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I have found so many amazing teachers and friends that support me that I don’t think people would even know that type of support is a thing in Texas.”
From our friends at @deceleration and Truthout: What happens to the teens and their families who can't flee? https://www.texasobserver.org/survival-advice-trans-teens-texas/
#trans #LGBTQIA+ #Texas #politics #USpol #Trump #transphobia #news
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Featured: Anti-abortion centers usually attach strings to supposedly “free” services and material support, rooted as they are in outdated, patriarchal, and patronizing beliefs about which kinds of people, and which kinds of families, are deserving of support. But it is appalling considering the incredible financial resources at their disposal.
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-taxpayers-anti-abortion-pregnancy-centers/
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New today from @andreagrimes: In the years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, anti-abortion pregnancy centers have increasingly used public funds to target people looking for medical care and safety net support. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-taxpayers-anti-abortion-pregnancy-centers/
#politics #USpol #news #RoeVWade #abortion #healthcare #inequality #Texas #SCOTUS
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“We are under no illusions that the policies in Project 2025, which includes slashing legal #immigration, rounding up immigrants, creating new detention camps, are all on the table. That is not to say that all of them can be carried out or will be carried out, but we know what the options of policies out there look like.” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-front-lines-mass-deportations/
#Project2025 #politics #USpol #news #election2024 #border #Trump
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A post-election message from Interim Editor-in-Chief @gusbova to our members, readers, and the rest of our extended community.
https://texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/donate
#journalism #Media #Texas #politics #USpol #fundraiser #nonprofit #future #immigration #news
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Ben Sargent weighs in on the election.
For more Loon Star State, visit: https://www.texasobserver.org/topics/loon-star-state/
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From Justin Miller: Colin Allred's post-Dobbs strategy fell flat here—and for #Democrats all across the country–in the face of the visceral reactionary forces around the economy and immigration summoned by #Trump. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-red-ted-cruz-allred/
#ColinAllred #TedCruz #politics #USpol #news #Texas #election2024 #Republicans #immigration #abortion #extremism
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“We realized no one is going to come save us. We’re going to have to save ourselves.”
Some good news: On November 5, Amarilloans rejected the proposed abortion #travel ban, discussed in this story, by a margin of around 20 percentage points. https://www.texasobserver.org/far-right-abortion-vote-amarillo/
#abortion #Texas #politics #USpol #election2024 #WestTexas #HumanRights
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“The longform stories in our magazine are created on a longer, slower timeline than the whirling news. ...”
Introducing the September/October 2024 issue of Texas Observer magazine, with a note from our Interim Editor-in-Chief @gusbova: https://www.texasobserver.org/editors-letter-introducing-our-september-october-issue/
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Featured story: “You create a #surveillance society in order to root out millions of people, because there’s really no other way to do it. Creating an apparatus to hunt down and identify millions of undocumented immigrants would require turning the United States into a police state.” https://www.texasobserver.org/how-mass-deportations-would-devastate-texas/
#immigration #Trump #extremism #fascism #election2024 #police #politics #USpol #news #Texas
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“Immigrants exist across our economic spectrum. They’re everywhere. They’re us. When we talk about eliminating them from our society, it’s like not just talking about cutting off a finger. We’re talking about cutting off entire legs from the thigh down.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/how-mass-deportations-would-devastate-texas/
#Trump #news #politics #USpol #Fascism #extremism #Texas #immigration #border #HumanRights #election2024
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”There’s one thing for sure: The buffalo survived. And we as Indigenous people, especially Texas Indigenous, we also survived.”
From the archives: In South Texas, Lipan Apaches are challenging the myth that their tribe was wiped out. https://www.texasobserver.org/labeled-hispanic/
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #history #NativeAmerican #Indigenous #culture #SouthTexas #Texas
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“’Cuz when they put me on the chain, now I am reflecting on things and information I know. This is judicial slavery.” https://www.texasobserver.org/ali-siddiq-comedy-houston/
#Comedy #Houston #GulfCoast #culture #politics #prison #HumanRights #CriminalJustice #news
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“Sometimes they say it’s illegal [for prisoners to unionize], but it’s not. It’s just frowned upon. But it works.”
New today from Michelle Pitcher: Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay. https://www.texasobserver.org/solidarity-prison-labor-union/
#politics #prison #WorkersRights #labor #HumanRights #Texas #USpol #news
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In the latest, Loon Star State, Ben Sargent imagines a (too) hopeful past... https://www.texasobserver.org/loon-star-state-assume/
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Our top story: “The theft and money laundering involved a publicly traded company regulated by the SEC and traded on the Over-the-Counter market with tenacles [sic] extending to a Texas Senator, who is the wife of the Texas Attorney General.” https://www.texasobserver.org/paxtons-lobbyist-ceo-alleged-fraud/
#politics #news #WallStreet #USpol #Texas #corruption #KenPaxton #fraud
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“It was our responsibility to protect our community, our friends, our family. We realized no one is going to come save us. We’re going to have to save ourselves.”
This week's top story: Advocates for #abortion access are organizing to block a travel ban that would close a crucial pathway to New Mexico. https://www.texasobserver.org/far-right-abortion-vote-amarillo/
#abortion #politics #USpol #HumanRights #health #democracy #election2024 #news
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Data shows that firearms were purchased in 212 Texas counties before being trafficked to #Mexico and recovered as crime guns from 2015-2022, for a total of nearly 22,000 firearms. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-mexico-guns-border-crime/
#GunViolence #Texas #WarOnDrugs #politics #border #USpol #CriminalJustice #news
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SCOOP from Reporting Fellow Francesca D'Annunzio: Texas Department of Public Safety is committing to a five year, $5.3 million contract for Tangles, an AI #surveillance tool that can track cell phones without a court order. (🧵 1/2) https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-tangle-cobwebs/
#Texas #politics #USpol #news #police #tech #privacy #HumanRights #activism #AI
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