Texas lawmakers enable the🔫 gun industry & their lobbyists.
The NRA paid just $5,000 to rent out the Dallas convention center.
Nathan Collins reports the gun group got discounts and subsidies to the tune of $495,000. The city fought to keep these records secret until now, after the convention was over.
Texas Capital web site appears to be down until Monday, June 3. Does it always close for the weekend? Is it closed for maintenance? Just trying to look up some historical minutes. #TexasLeg#TXLege
#Democracy is on life support, #DEI brought more equality, but now many programs are gone bc of Republican white nationalists in govt.
Leaders from all of TX’s 7 univ. systems said they've closed multicultural offices, fired or reassigned DEI staff & stopped requiring diversity statements, or letters in which job candidates in academia share their previous efforts to promote diverse learning spaces & help students of all backgrounds succeed.
"Now, Davis has disclosed his former partner’s abortion to a state district court in Texas, asking for the power to investigate what his lawyer characterizes as potentially illegal activity in a state where almost all abortions are banned."
Our top story: Ken Paxton escapes consequences for his actions, again ... As Senior Writer and Assistant Editor Justin Miller writes, for all the emphasis placed on his alleged #fraud, the attorney general was never headed for prison—at least not on these charges ...
UT Austin bows to political pressure from white supremacist state senator Brandon Creighton and begins to purge staff involved in equity and diversity work.
”At the Legislature, they immediately noticed Molly, because she was so amusing, and so everybody would read the Observer—we probably had 100 percent readership at the Legislature.”
Featured story: “Librarians are being harassed in private Facebook groups. They’re receiving pressure from within [and outside] the school, and they’re really just trying to comply with . . . the standards for library operations that have been around for so long.” https://www.texasobserver.org/the-booksellers-revolt/
"If you ever wonder why state laws and policies are more radical than most Texans would prefer, the answer has a lot to do with Dunn and his checkbook. If you question why Texas’s elected officials no longer represent the majority of Texans’ views, the reason can be traced to the tactics employed by Dunn and the many organizations and politicians he funds and influences."
“Whenever legislators are writing laws about how they think drag queens should not be around children, it completely ignores the very real fact that some #drag queens have children.”
“Whenever legislators are writing laws about how they think drag queens should not be around children, it completely ignores the very real fact that some #drag queens have children.”
Greg Abbott’s new “Forward Operating Base”—which will cost $14 million a month to run—is a clear sign that his #border operation isn’t going away any time soon.