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These two things can both be true:
The No Kings framing is kinda silly, watered down, pandering to clueless libs who don't realize what a disaster we're in the middle of.
And it's important to meet people where they're at, increase the number of people exposed to and involved in and identifying with anti-regime protest.
I want you to look at the footage of LAPD brutalizing peaceful journalists, protesters and random passerby, then explain to me why we allow #police to be the biggest line item in our city budgets. This brutality is how the system operates.
This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
It’s not just Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Law Dork can also report that O.C.G., a gay man sent into hiding when the Trump administration deported him to Mexico, has been brought back to the U.S.
Read my Law Dork report on Trump’s deportations — and the challenges they have faced: https://www.lawdork.com/p/where-are-the-people-the-trump-administration
Overkill much? #bully
“ #Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday he has ordered the deployment of more than 5,000 Texas National Guard troops across the state, along with more than 2,000 state police, to help local law enforcement manage protests against Trump and ongoing federal immigration raids”
#NoKings
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-protests-texas-national-guard-4f8ffc07788515c0d0e7ae40c7980565
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🔥 Texas Governor signs law allowing fracking wastewater to be used to water crops.
That is utterly chopsicks up one's nostrils, underwear on one's head, insane.
⚠️ AVOID TEXAS-GROWN PRODUCE.
Over 100 years ago, El Paso became the first city in the USA to ban marijuana. Now, #Texas is renewing its commitment to tradition with a bill that will destroy 10,000s of jobs if it goes into effect, fully banning all products with THC despite years of normalization of their usage in our state.
My latest for the @TexasObserver: https://www.texasobserver.org/dan-patrick-texas-devastating-thc-ban/
#drugs #health #cannabis #news #politics #USpol #TXlege #law #police
It seems like a lot of people don't know this, but you should not use the #Dallas Express as a reliable news source. It's a pink slime pub owned by money hungry hotelier.
https://www.texasobserver.org/the-dallas-express-your-go-to-source-for-right-wing-astroturf-news/
This also highlights the conflicts that can happen when self-appointed protest marshals and more radical activists encounter each other at events like this. We need more education on diversity of tactics.
A very interesting analysis of Monday's anti-ICE protest in #Austin. I especially am interested that protesters used micromobility scooters as a makeshift barricade.
(I do wish Crimethinc would give credit for the photos they borrow from other sources)
CrimethInc. : Melt #ICE, Be Water : Report-back from a Hot Summer Demonstration in Austin, #Texas
https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/11/melt-ice-be-water-report-back-from-a-hot-summer-demonstration-in-austin-texas
"An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding."
https://heated.world/p/fossil-fuel-billionaires-are-bankrolling
#trans #transphobia #LGBTQIA+ #news #politics #USpol #environment #ClimateChange
@MargaretD @TexasObserver it has angered some of the Republican base who also like to get stoned. So we will see.
“I’m so devastated because this rolls back so many years of social acceptance, even here in Texas, where we have been so far behind on changing cannabis policy.”
About six years ago, #Texas sort of accidentally legalized #marijuana when it legalized hemp, opening a backdoor to the widespread usage of technically legal versions of the plant that still get you high. Now its so accepted here that you can order weed drinks in bars.
Lt. Gov Dan Patrick made it his personal mission to shut all that down this year, and it looks like he has won. Welcome back to Reefer Madness in the Lone Star State.
My latest for @TexasObserver:
https://www.texasobserver.org/dan-patrick-texas-devastating-thc-ban/
@BruceMirken @TexasObserver it's bonkers, so many businesses are just going to shut down.
@skoombidoombis @TexasObserver Yes it feels very appropriate to me that an anesthesiologist was involved in this.
Over 100 years ago, El Paso became the first city in the USA to ban marijuana. Now, #Texas is renewing its commitment to tradition with a bill that will destroy 10,000s of jobs if it goes into effect, fully banning all products with THC despite years of normalization of their usage in our state.
My latest for the @TexasObserver: https://www.texasobserver.org/dan-patrick-texas-devastating-thc-ban/
#drugs #health #cannabis #news #politics #USpol #TXlege #law #police
The same billionaire investor responsible for making Southwest, Etsy and Starbucks worse, also destabilized the economy in Congo and Argentina.
https://visunews.substack.com/p/this-vulture-billionaire-is-why-southwest via @ZDRoberts
Austin has a dashboard showing incidents with autonomous vehicles. So far, 109 incidents have been logged including "safety concerns" and times when the vehicles were reported as a "nuisance," the two most common complaints. https://www.austintexas.gov/page/autonomous-vehicles
