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White Texan poses as a cop and
tells Black spa owner
her race 'ruined' his 'legacy of being a Christian'
https://www.rawstory.com/racist-texas-man-black-spa/
Texas Is In Turmoil, As Green Finance Is Very Appealing To Major Funds
Laws to limit divestment in Texas have met with resistance, as bankers and analysts have figured out ways to detour around Big Oil in portfolios.
legislature passed a law that said if you don’t include fossil fuel companies in your portfolios, then you can’t do business in our state.
The law bars Texas’ state retirement and investment funds from doing business with companies that the State Comptroller says are “boycotting” fossil fuels.
the law contains numerous exceptions. For example,
companies that want to work with Texas can still avoid investing in fossil fuels as long as they are doing so
for strictly financial, rather than ethical or environmental, reasons.
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/06/texas-is-in-turmoil-as-green-finance-is-very-appealing-to-major-funds/
Fascism's "freedom", Texas style. Texas, Repugs and their voters.
White Texan poses as a cop and
tells Black spa owner
her race 'ruined' his 'legacy of being a Christian'
https://www.rawstory.com/racist-texas-man-black-spa/
A Texas county wants to punish polluters. The state won’t let it.
Residents of eastern Harris County have grown tired of almost-daily chemical leaks and the occasional catastrophe.
A new generation of county officials is trying to help them,
even as state leaders undercut their authority and
restrict voting access.
https://grist.org/accountability/a-t...te-wont-let-it
Fascism: Texas Republican platform rejects legitimacy of Biden's election while pushing guns, hate
The Texas Republican Party will have a new party platform soon, thanks to a convention that saw over 5,000 delegates show up
The far-right Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw and his staff were physically assaulted by a crowd calling him "Eyepatch McCain"—
The state party will go into the midterms with an official declaration that President Joe Biden is not the legitimate President of the United States.
"We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States," says the Texas Republican Party.
You're officially a seditious conspiracy cult.
The party produced a do ent fully in tune with its fascist base; declaring non-allegiance to the elected leader of the United States is only the capper in a Texas Republican platform riddled with conspiracy and brazenly fascist rhetoric.
The party again asserts that Texas has a right to secede from the United States,
It also demands a new Cons utional convention to rewrite the founding do ents of the nation it demands the right to leave.
Abolishing the Federal Reserve and repealing the federal income tax are oldies but goodies.
conspiracy theories claiming that the United Nations was going to come take our roads and replace them with bike lanes.
especially heavy on the indoctrination (sorry, grooming of Texas students.
There are planks specifically asserting sexuality to be "abnormal" and a "lifestyle choice,"
another that looks to punish gender-affirming medical care in the state through civil mechanisms similar to what the state has already used to effectively ban abortions, and
another one prohibiting the teaching of "Critical Race Theory" in Texas.
the complete inability of anyone in the Texas Republican Party to so much as correctly define what it is they're banning.
the teaching of "sex education" or "sexual health" in public schools be made a state crime.
It requires schools to teach that life begins at conception and, according to the Tribune, requires students to "listen to live ultrasounds of gestating fetuses."
. The party demands that the state cons ution itself be amended to strip from the legislature the power to enact any gun restrictions,
There will be Zero rules on buying or carrying guns in Texas.
the party do ent imagines a pseudo-religious fascist government that teaches the state's children which citizens are worthy of respect and which are "abnormal" or suffering from "mental health" problems.
a Texas Republican as the party slid into QAnon-styled conspiracy cult.
The state's Republican leaders are riddled with actual seditionists from top to bottom,
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...hing-guns-hate
ChristoFascism
Christian nationalism on full display at Texas Republican Convention
those under 21 are “most likely to need to defend themselves” and may need to quickly buy guns “in emergencies such as riots.”
It also would say that red flag laws violate the due process rights of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime.
The new platform would call for:
- Requiring Texas students “to learn about the humanity of the preborn child,” including teaching that life begins at fertilization and requiring students to listen to live ultrasounds of gestating fetuses.
- Amending the Texas Cons ution to remove the Legislature’s power “to regulate the wearing of arms, with a view to prevent crime.”
- Treating sexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice,” language that was not included in the 2018 or 2020 party platforms.
- Deeming gender iden y disorder “a genuine and extremely rare mental health condition,” requiring official do ents to adhere to “biological gender,” and allowing civil penalties and monetary compensation to “de-transitioners” who have received gender-affirming surgery, which the platform calls a form of medical malpractice.
- Changing the U.S. Cons ution to cement the number of Supreme Court justices at nine and repeal the 16th Amendment of 1913, which created the federal income tax.
- Ensuring “freedom to travel” by opposing Biden’s Clean Energy Plan and “California-style, anti-driver policies,” including efforts to turn traffic lanes over for use by pedestrians, cyclists and mass transit.
- Declaring “all businesses and jobs as essential and a fundamental right,” a response to COVID-19 mandates by Texas cities that required customers to wear masks and limited business hours.
- Abolishing the Federal Reserve, the nation’s central bank, and guaranteeing the right to use alternatives to cash, including cryptocurrencies.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/abbott/
Fed up and fired up: Texas Republicans meet in a climate of mistrust, conspiracy and victimhood
the mood was not celebratory.
The Texas Tribune spoke to more than
25 attendees who described feeling besieged by a culture that is increasingly anti-family and anti-Christian.
Fed up with undo ented immigrants, even those fleeing war and poverty, for taking advantage of public benefits.
Fed up with the education of their children, especially on matters of history and race.
“The enemy is coming in and trying to change our society, change the very fabric of what made America great and they're doing it by going to the children,”
Ted Cruz stole the show, receiving standing ovations on Friday as he thundered against “radical leftists” driving a cultural assault.
“They want to tear down the church,” he said.
“They want to tear down our schools.
They want to tear down our families.
They want to tear down our faith.
They want to tear down our values.”
Sid Miller,the state agricultural commissioner,
This new battlefield, this new battlefield is between patriots and traitors.”
she believed the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde was “a ploy by the government,” and
that “cops were told to stand down.”
she believed that Donald Trump would be rightfully restored to the presidency “by the end of the year.” She did not specify how.
the state party once revolved around limited government and free markets but has become more culturally oriented, he said, as voters awaken to the threats to their values.
Much of the cultural issues attendees and speakers railed against dealt with the LGBTQ community, in particular transgender individuals.
child-welfare investigators to look into families that have allowed their children to seek gender-affirming care, including the use of puberty blockers,
The crowd cheered Robin Armstrong, a Texas City doctor who has given patients unapproved COVID-19 treatments, including hydroxychloroquine.
Its platform describes sexuality as an “abnormal lifestyle choice,”
The teaching of critical race theory, an academic approach to the study of racial inequality, was also a main concern among attendees.
“The whole principle of what you're teaching is a plot to put our people against each other, and to place the emphasis on the wrong things,”
three screenings of “2000 Mules,” a movie that relies on discredited evidence to claim there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
Patrick said his priority when the Legislature returns next year is to “restore voting illegally from a Class A misdemeanor to a felony.”
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-gop-2657531164/
Spam much?
This is one way to get rid of rafael cruz and ensure next president is democrat. I say, good riddance.
Texas Republicans want to secede?
Over the weekend, while many Americans were celebrating the 167th anniversary of Juneteenth (when Union Gen. Gordon Granger, in Galveston, Tex., delivered the order abolishing slavery) the Texas Republican Party voted on a platform declaring that federal laws it dislikes “should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified.”
The proposed platform (it’s expected to be approved when votes are tallied) adds: “Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto.” It wants the secession referendum “in the 2023 general election for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ hole wants to secede, again
^ Boutons Trois
^^^
Chuncko is upset and lashing out, par.
Texas educators want to change ‘slavery’ to ‘involuntary relocation’ after GOP bans
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-slavery/
A few years ago, some asshole Repug called the slaves immigrants.
Kids in rooms up to 22 hours a day in Texas juvenile lockups from staffing shortage
The state’s juvenile detention facilities say staff shortages have forced them to keep youth confined to their rooms for up to 22 hours a day and cut off new intakes.
Leaders at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department warn the staffing problem is so severe it could lead to an
“inability to provide even basic supervision for youth locked in their rooms.”
“This could cause a significantly impaired ability to intervene in the
increasing suicidal behaviors already occurring by youth struggling with the isolative impact of operational room confinement,”
-- DMN email
More evidence that the forced-birth "Christians" are full of hypocritical bull and NOT pro-life
Understaffed, and under federal investigation, Texas juvenile detention system halts intake
The Texas Juvenile Justice Department doesn’t have enough staff to keep minors safe or deal with increasing suicidal behavior, its interim head says.
Gov. Greg Abbott recently shifted millions of dollars from the long-troubled agency to his controversial border security mission.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7veg8/anom-app-source-code-operation-trojan-shield-an0m
Still can't wrap the gov in that Uvalde case, eh, bouts?
Chop/chop!!!
tee, hee.
Why do you hate minorities so much? Oh yeah you're a leftist!
infinite supply of bags in hole TX
The WITCH HUNT committee of unselects is FAILING.
Americans can see through their lies, and
NOBODY believes them.
It’s all a SHAM meant to DISTRACT.
The committee should be dissolved IMMEDIATELY!
— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) July 9, 2022
Has RJ been informed that he is under 1/6 investigation?
Texas is the second-worst state to live in
but the fifth-best state for business,
2022 version of CNBC's "Top States for Business" study found that Texas scored just 72 out of a possible 325 points in the "Life, Health and Inclusion" category, earning an "F" grade.
quality of life was given "particular attention" in this year's study and considered
factors like crime rates, environmental quality and health care.
For the first time in 2022, the availability of childcare was also a factor.
The inclusiveness of state laws, including protections against discrimination and voting rights, was also among the factors.
"Skilled workers are still flocking to Texas despite longstanding quality of life issues," CNBC wrote.
"When they arrive,
they are finding limited childcare options,
a stressed health care system with the highest rate of uninsured,
new curbs on voting rights and
few protections against discrimination."
https://www.expressnews.com/news/loc...y-17307362.php
Thanks, you ing bag Repugs AND your ing bag voters.
Texas crackdown on banks that ‘discriminate’ against guns backfires,
costing taxpayers up to $500M
https://www.expressnews.com/politics...e-17317064.php
TX bag Chip Roy
Raskin Destroys Roy After Republican Claims Insurrections Are Protected By Cons ution:
‘Absolutely Absurd!’
Roy argued that defending oneself against “tyranny” is “the reality of the purpose of the Second Amendment,”
October 27, 2021, Roy responded to the question,
“You said that you could use a semi-automatic weapon to fight tyranny, you mean you’d use it against American troops?” in the affirmative, saying,
“The very existence of the Second Amendment is designed purposefully to empower the people to be able to resist the force of tyranny used against them to step over their natural rights given to them by God.”
Raskin... arguing
“this reading is totally, absolutely absurd and
flies in the face of the plain text of the cons ution which in at least five different places
clearly forbids armed violent resistance to the government.”
He went on to quote a number of clauses in the cons ution that suggest
it does in fact oppose citizens violently overthrowing their government.
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/raskin-destroys-roy-after-republican-claims-insurrections-are-protected-by-cons ution-absolutely-absurd/
Texas Republican Seeks to Limit HIV Medication Access After Winning Abortion Ban
Jonathan Mitc , a former Republican solicitor general of Texas and now-private lawyer who has spent years seeking to restrict abortion access, same sex marriage and same sex intercourse,
argues in his new lawsuit on behalf of Christian clients that
free access to PrEP, as mandated under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is a violation of religious freedoms.
his argument is blatantly anti-LGBTQ:
the lawsuit hatefully claims that requiring people to purchase or provide health insurance that allows free access to PrEP
“encourages and facilitates sexual behavior, drug use, or sexual activity outside of marriage.”
https://truthout.org/articles/texas-...-abortion-ban/
Texas wins school mask mandate case
Multiple schools ignored the governor's ban on mask mandates
A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates in schools.
On Monday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled 2-1 against an injunction from U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel of Austin, which blocked the governor’s ban on face masks in schools
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-win...k-mandate-case
Texas Repugs spread disease and death to own the libs
Never fret, TCEQ is on the job!
Just another sector where TX and USA is a failing society, failed by Capitalism
West Texas Is a Dangerous Place to Be Pregnant. It’s Getting Worse.
Texas leads the U.S. in maternity ward closures,
and nowhere is this more of an issue than in the western part of the state.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-po...regnancy-care/
Texas phone bills will soon see an 'unprecedented' rate hike after a state commission vote
increase a longstanding surcharge assessed on telecommunications providers’ receipts for voice services to 24 percent from 3.3 percent.
The move came after a court ordered the PUC to restore $200 million in overdue money to the Texas Universal Service Fund,
The PUC stopped meeting those statutory obligations in January 2021
by failing to make sufficient payments from the universal fund to rural telecoms.
The Texas Telephone Association, which represents 43 rural telecoms, sued.
“It is the lifeblood of rural communications, that’s for sure,”
https://www.expressnews.com/business...p-17361289.php
yet another example of TX Repugs screwing their rural base, and the screwed base will keep voting Repug
another example:
https://www.apmresearchlab.org/rural-hospital-closures#:~:text=In%20Texas%2C%2021%20out%20of,ent irely%20shortage%20areas%20in%202021.
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