How The Repug bags Roll in hole Texas

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

The Texas attorney general finally filed suit last year,

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

want to know what took so long.

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

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

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

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

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

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

it filed against Toyah over the past five years.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/1...rinking-water/

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

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

Long before a Chinese spy balloon captivated and spooked the U.S. public, Kyle Bass foresaw what he deemed another foreign danger slated for skies above the Texas-Mexico border: wind turbines.

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

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

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

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

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

causing whiplash here in the rural borderlands,

hurt feelings and

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

https://apnews.com/article/texas-chi...2c170ebc52d7bc

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puritannical, hypocritical fascist TX bags proving that TX is THEIR hole

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

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

https://www.expressnews.com/politics...d-17849861.php

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Canada, US reach deal to close unofficial border crossings


https://www.reuters.com/world/americ...ia-2023-03-23/

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

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

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

to run no-kill animal shelters and

to maintain local water quality.

HB2127 and SB814,

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

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

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

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

unless the legislature writes specific legislation directly permitting a rule.

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

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

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

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

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

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‘WE ARE IN A CRISIS’:

TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS ON THE EDGE

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

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

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

sewage water started leaking out into the hallways.

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

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

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

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

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

TX, a failing state in a failing country.

Ain't Capitalism great?

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

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

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

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

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

The decision reinforces

Texas' stance against national origin-based discrimination

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


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

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

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

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


https://www.expressnews.com/politics...s-18272489.php

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

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

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


Texas roads and highways are emerging as the newest battleground over abortion care.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The strategy, engineered by Right to Life group architects of SB 8, a.k.a. the heartbeat bill, comes

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

There are questions about what would be enforced:

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

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

Toxic hole rural America, breeding ground of fascism.

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Brain drain in Texas is real and it can endanger our prosperity Texas politics is creating a brain drain - driving away professionals in medicine and education,

Same in FL and other slave/red states

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

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Brain drain in Texas is real and it can endanger our prosperity Texas politics is creating a brain drain - driving away professionals in medicine and education,

Same in FL and other slave/red states

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

Republican control = economic disaster.

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

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Republican control = economic disaster.

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

ACQUITTEDperiod

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

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-least...-index-1846236

And there are Texans who are moving to California

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

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-least...-index-1846236

And there are Texans who are moving to California

...uh, huh.

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

Texas isn’t one of them.

https://www.kut.org/education/2024-0...nt-one-of-them

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Texas is ranked 10th nationally in number of poor people

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Texas is ranked 10th nationally in number of poor people

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