Probe urged into Abbott's order purportedly giving state officers increased authority over migrants
to stop any cooperation with a July order from Texas governor Greg Abbott that purports to give state law enforcement the power to detain and return recently crossed migrants to the border.
Immigration enforcement is strictly the job of the federal government,
but Abbott’s anti-immigrant order is testing this authority by reportedly having Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers detain and
move migrants to federal property to be turned over to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents.
“The unilateral arrest and transport of migrants on immigration grounds by state officers
and
the detention of migrants on federal property by state officers raise serious legal concerns,”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...-over-migrants
Repug logic: claim Feds don't enforce the law
Repug response: so we break the law
same logic of the BigLie
Biden stole the 2020 election
so Repugs steal any and all elections
EPA launches investigation into Texas environment agency’s permitting process for concrete batch plants
The federal agency launched the inquiry after complaints from the Harris County Attorney and Lone Star Legal Aid about how
the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issues permits to plants that predominantly impact communities of color.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08...-tceq-houston/
Faced with a two-decade wait, these families had to leave Texas to receive disability services
Cameron and her brother, Brandon, 10, were diagnosed with autism while the family was living in Houston — and Daniel, 7, was showing the telltale signs of the developmental disability.
Sheletta, a native Houstonian, tried to get them services through the state of Texas. She was told it would be,
at a minimum, a 10-year wait.
So, Sheletta, 50, did the only thing she could think to give her children a chance — she and her now ex-husband, Shawn, moved to Minnesota, leaving behind generations of family members and close friends.
Houston Chronicle interviewed half a dozen families who, like the Brundidges, have made the difficult decision to leave the state in order to get their children help.
Most never wanted to leave. They didn’t feel they had a choice.
experts estimate there are 500,000 Texans living with intellectual and developmental disabilities, a Houston Chronicle investigation found that the state has the capacity to serve barely a fifth of those individuals.
nearly 200,000 people are waiting for care, some for nearly 20 years.
experts say families are taking extreme measures to get their loved ones help as the waitlist continues to grow.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/inv...d-17358895.php
While Hot Wheels Abbutt wastes $4B+, including funds shifted from mental health care, on his ing campaign border stunt.
‘Wandering officers’ find new jobs in Texas, again and again
“The regulation of law enforcement in Texas is stuck at a crossroads.”
needed changes at the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE), the agency that oversees the licensing and training of
the state’s 78,295 peace officers working in one of 2,729 law enforcement agencies
Texas has an outdated system for organizing and registering a law enforcement en y, with small county courts and district attorneys registering individual agencies.
According to TCOLE data provided by Texas 2036, there are
currently 185 registered agencies that have zero peace officers,
540 agencies with a single peace officer,
674 with two to five officers, and
414 agencies with six to 10 peace officers.
Those small en ies that in other states would be wrapped into larger law enforcement agencies account for more than 1,800 of the agencies overseen by TCOLE.
TCOLE staff is failing to address “wandering officers,” individuals who lose jobs at one law enforcement agency only to be hired by another agency.
It’s common knowledge among police chiefs and others I’ve spoken with that
police unions routinely appeal the “dishonorable discharge” of a police officer to the State Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH), where those dismissals are often reversed or mitigated.
https://sanantonioreport.org/wandering-officers-find-new-jobs-in-texas-again-and-again
Only 4M Texas rurals use socialism telephone and electric coops. They are also ed by lack of local heath care, clinics, hospitals.
Repug TX SS winning
Entire election staff of Texas county resigns after death threats and stalking
the entire election administration office of Gillespie County, Texas has resigned — following threats and stalking.
https://www.rawstory.com/gillespie-c...-results-2022/
There Will Be Counting Fraud, Cheating, Election Stealing
christo fascist TX bag Repugs setting the example for all Confederate/red states to follow blindly
New Texas law has ‘In God We Trust’ signs popping up on campus as school begins
schools “must display in a con uous place in each building of the school or ins ution a durable poster or framed copy of the United States national motto,”
so long as it is donated to the school.
https://www.expressnews.com/politics...s-17380163.php
What if donated signs read
In Lord Krishna We Trust
In Allah We Trust ("It Is Written")
In Haile Selassie I We Trust
In Yahweh We Trust
Of course Macho Man misogynist TX Repugs very y, and
it's not done, yet
Texas’ tax collector and Senate budget chief say they support repealing the “tampon tax”
Advocates have previously called for repealing the sales tax on products like tampons, sanitary pads and pantyliners.
tMenstrual products are already tax-free in 24 states.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08...an-tampon-tax/
Condoms used to be tax-free, but now they are taxed
what about diapers? looks like they are still taxed. Texas HB311
born, raised, "educated" in Texas, HATES LGBT
Religious employers need not cover PrEP in their health plans, federal judge rules
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s
ruling could threaten access to sexual and reproductive health care for more than 150 million working Americans on employer-sponsored health care plans.
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/relig...rules-29794608
Repug judge nominated by war criminal, dumb shrub
O'Connor's "law school" is ranked very low, maybe just a diploma mill?
How Texas is paying for border security push under Operation Lone Star
The tab for Gov. Greg Abbott’s deployment of National Guard and DPS officers has topped $4 billion
and will likely need more.
With 11 months remaining in the cycle, it’s far from clear that state police and National Guard leaders have the wallet to keep operating at such a fever pitch.
To increase Texas’ spending on border enforcement fivefold,
Abbott and the Legislature in part have used a standard approach,
which is to fit the splurge into the two-year appropriations bill’s spending of state discretionary dollars —
and come back and add more in a supplemental spending bill.
Using disaster powers over the budget given to executive branch agencies under Abbott’s control,
the GOP leaders pumped another $975.8 million into Operation Lone Star this year by recycling part of its bounty from federal COVID-19 relief packages to free up state discretionary dollars.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/poli...tion-lone-star
Abbutt and his ing campaign stunt, screwing taxpayers to win their votes
How does Texas fail its kids? Let me count the ways
Recent news from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services,
Since the beginning of the year, nearly 2,300 workers have made for the exits.
a litany of problems as their reasoning:
Too many cases,
pressure to close cases prematurely,
low morale and pay,
lack of communication,
problems with supervisors and
a host of other workplace dysfunction.
the tragedy of Sarah Brasse, an 8-year-old in Schertz who died in her own bed of — yes, in the 21st century — untreated appendicitis.
By the time Sarah died alone in her bed, stiff, cold and caked with vomit, the couple had been under intermittent watch by CPS for almost two years.
Sarah and her two brothers were being neglected. Urine-soaked clothes, insufficient food, a fetid home in chaos, a lack of parental follow-up on needed medical visits — the red flags were plentiful.
CPS reacted in half-hearted, ineffective fashion.
three professionals in separate calls — a cop, a school counselor and a school nurse —alerted CPS to their fears she was in danger, yet no one ordered a home visit.
Things get no better at the dinner table: 1 in 5 children in Texas faces hunger.
how on earth can Gov. Greg Abbott claim that Texas is a pro-life state?
https://sanantonioreport.org/how-doe...eid=54a5432c74
Abbutt is not prolife, but pro-birth as a vote-getter.
abused kids don't produce for Capital, so they are value-less humans. Above all, they don't bribed Abbutt
Abbutt getting his political hacks to protect him in campaign's final weeks
Texas delays publication of maternal death data until after midterms, legislative session
agency wanted to better align its methodologycook the books
the agency is reviewing its internal processes to try to develop more timely data.
maternal outcomes in Texas are worse for Black women, who have died at about three times the rate of non-black women.
There is so much to unpack from the data,
no woman who chooses life should have to do so in exchange for their own.
https://www.expressnews.com/politics...a-17439477.php
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Severe Maternal Morbidity in Communities Across Texas
https://utsystem.edu/offices/populat...orbidity-texas
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Infant Mortality and Maternal Risk Factors in Texas: Highlighting Zip Code Variations in 2 At-Risk Counties, 2011-2015
https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2022/21_0266.htm#:~:text=Although%20the%20infant%20mort ality%20rate,2011%20through%202014%20(2).
TX bags have now made hole TX the national leader in banning books
‘This is our home’:
Texas farmers fight efforts to seize land handed down from enslaved ancestors
To Texas transportation officials, expanding U.S. 183 is a chance to alleviate congestion south of Austin. But to the Alexander family, it’s a threat to the land they’ve vowed for generations to protect
.
Daniel Alexander was enslaved when he secured a promise in 1847 from his owners for 73.3 acres of land, which now sits west of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport ,
Over the last 175 years, Alexander’s descendants have fulfilled a pledge to keep the land in the family.
In 1968, the Texas Department of Transportation used eminent domain to seize part of their farmland and built U.S. 183 across the southeastern edge of their property.
In 2015, the family cemetery was flooded — a result of changes in drainage from subdivisions that surround their land.
TxDOT now is considering a project that would take more Alexander land to widen U.S. 183.
The family worries that the expansion — across 400 feet of their property — would destroy two historic homes, one that may have been a Pony Express station, according to family lore.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/loc...n-17448615.php
In Texas youth prisons, children trapped in their cells use water bottles and lunch trays for toilets
For months, children in at least two of five state lockups reported regularly lacking access to toilets as the Texas Juvenile Justice Department’s workforce shrunk below dangerous levels.
the governor’s office said the safety of staff and youth at TJJD was a top priority for him,
more than a dozen detained youths at the Giddings State School said
officers often didn’t let them out of their cells to use the bathroom between 4:30 p.m. and 8 a.m. during the week due to short staffing,
“The youths’ right to be free from psychological harm appeared to have been violated,” inspectors noted
https://www.expressnews.com/news/loc...s-17450122.php
hole TX values public education and public teachers, honors them, respects them, pays them well.
1 in 5 new Texas teachers were hired without certification last year
-- DMN email
Texas AG Ken Paxton ducked subpoena in abortion rights case, according to affidavit
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
fled his home with his wife on Monday to avoid being served a subpoena,
according to an affidavit filed in federal court.
A process server was attempting to serve Paxton with a subpoena for a court hearing scheduled for Tuesday in Austin.
-- DMN emails
the ing hole TX bag ATTORNEY general
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Protesters bring guns, Nazi salutes
to chaotic scene at Texas church's drag bingo event
https://www.expressnews.com/news/art...t-17467207.php
How Texas Lost the World’s Largest Super Collider
The Higgs boson, a particle that has shaped the theories of modern particle physics, was discovered at a super collider in Geneva.
It was a hugely significant moment for Big Science,
one that received a Nobel Prize earlier this year—
and it should have been discovered in Texas.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/how-texas-lost-the-worlds-largest-super-collider
Sounds like process server seeing him in person and dropping it on the driveway is......He's been served?
Texas AG Ken Paxton ducked subpoena in abortion rights case, according to affidavit
the ing hole TX bag ATTORNEY general
Not that this will go anywhere in the
Gov. Greg Abbott responds to Biden's pardon on marijuana possession
"Texas is not in the habit of taking criminal justice advice
from the leader of the defund police party
and
someone who has overseen a criminal justice system run amuck with cashless bail
and
a revolving door for violent criminals.
The Governor of Texas can only pardon individuals
who have been through the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles system
with a recommendation for pardon,"
a spokesperson for Abbott told the Dallas Morning News.
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...a-17493824.php
iow, christo fascist white supremacist Hot Wheels gonna keep blacks and brown locked and/or unpardoned, and keep arresting/convicting/oppressing them
How a tiny Texas government is scoring big tax breaks for developers across the state
In 2019, Texas lawmakers granted a small group of Central Texas businessmen permission to form their own government to develop agricultural land near the Austin airport.
Yet recently the SH130 Municipal Management District No. 1 has thrown its civic weight around far outside its own narrow boundaries,
using its status as a public agency to quietly arrange tens of millions of dollars-worth of property tax breaks for private developers across the state.
No local elected body reviewed the deals to determine if it made sense for taxpayers to subsidize the tax-exempt real estate projects in their backyards.
In fact, city and county officials often have been unaware the money was being taken from their schools, libraries, hospital districts and local governments.
The small district, meanwhile, stands to collect generous profits from the exemptions it helped arrange.
Some of the deals also involve businesses tied to its board members, raising questions about how they are using the government en y they formed.
In 2015, a single sentence grafted onto a dense finance bill in the closing days of the Texas legislative session created a new property tax break in exchange for modest affordable housing concessions.
Since then, developers have flocked to use the obscure law, removing hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of real estate from the tax rolls.
Having so many projects that don’t pay property taxes “was not the intent of the program,”
the SH 130 district is using its 1,100-acre piece of land to create valuable tax breaks in far away jurisdictions —
making it "the poster child" of all that is wrong with the new affordable housing tax break,
https://www.expressnews.com/politics...g-17491395.php
christo fascist Repugs as corrupt as any fascist govt
Will happen on national scale when Repugs control all three branches. 100Ks of Americans will die from increased pollution
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