Judge orders liquidation of conspiracy theorist #AlexJones′ personal assets
#Texas judge approves converting Jones’ proposed bankruptcy reorganization to a liquidation and has yet to rule on parent company to #Infowars #legal
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Out today: Feeding #Texas estimates that its 20 member banks have lost a total of $57.6 million in federal funding cuts, and that’s only in immediate canceled funding. But this could actually be on the low end of the potential impact range. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-cuts-texas-food-banks/
Of course.
“The pastor of a #Texas megachurch has resigned after a woman said he had sexually abused her on multiple occasions in the 1980s, beginning when she was 12.
Gateway Church’s board of elders said they’d accepted the resignation of Robert Morris, the church’s senior pastor and founder.”
“The records that we have received demonstrate that senior TDA officials were well aware of the potentially unlawful nature of their policy.”
Last year, I broke the story about the #Texas Department of Agriculture's transphobic dress code for @TexasObserver. Now, I'm back with internal emails showing the turmoil it caused, especially in the nutrition department: https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-transphobic-dress-code-emails/
#news #politics #USpol #transphobia #agriculture #LGBTQIA+ #trans #homophobia #WorkersRights
I attended the Supreme Court of #Texas on Wednesday to help @deceleration cover a unique case involving #Indigenous religious freedom, pandemic restrictions on churches, and a cormorant rookery in a San Antonio park.
#politics #USpol #environment #ClimateChange #animals #news #law #religion #activism #SanAntonio #SouthTexas #trees
“When people can’t get their #SNAP, they’re going to go to the #food banks. There isn’t enough food in the food pantries to handle this need. I mean, they’re all saying we’re going to run out of food. There’s no way we can replace everybody’s SNAP benefits.” https://www.texasobserver.org/snap-benefits-shutdown-will-leave-hungry-students/
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Safeguard the future of independent, investigative journalism in #Texas by making a gift today. With your help, we can reach our goal of raising $10K in 10 days. https://texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/give/?campaign=701UQ00000AErl4YAD
#news #journalism #nonprofit #TexasNeedsAnObserver
New from Francesca D'Annunzio: The #Texas Department of Public Safety and #ICE recently signed a pair of agreements that will authorize some state police within DPS’s Criminal Investigations and Highway Patrol divisions to effectively operate as ICE agents, on a statewide basis. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-287g-ice-trump-abbott/
#immigration #Trump #fascism #genocide #police #law #politics #USpol #news
HOLY SHIT.
DALLAS FUCKING TEXAS city council just voted unanimously to reject a $25 million package from #ICE requiring Dallas PD to arrest 50 immigrants per day.
As a reminder, Texas is not a red state. There are more registered Democrats than Republicans in Texas. This is why Bishop William Barber says the states of the South in general should not be called "red." They are rigged.
Rebecca Crosby, Noel Sims, and Judd Legum point to six election results that did not make the news:
"Pennsylvania county ousts sheriff who collaborated with ICE"
"Progressives win control of Texas school board that censored books"
"Georgia elects its first Democrat to a non-federal statewide office since 2006"
"Mississippi Democrats break Republican super majority in the state Senate"
#Trump #election #Pennsylvania #Texas #Georgia #Mississippi #Colorado #Maine
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NEW: “No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office
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A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidates from the pulpit, an expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fort-worth-mercy-culture-church-campaign-university
#Uvalde Police Failed to Turn Over All Body Camera Footage From Robb Elementary Shooting, Department Says
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After an officer noticed that part of his bodycam footage was absent from a recently released trove of records, an audit found “several additional videos” that were not included.
It’s unclear if prosecutors previously had access to this video.
#News #Texas #Police #Government #Schools #Students #Crime
https://www.propublica.org/article/uvalde-police-failed-turn-over-body-camera-video-robb-elementary
Griffin:
Exclusive: Data obtained by NBC News indicates that #Texas Republican #GregAbbott did not send a single bus of migrants out of the state in July — an indication of the progress the Biden-Harris admin has made at the border — despite his vow at the RNC just last month to keep sending buses. https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/abbott-sent-no-migrant-buses-texas-north-july-rcna167746
“We’re having to take the burden of the drought while industries, who make profit from it, go on their merry way.”
New today: The expansion of Elon Musk's embattled electric car company is just the latest strain on this South #Texas city's dwindling #water supply. https://www.texasobserver.org/corpus-christi-water-crisis-tesla-industrial-expansion/
#environment #ClimateChange #drought #politics #USpol #SouthTexas #ElonMusk #Tesla #news
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SCOOP from Reporting Fellow Francesca D'Annunzio: Texas Department of Public Safety is committing to a five year, $5.3 million contract for Tangles, an AI #surveillance tool that can track cell phones without a court order. (🧵 1/2) https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-tangle-cobwebs/
#Texas #politics #USpol #news #police #tech #privacy #HumanRights #activism #AI
“This is very confusing. We’re going to take responsibility, but we’re not responsible. We’re going to punish a couple people, but we’re not going to punish them.”
Director Steve McCraw reinstated a #Texas ranger he’d fired over the response to the Robb Elementary shooting. The ranger’s appeal could have brought scrutiny on his agency. https://www.texasobserver.org/dps-mccraw-transparency-uvalde/
#news #police #Uvalde #GunViolence #politics #USpol #transparency
"My hidden agenda in the book club is to get people excited about reading stories about members of the #LGBTQ+ community who are different than them."
I'm pleased to share my first story for The Advocate, about the joy of #queer folks reading together: https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-book-clubs
#books #bookstodon #Austin #Texas #LGBTQIA+ #culture #Richmond #Virginia @bookstodon
Via @emptywheel:
I argued the campaign comes down to:
1) Whether Harris' female gap is bigger than Trump's male gap
2) Whether Harris can expand electorate from 51% women to something better
3) How much Trump's fuckery responds to the latter
Tom Bonier:
New registrations in #Texas in 6 wk per. after #Harris became nom- a lrger # of registrations than same period in 2020 & they were younger, more women, less white, & modeled far more Dem. cc: BetoORourke who has been doing the work on ground
⛔️🇲🇽U.S. Southern Border Now Russian Spy Entry Point: Russia intensifies intelligence in collaborative Mexico to influence support for Ukraine (more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/09/23/7476303/ #Ukraine #Mastodon #Texas #Arizona #California #NewMexico #America #Press #BorderPatrol #Border #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #Mexico #MexicoIsTheEnemy #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow
“I am part of the queer community and the queer rights movement. I am an anti-fascist; I’m not neutral about fascism. I’m not neutral about genocide. I’m not neutral about the environment, and many other topics.”
I'm so excited to share this: a profile of my career is out today in the Columbia Journalism Review! I've been waiting to share this for months, and I'm thrilled with how it turned out. https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/kit-oconnell-austin-movement-journalism.php
NEW: Officials in Travis County, #Texas sue state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), alleging his office violated the National Voter Registration Act in its attempt to block the county’s voter registration efforts. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/travis-county-sues-texas-ag-for-thwarting-voter-registration-efforts/
In Texas’ third-largest county, the far right’s vision for local governing has come to life.
@ProPublica and @texastribune report: "Tim O’Hare’s leadership in Tarrant County, Texas, gives a glimpse of far-right priorities: cutting programs for at-risk youth, targeting elections and stifling dissent. Home to 2.2 million people and the city of Fort Worth, [the county] is the most significant political battleground between Republicans and Democrats in Texas."
#Texas #USPolitics #FarRight #Politics #Conservatives #Election
Via Dan Pfeiffer:
This is a smart way to draw attention to what access to abortion could look like across America if #Trump wins.
It is not a play to win #Texas. And the fact that people are reacting this way shows that its a great way to get attention -- the most valuable resource at this stage
Sam Stein:
#Harris will head to TEXAS on Friday. Will campaign with Allred. Will focus on #abortion policy
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“#Texas county reversed decision to place Colonization & the Wampanoag Story, a children’s history book about Native American experience, in fiction category at local libraries.
The decision drew the ire of the world’s largest publishers, literary freedom groups & community members.
…reclassified after creating a citizen review committee, making the committee’s meetings secret & removing librarians from deliberations–changes driven by a conservative Christian group”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/23/texas-indigenous-book-montgomery-libraries