in October of 2024, he claimed his CPA had resolved the problem. A year later that doesn’t seem to be the case.

The Galveston County Tax Office has updated their delinquent tax records including the year 2025. According to the records Lowry’s business owes the county $24,113, $12,459 for 2024 and $11,653 for 2025. The County’s lawsuit against Lowry for over $43,000 has become inactive as posted earlier. I speculate the case will be refiled to add the 2025 taxes for a total over $53,000 but that is only speculation on my part.

Film at 11. Tax lien following.


New Evidence Might Remove La Marque City Councilman From Office

October 23, 2025

It’s Lowry. Again.

Joseph Lowry might be in a pickle. Ever since becoming politically active in La Marque he has been nothing but a pain in the ass for the city. I am sure many would love to see him resign from Council ending a period of embarrassment for the city. Resigning to stop any further digging into his past is the easy thing to do but do not count on it. Unfortunately another document filed with the King County Court might add fuel to the firing of Lowry.

Quick Background:
When Lowry applied to run for City Council in 2024 he checked the box “I have not been finally convicted of a felony.” That isn’t exactly true. He pled guilty to two separate felonies concerning the possession of meth in Washington State. He should have checked the box  “I have been finally convicted of a felony, but I have been pardoned or otherwise released from the resulting disabilities of that felony conviction and I have provided proof of this fact with the submission of this application” and then provided the proof. If he had checked the second one he would have had to provide a copy of the proof, but according to the following document he couldn’t.

New Damning Evidence:
This new document, “STATE’S MOTION AND ORDER VACATING AND DISMISSING JUDGMENT AND SENTENCE FOR POSSESSION-ONLY OFFENSE(S) PURSUANT TO STATE V. BLAKE” was filed with King County Washington CASE #: 99-1-08852-9 KNT but it was filed in May of 2025, a full year AFTER he was elected. What I do not understand, because I am not an undercover investigation reporter or an attorney, is why this is not signed? Why was it posted in early May of 2025? Maybe it is because the question about his eligibility was called into question at an April 28, 2025 meeting. You can watch the meeting here starting at 2:21:38.

Past Evidence:
Now realized in 2021 he had a document posted to his case titled “ORDER VACATING THE JUDGEMENT UNDER CrR 7.8 AND DISMISSING THE CASE PURSUANT TO STATE V. BLAKE”. This one is signed and was filed 3 years prior to Lowry’s election.

In Conclusion:
So what does all this mean? That is a good question and I’m just asking questions. I am going to speculate here. This unsigned document is a motion to vacate and dismiss his case which will be signed at a later date. Once signed it will be posted. I wonder if Lowry, after the April 28th meeting, realized his “vacation” wasn’t actually finalized and then petitioned King County to do so.

As I said, this will probably end up in court.


Scott Bowen’s Billionaire Buddies Coming After Harris County

October 22, 2025

Scott is kissing up to Greg Abbott as he will do if elected for State Representative.

Yesterday Greg Abbott vowed to put up to $90 Million into Harris County to target Democrats especially Judicial candidates. He was speaking in support of extremist running for Cy Fair ISD who was funded by special interest money. From the Houston Chronicle:

“I have two priorities in this election. Number one is to win reelection. Number two is to win Harris County. So I got $90 million in my bank account, and I’m going to spend most of it in Harris County, Texas to make sure, precinct by precinct, we turn out voters who voted in the presidential election, turn out voters who never voted before,” Abbott said. “We got to win Harris County and make Harris County dark red.”

This money is coming from the oligarchs of Texas including Abbott, Senator Money Mayes Middleton (3M), Mattress MAGAt Mac (another 3M), and multiple billionaires including Timothy Dunn and Farris Wilks. As you might remember Dunn and Wilks created Defend Texas Liberty PAC and funneled money into the CCISD elections after encouragement from CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen. The PAC later disbanded after being caught meeting with Nick Fuentes a known white supremacist. Bowen was responsible for recruiting unqualified, extremist, candidates across the County to run in school board races with some being financed by Bowen’s billionaire buddies (3Bs).

In Texas there is no limit on donations and no limit on expenditures. $90 million could flood the airwaves and social media with propaganda against Judges and other candidates. This is the only way Abbott can win. He, like Money Mayes Middleton, has to buy the race. Middleton has pledged $20 Million of his own money to win the Texas Attorney Generals race. He spent millions of his own money to win his House and Senate race.


CFISD Voters Can Follow CCISD’s Lead

October 21, 2025

They would be better off if they would. BTW come see Greg Abbott today at Pappa Charlie’s BBQ!

Cy Fair ISD is in the middle of an election that will determine if they will continue with right wing extremism or return to the boring job of advocating for taxpayers, parents, teachers, and students. CCISD voters took action back in May of 2024 ousting Trustee Scott Bowen from the board and the results have been, well, boring, in a very good way.

Bowen was running for a third term and was trampled by a conservative who ran on doing exactly what a Trustee should be running on. Bowen was nothing but chaos on the board. His list of achievements include advocating for school vouchers, ending the teaching of Critical Race Theory, which was never taught in CCISD and was never even considered to be taught. He attempted to take over the Board with hand picked, right wing, unqualified, candidates and he failed. CFISD could learn from the voters. You can read about the chaos Bowen brought to CCISD at Scott Bowen: A Threat to CCISD Education.

The Houston Chronicle Editorial, Cy-Fair ISD needs normalcy — not an extremist partisan agenda, wrote about the extremists on the board:

By 2021, the tide had shifted. Backed by far-right megadonor Steven Hotze and riding post-COVID backlash to anything labeled DEI, CRT or “woke,” she and allies Scott Henry and Lucas Scanlon ran as openly partisan culture warriors vowing to defend “historic American values,” oppose “Sharia law,” and uphold “Biblical marriage.” They won — and governed accordingly.

Bowen has his hands in this election as lead of local government in the republican party. He has recruited candidates for local ISDs, most unqualified to run for any office. CFISD voters have an opportunity to return to what a school board should be, boring. Be boring.

BTW. Greg Abbott is coming to Cy Fair to promote the extremists run.


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