Remembering Carlton Carl: a patriot, feminist, Democrat, journalist, bibliophile, philanthropist, entrepreneur, art enthusiast, history buff, and more. He was a staunch supporter of his family and community, of organizations including the Observer, and of the town of Martindale. https://www.texasobserver.org/carlton-carl-1945-2025/
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Announcing our MOLLYs special guest: Skye Perryman, President & CEO of Democracy Forward and one of TIME’s 100 most influential people.
Join us in #Austin for a powerful night supporting independent journalism.
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Of course #Texas, antivaxxers, and soon… #RFKJr will be all 🥱
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/health/west-texas-measles-outbreak/index.html
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Welcome to the March/April 2025 issue of Texas Observer magazine! Editor-in-Chief Gus Bova introduces our latest by examining the "biannual dread” invoked by the Texas legislature and what we can do about it. https://www.texasobserver.org/editors-letter-introducing-our-march-april-2025-issue/
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32 People Died in ICE Custody in 2025, as #Minneapolis Killings Spark Outrage
“Of those who died in #ICE custody last year include Geraldo Lunas Campos, whose death in #Texas has been ruled a homicide.
Also Wael Tarabishi, who died of a rare genetic disease thirty days after his father, Wael’s primary caregiver, was detained by ICE after a routine check-in at an immigration facility in Dallas.”
https://people.com/deaths-ice-custody-last-year-as-fatal-shootings-spur-outrage-11890261
✝️ TEXAS! 🎉 🥂 🍾 Democrat #Christian Menefee WINS #election for #USA #House, narrowing GOP’s slim majority Feb 1, 2026
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That'S #Tomorrow BTW
Monday, February the 2nd.
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FIRST DAY OF EARLY VOTING
🎟️ MARCH 3RD
PRIMARY ELECTION
✝️ Democrat #Christian Menefee won a #Texas U.S. House seat in a special election Saturday that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority, #telling President Donald #Trump that the Democratic district “ #TOPPLES #corrupt_presidencies.”
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Hi @votevets @TexasObserver @texastribune etc (please suggest ideas) we have outstanding footage of the #VetsMarch yesterday at the #Texas state #capitol and are trying to make sure everyone sees it.
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New today: I created a brief guide to help Texans, especially #LGBTQIA+ folks and allies living here, better understand the legislature and which bills are likely to become law ... and which ones probably won't go anywhere.
If we're going to be share, fight, protest ... we should make it count. https://kitoconnell.com/2025/03/22/bad-bills-texas-legislature-understanding-how-to/
#Texas #TXlege #politics #USpol #transphobia #HumanRights #Republicans #GregAbbott #fascism #genocide #News
New from @candicequestions: Former Tarrant County GOP Chairman Bo French is running a 'fossil fascist' campaign for Railroad Commissioner, blaming the sins of the oil and gas industry on scapegoats and racist conspiracies. https://www.texasobserver.org/bo-french-blood-and-oil-railroad-commissioner/
#Republicans #Texas #midterms #politics #USpol #news #fascism #OilAndGas #environment #ClimateChange
#BREAKING “New York state court blocked #Texas from filing a legal action against a New York doctor for prescribing and sending #abortion pills to a Texas woman.
The unprecedented move catapults the interstate abortion wars to a new level, setting the stage for a high-stakes legal battle between states that ban abortion and states that support abortion rights” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/health/new-york-texas-abortion-shield-law.html
NEW: For The Barbed Wire, I spent weeks talking to current and former students, faculty, nonprofits and others, documenting LGBTQ+ life at #Texas' public universities, where in the last two years students have lost access to health care, advisors, safe spaces, funding for #queer and #trans student orgs and much more.
If there's hope, it's that some communities have stepped up to support the students and what they've lost.. https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/05/communities-ripped-apart-on-texas-college-campuses-lgbtq-services-have-been-completely-decimated/
The decision to strip chapters from books that had already won the approval of the state’s Republican-controlled board of education represents an escalation in how local school boards run by ideological conservatives influence what children learn.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-cypress-fairbanks-removed-textbook-chapters?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The drummer for #Austin, #Texas metal band #LordBuffalo, who is a #legal #GreenCard holder, was seized by #ICE off of a plane as the band was departing for a European tour. His current whereabouts are unknown.
#immigration #law #Trump #StateSponsoredAbduction
https://www.metalsucks.net/2025/05/14/lord-buffalo-forced-to-cancel-european-tour-after-u-s-border-police-detained-their-drummer/
Former “We Buy Ugly Houses” Franchise Owner to Plead Guilty in Fraud Scheme That Cost Investors $40 Million
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Charles Carrier agreed to plead guilty to one count of felony wire fraud that carries a potential 20-year prison sentence. The plea follows a ProPublica report detailing how Carrier bilked investors across Texas out of millions of dollars.
#News #Housing #Home #Fraud #Lawsuit #Law #Texas #RealEstate
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
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ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Trump #USPolitics #Law
If one were to only read billionaire owned media, one might believe that #Texas is a seething, roiling mass of #Yeehawdists; red hats, blue line flags, big guns, and an unholy devotion to protecting pedophiles. But y’all, that’s only the #Republicans. The rest of us think they’re insane.
Granted, we fight a hard battle, 5000 rural votes can override 50,000 city votes. Land has more power than urbanites. But here’s the thing, the Observer tells a story about rural high schools walking out of class despite clear and obvious threats from the Guardian of Pedophile Governor #Abbott.
These are farm kids, the next gen of Texas rural voters.
Republicans are abusing millions of people to distract from the fact that as a party, they’ve chosen to protect child rapists. And the kids? They see right through that shit. They know monsters when they see them.
"On Thursday morning, a federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s effort to quickly deport Venezuelans under a wartime power only previously exercised three times in the nation’s history — most recently during World War II — was illegal."
~ Chris Geidner
#Trump #AlienEnemiesAct #immigrants #courts #DueProcess #Texas #FernandoRodriguez
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https://www.lawdork.com/p/aea-trump-appointee-texas-final-ruling
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Our top story: After over 25 years in the U.S., and despite raising a family here and having a path to citizenship, Moizali Momin was nearly deported to India. He spent months in cramped, dirty detention centers at taxpayer expense. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-ice-detention-bond-prosecutorial-discretion/
#ICE #immigration #Texas #Houston #GulfCoast #HumanRights #News #politics #USpol #fascism
UPDATE: a spokesperson from JP Morgan Chase told the Texas Observer they fired the operator of a neo-Nazi X account who we identified as their employee.
"This person is no longer at the firm. We do not tolerate hate in any form and take incidents such as this very seriously."
https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
#politics #USpol #extremism #racism #antisemitism #Texas #news #SocialMedia #ElonMusk
My latest for Deceleration: Greg Abbott could defund the #police in San Marcos—at least partially—if the Texas governor carries through with his threats over a proposed city council resolution calling for a ceasefire in #Gaza. https://deceleration.news/palestine-greg-abbott-defund-san-marcos-police-israeli-violence/
#politics #Texas #SanMarcos #Palestine #FreePalestine #BDS #news #GregAbbott #USpol
#Texas is controlled by revanchist evangelical neo-nazis, the governor legalized murder there as long as the murderer is a neo-nazi, a rolling Klan rally in 2020 forced a Democratic Party campaign bus off the interstate with the assistance of local cops and exactly zero people were prosecuted or in any way held accountable for it, and cops didn't do jack shit about a two-year terror campaign that led to Jonathan Joss's murder because, in Texas, absolute fucking horror is legal and encouraged.
https://abc7ny.com/post/jonathan-joss-killed-san-antonio-shooting-police-sayknown-character-king-hill-tulsa-parks-rec/16637058/
#TexasLegislature Mandates #Sheriff-#ICE Cooperation in Jails or Streets
#Texas lawmakers are ordering all counties to seek federal agreements that may be limited to jailhouses—or may convert deputies into roving immigration agents.
#law #Gestapo #CivilRights #ImmigrantRights
https://www.texasobserver.org/legislature-sheriffs-ice-cooperation-jails-streets/
#art #history: 'do you want to live on your knees or die on your feet?'
kathleen cleaver (born #otd in 1945) would like an answer, please.
this revolutionary kick-activist law professor was one of the most prominent leaders in the black panther party &, when she returned from exile in algeria, kathleen earned a full scholarship from yale, where, in 1984, she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree.
#kathleenCleaver #blackPantherParty #activism #texas #illustration
Monkey see, monkey do
Via The Hill:
#Texas governor deploying National Guard to various locations in state