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(📷Cover by Josh Huskin)

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Political Intelligence, in our magazine: After 12 years in office, junior Senator Ted Cruz podcasts more than he legislates. But history suggests Texans will give him six more years to talk.

Despite the odds, these #Democrats want to unseat him ...
https://www.texasobserver.org/ted-cruz-roland-gutierrez-senate?utm_campaign=mastodon via @justinmiller

#news #politics #USpol #Republicans #elections #democracy #TedCruz #voting #2024election

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“What is the Observer’s legacy?

I think it’s partly the mission statement. And I don’t think there is a newspaper in Texas today that has a book reviews section. And poetry? Is there another publication in Texas that has poetry?”
https://www.texasobserver.org/carlton-carl-texas-observer-70th?utm_campaign=mastodon

#TexasNeedsAnObserver #journalism #nonprofit #history #politics #news #USpol

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Our cover story: “I had so many people messaging me and telling me, ‘You basically need to sue the city and the #police department and these individuals as a whole, because what they did to you is not right.’”

From Correspondent Jason Buch, the story of a rabble-rousing citizen journalist's fight for press freedom ... https://www.texasobserver.org/priscilla-villarreal-la-gordiloca-laredo?utm_campaign=mastodon

#PressFreedom #journalism #news #politics #Texas #Laredo #GulfCoast #FreeSpeech #CriminalJustice #law

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From our magazine: Refuge Ranch was meant to serve young #women who had histories of sex work, but instead it raised larger questions about the quality of the state’s efforts to serve sex trafficking victims through residential treatment.
https://www.texasobserver.org/refuge-ranch-sex-trafficking-survivors?utm_campaign=mastodon

#news #politics #Texas #HumanRights #religion #USpol #HumanTrafficking

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From our magazine: "That night, we sat outside until millions of stars appeared, tracing the Milky Way above us. It was one of what we called momentos mágicos along the frontera."
https://www.texasobserver.org/frontera-border-book-us-mexico-sergio-chapa?utm_campaign=mastodon

#books #culture #Photography #border #Mexico #Texas #travel

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From our magazine: A network of lobbyists, PACs, and political activists has quietly infiltrated school board elections. In the second part of our School Board Backers series, we uncover the money pouring from boards into highly paid, highly partisan consultants. From Special Investigative Correspondent @stevanzetti. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-boards-partisan-consultants-pacs?utm_campaign=mastodon

#schools #education #children #news #politics #USpol #Texas #PublicSchools #democracy #voting #elections

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In our magazine: After over 100 years of celebrations, a museum in honor of the holiday could be coming to Fort Worth. Here's how creators are working with locals to make it a hub for the neighborhood ... https://www.texasobserver.org/juneteenth-museum-fort-worth-opal-lee?utm_campaign=mastodon

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From the magazine: Since 2010, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Fauna Project has documented almost 3,000 species of insect including over 50 bees, 345 flies, and over 500 different beetles. https://www.texasobserver.org/insect-lbj-wildflower-valerie-bugh-austin?utm_campaign=mastodon

#wildlife #insects #science #nature #wildflowers #culture #photography #Austin #Texas #animals

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”Hoax,” the latest from Texas Observer political cartoonist Ben Sargent, in our magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/loon-star-state-hoax?utm_campaign=mastodon

#politics #news #USpol #comics #ClimateChange #environment #Republicans #GOP

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@TexasObserver is that an AI hand?

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@Beeks it's a real photo of a real person, the journalist known as La Gordiloca, from our cover story. Maybe just the lighting makes it look a little unreal?

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@TexasObserver gotta be the lighting. It's wild. You see it though, right? I'm not crazy? (I might be crazy) 😂

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@Beeks I totally see it, check out some of the other photos though and I think you will see it's more traditional camera/photoshop magic ... https://www.texasobserver.org/priscilla-villarreal-la-gordiloca-laredo?utm_campaign=mastodon

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