How The Repug Shitbags Roll in Shithole Texas

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TX GOP Chair Endorses Holding A Vote On ‘Texit’

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“I don’t understand why anyone would feel that they need to prevent the people from having a voice in something that is part of the Texas Constitution,” on Thursday

backed a state lawmaker’s push to let Texans decide whether to split from the Union.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tx-gop-chair-endorses-holding-a-vote-on-texit

You stupid mofo. The US Constitution is the law of the land, and prevails over any state Constitution.

[DMC]

You must get laid a lot

[Ef-man]

TX GOP Chair Endorses Holding A Vote On ‘Texit’

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“I don’t understand why anyone would feel that they need to prevent the people from having a voice in something that is part of the Texas Constitution,” on Thursday

backed a state lawmaker’s push to let Texans decide whether to split from the Union.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tx-gop-chair-endorses-holding-a-vote-on-texit

You stupid mofo. The US Constitution is the law of the land, and prevails over any state Constitution.



Did not take long for this to go so wrong.

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Pressure for Texas to spend billions earmarked for schools mounts

Time is of the essence, business leaders wrote in a letter to the governor and others.

pressuring the state to clarify when nearly $18 billion will flow to schools.

The federal government allocated the money to Texas to support students’ recovery from the pandemic.

Even as the majority of other states have started the process to send their federal dollars to schools, Texas hasn’t made any moves to do the same (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/04/06/18-billion-in-federal-education-dollars-missing-from-initial-house-and-senate-budget-drafts/).

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/04/15/texas-chambers-pressure-state-leadership-to-funnel-billions-to-schools

Money from the CARES Act, 12 months ago.

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The war of red state vs blue city

Texas Senate revives push to block cities' paid sick leave ordinances

Supporters say Senate Bill 14 will make it easier for businesses to operate in multiple cities.

Opponents call it an "existential threat to Texas workers.”

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/12/texas-employee-benefits-sick-leave-senate/

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Permit-less carry in Texas. fucking sickos, losers whose life and personal identity is based on fucking guns.

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TELL YOUR LEGISLATORS TO REJECT HB 1919

If enacted, HB 1919 will

INCREASE prescription drug costs in Texas by OVER $350 MILLION in the first year it's executed and

more than $4 billion over the next ten years.

The proposed Texas legislation will seriously undermine the ability of PBMs to control drug costs, and as a result, drug spending in Texas will soar.

This government mandate will

restrict the use of preferred pharmacy networks, specialty pharmacies and mail-order pharmacies and, inevitably, hurt patients.

https://www.affordablerxtexas.com/join-us

[Spurtacular]

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Tell us how it hurts.

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Texas AG Ken Paxton tapping outside attorneys, including Trump allies, for high-profile lawsuits



https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=16216A16760A133A717609

shitbag Paxton slinging shit in all directions, typical shitbag Repug bullshit

[RandomGuy]

Tell us how it hurts.

Why so you can have more "Trump is really going to win the election" thread material?

tick tock. :rollin

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Business Coalitions to Speak Out Against Voting Restrictions in Texas

Companies including Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Unilever are set to call for expanded voting access in the state after weeks of silence from national businesses on Republicans’ voting bills there.

One letter comes from a group of large corporations, including

Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Unilever, Salesforce, Patagonia and Sodexo, as well as

local companies and chambers of commerce,

and represents the first major coordinated effort among businesses in Texas to take action against the voting proposals.

Until now, American Airlines and Dell Technologies were the only major corporations to publicly speak out (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/business/american-airlines-dell-texas-voting-bills.html) about the Texas legislation,

and after doing so they quickly found themselves threatened by Republicans in Austin, :lol Repugs' cancel culture! :lol

as Republicans step up their attacks (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/business/delta-coca-cola-georgia-voting-law.html) on “woke corporate hypocrites,” as Senator Marco Rubio put it, that criticize the party’s agenda,

many other companies are proceeding cautiously.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/us/politics/microsoft-hp-patagonia-texas-voting-rights.html

[pgardn]

Tell us how it hurts.

The prototypical Texan?
Fat, out of shape trying to look dangerous.
Why?

And making up shit about what it means to be a Texan while he has moved from Minnesota. So typical.
Why should it hurt, its just embarrassing. Extra chromosomes rule!

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red states in uncivil wars, red rurals vs blue cities

Shithole Texas’ larger cities would face financial penalties for cutting police budgets under bill House tentatively approves

Previously, the Senate approved a bill that would ask for an election if cities decide to reduce law enforcement budgets.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/06/texas-police-budget-cuts-legislature/

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North Texas suburbs in turmoil after being identified as a hotbed of right-wing extremism (https://www.rawstory.com/north-texas-suburbs-in-turmoil-after-being-identified-as-a-hotbed-of-rightwing-extremism-report/)


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communities in North Texas (https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-05-10/right-wing-extremism-is-flourishing-in-north-texas-suburbs-after-capitol-insurrection) that are home to a surprising number of protesters who took part in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6th,

they are now being scrutinized at the same time that locals are choosing sides and turning on each other.

the mayor -- a self-described "moderate Republican" -- admitting that things are growing increasingly out of control.

the deepening rancor between Republican moderates and right-wing extremists over what America should look, sound and feel like."

Fuller explained, "It's just not the party I recognize anymore.

We are at a place where families are torn apart by political ideologies that are so skewed and out of whack,"

before admitting the turmoil has led some members of his family to quit speaking to him.

Collin County ... expansive developments hum with

a conservative extremism propelled by fear,

disillusionment and

social media that trade less on facts than on evoking tribalism."

a conservative extremism propelled by fear,

disillusionment and

social media that trade less on facts than on evoking tribalism."

"It was the most historic event we've ever done." :lol ditzy Texas silly superficial airhead

https://www.rawstory.com/north-texas-suburbs-in-turmoil-after-being-identified-as-a-hotbed-of-rightwing-extremism-report/

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Texas AG Ken Paxton tapping outside attorneys, including Trump allies, for high-profile lawsuits



https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=16216A16760A133A717609

shitbag Paxton slinging shit in all directions, typical shitbag Repug bullshit
Paywall.
Can password be shared?
Uber sleazeball Paxton tapping into Orange Hitlers legal scheme team?

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Don't forget:

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick

suggests he, other seniors willing to die to get economy going again

“Those of us who are 70 plus, we’ll take care of ourselves. But don’t sacrifice the country,” Patrick told Tucker Carlson. :lol

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-suggests-he-other-seniors-willing-n1167341

well, Patrick is still alive, so he was fucking about will to die

Capitalism's inhumanity: Amassing Capital overrides human and all other life

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Texas House OKs bill that would curb the governor and local leaders’ power in a pandemic

The Republican-led House voted Monday night

to curb the governor’s power during a pandemic and

to limit both state and local leaders’ ability to shut businesses or mandate face coverings.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/05/10/texas-house-oks-bill-that-would-curb-the-governor-and-local-leaders-power-in-a-pandemic

Repugs easily bribed by Capitalists to prioritize profits over humans

So the power would in the Texas Congress? eg, totally political, not driven by science or public health?

The NCAA has threatened to cancel the immensely lucrative Final Four men’s basketball tournament in Houston in 2023 and San Antonio in 2025 if the bills become law.

One bill criminalizes parents as child abusers, removes the child from them, if the parents allow trans-gender treatment, just a Christ would do.

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Texas bill used ‘purity of the ballot box' language to claim it will protect voters' rights

This phrase, ... was “drafted specifically to disenfranchise Black voters following the Civil War.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/10/2029832/-Texas-bill-used-purity-of-the-ballot-box-as-language-to-claim-it-will-protect-voters-rights

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Repug Shitbag Fascist Gov. Greg Abbott bans school districts, local governments from issuing or enforcing mask mandates

(https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=16610A17154A4A739212)There will be no mask debate in Texas school districts for the upcoming school year.

On Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=16610A17154A4A739211)

stopping nearly every governmental entity within the state -- including school districts -- from requiring or mandating masks.

Only state-supported homes, state-run hospitals and state, county and municipal jails and prisons will be exempt from the order.

-- email Dallas Morning News

[DarrinS]

Repugh Shitbag Fascist Gov. Greg Abbott bans school districts, local governments from issuing or enforcing mask mandates

(https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=16610A17154A4A739212)There will be no mask debate in Texas school districts for the upcoming school year.

On Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=16610A17154A4A739211)

stopping nearly every governmental entity within the state -- including school districts -- from requiring or mandating masks.

Only state-supported homes, state-run hospitals and state, county and municipal jails and prisons will be exempt from the order.

-- email Dallas Morning News





:tu

[ChumpDumper]

Darrin does not believe in local control.

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Darrin does not believe in local control.

by definition, RWNJs no longer believe in democracy or govt For The People

[Millennial_Messiah]

You must get laid a lot

He does. With other men. And queers

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Shocking video appears to show Klansman parading around Texas classroom –

but school says that’s not what happened :lol gaslighting, don't believe the video, believe us

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6I mh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNjQxNDY5OS9vcmlnaW4 uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNTMzNzQyNH0.rIuwr9wFi abiiKaQ8qSyNhXO0SB1S4cnF-FpwrSj8Bo/image.jpg?width=1200&height=675

https://www.rawstory.com/callisburg-isd-kkk-video

Texas education, What's Not To Ridicule?

[ChumpDumper]

Shocking video appears to show Klansman parading around Texas classroom –

but school says that’s not what happened :lol gaslighting, don't believe the video, believe us

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6I mh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNjQxNDY5OS9vcmlnaW4 uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNTMzNzQyNH0.rIuwr9wFi abiiKaQ8qSyNhXO0SB1S4cnF-FpwrSj8Bo/image.jpg?width=1200&height=675

https://www.rawstory.com/callisburg-isd-kkk-video

Texas education, What's Not To Ridicule?1) If that's Pyramid Head, that's the worst outfit in videogame cosplay history and he should be suspended just for that.

2) What's with the cross? Is he a vampire hunter now?

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1) If that's Pyramid Head, that's the worst outfit in videogame cosplay history and he should be suspended just for that.

2) What's with the cross? Is he a vampire hunter now?

2010 census: population 353

why is this shit in any classroom?

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Andy Borowitz (https://www.facebook.com/andyborowitz?__cft__[0]=AZXtAcsteaGnYidrwX33h_oxVA6rNgW_FhD25TD9tX2Qbrk4H BZHIvDO8VDFN5qrrKSOkMSvR-EZnB8ZwueyLgT3a_6kwQPNio7YmJplEWoe9ijHdOOL0nD44Qob SlMapvtLgCxiIvf1PyS1Pei5kPx2xAItMHRPqMPtW0H48cStR4 prq7en7J78rBlRYsHSs0DyQXAJSyVDDJUsetM_gZ2O&__tn__=-UC%2CP-R)

There is a procedure to abort a Texas governor

who shows no sign of brain activity.

It’s called voting.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will decide how to spend federal COVID-19 relief money under budget compromise

House members had voted earlier that the Legislature should have input,

but a conference committee dropped that provision

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/05/19/texas-gov-greg-abbott-will-decide-how-to-spend-federal-covid-19-relief-money-under-budget-compromise

Fascist Abbott gets $Bs for political slush fund for corrupt Texas

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Texas may neuter cities' powers to create rules around business hiring, benefits

who gets to set rules around hiring and employee benefits at private companies.

Senate Bill 14 (https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00014E.htm) would

stop municipalities and counties from adopting rules around terms of employment "that exceed or conflict with federal or state law."

Those terms include
employment leave,
hiring practices,
employment benefits and
scheduling practices.

That would bar things such as

mandatory paid sick leave in Austin, Dallas and San Antonio, and

could impact other local ordinances that have been in effect for years.

Proponents call the move necessary to avoid a patchwork of regulations that change from one city to the next.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2021/05/20/texas-local-control-hiring.html

:lol Red Repugs now against competition in order to screw blue cities, while screwing Labor as bribed by Capital

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GOP-led Texas Legislature wants to deny state work to firms that spurn gun industry

Major banks and tech firms could be barred from future contracts in Texas, under a

Republican-led effort to punch back at companies that cut ties with the firearms industry.

A bill nearing Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk would stop the state from inking contracts with businesses that refuse to work with gun sellers, manufacturers or trade associations, such as the National Rifle Association.

Local governments would face the same limitations, which apply to deals worth $100,000 or more.

The legislation was filed after several companies began restricting business with the gun industry following deadly mass shootings in recent years.

critics warn the move is an unconstitutional limit on free speech that will almost surely draw court challenges.

“We don’t need a thought police,”

this year’s efforts are more expansive and could carry significant financial impact.

another nearing Abbott’s desk would

bar the state from contracting with firms that “boycott” fossil fuels.

The bill also calls for pension funds (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/11/texas-oil-gas-legislature-wall-street/), such as the state employees and teacher retirement systems, to divest from companies that cut ties with oil and gas.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/05/21/gop-led-texas-legislature-wants-to-deny-state-work-to-firms-that-spurn-gun-industry

What shithole is Texas, filled with shitbag politicians elected by shitbag voters.

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Texas Republicans Are Trying to Protect Trucking Companies from Lawsuits

The initiative is part of a larger, decades-long push for tort reform in the state.

The bill’s language (https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/HB00019E.pdf#navpanes=0) would essentially

shift liability from the company to drivers

who may not have the financial means to fully compensate plaintiffs.

It may also prevent certain information about a company’s past accident history from being introduced as evidence.

So if jurors wanted to know whether a company required drivers to undergo safety training;

do routine maintenance on its trucks;

or if the company’s drivers have a habit of getting into wrecks,

it could be inadmissable.

The trucking industry says it needs more protection from lawsuits because of skyrocketing insurance premiums.

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-republicans-are-trying-to-protect-trucking-companies-from-lawsuits

Looks like the drivers have been outbid in bribing the TX shitbag legislators. Who Bribes, Wins.

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Guns, police and the national anthem: Dan Patrick priorities sail through Texas House

legislation supporting the national anthem :lol and barring hotels from prohibiting guns in guests’ rooms.

high-profile, red meat bills

“We’re in the last week of the session and the Legislature is taking up unnecessary and divisive bills,”

the House took up legislation filed in response to calls to “defund the police.”

Senate Bill 23 (https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=87R&Bill=SB23) would require the state’s largest counties to hold an election if they wish to cut funding to a local law enforcement agency.

Counties would be prohibited from spending their own money to educate voters ahead of the election, and any that fail to hold one at all could lose their ability to raise taxes.

The legislation applies

only to areas with populations of 1 million or more, namely Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar and Travis counties, most of which are led by Democrats. :lol the intra-state Civil War, red state vs blue cities

“The problem in my community is not the defund issue. The problem is policing,”

Patrick’s “Star-Spangled Banner” legislation, which was filed after the Dallas Mavericks went 13 games without the national anthem earlier this season.

It would require professional sports teams that receive public funding to pledge that the song will be played. :lol

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/05/24/guns-police-and-the-national-anthem-dan-patrick-priorities-sail-through-texas-house

Led by hate radio / hate monger Patrick, Texas establishing its cred to the world as a rural, ignorant, stupidly Religious SHIT HOLE

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MySA email:

"First, did you know Texas now has its own official handgun?

'Cause we do!

Governor Abbott :lol signed a resolution yesterday declaring

the 1847 Colt Walker pistol (https://link.mysanantonio.com/click/23954363.15119/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubXlzYW5hbnRvbmlvLmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy 9hcnRpY2xlL2dyZWctYWJib3R0LXRleGFzLW9mZmljaWFsLWhh bmRndW4tY29sdC13YWxrZXItMTYxOTg2NzIucGhwP3NpZD01OT M2YzU4ODJkZGY5YzQ4NmVmNDA2MmYmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdz bGV0dGVyJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9bm V3c19hJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1teXNhX21vcm5pbmdoZWFkbGlu ZXM/5936c5882ddf9c486ef4062fB7ed339d1) the state's handgun. "

Shitbag TX pols pandering to the shitbag lowest common denominators in shithole Texas

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Thank your poll workers.

They are under suspicion.

our legislators appear ready to pass a bill based on the belief that our election officials are devious crooks determined to undermine our democracy by assisting in voting fraud.

Senate Bill 7, outlaws the ways in which some counties made voting easier during the pandemic,

especially in Houston’s Harris County, where drive-thru voting and a few nights of 24-hour voting were very popular.

The new restrictions come despite no evidence that these practices led to voter fraud.

errors by election workers could result in personal fines or even criminal charges.

In addition, election workers could face criminal charges if they obstructed the view of partisan poll watchers.

These poll watchers, appointed by candidates and usually given no training, would be

free to roam the voting site and

would be allowed to video interactions between poll workers providing assistance to people with language limitations or disabilities.

Ordinary citizens and even election officials are prohibited from recording video in a polling place and

would not be allowed to visually document poll watchers who were being obnoxious or even intimidating voters – behavior that has happened in the past.

The legislation provides no sanctions for misbehaving poll watchers,

apparently assuming partisan poll watchers are above suspicion,

but not poll workers with a history of honest service.

the legislation provides a formula that

restricts local authorities in counties with a population greater than 1 million – which tend to vote Democrat –

in the placement of polling places.

all 13 of the Harris County legislative districts that would lose polling places under the bill have elected Democratic legislators,

whereas nine of the 11 districts that would gain polling places are represented by Republicans,


https://sanantonioreport.org/thank-your-poll-workers-they-are-under-suspicion

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Patrick has red meat he wants back on the grill

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asks Gov. Greg Abbott for special session after GOP bills fizzle in Texas House

At midnight on Tuesday, that bill, as well as two others backed by Republicans, died in the Texas House,

Senate Bill 29 (https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB29/2021) would have banned trans girls from participating in girls’ sports teams.

Patrick tweeted that he’s calling upon Abbott to call a special session in order to pass SB 29, as well as SB 10 (https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB10/2021) and SB 12 (https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB12/id/2317860).

#SB10 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SB10?src=hashtag_click) to end taxpayer funded lobbying and

#SB12 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SB12?src=hashtag_click) to stop social media censorship.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2032210

SB10 sounds reasonable, how can Patrick possibly be pushing it?

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Power struggle: Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick again at odds over who’s in charge in Texas

https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=16779A17322A27A748627

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How much red meat is enough for the Texas Republican diet?

https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=16779A17322A27A748628

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Rick Perry says Texans would accept even longer power outages

‘to keep the federal government out of their business’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/17/texas-abbott-wind-turbines-outages/

shithole TX shitbag Repugs delighted to receive $10Bs from the hated "federal government" after URI storm or after all the hurricanes,

plus the Fed subsidized weather insurance for beach homes of the (Repug) wealthy.

[DMC]

Keep talking to yourself, bot

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Jim Crow / Jaime Cuervo in slave state Confederate Texas

Experts slam 'horrible' final voting bill in Texas for 'new, egregious suppression measures'

The bill would need to be re-approved by the state House and Senate by Sunday evening,

when the legislative session concludes,

putting pressure on Republicans to move the bill forward with little time for the public to review the final text.

Legal experts immediately slammed the bill as a full-frontal assault on voting rights.

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Lots of other details in the that twitter thread

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-voter-suppression-republicans/

[ChumpDumper]

Jim Crow / Jaime Cuervo in slave state Confederate Texas

Experts slam 'horrible' final voting bill in Texas for 'new, egregious suppression measures'

The bill would need to be re-approved by the state House and Senate by Sunday evening,

when the legislative session concludes,

putting pressure on Republicans to move the bill forward with little time for the public to review the final text.

Legal experts immediately slammed the bill as a full-frontal assault on voting rights.

1398675530069782532

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-voter-suppression-republicans/It's awful and was produced in secret.

Can probably quasi-filibuster it though. At least force a special session.

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Did they forget about criminalizing people providing water and food to voters forced to stand in line for long periods?

shitbag Repugs digging the Texas shithole deeper and wider.

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Teslas made in Texas will likely have to leave the state before Texans can buy them

Due to a Texas law that might not change until 2023

Because of state laws banning car companies from selling directly to consumers, Tesla could end up shipping the cars from its Austin factory to other states, before they’re sent back to their Texan buyers.

Laws preventing automakers from selling their vehicles directly to consumers aren’t unique to Texas,

nor are they targeted at Tesla:

they were originally put in place (https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/cant-buy-tesla-states-161318245.html) in many states to keep manufacturers from undercutting their franchised dealers,

and putting them out of business.

Tesla doesn’t have franchised dealers to protect,

but that doesn’t matter to Texas law as it’s currently written.

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/5/30/22457455/tesla-texas-factory-law-ship-out-of-state-direct-sale-legislation

[FrostKing]

Keep talking to yourself, bot
Holy shit 13 straight posts. Copy paste marathon.

There are numerous threads on the front page like this one.

[DMC]

Holy shit 13 straight posts. Copy paste marathon.

There are numerous threads on the front page like this one.

No one reads it, he's been doing it for years. Indistinguishable from a script.

[ChumpDumper]

I read some of it. Good stuff.:tu

[Thread]

Teslas made in Texas will likely have to leave the state before Texans can buy them


- "Promises, promises."

- Ernie "The Cat" Ladd

[MultiTroll]

Teslas made in Texas will likely have to leave the state before Texans can buy them
Beyond pathetic.
Hopefully something arises by the time the factory is rolling and erases the Repug dictatorships laws.

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Greg Abbott Tries to Lure Back Democratic Lawmakers by Offering NPR Tote Bags

AUSTIN —In a video message posted on Sunday, the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, attempted to lure Democratic lawmakers back to work by offering them free NPR tote bags.

Displaying one of the canvas bags on offer, Abbott said that it was

“perfect for carrying around all your liberal needs.”

“Let’s say you want to bring a copy of Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ to work,

or perhaps some amazing book by Rachel Maddow,” he said.

“With this limited-edition tote, you’ll be the envy of all your lib friends.”

Abbott told lawmakers that the tote bag, which comes with a “Fresh Air” mug, could be theirs, free of charge,

but only if they return to work on Monday.

“Come and get it, snowflakes,” he said.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/greg-abbott-tries-to-lure-back-democratic-lawmakers-by-offering-npr-tote-bags (https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/greg-abbott-tries-to-lure-back-democratic-lawmakers-by-offering-npr-tote-bags)

[Frenchfred]

Waow, the government in Texas looks really bad, took some lessons from a dictatorship book

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Texas mom :lol accidentally shoots her own child :lol

while firing gunshots at roaming puppy :lol

https://www.rawstory.com/open-carry-texas

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Texas spent another 22,000 hours hunting for 'election fraud' and didn't find a damn thing

The Houston Chronicle is reporting (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Ken-Paxton-s-beefed-up-2020-voter-fraud-unit-15820210.php) the latest numbers from Paxton's aggressive search for "voter fraud" in the state, and

the numbers are about what you'd expect for an indicted ultrapartisan casting lines everywhere in search of justifications for his party's attacks on voting rights.

Paxton's office logged "more than 22,000 staff hours" working on voter fraud cases in the last year,

roughly doubling both the law enforcement officers and prosecutors already assigned
to those cases. All 22,000 hours were paid for by Texas voters.

Sixteen cases. The team closed out 16 cases, all of them for Houston-area residents who

wrote "false addresses" on voter registration forms.

None of the 16 went to jail for it. That's in keeping with his department's long-term record,

which has never found any organized fraud

of the sort Paxton continues to insist exists somewhere, just beyond our visible realms.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2033306 (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2033306)

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Abbott's disaster declaration along Texas border receives backlash



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Abbott issued a disaster declaration in response to what he is calling a border crisis due to the "ongoing influx of unlawful immigrants."

The order authorizes all available state resources to assist state and local law enforcement to protect Texans from property damage, trespassing, smuggling, and human trafficking.

The Governor directed the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to take all necessary steps to

discontinue state licensure of any child care facility under a contract with the federal government that shelters or detains unlawful immigrants.

Abbott directed the Texas Commission on Jail Standards and the Texas Commission to work with Texas counties to request any necessary waivers in order

to give counties the flexibility needed to establish alternative detention facilities or otherwise add or expand capacity.

"cynical political move" that will keep vulnerable kids locked in border jails.

He said Abbott's intentionally sabotaging the system for resettling unaccompanied children.

Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat, told KXAN he doesn't support Abbott's labeling of the situation at the border as a "disaster."

"This is a state version of [former President Donald Trump] declaring a border emergency. I disagree with that."

Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez ... says that

local law enforcement had not reported a level of criminal activity that would require a disaster proclamation.

I have repeatedly suggested to our federal government to address comprehensive immigration reform :lol will be blocked by Repugs

Abbott's order is an attempt to distract from "his failure of leadership," adding his "political stunts" are the real threats to Texans.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Greg-Abbott-disaster-declaration-border-Texas-16222241.php (https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Greg-Abbott-disaster-declaration-border-Texas-16222241.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mysa_afternoonheadlines&utm_content=news&stn=nf&sid=5936c5882ddf9c486ef4062f)

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Once a slave state, always a slave state


Texas Creates ‘1836 Project’ :lol

to Promote ‘Patriotic Education’ :lol

and ‘Christian Heritage’ :lol

https://files.rightwingwatch.org/uploads/Greg-Abbott-official.jpg

Abbott signed legislation (https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1334141) Monday establishing the “1836 Project,” an advisory committee that he said will promote “patriotic education” and

ensure that future generations understand Texas values. :lol which are? :lol

The legislation requires the project to promote the state’s “Christian heritage.” :lol kill the Catholic Mexicans :lol

a “flurry” of proposed measures in Texas that would amount to

“some of the most aggressive efforts to control the teaching of American history”

as “nearly a dozen other Republican-led states seek to

ban or limit how the role of slavery and pervasive effects of racism can be taught.”

the 1836 Project will initially focus on parks, museums, and landmarks,

but some teachers are concerned about the impact it will eventually have on curriculum and classroom teaching.

“To keep Texas the best state in the United States of America, :lol

we must never forget why Texas became so exceptional in the first place,” :lol

the state’s history of encouraging settlement by slave owners :lol

and

its decision to secede from the Union in response to northern states’ hostility to the

“beneficent and patriarchal system of African slavery.” :lol

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/texas-creates-1836-project-to-promote-patriotic-education-and-christian-heritage/

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Big rig lawsuit bill awaits Gov. Abbott’s signature

Legislation imposes limits on what can be brought up during trials

a bill that would change how certain cases involving 18-wheelers and other commercial vehicles are tried in Texas.

Supporters said the legislation is necessary because

the number of lawsuits involving big rigs, and damages from those suits,

have created a treacherous legal environment for commercial vehicle owners. :lol how about big rig dead victims?

The legislation requires trials involving crashes with 18-wheelers or other commercial vehicles to be split similarly to criminal trials in Texas.

A company would have to be found negligent in a crash in the first phase

before the case would proceed to a second phase.

If a safety violation is a factor in a crash, it can be addressed in the first phase.

Otherwise, a company’s overall safety record could only be brought up in that second phase, where punitive damages would be decided.

“The overall version of this bill still makes our roads more dangerous,”

if these companies really want to drive down insurance prices, let’s work with them on that.

We want safer roads, and we can actually guarantee that safer roads will bring down insurance costs.”

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2021/06/09/big-rig-lawsuit-bill-awaits-gov-abbotts-signature/

Sounds like the TX medical tort reform so doctors/insurance companies would pay less when docs screw up patients

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wannabe Macho Man assholes in their Hollywood cowboy hats
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California attracts people from all over the world, Texas doesn’t. Texas has no appeal for a lot of europeans as it is seen as this flat, hot place with a lot of gun happy, churchgoers people with nothing to do.

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California attracts people from all over the world, Texas doesn’t. Texas has no appeal for a lot of europeans as it is seen as this flat, hot place with a lot of gun happy, churchgoers people with nothing to do.

But they don't & won't do A/C in California. They'll do A/C in Texas.

[Frenchfred]

But they don't & won't do A/C in California. They'll do A/C in Texas.

Cali better growth than texas and florida combined :clap

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Cali better growth than texas and florida combined :clap

At least Florida will do A/C.

[Frenchfred]

At least Florida will do A/C.

Just waiting for all the babyboomers to die and Florida will turn blue especially by adding more immigrants. Eventually, Texas will turn blue too with all the Californians moving there and the immigrants. That's your fate buddy :p:

[Thread]

Just waiting for all the babyboomers to die and Florida will turn blue especially by adding more immigrants. Eventually, Texas will turn blue too with all the Californians moving there and the immigrants. That's your fate buddy :p:

I will have grown older, grayer and I will have died by then.

[Frenchfred]

I will have grown older, grayer and I will have died by then.

it is coming faster than you think :bobo

[Thread]

it is coming faster than you think :bobo

It never comes slower unfortunately.

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Cancel Culture loved by shitbag Repugs

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Bullock Museum nix event for book that challenges Alamo history

https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=17516A18051A15A789198

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Forget the Alamo

A new breed of scholars is rewriting Texas history

to debunk the myths, explore the overlooked, and find heroism in the everyday lives of women and minorities—

all while fending off charges of “flabby multiculturalism.”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/forget-the-alamo/

[Blake]

Cancel Culture loved by shitbag Repugs

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Bullock Museum nix event for book that challenges Alamo history

https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=17516A18051A15A789198

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

Forget the Alamo

A new breed of scholars is rewriting Texas history

to debunk the myths, explore the overlooked, and find heroism in the everyday lives of women and minorities—

all while fending off charges of “flabby multiculturalism.”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/forget-the-alamo/




Patrick is the biggest piece of rat shit west of the Mississippi

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Allen West announces run for governor,

as "Dazed and Confused" trails Abbott,

who has only begun to out-Trash Trash for Trash's cult mob.

Slave state TX ain't never gonna elect no knitter as guv

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Canceled slavery-Alamo discussion:

Forget Dan Patrick’s fact-free tweet

There is good news and bad news in Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s blocking (https://sanantonioreport.org/authors-say-state-museum-canceled-book-event-examining-slaverys-role-in-battle-of-the-alamo-after-texas-gop-leaders-complained/) Thursday of an online panel co-hosted by the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin on Forget the Alamo, a book that thoroughly debunks large chunks of the Alamo myth.

The good news is that it sent sales of the book soaring.

Before Patrick’s action and the publicity it provoked, the book, which came out a month ago, was ranked in the mid-500s on the Amazon sales chart — a respectable but not spectacular position. Patrick, a publisher’s dream, drew national publicity that sent it soaring to as high as No. 17 over the weekend.

Sunday it was listed No. 1 in Amazon’s U.S. History category,

More importantly, though, Patrick’s “cancellation” just hours before the event’s scheduled start will lead to significantly broader exposure of the book’s thesis.

Those who had registered for the event lost the opportunity to hear the authors.

But magnitudes more will have read the book, thanks to Patrick, and many will recommend it and pass it on to friends and relatives.

https://sanantonioreport.org/forget-the-alamo-dan-patrick-tweet

Patrick, full of Texas BULLSHIT

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GOP Congressman on bipartisanship: We want "18 more months of chaos and the inability to get stuff done"

“Honestly, right now, for the next 18 months, our job is to do everything we can to slow all of that down to get to December of 2022, and then get in here and lead,” said Roy.

Roy replaced rich white old-money guy Lamar Smith, San Antonio and to the northwest

[DMC]

Just waiting for all the babyboomers to die and Florida will turn blue especially by adding more immigrants. Eventually, Texas will turn blue too with all the Californians moving there and the immigrants. That's your fate buddy :p:

Most Cuban voters identify as Republicans in 2020.

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Fringe benefits:

Special session ignores pandemic,

energy crisis in prelude to 2022 primary elections


Public health and secure energy are not on the agenda.

Neither is the unresolved matter of how to efficiently and fairly allocate billions of dollars in federal stimulus funds controlled by the state —funds that could prove key to further accelerating the state’s post-pandemic economic rebound.

The priority item, of course, is a bill that

corrals innovative county election officials and

further contains the ways Texans can register and vote.

continuing effort (https://sanantonioreport.org/civics-lesson-in-texas-the-history-of-suppressing-the-vote-is-a-long-one/), part of a larger red state initiative to pass voter suppression laws

https://sanantonioreport.org/abbott-special-session-ignores-pandemic-energy-2022-primary

Silly, constipated, ossified, sclerotic, myth-drenched Texas.

30M people now and legislature still meets bi-annually likes it's 1845

All Repugs up for (re) election are matching or out-matching Trash.

America is fucked and unfuckable

[Frenchfred]

Most Cuban voters identify as Republicans in 2020.

cubans are only 20% of the immigrant population of Florida

[Thread]

cubans are only 20% of the immigrant population of Florida

Nazi's!!!

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cubans are only 20% of the immigrant population of Florida

26% of FL Hispanics

but only

7% of all Florida

[DMC]

cubans are only 20% of the immigrant population of Florida

About 3x the next nationality immigrants.

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Texas BLACK Man Who Waited Hours to Vote Is Arrested on Charges of Illegal Voting

Hervis Rogers was ineligible to cast a ballot in the 2020 presidential primary because he was still on parole, according to the state’s attorney general.

He now faces four decades in prison.

On Wednesday, he was arrested and charged with two counts of illegal voting, a felony.

According to court documents, the charges stem from ballots that Mr. Rogers cast on March 3, 2020, and on Nov. 6, 2018, while he was still on parole and not legally permitted to vote.

Texas’ election laws also stipulate that a person must knowingly vote illegally to be guilty of a crime.

Experts say (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/us/felony-voting-rights-law.html) that disparities in sentencing can make felony voting laws inherently discriminatory against minorities and people with low incomes.

Mr. Rogers was being held at the Montgomery County Jail with bail set at $100,000.

He could face upward of 40 years in prison — 20 years for each charge,

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/10/us/texas-primary-voter-arrested.html

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Hundreds of Texans line up to testify over GOP's voting bill in the special legislative session

The bills’ authors are moving to ban drive-thru and 24-hour voting options, enhance access for partisan poll watchers and prohibit local election officials from proactively distributing applications to request mail-in ballots. Both bills also include language to further restrict the state’s voting-by-mail rules, including new ID requirements for absentee voters.

The bills’ authors are still moving

to ban drive-thru and 24-hour voting options,

enhance access for partisan poll watchers

and prohibit local election officials from proactively distributing applications to request mail-in ballots.

Both bills also include language to

further restrict the state’s voting-by-mail rules,

including new ID requirements for absentee voters.

“By and large, individual voters are trying to vote. :lol

They’re trying to do the right thing. :lol

We want them to do that. :lol

The security measures in this bill, by and large, are

directed at vote harvesters :lol

or folks who are trying to steal votes.” :lol

Texas Republicans have pitched their voting bill as part of an effort

to bolster the security of Texas elections :lol

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/10/voting-bill-texas/

Shithole Texas shitbag Repugs are full of racist shit

No evidence of any voter fraud that shitbag Texans are working so dishonestly to block

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Rural counties hurt worst by politicizing bail policy:

My testimony against Texas' bail bill

testified against HB 2 - the Governor's bill attacking judicial discretion in bail setting

it will boost local jail incarceration rates and

put additional upward pressure on property taxes with no particular benefit to public safety,

but with many identifiable harms.

93 Texas counties are paying to house prisoners outside their county jails to avoid exceeding state overcrowding standards.

Nearly all of these are rural and border counties.

This legislation will harm counties by increasing pretrial incarceration in cases where judges previously recommended release.

it will mean more prisoners housed outside the jail for which counties must pay per-diem contract rates.

This bill is completely different from the bills we saw in the regular session.

It doesn’t feel like there’s a plan so much as a political agenda, and that never leads to good outcomes in the justice system.

About 376,000 people were released on bond over this period.

79 went on to kill someone while out on multiple bonds, or 0.02 percent; only 0.01 percent, or,

38 alleged killers, had received multiple felony bonds over the eight years the Chronicle looked at, or an average of just less than 5 per year.

In a city of 2.3 million, with a justice system as vast as Houston’s, these are tiny numbers.

https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2021/07/rural-counties-hurt-worst-by.html

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Gohmert blames Jan. 6 riot on Democrats and a government conspiracy

East Texas tea partier claims that arrests of rioters are a form of ‘intimidation’ and ‘tyranny.’

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Greg Abbott Calls Texas's New Voting Laws No More Restrictive Than North Korea's

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Gohmert blames Jan. 6 riot on Democrats and a government conspiracy

East Texas tea partier claims that arrests of rioters are a form of ‘intimidation’ and ‘tyranny.’

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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/07/11/cpac-rep-louie-gohmert-blames-jan-6-riot-on-democrats-and-a-government-conspiracy

They're just damn fortunate they didn't get mowed down. They'll be ready next time on orders from mother fucker Biden.

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Texas Democrats plan to leave state to stop GOP voting bill

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Texas-Democrats-plan-to-leave-state-to-stop-GOP-16309089.php

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Andy Borowitz (https://www.facebook.com/andyborowitz?__cft__[0]=AZW4zjAjqPBJ5UqX-uOeFXNVpu-yjG0Xm0MbsvZs3YVxQsgojubA_ZJXLR1a61vlFepLzBoPvzEv8 KmEaWhmXJLyk_FjNZof0FQ1XAmCzPRaWb_vzv_VORfmSpSSNqo ldZtW6RKVs4sa4o81ESucZYGAsPr3X_3pH2ttwCJqlxpiowpsa qNhglc5hM3UrrHCBTggWJzrpvM-S6GsjvyXfRj7&__tn__=-UC%2CP-R)

Border Wall Fails To Stop Texas Democratic Legislators From Escaping To Mexico

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Fascist Abbutt deputizing every citizen into his forced-birth Schutzstaffel

Lawsuit targets Texas abortion law deputizing citizens to enforce six-week ban

Abortion rights advocates and providers filed a federal lawsuit in Texas on Tuesday seeking to block

a new state law empowering individuals to sue anyone assisting a woman with getting an abortion,

including those who provide financial help or drive a pregnant patient to a clinic.

A dozen states have passed laws banning abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy.

But the Texas law, set to take effect in September, goes further by

incentivizing private citizens to help enforce the ban -

awarding them at least $10,000 if their court challenges are successful.

Even religious leaders who counsel a pregnant woman considering an abortion could be liable,

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/healthcare/article/Lawsuit-targets-Texas-abortion-law-six-week-ban-16311392.php

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[Frenchfred]

About 3x the next nationality immigrants.

still a minority among immigrants

[DMC]

still a minority among immigrants

You assume other immigrants all fall on the dem side.

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TX behind worst AZ (all states Repug states, cept NV)

These 10 states are America's worst places to live in 2021

KEY POINTS


Even as the pandemic subsides, many companies are allowing their employees to continue working from home.
States are increasingly emphasizing their quality of life as they seek to attract business and jobs, but not every state delivers on its promises.
The pandemic and the push for social justice are changing the definition of quality of life. CNBC takes those changes into account in the latest America's Top States for Business study.

10 Indiana
9 LA
8 AR
7 AL
6 GA
5 TN
3 MO NV
2 TX
1 AZ



2. Texas

https://image-cnbcfm-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/AW/s/image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106890310-16223959702021-05-30t144337z_732757617_rc2eqn909wbx_rtrmadp_0_usa-election-texas.jpeg?v=1623946082&w=720&h=405
Voting rights activists gather during a protest against Texas legislators who are advancing new voting restrictions in Austin, Texas, U.S., May 8, 2021.

For all its strength as a place to do business,

Texas (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/13/top-states-for-business-texas.html) keeps trying to outdo itself when it comes to laws and policies that are seen as exclusionary.

It is one of the only states with no public accommodation law to protect against discrimination.

Texas Democrats thwarted (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/texas-democrats-stage-walkout-stop-debate-restrictive-voting-bill-delaying-n1269079) a bill that would have further restricted voting in

a state that is already, by some measures, the hardest to vote in.

That likely saved the Lone Star State from finishing at the bottom of this list,

though Governor Greg Abbott and legislators are pushing ahead (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/runaway-texas-democrats-urge-filibuster-carveout-gop-seeks-their-return-n1273825) in a new special session to pass the legislation.

Democratic lawmakers fled the state as a way to slow down the process and draw national attention,

while the Texas Senate already voted in favor of the bill.

2021 Life, Health and Inclusion score: 104 out of 375 points (Top States Grade: F)

Strength: Hospital resources

Weaknesses: Inclusiveness, health, voting rights, public health funding

https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/07/16/these-states-are-americas-worst-places-to-live-in.html

[Frenchfred]

You assume other immigrants all fall on the dem side.

not all, the majority

[Thread]

not all, the majority

Nazi's!!!

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and then there's the TX black parolee looking at 40 years in prison, $100K bail, for voting twice on parole

Critical Race Theory, it's the systematic shit forced on blacks all every day, their entire lives.

[boutons_deux]

Texas Republican Urges Election Audit —

In Counties Biden Won

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Texas state Rep. Steve Toth (R) on Monday announced (https://www.woodlandsonline.com/npps/story.cfm?nppage=70478) that he had filed legislation calling for a "forensic audit" of the state's 2020 election results.

calls for an audit in "every precinct in each county with a population of 415,000 or more."

This would disproportionately target counties that voted for Biden.

https://www.nationalmemo.com/texas-audit-steve-toth-

"He is a former pastor at Family Life Ministries of the Fellowship of The Woodlands, a congregation now known as The Woodlands Church.[5] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Toth#cite_note-threevie-5)

He was formerly an elder and teacher at another non-denominational congregation, WoodsEdge Community Church also in The Woodlands, Texas."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Toth

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What's Happening With Bail Reform At The Texas Legislature's Special Session?

special session GOP bail bills

would keep more people who have been accused but not convicted of violent or sexual crimes in jail unless they had enough cash to bond out;

expand the list of offenses for which defendants may not be released on cashless personal bonds;

and restrict charitable groups’ ability to pay to get criminal defendants out of jail.

increasing reliance on money bail would lead to the mass detention of poor criminal defendants (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/10/texas-bail-bills-legislature/) while those who are wealthy could still walk free, and

that a proposed statewide risk assessment tool would unfairly punish minority defendants.

GOP bail bills aim to keep more criminal defendants deemed dangerous behind bars.

https://www.tpr.org/podcast/the-source/2021-07-21/whats-happening-with-bail-reform-at-the-texas-legislatures-special-session

[RandomGuy]

What's Happening With Bail Reform At The Texas Legislature's Special Session?

special session GOP bail bills

would keep more people who have been accused but not convicted of violent or sexual crimes in jail unless they had enough cash to bond out;

expand the list of offenses for which defendants may not be released on cashless personal bonds;

and restrict charitable groups’ ability to pay to get criminal defendants out of jail.

increasing reliance on money bail would lead to the mass detention of poor criminal defendants (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/10/texas-bail-bills-legislature/) while those who are wealthy could still walk free, and

that a proposed statewide risk assessment tool would unfairly punish minority defendants.

GOP bail bills aim to keep more criminal defendants deemed dangerous behind bars.

https://www.tpr.org/podcast/the-source/2021-07-21/whats-happening-with-bail-reform-at-the-texas-legislatures-special-session



Just boggles the mind.

Grifty bills gonna be grifty bills.

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Ku Klux Klan is no longer 'morally wrong' in bill that just passed Texas Senate

Just last week, the Texas Senate passed legislation ending all requirements that public schools in Texas teach about
women’s suffrage and
the civil rights movement in social studies classes.

Texas children will no longer need to be bothered with learning about
Susan B. Anthony,
Cesar Chavez, or
Martin Luther King Jr., whose “I Have a Dream" speech and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” would no longer be required curriculum.

Texas senators took it a step further. On Wednesday, July 21, they

voted to pass a bill that would remove a requirement for public school teachers to teach that the Ku Klux Klan is "morally wrong." (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-senate-passes-bill-removes-requirement-teach-ku-klux-klan-n1274610)

So if a teacher wants to have a group of fifth graders justify the Klan’s treatment of Black people—now they can have at it.

(BTW, that’s not a hypothetical. That actually happened in South Carolina (https://time.com/4949550/kkk-assignment-south-carolina-teacher/).)

When this latest bill passed, the lieutenant governor stated that it would make certain that critical race theory isn’t taught in Texas.

However, the Senate-passed bill

removes almost all mentions of people of color and women,

as well as the requirement that white supremacy and the groups that support them, like the KK, are morally wrong.

racist legislators are using the threat of the 1619 Project

as an excuse to purge all civil rights and women’s suffrage curriculum out of the classrooms, and

turn the clock back in schools to the pre-civil rights era.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/21/2041235/-Ku-Klux-Klan-is-no-longer-morally-wrong-in-bill-that-just-passed-Texas-Senate

[boutons_deux]

Gov. Abbott ended federal unemployment in Texas to get people back to work.

Now, claims for state unemployment are going up

In the month since the governor ended the extra federal benefits, the trendline for people applying for state unemployment benefits is going up.

With the highly-contagious Delta variant now causing a big spike in cases in Texas - where masks aren’t mandated, and the vaccination rate is lackluster -

people at high risk may have renewed health concerns.

Importantly, though, as of last month,

the state no longer allows that as a reason to refuse work.

https://www.wfaa.com/article/money/business/right-on-the-money/texas-claims-state-unemployment-going-up/287-cb74c354-5002-41e3-ac9f-3cc35031d604

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Shithole Texas shitbag Governor focuses on denying workers paid sick leave

The Delta variant is ravaging Texas.

But Abbott has not only rescinded all state efforts to slow the spread of COVID but, in July, signed

an executive order (https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/EO-GA-38_continued_response_to_the_COVID-19_disaster_IMAGE_07-29-2021.pdf) preventing cities and counties from taking action.

The executive order states that no "county, city, school district, [or] public health authority " can "require any person to wear a face covering" or get a COVID-19 vaccine.

(There is an exception that allows jails and hospitals to require masks.)

It also stops local governments from mandating COVID-19 vaccines.

The executive order also prohibits any "COVID-19-related limitations imposed by local governmental entities or officials" on businesses.

But for Abbott, this executive order is not enough. He called a special session (https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/PROC_second_called_session_87th_legislature_IMAGE_ 08-05-21.pdf) of the legislature that began last Saturday at noon.

In this new session, Abbott has added several new items, including this one:

Legislation shielding private employers and employees from political subdivision rules, regulations, ordinances, and other actions that require any terms of employment that exceed or conflict with federal or state law relating to any form of employment leave, hiring practices, employment benefits, or scheduling practices.

What is this about? According to The Texas Tribune (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/02/greg-abbott-texas-special-legislative-session/), the item is

"a longtime priority of the business community that has failed in recent regular sessions:

preempting local labor laws, such as mandatory paid sick leave."

So during a raging pandemic, Abbott has called an "extraordinary session (https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/PROC_second_called_session_87th_legislature_IMAGE_ 08-05-21.pdf)" to make it harder for people to get paid sick leave.

access to paid sick leave means that fewer people show up to work when they are sick.

Keeping sick people at home is a fundamental way to control the spread of COVID.

Currently, about 40% of Texas workers (https://www.star-telegram.com/latest-news/article241076471.html), which is more than 4 million people, lack paid sick leave.

This includes 75% of service industry employees.

In recent years, Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio have

passed ordinances requiring employers to offer paid sick leave.

These ordinances, however, were blocked by Texas and federal courts,

which found it conflicted with Texas' minimum wage law by requiring compensation in excess of the minimum.

Business lobbyists, however, are still worried and want a state law prohibiting cities localities from passing future ordinances.

Abbott is happy to oblige.

Texas chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) issued a press release (https://www.nfib.com/content/news/texas/nfib-thanks-gov-abbott-for-putting-regulatory-consistency-on-agenda-for-special-session/) praising him.

The Texas NFIB thanked Abbott for putting "regulatory consistency" on the agenda. :lol consistently fucking Labor

The group claimed it will stop "a confusing and contradictory patchwork of local ordinances."

While the Texas NFIB claims to support "regulatory consistency," it does not support a state law requiring paid sick leave for all workers.

Rather the Texas NFIB leads a business lobbying group called ASSET to fight paid sick leave laws.

efforts in San Antonio and other cities

to require paid sick leave show "a complete disregard for the entrepreneurs who have invested back into this state in the form of community service, job creation, and bearing the brunt of the tax load."

Such laws, ASSET claims, "bear no substantial relationship to a legitimate government interest."

ASSET even asserts, without any real evidence, that paid sick leave laws are "extremely harmful" to Texas employees.

a series of anonymous quotes from business owners about the damage paid sick leave laws would do to their companies.

One owner suggests that providing paid sick leave would force the company to eliminate its 401K plan.

https://popular.info/p/texas-governor-focuses-on-denying

No sick leave applies mostly to hourly low-wage workers in shit jobs, probably most black and brown

Will other shithole Repug states follow shithole TX lead in fucking over labor?

One of the reasons people aren't getting vaccinated is that they are worried that it will make them lose a few days which would cost them daily pay and perhaps get them fired. Get sick, lose pay, get fired. Shithole country

[RandomGuy]

Ku Klux Klan is no longer 'morally wrong' in bill that just passed Texas Senate

Just last week, the Texas Senate passed legislation ending all requirements that public schools in Texas teach about
women’s suffrage and
the civil rights movement in social studies classes.

Texas children will no longer need to be bothered with learning about
Susan B. Anthony,
Cesar Chavez, or
Martin Luther King Jr., whose “I Have a Dream" speech and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” would no longer be required curriculum.

Texas senators took it a step further. On Wednesday, July 21, they

voted to pass a bill that would remove a requirement for public school teachers to teach that the Ku Klux Klan is "morally wrong." (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-senate-passes-bill-removes-requirement-teach-ku-klux-klan-n1274610)

So if a teacher wants to have a group of fifth graders justify the Klan’s treatment of Black people—now they can have at it.

(BTW, that’s not a hypothetical. That actually happened in South Carolina (https://time.com/4949550/kkk-assignment-south-carolina-teacher/).)

When this latest bill passed, the lieutenant governor stated that it would make certain that critical race theory isn’t taught in Texas.

However, the Senate-passed bill

removes almost all mentions of people of color and women,

as well as the requirement that white supremacy and the groups that support them, like the KK, are morally wrong.

racist legislators are using the threat of the 1619 Project

as an excuse to purge all civil rights and women’s suffrage curriculum out of the classrooms, and

turn the clock back in schools to the pre-civil rights era.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/21/2041235/-Ku-Klux-Klan-is-no-longer-morally-wrong-in-bill-that-just-passed-Texas-Senate

They are getting serious about pushing conservative, fascist, and white nationalist indoctrination.

It is the soft, velvety version that sneaks in the poisonous bile on the back end.

Luckily they aren't overly competent about it, and it is obvious to those of us who vote differently.

[boutons_deux]

the bribed, purchased STOTX delivers the fascism

Texas Supreme Court allows for arrest of Democrats who don't show up to Legislature

In the first special session, Republican lawmakers voted for a call of the House,

a procedural move that allowed them to authorize law enforcement to arrest members who were not present,

however it had no teeth since Texas law enforcement has no jurisdiction outside the state.

On Monday, the House which is still a few members shy of a quorum, issued the call of the House for a second time.

But this time the call only called for the doors of the chamber to be locked :lol and did not address arresting members,

likely because of the temporary restraining order blocking such arrests.

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-supreme-court-allows-for-arrest-of-democrats-who-don-t-show-up-to-legislature

has anybody found which law was broken by the Dems?

[Frenchfred]

They are getting serious about pushing conservative, fascist, and white nationalist indoctrination.

It is the soft, velvety version that sneaks in the poisonous bile on the back end.

Luckily they aren't overly competent about it, and it is obvious to those of us who vote differently.

and they act surprised when they are being called nazis but it is more and more obvious that a big portion of them simply are.

[boutons_deux]

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[boutons_deux]

'They gave the governor the power:'

Texas shitbag AG non-attorney Ken Paxton pledges to quash local mask mandates
https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/They-gave-the-governor-the-power-Texas-AG-16380798.php

[Thread]

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/232207808_4216341188412159_1689479879432348266_n.j pg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-4&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=2xIDyPJJKHMAX9Vn2wn&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=39db89c28789e318952280b1645566be&oe=613B5326

Mother fucker Biden is now up to 237k of dead Americans, bouts. & counting, son.

[boutons_deux]

Texas warns Austin restaurants that liquor licenses could be revoked for requiring vaccine proof

Senate Bill 968 (https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=87R&Bill=SB968), which passed during this year’s regular legislative session.

One clause of

SB 968 prohibits businesses from requiring customers to provide any documentation of their COVID-19 vaccination or post-transmission recovery in order to enter or receive service from that business.

The TABC is empowered to require compliance with the law in order for the business to keep any state license or permit. It went into effect June 16, as soon as Gov. Greg Abbott (https://www.texastribune.org/directory/greg-abbott/) signed it.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/restaurants-liquor-licenses-at-risk-covid-vaccine-16385415.php

[boutons_deux]

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[boutons_deux]

Gov. Abbott's executive order limiting jail releases is 'unconstitutional,' Bexar County judge rules

ruled Friday that Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order that largely limited jail releases during the COVID-19 pandemic is “wholly unconstitutional” and exceeds his authority.

the governor’s order prevented county officials from releasing her for “good time.”

The executive order, which the governor issued last year at the start of the pandemic, prohibited county jails from releasing defendants accused or convicted of violent crimes on personal recognizance bonds.

The governor’s order also prohibited inmates from being released early for good behavior.

Bexar County Public Defender’s Office filed the lawsuit, alleging that the governor’s order was unconstitutional and exceeded his authority under the Texas Disaster Act.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Texas-Abbott-jail-release-COVID-16390468.php

racist Abbutt as hardass on crime, esp black and brown crime

[boutons_deux]

Greg Abbott's $250 million in funding for a border wall likely to get him 20 miles
https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2021/08/16/greg-abbotts-250-million-in-funding-for-a-border-wall-likely-to-get-him-20-miles-report-suggests

[Thread]

Gov. Abbott's executive order limiting jail releases is 'unconstitutional,' Bexar County judge rules

ruled Friday that Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order that largely limited jail releases during the COVID-19 pandemic is “wholly unconstitutional” and exceeds his authority.

the governor’s order prevented county officials from releasing her for “good time.”

The executive order, which the governor issued last year at the start of the pandemic, prohibited county jails from releasing defendants accused or convicted of violent crimes on personal recognizance bonds.

The governor’s order also prohibited inmates from being released early for good behavior.

Bexar County Public Defender’s Office filed the lawsuit, alleging that the governor’s order was unconstitutional and exceeded his authority under the Texas Disaster Act.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Texas-Abbott-jail-release-COVID-16390468.php

racist Abbutt as hardass on crime, esp black and brown crime

Who, commit the vast lion's share of the crime, bouts.

[Thread]

Greg Abbott's $250 million in funding for a border wall likely to get him 20 miles


https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2021/08/16/greg-abbotts-250-million-in-funding-for-a-border-wall-likely-to-get-him-20-miles-report-suggests

You've fought it first with President Trump, now with Abbott. You vowed you would and you made good on that vow.

[boutons_deux]

shitbags increasing the shithole-ness

"As Gov. Greg Abbott fights county governments and school districts in court over mask mandates,

one Republican lawmaker has proposed making Abbott’s ban on local mask orders the law of the ... " shithole

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-Democrats-say-GOP-bill-blocking-future-mask-16398646.php (https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-Democrats-say-GOP-bill-blocking-future-mask-16398646.php?)

[boutons_deux]

de-shitting just a tad

TEA reverses course,

now says schools must notify families when kids are exposed to COVID

https://www.expressnews.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/TEA-reverses-course-now-says-schools-must-notify-16399067.php

the reversal is more proof of shithole-ness. Hiding school infections from parents? W T F F

[boutons_deux]

racist/xenophobe Paxton lying / slandering Biden

Fact check: Paxton claims Biden administration 'not even testing' migrants released in the U.S.

that the Biden administration is "just letting people in" is a claim that has been widely repeated and roundly debunked.

this fact check focuses on Paxton’s claim that the administration is "not even testing these people" being released into the U.S.

We found that while there are testing protocols in place, there are examples of cracks in the system through which some untested migrants slip through.

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/politifact/article/fact-check-biden-paxton-immigrants-covid-testing-16397585.php

deplorable as ever

Texans test as having 2x as many infections as tested migrants.

[boutons_deux]

hate radio toxic racist mouthpiece

Texas Lt. Gov. Patrick’s False Claim About Unvaccinated Black People

The majority of United States residents who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 are white

That contradicts Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s claim that, “in most states,” Black residents are “the biggest group” of unvaccinated people.

Patrick, in an Aug. 19 appearance (https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/ingraham-angle-on-elites-putting-afghans-before-americans) on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” falsely implied that it was unvaccinated Black people who are responsible for the resurgence of the coronavirus in his state and around the rest of the country.

“Well, the biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated. The last time I checked, over 90% of them vote for Democrats in their major cities and major counties.”

a KFF poll (https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-july-2021/) of individuals conducted between July 15 and July 27 found that among

unvaccinated adults,

57% were white,

20% were Hispanic and

13% were Black.

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/scicheck-texas-lt-gov-patricks-false-claim-about-unvaccinated-black-people/

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summary of Texas shitholiness wanted by shitbag Texans, due 1 Sep 2021

Abortion restrictions, alcohol-to-go, critical race theory:

These Texas laws go into effect Sept. 1

https://www.expressnews.com/news/legislature/article/New-Texas-laws-taking-effect-September-2021-16408129.php

[boutons_deux]

Texas House panel backs Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to nearly triple state spending on border security

https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=18687A19299A15A848988

[DMC]

Mother fucker Biden is now up to 237k of dead Americans, bouts. & counting, son.

Don't you know the counting stopped in January?

[Thread]

Texas House panel backs Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to nearly triple state spending on border security

https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=18687A19299A15A848988










Bully, bully for them!!!

[Thread]

Don't you know the counting stopped in January?

But I didn't and I never will.

[MultiTroll]

Boots does Texas have a chance to turn blue like Georgia did?

[boutons_deux]

Abbott again bans vaccine mandates, adds issue to special session agend

no localities or school districts can require their employees to get the COVID vaccine,

after the federal approval of the Pfizer doses earlier this week muddied his previous directive on the matter.

prohibits public institutions —

including state agencies, universities, local governments, public schools and any other entities that receive public funding —

from compelling employees to get the shots or asking people who use their services for proof of vaccination.

Wednesday’s directive puts a blanket ban on the practice, regardless of approval status granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The order will have an immediate impact for San Antonio Independent School District, which appears to be the only public entity in Texas that has required vaccines for its employees.

https://www.expressnews.com/coronavirus/article/Abbott-again-bans-vaccine-mandates-adds-issue-to-16411672.php

What are the penalties?

Who are the enforcer goons?

[Thread]

Abbott again bans vaccine mandates, adds issue to special session agend

no localities or school districts can require their employees to get the COVID vaccine,

after the federal approval of the Pfizer doses earlier this week muddied his previous directive on the matter.

prohibits public institutions —

including state agencies, universities, local governments, public schools and any other entities that receive public funding —

from compelling employees to get the shots or asking people who use their services for proof of vaccination.

Wednesday’s directive puts a blanket ban on the practice, regardless of approval status granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The order will have an immediate impact for San Antonio Independent School District, which appears to be the only public entity in Texas that has required vaccines for its employees.

https://www.expressnews.com/coronavirus/article/Abbott-again-bans-vaccine-mandates-adds-issue-to-16411672.php

What are the penalties?

Who are the enforcer goons?

Bully, bully for him!!!

[boutons_deux]

'I want to see if he has his big boy pants on':

Texas Democrat challenges Dan Patrick

Another partisan stalemate ... again imperiling the jobs of 2,100 legislative staffers along with two key conservative priority bills.

two bills prioritized by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (https://www.texastribune.org/directory/dan-patrick/)

a bill that would limit how educators can teach social studies and talk about race at Texas public schools, referred to as the "critical race theory bill," and

another that would require transgender students to participate in sports based on the gender listed on their birth certificate instead of their gender identity.

if we don't pass these two bills — the [critical race theory] bill and the transgender bill — the Senate is not going to consider trying to fix the funding in Article X.

Article X refers to the section of the state budget that covers funding for the state Legislature and other independent agencies that support its work.

Abbott vetoed legislative funding in June in retaliation for the defeat of his priority election and bail reform bills

https://www.rawstory.com/dan-patrick-2654852724

[boutons_deux]

GOP bail bill on the way to Abbott's desk after clearing Legislature


https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/21/37/73/21364449/3/1200x0.jpg

will limit the opportunity for defendants to be released on no-cost personal bonds and give judges more information about a defendant’s criminal history when setting bail.

the creation of a new public database that will provide details about each defendant’s case and their bail conditions, while identifying the judge or magistrate who set the bail.

the creation of a new public database that will provide details about each defendant’s case and their bail conditions, while identifying the judge or magistrate who set the bail.

Huffman said, adding that she may try again in future sessions to restrict nonprofit bail groups.

Democrats who opposed the bill argued it will do little to curtail violent crime,

most people accused of murder while out on bond in Harris County had secured their release by paying bail.

The bill’s restrictions apply only to no- and low-cost bonds, meaning those who can afford to post bail will still be able to do so under the new law.

the Texas Civil Rights Project, called the bill

“an unconstitutional, sham reform that will expand the use of cash bail —

and allow the for-profit bail industry to extort more money from Black and Brown communities across our state.”

https://www.expressnews.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/GOP-bail-bill-on-the-way-to-Abbott-s-desk-after-16426576.php

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New Law Requires Texans to Have Counselling Before Being Allowed to Vote

AUSTIN —Governor Greg Abbutt has signed into law a bill requiring all Texans to submit to counselling before being allowed to vote.

The law mandates a counselling session and a twenty-four-hour waiting period before a voter is permitted to cast a ballot, Abbott explained.

“Many people who think that voting is something they have to do haven’t gotten all of the information available to them,” he said.

“A counsellor can sit with them, pray with them, and help them make the right choice.”

Answering critics who claim that the twenty-four-hour waiting period is designed to keep voters from casting their ballots in a timely fashion, Abbott said,

“All we’re trying to do is make sure that voting is the right decision for them.

Every day, I hear from people who voted for me who say that

they’ll regret that decision for the rest of their lives.”

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/new-law-requires-texans-to-have-counselling-before-being-allowed-to-vote

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Who's enforcing Gov. Abbott's ban on school mask rules?

Not Abbott.
his order banning such mandates has gone largely unenforced —

so much so that the federal government doesn’t consider it active. :lol

https://www.expressnews.com/news/legislature/article/Who-s-enforcing-Gov-Abbott-s-ban-on-school-16430537.php

Same with Insantis in FL, school districts mandating masks

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Andy Borowitz (https://www.facebook.com/andyborowitz?__cft__[0]=AZW5BuFzHlAhOzPDM7h3mAhMO0zA9tQNwZ06SjfIICOv_nL_R Hw6MLQDnBJWAURC1KCDEZydehBu_ItdAUsAht-WrCpl163bX1XE5ZGmllZ38b-xOwCbcaZqyDiy517IZvD91h9EWwThhYNnek2U4nsH0uNTDa6wV 6JPw2qEzvPNSw&__tn__=-UC%2CP-R)


Texas is regulating uteruses instead of dicks because

the sheer number of dicks in Texas would make enforcement tough.

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Bans on abortion, homelessness and critical race theory: Texas Republicans push 666 radical new laws

The legislature, currently in a special session, is still discussing a number of laws expected to be passed later on this year, including measures related to voting rights, transgender restrictions, redistricting, and bail.

making substantial revisions to the state's policies around public safety, law enforcement, and K-12 education.

constitutional carry (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/16/texas-permitless-carry-gun-law/)" law, is opposed by most of the state's residents,

59% of Texans do not support allowing their fellow citizens to carry firearms without licenses.

many police unions actually opposed (https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2021/06/01/explained-how-constitutional-carry-will-change-gun-laws-in-texas/) the law upon its introduction.

Texas also implemented (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/20/texas-homeless-camps-ban-legislature/) a statewide ban of homeless encampments.

a $500 fine on anyone who temporarily resides under some form of shelter without a permit,

precludes Texas localities from being able to opt out.

there are around 2,000 people (https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/05/21/austins-homeless-population-county-largely-unchanged-2020/5199687001/) currently living unsheltered in Austin alone.

Other laws apparently aim to combat the rise of "wokeness" in the state's public institutions.

places restrictions on the ways in which public school teachers can discuss race and history with their students. "A teacher," the law says, "may not be compelled to discuss a particular current event or widely debated and currently controversial issue of public policy or social affairs."

outlaws teaching the concept that "an individual, by virtue of the individual's race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously."

also provided funding for its "1836 Project," :lol original! and why not burn all the Forget The Alamo books?

to provide (https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/666-new-texas-laws-go-into-effect-sept-1/2731385/) Texas residents with a "patriotic education" about the state's war for independence from Mexico and

"increase awareness of the Texas values :lol fascism, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, Christianity Uber Alles

that continue to stimulate boundless prosperity across this state." :lol except for homeless, blacks, browns

municipalities with over 250,000 people will effectively be punished (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/31/new-texas-laws-september-2021/) for reducing their law enforcement budgets,

with the state threatening to reduce sales tax revenue and increase property taxes.

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-laws-abortion-guns

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On Heels of SB 8, Texas Poised to Restrict Access to Medication Abortions

With extreme abortion bans likely to spread across the U.S., one rights advocate said the medical community will have to "drastically shift the way people access abortion, on their own terms."

Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/abortion-curbed-texas-new-medication-abortion-bill-about-become-law-n1278402?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma) Senate Bill 4, which would

bar healthcare providers from administering the two pills needed for medication abortions after seven weeks of pregnancy.

Currently, medication abortions are legal in the state until 10 weeks of pregnancy.

The bill also prohibits the two pills—misoprostol and mifepristone—from being sent via mail in Texas.

those who are found to "intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly" violate the law could face up to two years in jail and fines of up to $10,000.

Medical providers who dispense the medication could also face disciplinary action.

meant to make it virtually impossible for most women in Texas to obtain care.

"Six weeks, seven weeks... both of them are set to stop access to abortion before most know that they're pregnant,”

The Republicans who pushed the medication abortion ban through the legislature have claimed there are increased complications for patients who use the pills after seven weeks of pregnancy,

but according to (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/abortion-curbed-texas-new-medication-abortion-bill-about-become-law-n1278402?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma) the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, fewer than 1% of patients experience adverse effects after having a medication abortion.

About 60% of people who have abortions by the tenth week of pregnancy choose medication abortions,

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/09/03/heels-sb-8-texas-poised-restrict-access-medication-abortions

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As befitting a racist Confederate slave state

Historian suggests Fugitive Slave Act closest historical analogy to Texas abortion law

the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. Zeitz's reasoning is that the law "required state and local officials to arrest alleged runaways on the simple say-so of a bounty hunter and criminalized interference these abductions."

He explained (https://twitter.com/JoshuaMZeitz/status/1434002289853931525?s=20) that the law

"incentivized the abduction of free Black people,

turned all Black people in free states into bounty, and

compelled uncooperating white people to become agents of state brutality."

Zeitz acknowledged that the two laws aren't perfectly analogous,

but he does believe the Texas abortion ban could similarly encourage a vigilante culture.

https://theweek.com/delta-variant/1004542/the-arguments-for-and-against-rolling-out-covid-19-boosters-this-month

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It's on Biden's watch, bouts.

ha, ha.

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Greg Abbott Saving The Babies, Except The Ones He Killed With COVID

the "pro-life" :lol governor probably won't be touting this particular statistic:

As of September 3, there have been 59 deaths of children from COVID-19 in Texas. (https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2021/09/03/407791/doctors-say-texas-leaders-failed-to-stop-covid-19-from-spreading/)

As Houston Public Media reports, that makes Texas a "leader in child deaths" from the virus.

In addition to the kids who have died,

in the first two weeks of schools reopening, Texas has racked up more than 50,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases among schoolchildren,

and more than a dozen schools have had to close temporarily because of outbreaks.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-for-its-2-billion-whatsapp-users (https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-for-its-2-billion-whatsapp-users?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature)

No Human Life is Above Shitbag Repug Politics

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Greg Abbott Saving The Babies, Except The Ones He Killed With COVID

the "pro-life" :lol governor probably won't be touting this particular statistic:

As of September 3, there have been 59 deaths of children from COVID-19 in Texas. (https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2021/09/03/407791/doctors-say-texas-leaders-failed-to-stop-covid-19-from-spreading/)

As Houston Public Media reports, that makes Texas a "leader in child deaths" from the virus.

In addition to the kids who have died,

in the first two weeks of schools reopening, Texas has racked up more than 50,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases among schoolchildren,

and more than a dozen schools have had to close temporarily because of outbreaks.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-for-its-2-billion-whatsapp-users (https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-for-its-2-billion-whatsapp-users?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature)

No Human Life is Above Shitbag Repug Politics

Mother fucker Biden killed those, bouts.

Let us proceed...

[MultiTroll]

It's on Biden's watch, bouts.

ha, ha.
600K died of cancer in Trumps 1st year.
600K on Trump's watch.

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600K died of cancer in Trumps 1st year.
600K on Trump's watch.

We ain't doin' cancer, Mult. And I fuckin' mean it.

Now, go back and get your fuckin' shine box.

[MultiTroll]

We ain't doin' cancer, Mult. And I fuckin' mean it.

Now, go back and get your fuckin' shine box.
Oh hell yes we're doing sickness causing death using your exact formula.
Complete equivalence.

600K a year dead on Trumps watch.
From cancer.

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Oh hell yes we're doing sickness causing death using your exact formula.
Complete equivalence.

600K a year dead on Trumps watch.
From cancer.

Well, I tried to reason with you, Mult.
Then I tried to cajole you out of it with film humor.
You're obviously intractable.
Knock yourself out, Mult.

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shithole TX leads the country in pediatric covid deaths

shithole Texas sues six school districts that issued mask mandates in defiance of Gov. shtibag Greg Abbott’s order

shitbag Paxton on Friday sued the

Elgin,
Galveston,
Richardson,
Round Rock,
Sherman and
Spring school districts

for requiring students, teachers, school employees and visitors to don face coverings while on their premises, which

shitbag he dubbed “unlawful political maneuvering.”

“If districts choose to spend their money on legal fees,

they must do so knowing that my office is ready and willing to litigate these cases,” shitbag Paxton said in a statement.

“I shitbag have full confidence that the courts will side with the law – not acts of political defiance.”

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/10/texas-school-mask-mandates-lawsuits/

acts of political defiance? :lol shitbag, they are humane acts of protecting the health of school students and staff

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I'll tote it up on mother fucker Biden's side of the COVID Death Ledger, bouts. Thank you, thank you, kindly.

[boutons_deux]

so shitbag TX Repugs won't political control over private companies?

Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law

The US state of Texas has made it illegal for social media platforms to ban users "based on their political viewpoints".

Prominent Republican politicians have accused Facebook, Twitter and others of censoring conservative views.

The social networks have all denied stifling conservative views.

However, they do enforce terms of service which prohibit content such as incitement to violence and co-ordinated disinformation.

"Social media websites have become our modern-day public square," said Texas governor Greg Abbott, :lol NO, they are private companies, NOT the public square.
Critics say

the law does not respect the constitutional right of private businesses to decide what sort of content is allowed on their platforms.


"This bill abandons conservative values, violates the First Amendment, and

forces websites to host obscene, anti-semitic, racist, hateful and otherwise awful content,"



"Moderation of user posts is crucial to keeping the internet safe for Texas families, but

this bill would put the Texas government in charge of content policies."


https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58516155

Shitbag Repugs, emulating Bolsonaro, Orban, Pootin, in shithole TX demonstrating their fascist bona fides.

[boutons_deux]

Here comes another Texas voter purge, but this time with a wrinkle

Two years after Texas officials fumbled an effort to double-check the voting rolls on a hunt for noncitizens —

and instead threatened the voting rights of nearly 60,000 eligible Texans —

similar efforts to purge noncitizen voters are now the law of the land, thanks to provisions tucked into the massive elections bill enacted this month.

The secretary of state will again be allowed to regularly compare driver’s license records to voter registration lists in a quest to find people who are not eligible.

Starting by December of this year, the secretary of state will review Department of Public Safety records every month looking for potential noncitizens.

But this time, lawmakers have put in a provision that intentionally bars the secretary of state from going too far back in time as they scour driver’s license records,

In some instances, the state flagged legal voters who had become naturalized citizens since the time they first applied for a driver’s license a decade or more earlier.

Noncitizens, including those with visas or green cards to stay in the U.S., are able to get Texas driver’s licenses.

The state’s 2019 analysis flagged those drivers, but it never accounted for the fact that about 50,000 Texans become naturalized citizens each year.

still worried about the reliability of DPS driver’s license databases and the

inherent pitfalls of trying to compare millions of records against millions of other records.

He said there is just too much room for error.
“There are still concerns that they will be falsely flagging people,”

Voters flagged: 18,000 in Harris and 5,000 in Bexar

the new law prohibits the state from using DPS data from before a person’s voter registration became effective.

Hughes, R-Mineola, defended the voter purge process, which he called list maintenance. :lol

Texas Republicans’ massive elections bill, which they say is aimed at making it harder for people to cheat in Texas elections,

though they have found no evidence of widespread fraud. :lol

Since January 2014, Texas has added 3.1 million voters for a total of 16.7 million — a 23 percent increase.

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Here-comes-another-Texas-voter-purge-but-this-16464794.php

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'Out of breath': Oversight of hazardous Texas concrete plant emissions comes to a head

With more than two dozen such plants that supply wet concrete ready to be poured in the San Antonio area, and more than 1,300 (https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=123727b112254cc6aaf8754e6fd2cefb&extent=-15670468.0265%2C2582809.7564%2C-6277885.9908%2C5288069.0615%2C102100) across Texas, many residential neighborhoods like hers live with the dust they generate.

But it’s more than a nuisance. It contains tiny particles that can be hazardous to people’s health.

Crystalline silica, a mineral present in the cement and other materials at batch plants, has been linked to lung disease, chronic respiratory problems and silicosis.

Plant operators do not monitor silica emissions. Nor does Texas’ environmental regulator.

For years, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (https://www.tceq.texas.gov/) :lol

said the material doesn’t need to be regulated at batch plants, and for that reason, the state historically did not require plant operators to monitor the air for silica.

the TCEQ inadvertently removed an exemption for silica.

Technically, the plants have been required to eliminate silica from their emissions since then.

But no plants in Texas are known to have done so, :lol

and the TCEQ :lol has not enforced the requirement. :lol

The industry maintains it’s impossible to produce concrete without releasing silica particles.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/texas-concrete-plant-emissions-16465483.php

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One county telling shitbag Repugs to fuck off

The delta variant is wreaking havoc on most of Texas — but not El Paso. Here’s why.

in El Paso, where COVID-19 killed so many people late last year that the county had to use inmates to help with the overflow of bodies at the morgue.

El Paso — with one of the highest vaccination rates in the state — has been relatively unscathed by the most recent surge.

El Paso-area hospitals, which serve nearly a million West Texas residents, haven't come close to their previous highs.

El Paso's peak for COVID-19 hospitalizations was just over 1,100 in mid-November,

On Thursday, the number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 in El Paso was 127.

the city's daily hospitalization numbers haven't broken 200 since March,

much of the credit can be attributed to the area's high vaccination rate, widespread compliance with masking and social distancing, and a strong partnership among local community and health care leaders.

The share of COVID-19 tests in El Paso that come back positive is hovering around 6%, while the statewide positivity rate is three times that at 18%.

COVID-19 patients, ... in El Paso they accounted for only 7% of patients in local hospitals.

"Compared to the rest of Texas, we're in heaven,"

https://www.rawstory.com/the-delta-variant-is-wreaking-havoc-on-most-of-texas-but-not-el-paso-heres-why/

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick calls Haitian migrant surge an 'invasion,' echoing conspiracy theory


Patrick's comments echo

a conspiracy theory holding that

minority ethnic groups are engaged

in a plot to take over government structures from whites.

-- Express News email

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One county telling shitbag Repugs to fuck off

The delta variant is wreaking havoc on most of Texas — but not El Paso. Here’s why.

in El Paso, where COVID-19 killed so many people late last year that the county had to use inmates to help with the overflow of bodies at the morgue.

El Paso — with one of the highest vaccination rates in the state — has been relatively unscathed by the most recent surge.

El Paso-area hospitals, which serve nearly a million West Texas residents, haven't come close to their previous highs.

El Paso's peak for COVID-19 hospitalizations was just over 1,100 in mid-November,

On Thursday, the number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 in El Paso was 127.

the city's daily hospitalization numbers haven't broken 200 since March,

much of the credit can be attributed to the area's high vaccination rate, widespread compliance with masking and social distancing, and a strong partnership among local community and health care leaders.

The share of COVID-19 tests in El Paso that come back positive is hovering around 6%, while the statewide positivity rate is three times that at 18%.

COVID-19 patients, ... in El Paso they accounted for only 7% of patients in local hospitals.

"Compared to the rest of Texas, we're in heaven,"

https://www.rawstory.com/the-delta-variant-is-wreaking-havoc-on-most-of-texas-but-not-el-paso-heres-why/


Nonetheless those numbers tote up just like all the others, bouts. And I'm fixin' ta lodge 'em upon this here Forum late this week, daddy.

Let us proceed...

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Gov. Abbott to pick Texas secretary of state, who has vast powers from elections bill (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19270A19942A15A875808)

AUSTIN — The new GOP elections law gives broad new powers to the Texas secretary of state, and by extension Gov. Greg Abbott, who will choose its next leader.

Whomever the Republican governor picks could shape Texas elections for years to come.

When the law takes effect Dec. 2, the secretary of state will be newly empowered to fine counties up to $1,000 a day and to audit potentially years’ worth of their elections.

The office will also have broader ability to pass on alleged voter fraud or missteps by election officials to the attorney general, who has made prosecuting election violations a top priority.

The law leaves much of the rule-writing up to the secretary of state (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19270A19942A15A875808), so the office will have discretion in how it wields the new power.

-- Dallas Morning News email

TX shitbags going all in old Repug Big Lie of voter fraud as pretext to suppress non-white votes. fuck you people

... all will be moot if Dems can pass a NATIONAL voting rights law

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ignorant shitbags, Deep in The Butthole of Texas

About 1 in 4 Texans say they likely won’t get COVID vaccine (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19269A19941A104A875753),

https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19269A19941A104A875753

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As shitbag fascist Repugs start to gerrymander shithole Texas this week ...













Most Texans oppose gerrymandering, disagree that party in power should be able to rig political maps









https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19266A19943A27A876081

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As shitbag fascist Repugs start to gerrymander shithole Texas this week ...













Most Texans oppose gerrymandering, disagree that party in power should be able to rig political maps









https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19266A19943A27A876081

Tougheth lucketh.

[Frenchfred]

ignorant shitbags, Deep in The Butthole of Texas

About1 in 4 Texans say they likely won’t get COVID vaccine (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19269A19941A104A875753),

https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19269A19941A104A875753

That's 7.5 millions people, with 1% death rate, that's another 75k potential deaths. As long as they are republicans, play stupid games...

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TEA now says school districts cannot require masks,
as feds launch investigation of Abbott order


The investigation will focus on whether students with disabilities who are at heightened risk for severe illness from COVID-19 are prevented from safely returning to in-person education, in violation of federal law,

Texas Education Agency released new guidance (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/news/houston-texas/education/article/TEA-now-says-school-districts-cannot-require-16476775.php) saying public school systems cannot require students or staff to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 because of Abbott’s order prohibiting mask requirements.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/TEA-now-says-school-districts-cannot-require-16476775.php

As TX leads the nation in kids dead from covid, and many 100s of kids in hospitals with covid and rsv

[boutons_deux]

Texas appellate justices appear skeptical of Attorney General Ken

Paxton defense that he’s exempt from state’s whistleblower law :lol

Paxton’s attorneys argued to a panel of Texas 3rd Court of Appeals justices on Wednesday that

a lawsuit from former deputies should be thrown out.

The ex-employees claim they were fired after reporting Paxton to law enforcement.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/22/ken-paxton-whistleblower-lawsuit-appeal/

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TCEQ :lol

OKs crystalline silica exemption for concrete batch plants :lol

rejected pleas from residents and organizations not to discard a limit on potentially harmful emissions from hundreds of plants that supply wet concrete to construction sites throughout the state.

concrete batch plants, emit dust while mixing cement, air and materials such as sand and gravel in large drums.

plants are often close to residential areas.

The dust they emit contains crystalline silica, which has been linked to lung disease, chronic respiratory problems and silicosis.

Until 2012, the TCEQ issued air quality permits for batch plants that included an exemption for limiting crystalline silica from their emissions.

The exemption was removed inadvertently :lol that year,

the exemption has been restored.

The TCEQ has issued about 800 permits since 2012 with no issues arising, Janecka said.
“That makes a good argument for me that this was just a clerical error :lol

that needs to be fixed,”

hundreds of Texans and two dozen state senators asked the agency to study the effects of crystalline silica further before acting.

TCEQ was not transparent enough regarding the permit revision and that

the agency needs to take more time to understand crystalline silica’s effects.

TCEQ has been overly deferential to concrete plant operators in this matter.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/TCEQ-OKs-crystalline-silica-exemption-for-16479594.php

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Big Tech sues Texas over new law regulating social media

Texas’ new law regulating how social media companies can moderate content, arguing that the policy violates the online platforms’ right to free speech.

prohibits social media companies with more than 50 million monthly active users from banning or suspending users based on their viewpoint.

They also cannot remove or “deny equal access or visibility” to content based on a user’s viewpoint.

Republicans who say Facebook, Twitter and other platforms are censoring or silencing conservatives —

including former president Donald Trump.

“It is now law that conservative viewpoints in Texas cannot be banned on social media,” Gov. Greg Abbott said (https://www.facebook.com/328828253255/videos/551694886068292)

Texas’ social media law

“would put Nazi party political speech and extremist messages

from Taliban sympathizers on equal footing with ‘God Bless America’”

by “forcing (online) companies to give equal treatment to all viewpoints.”

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Big-Tech-sues-Texas-over-new-law-regulating-16479333.php

shithole TX shitbag Repugs blocking the 1st Amendment "free expression" of "corporations are people, too"

[boutons_deux]

The Republicans Who Are Concerned About Big Tech Censorship Are Censoring Other Texans

The Republican-led legislature passed a bill that prevents so-called deplatforming,

The legislature passed a bill banning how teachers can talk about current events and systemic racism in the classroom.

The bill banning CRT wasn’t the only one concerned with how Texas and its history are talked about.

And law creating the 1836 project does that

the 1836 Project promotes patriotic education about Texas,” ... only the good WHITE parts :lol

Alonzo said it will likely gloss over the negative parts of the state’s complex history —

like the violent history of the Texas rangers at the border (https://www.tpr.org/show/texas-matters/2020-06-12/texas-matters-the-dark-history-of-the-texas-rangers)or

the racist legislation passing for years in the Texas legislature.

And forget the 100 years of Texas history that occurred before 1836.

it resembles some of the dictatorships that, you know, that we are familiar with in the recent past

where you have nation-states that only teach the history the way they want to teach it,”

Elected leaders have been aggressively trying to tamp down discussions about race in Texas history this past year,

hypocritical when he hears the governor talk about conservative voices being silenced.

“Governor Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick oppressed my free speech when

they canceled the book talk (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/01/texas-forget-the-alamo-book-event-canceled/) we had scheduled at the Bullock Museum, just three hours before we were to take the stage,”

https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2021-09-22/the-republicans-who-are-concerned-about-big-tech-censorship-are-censoring-other-texans

[boutons_deux]

KEN PAXTON’S NEWEST LAWSUIT AGAINST THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION

over guidance about workplace protections based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Paxton’s lawsuit (https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/paxton-sues-stop-biden-administration-attempt-control-bathroom-and-language-usage-texas#.YUjHtzq1yk0.twitter) is challenging the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for employment protections (https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/protections-against-employment-discrimination-based-sexual-orientation-or-gender) they issued last June.

The new guidance from EEOC against workplace discrimination or harassment for LGBTQ workers arrived after the

Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling last year which codified that the federal ban on discrimination based on sex includes transgender employees.

Paxton’s comments on Twitter (https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1440032070638604300) about the lawsuit specifically refer to employee protections for the transgender community.

“States should be able to choose protection of privacy for their employers over subjective views of gender, and

this illegal guidance puts many women and children at risk.” :lol

https://texassignal.com/ken-paxtons-newest-lawsuit-against-the-biden-administration

[Thread]

KEN PAXTON’S NEWEST LAWSUIT AGAINST THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION

over guidance about workplace protections based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Paxton’s lawsuit (https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/paxton-sues-stop-biden-administration-attempt-control-bathroom-and-language-usage-texas#.YUjHtzq1yk0.twitter) is challenging the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for employment protections (https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/protections-against-employment-discrimination-based-sexual-orientation-or-gender) they issued last June.

The new guidance from EEOC against workplace discrimination or harassment for LGBTQ workers arrived after the

Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling last year which codified that the federal ban on discrimination based on sex includes transgender employees.

Paxton’s comments on Twitter (https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1440032070638604300) about the lawsuit specifically refer to employee protections for the transgender community.

“States should be able to choose protection of privacy for their employers over subjective views of gender, and

this illegal guidance puts many women and children at risk.” :lol

https://texassignal.com/ken-paxtons-newest-lawsuit-against-the-biden-administration

Anything to gum up the works of that mother fucker squattin' in the White House.

[boutons_deux]

Texas Republicans release proposal for new congressional boundaries

that bolsters GOP districts (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19414A20105A15A882317)

Republicans have proposed new congressional boundaries that provide protection for North Texas incumbents,

but doesn’t give the fast-growing Dallas/Fort Worth area one of two new seats earmarked for the Lone Star State.


Despite the remarkable population growth powered by minority residents in the Dallas/Fort Worth region,

Texas Republican lawmakers opted to place the new districts in the Austin and Houston areas.

The Austin-area seat would be favorable to a Democratic candidate,

while the new Houston-area district is overwhelmingly Republican.

Neither new seat would be in a minority opportunity district,

even though the vast majority of the population growth in Texas was propelled by Hispanic residents.


The proposed map is a clinic on incumbency protection. (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19414A20105A15A882317)

-- Dallas Morning News

"The wetbacks will not replace us!"

[Thread]

Texas Republicans release proposal for new congressional boundaries

that bolsters GOP districts (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19414A20105A15A882317)

Republicans have proposed new congressional boundaries that provide protection for North Texas incumbents,

but doesn’t give the fast-growing Dallas/Fort Worth area one of two new seats earmarked for the Lone Star State.


Despite the remarkable population growth powered by minority residents in the Dallas/Fort Worth region,

Texas Republican lawmakers opted to place the new districts in the Austin and Houston areas.

The Austin-area seat would be favorable to a Democratic candidate,

while the new Houston-area district is overwhelmingly Republican.

Neither new seat would be in a minority opportunity district,

even though the vast majority of the population growth in Texas was propelled by Hispanic residents.


The proposed map is a clinic on incumbency protection. (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19414A20105A15A882317)

-- Dallas Morning News

"The wetbacks will not replace us!"





Excellent!!!

[boutons_deux]

shithole TX racist shitbags fucking Blacks and browns everywhere

The senselessness - and cruelty - of failing to expand Medicaid in Texas

In the decades before the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, about 15 percent of Americans were uninsured for the costs of health care.

Texas stood out, ranking an abysmal 48th in the nation.

About 25 percent of Texans — or 6.4 million of our neighbors — were uninsured in 2011,

The difference is an average of 15.5 percent uninsured in nonexpansion states such as Texas, and 8.3 percent in expansion states.

Texas has the most uninsured people of any state by a huge margin — currently 5.4 million.

https://www.expressnews.com/business/business_columnists/michael_taylor/article/Taylor-Smart-Money-Medicaid-Texas-Legislature-16494875.php

[boutons_deux]

Gov. Abbott flip-flops on illegal voting charge, calls for harsher penalties

Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday directed lawmakers to reverse a part of the massive voting restriction and reform package that he signed into law just three months ago that would have reduced penalties for illegal voting.

the little-noticed provision, which lowered the criminal offense for illegal voting from a second-degree felony to a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail.

Abbott said in a statement.

“By increasing penalties for illegal voting,

we will send an even clearer message that

voter fraud will not be tolerated in Texas.” :lol not tolerated? how about NON existent?

House Speaker Dade Phelan announced he did not support it.

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Gov-Abbott-flip-flops-on-illegal-voting-charge-16500577.php

[boutons_deux]

CRITICAL RACE THEORY PROMPTS CANCELLATION OF AUTHOR’S APPEARANCE AT KATY ISD

https://texassignal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Copy-of-Unnamed-Design.png

Earlier this week a small group of parents in a Texas school district successfully stopped a renowned children’s author from talking to students.

https://texassignal.com/critical-race-theory-prompts-cancellation-of-authors-appearance-at-katy-isd

[boutons_deux]

Abbott panders on immigration, violates due process


The great unifying sin of Gov. Greg Abbott’s tenure is that, of course, he knows better.

He knows it is blatantly unconstitutional to arrest people and not provide representation or due process for weeks on end.

One doesn’t have to be an attorney to know and understand this,

but for a public official with Abbott’s legal pedigree,

the failure to honor due process is galling.

Operation Lone Star (https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-dps-launch-operation-lone-star-to-address-crisis-at-southern-border)and creating a new legal system to detain immigrants on state trespassing charges,

Abbott has blatantly disregarded constitutional rights at the altar of political expedience found in anti-immigrant posturing.

all Texans should be concerned about Abbott’s jailing of immigrants because it is an assault on due process and civil liberties.

Hundreds of immigrants have been detained for weeks on trespassing charges without representation,

violating state law and overwhelming county justice systems,

all while undercutting federal due process.

Immigration is a federal issue.

At best, Abbott’s system is duplicative and costly. At worst, it is a violation of due process that plays to fears of migrants.

https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/editorial/articleComments/Editorial-Abbott-panders-immigration-due-process-16513924.php

[boutons_deux]

Texas Railroad Commission needs ethics reform

When it comes to oil and gas, however, Texas regulators are especially close to the industries they are supposed to oversee.

This is especially true for the Railroad Commission of Texas, a 130-year-old state agency that — despite its name —

oversees oil and gas development, coal and uranium mining, and natural gas utility service.

The Railroad Commission is supposed to manage natural resources, and guard personal and community safety.

But too often, the commission focuses on speeding up oil and gas development at the expense of safety, the economy and the environment.

the financial interests and campaign contributions of the three current railroad commissioners.

Examples include cases in which

weak recusal rules allowed commissioners to participate in cases involving significant campaign contributors and companies in which they had personal financial stakes.

commissioners are allowed to take campaign contributions throughout their six-year terms,
except during the legislative session.

Commissioners can keep stakes in oil and gas entities that do business with the agency,

presenting at least the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Communities across our state suffer from pollution and health impacts from oil and gas development, and

they can’t trust that the commission always has their best interests in mind.

why the Railroad Commission didn’t require companies to winterize the gas supply chain 10 years ago.

Hundreds of people lost their lives,


https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/commentary/article/Commentary-Texas-Railroad-Commission-needs-16513929.php

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/244511378_419949649489303_1421334311887462260_n.jp g?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=yYvTdAxpRGsAX-I6j_M&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=cf52f413b631407077a769d72926cb34&oe=61663422

[Thread]

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/244511378_419949649489303_1421334311887462260_n.jp g?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=yYvTdAxpRGsAX-I6j_M&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=cf52f413b631407077a769d72926cb34&oe=61663422

Makes perfect sense.

[boutons_deux]

racist White Male Supremacists shit on browns and blacks, as expected always

Texas Senate gives initial OK to congressional lines (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19619A20317A15A893272) without new Hispanic district in D-FW (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19619A20317A15A893272)

The Texas Senate gave initial approval to new congressional boundaries Friday that

solidify the Republican majority in the state’s House delegation,


but fails to expand the clout of minority voters who powered the Lone Star State’s population surge.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area is denied a new district under the Senate’s map (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=19619A20317A15A893272), even though the area’s growth outpaced most of Texas.

-- Dallas Morning News email

[boutons_deux]

A Migrant Appears to Have Been Lynched in South Texas

The incident serves as a reminder that over the past two centuries, hundreds of migrants and Texans of Mexican descent have been murdered.

Border Patrol agents late last week spotted a badly decomposing body in a patch of trees

this one was hanging from a noose that had been fashioned from the remains of a shirt and was tied to a limb on a rugged old oak tree. His head lolled to one side, and his feet were missing, perhaps eaten by coyotes or other animals.

it’s impossible to know the exact number of lynchings that have taken place in Texas, but they have occurred since the days of the Republic of Texas.

Some historians estimate there have been over seven hundred lynchings (https://www.lynchingintexas.org/) in the state—and perhaps countless more—with hundreds (https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/109889/witnesses/HHRG-116-JU01-Wstate-MunozMartinezM-20190906.pdf) targeting Mexicans or Texans of Mexican heritage.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/immigrant-lynched-brooks-county

[boutons_deux]

GOP governors ignore COVID-19 cases in their states to join Greg Abbott for yet another border stunt

https://images.dailykos.com/images/995216/story_image/AP21279709756965.jpg?1633714332

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2056896

[Thread]

A Migrant Appears to Have Been Lynched in South Texas

The incident serves as a reminder that over the past two centuries, hundreds of migrants and Texans of Mexican descent have been murdered.

Border Patrol agents late last week spotted a badly decomposing body in a patch of trees

this one was hanging from a noose that had been fashioned from the remains of a shirt and was tied to a limb on a rugged old oak tree. His head lolled to one side, and his feet were missing, perhaps eaten by coyotes or other animals.

it’s impossible to know the exact number of lynchings that have taken place in Texas, but they have occurred since the days of the Republic of Texas.

Some historians estimate there have been over seven hundred lynchings (https://www.lynchingintexas.org/) in the state—and perhaps countless more—with hundreds (https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/109889/witnesses/HHRG-116-JU01-Wstate-MunozMartinezM-20190906.pdf) targeting Mexicans or Texans of Mexican heritage.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/immigrant-lynched-brooks-county

Please, they was lynching whites from telephone poles during the LA riots.

[pgardn]

GOP governors ignore COVID-19 cases in their states to join Greg Abbott for yet another border stunt

https://images.dailykos.com/images/995216/story_image/AP21279709756965.jpg?1633714332

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2056896

Oh look.

"Lets all dress up in Cowboy outfits.
Then inside for a cocktail.
Get that black guy guarding us to serve em up."

Dude... thats a REAL bunch of dude governors dude!

[DMC]

Makes perfect sense.

They were just as pissed off about it when you needed a permit and training.

What amendment protects the right to mail in your vote or vote online (lol.. that's secure for sure).

"Voting Rights Expert" looks like he probably drives a white van and hands out candy.

[DMC]

Oh look.

"Lets all dress up in Cowboy outfits.
Then inside for a cocktail.
Get that black guy guarding us to serve em up."

Dude... thats a REAL bunch of dude governors dude!

"Let's accuse innocent men of racism just because of a photo where a national guardsman happens to be black is standing watch"

[pgardn]

"Let's accuse innocent men of racism just because of a photo where a national guardsman happens to be black is standing watch"

Oh Im sure there was no thought as to what color the officer was that stood in that picture.
You are totally a rube grumpa. Thoroughly unaware... I guess you have NEVER seen the blue team pull this picture stunt.

[DMC]

Oh Im sure there was no thought as to what color the officer was that stood in that picture.
You are totally a rube grumpa. Thoroughly unaware... I guess you have NEVER seen the blue team pull this picture stunt.

Qgardn

That's Brigadier General Monie Ulis, commander of the TNG. Hardly a server you fucking clown :lol

[RandomGuy]

"Let's accuse innocent men of racism just because of a photo where a national guardsman happens to be black is standing watch"

No one said they were racist because of that.

The optics are bad.

Although, being old white republicans the odds are fairly good at least one of them is a racist, tbh.

[RandomGuy]

They were just as pissed off about it when you needed a permit and training.

What amendment protects the right to mail in your vote or vote online (lol.. that's secure for sure).


Amendments 9, 15, 19, and 24.

Voting rights have had to be explicitly and implicitly laid out more than once.

Almost as if it is important.

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/245527791_424318182385783_7672578208401112442_n.jp g?_nc_cat=102&_nc_rgb565=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=g5tlKLa0-tEAX8IOh_e&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=d1f548cc489f9b260a398a960fee9b2a&oe=616D442B

[boutons_deux]

TX Bans Local Nurses From Quitting To Work FEMA Crisis Contracts in State

"In order to mitigate negative staffing impacts on Texas healthcare systems and EMS agencies,

the state of Texas will only allow personnel deploying for this emergency response to be NON-RESIDENTS of Texas only and

to have not been employed by a Texas Acute Care hospital or EMS agency within 30 days.

This is mandated from the state of Texas.

All healthcare workers with applicable licensure are eligible for ANY Krucial Staffing contract opportunities that are direct agreements and not directed by entities outside of the healthcare facility,"

https://nurse.org/articles/texas-bans-nurses-from-in-state-crisis-contracts/

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Unregulated, corrupt, bribing energy Capitalists deliver a shitty, price-gouging product for $28B more than regulated electricity,

then shit hits the fan. Capitalist still keep the $10Bs, and customers get screwed

CPS Energy ratepayers on hook for $450 million in winter storm costs - so far

CPS Energy customers are on the hook for $450 million in charges stemming from the deadly February winter storm, which they’ll be paying off over the next 25 years.

That’s how much of its more than $1 billion in storm-related bills the city-owned utility has paid so far.

Before the end of the year, the utility is expected to ask its five-member board of trustees and City Council to approve a rate hike of about 10 percent, which would go into effect in early 2022.

CPS is still fighting another $585 million in bills from the storm in state court,

accusing more than a dozen natural gas suppliers of price-gouging during the storm.

It’s not clear what the impact to ratepayers’ bills will be if the utility loses or settles its lawsuits.

https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/CPS-Energy-ratepayers-on-hook-for-450-million-in-16533096.php

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Black flag is the recent signal from the rightwing that they intend to kill opponents

Are Your Republican Neighbors Planning On Killing You?

https://i1.wp.com/livingbluetx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/90.jpg?fit=852%2C549&ssl=1

https://livingbluetx.com/2021/09/domestic-terrorist-next-door

[Thread]

Black flag is the recent signal from the rightwing that they intend to kill opponents

Are Your Republican Neighbors Planning On Killing You?

https://i1.wp.com/livingbluetx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/90.jpg?fit=852%2C549&ssl=1

https://livingbluetx.com/2021/09/domestic-terrorist-next-door

They've shown up in my neighborhood here in Arizona the couple weeks. At least now I know what they stand for.

[koriwhat]

Oh look.

"...Get that black guy guarding us to serve em up."

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP. U0A8zoms578Gc-DcMszgBwAAAA%26pid%3DApi&f=1
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[boutons_deux]

Moroccan man gets lost, parks his car, white Texan shoots him dead and walks free

Dghoughi, an unarmed Moroccan citizen living in the U.S., was shot and killed by a Texas resident in an unprovoked attack on Oct. 11.

According to Morocco World News (https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/10/344980/fatal-shooting-of-unarmed-moroccan-man-in-texas-sparks-uproar),

Dghoughi was shot by 65-year-old Terry Turner

for sitting in a parked car near Turner’s residence

in Martindale, Texas, a small town about 40 miles from Austin.

the shooter being friends with local police,

but also cites Texas’ “no duty retreat” law.

“these laws are associated with an increase in homicides” and disproportionately impact people of color. Additionally, the report found that these laws

“encourage impulsive and illegitimate uses of deadly force” in situations that could have otherwise been prevented.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/19/2059031/-Family-wants-answers-after-Moroccan-man-shot-to-death-in-parked-car-in-Texas

An excellent tactic towards purifying America by killing non-whites.

[boutons_deux]

Employees fired by AG Ken Paxton deserve whistleblower protections, appellate court rules

former employees ... reported him to law enforcement for alleged corruption,

saying the state’s whistleblower law should have prevented them from being fired.

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Appellate-court-allows-Ken-Paxton-whistleblower-16551665.php

[boutons_deux]

Abbott's pick to oversee Texas elections helped Trump try to overturn 2020 results

John Scott, a Fort Worth attorney and longtime ally, as Texas’ next secretary of state —

the top official who oversees Texas’ voting processes and election law.

briefly represented former President Donald Trump in his bid to overturn the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/legislature/article/Abbott-pick-to-oversee-Texas-elections-Trump-16551652.php

The election rigging and corruption will be unPresidented

[DMC]

Black flag is the recent signal from the rightwing that they intend to kill opponents

Are Your Republican Neighbors Planning On Killing You?

https://i1.wp.com/livingbluetx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/90.jpg?fit=852%2C549&ssl=1

https://livingbluetx.com/2021/09/domestic-terrorist-next-door

:tu

[RandomGuy]

The lawsuit filed against our felony indicted AG will go forward

1451198988154068998

drain the swamp?

[RandomGuy]

Moroccan man gets lost, parks his car, white Texan shoots him dead and walks free

Dghoughi, an unarmed Moroccan citizen living in the U.S., was shot and killed by a Texas resident in an unprovoked attack on Oct. 11.

According to Morocco World News (https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/10/344980/fatal-shooting-of-unarmed-moroccan-man-in-texas-sparks-uproar),

Dghoughi was shot by 65-year-old Terry Turner

for sitting in a parked car near Turner’s residence

in Martindale, Texas, a small town about 40 miles from Austin.

the shooter being friends with local police,

but also cites Texas’ “no duty retreat” law.

“these laws are associated with an increase in homicides” and disproportionately impact people of color. Additionally, the report found that these laws

“encourage impulsive and illegitimate uses of deadly force” in situations that could have otherwise been prevented.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/19/2059031/-Family-wants-answers-after-Moroccan-man-shot-to-death-in-parked-car-in-Texas

An excellent tactic towards purifying America by killing non-whites.




yikes

[boutons_deux]

A Texas school district bans boys from wearing long hair.

Now, some students are suing.

School officials in Texas forced a 9-year-old boy to serve an in-school suspension for a month,

deprived him of recess and normal lunch breaks, and

banished him from campus to an alternative school —

all to pressure the fourth-grader into getting a haircut,

seven students suing a Texas school district for what they call a discriminatory policy that requires boys to wear short hair.

against the Magnolia Independent School District, which serves some 13,000 students about 40 miles northwest of Houston. :lol deep in the heart of shithole

the district’s policy prohibiting boys from wearing long hair is based on gender stereotypes that violate the Constitution.

They say administrators apply it unevenly, allowing some boys to wear long hair that violates the district’s grooming standards while punishing others.

“We have warned the district repeatedly that its gender-based hair policy violates the Constitution,

but the district continues to derail students’ lives and deny their right to a public education free from discrimination,”

The rule requires that male students’ hair must be “no longer than the bottom of a dress shirt collar, bottom of the ear, and out of the eyes,” the district’s handbook states (https://4.files.edl.io/4255/08/03/21/133712-baf5d715-1a3a-4116-9a66-bc06865c8639.pdf).

defended the policy and said it was similar to policies in place for about half of Texas public school districts.

“This system of differentiated dress and grooming standards have been affirmed by courts and does not inhibit equal access to educational opportunities under Title IX.”

the district had defended the approach (https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/08/25/students-parents-raise-concern-over-hair-policy-at-magnolia-isd/) by saying it “reflects the values of our community at large.”

Sanctions have included days, or even weeks, of in-school suspension, according to the lawsuit.

For some of the students, officials escalated the

punishment by sending them to an alternative school “typically reserved for students who have violated state or federal law or committed serious violations of school policies,” it adds.

The district did not provide them transportation to get there,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/21/texas-students-long-hair-lawsuit

[RandomGuy]

A Texas school district bans boys from wearing long hair.

Now, some students are suing.

School officials in Texas forced a 9-year-old boy to serve an in-school suspension for a month,

deprived him of recess and normal lunch breaks, and

banished him from campus to an alternative school —

all to pressure the fourth-grader into getting a haircut,

seven students suing a Texas school district for what they call a discriminatory policy that requires boys to wear short hair.

against the Magnolia Independent School District, which serves some 13,000 students about 40 miles northwest of Houston. :lol deep in the heart of shithole

the district’s policy prohibiting boys from wearing long hair is based on gender stereotypes that violate the Constitution.

They say administrators apply it unevenly, allowing some boys to wear long hair that violates the district’s grooming standards while punishing others.

“We have warned the district repeatedly that its gender-based hair policy violates the Constitution,

but the district continues to derail students’ lives and deny their right to a public education free from discrimination,”

The rule requires that male students’ hair must be “no longer than the bottom of a dress shirt collar, bottom of the ear, and out of the eyes,” the district’s handbook states (https://4.files.edl.io/4255/08/03/21/133712-baf5d715-1a3a-4116-9a66-bc06865c8639.pdf).

defended the policy and said it was similar to policies in place for about half of Texas public school districts.

“This system of differentiated dress and grooming standards have been affirmed by courts and does not inhibit equal access to educational opportunities under Title IX.”

the district had defended the approach (https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/08/25/students-parents-raise-concern-over-hair-policy-at-magnolia-isd/) by saying it “reflects the values of our community at large.”

Sanctions have included days, or even weeks, of in-school suspension, according to the lawsuit.

For some of the students, officials escalated the

punishment by sending them to an alternative school “typically reserved for students who have violated state or federal law or committed serious violations of school policies,” it adds.

The district did not provide them transportation to get there,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/21/texas-students-long-hair-lawsuit

Shit, I would make my kid grow his hair out just so I could be part of the lawsuit.

Easy money, and the administrators that force this shit are morons.

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Rep. Gohmert asks why Rep. John Lewis wasn’t treated the same as Jan. 6 insurrectionists (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/21/2059482/-Louie-goes-full-Gohmert-compares-Jan-6-insurrectionists-to-a-civil-rights-icon)

it is no surprise that

one of the most embarrassing humans to ever hold elected office, Louie Gohmert,

equates the late civil rights leader and Georgia Rep. John Lewis’s peaceful, nonviolent sit-in protest on the House floor (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/22/1541322/-Rep-John-Lewis-leads-House-Democrats-into-action-for-gun-safety) to demand action on gun safety legislation, with… the January 6, insurrection.

Wait, what?

I said:

Louie Gohmert is comparing Rep. John Lewis’ historic ‘good trouble’ to the January 6 insurrection.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/21/2059482/-Louie-goes-full-Gohmert-compares-Jan-6-insurrectionists-to-a-civil-rights-icon

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Moroccan man gets lost, parks his car, white Texan shoots him dead and walks free

Dghoughi, an unarmed Moroccan citizen living in the U.S., was shot and killed by a Texas resident in an unprovoked attack on Oct. 11.

According to Morocco World News (https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/10/344980/fatal-shooting-of-unarmed-moroccan-man-in-texas-sparks-uproar),

Dghoughi was shot by 65-year-old Terry Turner

for sitting in a parked car near Turner’s residence



https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/10/23/terry-turner-mugshot-arrested_wide-18a8a4fd96e20677b8a22887af737f1c64a758c5-s1100-c50.jpg

"Turner reportedly told investigators that he had noticed a car in his driveway in the middle of the night, when he had awoken to use the bathroom,

At that time, the headlights on Dghoughi's Audi were off.

But as Turner fetched a handgun and headed outside,

the lights came on and the car "began to rapidly accelerate in reverse,"

Turner ran after the car, smacking its window.

He then fired his gun at the driver.

In a transcript of the 911 call Turner made to police, he told the dispatcher, "I just killed a guy," explaining that

he "tried to pull a gun at me, I shot," "

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/23/1048661086/11-days-after-a-moroccan-man-died-a-texan-is-arrested-on-a-murder-warrant

LYING Turner MURDERED a man who was no threat, in retreat, AND HAD NO GUN

What are the odds in shithole, gun-fellatin, racist Texas

that a shitbag old white man escapes punishment for killing a non-white foreigner?

I'd say very goods odds.

Turn your house lights on and the guy would have been gone, no harm to old white shitbag, now a murderer.

This story is probably big news in Morocco, a US ally, and all over Europe

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Start the Steal, guaranteed in Texas

Abbott’s pick for Texas secretary of state is FW lawyer who worked on Trump’s election challenge

John Scott will lead the Secretary of State’s office as it takes on broad new powers from the divisive GOP elections law.

“Abbott is appointing one of the architects of Republicans’ big lie that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election to oversee all electoral activity in our state,”

“Texans need a secretary of state that will fight for and protect that right — and not

undermine it for political gain.”

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/10/21/abbotts-pick-for-texas-secretary-of-state-is-fw-lawyer-who-worked-on-trumps-election-challenge

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Texas Republican to investigate school districts’

books on race that 'make students feel discomfort'

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/texas-state-rep-matt-krause.jpg?id=27795638&width=821&height=461


State Rep. Matt Krause (https://www.texastribune.org/directory/matt-krause/), in his role as chair of the

House Committee on General Investigating, :lol going fishin'

notified the Texas Education Agency that he is "initiating an inquiry into Texas school district content,"

Krause's letter provides a 16-page list (https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/94fee7ff93eff9609f141433e41f8ae1/krausebooklist.pdf) of about 850 book titles and

asks the districts if they have these books,

how many copies they have and

how much money they spent on the books.

https://www.rawstory.com/state-rep-matt-krause

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/26/texas-school-books-race-sexuality/

East Texas, Deep South

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'That's not horse medicine!'

GOP lawmaker fumes that pharmacies won't fill his ivermectin prescription

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/gop-congressman-goes-on-wild-rant-calling-for-house-to-shut-down-in-response-to-mask-requirement.png?id=27796005&width=980&height=551

Rep. Chip Roy :lol

(R-TX) on Tuesday fumed that few pharmacies are apparently willing to fill his prescription for ivermectin, which has been touted as an unproven treatment for COVID-19.

speaking on the House floor, Roy raged that he wasn't able to get the ivermectin he wanted even though

it had been purportedly prescribed by his doctor.

https://www.rawstory.com/chip-roy-ivermectin

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Banned books and Nazi salutes:

Texas lawmakers are creating safe space for hate

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/politics/article/Banned-books-and-Nazi-salutes-Texas-lawmakers-16571932.php

Texas heading towards racial purity, the race being white, above all white males.

America is fucked and unfuckabe

Capitalist/Christian fascism is only a few years in the future, 2024.

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Texas Republican to investigate school districts’

books on race that 'make students feel discomfort'

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/texas-state-rep-matt-krause.jpg?id=27795638&width=821&height=461


State Rep. Matt Krause (https://www.texastribune.org/directory/matt-krause/), in his role as chair of the

House Committee on General Investigating, :lol going fishin'

notified the Texas Education Agency that he is "initiating an inquiry into Texas school district content,"

Krause's letter provides a 16-page list (https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/94fee7ff93eff9609f141433e41f8ae1/krausebooklist.pdf) of about 850 book titles and

asks the districts if they have these books,

how many copies they have and

how much money they spent on the books.

https://www.rawstory.com/state-rep-matt-krause

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/26/texas-school-books-race-sexuality/

East Texas, Deep South

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/248681392_231678805730368_5051872216855620946_n.jp g?_nc_cat=103&_nc_rgb565=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=f9ZscaTRfOgAX_QFgDo&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=226572465e0a90ce50f008a4c11d3432&oe=61A2986D

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TEXAS IS WATERING DOWN FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDS


The state needs to invest more than $60 billion in water infrastructure over the next 50 years—instead,

the Legislature spent federal money on cops, jailers and cybersecurity.

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-is-watering-down-federal-infrastructure-funds (https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-is-watering-down-federal-infrastructure-funds/?goal=0_975e2d1fa1-f714da53eb-34733575&mc_cid=f714da53eb&mc_eid=b9077e7e26)

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Chip Roy refuses to support renaming of building named after Klansman


https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/22/55/05/21680480/6/1200x0.jpg

Cohen wanted to remove the name of the late Clifford Davis, a onetime Klansman and lifelong segregationist,

so the building would be solely named after Odell Horton, the first African American federal judge to serve in the Western District of Tennessee since Reconstruction.

Chip Roy was one of the three contrarians.

The Texas Republican, whose district includes part of San Antonio, voted “Present.”

this is the same guy who, in 2019, temporarily blocked the passage of a $19.1 billion disaster relief bill (including $4 billion to Texans ravaged by Hurricane Harvey)

because he objected to the idea of the House passing it by unanimous consent, without a roll call vote.

His biggest crusade this year has been to rail against women registering for the Selective Service, \

https://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/gilbert_garcia/article/Garcia-Chip-Roy-refuses-to-support-renaming-of-16597219.php (https://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/gilbert_garcia/article/Garcia-Chip-Roy-refuses-to-support-renaming-of-16597219.php?sid=5936c5882ddf9c486ef4062f&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=news_a&utm_campaign=SAEN_ExpressBriefing)

Roy knows his base racist and misogynist

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Jewish residents in an Austin neighborhood were sent anti semitic letters blaming them for COVID

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/6/2062460/-Jewish-residents-in-an-Austin-neighborhood-were-sent-antisemitic-letters-blaming-them-for-COVID

American Jews, order your yellow Star of David patches now because the Capitalist/Christian fascists will persecute you, slaughter you.

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shitbag Repugs' book burning, because Christ hated LGBT








Gov. Abbutt seeks standards to prevent ‘obscene content’ in schools,

citing book on gender identity (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=20238A20960A27A916740)

https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=20238A20960A27A916740









but, Abbutt knows his hate-saturated rural Christian cult mob

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Will Texas repeat a McCarthy-like investigation into what students read in schools?

A 1962 House Committee delved into textbooks until rancorous hearings upended their process.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/11/08/will-texas-repeat-a-mccarthy-like-investigation-into-what-students-read-in-schools

fascist Repugs policing thinking and reading that they don't like

because thinking freely, critically is not a fascist principle

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Snowflake U: Conservatives spark avalanche of mockery with

announcement of a scam university

Bari Weiss, the notorious Islamophobe who

started her career in grievance preaching by trying to get Palestinian professors fired from their jobs (https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-falsely-denies-her-years-of-attacks-on-the-academic-freedom-of-arab-scholars-who-criticize-israel/) at Colombia University and

infamously quit her cushy editorial job at the New York Times in a public tantrum because her colleagues thought she was stupid and her ideas sucked, (https://deadline.com/2020/07/new-york-times-bari-weiss-resigns-bullying-1202985236/)

announced on Monday morning that she and a group of other right-wing losers were

opening a new university, where a racist can be a racist!

this obsession with the “truth” makes it clear that this is not going to be a “university” so much as

it is a “propaganda multi-level marketing scheme” in the vein of famous fake universities like Trump University and the University of Phoenix.

they don’t actually offer any degrees, aren’t accredited, and have a lawyer’s office as their listed address.

the entire American right-wing movement from top to bottom

exists solely to funnel money out of the pockets of angry rubes into the bank accounts of devious rubes

while entrenching the dominance of white supremacists ideology in the minds of its followers.

https://occupydemocrats.com/2021/11/08/snowflake-u-conservatives-spark-avalanche-of-mockery-with-announcement-of-a-scam-university

What caused the scammers to choose Texas?

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In Texas And Beyond, Right Wing Brings Culture Wars To Classrooms

Conservatives in Texas and several other states have declared war on the teaching of books aimed at sensitizing students to racism and gender identity issues, saying they wrongly inflict feelings of guilt on white and non-LGBTQ students.

In one direct result of the campaign, a school district west of Houston last month temporarily withdrew copies of a book that explains the unintentional "micro-aggressions" an African-American child suffers because of the color of his or her skin.

Matt Krause has asked every school district in the state to send him a list cataloging how many of each of the books they possess, where they are located and how much they spent for them.

Divisive debates over the acceptability of books and of certain teachings have sprung up in some 15 states, primarily in the South, :lol

sparking unusually angry confrontations in local school board meetings.

They "will pop up everywhere in the future, especially in urban areas where there is a conservative push at the state level but where local politics tend to be more Democratic,"

The Texas Library Association has pushed back against what it called "a substantial increase in censorship activity in Texas."

the Texas State Teachers Association has denounced what it called a "witch hunt," following passage by the state legislature of a law that sets specific guidelines for the teaching of racial and sexual inequalities.

"Book banning serves as a media distraction from the real harm politicians like Matt Krause perpetuate."

Krause "a prolific author of anti-LGBTQ legislation."

https://www.nationalmemo.com/in-texas-and-beyond-conservatives-take-culture-wars-to-classrooms

Krause intends to hurt another minority for his political advantage.

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The HATE is bigger, Deep In The Heart of shitbag Texans

Texas teens dressed as KKK members for Halloween —

and attacked two Black children

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/image.png?id=27948278&width=800&height=450

https://www.rawstory.com/kkk-2655535172/

[RandomGuy]

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neo-fascists pretty much lose all rights to complain when it happens to them.

Little doubt that when that fine day arrives... they will turn violent.

[RandomGuy]

The HATE is bigger, Deep In The Heart of shitbag Texans

Texas teens dressed as KKK members for Halloween —

and attacked two Black children

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/image.png?id=27948278&width=800&height=450

https://www.rawstory.com/kkk-2655535172/

Kinda deserves its own thread.

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Gov. Greg Abbott, GOP leaders allocate $4 million to fund county-level election audits

https://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/gov-greg-abbott-gop-leaders-allocate-4-million-to-fund-county-level-election-audits/Content

NOT for election machine/network defense

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think her family and friends vote Democrat?

"white high school student in Texas assaulting a Black teacher before calling her mom from the classroom and saying: "She's Black and she's pissing me off!"

"No, I'm calling my momma.

You ain't about to fuck me up, bitch."

"I need you to get over here now because

this teacher's about to get fucked up if she doesn't get the fuck away from me. ...

You want to talk to her because she's Black and she's fucking pissing me off right now?"

https://twitter.com/SmashDaTopic/status/1461830462314369028

1461830462314369028

https://www.rawstory.com/racism-2655769902/

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You're the TMZ of ST boutons_deux and that's not a compliment whatsoever. You suck!

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Arlington City Council approves permit to drill 3 new gas wells near daycare center

Several Arlington council members said

they feared litigation if they voted to deny the permit.

... even as physicians and environmental activists warned that

the project could have dire consequences on public health.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2021/12/01/arlington-city-council-approves-permit-to-drill-3-new-gas-wells-near-day-care-center

BigOil does't GAF about public health, or even kids' health.

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Adolescent females face multiple barriers to drug treatment in Texas

only a small number of women in the state receive residential drug treatment as teenagers.

Over 70% of beds available to adolescents for residential drug treatment in Texas are designated for males.

Male juveniles in the state have more than double the options for treatment facilities a female the same age can access.

“It isolates the females that want recovery. They don’t have as many people to call. Their network is automatically smaller than the males’ network,”

There are only two all-female adolescent RTCs verses about 13 dedicated to the treatment of adolescent males.

Unlike boys who can get inpatient treatment in Austin, girls struggling with addiction have to drive nearly three hours to Houston, for any kind of inpatient treatment.

https://www.kxan.com/investigations/adolescent-females-face-multiple-barriers-to-drug-treatment-in-texas

A Christian state run by a Catholic

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Texas Says Its Unconstitutional Content Moderation Law Should Still Go Into Effect While We Wait For Appeal;

Judge: 'No, That's Not How This Works' :lol

Last week, the district court Judge Robert Pitman wrote an excellent ruling (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211202/00403748039/texas-court-gets-it-right-dumps-texass-social-media-moderation-law-as-clearly-unconstitutional.shtml)

tossing out Texas' silly content moderation law as clearly unconstitutional under the 1st Amendment.

As was widely expected, Texas has appealed the ruling (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1147630/gov.uscourts.txwd.1147630.54.0_1.pdf) to

the 5th Circuit (undeniably, the wackiest of the Circuits, so who knows what may happen).

However, in the meantime, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

also asked the lower court to have the law go into effect (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1147630/gov.uscourts.txwd.1147630.53.0.pdf) while waiting for the appeals court to rule!


A stay is also supported by the widely recognized principle that enjoining a state law inflicts irreparable harm on the state, and that the public’s interest is aligned with the state’s interest and harm.

Plaintiffs, in contrast, will not be irreparably harmed if a stay is granted.

This is evidenced by the fact that

(1) their supportive members stated they either already comply with aspects of the law or could not explain how the law would be burdensome in practice; and

(2) Plaintiffs’ other members, filing as amici in opposition to the Preliminary Injunction,

have demonstrated no harm will occur by enforcement of H.B. 20.

For all these reasons, as further set forth below, a temporary stay while the Fifth Circuit considers the merits of this Court’s Preliminary Injunction is warranted.


It is really incredible:

The Attorney General has also raised questions never considered by the Fifth Circuit or the Supreme Court as to common carriage and the First Amendment.

Correspondingly, the

Attorney General has demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits regarding Plaintiffs’ claims.

While this Court may have rejected the Attorney General’s arguments,

it did so by relying on readily distinguishable First Amendment case law and giving dispositive weight to a novel “fact”:

whether the entity “screen[s] and sometimes moderate[s] or curate[s]” user generated content.

Therefore, given the novel nature of Plaintiffs’ claims and the substantial support for the Attorney General’s arguments,

the Court of Appeals should have an opportunity to consider these issues before the injunction is implemented.



Basically,

"even though we lost easily,

we really made the better arguments,

so therefore you should let the law go into effect." :lol

It's nonsense.


https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211209/18095248088/texas-says-unconstitutional-content-moderation-law-should-still-go-into-effect-while-we-wait-appeal-judge-no-thats-not-how-this.shtml

Note that the TX ATTORNEY General is not an attorney

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Gov. Greg Abbott, GOP leaders allocate $4 million to fund county-level election audits

A new state law requires the secretary of state's office to audit results in four randomly selected counties every two years.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/19/abbott-emergency-funds-election-audits/

Anybody think audits will be inflicted on counties won by Repugs?

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North East ISD’s removal of library books may be unconstitutional

The removal of 414 library books by North East Independent School District officials to review for “vulgar or obscene” content

“flies in the face” of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that said books cannot be removed from school libraries on political grounds,

Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, said

NEISD’s removal of books from library shelves before they have been reviewed could be unconstitutional.

In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico that school boards and administrators have the right to remove books from school libraries

if they have “legitimate concerns about vulgarity and inappropriate content that will potentially harm growing minds.”

“The Pico case very clearly says that school districts cannot remove books for political reasons.

They cannot remove books to suppress ideas,” he said.

“Removing books from a public library even for an interim period flies in the face of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Pico.

The heart of that case was the fact that there had been no fact-finding about the merits of books being banned.

A school district has an affirmative obligation to do a genuine review and not pre-judge the merits of the books by taking them off the shelf.”

https://sanantonioreport.org/north-east-isds-removal-library-unconstitutional

As always, Repugs operate in "Fuck the Constitution, fuck science, fuck everything but us"

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Forensic hypnosis in Texas prompts questions about death row case

When police have an eyewitness to a crime but that witness is fuzzy on the details, what can they do?

In Texas, police can turn to hypnotizing that witness.

It’s called “forensic hypnosis” :lol

— and it’s controversial, even called “junk science” by some.

Still, testimony obtained via hypnosis is allowed in Texas courtrooms,

and has even been used to send people to death row.

https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2021-12-12/forensic-hypnosis-in-texas-prompts-questions-about-death-row-case

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‘Prison gerrymandering:’

How inmates are helping the Texas GOP maintain its power

On paper, the Tennessee Colony area looks like a small but growing East Texas community of 16,000 residents.

But in reality, it’s not much more than a country road intersection anchored by a feed store, a church and a shuttered post office.

Locals say the biggest draws are Taco Tuesdays at the gas station and the monthly meeting at the Masonic lodge.

Only about 2,000 people actually live in this part of rural Anderson County.

The other 13,344 are prisoners here.

Nearly a quarter of a million people were incarcerated in Texas when the Census was taken last year.

When lawmakers redrew the state’s voting maps this fall (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=20952A21672A15A945919), these

inmates were counted in the prison towns where they were locked up, rather than where they lived beforehand.

-- email Dallas Morning News

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Texas man charged for pipe attack on cyclist

https://images.dailykos.com/images/1017210/story_image/PipeAttackCyclistKPRC.jpeg?1639647509

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/16/2069518/-Texas-man-charged-for-pipe-attack-on-cyclist

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Texas AG Paxton’s $2.2M voter fraud unit closed three cases in 2021.

GOP lawmakers still boosted its budget.

most reliable ... in spreading the myth of widespread voter fraud, particularly in the 2020 election, and frequently boasts that few states are as vigilant.
His office’s election integrity unit added two lawyers to the team in the last year, bringing it up to six staffers total, and

worked more than 20,000 hours between October 2020 and September 2021.

Its budget, meanwhile, ratcheted up from $1.9 million to $2.2 million during that time.

the unit closed just three cases this year, down from 17 last year, and opened seven new ones.

That includes the newly created unit focused on the 2021 local elections, which has yet to file a single case.

“This is an exorbitant amount of money that has resulted in no benefit for the average Texan,”

“Taxpayers are funding a political stunt meant to fuel the false claim of a stolen election and justify voting restrictions.”

Paxton’s office has not uncovered any evidence of voter fraud in 2020 beyond isolated incidents affecting a handful of votes in an election in which more than 11 million Texans cast ballots.

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-AG-Paxton-s-2-2M-voter-fraud-unit-closed-16708051.php

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The Chapter 313 monster — the mother of all corporate welfare — revives?

proposed rule changes by the Texas comptroller’s office, which they claim will harm transparency and allow the monster — Chapter 313 tax breaks — to rise from the dead (https://www.expressnews.com/business/business_columnists/michael_taylor/article/the-worst-chapter-in-Texas-corporate-welfare-16186770.php).

So what are critics worried about?

The fiendish Chapter 313 is a tad complicated, but let’s review the basics.

A private company (often an energy company, but not always) wants to build a new facility in Texas.

It makes a threat (usually fake, according to a Hearst investigation and academic studies) that it might build the thing in some other state and says

it needs a break on school property taxes to invest in Texas (https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/news/investigations/article/unfair-burden-part-1-texas-tax-corporations-covid-16164744.php).

I say fake because in 85 percent of cases, the companies would have built their operations in Texas without the incentive,

according to a report by University of Texas at Austin professor Nathan Jensen, a longtime critic of the Chapter 313 program (http://cdn.equitablegrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/19153356/10242017-WP-exit-options-negotiations.pdf).

So it’s a pure giveaway to encourage a company to do the thing it would have done anyway. And you’re paying for it.

Here’s how you’re paying:

A local school board approves a 10-year property tax break to build the thing in Texas.

For big companies, this can be worth tens of millions of dollars.

A database maintained by the comptroller (https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/local/ch313/agreement-docs.php)lets you see how much and for how long companies get this incentive.

The Texas comptroller’s office has approved 97.5 percent of these deals. In other words, it has not been a real check on Chapter 313.

Part of the program’s evil genius is that the state wholly reimburses the local school district for its 10 years of forgone tax revenue,

so school districts almost never say no.

And when I say “the state” provides reimbursement, I mean that ultimately you, dear taxpayer,

reimburse the company for building the thing it was already going to build in the first place.
This became such a successful corporate welfare game that by March 2021, there were more than 500 active Chapter 313 agreements and

the cost of the program exceeded $10 billion in state funds.

https://www.expressnews.com/business/business_columnists/michael_taylor/article/Taylor-Chapter-313-16716770.php

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Well,it's a slave state

Two Texas teens dressed as Klansman tased their Black classmate—now they face hate crime charges

https://images.dailykos.com/images/1019419/story_image/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.png?1640186636

Woodsboro, Texas—Rance Bolcik, 17, who is white, and Noel Garcia Jr.,17, who is Latino—dressed in Klan outfits and

targeted one of their football teammates, who is Black.

Also, a white unnamed 16-year-old Karen recorded a video of the attack on her cellphone.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2070674

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Top Texas paper rakes AG Ken Paxton over the coals for acting as Trump's 'shameless toady'

In an editorial in the Houston Chronicle...

https://www.rawstory.com/ken-paxton-2656166155/

"shameless Trash toady" is good politics in shithole Texas

[Thread]

Top Texas paper rakes AG Ken Paxton over the coals for acting as Trump's 'shameless toady'

In an editorial in the Houston Chronicle...

https://www.rawstory.com/ken-paxton-2656166155/

"shameless Trash toady" is good politics in shithole Texas

All because of this...

Trump President.
Not Clinton.

[HemisfairArena]

Well,it's a slave state

Two Texas teens dressed as Klansman tased their Black classmate—now they face hate crime charges

https://images.dailykos.com/images/1019419/story_image/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.png?1640186636

Woodsboro, Texas—Rance Bolcik, 17, who is white, and Noel Garcia Jr.,17, who is Latino—dressed in Klan outfits and

targeted one of their football teammates, who is Black.

Also, a white unnamed 16-year-old Karen recorded a video of the attack on her cellphone.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2070674

Whites and hispanics are becoming bothers in arms. Trump made big gains with the hispanic community. If democrats lose the majority of hispanic voters...its game over.

[HemisfairArena]

New data helps explain Trump’s gains among Latino voters in 2020
Democrats can’t afford to take Latino voters for granted.
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https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/tBU3qDwidf9-KbOxN0Sc9ChXPos=/0x0:3900x2638/1200x800/filters:focal(2111x605:2735x1229)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69311935/1228998564.0.jpgSupporters of President Donald Trump attend an “anticommunist caravan” organized by Cuban Americans in Miami in October. Gaston de Cardenas/AFP via Getty ImagesConventional wisdom long dictated that if Latino voters show up to vote, they will overwhelmingly support Democrats. But a recent report with more details on the 2020 election results suggests the reality is more complicated.
It was clear after the election that Trump had made gains (https://www.vox.com/21551025/latino-national-vote-biden-trump-2020-florida-texas) among Latino voters in places like Florida’s Miami-Dade County and Texas’s Rio Grande Valley. The newest and most detailed data yet shows that the trend was nationwide. According to a recent report (https://catalist.us/wh-national/) by the Democratic data firm Catalist, the number of Latinos who cast votes increased by 31 percent from 2016 to 2020, accounting for a 10th of the electorate. A comfortable majority of Latinos — an estimated 61 percent — supported President Joe Biden, but there was about an 8 percentage-point swing toward Trump, based on data on votes cast for either the Democratic or Republican nominees in 2016 and 2020.
The data shows that many Latino voters, who represent the fastest-growing share of the electorate, are not firmly part of the Democratic base. Instead, they seem to be persuadable voters, presenting a potential opportunity for both Democrats and Republicans. This is especially true for voters who aren’t hyperpartisan: new and infrequent voters, as well as people who flipped their votes in 2020 or who decided to sit the election out entirely.

[ElNono]

:lol Cubans
:lol “Trump 2020”
:lol Losers

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Texas’ new election law challenged over provision making it a crime to encourage voting by mail

Election officials are asking a judge to block the provision before the March 1 primary.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/12/28/texas-new-election-law-challenged-over-provision-making-it-a-crime-to-encourage-voting-by-mail

After Jan 2025, Repugs to pass some laws:

all mail-in or on-line voting illegal, heavy fines

all abortions, surgical and drug, illegal, this time women to prison

all contraception (embryo murder), illegal

importing abortion drugs illegal

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In Texas Supreme Court case, state argues that Dallas-Houston bullet train developer can’t use eminent domain

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-bullet-train-Dallas-to-Houston-lawsuit-16732128.php

but shithole Texas supports, enforces BigOil using "eminent domain" for pipelines.

who would bribe Repugs shitbags?

BigOil, keep people in cars burning gas

BigAirline, keep people in planes, also burning gas

BigAuto, keep people in cars

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Texas AG Ken Paxton dealt another 'election fraud' blow as judge dismisses 'politically motivated' case

For the second time this month, :lol

Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has suffered a major setback in a criminal case in which he alleged "election fraud."

accused Medina County Justice of the Peace Tomas “Tommy” Ramirez of running a vote-harvesting operation out of assisted living centers during the 2018 Republican primary.

Ramirez says the allegations led to threats and harassment against him, and

he accused Paxton of pushing for an indictment just to get headlines and rile up his base,

a judge dismissed all charges against Ramirez.

“This case was politically motivated and was totally unjustified,” Ramirez said.

“My family and I have received anonymous hate mail and ugly social media attacks.

My law office was vandalized and

I was even asked by the State Bar of Texas if I wanted to voluntarily surrender my law license.”

Paxton conducted a year-long investigation and continued to press for charges even after

one of the AG's investigators found there was no probable cause to pursue the case.

"followed a ruling by a separate court (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/15/ken-paxton-election-prosecute-court/) that struck down a law allowing the state attorney general to unilaterally prosecute election law cases,"

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2656178238

[CosmicCowboy]

Boo, I realize you get free rent in your Mom's singlewide, but other than that...Why do you live in Texas if you hate it so much?

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Texas National Guard struggles to pay soldiers, while slashing tuition help by more than half

Abbott mobilizes thousands of Texas National Guard troops to assist with his border initiative known as Operation Lone Star,

the state has struggled to pay soldiers on time while slashing their tuition assistance benefits,

raising concerns about morale in the 19,000-member force.

more than 50 percent cut in the Military Department’s two-year tuition assistance budget, from $3 million to $1.4 million.

The change — suggested by military officials to meet a 5 percent budget cut imposed on most state agencies by Abbott and other state leaders (https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/O-AgencyHeads202005200703.pdf) —

reduces the number of soldiers who will receive tuition benefits and the amount paid out to those who will still receive aid.

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Delayed-pay-benefit-cuts-vex-Texas-National-16752797.php

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"1984" shitbag TX Repugs rule that

Pravda "history" is what we, bad faith indoctrinators of youth, say it is.

Any other history is fucking illegal

A Texas charter school had to remove an anti-racist quote from its website before it could open

After lawmakers passed a law about how racism was to be taught in Texas schools, Essence Preparatory in San Antonio was sent back to the drawing board.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/06/critical-race-theory-charter-school/

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thinks this is what plays well with his racist/xenophobic district

House GOP candidate calls for Texas-wide ban on Chinese students

https://news.yahoo.com/house-gop-candidate-calls-texas-215403844.html

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Texas lags behind as states increase minimum wage
Measures to raise the state minimum wage went nowhere in the last legislative session.


Texas is one of 20 states not to raise its minimum wage above the federal one.

https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2022/01/10/texas-behind-states-increase-minimum-wage

Confederacy/red state Repugs screwing their voters who still vote Repug