Featured Story: In the small Gulf Coast city of Freeport, a pretty mint-green house stands alone in a neighborhood called the East End, surrounded by what looks at first glance like a meadow. Closer examination reveals the grass is growing over recently emptied lots where other houses once stood. Now driveways lead to nowhere. https://www.texasobserver.org/port-freeport-industrial-takeover-black-community/
"At least five people in #Texas have been hospitalized with suspected #fungal infections in their brains and spinal cords that developed after traveling to #Mexico for cosmetic surgeries involving #epidural#anesthesia, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [#CDC] warned this week."
Headed for the governor’s desk, #SB14 shows that the Legislature has no idea what #healthcare for #trans kids even is.
Correspondent Nancy Goldstein returns to the Observer to bust myths about #gender-affirming care... not to mention the idea that the #Republicans care, at all, about children:
Earlier: In what seemed like a 16-hour indoctrination session, TEA’s “Lone Star Governance” program trainers had the 230 applicants who attended repeat self-flagellating mantras about their lack of integrity and lack of concern for student success to get them ready for what they called the “Lone Star Governance mindset."
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“All the trends that McVeigh embodied—the political #extremism, the obsession with gun rights, the search for like-minded allies, and above all the embrace of violence—came together under the forty-fifth president.”
Once Abbott signs this bill, Texas cities will no longer be able to self-govern. We won’t, for instance, be able to implement local water restrictions during a drought.
This will have major consequences for just about every aspect of life in Texas.
800 members of Fla Nat Guard
200 agents (in teams of 40) from state Dept of Law Enforcement
101 state highway patrol troopers
20 agents from state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission & the Department of Emergency Management
5 fixed-wing aircrafts
17 unmanned drones
10 waterborne vessels
i/:Where are the constitutional lawyers when you need them?/I
Ok, it is the #NationalGuard, so it is probably fine to send them from one state to another, but sending law-enforcement officers from #Florida to #Texas on such a massive scale without federal requests etc.? IDK
And NO to the Guard:
"The National Guard is a state-based military force that becomes part of the reserve components of the US Army and the US Air Force when activated for 👉federal👈 missions..."
“It seems like we’ll be too busy staring at student ... test scores to wonder why can’t we teach our kids about the real history of America, or why we are not allowed to vote for our own leaders here, or run our own elections?”
Churches’ Role in Local Election Prompts Calls for Investigations
West #Texas#voters rejected three conservative Christian candidates who sought to infuse religious values into local politics. But the campaign support the candidates received from local churches has prompted calls for state and federal probes.
And by “Texas,” the Hill means fascist Gov. #Abbott:
“#Texas on Sunday sent more migrants to Vice President Harris’s D.C. residence, just days after Title 42 — a pandemic-era rule that allowed officials to quickly expel asylum seekers at the border — ended last week.” #immigration#racism#bigotryhttps://trib.al/k9XlJ8e
Die Republicans in #Texas haben das gemacht was sie angekündigt haben, und verbieten #trans Healthcare für Minderjährige. Betreffende Minderjährige, die schon in Hormonbehandlung sind werden zwangsdetransitioniert.
Üble Grausamkeit ihnen gegenüber.
Dafür gestimmt hat auch eine Abgeordnete der Democrats.
Das Gesetz in #Texas wurde jetzt beschlossen. Damit ist trans Healthcare für Minderjährige in Texas verboten. Das betrifft in der Altersgruppe der 13 bis 17 jährigen in Texas 30.000 trans Jugendliche.
Minderjährige die schon hormonell behandelt werden sollen ihre Medikamente über ein "Weaning" absetzen. (Zwangsdetransition)
Our May/June 2023 issue is reaching mailboxes and select newsstands now. With important coverage of #ReproductiveRights and #Healthcare, as well as the continuation of @delger's river series.
Digital subscribers: look out for a new, easier format for this month's issue, available soon.
”I don’t think it’s a state issue. This is a national movement that’s anti-immigrant, that’s toward rolling back minority participation, minority rights—everything.”
Texas denied abortions to these women when their lives were in danger. Now they're suing the state.
Though speaking out requires them to relive losing their wanted pregnancies, four plaintiffs told The 19th they're doing it because they know they're "not the only ones like this."
Planned Parenthood is calling for the major reform of the federal judiciary less than a year after the fall of#RoeVWade, including expanding the Supreme Court and adding term limits.
#MatthewKacsmaryk's #AbortionPill ruling has been temporarily blocked by the Supreme Court, but the 5th Circuit Court if Appeals is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Wednesday.