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Featured story: Districts across the state are arresting and citing young #children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more #police. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-school-arrests-crisis-kids-as-young-as-10/
#TXlege #education #schools #politics #USpol #news #racism #Texas
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Featured story: Districts across the state are arresting and citing young #children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more #police. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-school-arrests-crisis-kids-as-young-as-10/
#TXlege #education #schools #politics #USpol #news #racism #Texas
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Last week, from Mezabahnur Masum: Texas cities are not indifferent to climate change. Instead, time after time, their careful plans for the future are blocked by #Republicans in the legislature. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-cities-climate-plans-preemption/
#TXlege #Texas #ClimateChange #environment #news #politics #USpol
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Last week, from Mezabahnur Masum: Texas cities are not indifferent to climate change. Instead, time after time, their careful plans for the future are blocked by #Republicans in the legislature. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-cities-climate-plans-preemption/
#TXlege #Texas #ClimateChange #environment #news #politics #USpol
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Our cover story, by @josephinelee: “School is supposed to be a safe, nurturing environment where a child can make mistakes and learn from them. Instead, #schools are exposing young children to arrests—one of the most traumatic experiences a child can have—which can quickly turn a child’s life upside down.” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-school-arrests-crisis-kids-as-young-as-10/
#education #politics #USpol #Texas #news #police #law #TXlege
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Our cover story, by @josephinelee: “School is supposed to be a safe, nurturing environment where a child can make mistakes and learn from them. Instead, #schools are exposing young children to arrests—one of the most traumatic experiences a child can have—which can quickly turn a child’s life upside down.” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-school-arrests-crisis-kids-as-young-as-10/
#education #politics #USpol #Texas #news #police #law #TXlege
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New from Mezabahnur Masum: Texas communities large and small are all grappling with a growing climate crisis ... and roadblocks preventing them from implementing real solutions, created by the #Texas legislature. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-cities-climate-plans-preemption/
#TXlege #water #environment #ClimateChange #politics #USpol #news
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New from Mezabahnur Masum: Texas communities large and small are all grappling with a growing climate crisis ... and roadblocks preventing them from implementing real solutions, created by the #Texas legislature. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-cities-climate-plans-preemption/
#TXlege #water #environment #ClimateChange #politics #USpol #news
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Featured story: The number of Texas public #schools facing closure more than doubled from 2024 to 2025, from 22 to 50. And in the first six months of 2026, #Texas school districts have voted to close even more schools—at least 55. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-closures-across-texas-not-local-failure/
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Featured story: The number of Texas public #schools facing closure more than doubled from 2024 to 2025, from 22 to 50. And in the first six months of 2026, #Texas school districts have voted to close even more schools—at least 55. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-closures-across-texas-not-local-failure/
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“The University of Texas is dead. Serving at the pleasure of our Governor, you have failed to fulfill your mission, and students mourn what once was.” https://www.texasobserver.org/social-work-programs-accreditation-dei/
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“The University of Texas is dead. Serving at the pleasure of our Governor, you have failed to fulfill your mission, and students mourn what once was.” https://www.texasobserver.org/social-work-programs-accreditation-dei/
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“It’s not specific to urban or rural areas. … It’s not confined to any sort of racial or ethnic breakdown. That is why we say it’s not a local failure; it’s a statewide trend.” https://buff.ly/QYxUsMW
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“It’s not specific to urban or rural areas. … It’s not confined to any sort of racial or ethnic breakdown. That is why we say it’s not a local failure; it’s a statewide trend.” https://buff.ly/QYxUsMW
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New from Josephine Lee: The number of #Texas public #schools facing closure more than doubled from 2024 to 2025, rising from 22 to 50. In the first six months of 2026, Texas school districts have voted to close even more schools—at least 55.
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New from Josephine Lee: The number of #Texas public #schools facing closure more than doubled from 2024 to 2025, rising from 22 to 50. In the first six months of 2026, Texas school districts have voted to close even more schools—at least 55.
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“I was given spaces to explore the real me, not the me that I had to be in order to stay alive. Drag is so healing.”
Pride Month repost: Despite a law targeting #drag performers in #Texas, the art form continues to thrive in the state. https://www.texasobserver.org/austin-drag-queens-defy-ban/
#Pride #culture #art #law #Texas #politics #USpol #TXlege #LGBTQIA
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“I was given spaces to explore the real me, not the me that I had to be in order to stay alive. Drag is so healing.”
Pride Month repost: Despite a law targeting #drag performers in #Texas, the art form continues to thrive in the state. https://www.texasobserver.org/austin-drag-queens-defy-ban/
#Pride #culture #art #law #Texas #politics #USpol #TXlege #LGBTQIA
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From Candice Bernd: GOP state leaders for years engaged in a war on local control aimed at big blue cities. But local #Republicans are finding that they, too, have fallen prey as they attempt to resist new data centers. https://www.texasobserver.org/data-center-boom-rural-gop-local-control/
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From Candice Bernd: GOP state leaders for years engaged in a war on local control aimed at big blue cities. But local #Republicans are finding that they, too, have fallen prey as they attempt to resist new data centers. https://www.texasobserver.org/data-center-boom-rural-gop-local-control/
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Featured story from @JosphineLee, co-published by @ProPublica: Some experts believe the ultimate objective of any #Texas school district takeover is to disenfranchise local communities.
“It all begins at the school board level to then completely disempower the community,” said NYU professor Domingo Morel. https://www.texasobserver.org/mike-miles-tea-school-takeovers-charter-austin-fort-worth-houston/
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Featured story from @JosphineLee, co-published by @ProPublica: Some experts believe the ultimate objective of any #Texas school district takeover is to disenfranchise local communities.
“It all begins at the school board level to then completely disempower the community,” said NYU professor Domingo Morel. https://www.texasobserver.org/mike-miles-tea-school-takeovers-charter-austin-fort-worth-houston/
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“Governor Abbott could call [a special session] tomorrow. He has chosen not to. I mean … we have special sessions over who can use which restroom, but we don’t have a special session for this.” https://www.texasobserver.org/data-center-boom-rural-gop-local-control/
#Texas #AI #tech #environment #TXlege #politics #USpol #news
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“Governor Abbott could call [a special session] tomorrow. He has chosen not to. I mean … we have special sessions over who can use which restroom, but we don’t have a special session for this.” https://www.texasobserver.org/data-center-boom-rural-gop-local-control/
#Texas #AI #tech #environment #TXlege #politics #USpol #news
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Co-worker wants to do it on #Android so they can use the Chase banking app on their phone. This is because Chase app is full of #pr0n, I guess. Thank you, #TXLege. Anyway, all I can find is a thing on #Google accounts that requires you to take a photo of yourself or upload a photo of your ID. Seriously, why does it seem to be such different set of hurdles for iOS vs Android? Anyone have a good step-by-step instructions on this? Everything I find seems to be conflicting. [2/2]
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Co-worker wants to do it on #Android so they can use the Chase banking app on their phone. This is because Chase app is full of #pr0n, I guess. Thank you, #TXLege. Anyway, all I can find is a thing on #Google accounts that requires you to take a photo of yourself or upload a photo of your ID. Seriously, why does it seem to be such different set of hurdles for iOS vs Android? Anyone have a good step-by-step instructions on this? Everything I find seems to be conflicting. [2/2]
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From our magazine: GOP legislators repeatedly insisted that “Texas Education Freedom Accounts” would be open to any and all types of private schools—of all creeds and persuasions.
In predictable fashion, they haven't quite lived up to that promise. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
#vouchers #education #racism #politics #USpol #news #Texas #TXlege
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From our magazine: GOP legislators repeatedly insisted that “Texas Education Freedom Accounts” would be open to any and all types of private schools—of all creeds and persuasions.
In predictable fashion, they haven't quite lived up to that promise. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
#vouchers #education #racism #politics #USpol #news #Texas #TXlege
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Featured story: "The playbook is the same, scapegoating one community and fear-mongering to be able to get the votes that you need ... And then last summer, you know, the rhetoric translated into direct real world threats against me and my family." https://www.texasobserver.org/the-interview-salman-bhojani/
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Featured story: "The playbook is the same, scapegoating one community and fear-mongering to be able to get the votes that you need ... And then last summer, you know, the rhetoric translated into direct real world threats against me and my family." https://www.texasobserver.org/the-interview-salman-bhojani/
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There is no reasoning with white supremacy.
>Many testifying at Frisco City Council meetings or posting about the city on social media go far beyond asking for immigration reform. There’s been a surge in anti-Indian racism on social media since Trump returned to the White House, framing legal immigrants as “job stealers” and “invaders.” A clip of Boy Scouts leading the Pledge of Allegiance before a Frisco City Council meeting went viral, attracting thousands of reposts, many with hateful language, because the boys were Indian.
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>“If you go after Boy Scouts, 10-year-old kids doing literally the most American thing ever, how can you also say the issue is assimilation?” Thakur asked. “This parsing, this segmenting of populations by identity politics, is the worst kind of politics there is.” -
There is no reasoning with white supremacy.
>Many testifying at Frisco City Council meetings or posting about the city on social media go far beyond asking for immigration reform. There’s been a surge in anti-Indian racism on social media since Trump returned to the White House, framing legal immigrants as “job stealers” and “invaders.” A clip of Boy Scouts leading the Pledge of Allegiance before a Frisco City Council meeting went viral, attracting thousands of reposts, many with hateful language, because the boys were Indian.
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>“If you go after Boy Scouts, 10-year-old kids doing literally the most American thing ever, how can you also say the issue is assimilation?” Thakur asked. “This parsing, this segmenting of populations by identity politics, is the worst kind of politics there is.” -
State Representative Salman Bhojani's recipe for fixing #Texas elections:
1. Jungle primaries
2. Independently drawn voting districts
3. Ranked choice voting https://www.texasobserver.org/the-interview-salman-bhojani/ -
State Representative Salman Bhojani's recipe for fixing #Texas elections:
1. Jungle primaries
2. Independently drawn voting districts
3. Ranked choice voting https://www.texasobserver.org/the-interview-salman-bhojani/ -
"Our job as state representatives is to fully fund our public schools. We haven’t done that, so let’s not talk about adding some more. So I’m still against the private school voucher program, but once you open that floodgate, you have to treat everybody equally." https://www.texasobserver.org/the-interview-salman-bhojani/
#education #vouchers #politics #USpol #news #schools #TXlege #Texas #racism
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"Our job as state representatives is to fully fund our public schools. We haven’t done that, so let’s not talk about adding some more. So I’m still against the private school voucher program, but once you open that floodgate, you have to treat everybody equally." https://www.texasobserver.org/the-interview-salman-bhojani/
#education #vouchers #politics #USpol #news #schools #TXlege #Texas #racism
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From Michelle Pitcher: Thanks to #Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals, no one on death row has been granted a new trial under a law meant to protect them from junk science-based convictions.
Now, the debate goes to the U.S. Supreme Court. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-top-criminal-court-junk-science-law-supreme-court/
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From Michelle Pitcher: Thanks to #Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals, no one on death row has been granted a new trial under a law meant to protect them from junk science-based convictions.
Now, the debate goes to the U.S. Supreme Court. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-top-criminal-court-junk-science-law-supreme-court/
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"What Abbott is doing is McCarthyism with a #Texas accent. So if you think about McCarthy, he didn’t need to prove that someone was a communist. The accusation itself became the evidence. Now from there, you can destroy careers, you can revoke passports, you can blacklist entire organizations." https://www.texasobserver.org/the-interview-salman-bhojani/
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"What Abbott is doing is McCarthyism with a #Texas accent. So if you think about McCarthy, he didn’t need to prove that someone was a communist. The accusation itself became the evidence. Now from there, you can destroy careers, you can revoke passports, you can blacklist entire organizations." https://www.texasobserver.org/the-interview-salman-bhojani/
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"I was doxxed by extremists, my home was doxxed, my children’s social media accounts were doxxed and exposed online, there were unmarked cars following them, and I’m not even here—I’m in Chicago, breaking quorum." https://www.texasobserver.org/the-interview-salman-bhojani/
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"I was doxxed by extremists, my home was doxxed, my children’s social media accounts were doxxed and exposed online, there were unmarked cars following them, and I’m not even here—I’m in Chicago, breaking quorum." https://www.texasobserver.org/the-interview-salman-bhojani/
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Previously: Applications for #vouchers had been submitted for about 275,000 students as of late March. But just 25% percent were for students currently enrolled in public schools. (That amounts to about 1% of the state’s 5.5 million public school students.) https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
#education #racism #religion #politics #USpol #Texas #news #TXlege
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Previously: Applications for #vouchers had been submitted for about 275,000 students as of late March. But just 25% percent were for students currently enrolled in public schools. (That amounts to about 1% of the state’s 5.5 million public school students.) https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
#education #racism #religion #politics #USpol #Texas #news #TXlege
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Out today: “Counties use tax breaks to try to get a commitment from the developer that they’ll use a closed-loop cooling system instead of evaporative cooling. I’m glad counties are using the tools they have, but we only have carrots. We only have incentives.” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-legislature-data-center-boom-water/
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Out today: “Counties use tax breaks to try to get a commitment from the developer that they’ll use a closed-loop cooling system instead of evaporative cooling. I’m glad counties are using the tools they have, but we only have carrots. We only have incentives.” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-legislature-data-center-boom-water/
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Top story: Applications had been submitted for about 275,000 students as of late March. But just 25% were for students currently enrolled in public schools.
That amounts to about 1% of the state’s 5.5 million public school students. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
#education #schools #vouchers #TXlege #racism #politics #USpol #news
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Top story: Applications had been submitted for about 275,000 students as of late March. But just 25% were for students currently enrolled in public schools.
That amounts to about 1% of the state’s 5.5 million public school students. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
#education #schools #vouchers #TXlege #racism #politics #USpol #news
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Top story: What would’ve been school-choice proponents’ triumphant publicity tour was instead consumed by catty finger-pointing over who’s to blame for the seemingly botched attempt to religiously discriminate against some program participants. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
#Texas #politics #USpol #news #vouchers #education #schools #news #TXlege #racism
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Top story: What would’ve been school-choice proponents’ triumphant publicity tour was instead consumed by catty finger-pointing over who’s to blame for the seemingly botched attempt to religiously discriminate against some program participants. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
#Texas #politics #USpol #news #vouchers #education #schools #news #TXlege #racism
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From Justin Miller: GOP legislators repeatedly insisted that “Texas Education Freedom Accounts” would be open to any and all types of private #schools—of all creeds and persuasions.
In predictable fashion, they haven't quite lived up to that promise. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
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From Justin Miller: GOP legislators repeatedly insisted that “Texas Education Freedom Accounts” would be open to any and all types of private #schools—of all creeds and persuasions.
In predictable fashion, they haven't quite lived up to that promise. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
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Applications had been submitted for about 275,000 students as of late March. But just 25% percent were for students currently enrolled in public #schools. (That amounts to about 1% of the state’s 5.5 million public school students.) https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
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Applications had been submitted for about 275,000 students as of late March. But just 25% percent were for students currently enrolled in public #schools. (That amounts to about 1% of the state’s 5.5 million public school students.) https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
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New from Justin Miller: What would’ve been school-choice proponents’ triumphant publicity tour was instead consumed by catty finger-pointing over who’s to blame for the seemingly botched attempt to religiously discriminate against some program participants. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
#vouchers #Politics #USpol #Republicans #Texas #TXlege #news #education #schools
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New from Justin Miller: What would’ve been school-choice proponents’ triumphant publicity tour was instead consumed by catty finger-pointing over who’s to blame for the seemingly botched attempt to religiously discriminate against some program participants. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
#vouchers #Politics #USpol #Republicans #Texas #TXlege #news #education #schools
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Out today: SB 13 neutered librarians’ authority over their collections. I no longer determine what goes into my collection. I make recommendations, and a council of parents called a School Library Advisory Council (SLAC) decides whether or not to recommend approval. https://www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-librarian-book-ban/
#books #education #Library #censorship #Texas #TXlege #Politics #USpol #News
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Out today: SB 13 neutered librarians’ authority over their collections. I no longer determine what goes into my collection. I make recommendations, and a council of parents called a School Library Advisory Council (SLAC) decides whether or not to recommend approval. https://www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-librarian-book-ban/
#books #education #Library #censorship #Texas #TXlege #Politics #USpol #News
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"The power of that office is to say 'This is how much revenue you have. And here are the long-term investments of the State of Texas, and here’s who’s benefiting most, least, and not at all from those investments.' And the comptroller has not done much of that in the last several years." https://www.texasobserver.org/sarah-eckhardt-texas-comptroller-bob-bullock/
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"The power of that office is to say 'This is how much revenue you have. And here are the long-term investments of the State of Texas, and here’s who’s benefiting most, least, and not at all from those investments.' And the comptroller has not done much of that in the last several years." https://www.texasobserver.org/sarah-eckhardt-texas-comptroller-bob-bullock/