#govgregabbott — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/24/axios-data-centers-dug-their-own-grave-says-texas-gov-greg-abbott/

Wow, some proper Fash are dropping Data Centres now...

#ButlerianJihad #DataCentres #GovGregAbbott #Texas #Politics

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed that UT Austin professor Art Markman has been dismissed from his administrative role as senior vice provost for academic affairs because of "ideological differences."

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/10/21/533834/ut-austin-professor-dismissed-from-administrative-duties-for-ideological-differences/

#Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Texas #FreedomeOfSpeech #GovGregAbbott #KUT #UTAustin

Less than three weeks after being repainted, the rainbow crosswalks in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood were removed Monday morning.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/lgbtq/2025/10/20/533745/rainbow-crosswalk-houston-montrose-removal-lgbtq-metro/

#Houston #Infrastructure #LGBTQ #Local #News #Transportation #AntiLgbtqPolicies #GovGregAbbott #Metro #Montrose #MontroseArea #RainbowCrosswalk

Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday announced a special election in May to fill the Texas Senate seat left empty by Brandon Creighton, the Houston-area Republican who will lead the Texas Tech University System.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/local/2025/10/17/533649/abbott-sets-special-election-in-may-for-houston-areas-empty-texas-senate-seat/

#Local #News #Politics #Texas #BrandonCreighton #BrettLigon #GovGregAbbott #MontgomeryCounty #SpecialElection #TexasSenate

Here is a list of more than a dozen "No Kings" protests scheduled to take place Saturday throughout the Houston area.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/civil-rights/protests/2025/10/16/533569/no-kings-protest-houston-area-texas-president-donald-trump/

#CivilRights #FortBend #Houston #Immigration #Local #News #Politics #Protests #GovGregAbbott #NoKingsHouston #NoKingsProtests #PresidentDonaldTrump #TexasDepartmentOfPublicSafety #TexasNationalGuard

Houston Mayor John Whitmire called the removal of Montrose's rainbow crosswalks "a manufactured issue" in his first public comments about the controversy.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/lgbtq/2025/10/15/533402/houston-mayor-john-whitmire-rainbow-crosswalk-removal/

#CityOfHouston #Houston #HoustonMayor #LGBTQ #Local #News #Politics #Transportation #AbbieKamin #GovGregAbbott #HoustonMayorJohnWhitmire #Metro #Montrose #RainbowCrosswalk

Houston and Harris County leaders are considering a lawsuit over the upcoming removal of Montrose's rainbow crosswalks.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/lgbtq/2025/10/14/533361/rainbow-crosswalk-houston-montrose-potential-lawsuit/

#CityOfHouston #HarrisCounty #Houston #LGBTQ #Local #News #Politics #Transportation #AbbieKamin #CountyAttorneyChristianMenefee #GovGregAbbott #Metro #Montrose #RainbowCrosswalks

Houston reinstated the rainbow crosswalks in Montrose. Some conservative leaders are calling for its removal.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/lgbtq/2025/10/07/532842/conservative-leaders-call-for-removal-of-montrose-rainbow-crosswalks-days-after-they-were-reinstated/

#LGBTQ #Local #News #GovGregAbbott #Metro #Montrose #RainbowCrosswalk #USDOT

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission on Tuesday approved an emergency rule to ban liquor license holders from selling THC products to anyone under the age of 21.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2025/09/23/531725/many-texas-retailers-can-no-longer-sell-thc-to-customers-under-21/

#Local #News #Texas #GovGregAbbott #TexasAlcoholicBeverageCommissionTABC #THC

Pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly and Company plans to build a $6.5 billion manufacturing hub near Lake Houston, the company announced Tuesday. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/business/2025/09/23/531691/eli-lilly-announces-weight-loss-drug-to-be-manufactured-at-6-5-billion-site-in-houston/

#Business #HealthScience #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #EliLilly #GovGregAbbott #LakeHouston #PharmaceuticalCompanies #WeightLoss #WeightLossDrugs

Andrew White, the son of a former Texas governor, said he is considering a challenge to Gov. Greg Abbott's reelection bid next year.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/09/16/531073/andrew-white-son-of-former-texas-governor-indicates-potential-bid-to-challenge-abbott/

#Local #News #Politics #Texas #AndrewWhite #GovGregAbbott #TexasGovernorSRace

From the @TexasTribune, Gov. Greg Abbott will soon issue an executive order to regulate THC and set a minimum age of 21 to purchase those products in Texas, according to three people who spoke with the governor’s office.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2025/09/09/530375/abbott-expected-to-issue-executive-order-setting-age-requirements-for-thc-products-other-restrictions/

#Business #News #Politics #Texas #ExecutiveOrder #GovGregAbbott #TexasHempIndustry #THC #THCProductsInTexas

Hours after the Texas Senate approved a new congressional map early Saturday morning that more heavily favors Republicans, a lawsuit against Gov. Greg Abbott was filed, alleging that the redrawn districts are racially discriminatory.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2025/08/25/529345/fresh-off-texas-senates-approval-new-congressional-map-is-target-of-lawsuit/

#Court #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #CongressionalRedistricting #GovGregAbbott #LULAC #TexasLegislature2025 #TexasRedistricting #VotingRightsAct

Some survivors of the Kerr County Flood said they feel like political pawns – caught in the middle of lawmakers’ games – while they desperately need relief.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/08/15/528823/central-texas-flood-victims-call-for-relief-as-funding-remains-deadlocked-amid-special-session-quorum-break/

#Local #News #Politics #Texas #CentralTexasFlooding #GovGregAbbott #QuorumBreak #SpecialSession

The governor and attorney general have asked the Texas Supreme Court to find that Democratic lawmakers abandoned their seats when they left the state to delay a new congressional map. The court has set a 3-week period of briefings from both sides.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2025/08/12/528523/texas-supreme-court-wont-rule-for-weeks-on-gop-requests-to-expel-democrats-who-left-the-state/

#Court #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #GovGregAbbott #QuorumBreak #REDISTRICTING #RepGeneWu #TexasLegislature #TexasSupremeCourt

Texas Republicans will again try to convene the state Legislature for a vote on redrawing congressional maps in their party's favor, an effort that already sparked a national political brawl and prompted Democratic lawmakers to leave the state.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2025/08/11/528366/texas-legislature-to-take-another-swing-at-redistricting-vote-as-democrats-extend-their-walkout/

#News #Politics #Texas #CongressionalRedistricting #GovGregAbbott #SpecialSession #TexasLegislature #TexasRedistricting

The Texas Supreme Court said in 2021 the Constitution allows members to thwart legislation by leaving the state. Gov. Greg Abbott wants them to reconsider.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2025/08/07/528127/abbotts-bid-to-expel-the-house-democratic-leader-goes-to-a-court-filled-with-his-appointees/

#Court #News #Politics #Texas #AttorneyGeneralKenPaxton #GeneWu #GovGregAbbott #QuorumBreak #TexasRedistricting #TexasSupremeCourt

NRG Energy has secured a multimillion-dollar state loan to construct two new natural gas units at a power plant in Houston.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2025/08/06/528002/nrg-energy-receives-up-to-216m-state-loan-to-construct-two-houston-natural-gas-facilities/

#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Houston #Local #News #Texas #2021WinterStorm #ERCOTGrid #GovGregAbbott #NaturalGasPowerPlants #NrgEnergy #PublicUtilityCommissionOfTexas

Gov. Greg Abbott was initially resistant to the plan pushed by President Donald Trump’s political team to pick up new GOP seats through a rare mid-decade redistricting, according to two people who have spoken to Abbott and the White House about the behind-the-scenes discussions.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/07/22/526906/texas-republicans-gov-abbott-were-reluctant-to-redraw-congressional-maps-then-trump-got-involved/

#Local #News #Politics #GovGregAbbott #PresidentDonaldTrump #TexasAttorneyGeneralKenPaxton #TexasRedistricting #TexasTribune

Two years after a district court declared that a new state law diluting the policy-making power of blue urban areas was unconstitutional, an appeals court on Friday overruled that decision.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2025/07/18/526773/appeals-court-upholds-texas-law-limiting-cities-enforcement-of-local-ordinances/

#Court #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #CityOfHouston #DeathStarBill #GovGregAbbott #TexasLaws #ThirdCourtOfAppeals

A tropical disturbance in the Gulf has the potential to bring heavy rainfall to the Houston area and other parts of Southeast Texas late Thursday through early Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/weather/2025/07/17/526593/likelihood-of-tropical-depression-in-gulf-lowered-to-30/

#Houston #Local #News #Texas #Weather #GovGregAbbott #Gulf #HoustonWeather #NationalWeatherServiceHoustonGalveston #SoutheastTexas #TropicalDisturbance

Gov. Greg Abbott is calling for a rare, mid-decade round of congressional redistricting as part of a packed agenda for the Texas Legislature’s special session, set to begin July 21.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/07/09/526083/congressional-redistricting-including-in-houston-on-texas-governors-agenda-for-special-legislative-session/

#Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #GovGregAbbott #HoustonCongressionalSeat #REDISTRICTING #SpecialSession #TexasLegislature #TexasRedistricting

A new Texas poll finds growing disapproval of Trump among independents and continued dissatisfaction with the Texas Legislature.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2025/06/25/524929/trump-has-net-negative-approval-in-texas-according-to-new-poll/

#News #Politics #Texas #GovGregAbbott #PresidentTrump #TheTexasPoliticsProject #TrumpApprovalRatings #UniversityOfTexas

Here is a list of the 26 bills vetoed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, along with his reasons for preventing the proposed legislation from becoming law. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/06/23/524701/all-28-bills-vetoed-by-gov-abbott-this-session-and-why/

#News #Politics #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #89thTexasLegislativeSession #AbbottVetos #GovGregAbbott #SpecialSession #Veto

Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new law that will make the state the nation’s largest to attempt to impose such a mandate.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2025/06/21/524614/new-texas-law-will-require-ten-commandments-to-be-posted-in-every-public-school-classroom/

#Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Religion #Texas #FirstAmendment #GovGregAbbott #SeparationOfChurchAndState #TenCommandments #TenCommandmentsInSchools #TexasPublicSchools

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Of course he did. Red state governors will eagerly take this as permission.

Texas #GovGregAbbott said he was deploying the #Texas #NationalGuard to multiple locations across the state to "ensure peace and order."

The deployment comes ahead of planned #protests including one in #SanAntonio.

A statement from Abbott's office obtained by ABC News' affiliate KSAT confirmed the #deployment saying #Guardsmen were ready to "uphold law and order across our state."

https://abc13.com/post/la-protest-news-texas-gov-greg-abbott-deploy-national-guard-amid-escalating-riots-california/16721674/

A Texas bill awaiting Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature would create five new district courts in Harris County over the next two years. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2025/06/05/523260/harris-county-officials-urge-abbott-to-approve-five-new-district-courts/

#Court #CriminalJustice #HarrisCounty #Local #News #Texas #89thLegislativeSession #BrazoriaCounty #FortBendCounty #GovGregAbbott #HarrisCountyBacklogs #HarrisCountyDistrictCourt

A new health warning label may soon appear on many food and beverage packages in Texas thanks to a bill passed by state lawmakers.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/arts-culture/food/2025/06/05/523243/many-processed-foods-in-texas-could-soon-include-a-warning-label-under-a-new-texas-law/

#Business #Food #HealthScience #News #Politics #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #89thTexasLegislativeSession #FoodWarningLabels #GovGregAbbott #ProcessedFoods #RobertFKennedyJr

The Texas Senate has passed a bill that would move the state to permanent daylight saving time, ending the long-standing tradition of "springing forward" and "falling back" each year.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2025/05/23/522234/texas-senate-passes-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent-pending-federal-action/

#Local #News #Politics #Texas #89thTexasLegislature #Congress #DaylightSavingTime #GovGregAbbott #Government #TexasBills

Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation on Wednesday to create a government entity similar to the federal Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/04/23/519617/texas-creates-its-own-doge-to-make-the-state-more-business-friendly/

#News #Politics #DanPatrick #DOGE #GovGregAbbott #HouseSpeakerDustinBurrows