"This isn’t a removal. It’s not lawful under the Immigration and Nationality Act. It doesn’t conform to anything that was previously passed in legislation ... Essentially, he was disappeared forcefully."
https://www.texasobserver.org/el-salvador-austin-immigration-lawyer-teen-forced-disappearance/
#politics #USpol #Texas #news #TXlege #immigration #HumanRights #ICE #ElSalvador #CECOT
#DART warns #Texas House bill would collapse North Texas Public #Transit - #Transportation Today
#HB3187 #TXLege
https://transportationtodaynews.com/news/35415-dart-warns-texas-house-bill-would-collapse-north-texas-public-transit/
"The Texas Senate gave preliminary approval Monday to a bill that would prevent cities or counties from holding a gun buyback program.
The proposal also seeks to stop local governments from sponsoring or organizing such a program.
State Sen. Bob Hall, R-Edgewood, told lawmakers Monday it was a 'necessary guardrail against misuse of local authority."”
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/26/texas-gun-buyback-program-ban/
#PublicHealth #GunSafety #GunViolence #guns #firearms #texas #txlege
"Texas Republicans are rolling ahead with a controversial bill that seeks to further restrict abortion access in the state, while making it impossible for it to be challenged in state courts, despite Democratic objections."
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5316973-texas-abortion-bill-advances/
#healthcare #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #courts #texas #txlege
Key legislative deadlines have passed but much remains to be determined in final days; large load bill passes the House; Senate amends, passes bill that could restrict coastal wind; nuclear bill passes Senate committee. #txlege #txenergy
https://www.douglewin.com/p/nearing-the-legislative-finish-line
Texas: if the weather doesn’t kill you the #txlege will.
“It is disheartening that, like the House of Representatives, the Senate chooses to believe this measure is simply about the way a form is delivered,” she said late Sunday. “How they can ignore a near epidemic of measles in places with already high exemption rates and think this won’t encourage more disease outbreaks is beyond my ability to understand or explain.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/25/texas-vaccine-form-download/
#PublicHealth #vaccines #vaccinations #immunizations #txlege #texas #measles #meningitis
The latest from cartoonist Ben Sargent, in our magazine.
Read more from the May / June 2025 issue: https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/may-june-2025/
#comics #politics #USpol #Texas #religion #education #culture #TXlege #schools
Today, we pause to remember the brave men & women who gave their lives for our freedom. We honor the fallen & the missing—heroes whose sacrifice we’ll never forget.
We remember.
We honor.
We will never forget. 🇺🇸
#MemorialDay2025 #morganfortexas #txlege
Image: Khou News
As we go through this Memorial Day weekend, honoring these silent warriors for their service and ultimate sacrifice, remember that freedom is not free.
We Remember these great American heroes.
#morganfortexas
#fbcgop
#txlege
#memorialweekend
#usarmy
#usnavy
#usairforce
Powerful testimony
"Today I rise to take off my legislator hat and put on my child hat. This child who lived from pillar to post, the eldest of five children raised by a single mother who gave everything she had to keep us going. This bill has literally traumatized me." - Rep Jolanda Jones #txlege
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z7qzvb7iwq4ys4ssqetj3uvm/post/3lpuwp3p7gk2w
"The changes would not expand abortion access in Texas or list specific medical exceptions under the state’s near-total ban, which took effect in 2022 and only allows for an abortion to save the life of the mother. It also would not include exceptions for cases of rape or incest."
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-texas-exceptions-35e2dddb7bff3200b951cd3e7aa92f49
#healthcare #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #texas #txlege
The latest from cartoonist Ben Sargent, in our magazine.
Read more from the May / June 2025 issue: https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/may-june-2025/
#education #religion #schools #politics #USpol #Texas #TXlege #comics
#TxLege #TxPol #Texas
SB 1257, Bill Attacking Insurance Coverage for Transition-Related Care has passed the 89th session of the Texas Legislature and has been sent to Gov Greg Abbott's desk for his signature.
Fuck you Texas GOP and the horse you rode in on. You can't stop me from becoming the shapeshifting bog witch that I am.
Burn the Witch
by Radiohead
🎶Red crosses on wooden doors
And if you float you burn
Loose talk around tables
Abandon all reason🎶
Featured story: Seven years into the costly experiment that is #Texas Partnerships, the Observer has carried out a wide-ranging investigation into whether these state-backed charter arrangements have actually benefited Lone Star State kids in struggling schools. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-partnerships-sb-1882-charter-schools/
#vouchers #vouchers #USpol #news #education #TXlege #politics #schools
Earlier, from Joelle DiPaolo: “If biological sex were as obvious as lawmakers keep insisting that biological sex is, we wouldn’t be here. You wouldn’t have to try so hard to legislate the gender binary into existence.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-lege-pushes-to-define-biological-sex/
#politics #USpol #news #trans #transgender #LGBTQIA+ #transphoia #TXlege #Texas #gender #science
This is so deeply disappointing and backwards. The #Texas House had a much more reasonable version which regulated products, but they caved (yet again) to threats from the Senate and Dan Patrick.
I'll have a story next week about the devastating impacts this will have on Texans.
Texas poised to completely ban THC sales | The Texas Tribune
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/21/texas-house-thc-hemp-senate-bill-3-ban/
Both parties have been bought by the #crypto industry. We'll need to grapple with this at some point. Or not, and just let this wasteful industry ruin lives and planet.
Texas Set to Create State Bitcoin Reserve that Would Accept Private Donations via @TexasObserver https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-set-to-create-state-bitcoin-reserve/
#tech #news #bitcoin #TXlege #Texas #politics #USpol
From Justin Miller: The House approved the measure with overwhelming bipartisan support on a 101-42 vote, with no debate over the wisdom of getting the state into the business of investing in highly speculative virtual coins. Opponents included 21 Republicans and 21 Democrats. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-set-to-create-state-bitcoin-reserve/
#bitcoin #crypto #politics #USpol #TXlege #Texas #tech #economy #news
“They [portray] people who are really opening the conversation around biological sex and #gender as crazy. It’s just like, ‘Oh, those are the woke people. Those are those people who are pushing gender ideology. You can’t listen to them. They’re the ones who are coming for your kids.’” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-lege-pushes-to-define-biological-sex/
#trans #transgender #politics #USpol #TXlege #Texas #Republicans #fascism #transphobia #news
