"I was doxxed by extremists, my home was doxxed, my children’s social media accounts were doxxed and exposed online, there were unmarked cars following them, and I’m not even here—I’m in Chicago, breaking quorum." https://www.texasobserver.org/the-interview-salman-bhojani/
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This is a really big escalation in attacking trans people and their providers. Let me say that I live in the area from which this grand jury investigation was promulgated. This is absolutely jurisdictional shopping. I’m not positive, but I may have been called for this case. I was recently summoned for grand jury, but was voir dired out when they found out I had a PhD in bioethics. It could be coincidence though.
No prosecutor in #Texas should be able to bring cases against doctors in another state that have no connection to Texas. It’s insane overreach.
Look man, trans folk have been around as long as there have been folks. They’re not hurting anyone, in fact they themselves are suffering an enormous amount of harm by people just not letting them live their lives. Fascists have picked transpeople the same way the Nazis started with LGBTQ, then moved on to disabled people, then Jews and Roma, and on and on.
Don’t be a #Nazi.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nyu-langone-first-known-hospital
#Texas high court rejects removal of #Democratic lawmakers who led quorum break over #redistricting
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday refused to declare that Democratic lawmakers who briefly fled the state in 2025 to block a vote on new congressional voting maps pushed by #Trump had vacated their office.
#law
https://apnews.com/article/texas-congressional-redistricting-gene-wu-democrats-8e9bf10b5c80a057989fd668e3b2a74f
Ken Paxton’s hypocrisy is well-documented. He's one of the loudest proponents for requiring schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Yet he’s famously eschewed Number 7 multiple times (thou shalt not commit adultery). https://www.texasobserver.org/ken-paxton-attorney-general-rhetoric-analysis/
50 years ago, world-renowned architect I.M. Pei designed Dallas City Hall — not just as a government building, but as a People's House. A place meant to shape the soul of our city.
Today, that building is at risk.
✅SHOW UP: Dallas City Hall | May 20th | 9:30am | Wear Blue
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#SaveDallasCityHall #IAmPei #Dallas #DallasCityHall #HistoricPreservation #Texas
Introducing the July/August 2026 issue of Texas Observer magazine, with cover story by @josephinelee, and art by Clay Rodery.
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NEW: Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-voter-registration-election-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #KenPaxton #Vote #Election #Law #TX #USPolitics
#KenPaxton [actual #POS whose own staff tried to have him removed from the office of the #Texas AG for #corruption & #misconduct & bottom of the shit barrel asshat who actually filed THE lawsuit with #SCOTUS to overturn the #2020election no freaking joke. This is a garbage human. I don’t mean the lovely peeps who remove your refuse, I mean he’s the dogshit you desperately try to scrape off the heel of your shoe] wins Senate primary runoff, defeats John Cornyn
https://apnews.com/live/election-primary-texas-runoff-05-26-2026
The race is on for the soul of #Texas:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/texas-senate-runoff-results
It's a race to watch because I can't imagine a more stark difference in decency vs unethical slimebag
It's going to get really dirty
A lot of money involved and #MAGA is the direct topic
oh yeah don't forget: #VOTE
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New from Justin Miller: The GOP dynamic was basically old-guard establishment vs. ambitious and uniquely hardline insurgents. The typical story, with the now-longstanding wild card of #Trump’s kingmaking powers. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-gop-runoff-results-2026/
Unusual Ranch in Texas Does Its Work in the Dark - The Concho Observer https://conchoobserver.com/unusual-ranch-in-texas-does-its-work-in-the-dark/
"About 80 miles east of San Angelo, near the geographical center of Texas, lies what is likely a first-of-its-kind “ranch” in the state, where a young astrophotographer named Bray Falls is running one of the largest “telescope ranches” on Earth.
Stargazers from around the world ship their telescope gear to Falls, which hosts and manages more than 500 loaned telescopes on 40 acres of gently rolling terrain north of Brady at Rockwood." #texas #astronomy #telescopes #astrophotography
New from Josephine Lee: No state has taken over as many public school districts as #Texas. Since 2020, the Texas Education Agency has installed its own hand-picked leaders in eight districts. Four of those came just this spring. At least another 10 are at risk of takeover. https://www.texasobserver.org/mike-miles-tea-school-takeovers-charter-austin-fort-worth-houston/
Co-published with our partners at @ProPublica.
NEW: No state has taken over as many public school districts as Texas.
Since 2020, the Texas Education Agency has installed its own hand-picked leaders in eight districts.
Four of those came just this spring.
At least another 10 are at risk of takeover.
“They didn’t like my book club,” said a protestor sentenced to 50 years for protesting ICE under #Trump regime.
Even the reading of leftist zines was used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison.
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at #Texas #ICE facility.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/prairieland-texas-ice-protests-zines
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#Minnesota attorney general sues #Texas Gov #GregAbbott to compel #extradition of #ICE agent for trial
MN’s AG sued the governor of TX Tuesday, seeking to compel the extradition of an ICE agent charged with wounding a man & then #lying to justify the #shooting during the agency’s crackdown in #Minneapolis.
#Trump #law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-texas-ice-shooting-christian-castro-461acb1a459bc0ecb41fef5f728df502?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension
Texas #Democrats asserted themselves as a unified party of the working class against the all-powerful billionaires—veiling underlying tensions over diversity, progressivism, and Israel. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dems-corpus-convention-2026/
Man killed by ICE agents not intended target of immigration arrest, DHS says https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/09/houston-man-killed-ice-agents #Houston #Texas #UsImmigration #UsNews #UsPolitics #IceUsImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #TrumpAdministration
#ICE agent fatally shot a motorist in #Houston, #Texas Tuesday during an attempt by officers to stop the man's vehicle, according to ICE [so, probably BS].
The man shot to death was identified as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, described by ICE as a Mexican national & "illegal alien" who attempted to evade arrest during a "targeted enforcement operation" by federal immigration officers.
#Trump #immigration #law #UseOfForce #ExtraJudicialKillings #murder #Sturmabteilung #fascism
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ice-agent-fatally-shoots-mexican-motorist-texas-during-vehicle-stop-agency-says-2026-07-07/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
A January 2026 investigation by Texas Observer revealed that these four businesses have links to Patriot Front, the white supremacist group that marched in Washington, D.C. during the America 250 weekend. https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-four-businesses-patriot-front-north-texas/
#racism #fascism #America250 #Trump #news #NorthTexas #Texas
RE: https://mastodon.social/@houstonpublicmedia/116924314698750446
❝ birth tourism ❞… TO TEXAS?!?!?
NOBODY GOES TO TEXAS FOR BIRTH TOURISM. the University of Texas used to be at the forefront of neonatology surgery. if anybody was going to Texas to give birth was because they were trying to save their unborn child from one in a million heart conditions or some such.
#Texas is in the top 20 states killing people giving birth. if you’re pregnant, you go to Texas to die, not for health care.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/maternal-mortality-rate-by-state
NEW: James Talarico accused Ken Paxton of committing voter fraud after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found that the Texas attorney general may have broken state law by voting using an address where he no longer appears to live.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-voter-registration-james-talarico?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #TX #USPolitics #Election #Vote #Fraud #Law #KenPaxton #JamesTalarico
The south is under water & the north is on fire, but, sure, #ClimateChange is a hoax right?
At least 1 person has died as #Texas #flooding forces evacuations & rescues, governor says
#PublicHealth #ExtremeWeather #ClimateCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/texas-flooding-evacuations-uvalde-camp-mystic-616ad82c32b5728d8a0f894c5e602b24
Our top story: “It’s a huge mistake for schools to be calling the #police immediately for everything. The schools are choosing not to teach but instead pass the child to the police for punishment.” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-school-arrests-crisis-kids-as-young-as-10/