How The Repug Shitbags Roll in Shithole Texas

[koriwhat]

11 pages of Bouts talking to zimself... Don't you ever get tired of no one giving a fuck to read anything you post from your ragtag worthless outlets?

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Bexar County elections official on state’s new mail-in ballot rules:

‘It’s just ridiculous’

Election offices can send a mail-in ballot application to someone only if it is requested.

If a resident calls the office to request an application,

that individual cannot also request one for her husband,

“We have to hear it from him. … It’s just ridiculous.”

the application requires voters to provide, on both their vote-by-mail application and the actual ballot, their driver’s license number or Social Security number —

and they must choose the same number for both.

42 of the 80 applications for mail-in ballots the Elections Department (https://www.bexar.org/1568/Elections-Department) received Monday were rejected because they

violated one of the new rules.

It is now illegal for public officials to promote voting by mail,

https://sanantonioreport.org/bexar-county-elections-mail-in-ballots

shithole Texas doing shitbag shit

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Texas redistricting makes 2022 elections less competitive

https://sanantonioreport.org/texas-redistrictin-2022-elections-jesse-crosson

iow, Repugs CAN'T lose

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Texas school board member faces calls to resign after his comments

linking failing schools to Black teachers

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/cy-fair-isd-board-member-scott-henry.png?id=28803640&width=1426&height=922

Henry criticized a report that faulted the district for not doing enough to hire a more diverse faculty, and the report said that lack of diversity was harmful to students' learning experiences.

"Cy-Fair has what? 13% black teachers?" Henry said, according to local news station KHOU (https://www.khou.com/article/news/education/cyfair-isd-board-member-racist-comments/285-f5c39023-7084-441a-9a8e-47717f158b31).

"Houston ISD is 36%. Their dropout rate is 4%. I don’t want to be 4%.

I don’t want to be HISD. I want to be a shining example. I want to be the district standard."

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-school-black-teachers/

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Greg Abbott complains about Joe Biden when confronted on Texas National Guard deaths

Facing bipartisan criticism (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/01/08/gov-greg-abbotts-border-strategy-questioned-by-foes-after-pay-problems-suicides/) over these tragic deaths, Abbott has issued a response befitting a true leader: But Joe Biden.

“The life of a soldier is far more valuable than the words of a politician playing politics.” :lol

“Abbott is shrugging off the deaths of five Guardsmen as he continues to denigrate the service of all Guard members by asking them to perform as the backdrop for his political photo ops,”

“He hasn’t paid them on time,

he’s slashed their earned benefits,

he has many living without necessities as basic as bathrooms, and

he’s left them without any leadership from the governor.

This is a mess of Abbott’s making.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/12/2074269/-Greg-Abbott-s-response-to-Texas-National-Guard-suicides-is-to-complain-about-Joe-Biden

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Pro-Life Christian Texas :lol

'From bad to worse':

U.S. judge (appointed by Clinton, not a Repug)

deplores conditions for Texas foster kids sent out of state

A Michigan facility housing Texas foster care children was missing its front door

while it was 28 degrees outside and

there hadn’t been indoor heat for 24 hours.

Staff didn’t make calls to get either the heat restored or the door fixed.

They also didn’t attempt to move the children or give them blankets or jackets.

That’s just one of the out-of-state facilities where

Texas recently sent 106 foster children, spending millions, after failing to find suitable placements in Texas,

according to a new report from federal court-appointed monitors who act as watchdogs for the system.

Judge Janis Jack criticized Department of Family and Protective Services officials over

their care of children within the system,

high workloads on individual caseworkers,

ongoing placement woes and

low COVID-19 vaccination rates among youth.

https://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/from-bad-to-worse-us-judge-deplores-conditions-for-texas-foster-kids-sent-out-of-state

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the shits keep comin'


GOP Texas governor candidate:

It would be 'cancel culture' to fire campaign staffer with white nationalist ties (https://www.rawstory.com/don-huffines/)
https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/don-huffines.jpg?id=28862218&width=799&height=447

https://www.rawstory.com/don-huffines

[koriwhat]

You're almost at 12 pages Bouts and still no one gives a fuck about any of your ragtag far left looney tunes bullshit outlets. :lmao

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These Texas teens stayed silent about racism.

Then their Black principal was suspended.

At Colleyville Heritage High, students rushed to defend
James Whitfield,

who has been accused of embracing critical race theory and

is in danger of being fired.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2021/texas-teens-whitfield-critical-race-theory


Whitfield is also a miscegenation-ist. TX racists don't like them no mixed marriages.

[koriwhat]

These Texas teens stayed silent about racism.

Then their Black principal was suspended.

At Colleyville Heritage High, students rushed to defend
James Whitfield,

who has been accused of embracing critical race theory and

is in danger of being fired.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2021/texas-teens-whitfield-critical-race-theory


Whitfield is also a miscegenation-ist. TX racists don't like them no mixed marriages.

Uh you deserve no less than a padded room, a nurse, and a straight jacket.

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shitbag Repugs screwing poor people, which includes whites, by failing to distribute FREE Fed money for rent relief

Feds clawing back rent relief funds from programs slow to give out the money —

with Texas leading the pack

The federal government is clawing back rent relief funds from city, county and state programs that have been slow to disburse the aid to renters.

Six of the 14 programs that have already been forced to return money are in Texas

— a sign of how the main Congressional measure passed to support renters and landlords impacted financially by the pandemic has in many cases

failed to connect billions of dollars in aid nationwide with those who need it.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Feds-clawing-back-rent-relief-funds-from-programs-16785226.php

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shitbag Repugs screwing poor people, which includes whites, by failing to distribute FREE Fed money for rent relief

Feds clawing back rent relief funds from programs slow to give out the money —

with Texas leading the pack

The federal government is clawing back rent relief funds from city, county and state programs that have been slow to disburse the aid to renters.

Six of the 14 programs that have already been forced to return money are in Texas

— a sign of how the main Congressional measure passed to support renters and landlords impacted financially by the pandemic has in many cases

failed to connect billions of dollars in aid nationwide with those who need it.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Feds-clawing-back-rent-relief-funds-from-programs-16785226.php

The lion's share of the States haven't released those funds, bouts. It's criminal. They put it in their accounts and won't release it. It's all American type behavior. "I'll give it to them when I absolutely have to and not until. Maybe they'll forget about it and then we can spend it on shit we really want. and need. Just hand onto it for as long as humanly possible."

Same with the COVID funds that Biden released to the schools. They ain't spent a quarter of the billions they were sent. Shoved it into the bank and locked it up tight. "I bought the masks and Mr. Clean, and more masks and more Spic & Span, and a shit load of tests, and I'm considering the ventilation shaft, but I need to think about that a LOT more. It's really expensive. So, while I'm considering the ventilation shaft I'll buy more masks and some more liquid cleaners. Yes, that's what I'll do. How much money is in there Dorothy (his secretary)?"

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Texas cut Medicaid staffing during the pandemic.

Millions are now at risk of being dropped from the program.

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-cut-Medicaid-staffing-during-the-pandemic-16803350.php

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the shits keep comin'


https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/don-huffines.jpg?id=28862218&width=799&height=447

https://www.rawstory.com/don-huffines
Evil looking.

+ is he having a discoloration like Mitch?

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Experts question the legality of Texas attorney general asking the public to pressure court over election fraud ruling

Experts have questions about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opposition to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ recent ruling that he can’t unilaterally prosecute voter fraud

Paxton has been appearing on conservative media outlets asking citizens to reach out to the Court of Criminal Appeals.

“Call them out by name,” Paxton said on Lindell TV earlier this month.

“I mean, you can look them up. There’s eight of them that voted the wrong way.

Call them, send mail, send email.”

top Texas Republicans who are petitioning the court to reverse the ruling and

allow Paxton to prosecute election-law violations if county and district attorneys won’t.

https://www.rawstory.com/experts-question-the-legality-of-texas-ag-asking-the-public-to-pressure-court-to-reverse-election-fraud-ruling

When rural Texans elect a fucking non-attorney as fucking Attorney General, you get a lot of illegal shit.

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[koriwhat]

You're almost there buddy... Another post or two and you'll finally be at page 12 you fucking loon! :tu

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Texas lobbyist seeks $2.8B after 12,000 companies never got Restaurant Revitalization Fund money

Two-thirds of business owners who expected monetary relief did not get it, says the CEO of the Texas Restaurant Association.

https://www.dallasnews.com/food/restaurant-news/2022/01/27/texas-lobbyist-asks-for-28-bil-after-12000-companies-never-got-restaurant-revitalization-money

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Chip Roy and Cruz intend to shut down the government over Biden mask mandates

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IN TEXAS, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ARE FREE TO HARVEST CONTRACTOR CASH


Loose campaign finance laws

permit politicians in Harris County to hide relationships between top campaign donors and the contracting firms paid with public funds.

https://www.texasobserver.org/in-texas-county-commissioners-are-free-to-harvest-contractor-cash (https://www.texasobserver.org/in-texas-county-commissioners-are-free-to-harvest-contractor-cash/?goal=0_975e2d1fa1-b0f7e34fa3-34733575&mc_cid=b0f7e34fa3&mc_eid=b9077e7e26)

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INDICTED ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN PAXTON EPITOMIZES TEXAS’ EXCEPTIONALISM ON CORRUPTION

Our governor, lawmakers, and judges have distinguished themselves from their colleagues in other states by

failing to take timely action against a rogue public official who refuses to step down.

https://www.texasobserver.org/indicted-attorney-general-ken-paxton-epitomizes-texas-exceptionalism-on-corruption (https://www.texasobserver.org/indicted-attorney-general-ken-paxton-epitomizes-texas-exceptionalism-on-corruption/?goal=0_975e2d1fa1-b0f7e34fa3-34733575&mc_cid=b0f7e34fa3&mc_eid=b9077e7e26)

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anti-democratic billionaire fascists gonna pay and pay, from their effectively unlimited wealth,

until they get all-out one-party fascism, a decades-old strategy

HARD-RIGHT MEGADONORS TIM DUNN AND FARRIS WILKS PUMP MILLIONS INTO GOP PRIMARY WARS


Texas’ biggest right-wing benefactors are—once again—throwing fuel on the fire in contentious Republican primary elections.

https://www.texasobserver.org/hard-right-megadonors-tim-dunn-and-farris-wilks-pump-millions-into-gop-primary-wars

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PORN IN SCHOOLS?:

TEXAS GOP SPARKS A MORAL PANIC AHEAD OF THE PRIMARIES


With bans on books and “critical race theory,” Republicans are

“The parental bill of rights WTF? empowers parents to hold their schools accountable;

there must be accountability,” Abbott said (https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/abbott-visits-harlingen-talks-parental-bill-of-rights/)

The proposed “Parental Bill of Rights,” which the governor added to his campaign platform last month, would

amend the state constitution to allow parents to pre-screen curriculum materials and ban “pornographic” material in schools.

Teachers found violating the policy would

forfeit their public credentials and state licensing,

lose their retirement, and

be placed on a “do not hire” list by the Texas Education Agency.

https://www.texasobserver.org/porn-in-schools-texas-gop-sparks-a-moral-panic-ahead-of-the-primaries/

Where and what is this porn in schools?

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HARD-RIGHT MEGADONORS TIM DUNN AND FARRIS WILKS

PUMP MILLIONS INTO GOP PRIMARY WARS


Texas’ biggest right-wing benefactors are—once again—throwing fuel on the fire in contentious Republican primary elections.

https://www.texasobserver.org/hard-right-megadonors-tim-dunn-and-farris-wilks-pump-millions-into-gop-primary-wars

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Grand jury indicts 9 Texas police officers

on excessive force charges related to 2020 BLM protests

https://www.salon.com/2022/02/17/grand-jury-indicts-9-texas-police-officers-on-excessive-force-charges-related-to-2020-blm_partner/

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Partisan tactic by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s campaign delays thousands of requests for mail-in ballots from Texas voters

Thousands of applications for mail-in ballots submitted by Texas voters have been delayed — and some voters may ultimately not receive ballots — because Lt. Gov.Dan Patrick (https://www.texastribune.org/directory/dan-patrick/)'s campaign instructed eligible voters to send requests for absentee ballots to the Texas secretary of state’s office instead of their local elections offices

But the campaign’s approach forced the secretary of state, ...

to sort and forward the Patrick-inspired forms to the counties where they should have been sent originally. :lol

https://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/partisan-tactic-by-lt-gov-dan-patricks-campaign-delays-thousands-of-requests-for-mail-in-ballots-from-texas-voters/Content?oid=28239885

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WATCH: Texas GOP candidate poses semi-nude atop oil rig in Super Bowl campaign ad


https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/image.png?id=29370986&width=800&height=450

https://www.rawstory.com/politics/

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Ex-staffers who reported Texas AG Ken Paxton to FBI say he’s lying about them and investigation

Four former aides who reported Attorney General Ken Paxton to the FBI for alleged bribery are now accusing him of lying about his legal troubles while facing a tough re-election bid.

In a rare public statement on Monday,

the ex-employees said "their preference was to remain silent while the wheels of justice turned." (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=22346A23072A15A1003142)

"However, in recent weeks, Paxton has made numerous false and misleading public statements

that we feel obligated to correct," said the former deputy attorneys general James "Blake" Brickman, J. Mark Penley, and Ryan Vassar and the agency’s former law enforcement director David Maxwell.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/02/21/whistleblowers-who-reported-texas-ag-ken-paxton-to-fbi-say-hes-lying-about-them-and-investigation (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/02/21/whistleblowers-who-reported-texas-ag-ken-paxton-to-fbi-say-hes-lying-about-them-and-investigation/?vgo_ee=GRVly8juFCRPp9TW6boK%2F0zkASpiHornD%2Fz2wZ Td1jg%3D)

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton:

Gender-affirming care for transgender children is abuse









https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/02/21/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-health-care-for-transgender-children-is-abuse

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Allen West won’t be charged over mask tussle at DFW Airport

West admitted physically confronting a man who called him out for not wearing a mask inside a DFW Airport terminal last year.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/02/21/allen-west-wont-be-charged-over-mask-tussle-at-dfw-airport

A Repug Black gets treated like white

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Racist TEA commands that private shools that the must not cover CRT

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the Repugs/Christians

RILLY RILLY RILLY RILLY HATE transgender

Abbott Directs State Agencies To Investigate Gender-Affirming Care For Trans Youth

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/abbott-direct-state-agencies-investigate-gender-affirming-care-transgender-youth

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SA / hillcountry rep Chip Roy voted against law against lynching, saying the law was "woke" bullshit

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Texas Rep. Van Taylor drops reelection bid over affair with 'ISIS bride' (nypost.com) (https://nypost.com/2022/03/02/texas-rep-van-taylor-drops-reelection-bid-over-affair-with-isis-bride/)

ISIS bride-turned-Texas Christian: Racism radicalized me (nypost.com) (https://nypost.com/2017/11/05/isis-bride-turned-texas-christian-racism-radicalized-me/)

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“I want a long slow rim job while I have a drink,” Taylor allegedly wrote, according to the outlet. “Then for you to deep throat me while you stroke my c–k and I c-m on your tonsils.”
Toward the end of their affair, Joya asked Taylor for help paying off some bills and she claimed he agreed and gave her $5,000, but only if she kept her mouth shut.
“I needed help. I was like, just help me out because that’s the least – the very least – he could do,” she told the outlet.
“For him, it was like, ‘OK, on the condition you don’t tell anyone.’ … I didn’t want to tell anybody anything.”

The exposé was orchestrated by GOP candidate Suzanne Harp, who was contacted by Joya in hopes she could help her confront Taylor privately and persuade him to ditch his campaign and resign from Congress, the outlet reported.
Harp, an outspoken critic of Taylor, decided to send a supporter to interview Joya about the affair and audio of the discussion was then published by National File. The story was later picked up by Breitbart.
Joya told the outlet she didn’t intend for the story to blow up in the way that it did and was simply irked at having to see Taylor’s smiling face plastered on billboards throughout Plano where she lives.

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[koriwhat]

^ LMAO :lmao

[Adam Lambert]

The Breitbart/Trumptard wing took down a conservative Republican because he dared to agree that the 2020 election wasn't rigged.

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The Breitbart/Trumptard wing took down a conservative Republican because he dared to agree that the 2020 election wasn't rigged.

He was duly warned, Adam. His regrets are his own.

I've no sympathy for him.

[koriwhat]

The Breitbart/Trumptard wing took down a conservative Republican because he dared to agree that the 2020 election wasn't rigged.

Too bad yall don't do the same to this fucking loser...
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fce9adb28-3a2f-11eb-9017-abc630b6062b.jpg?crop=554%2C312%2C63%2C13

Or better yet this fucking career loser...
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Texas Plans to Execute an Abuse Survivor Based on a Coerced Confession

https://truthout.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022_0311-melissa-lucio-a-1200x782.jpg

During an evaluation ordered in earlier years by Child Protective Services, a psychologist found that Lucio had an IQ of 70, placing her in the intellectually disabled range (https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/intellectual-disability/what-is-intellectual-disability).

The National Registry of Exonerations found that in exonerations involving false confessions, 70 percent were by people with mental illness or intellectual disability (https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Age%20and%20Mental%20Status%20of%20Exonerated%20De fendants%20Who%20Falsely%20Confess%20Table.pdf).

“Prosecutors minimized the impact of gender-based violence and exploit their trauma to obtain criminal convictions and death sentences.”

Approximately 40 percent of women who have been exonerated had been wrongfully convicted of crimes involving child victims (https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/Features.Female.Exonerees.aspx)

. Nearly 30 percent had been wrongfully convicted of killing children and

63 percent had been convicted of crimes that never happened — such as accidents (https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2021/jan/30/texas-woman-convicted-childs-death-released-new-ev/) or events that were fabricated.

https://truthout.org/articles/texas-plans-to-execute-an-abuse-survivor-based-on-a-coerced-confession/

For TX Repug shitbags, the only good Latino is a dead Latino

[rogcl1]

The great Chip Roy of Texas one of eight Repugs who voted against suspending normal trade relations with Russia. What a great piece of shit Texan and American.

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Airport ticket counter agents call cops after being berated by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas

Cruz reportedly arrived at a Montana airport late and

was upset that no other flights were immediately available.


https://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/airport-ticket-counter-agents-calls-cops-after-being-berated-by-sen-ted-cruz-of-texas/Content?oid=28472094

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Seven Texas Teachers on the State of Education: “I’m Tired of Getting Punched.”


After two years of hell,

Texas teachers are burned-out, angry, tired—and

sounding the alarm about public education.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-teachers-on-state-of-education (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-teachers-on-state-of-education/?itm_source=parsely-api&utm_source=Texas+Monthly&utm_campaign=bd9c9c71a9-TM+Today+3-21-22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_92f99d7313-bd9c9c71a9-54915175)

Trash-made pandemic may be a great boost to billionaire's / Christian Nationalists' strategy of destroying public education

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Seven Texas Teachers on the State of Education: “I’m Tired of Getting Punched.”


After two years of hell,

Texas teachers are burned-out, angry, tired—and

sounding the alarm about public education.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-teachers-on-state-of-education (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-teachers-on-state-of-education/?itm_source=parsely-api&utm_source=Texas+Monthly&utm_campaign=bd9c9c71a9-TM+Today+3-21-22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_92f99d7313-bd9c9c71a9-54915175)

Trash-made pandemic may be a great boost to billionaire's / Christian Nationalists' strategy of destroying public education



...but they ain't quit, by God. It's like money from home and everybody knows it.

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick reduces profile of higher education in Texas Senate after attacking tenure

Patrick says move is to “align” policies from K-12 through college next year.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s restructuring of committees reduces the prominence of higher education in the Texas Senate.

On Tuesday, Patrick announced he’s relegating higher education to a subcommittee within the education committee to better “align” policies from K-12 through college and workforce development during next year’s legislative session.

Previously, higher education was its own nine-member committee.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2022/03/22/lt-gov-dan-patrick-reduces-profile-of-higher-education-in-texas-senate-after-attacking-tenure

Expect the CRT BigLie and other shit to be pushed into the college/post-grad of state schools.

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Texas has fewest number of women in local government

While slightly more than half of Texans identify as female, less than one-third of seats in municipal governments are represented by women,

Women make up just 28.9 percent of elected local government officials, making the state one of the lowest in the country for female representation in municipal government,

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Texas-women-local-government-17056432.php

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Texas Is In Turmoil, As Green Finance Is Very Appealing To Major Funds


Laws to limit divestment in Texas have met with resistance, as bankers and analysts have figured out ways to detour around Big Oil in portfolios.

legislature passed a law that said if you don’t include fossil fuel companies in your portfolios, then you can’t do business in our state (https://cleantechnica.com/2022/03/21/boycotting-fossil-fuel-companies-in-texas-means-trouble/).

The law bars Texas’ state retirement and investment funds from doing business with companies that the State Comptroller says are “boycotting” fossil fuels.

the law contains numerous exceptions. For example,

companies that want to work with Texas can still avoid investing in fossil fuels as long as they are doing so

for strictly financial, rather than ethical or environmental, reasons. :lol
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/06/texas-is-in-turmoil-as-green-finance-is-very-appealing-to-major-funds/

Fascism's "freedom", Texas style. Fuck Texas, fuck Repugs and their voters.

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White Texan poses as a cop and

tells Black spa owner

her race 'ruined' his 'legacy of being a Christian'


https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/dallas-texas-man-harasses-black-spa-owner.png?id=29904444&width=1200&height=675

https://www.rawstory.com/racist-texas-man-black-spa/

[boutons_deux]

A Texas county wants to punish polluters. The state won’t let it.

Residents of eastern Harris County have grown tired of almost-daily chemical leaks and the occasional catastrophe.

A new generation of county officials is trying to help them,

even as state leaders undercut their authority and

restrict voting access.

https://grist.org/accountability/a-texas-county-wants-to-punish-polluters-the-state-wont-let-it

[boutons_deux]

Fascism: Texas Republican platform rejects legitimacy of Biden's election while pushing guns, hate (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/19/2105056/-Fascism-Texas-Republican-platform-rejects-legitimacy-of-Biden-s-election-while-pushing-guns-hate)

The Texas Republican Party will have a new party platform soon, thanks to a convention that saw over 5,000 delegates show up

The far-right Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw and his staff were physically assaulted by a crowd calling him "Eyepatch McCain" (https://www.mediaite.com/online/breaking-dan-crenshaw-staff-physically-assaulted-by-right-wing-attackers-shouting-eyepatch-mccain-at-tx-gop/)—

The state party will go into the midterms with an official declaration that President Joe Biden is not the legitimate President of the United States.
"We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States," says the Texas Republican Party (https://twitter.com/ScholarlySpoon/status/1538348371102015488?t=wBucgNMfchMf6g-MqAanLg&s=09).

You're officially a seditious conspiracy cult.

The party produced a document fully in tune with its fascist base; declaring non-allegiance to the elected leader of the United States is only the capper in a Texas Republican platform riddled with conspiracy and brazenly fascist rhetoric.

The party again asserts that Texas has a right to secede from the United States,

It also demands a new Constitutional convention to rewrite the founding documents of the nation it demands the right to leave.

Abolishing the Federal Reserve and repealing the federal income tax are oldies but goodies.

conspiracy theories claiming that the United Nations was going to come take our roads and replace them with bike lanes.

especially heavy on the indoctrination (sorry, grooming of Texas students.

There are planks specifically asserting homosexuality to be "abnormal" and a "lifestyle choice,"

another that looks to punish gender-affirming medical care in the state through civil mechanisms similar to what the state has already used to effectively ban abortions, and

another one prohibiting the teaching of "Critical Race Theory" in Texas.

the complete inability of anyone in the Texas Republican Party to so much as correctly define what it is they're banning.

the teaching of "sex education" or "sexual health" in public schools be made a state crime.

It requires schools to teach that life begins at conception and, according to the Tribune, requires students to "listen to live ultrasounds of gestating fetuses."

. The party demands that the state constitution itself be amended to strip from the legislature the power to enact any gun restrictions,

There will be Zero rules on buying or carrying guns in Texas.

the party document imagines a pseudo-religious fascist government that teaches the state's children which citizens are worthy of respect and which are "abnormal" or suffering from "mental health" problems.

a Texas Republican as the party slid into QAnon-styled conspiracy cult.

The state's Republican leaders are riddled with actual seditionists from top to bottom (https://twitter.com/svdate/status/1538573607634345984),

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/19/2105056/-Fascism-Texas-Republican-platform-rejects-legitimacy-of-Biden-s-election-while-pushing-guns-hate

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ChristoFascism

Christian nationalism on full display at Texas Republican Convention


those under 21 are “most likely to need to defend themselves” and may need to quickly buy guns “in emergencies such as riots.”

It also would say that red flag laws violate the due process rights of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime.

The new platform would call for:


Requiring Texas students “to learn about the humanity of the preborn child,” including teaching that life begins at fertilization and requiring students to listen to live ultrasounds of gestating fetuses.
Amending the Texas Constitution to remove the Legislature’s power “to regulate the wearing of arms, with a view to prevent crime.”
Treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice,” language that was not included in the 2018 or 2020 party platforms.
Deeming gender identity disorder “a genuine and extremely rare mental health condition,” requiring official documents to adhere to “biological gender,” and allowing civil penalties and monetary compensation to “de-transitioners” who have received gender-affirming surgery, which the platform calls a form of medical malpractice.
Changing the U.S. Constitution to cement the number of Supreme Court justices at nine and repeal the 16th Amendment of 1913, which created the federal income tax.
Ensuring “freedom to travel” by opposing Biden’s Clean Energy Plan and “California-style, anti-driver policies,” including efforts to turn traffic lanes over for use by pedestrians, cyclists and mass transit.
Declaring “all businesses and jobs as essential and a fundamental right,” a response to COVID-19 mandates by Texas cities that required customers to wear masks and limited business hours.
Abolishing the Federal Reserve, the nation’s central bank, and guaranteeing the right to use alternatives to cash, including cryptocurrencies.



https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/abbott/

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Fed up and fired up: Texas Republicans meet in a climate of mistrust, conspiracy and victimhood

the mood was not celebratory.

The Texas Tribune spoke to more than

25 attendees who described feeling besieged by a culture that is increasingly anti-family and anti-Christian.

Fed up with undocumented immigrants, even those fleeing war and poverty, for taking advantage of public benefits.

Fed up with the education of their children, especially on matters of history and race.

“The enemy is coming in and trying to change our society, change the very fabric of what made America great and they're doing it by going to the children,”

Ted Cruz stole the show, receiving standing ovations on Friday as he thundered against “radical leftists” driving a cultural assault.

“They want to tear down the church,” he said.

“They want to tear down our schools.

They want to tear down our families.

They want to tear down our faith.

They want to tear down our values.”

Sid Miller, :lol the state agricultural commissioner,

This new battlefield, this new battlefield is between patriots and traitors.” :lol

she believed the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde was “a ploy by the government,” and

that “cops were told to stand down.”

she believed that Donald Trump would be rightfully restored to the presidency “by the end of the year.” She did not specify how.

the state party once revolved around limited government and free markets but has become more culturally oriented, he said, as voters awaken to the threats to their values.

Much of the cultural issues attendees and speakers railed against dealt with the LGBTQ community, in particular transgender individuals.

child-welfare investigators to look into families that have allowed their children to seek gender-affirming care, including the use of puberty blockers,

The crowd cheered Robin Armstrong, a Texas City doctor who has given patients unapproved COVID-19 treatments, including hydroxychloroquine.

Its platform describes homosexuality as an “abnormal lifestyle choice,”

The teaching of critical race theory, an academic approach to the study of racial inequality, was also a main concern among attendees.


“The whole principle of what you're teaching is a plot to put our people against each other, and to place the emphasis on the wrong things,” :lol Who hates more than Repugs?

three screenings of “2000 Mules,” a movie that relies on discredited evidence to claim there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

Patrick said his priority when the Legislature returns next year is to “restore voting illegally from a Class A misdemeanor to a felony.”

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-gop-2657531164/

[slick'81]

Spam much?

[Ef-man]

This is one way to get rid of rafael cruz and ensure next president is democrat. I say, good riddance. :lol

Texas Republicans want to secede?

Over the weekend, while many Americans were celebrating the 167th anniversary of Juneteenth (when Union Gen. Gordon Granger, in Galveston, Tex., delivered the order abolishing slavery) the Texas Republican Party voted on a platform declaring that federal laws it dislikes “should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified.”

The proposed platform (it’s expected to be approved when votes are tallied) adds: “Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto.” It wants the secession referendum “in the 2023 general election for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”



https://www.washingtonpost.com/Shithole (https://www.washingtonpost.com/?reload=true&_=1655787002975) wants to secede, again

[DMC]

^ Boutons Trois

[Ef-man]

^^^
Chuncko is upset and lashing out, par.

[boutons_deux]

Spam much?

G F Y

[boutons_deux]

Texas educators want to change ‘slavery’ to ‘involuntary relocation’ after GOP bans :lol

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-slavery/

A few years ago, some asshole Repug called the slaves immigrants.

[boutons_deux]

Kids in rooms up to 22 hours a day in Texas juvenile lockups from staffing shortage

The state’s juvenile detention facilities say staff shortages have forced them to keep youth confined to their rooms for up to 22 hours a day (https://linkst.dallasnews.com/click/28299557.85044/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGFsbGFzbmV3cy5jb20vbmV3cy9jcmltZS 8yMDIyLzA3LzA3L3N0YWZmaW5nLXNob3J0YWdlLWF0LXRleGFz LWp1dmVuaWxlLWxvY2t1cHMtZm9yY2VzLWtpZHMtaW4tdGhlaX Itcm9vbXMtdXAtdG8tMjItaG91cnMtZGF5Lw/6268080cd45f9d03f45cb6eaDc3409c42/email) and cut off new intakes.

Leaders at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department warn the staffing problem is so severe it could lead to an

“inability to provide even basic supervision for youth locked in their rooms.”
“This could cause a significantly impaired ability to intervene in the

increasing suicidal behaviors already occurring by youth struggling with the isolative impact of operational room confinement,”

-- DMN email

More evidence that the forced-birth "Christians" are full of hypocritical bullshit and NOT pro-life

[boutons_deux]

Understaffed, and under federal investigation, Texas juvenile detention system halts intake

The Texas Juvenile Justice Department doesn’t have enough staff to keep minors safe or deal with increasing suicidal behavior, its interim head says.

Gov. Greg Abbott recently shifted millions of dollars from the long-troubled agency to his controversial border security mission.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7veg8/anom-app-source-code-operation-trojan-shield-an0m

[Thread]

Understaffed, and under federal investigation, Texas juvenile detention system halts intake

The Texas Juvenile Justice Department doesn’t have enough staff to keep minors safe or deal with increasing suicidal behavior, its interim head says.

Gov. Greg Abbott recently shifted millions of dollars from the long-troubled agency to his controversial border security mission.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7veg8/anom-app-source-code-operation-trojan-shield-an0m

Still can't wrap the gov in that Uvalde case, eh, bouts?
Chop/chop!!!
tee, hee.

[koriwhat]

This is one way to get rid of rafael cruz

Why do you hate minorities so much? Oh yeah you're a leftist!

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infinite supply of shitbags in shithole TX

The WITCH HUNT committee of unselects is FAILING.

Americans can see through their lies, and

NOBODY believes them.

It’s all a SHAM meant to DISTRACT.

The committee should be dissolved IMMEDIATELY!

— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) July 9, 2022 (https://twitter.com/RonnyJacksonTX/status/1545781000311115776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Has RJ been informed that he is under 1/6 investigation?

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Texas is the second-worst state to live in

but the fifth-best state for business,

2022 version of CNBC's (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/14/these-10-states-are-americas-worst-places-to-live-in-2022.html) "Top States for Business" study found that Texas scored just 72 out of a possible 325 points in the "Life, Health and Inclusion" category, earning an "F" grade.

quality of life was given "particular attention" in this year's study and considered

factors like crime rates, environmental quality and health care.

For the first time in 2022, the availability of childcare was also a factor.

The inclusiveness of state laws, including protections against discrimination and voting rights, was also among the factors.

"Skilled workers are still flocking to Texas despite longstanding quality of life issues," CNBC wrote.

"When they arrive,

they are finding limited childcare options,

a stressed health care system with the highest rate of uninsured,

new curbs on voting rights and

few protections against discrimination."

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Texas-CNBC-study-17307362.php

Thanks, you fucking shitbag Repugs AND your fucking shitbag voters.

[boutons_deux]

Texas crackdown on banks that ‘discriminate’ against guns backfires,

costing taxpayers up to $500M



https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-crackdown-on-banks-that-discriminate-17317064.php

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TX shitbag Chip Roy

Raskin Destroys Roy After Republican Claims Insurrections Are Protected By Constitution:

‘Absolutely Absurd!’

Roy argued (https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy/status/1549776569127903234?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcam p%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet) that defending oneself against “tyranny” is “the reality of the purpose of the Second Amendment,”

October 27, 2021, Roy responded (https://roy.house.gov/media/in-the-news/rep-roy-second-amendment-empowers-people-resist-force-tyranny) to the question,

“You said that you could use a semi-automatic weapon to fight tyranny, you mean you’d use it against American troops?” in the affirmative, saying,

“The very existence of the Second Amendment is designed purposefully to empower the people to be able to resist the force of tyranny used against them to step over their natural rights given to them by God.” :lol

Raskin... arguing

“this reading is totally, absolutely absurd and

flies in the face of the plain text of the constitution which in at least five different places

clearly forbids armed violent resistance to the government.”

He went on to quote a number of clauses in the constitution that suggest

it does in fact oppose citizens violently overthrowing their government.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/raskin-destroys-roy-after-republican-claims-insurrections-are-protected-by-constitution-absolutely-absurd/

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Texas Republican Seeks to Limit HIV Medication Access After Winning Abortion Ban

Jonathan Mitchell, a former Republican solicitor general of Texas and now-private lawyer who has spent years (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/12/us/politics/texas-abortion-lawyer-jonathan-mitchell.html) seeking to restrict abortion access, same sex marriage (https://gcn.ie/conservative-lawyer-access-prep/) and same sex intercourse,

argues in his new lawsuit (https://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/texas-lawyer-abortion-ban-Prep-HIV-17329245.php?) on behalf of Christian clients that

free access to PrEP, as mandated (https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20210728.333084/) under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is a violation of religious freedoms.

his argument is blatantly anti-LGBTQ:

the lawsuit hatefully claims (https://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/texas-lawyer-abortion-ban-Prep-HIV-17329245.php?)that requiring people to purchase or provide health insurance that allows free access to PrEP

“encourages and facilitates homosexual behavior, drug use, or sexual activity outside of marriage.”

https://truthout.org/articles/texas-republican-seeks-to-limit-hiv-medication-access-after-winning-abortion-ban/

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Texas wins school mask mandate case

Multiple schools ignored the governor's ban on mask mandates

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/southwest/texas) ban on mask mandates in schools.

On Monday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals :lol (Texas' goto shitbag "judges" )

ruled 2-1 against an injunction from U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel of Austin, which blocked the governor’s ban on face masks (https://www.foxnews.com/category/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus) in schools

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-wins-school-mask-mandate-case

Texas Repugs spread disease and death to own the libs

[boutons_deux]

Never fret, TCEQ is on the job!


https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c5ffe9fe07&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r-1223384381465873843&th=1824b1cd25e4bd81&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ-dY3iS01sVkbY6SgaSY5lDEe9fR4nxApXTT2hZSHuXh_Wf8aPyi 86i0U2jMm9JJCV3_t_1JAZc-8JxRe32I38Of7_XM6qD9FtR5CHmFx7hjmIJL5qY1zv1uOA&disp=emb&realattid=ii_l66rqzxh0

[boutons_deux]

Just another sector where TX and USA is a failing society, failed by Capitalism


West Texas Is a Dangerous Place to Be Pregnant. It’s Getting Worse.


Texas leads the U.S. in maternity ward closures,

and nowhere is this more of an issue than in the western part of the state.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/alpine-west-texas-scarce-pregnancy-care/

[boutons_deux]

Texas phone bills will soon see an 'unprecedented' rate hike after a state commission vote

increase a longstanding surcharge assessed on telecommunications providers’ receipts for voice services to 24 percent from 3.3 percent.

The move came after a court ordered the PUC to restore $200 million in overdue money to the Texas Universal Service Fund,

The PUC stopped meeting those statutory obligations in January 2021

by failing to make sufficient payments from the universal fund to rural telecoms.

The Texas Telephone Association, which represents 43 rural telecoms, sued.
“It is the lifeblood of rural communications, that’s for sure,”

https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/Phone-bills-in-Texas-going-up-17361289.php

yet another example of TX Repugs screwing their rural base, and the screwed base will keep voting Repug

another example:

https://www.apmresearchlab.org/rural-hospital-closures#:~:text=In%20Texas%2C%2021%20out%20of,ent irely%20shortage%20areas%20in%202021.

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Probe urged into Abbott's order purportedly giving state officers increased authority over migrants


to stop any cooperation with a July order from Texas governor Greg Abbott (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/8/2109206/-Greg-Abbott-signals-to-violent-white-supremacist-extremists-in-latest-anti-immigrant-order)that purports to give state law enforcement the power to detain and return recently crossed migrants to the border.

Immigration enforcement is strictly the job of the federal government,

but Abbott’s anti-immigrant order is testing this authority by reportedly having Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers detain and

move migrants to federal property to be turned over to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents.

“The unilateral arrest and transport of migrants on immigration grounds by state officers
and
the detention of migrants on federal property by state officers raise serious legal concerns,”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/9/2115430/-Probe-urged-into-Abbott-s-order-purportedly-giving-state-officers-increased-authority-over-migrants

Repug logic: claim Feds don't enforce the law

Repug response: so we break the law

same logic of the BigLie

Biden stole the 2020 election

so Repugs steal any and all elections

[boutons_deux]

EPA launches investigation into Texas environment agency’s permitting process for concrete batch plants

The federal agency launched the inquiry after complaints from the Harris County Attorney and Lone Star Legal Aid about how

the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issues permits to plants that predominantly impact communities of color.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/09/epa-investigation-tceq-houston/

[boutons_deux]

Faced with a two-decade wait, these families had to leave Texas to receive disability services

Cameron and her brother, Brandon, 10, were diagnosed with autism while the family was living in Houston — and Daniel, 7, was showing the telltale signs of the developmental disability.

Sheletta, a native Houstonian, tried to get them services through the state of Texas. She was told it would be,

at a minimum, a 10-year wait.

So, Sheletta, 50, did the only thing she could think to give her children a chance — she and her now ex-husband, Shawn, moved to Minnesota, leaving behind generations of family members and close friends.

Houston Chronicle interviewed half a dozen families who, like the Brundidges, have made the difficult decision to leave the state in order to get their children help.
Most never wanted to leave. They didn’t feel they had a choice.

experts estimate there are 500,000 Texans living with intellectual and developmental disabilities, a Houston Chronicle investigation (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/texans-disabled-waiting-care-services-17300909.php)found that the state has the capacity to serve barely a fifth of those individuals.

nearly 200,000 people are waiting for care, some for nearly 20 years.

experts say families are taking extreme measures to get their loved ones help as the waitlist continues to grow.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/investigations/article/Faced-with-a-two-decade-wait-these-families-had-17358895.php

While Hot Wheels Abbutt wastes $4B+, including funds shifted from mental health care, on his fucking campaign border stunt.

[boutons_deux]

‘Wandering officers’ find new jobs in Texas, again and again

“The regulation of law enforcement in Texas is stuck at a crossroads.”

needed changes at the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (https://www.tcole.texas.gov/) (TCOLE), the agency that oversees the licensing and training of

the state’s 78,295 peace officers working in one of 2,729 law enforcement agencies (https://www.tcole.texas.gov/content/current-statistics)

Texas has an outdated system for organizing and registering a law enforcement entity, with small county courts and district attorneys registering individual agencies.

According to TCOLE data (https://sanantonioreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Percentage-of-Manned-Agencies-1.numbers) provided by Texas 2036, there are

currently 185 registered agencies that have zero peace officers,

540 agencies with a single peace officer,

674 with two to five officers, and

414 agencies with six to 10 peace officers.

Those small entities that in other states would be wrapped into larger law enforcement agencies account for more than 1,800 of the agencies overseen by TCOLE.

TCOLE staff is failing to address “wandering officers,” individuals who lose jobs at one law enforcement agency only to be hired by another agency.

It’s common knowledge among police chiefs and others I’ve spoken with that

police unions routinely appeal the “dishonorable discharge” of a police officer to the State Office of Administrative Hearings (https://www.soah.texas.gov/soah-case-records-search) (OAH), where those dismissals are often reversed or mitigated.

https://sanantonioreport.org/wandering-officers-find-new-jobs-in-texas-again-and-again

[boutons_deux]

Only 4M Texas rurals use socialism telephone and electric coops. They are also fucked by lack of local heath care, clinics, hospitals.

[boutons_deux]

Repug TX SS winning

Entire election staff of Texas county resigns after death threats and stalking

the entire election administration office of Gillespie County, Texas has resigned — following threats and stalking.

https://www.rawstory.com/gillespie-county-election-results-2022/

There Will Be Counting Fraud, Cheating, Election Stealing

[boutons_deux]

christo fascist TX shitbag Repugs setting the example for all Confederate/red states to follow blindly

New Texas law has ‘In God We Trust’ signs popping up on campus as school begins

schools “must display in a conspicuous place in each building of the school or institution a durable poster or framed copy of the United States national motto,”

so long as it is donated to the school. :lol

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-schools-In-God-We-Trust-signs-17380163.php

What if donated signs read

In Lord Krishna We Trust

In Allah We Trust ("It Is Written")

In Haile Selassie I (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Haile-Selassie-I)We Trust

In Yahweh We Trust

[boutons_deux]

Of course Macho Man misogynist TX Repugs very tardy, and

it's not done, yet

Texas’ tax collector and Senate budget chief say they support repealing the “tampon tax”

Advocates have previously called for repealing the sales tax on products like tampons, sanitary pads and pantyliners.

tMenstrual products are already tax-free in 24 states.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/18/glenn-hegar-joan-huffman-tampon-tax/

Condoms used to be tax-free, but now they are taxed

what about diapers? looks like they are still taxed. Texas HB311

[boutons_deux]

born, raised, "educated" in Texas, HATES LGBT

Religious employers need not cover PrEP in their health plans, federal judge rules

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s

ruling could threaten access to sexual and reproductive health care for more than 150 million working Americans on employer-sponsored health care plans.


https://www.sacurrent.com/news/religious-employers-need-not-cover-prep-in-their-health-plans-federal-judge-rules-29794608

Repug judge nominated by war criminal, dumbfuck shrub

[boutons_deux]

O'Connor's "law school" is ranked very low, maybe just a diploma mill?

[boutons_deux]

How Texas is paying for border security push under Operation Lone Star

The tab for Gov. Greg Abbott’s deployment of National Guard and DPS officers has topped $4 billion

and will likely need more.

With 11 months remaining in the cycle, it’s far from clear that state police and National Guard leaders have the wallet to keep operating at such a fever pitch.

To increase Texas’ spending on border enforcement fivefold,

Abbott and the Legislature in part have used a standard approach,

which is to fit the splurge into the two-year appropriations bill’s spending of state discretionary dollars —

and come back and add more in a supplemental spending bill.

Using disaster powers over the budget given to executive branch agencies under Abbott’s control,

the GOP leaders pumped another $975.8 million into Operation Lone Star this year by recycling part of its bounty from federal COVID-19 relief packages to free up state discretionary dollars.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/09/13/how-texas-is-paying-for-border-security-push-under-operation-lone-star

Abbutt and his fucking campaign stunt, screwing taxpayers to win their votes

[boutons_deux]

How does Texas fail its kids? Let me count the ways

Recent news from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services,

Since the beginning of the year, nearly 2,300 workers (https://www.reformaustin.org/public-safety/texas-child-protective-services-is-hemorrhaging-caseworkers/) have made for the exits.

a litany of problems as their reasoning:

Too many cases,

pressure to close cases prematurely,

low morale and pay,

lack of communication,

problems with supervisors and

a host of other workplace dysfunction.

the tragedy of Sarah Brasse, an 8-year-old in Schertz who died in her own bed of — yes, in the 21st century — untreated appendicitis.

By the time Sarah died alone in her bed, stiff, cold and caked with vomit, the couple had been under intermittent watch by CPS for almost two years.

Sarah and her two brothers were being neglected. Urine-soaked clothes, insufficient food, a fetid home in chaos, a lack of parental follow-up on needed medical visits — the red flags were plentiful.

CPS reacted in half-hearted, ineffective fashion.

three professionals in separate calls — a cop, a school counselor and a school nurse —alerted CPS to their fears she was in danger, yet no one ordered a home visit.

Things get no better at the dinner table: 1 in 5 children (https://www.feedingtexas.org/learn/#:~:text=20%2525%252C%2520or%25201%2520in%25205,li fe%2520at%2520a%2520serious%2520disadvantage.) in Texas faces hunger.

how on earth can Gov. Greg Abbott claim that Texas is a pro-life state?

https://sanantonioreport.org/how-does-texas-fail-its-kids-let-me-count-the-ways/?mc_cid=1a3eab5c7c&mc_eid=54a5432c74
Abbutt is not prolife, but pro-birth as a vote-getter.

abused kids don't produce for Capital, so they are value-less humans. Above all, they don't bribed Abbutt

[boutons_deux]

Abbutt getting his political hacks to protect him in campaign's final weeks

Texas delays publication of maternal death data until after midterms, legislative session

agency wanted to better align its methodology :lol cook the books

the agency is reviewing its internal processes to try to develop more timely data. :lol

maternal outcomes in Texas are worse for Black women, who have died at about three times the rate of non-black women. :lol TX shitbag racists rejoice!

There is so much to unpack from the data, :lol

no woman who chooses life should have to do so in exchange for their own. :lol

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-delays-publication-of-maternal-death-data-17439477.php

:lol TX docs must now wait until mother, of a hopeless fetus, is almost dead (and seriously damaged) before trying to save what's left of her degraded health and life. TX Jesus wants it that way

========================

Severe Maternal Morbidity in Communities Across Texas

https://utsystem.edu/offices/population-health/overview/severe-maternal-morbidity-texas

=================

Infant Mortality and Maternal Risk Factors in Texas: Highlighting Zip Code Variations in 2 At-Risk Counties, 2011-2015

https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2022/21_0266.htm#:~:text=Although%20the%20infant%20mort ality%20rate,2011%20through%202014%20(2).

[boutons_deux]

TX shitbags have now made shithole TX the national leader in banning books

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/302447285_3379796768932725_4861322485997142583_n.j pg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=pkM8iIZyKRUAX-z9yXN&tn=-I_PwMxsDmBBtSAW&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=00_AT-LmIw06EYphpcnB0jbLI0pkzUVl6j4uIkhaw13bKmj8Q&oe=632C4CCB

[boutons_deux]

‘This is our home’:

Texas farmers fight efforts to seize land handed down from enslaved ancestors

To Texas transportation officials, expanding U.S. 183 is a chance to alleviate congestion (https://www.txdot.gov/projects/projects-studies/austin/100919.html)south of Austin. But to the Alexander family, it’s a threat (https://www.change.org/p/save-the-alexander-family-farm-from-txdot-highway-expansion) to the land they’ve vowed for generations to protect (https://www.thealexanderfarm1847.org/)
.
Daniel Alexander was enslaved when he secured a promise in 1847 from his owners for 73.3 acres of land, which now sits west of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (https://www.austintexas.gov/airport) ,

Over the last 175 years, Alexander’s descendants have fulfilled a pledge to keep the land in the family.

In 1968, the Texas Department of Transportation (https://www.txdot.gov/)used eminent domain to seize part of their farmland and built U.S. 183 across the southeastern edge of their property.

In 2015, the family cemetery was flooded — a result of changes in drainage from subdivisions that surround their land.

TxDOT now is considering a project (https://www.txdot.gov/projects/projects-studies/austin/100919.html)that would take more Alexander land to widen U.S. 183.

The family worries that the expansion — across 400 feet of their property — would destroy two historic homes, one that may have been a Pony Express (https://www.nps.gov/poex/learn/historyculture/index.htm#:~:text=In%20the%20era%20before%20electr onic,the%20Rocky%20Mountains%20became%20obvious.)s tation, according to family lore.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Alexander-Farm-183-expansion-17448615.php

[boutons_deux]

In Texas youth prisons, children trapped in their cells use water bottles and lunch trays for toilets

For months, children in at least two of five state lockups reported regularly lacking access to toilets as the Texas Juvenile Justice Department’s workforce shrunk below dangerous levels (https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/02/texas-juvenile-prisons-crisis/).

the governor’s office said the safety of staff and youth at TJJD was a top priority for him, :lol

more than a dozen detained youths at the Giddings State School said

officers often didn’t let them out of their cells to use the bathroom between 4:30 p.m. and 8 a.m. during the week due to short staffing,

“The youths’ right to be free from psychological harm appeared to have been violated,” inspectors noted

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Texas-youth-prison-conditions-17450122.php

[boutons_deux]

shithole TX values public education and public teachers, honors them, respects them, pays them well.

1 in 5 new Texas teachers were hired without certification last year

-- DMN email

[boutons_deux]

Texas AG Ken Paxton ducked subpoena in abortion rights case, according to affidavit






Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

fled his home with his wife on Monday (https://linkst.dallasnews.com/click/29181954.21216/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGFsbGFzbmV3cy5jb20vbmV3cy9wb2xpdG ljcy8yMDIyLzA5LzI3L3RleGFzLWFnLWtlbi1wYXh0b24tZHVj a2VkLXN1YnBvZW5hLWluLWFib3J0aW9uLXJpZ2h0cy1jYXNlLW FjY29yZGluZy10by1hZmZpZGF2aXQv/6268080cd45f9d03f45cb6eaEb535e01a) to avoid being served a subpoena, :lol

according to an affidavit filed in federal court.

A process server was attempting to serve Paxton with a subpoena for a court hearing scheduled for Tuesday in Austin.

-- DMN emails





the fucking shithole TX shitbag ATTORNEY general :)

[boutons_deux]

Protesters bring guns, Nazi salutes

to chaotic scene at Texas church's drag bingo event

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/texas-drag-bingo-protest-17467207.php

[boutons_deux]

How Texas Lost the World’s Largest Super Collider


The Higgs boson, a particle that has shaped the theories of modern particle physics, was discovered at a super collider in Geneva.

It was a hugely significant moment for Big Science,

one that received a Nobel Prize earlier this year—

and it should have been discovered in Texas.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/how-texas-lost-the-worlds-largest-super-collider (https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/how-texas-lost-the-worlds-largest-super-collider/?itm_source=parsely-api&utm_source=texasmonthly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TM%20Today%209/26/22&utm_term=TM%20Today)

[MultiTroll]

Texas AG Ken Paxton ducked subpoena in abortion rights case, according to affidavit












the fucking shithole TX shitbag ATTORNEY general :)
Sounds like process server seeing him in person and dropping it on the driveway is......He's been served?

Not that this will go anywhere in the
:lol Texass Justice system
:lol U.S. InJustice system

[boutons_deux]

Gov. Greg Abbott responds to Biden's pardon on marijuana possession

"Texas is not in the habit of taking criminal justice advice

from the leader of the defund police party :lol Biden is pro-police, pro funding :lol


and

someone who has overseen a criminal justice system run amuck with cashless bail :lol

and

a revolving door for violent criminals.

The Governor of Texas can only pardon individuals

who have been through the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles system

with a recommendation for pardon,"

a spokesperson for Abbott told the Dallas Morning News (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/10/06/beto-orourke-again-pledges-to-legalize-pot-if-elected-texas-governor/).

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/abbott-orourke-biden-marijuana-17493824.php

iow, christo fascist white supremacist Hot Wheels gonna keep blacks and brown locked and/or unpardoned, and keep arresting/convicting/oppressing them

[boutons_deux]

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c5ffe9fe07&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r8482459467090371019&th=183b49a3e9a6ef0f&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ84xa0Y0rTjQLNMAI7hm6KL_o802fKqQbZnKrw GC1IAewYO3ysOPGNhI7DetN-bMos-rycwiVvmbupCsYFTkOJ_HBpAkI3TbN2SffPLPHv3oMsZ2r6DUn BylAs&disp=emb&realattid=ii_l8z2ko790

[boutons_deux]

How a tiny Texas government is scoring big tax breaks for developers across the state

In 2019, Texas lawmakers granted a small group of Central Texas businessmen permission to form their own government to develop agricultural land near the Austin airport.

Yet recently the SH130 Municipal Management District No. 1 has thrown its civic weight around far outside its own narrow boundaries,

using its status as a public agency to quietly arrange tens of millions of dollars-worth of property tax breaks for private developers across the state.

No local elected body reviewed the deals to determine if it made sense for taxpayers to subsidize the tax-exempt real estate projects in their backyards.

In fact, city and county officials often have been unaware the money was being taken from their schools, libraries, hospital districts and local governments.

The small district, meanwhile, stands to collect generous profits from the exemptions it helped arrange.

Some of the deals also involve businesses tied to its board members, raising questions about how they are using the government entity they formed.

In 2015, a single sentence grafted onto a dense finance bill in the closing days of the Texas legislative session created a new property tax break in exchange for modest affordable housing concessions.

Since then, developers have flocked to use the obscure law, removing hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of real estate from the tax rolls.

Having so many projects that don’t pay property taxes “was not the intent of the program,” :lol

the SH 130 district is using its 1,100-acre piece of land to create valuable tax breaks in far away jurisdictions —

making it "the poster child" of all that is wrong with the new affordable housing tax break,

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/How-a-tiny-Austin-area-government-is-scoring-big-17491395.php

christo fascist Repugs as corrupt as any fascist govt

Will happen on national scale when Repugs control all three branches. 100Ks of Americans will die from increased pollution

[boutons_deux]

3 North Texas Republicans endorse Dem Mike Collier over Dan Patrick in lt. governor’s race (https://linkst.dallasnews.com/click/29368487.49574/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGFsbGFzbmV3cy5jb20vbmV3cy9wb2xpdG ljcy8yMDIyLzEwLzEzLzMtbm9ydGgtdGV4YXMtcmVwdWJsaWNh bnMtZW5kb3JzZS1kZW0tbWlrZS1jb2xsaWVyLW92ZXItZGFuLX BhdHJpY2staW4tbHQtZ292ZXJub3JzLXJhY2Uv/6268080cd45f9d03f45cb6eaC1b9c79f0)

-- DMN

[boutons_deux]

Abbutt's aid to schools after kids have been shot to pieces is to

provide DNA records to the parents so they can accurately pick up the pieces

[dbestpro]

Myra Flores presented a bill to take the money from the IRS for the 87k agents to use for school security and mental health. Do you agree or disagree?

[boutons_deux]

Minority Rule: How 3 Percent of Texans Call the Shots for the Rest of Us

Statewide officials and legislators are far to the right of most Texans. Why? Low primary-election turnout and an anemic Democratic party.

Between 2010 and 2020, Texas grew by nearly four million residents (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/newest-texans-who-are-they/), with people of color responsible for 95 percent of that growth.

The state is now

40 percent non-Hispanic white,

40 percent Hispanic,

13 percent Black, and

6 percent Asian—with the latter the fastest-growing demographic.

In 2012 Mitt Romney won the state (https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/historical/presidential.shtml) by sixteen points. In 2020 Trump won by less than six.

Republican party has lurched to the right, enacting some of the country’s most reactionary policies and

helping make Texas an international byword for extremism (https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/yall-norwegians-use-the-word-texas-as-slang-to-mean-crazy/).

polls show that most Texans hold moderate positions on abortion, gun rights, and many other key issues.

But state lawmakers have made sure that doesn’t matter.
“It’s the Republican primary that creates the mandates under which our officeholders operate.”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/how-3-percent-of-texans-call-shots-for-texas

Shithole Texas, the American model for minority rule by oligarchy-financed fascists.

[boutons_deux]

Inside the Secret Plan to Bring Private School Vouchers to Texas

Political operatives descended on the Hill Country town of Wimberley with a scheme to send taxpayer dollars to private schools.

Now they’re shopping the same blueprint elsewhere.

Wimberley would partner with Harris and Bennett’s Texans for Education Rights Institute

to create a charter school tentatively dubbed the Texas Achievement Campus.

But “campus” was a misnomer, because there would be none.

The school would exist only on paper.

Texans for Education Rights would then work with ResponsiveEd, Whitehurst’s group, to

place K–12 students from around the state into private schools of their choice at “no cost to their families.”

a simple goal:

turning taxpayer dollars intended for public education into funds for private schools.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/inside-the-secret-plan-to-bring-private-school-vouchers-to-texas/

[boutons_deux]

Where did Biden’s pardon of marijuana charges leave the hundreds of Texans imprisoned?

Texas ranks No. 1 in the U.S. for most marijuana possession arrests.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2022/10/26/where-did-bidens-pardon-of-marijuana-charges-leave-the-hundreds-of-texans-imprisoned

[boutons_deux]

TX shitbags allowing guns everywhere for everyone all the time, so ...

Texas grand jury declines to indict man accused of

killing 9-year-old girl while shooting at armed robber

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/us/arlene-alvarez-9-year-old-shooting/index.html

[boutons_deux]

‘I hurt’:

Texas special education students face interventions that can be deadly


Tens of thousands of students are restrained each year in Texas schools.

Some say laws and regulations are lacking

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Texas-special-education-students-restraint-17534439.php (https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Texas-special-education-students-restraint-17534439.php?sid=5936c5882ddf9c486ef4062f&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headlines&utm_campaign=SAEN_210Report)

subtext, corollary of American White Christian Male Supremacy:

"If one isn't 100% healthy, normal, one is excluded from the Master Race"

[boutons_deux]

Texas Republican writes Anne Frank fan fiction in which she converts to Christianity

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-republican-wrote-anne-frank-fan-fiction-in-which-she-converts-to-christianity-report/

TX shitbags can't leave even dead Jewish ashes in peace

[boutons_deux]

Greg Abbott Is Still Prosecuting Migrants Under a Bogus Disaster Declaration

Operation Lone Star, Abbott’s coordinated $4 billion (https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/27/operation-lone-star-greg-abbott-budget/) effort to deter and prosecute migrants in south Texas.

Since the program began in 2021, thousands of migrants (https://abcnews.go.com/US/human-rights-attorneys-worst-fears-realized-operation-lone/story?id=85439975) have been prosecuted for enhanced crimes under a bogus disaster declaration.

Abbott is once again attempting to seize authority over immigration via the state criminal system.

Yet to date, the Biden administration has failed to intervene.

https://truthout.org/articles/greg-abbott-is-still-prosecuting-migrants-under-a-bogus-disaster-declaration/

shitbag Hot Wheels Abbutt abusing, extending emergency powers to criminalize asylum seekers, as his shitbag voters want.

[libertarian4321]

If the Democrats were to offer a viable alternative to Abbott they might have a chance. My wife and I are a mixed race couple and generally moderate in our political views. We are the people the Dems should be targeting.

All the Dems needed to do was pick an appealing moderate who wasn't constantly grandstanding by taking extreme leftist positions. So what do they do? They pick a polarizing trust fund jackass like "Beto" O'Rourke. "Beto" is perfect for Massachusetts or New York. But his far left BS doesn't fly in Texas.

We went out and voted yesterday (we didn't vote for Abbott or "Beto"). Then we went to the range and spent a couple of relaxing hours at the range with the guns "Beto" wants to take away from us (note to Dems: This is Texas, not San Francisco. If you want to attract new, independent voters, try picking someone who doesn't make "Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15s!" the center piece of his campaign).

So Abbott will win again. Another unforced error by the Dems.

And frankly, I'm okay with that, given the awful alternative the Dems offered.

Do better next time, and you might get our vote.

[ElNono]

There’s no unforced error there, tbh. There’s nothing ‘moderate’ about gun loving ‘libertarians’. Texas will slowly slide into blue if people like Abbott keep begging companies from richer states like California to relocate to Texas and continue to grow urban places, overtaking rural voters (as seen in Austin, for example).

[boutons_deux]

There’s no unforced error there, tbh. There’s nothing ‘moderate’ about gun loving ‘libertarians’. Texas will slowly slide into blue if people like Abbott keep begging companies from richer states like California to relocate to Texas and continue to grow urban places, overtaking rural voters (as seen in Austin, for example).

I can't ever seen TX going Blue,

with shitbag Repugs having a solid lock on the non-metro counties,

and shitbag Repugs' voter suppression, gerrymandering, corruption, and election counting fraud.

ISL will probably be made Constitutional in this SCOTUS session. SCOTUS arguments for ISL in early December.

Constitutional ISL will mean Dems will never again hold Federal power, as citizens' votes will be even more inconsequential.

[ElNono]

I can't ever seen TX going Blue,

with shitbag Repugs having a solid lock on the non-metro counties,

and shitbag Repugs' voter suppression, gerrymandering, corruption, and election counting fraud.

ISL will probably be made Constitutional in this SCOTUS session. SCOTUS arguments for ISL in early December.

Constitutional ISL will mean Dems will never again hold Federal power, as citizens' votes will be even more inconsequential.

Gerrymandering works when you can counter big city districts with large rural areas.
Once the urban areas grow large enough (see New York, California), it’s usefulness dwindles.

That said, voter suppression is a thing and will likely slow down the inevitable assimilation.

Maybe the GOP will stop being the party of weirdos by then, so who knows, tbh…

[DarrinS]

Gerrymandering works when you can counter big city districts with large rural areas.
Once the urban areas grow large enough (see New York, California), it’s usefulness dwindles.

That said, voter suppression is a thing and will likely slow down the inevitable assimilation.

Maybe the GOP will stop being the party of weirdos by then, so who knows, tbh…


"Jim Crow" suppression in GA resulted in record voting.

[DarrinS]

Democrat angst is palpable

[libertarian4321]

There’s no unforced error there, tbh. There’s nothing ‘moderate’ about gun loving ‘libertarians’. Texas will slowly slide into blue if people like Abbott keep begging companies from richer states like California to relocate to Texas and continue to grow urban places, overtaking rural voters (as seen in Austin, for example).

If labeling anyone who disagrees with your current political choice an irrational "right winger" helps you to cope with the thunderous butt kicking the Dems are about to receive both in Texas and nationally, you go right ahead. Cry into your beer and don't learn anything from the experience. Repeat it again in 2-years. Just don't be surprised when you get similar results.

Your labeling anyone who disagrees with you on anything as an "enemy" unworthy of intelligent conversation is part of the problem with extremists from both parties. But the inconvenient truth is, extremists don't win elections, it's convincing those of us in the center to support your party that wins elections.

We are far from the extreme right wingers you instinctively label us as simply because I had the temerity to suggest that "Beto" was a poor choice of candidate. We are both professionals with advanced degrees educated on the east and west coasts. Though we are doing well now, we both grew up poor and are give our time and money to a number of charities in SA. My wife is an immigrant who originally emigrated to California. We are pro choice, Tesla driving environmentalists. The last major party candidate we voted for in a Presidential race was a DEMOCRAT (Obama)- we found Hillary, Trump, and Biden all not worthy of our votes. We are pro immigration, we support marijuana/drug legalization and ending the insane "War on Drugs," we are atheists. We oppose militarization of the police and military interventionism overseas.

Not exactly "extreme right wingers," eh?

But we are also choose to own guns and enjoy the freedom of being allowed to go to the range on a nice afternoon, so of course you must ignore all that, and label us "extreme right wingers" in order to cope with the fact that we did not vote for Beto.

You, and extremists from both parties like you, are what is wrong with politics in America today. You are so wrapped up in your partisan "it's us or them!" BS, you just stopped thinking rationally. Like I said, our votes were available, and had the Dems not chosen a decent moderate instead of an extremist trust fund blow hard like "Beto," you would have had our votes.

Perhaps if Dems tried to earn the votes of people like us, rather than pushing us away, they'd be more successful?

[pgardn]

If labeling anyone who disagrees with your current political choice an irrational "right winger" helps you to cope with the thunderous butt kicking the Dems are about to receive both in Texas and nationally, you go right ahead. Cry into your beer and don't learn anything from the experience. Repeat it again in 2-years. Just don't be surprised when you get similar results.

Your labeling anyone who disagrees with you on anything as an "enemy" unworthy of intelligent conversation is part of the problem with extremists from both parties. But the inconvenient truth is, extremists don't win elections, it's convincing those of us in the center to support your party that wins elections.

We are far from the extreme right wingers you instinctively label us as simply because I had the temerity to suggest that "Beto" was a poor choice of candidate. We are both professionals with advanced degrees educated on the east and west coasts. Though we are doing well now, we both grew up poor and are give our time and money to a number of charities in SA. My wife is an immigrant who originally emigrated to California. We are pro choice, Tesla driving environmentalists. The last major party candidate we voted for in a Presidential race was a DEMOCRAT (Obama)- we found Hillary, Trump, and Biden all not worthy of our votes. We are pro immigration, we support marijuana/drug legalization and ending the insane "War on Drugs," we are atheists. We oppose militarization of the police and military interventionism overseas.

Not exactly "extreme right wingers," eh?

But we are also choose to own guns and enjoy the freedom of being allowed to go to the range on a nice afternoon, so of course you must ignore all that, and label us "extreme right wingers" in order to cope with the fact that we did not vote for Beto.

You, and extremists from both parties like you, are what is wrong with politics in America today. You are so wrapped up in your partisan "it's us or them!" BS, you just stopped thinking rationally. Like I said, our votes were available, and had the Dems not chosen a decent moderate instead of an extremist trust fund blow hard like "Beto," you would have had our votes.

Perhaps if Dems tried to earn the votes of people like us, rather than pushing us away, they'd be more successful?

Just because your wife is an immigrant and you are a libertarian it means you believe in a real US democracy?

Absolute BULL SHIT
Earn your vote… gtfoh.
This goes deeper than party affiliation.

[libertarian4321]

Just because your wife is an immigrant and you are a libertarian it means you believe in a real US democracy?

Absolute BULL SHIT
Earn your vote… gtfoh.
This goes deeper than party affiliation.

What are you babbling about? Are you drunk?

[boutons_deux]

libertarianism is BULLSHIT

[ElNono]

"Jim Crow" suppression in GA resulted in record voting.

Texas is indeed the hardest State to cast a vote in. This was never in dispute.
The GOP being terrified of democracy isn’t a new thing either.


Democrat angst is palpable

Angry at what, Darrin?

[ElNono]

If labeling anyone who disagrees with your current political choice an irrational "right winger" helps you to cope with the thunderous butt kicking the Dems are about to receive both in Texas and nationally, you go right ahead. Cry into your beer and don't learn anything from the experience. Repeat it again in 2-years. Just don't be surprised when you get similar results.

Your labeling anyone who disagrees with you on anything as an "enemy" unworthy of intelligent conversation is part of the problem with extremists from both parties. But the inconvenient truth is, extremists don't win elections, it's convincing those of us in the center to support your party that wins elections.

We are far from the extreme right wingers you instinctively label us as simply because I had the temerity to suggest that "Beto" was a poor choice of candidate. We are both professionals with advanced degrees educated on the east and west coasts. Though we are doing well now, we both grew up poor and are give our time and money to a number of charities in SA. My wife is an immigrant who originally emigrated to California. We are pro choice, Tesla driving environmentalists. The last major party candidate we voted for in a Presidential race was a DEMOCRAT (Obama)- we found Hillary, Trump, and Biden all not worthy of our votes. We are pro immigration, we support marijuana/drug legalization and ending the insane "War on Drugs," we are atheists. We oppose militarization of the police and military interventionism overseas.

Not exactly "extreme right wingers," eh?

But we are also choose to own guns and enjoy the freedom of being allowed to go to the range on a nice afternoon, so of course you must ignore all that, and label us "extreme right wingers" in order to cope with the fact that we did not vote for Beto.

You, and extremists from both parties like you, are what is wrong with politics in America today. You are so wrapped up in your partisan "it's us or them!" BS, you just stopped thinking rationally. Like I said, our votes were available, and had the Dems not chosen a decent moderate instead of an extremist trust fund blow hard like "Beto," you would have had our votes.

Perhaps if Dems tried to earn the votes of people like us, rather than pushing us away, they'd be more successful?

I didn’t call anybody an ‘irrational right winger’ or ‘enemy’.

I’m just letting you know that there’s no unforced error here. Dems should not cater to a dwindling minority. Especially libertarians, an even smaller minority that couldn’t even get a nomination in the GOP (remember when that loser Ron Paul ran?).

Better come to grips with this now than live in anger like the rest of the GOP is nowadays…

[ElNono]

BTW, the GOP winning control of Congress is the expected outcome on a first term midterm election (happened to almost every president, including Obama and Trump, to name a few popular presidents). What would be embarrassing is if they don’t win.

[libertarian4321]

I didn’t call anybody an ‘irrational right winger’ or ‘enemy’.

I’m just letting you know that there’s no unforced error here. Dems should not cater to a dwindling minority. Especially libertarians, an even smaller minority that couldn’t even get a nomination in the GOP (remember when that loser Ron Paul ran?).

Better come to grips with this now than live in anger like the rest of the GOP is nowadays…

I think you are missing some key points. If the Dems are going to win in TX in the near future, they are going to need every vote they can get, because any win they get will be razor thin, not a landslide. Hence, they should appeal to those in the middle. It's far easier to pick off votes from independents, moderates, and libertarians than to try and win over established Republicans. The far left is already going to vote Dem, so why bother pandering to them? They aren't going to be the difference maker.

They needed to run a candidate that doesn't take extreme views- one that won't alienate those in the middle. They failed to do so. Hence an "unforced error" and another Abbott victory.

[libertarian4321]

BTW, the GOP winning control of Congress is the expected outcome on a first term midterm election (happened to almost every president, including Obama and Trump, to name a few popular presidents). What would be embarrassing is if they don’t win.

I agree, it would be a surprise if they didn't take control of the House, at least. I'm about 99% sure that's going to happen. The real question this point is whether the Republicans will just barely win the House and hold a slim majority, or if it's going to be a blood bath for the Dems.

[libertarian4321]

libertarianism is BULLSHIT

Thank you for your in depth and well thought out analysis. You are truly a political genius. Now go back to the sandbox and let the adults talk.

[DarrinS]

Texas is indeed the hardest State to cast a vote in.



How so? Be specific

[ElNono]

I think you are missing some key points. If the Dems are going to win in TX in the near future, they are going to need every vote they can get, because any win they get will be razor thin, not a landslide. Hence, they should appeal to those in the middle. It's far easier to pick off votes from independents, moderates, and libertarians than to try and win over established Republicans. The far left is already going to vote Dem, so why bother pandering to them? They aren't going to be the difference maker.

They needed to run a candidate that doesn't take extreme views- one that won't alienate those in the middle. They failed to do so. Hence an "unforced error" and another Abbott victory.

With California and New York solid blue, there’s no rush. Dems also need a boogeyman to point fingers to, and the current Texas Christian-Taliban leadership fills that role exceptionally well.

Democrats have other problems they need to shore up, like running some terrible candidates like Shillary and even Brandon, but demographics are simply in their favor longer term….

[ElNono]

How so? Be specific

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/accessibility/3665190-these-are-the-hardest-states-to-vote-in/amp/
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/elj.2022.0041

It’s possible they’re no longer the absolute worst now that other states have restricted voting further, but definitely top 5, and were top 1 before 2020 (I shared a study about that before the election, IIRC).

[ElNono]

I agree, it would be a surprise if they didn't take control of the House, at least. I'm about 99% sure that's going to happen. The real question this point is whether the Republicans will just barely win the House and hold a slim majority, or if it's going to be a blood bath for the Dems.

Didn’t they call a ‘red wave’ Obama’s first midterm? What happened afterwards?
Lots of hype in this thing…

[ChumpDumper]

Democrat angst is palpable

Have you seen your posts lately? You're a whiny little bitch.

[libertarian4321]

In 2010, we were 2+ years into an economic recovery. Today, inflation is at it's highest level in decades with no end in sight- that's the kind of thing everyone, even those who normally pay no attention to politics, take notice of, and they are going to want to blame someone. The Dems control the White House, the US House, and effectively control the Senate. They are in complete charge, and things aren't going well, so they are likely to pay a heavy price when things are going poorly in the economy. When even folks who have jobs and have always been responsible find themselves unable to feed and cloth their kids, or have to take an additional job in order to do so, they can get a bit cranky. And a cranky electorate doesn't bode well for the party in charge.

Also, I have a hunch (and it's just that, so I may be wrong) based on what I hear on a day to day basis that a lot of those same folks who are normally don't give a damn about politics, especially people those with kids, are more than a bit disconcerted by some of the extreme social policies being pushed by the far left elements of the Dem Party- whether it be "defund the police" or the seemingly excessive (obsessive?) focus on things like transgender politics. As I alluded to before, Dems in Texas aren't the same as Dems in Massachusetts- they tend to be a lot more religious/socially conservative and may not take kindly to some of the stuff that northeastern liberals love so much.

[ChumpDumper]

In 2010, we were 2+ years into an economic recovery. Today, inflation is at it's highest level in decades with no end in sight- that's the kind of thing everyone, even those who normally pay no attention to politics, take notice of, and they are going to want to blame someone. The Dems control the White House, the US House, and effectively control the Senate. They are in complete charge, and things aren't going well, so they are likely to pay a heavy price when things are going poorly in the economy. When even folks who have jobs and have always been responsible find themselves unable to feed and cloth their kids, or have to take an additional job in order to do so, they can get a bit cranky. And a cranky electorate doesn't bode well for the party in charge.

Also, I have a hunch (and it's just that, so I may be wrong) based on what I hear on a day to day basis that a lot of those same folks who are normally don't give a damn about politics, especially people those with kids, are more than a bit disconcerted by some of the extreme social policies being pushed by the far left elements of the Dem Party- whether it be "defund the police" or the seemingly excessive (obsessive?) focus on things like transgender politics. As I alluded to before, Dems in Texas aren't the same as Dems in Massachusetts- they tend to be a lot more religious/socially conservative and may not take kindly to some of the stuff that northeastern liberals love so much.

Are you suffering in this economy?

[Winehole23]

BTW, the GOP winning control of Congress is the expected outcome on a first term midterm election (happened to almost every president, including Obama and Trump, to name a few popular presidents). What would be embarrassing is if they don’t win.the possibility the GOP will NOT win back the majority in the House is not very great, but it's not impossible. The Rs may not get as many seats as they'd hoped.

[libertarian4321]

Are you suffering in this economy?

Everyone suffers when inflation causes the prices of everything we buy to rise. Those at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder suffer the most.

[boutons_deux]

Everyone suffers when inflation causes the prices of everything we buy to rise. Those at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder suffer the most.

Like TX's beloved sales taxes, inflation is horribly, punitively regressive

[DarrinS]

Everyone suffers when inflation causes the prices of everything we buy to rise. Those at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder suffer the most.


But, this human turtle says people don't know what inflation is



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igaqhEFeb-U

[ChumpDumper]

Everyone suffers when inflation causes the prices of everything we buy to rise. Those at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder suffer the most.

Are you suffering in this economy?

Yes or no.

[ChumpDumper]

But, this human turtle says people don't know what inflation is



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igaqhEFeb-U

:lol triggered

[libertarian4321]

Are you suffering in this economy?

Yes or no.

If I make the statement that "everyone suffers when inflation cause the prices of everything we buy to rise," you should be able to connect the dots, as I am included in "everyone."

Do I need to type more slowly so you can keep up?

[libertarian4321]

Like TX's beloved sales taxes, inflation is horribly, punitively regressive

Sales tax certainly affects the poor more than the rich.

Another tax that kills the working class is the tax on gasoline. To a well paid professional, that 20 cents per gallon is just a minor annoyance, but to people just getting by, it's a brutal tax. I've never understood why Democrats love gasoline taxes so much, when they hurt poor people the most. Aren't Democrats supposed to be standing up for the poor and working class?

[ChumpDumper]

If I make the statement that "everyone suffers when inflation cause the prices of everything we buy to rise," you should be able to connect the dots, as I am included in "everyone."

Do I need to type more slowly so you can keep up?That's not a yes or no.

Just say you're personally suffering in this economy without trying to drag other people you know nothing about into it.

I dare your ego to say it.

[libertarian4321]

That's not a yes or no.

Just say you're personally suffering in this economy without trying to drag other people you know nothing about into it.

I dare your ego to say it.

As I said, we all suffer when inflation is out of control, even those of us who are multimillionaires. I'm not sure why you can't understand this- is English a second language for you?

[ChumpDumper]

As I said, we all suffer when inflation is out of control, even those of us who are multimillionaires. I'm not sure why you can't understand this- is English a second language for you?That's not a yes or no.

Just say you're personally suffering in this economy without trying to drag other people you know nothing about into it.

You can't.:lol

[ElNono]

As I said, we all suffer when inflation is out of control, even those of us who are multimillionaires. I'm not sure why you can't understand this- is English a second language for you?

Good thing it isnt :tu

[libertarian4321]

That's not a yes or no.

Just say you're personally suffering in this economy without trying to drag other people you know nothing about into it.

You can't.:lol

I'm not playing your stupid game, and its just eating you up inside. Looks like you are suffering, too.

[libertarian4321]

Good thing it isnt :tu

Whether it's completely out of control or moderately out of control, I'm sure Beto will fix it when he pushes Biden aside and becomes President in 2025!

[ChumpDumper]

I'm not playing your stupid game, and its just eating you up inside. Looks like you are suffering, too.:lol I'm doing fine.

You're suffering but you can't say you're suffering.

Why not?

[libertarian4321]

:lol I'm doing fine.

You're suffering but you can't say you're suffering.

Why not?

Because I enjoy making you suffer.

[ChumpDumper]

Because I enjoy making you suffer.:lolHow does that even make sense when all I'm doing is laughing at your cowardice?

[ElNono]

Whether it's completely out of control or moderately out of control, I'm sure Beto will fix it when he pushes Biden aside and becomes President in 2025!

If we go by the last few administrations, you want Democrats fixing all the GOP economic fuckups, tbh...

[libertarian4321]

If we go by the last few administrations, you want Democrats fixing all the GOP economic fuckups, tbh...

I don't trust either of them to fix anything.

[ElNono]

I don't trust either of them to fix anything.

If by "fix" you mean screwing over Wall Street, yeah, nothing gonna happen

[baseline bum]

I don't trust either of them to fix anything.

But you vote the Magic R

[libertarian4321]

But you vote the Magic R

Only when the Dems nominate an especially repugnant candidate like Beto.

[ChumpDumper]

Only when the Dems nominate an especially repugnant candidate like Beto.

Who was the last Democrat you voted for governor? Ma Ferguson?

[Winehole23]

Oh look, another edgy libertarian freethinker pretending to hate Republicans as much as Democrats.

Welcome to the herd, bro!

[Spurminator]

Oh look, another edgy libertarian freethinker pretending to hate Republicans as much as Democrats.

Welcome to the herd, bro!

lol calling yourself libertarian and voting anti-abortion

[boutons_deux]

'This is Texas — get with the program':

Woman flashes gun at neighbors who came by to tell her about their party


A Houston woman is facing charges allegedly pointed a gun at a couple who let her know about an upcoming party in their apartment complex,

Brown, 35, was told by a judge to have zero contact with the couple and her bond was set at $10,000.

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-woman-flashes-gun-at-neighbors-who-came-by-to-tell-her-they-were-having-a-party/

[boutons_deux]

Texas schools now refusing dictionary donations

thanks to GOP-backed book restrictions


https://www.rawstory.com/texas-book-ban-2658961066/

What a fucked-up-to-hell state

[boutons_deux]

CATASTROPHE #88:

THE SHITBAG TEXAS LEGISLATURE RETURNS FOR A BRUTAL YEAR

What lawmakers should do to mitigate the state's cascading crises,

and what they are liable to do instead.

Firmly in control, Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, and GOP lawmakers are now free to do as they please—to pick up where their vengeful 87th legislative session mercifully left off just over a year ago.

The party’s activist base is eager to

continue the march toward one-party authoritarianism,

punishing political enemies and

catering to political patrons as they go.

Many bills have already been filed to

further expand prosecution under Texas’ abortion ban,

along with measures to concentrate power over elections in the office of GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton and

to continue persecution of transgender children and their families.

From the 1970s well into the 21st century, the state regularly funded pay increases for its government employees.

But now workers haven’t seen a wage bump since 2014,

when lawmakers approved a modest 3 percent raise over two years,

accompanied by heavier workloads.

Employees in the lowest-paid positions are predominantly people of color, who are hit the hardest by these stagnant wages.

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-legislature-preview-2023

[boutons_deux]

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[boutons_deux]

Privately owned 1800 acre Park lease to Texas is going to be sold to a developer probably a repug benefactor

Hot Wheels Abbutt has billions for his border stunt but won't spend $100 million on this park for the people

[boutons_deux]

Gov. Greg Abbott :lol

touts ‘all-time high’ :lol

in Texas per-student funding, but he’s wrong

Bottom line: Texas ranks far behind the national average in per-pupil spending and teacher pay.

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/article/greg-abbott-claims-texas-school-funding-student-17774795.php

[SpursforSix]

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Damn...he's fucking short as hell.

[boutons_deux]

Probably some BigRepugDonor got approved by pollution-friendly TCEQ :lol

'I Am Disturbed': Locals Alarmed Over Plan to Inject Toxic Ohio Wastewater Underground in Texas

"It's foolish to put it on the roadway," said one Houston-area resident.

"We have accidents on a regular basis. Do they really want to have another contamination zone?"

Residents and officials in Harris County, Texas have expressed alarm since learning that

contaminated water used to extinguish a fiery train crash in East Palestine, Ohio has been transported more than 1,300 miles to a Houston suburb for disposal.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/toxic-east-palestine-wastewater-moved-to-texas

TX is a shithole, esp poisoned Harris county, why the fuck not?

[boutons_deux]

Fundamental tactic of the ChristoFascist/racist strategy is do destroy public education, replaced by re-segregated vouchers. Abbutt is pushing for universal vouchers

How bad is the teacher shortage in Texas?

Data only tells part of the story.

Enrollment in Bexar County’s charter schools,

which for this article includes both charter networks and “in district” charters in traditional school districts,

has increased by more than 8,000 students since 2019-20.

Among campuses that have been open since 2017-18, 54% have increased enrollment.

Eleven of these 83 schools have more than doubled their enrollment size in that period.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/san-antonio-teacher-shortage-17808944.php

[boutons_deux]

End of Texas' open beaches might be near

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/XLGW6ypmXkM05PVURgiy3A--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTM5NztjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/corpus-christi-caller-times/22cc999dd3bc6a65cbda343d2580436a

Among coastal states Texas is unique.

The 1959 Texas Open Beaches Act, as well as time-honored common law and tradition in existence since long before 1959, provides that Texas beaches are open to the public.

In 2009, Texans voted by a 77 percent to 23 percent margin to enshrine the Open Beaches Act into the Texas Constitution.
Senate Bill 434, by Sen. Mayes Middleton of Galveston (https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB434/2023), would

strip the authority of the Texas General Land Office to define the boundaries of the public beach and

would allow the upland beachfront property owner to make that determination.


The property owner could then deny access to the public beach easement that existed between the line of vegetation and the mean high tide mark.

That would then limit Texas beachgoers’ access to only what is known as the “wet beach” —

the area between the low tide and the high tide lines.

When that area is washed by waves during periods of high tide,

SB 434 would result in there being no beach at all for Texans to use.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-end-texas-open-beaches-120147728.html

[boutons_deux]

$Bs of 313 tax cuts for BigCorp

but



Bunking Texas foster kids in CPS offices may have ended, but bed shortage persists (https://linkst.dallasnews.com/click/30749635.44614/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGFsbGFzbmV3cy5jb20vbmV3cy9wb2xpdG ljcy8yMDIzLzAzLzA2L2J1bmtpbmctdGV4YXMtZm9zdGVyLWtp ZHMtaW4tY3BzLW9mZmljZXMtbWF5LWhhdmUtZW5kZWQtYnV0LW JlZC1zaG9ydGFnZS1wZXJzaXN0cy8_c2FpbHRocnVfaWQ9NjI2 ODA4MGNkNDVmOWQwM2Y0NWNiNmVh/6268080cd45f9d03f45cb6eaCb5b66da0)







Texas no longer has kids sleeping in Child Protective Services offices.

-- DMN email

[Winehole23]

lol calling yourself libertarian and voting anti-abortionbodily autonomy for women and free access to appropriate medical care is immoral.

[boutons_deux]

Republican files bill in Texas House to let voters decide whether to secede from the U.S.

The bill, authored by far-right grandstander Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton,

failed to receive a hearing or a vote when he filed it in 2021.

https://www.sacurrent.com/news/republican-files-bill-in-texas-house-to-let-voters-decide-whether-to-secede-from-the-us-31200199

[boutons_deux]

TX Rep. Slaton Wants To End Taxes for People With Ten or More Children

State Rep. Bryan Slaton (R-Greenville) has filed House Bill 2889, which would

roll back all property taxes for Texans with ten children.

Under Slaton’s bill, married couples with four children, including adopted ones, would receive a 40 percent property tax credit. At ten or more children, the tax credit would be 100 percent. The bill clarifies that the couple must stay married.

Under Slaton’s bill, married couples with four children, including adopted ones, would receive a 40 percent property tax credit. At ten or more children, the tax credit would be 100 percent. The bill clarifies that the couple must stay married.

“With this bill, Texas will start saying to couples:

‘Get married, stay married, and be fruitful and multiply,’”

said Slaton in a press release.

he’s been connected to Jake Neidert, a Christian nationalist who has called for trans people to be executed in the streets.

A significant part of modern Christian extremism is large families, sometimes known as the quiverfull movement.

The practice is rooted in white supremacy and the idea that white Christians must birth an army of God.

quiverfull families often live in crushing poverty.

Malnutrition and child abuse (including sexual abuse) are rampant (https://www.patheos.com/blogs/nolongerquivering/2018/01/costs-quiverfull-childrens-lives/),

but seen as an acceptable price to pay for building platoons of highly indoctrinated children.

https://www.houstonpress.com/news/state-rep-slaton-have-10-children-and-pay-no-property-tax-15190307

[boutons_deux]

CPS goes unfunded, understaffed, unmonitored, for years, but ...

Texas prepares its biggest bond deal ever to bail out natural gas utilities

The record $3.5 billion deal follows a two-year saga that saw

Citi and UBS dumped from the issuance over gun and oil and gas policies.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2023/03/07/texas-prepares-its-biggest-bond-deal-ever-to-bail-out-natural-gas-utilities

ChristoFascist TX shitbags, like FL, punish businesses, not for legal violations, but for politics. Fucking blatant fascism.

[boutons_deux]

Bill would ban students in U.S. illegally, those from China, other nations from Texas universities

Russian, Iranian and N. Korean citizens would also be banned from the state's public colleges under bill by far-right lawmaker.

State Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a conservative Republican from Arlington,

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/bill-ban-undocumented-students-texas-universities-17832974.php

[boutons_deux]

Texas legislature could strip cities of local authority






The Texas legislature is debating a pair of bills that would strip cities and counties of the right to set policy on a wide array of environmental, safety and discrimination issues.

These two state bills — House Bill 2127 (https://nxslink.thehill.com/click/30847699.43192/aHR0cHM6Ly9sZWdpc2Nhbi5jb20vVFgvdGV4dC9IQjIxMjcvaW QvMjY5MjE5OT9lbWFpbD00NjdjYjYzOTljYjdkZjY0NTUxNzc1 ZTQzMTA1MmI0M2E3NzVjNzQ5JmVtYWlsYT0xMmE2ZDRkMDY5Y2 Q1NmNmZGRhYTM5MWMyNGViNzA0MiZlbWFpbGI9MDU0NTI4ZTc0 MDM4NzFjNzlmNjY4ZTQ5ZGQzYzQ0YjFlYzAwYzdmNjExYmY5Mz g4Zjc2YmIyMzI0ZDZjYTVmMyZ1dG1fc291cmNlPVNhaWx0aHJ1 JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTAzLjE1Lj IzJTIwRU0lMjAlRTIlODAlOTMlMjBUaGUlMjBIaWxsJTIwU3Vz dGFpbmFiaWxpdHk/6230d9d2b246d1049531daf9B516f4fb1) and Senate Bill 814 (https://nxslink.thehill.com/click/30847699.43192/aHR0cHM6Ly9sZWdpc2Nhbi5jb20vVFgvdGV4dC9TQjgxNC9pZC 8yNjkyNDgwP2VtYWlsPTQ2N2NiNjM5OWNiN2RmNjQ1NTE3NzVl NDMxMDUyYjQzYTc3NWM3NDkmZW1haWxhPTEyYTZkNGQwNjljZD U2Y2ZkZGFhMzkxYzI0ZWI3MDQyJmVtYWlsYj0wNTQ1MjhlNzQw Mzg3MWM3OWY2NjhlNDlkZDNjNDRiMWVjMDBjN2Y2MTFiZjkzOD hmNzZiYjIzMjRkNmNhNWYzJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9U2FpbHRocnUm dXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249MDMuMTUuMj MlMjBFTSUyMCVFMiU4MCU5MyUyMFRoZSUyMEhpbGwlMjBTdXN0 YWluYWJpbGl0eQ/6230d9d2b246d1049531daf9B036052cf) — would bar municipalities from passing or enforcing local rules in several critical areas “unless explicitly authorized by statute.”

Seizing power: This means that unless the Texas legislature has given cities specific right to pass rules and ordinances pertaining to natural resources, agriculture or labor, such rules are null and void as soon as they are passed.

Potential nullified laws could range from new anti-discrimination rules to bans on certain kinds of pollution or industrial practices.


A bigger fight: The proposed legislation builds on nearly a decade of state Republican attacks on the autonomy of Texas cities — like Austin’s attempted ban (https://nxslink.thehill.com/click/30847699.43192/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGV4YXN0cmlidW5lLm9yZy8yMDE4LzA3Lz AzL3JlcG9ydC1hdXN0aW4tZW5kLWl0cy1iYWctYmFuLWFmdGVy LXRleGFzLXN1cHJlbWUtY291cnQtcnVsaW5nLz9lbWFpbD00Nj djYjYzOTljYjdkZjY0NTUxNzc1ZTQzMTA1MmI0M2E3NzVjNzQ5 JmVtYWlsYT0xMmE2ZDRkMDY5Y2Q1NmNmZGRhYTM5MWMyNGViNz A0MiZlbWFpbGI9MDU0NTI4ZTc0MDM4NzFjNzlmNjY4ZTQ5ZGQz YzQ0YjFlYzAwYzdmNjExYmY5Mzg4Zjc2YmIyMzI0ZDZjYTVmMy Z1dG1fc291cmNlPVNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwm dXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTAzLjE1LjIzJTIwRU0lMjAlRTIlODAlOT MlMjBUaGUlMjBIaWxsJTIwU3VzdGFpbmFiaWxpdHkjOn46dGV4 dD1BYmJvdHQlMjBhbmQlMjBEZVNhbnRpcy0sUmVwb3J0JTNBJT IwQXVzdGluJTIwdG8lMjBlbmQlMjBpdHMlMjBiYWclMjBiYW4l MjBhZnRlciUyMFRleGFzJTIwU3VwcmVtZSx2aW9sYXRlZCUyMH N0YXRlJTIwbGF3JTJDJTIwS1VUJTIwcmVwb3J0ZWQu/6230d9d2b246d1049531daf9B80d73a3f) on single-use plastic bags or Denton’s failed attempt (https://nxslink.thehill.com/click/30847699.43192/aHR0cHM6Ly9kZW50b25yYy5jb20vbmV3cy9maXZlLXllYXJzLW xhdGVyLWRlbnRvbnMtZXBpYy1iYXR0bGUtdG8tYmFuLWZyYWNr aW5nLWFuZC1rZWVwLWxvY2FsLWNvbnRyb2wvYXJ0aWNsZV9kZj kxMDMyOC03NDA5LTVhY2YtYjk1MS01OTM0YWQ3NjZjMTIuaHRt bD9lbWFpbD00NjdjYjYzOTljYjdkZjY0NTUxNzc1ZTQzMTA1Mm I0M2E3NzVjNzQ5JmVtYWlsYT0xMmE2ZDRkMDY5Y2Q1NmNmZGRh YTM5MWMyNGViNzA0MiZlbWFpbGI9MDU0NTI4ZTc0MDM4NzFjNz lmNjY4ZTQ5ZGQzYzQ0YjFlYzAwYzdmNjExYmY5Mzg4Zjc2YmIy MzI0ZDZjYTVmMyZ1dG1fc291cmNlPVNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZW RpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTAzLjE1LjIzJTIwRU0l MjAlRTIlODAlOTMlMjBUaGUlMjBIaWxsJTIwU3VzdGFpbmFiaW xpdHkjOn46dGV4dD1NaW5lcmFsJTIwb3duZXJzJTJDJTIwb3Bl cmF0b3JzJTIwYW5kJTIwcmVsYXRlZCxUaGUlMjBiYW4lMjBsYX N0ZWQlMjAxOTYlMjBkYXlzLg/6230d9d2b246d1049531daf9B2ba2099d) to keep fracking out of city limits.

-- The Hill email

[boutons_deux]

A new version of SB313 tax scam will exclude wind and solar projects

[boutons_deux]

How State Regulators Allowed a Fading West Texas Town to Go Over Four Years Without Safe Drinking Water

The Texas attorney general finally filed suit last year,

but some residents in Toyah say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality was “negligent” and

want to know what took so long.

there was nothing simple about Toyah’s water woes, which were years in the making and remain unresolved.

A boil water notice issued in June 2018 is still in effect.

In the shadow of the country’s most prosperous oil and gas fields,

the residents of Toyah, many low-income and Hispanic, have gone nearly five years without safe drinking water.

holds the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) responsible for

allowing the town to stall and remain out of compliance with hundreds of drinking water violations

it filed against Toyah over the past five years.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15032023/toyah-texas-drinking-water/

The fascist TX ELITE Repugs fuck TX rurals, no matter the skin color

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Texas drove out the Chinese,
but not the windfarm it planned

Long before a Chinese spy balloon (https://apnews.com/article/chinese-balloon-military-involvement-e45c759cb00294e83989fa35970935bc) captivated and spooked the U.S. public, Kyle Bass foresaw what he deemed another foreign danger slated for skies above the Texas-Mexico border: wind turbines.

Dozens of them, roughly 700 feet (213 meters) tall — as big as San Antonio’s tallest skyscraper — were set to sprout across thousands of scrubby acres near the pristine Devils River.

Protests that a wind farm would harm a sensitive ecosystem in Texas flopped, :lol :lol TX don't give a shit about ecosystem

but when attention turned to a Chinese billionaire behind the project, state lawmakers raced to pull the plug.

“Drumming up the ire against the national security issues was easier than the environmental issues,”

in a twist, plans for some of the tallest wind turbines in the country are back on —

causing whiplash here in the rural borderlands,

hurt feelings and

testing of the limits of environmental action against renewable projects proliferating across the country.

https://apnews.com/article/texas-chinese-wind-farm-green-energy-6cd629303e8870e1942c170ebc52d7bc

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puritannical, hypocritical fascist TX shitbags proving that TX is THEIR shithole

As book bans ebb, the battle to criminally charge Texas librarians has started

Behind the scenes of a high-stakes campaign to prosecute librarians who lend books that are considered obscene.

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/battle-criminally-charge-texas-librarians-started-17849861.php

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Canada, US reach deal to close unofficial border crossings


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-us-agree-deal-close-unofficial-roxham-road-border-crossing-media-2023-03-23/

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Texas ‘preemption’ bills escalate war between liberal cities, conservative legislature

Local officials across Texas are worried that far-reaching state bills could

roll back their attempts to ensure construction workers get rest breaks in Texas’ searing heat,

to run no-kill animal shelters and

to maintain local water quality.

HB2127 and SB814,

which would prevent local governments from passing or enforcing local rules in several critical areas “unless explicitly authorized by statute,”

GOP sponsors and conservative groups say ... would protect Texas business owners from an unprecedented and aggressive overreach by the state’s booming, blue-tinged cities.

the legislation would strip cities of their ability to regulate a broad range of environmental, labor and health and safety concerns.

If passed, they would nullify any local ordinances that could fall under the rubric of the state’s labor, natural resources, agriculture, insurance or occupations codes —

unless the legislature writes specific legislation directly permitting a rule.

would also allow any citizen to sue their county — or a neighboring county — over a local law that they felt violated the state’s new powers,

opening blue- or purple-leaning counties to a flood of lawsuits from their more conservative peripheries.

The two bills — like a flurry of other state legislation this session aimed at staving off other potential city ordinances —

“are more an effort to staunch the authority of Democrats as to have anything to do with diminishing friction in business,”

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/3912877-texas-preemption-bills-escalate-war-between-liberal-cities-conservative-legislature

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‘WE ARE IN A CRISIS’:

TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS ON THE EDGE

Vouchers and property tax cuts strike at a public school system already hemorrhaging hard-working employees.

In early March, the old sewage pipes of a Houston public middle school broke.

By noon, there were only two bathroom stalls for 1,200 students. At 2 p.m.,

sewage water started leaking out into the hallways.

Teacher Traci Laston tried to push ahead instructing her class, but the students couldn’t focus.

“This is happening all over Texas in schools with old infrastructure.

There’s just no extra funds for building repairs, for anything,” Laston said.

“The politicians are worried about what content is being taught or not being taught …

versus truly fixing the problems in schools.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/propery-tax-public-schools-teacher-pay-wages/?goal=0_975e2d1fa1-654a434f98-34733575&mc_cid=654a434f98&mc_eid=b9077e7e26

TX, a failing state in a failing country.

Ain't Capitalism great?

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TX Repugs want 10 Commandments posted in every public school, and want CHRISTIAN chaplains in public schools

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Abbott says TX massacres are mental health problem, not a gun problem

Abbott gutted TX mental health budget to transfer funds to his multi-B border boondoggle.

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For fascist shithole TX, Repug "freedom" is a tool to punish political dissent, where dissenters break no
laws or regs, are punished financially.

Fifth Circuit Court dismisses anti-BDS lawsuit, upholding Texas' stand against discrimination

The decision reinforces

Texas' stance against national origin-based discrimination

and upholds the state's refusal to contract or invest with entities engaged in such practices.​


https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-749530

the 5th Circuit politicians help out, validate state persecution of dissent

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What racist, xenophobe Texans want, sadistic, criminal Abbutt delivers

Exclusive: Texas troopers separating families at border in apparent policy shift, sources say


https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/abbott-border-parent-separations-18272489.php

America did it to the Indians, and Blacks, so why not Browns.

The solution to the immigrants lies in their home country (screwed by CIA), not at the border.

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New ordinances would ban driving through cities and counties en route to abortion care


Texas roads and highways are emerging as the newest battleground over abortion (https://abc13.com/tag/abortion/)care.

More than a year after Roe v. Wade was overturned and abortion was mostly outlawed in Texas,

anti-abortion groups are getting more aggressive -- and creative -- in

trying to stop women from getting the procedure out of state.

New laws currently on the table in many smaller Texas towns would

make it illegal to even drive through the city or county for the purpose of an abortion.

Two cities and counties in Texas have already passed the measure,

and many more are set to vote on a similar version soon, according to the Texas Tribune.

The strategy, engineered by Right to Life group architects of SB 8, a.k.a. the heartbeat bill (https://abc13.com/texas-politics-abortion-rights-trigger-ban-law-2022-exceptions/12163065/), comes

amidst growing frustrations about the number of women who are going out of state to circumvent the ban.

There are questions about what would be enforced:

private citizens can sue any group or party they believe to be in violation of the law.

https://abc13.com/texas-abortion-law-highways-new-battleground-in-care-what-is-the/13740276/

Toxic shithole rural America, breeding ground of fascism.

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Texas politics is creating a brain drain - driving away professionals in medicine and education,












Same in FL and other slave/red states

OBGYNs are moving to states where abortion is allowed, avoding criminal prosecution in slave/red states.

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Texas politics is creating a brain drain - driving away professionals in medicine and education,












Same in FL and other slave/red states

OBGYNs are moving to states where abortion is allowed, avoding criminal prosecution in slave/red states.

Republican control = economic disaster.

Any large company thinking of re-locating to texas will have to do so without its female employees.

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Republican control = economic disaster.

Any large company thinking of re-locating to texas will have to do so without its female employees.

ACQUITTEDperiod

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Shit hole Texas, run by s*** bags. Elected by s*** bag

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-least-free-state-personal-freedom-index-1846236

And there are Texans who are moving to California

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Shit hole Texas, run by s*** bags. Elected by s*** bag

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-least-free-state-personal-freedom-index-1846236

And there are Texans who are moving to California

...uh, huh.

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Most states are rolling out a new summer food assistance program for kids.

Texas isn’t one of them.

https://www.kut.org/education/2024-01-05/most-states-are-rolling-out-a-new-summer-food-assistance-program-for-kids-texas-isnt-one-of-them

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Texas is ranked 10th nationally in number of poor people

[koriwhat]

Texas is ranked 10th nationally in number of poor people

Where you live what's it ranked in mental illness? :lmao