I’m probably the last person on earth to learn this, or at least the last Texan to learn this: lady longhorns…have long horns. I just assumed big horns = bull. There’s two longhorn cows that live on land near my neighborhood, every time I drive by I say ‘I should take their photo’. Finally, on Sunday, I drove by & saw they were out. Went back to house, grabbed camera and swung back. Looking at the photos later I was udderly amazed to see…udders on them thar #longhorns.
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#Texas Appeals Court Throws Out Defamation Lawsuit Against ProPublica, Houston Chronicle
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The news outlets’ 2018 investigation into famed #Houston heart surgeon Bud Frazier provided a “fair, true, and impartial account,” the court said in its ruling, potentially bringing a close to the nearly six-year legal battle.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration Monday for expanding federal sex discrimination protections under Title IX to include LGBTQ+ students.
#LGBTQ #News #Politics #Texas #KenPaxton #SexBasedDiscrimination #TitleIX #TransRights
Democratic and Republican lawmakers across the country tried to push through bills to tighten gift limits, toughen conflict-of-interest provisions or expand financial disclosure reporting requirements. But many of the measures were derailed.
#News #Ethics #Law #Government #Virginia #Texas #NewMexico #NorthDakota #Connecticut #Maine
"After severe flooding in non-evacuated areas in Texas has left at least 24 dead with dozens more missing, including several young girls at a summer camp, Texas officials are blaming their failure to act on a faulty forecast by Donald Trump’s new National Weather Service gutted by cuts to their operating budget and most experienced personnel."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #weather #Texas #flooding #NWS
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/texas-officials-blame-agency-gutted
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In May, we reported on how an "anti-woke" energy tycoon had hijacked the #Texas State Historical Association. Now, hundreds of historians, students and educators are supporting the newly formed Alliance for Texas #History, dedicated to telling untold stories from our state. New from @josephinelee: https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-history-alliance-tsha/
Any Texan, in particular, can cast propaganda aside and simply look around to see that our state is built, maintained, and improved every day by unauthorized workers.
In our magazine, Interim Editor-in-Chief @gusbova asks why #Democrats keep flip-flopping on an issue at the heart of the American experiment. https://www.texasobserver.org/border-immigration-cowardice-democrats-biden-allred/
#immigration #border #MayDay #Texas #WorkersRights #democracy #Biden
Introducing the new May/June 2024 issue of Texas Observer magazine ... with a short message from our new Interim Editor-in-Chief @gusbova: https://texasobserver.org/editors-letter-introducing-our-may-june-issue/
(🎨 Cover by Emily Joynton)
#Texas #news #politics #USpol #culture #journalism #nonprofit
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The arrest of two city council members in a small #Texas town set off a firestorm of legal controversy that's reaching all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. From Correspondent Jason Buch, in our magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/small-town-politics-national-consequences/
#news #politics #USpol #SCOTUS #police #CriminalJustice #law #SouthTexas
New from Gaige Davila: “It’s not targeting criminals, it’s not targeting dangerous people, it’s targeting individuals who are members of our community, who have a lot to offer and continue to offer a lot of positive things for our entire country and our society.” https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-interpreter-arrested-ice-south-texas-airport/
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#Illinois Sues #Trump Over #NationalGuard Deployments, Expanding Multistate Fight
The lawsuit seeks to block the White House from sending #Texas National Guard #troops to #Chicago. It came hours after a federal judge blocked deployments to #Portland, #Oregon.
#law #RightToProtest #immigration #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/06/us/national-guard-trump-oregon-chicago?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
“Every time that an anti-trans bill passes, it is another attempt at removing #trans people from the public eye,”
New from @TexasObserver: The #Texas "bathroom bill" that goes into effect in December is more than an assault on trans rights: it weaponizes #transphobia to attack #schools and libraries. One legal expert I spoke with called it “the most plainly unlawful, undemocratic, legislation I’ve seen in recent history.” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-bathroom-bill-weaponizes-transphobia/
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Are you interested in covering politics in the Lone Star State? The Texas Observer is hiring an intern to help us cover the 2026 elections! Apply here: https://www.texasobserver.org/jobs/
#journalism #jobs #Texas #politics #USpol #elections #democracy
"Was [the Michigan shooting at a Mormon church] the only mass shooting this weekend? No, the shooting happened during a particularly violent weekend in the US and marked the 324th mass shooting in the US in 2025, according to the Gun Violence Archive."
~ Nicola Slawson
#guns #MassShooting #Michigan #Texas #NorthCarolina #NewOrleans #violence
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How the 🇺🇸 US #FAILED to #REBUILD 🇦🇫 #Afghanistan | 3,640,738 views Jan 11, 2018
"Where the USA 🤬 #DRUG_CARTELS 💍 #RING_ROAD ENDS in Afghanistan, the #TEXAS_BOARDER DRUG TOLL BOOTHS begins???
🇮🇱 Boycott #DEA DISMANTLE AND #SHUT_DOWN! WE CAN HELP. THEY ALL HAVE BLOOD ON HANDS WITH MASSIVE PROOF!🚔 🚔 🚔
💊 For the last 16 years Ring Road has been used for #smuggling #Heroin into multiple countries. Sweden is so ADDICTED they had to #legalized Heroin.
Now via #Texas underground tunnels..
💉 #Heroin and 💉 #oxycodone and now #Fentynol (after the fact btw) are all classified as 🚔 #opioids LIFE TRHEATENING HARD SCHEDUALE 1 #REAL HARD DRUGS 💉 , and their molecular structure is nearly an #exact_match.
https://www.opioidtreatment.net/blog/heroin-vs-oxycodone/
The Average Afghanistan citizen are delighted they are #killing millions of #Americans while mothers morn forever for #Children who have #OVERDOSED from this #Lethal_Drug.
On the flip side of that story ..what the USA has done to this country is #reprehensible!!
100% #Betrayal in our Books! How much more do they #care for an #American_Citizen?? #UGH!
We the People Demand investigation into USA Involvement of #Heroin_Trafficking via #Ring_Road for the LAST 20 years we have #Occupied that country via #TEXAS pay booth Boarders???
All the while USA #Raping & #Pillaging this country for its #URANIUM to build #NUCLEAR_WEAPONS on #USA_SOIL??
HOME LAND SECURITY MUST ALL BE FIRED AND START OVER FROM SCRATCH!
The US war in Afghanistan has raged for 16 years, since the US #invaded after 9/11, in 2001
Brief History: At the onset, a centerpiece of US strategy was to rebuild Afghanistan's crumbling infrastructure.
This move expedited military logistics and maneuvers, while simultaneously reigniting travel between Afghanistan's major cities. But when the US started its #war in #Iraq, that #diverted resources and manpower from the #battlefield of 💉 #Afghanistan.
#PROOF THAT #RING_ROAD WAS BEING USED FOR #DRUG_TRAFFICKING (HEROIN) FOR THE LAST 16 YEARS ON THE USA MILITARY #WATCH??
#COMPLICIT? YES via #TEXAS SMUGGLING BORDERS See Below..
To date, the most ambitious road-building project, known as the #Ring_Road, has seen over $3 #billion #spent on its renewal. And it was never completed.
1. #VIDEO: https://youtu.be/XKVDXbIpW9Q?si=TT8Foic4HLcjsFa_
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The #Taliban's #Two_Faced #Poppy_Policy
Abdul Waheed grows #poppies, which are eventually harvested for their #opium. Thanks to his crop, his family can eat for another year.
Adbul is not alone; 200,000 #families in #Afghanistan survive by growing opium, amounting to almost #half the #worlds_supply.
The Taliban, the world-famous movement founded on religious fanaticism, controls 90% of the land where opium is harvested. The Taliban claims to be as tough on drugs as they on other aspects of society banned by Islam, but the regime takes a hefty 10% from the profits of the opium, and Abdul says the Taliban have made no efforts to stop him from growing poppies. Giving the Taliban financial and ideological power, the opium trade remains one of their biggest contradictions.
2. #VIDEO: https://youtu.be/xXX9Y0bfirY?si=tZIVp8sws1EIMA5O
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#Afghanistan's #Billion Dollar #Drug_War | 101 East | Afghanistan's Billion Dollar Drug War - 101 East | It is the front-line of the #war on #drugs - and it is a battle authorities are #losing. May 6, 2015
Afghanistan's #poppy_fields, which feed the #habits of #drug_addicts WORLDWIDE, are #thriving, with #cultivation of the crop hitting #record_highs last year.
With #NATO troops pulling #out and local law enforcement agencies #ill_equipped and #underfunded??, #production looks set to #increase even further.
The number of Afghan addicts is #soaring and with the #Taliban #funded by the #drug_trade, security fears are paramount.
3. #VIDEO: https://youtu.be/RmidGuRsQmY
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“The Board and the Governor have put their politics over justice and made a mockery of our legal system.”
Yesterday, Governor Greg Abbott issued a full pardon for Daniel Perry, who killed Garrett Foster, a protester at a Black Lives Matter march in 2020. Special Investigative Correspondent @stevanzetti explains all the context the governor ignored: https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-pardon-daniel-perry-garrett-foster/
#news #politics #USpol #GregAbbott #BlackLivesMatter #protest #GunViolence #Texas
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#NationalGuard members from #Texas are illegally in #Illinois in Trump's latest move to send troops to cities
Guard members from Texas were at an Army training center in Illinois on Tuesday, the most visible sign yet of the #Trump admin’s plan to ignore the #law & send #troops to the #Chicago area despite a lawsuit & vigorous opposition from #city & #state elected leaders.
#law #judiciary #Constitution #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #tyranny #Gestapo
https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-chicago-portland-trump-5c8666818de9f18e9e26860aab814d17?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-07-National+Guard
Elon Musk wanted Texas legislators to create new crimes so people who fly drones or interfere with operations at SpaceX can be arrested. And he wanted to change who controlled the highway and public beach near SpaceX’s site so he can launch his rockets according to his timeline.
He got them all.
Read the full story: https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-texas-legislature-laws-spacex-tesla?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#NationalGuard deployments by the #Trump admin
#Chicago area: 500
About 300 #Illinois troops & 200 #Texas troops are expected on the streets soon.
#Portland, #Oregon: Currently None
Federal judge temporarily blocked deployment of #California troops staged near the city.
#WashingtonDC: 2,400
Deployed in August in what the admin called a *crime* fighting push.
#LosAngeles: 300
Peaked at 4,700 in June. Trump is appealing a ruling that the deployment was #illegal.
Around 1,000 anti-#Trump protesters marched peacefully in downtown #Chicago last night, as the first #Texas #NationalGuard soldiers prepared to deploy near the city.
#law #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/08/texas-national-guard-broadview-illinois
After we broke the story of the #ICE lawyer with a white supremacist X account, no one seems to be able to tell us whether James Rodden still works with the agency. Even Congress can't get answers. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-white-supremacist-x-account-veasey-answers/
#racism #fascism #genocide #law #Dallas #NorthTexas #Texas #Immigration #politics #USpol #news #Trump
New from José Luis Martínez: Last year, state investigators faced the highest number of paycheck complaints in nine years and a prior internal audit noted that it typically took months just for complaints to be assigned to an investigator. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-workers-wage-theft-complaints-surge/
#labor #workers #poverty #Texas #politics #USpol #news #economy
Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #USPolitics #Government #DHS #Immigration #ICE #Trump #Texas
“It certainly seems like an issue that could be ripe for litigation because it’s right on its face discriminating against people for sexual orientation or #transgender status.”
Out today, from Kit @oconnell: Emails obtained from the #Texas Department of Agriculture reveal the turmoil caused by Sid Miller's transphobic dress code, which the Observer first revealed last year. https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-transphobic-dress-code-emails/
#news #politics #agriculture #transphobia #LGBTQIA+ #USpol #law
#Indiana #Republican Gov #MikeBraun called Monday for state lawmakers to return to Indianapolis for an emergency session to redraw the state’s congressional map.
#Trump has pressured Republican governors nationwide to draw new maps so the #GOP can keep control of the #House in the #midterms. While #Republicans in #Texas, #Missouri & #NorthCarolina moved quickly to obey their #DearLeader, Indiana lawmakers have been more hesitant.
#MafiaState #law #gerrymandering
https://apnews.com/article/indiana-redistricting-special-session-braun-63f3447efcc34529dfc363a96a763b6e?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-27-Breaking+News