SB 21, " Strategic Bitcoin Reserve"
lol Jack and the Beanstalk Republicans
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-...enate-bill-21/Hilary Allen, a law professor at American University who specializes in financial regulation, said state crypto reserves are unwise .“There is simply nothing behind Bitcoin. It has no strategic use,” Allen told the Texas Observer. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are, Allen says, effectively a “ponzi–like asset” with no tangible value, entirely dependent on a supply-and demand-market of speculation and manipulation.
“I think the only people this will benefit are the Bitcoin ‘whales,’ the people who are already heavily invested in Bitcoin,” she said, by providing a state-subsidized market for big investors who want to cash out.
If the state simply bought and held Bitcoin for years, it would merely prop up the market, while trying to strategically sell off its crypto holdings could cause the price to plummet.
Vouchers: still very unpopular in rural Texas
https://www.kltv.com/2025/03/01/scho...oed-off-stage/PALESTINE, Texas (KLTV) - A school voucher town hall meeting abruptly ended when the audience’s shouts of dissent sent Rep. Cody Harris walking off the stage.
The town hall also featured Rep. Brad Buckley. It was held at Palestine High School in the auditorium, and began at 5 p.m. The meeting was en led “A Time for Truth and Facts.”
“There’s been a lot of strong strong feelings and emotions, a lot going around surrounding school vouchers, school choice in the community as well as across the state of Texas,” says Larissa Loveless, Director of Public Relations for Palestine Independent School District.
During the town hall meeting as people continued to voice their opinion, the angry crowd jeered and booed and Rep. Harris left the stage about an hour into what was scheduled to be a two-hour meeting.
Buckley followed behind him as he left the stage.
Harris declined to comment when asked for an interview.
After the meeting was dismissed, it left many people like Samantha Cardenas with unanswered questions.
“My question was to Cody Harris was, ‘can you guarantee my child will be accepted at a private school?’ With all of this, he didn’t get to it obviously,” says Cardenas.
Cardenas says her child with autism was denied access into a private school.
ideological and religious indoctrination is on the menu for school kids
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03...rayer-schools/“Our schools are not God-free zones,” said Sen. Mayes Middleton, a Galveston Republican who authored the school prayer bill and has argued that church-state separation is not real. “When prayer was taken out of our schools, things started to go downhill in America.”
The vote comes amid a broader push by conservative Christians to infuse more religion into public schools and life. In just the last few years, state Republicans have required classrooms to hang donated signs that say “In God We Trust”; allowed unlicensed religious chaplains to supplant mental health counselors in public schools; and approved new curriculum materials that teach the Bible and other religious texts alongside grade-school lessons.
Last month, Texas senators also approved legislation that would allow public taxpayer money to be redirected to private schools, including parochial schools.
Those efforts have come as the Texas GOP increasingly embraces ideologies that argue America’s founding was God-ordained, and its ins utions and laws should thus reflect fundamentalist Christians views. Meanwhile, GOP lawmakers and leaders have continually elevated once-fringe claims that the wall between church and state is a mythmeant to obscure America’s true, Christian roots. The argument has been popularized by figures such as David Barton, a Texas pastor and self-styled “amateur historian” whose work has been frequently debunked by trained historians, many of them also conservative Christians.
Barton and his son, Timothy Barton, were both invited to testify in favor of the bills on Tuesday. Citing old do ents and textbooks that mention the Ten Commandments, they argued that Christianity is the basis for American law and morality, and that their inclusion in classrooms would prevent societal ill such as gun violence.
“It used to be there was a very clear moral standard that we could point to,” Timothy Barton testified, calling it “ironic” that children can be arrested for breaking the law — and thus, he said, the Ten Commandments — but that they should not be able to read them in schools.
Other bill supporters and lawmakers said that there was a moral and spiritual imperative to introduce children to Christianity. Sen. Tan Parker, R-Flower Mound, cited a study that found around 25% of children have been to church.
“It’s absolutely horrific, and something we all need to work on to address,” he said.
Other lawmakers similarly invoked declining Christian participation as a reason to support the bills. “There is eternal life,” said Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels. “And if we don’t expose or introduce our children and others to that, then when they die, they’ll have one birth and two deaths.”
Texas Senator dictating to an ordained Baptist minister what her religion is
You still ain't turnin' Texas.
Two identical Ivermectin bills filed by Republican freshmen
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Section 1001.090 to read as follows: Sec.1001.090.STATEWIDE ORDER AUTHORIZING DISPENSING OF IVERMECTIN. (a) The commissioner shall issue a statewide order authorizing a licensed pharmacist to dispense ivermectin without a health care prac ioner's prescription order notwithstanding any other law. (b)The statewide order must include written, standardized procedures or protocols for a pharmacist to follow when dispensing ivermectin and require the pharmacist to provide each patient with instructions on the proper use of ivermectin. (c)Notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacist may dispense ivermectin in accordance with the statewide order. (d)Except for wilful misconduct or gross negligence and notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacist acting in good faith is not criminally or civilly liable or subject to professional disciplinary action for dispensing ivermectin in accordance with the statewide order.
Texas Legislature Online - 89(R) History for HB 3219
IF YOU SAY YOU'RE TRANS ON YOUR JOB APPLICATION YOU ARE A FELONIOUS LIAR
https://myfox8.com/news/texas-bill-c...aud-if-passed/A bill filed in the Texas House of Representatives this week threatens to charge transgender Texans with a crime for identifying with a gender that differs from their sex assigned at birth.
HB 3817 would make it a state jail felony for a person to “identify” to a state agency or private employer their “biological sex as the opposite of the biological sex assigned to the person at birth.”
sure as the turning of the sphere, with or without me
Texas will turn
I'll settle (without me)...I imagine a good 30-40 years down-the-line.
Doubt the US exists in its current form 30-40 years down the line tbh.
, it doesn't even exist in its previous form right now
That's what happens when a man (a smart ass outsider in New York) makes President and half the country won't brook it.
You not only picked on the wrong "smart ass outsider" but, then you did yourself damnable dirt by missing in Pennsylvania by a millimeter.
School voucher bill passes the Texas House
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...s-20280727.phpThe Texas House gave initial approval early Thursday to a bill that would create a $1 billion private school voucher program, crossing a historic milestone and bringing Gov. Greg Abbott’s top legislative priority closer than ever to reaching his desk.
The lower chamber signed off on its voucher proposal, Senate Bill 2, on an 85-63 vote. Every present Democrat voted against the bill. They were joined by two Republicans — far short of the bipartisan coalitions that in previous legislative sessions consistently blocked proposals to let Texans use taxpayer money to pay for their children’s private schooling.
Just bypass the whole rigamarole...home school your children. Forget the second car, the fancy house, eating out, on & on, keep your children close and teach them well.
In the Texas House, HB 5510– potentially the most wide-ranging abortion ban in the country— is scheduled for public hearing next Friday
Bill would criminalize funding for out-of-state abortion travel & allow private citizens to go after pill distribution websites, PayPal and Venmohttps://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB5510/id/3175580
You ain't turnin' Texas.
this one died in Calendars
Texas rolling back the loophole for consumable hemp products and adding penalties for possessing it
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05...te-bill-3-ban/The Texas House late Wednesday gave initial approval to a bill that would ban all products containing tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, likely spelling the end for the state’s short-lived hemp industry.
Under the legislation, which is nearing the governor’s desk for approval, adults would face up to a year in jail for possessing hemp products with any amount of THC — a stricter penalty than what is on the books for possessing up to 2 ounces of marijuana.
The bill’s expected passage portends a minor earthquake for the state’s economy, effectively shuttering a field that, by one estimate, accounts for roughly 50,000 jobs and generates $8 billion in tax revenue annually.
THC products, now a ubiquitous presence at gas stations, convenience stores and thousands of other retailers across Texas, are now poised to be taken off the shelves. The about-face comes six years after the Legislature inadvertently touched off a massive boom in hemp-based products when lawmakers, intending to boost Texas agriculture, authorized the sale of consumable hemp.
Though that 2019 law does not allow products to contain more than trace amounts of delta-9 THC, it did not establish that same threshold for other hemp derivatives. Critics say the hemp industry has exploited that loophole to the tune of more than 8,000 retailers now selling THC-laced edibles, drinks, vapes and flower buds.
straight up state direction of university hiring and curriculum
y'all better hope hard the Dems never take over state government
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05...teaching-bill/As originallywritten, SB 37 would prohibit professors from teaching students to adopt the idea that any race, sex, ethnicity or social, political or religious belief is superior to another. It would also set up a system by which degree programs could be eliminated if the state determines they do not provide a return on investment for students. The bill would give the governor-appointed regents who oversee each university system in the state the authority to approve every job posting for tenured faculty in liberal arts, communications, education and social work.
advantage: Mexican cartels
the police are a pampered, quasi-baronial class that must be protected at all costs from accountability and criticism -- especially when they up
https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB781/id/3055675
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr...orruption-caseMaking unpunished records available to federal investigators is especially important when the top cop is corrupt, because then there's nobody to discipline them. This is not a hypothetical scenario, it's EXACTLY what happened recently w/ the San Angelo police chief.
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