“A dramatic rise in pregnant women dying in #Texas after #abortion ban
Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/texas-abortion-ban-deaths-pregnant-women-sb8-analysis-rcna171631
"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
Despite Persistent Warnings, #Texas Rushed to Remove Millions From #Medicaid. That Move Cost Eligible Residents Care.
The decision to buck federal #government guidelines was one of many that led to serious repercussions for Texas residents who rely on Medicaid. Among them were #children forced to forgo or postpone lifesaving operations, #doctors say.
#News #Healthcare #Health #ACA #Covid #Pandemic #Insurance #PublicHealth
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-medicaid-unwinding-consequences
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
“Being a #queer, Chicané/Mexican storyteller writing queer, Chicané/Mexican stories for young people isn’t the easiest job in the world for a lot of reasons.”
I've a new piece out from a new publication: I interviewed San Antonio-based #nonbinary young adult author Jonny Garza Villa about writing and getting censored by a local school district... https://thebarbedwire.com/2024/09/20/they-just-dont-want-authors-latine-writer-uninvited-from-speaking-at-texas-school/
#books #bookstodon @bookstodon #LGBTQIA+ #SanAntonio #Texas #censorship #YoungAdult #romance #music #border #culture
“I think it’s very dangerous, and people are scared, mostly because having mismatched documents can affect their work, their ability to get on a plane, or to show someone who they are.”
In a new article for #Austin Free Press, I spoke with the local #trans community about how they're responding to the latest attack on our rights, which blocks us from updating identity documents. https://austinfreepress.org/identity-crisis-austin-trans-community-dresses-for-battle-with-texas-attorney-general-paxton/
#News #Texas #KenPaxton #transphobia #LGBTQIA+ #USpol #politics #HumanRights
⛔️🇲🇽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: Federal Court blocks a key provision of #Texas voter suppression law SB1 that would make it a felony to assist voters who need help returning their absentee ballots. The judge rules the provision violates the First Amendment. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-judge-strikes-down-key-provision-of-texas-omnibus-voter-suppression-law/
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/
Carla Gates holding a picture of her husband Eugene Gates Jr., a 36 year veteran of the #USPS #USA #Postal Service, who died last year delivering mail when the heat index was 113 degrees Fahrenheit
The USPS disciplined Eugene weeks before he died for taking too long on his route in the heat wave. Carla found out later #Heat Illness Prevention training he should have received was falsified by postal management
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
In Texas’ Third-Largest County, the Far Right’s Vision for Local Governing Has Come to Life
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From cutting social services to changing #election rules, Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare has pushed his agenda with an uncompromising approach. His term offers a rare look at what happens when hard-liners exert influence in a battleground county.
WASHINGTON (AP) —“ #SCOTUS on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in #Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest #abortion bans.
Without detailing their reasoning, the justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law” https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-emergency-abortion-texas-bf79fafceba4ab9df9df2489e5d43e72?taid=6703e77b7aa3400001ed4e75&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter
I've a new piece out in The Barbed Wire, based on a fresh set of data from #GLAAD documenting almost 100 anti-LGBTQIA hate incidents in #Texas since 2022. 10 incidents can be traced to Chaya Raichik, the online hatemongerer better known as Libs of TikTok.
For this article, I teamed up with Leslie Rangel, Investigations Editor at The Barbed Wire:
https://thebarbedwire.com/2024/10/14/thereve-been-93-anti-lgbtq-hate-crimes-in-texas-since-2022-data-shows/
(CW: Descriptions of homophobic #violence)
#Texas #politics #extremism #homophobia #transphobia #USpol #news #LGBTQIA+
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
“#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
Out today, a story months in the making...
In August, #Austin Police Department violently arrested two pro-Palestine activists at the city's annual #Pride march, and I investigated why and how it happened.
Even though Pride itself claimed to be welcoming to symbols of Palestinian liberation, police who were deployed to "protect" the #LGBTQIA+ community from violent threats ended up attacking us instead. https://thebarbedwire.com/2024/10/18/you-can-fly-any-flag-at-austin-pride-except-a-palestinian-one/
#police #Palestine @palestine #queer #news #Texas
#Texas has stripped Medicaid coverage from 2 million people, most of them children.
ProPublica and @Texas_Tribune found that disenrollment mistakes were preventable and foreshadowed by warnings from the federal government, whistleblowers and advocates.
This time, it might be true. According to NBC News, three sources have confirmed that Beyoncé will appear at Kamala Harris's Houston event tomorrow, and one source says she'll perform. It's not the Houston-born superstar's first foray into Democratic politics: She sang at Obama's first inauguration in 2008, and performed at an Ohio rally for Hillary Clinton in the final days of her 2016 presidential bid. Texas isn't expected to be competitive for Harris, but the Senate race is tightening between Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic Rep. Colin Allred. Here's more.
#USElection #KamalaHarris #Politics #Music #Beyonce #Houston #Texas
The 6 largest cities in #Texas:
#Houston
#Dallas
#FortWorth
#Austin
#SanAntonio
#ElPaso
Of the 6 largest newspapers in the state, how many endorsed #CarnivalCruz over #CollinAllred?
ZERO.
How many endorsed #Allred?
ALL OF THEM.
Via DemocracyDocket:
NEW: Three #Texas Republicans file a lawsuit to remove tens of thousands of voters from the rolls in Harris County — the state's most populous county and a Democratic stronghold — as voters are already casting ballots. https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/texas-harris-county-voter-roll-maintenance-challenge/
“She Supports #Trump’s Anti-Immigration Policies. #Texas Incorrectly Flagged Her as a “Noncitizen” on Its Voting Rolls.
Mary Howard-Elley is the 10th U.S. citizen identified by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Votebeat whose registration was canceled after her citizenship was questioned. Her saga shows how tough it can be for eligible voters to get reinstated”
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/29/texas-noncitizen-voter-roll-removal-mary-howard-elley
New: A #Texas Woman Died After the Hospital Said It Would be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage
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Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care.
She'd told her husband that the medical team said it couldn't act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.
#News #abortion #pregnancy #health #healthcare #government #law
https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban
