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I think Senator Paxton threatened the hospital association because they don't take a position on abortion and don't agree with her that abortion should be a felony. Small scale fascism in action, agree with the official state position or be punished. #txlege

‘She needs to have a democracy to grow up in’: The moms who left Texas to defend its future Democratic lawmakers fled the state to protest a Trump-backed redistricting plan. For the mothers among them, leaving meant juggling summer milestones, first days of school — and showing their kids wh...

Don't mess with Texas moms.
#txlege
‘She needs to have a democracy to grow up in’: The moms who left Texas to defend its future 19thnews.org/2025/08/texa... via @19thnews.org

The very same.

You mean the underlings that pled guilty and went on to be senior advisors to the governor? I do in fact remember, and was thinking of them today.

Unbelievable to claim “we don’t believe in erasing American history — we honor it” after literally pulling down exhibits honoring Black Americans and renaming ships that acknowledged civil rights leaders. They even tried to erase Jackie Robinson and only claimed it was an error after an outcry.

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Is this bipartisanship?

Always thought of it as more like "S'nangelo", but that's probably oy when a real tom green county native says it .

Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause.

Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.

As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.

#txlege

a fun fact is that it is technically possible to redistrict texas in such a way that democrats could outnumber republicans in the congressional delegation two to one and the maps wouldn’t look any worse than these do www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

"More support, more funds raised, and a faster campaign launch than ever seen in Tarrant County!"
"She could have been cited for speeding," joked Sheriff Waybourn.
Umm, it's 2 contributions of $50k, 1 of $40k, 1 of $1k, and a $200k loan to herself. 🙄
#txlege #TXSD9

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

Fuentes is a bad guy … but he’s not wrong.

ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.

Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented.

“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.

theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...

Trans girl housed in male unit has jaw broken at D.C. juvenile detention center Officials said they've launched a "full review" after the Youth Services Center resident was transported to the hospital following the incident.

A transgender girl housed in a male unit of a Washington, D.C., juvenile detention center has been hospitalized after sustaining multiple injuries, including a broken jaw, officials say.

The Conservative Justices Are Too Cowardly to Say What They Mean The Court used to at least pretend to care about showing its work. Now, it just wants to do Trump’s bidding as quickly as possible.

I think it is important to understand not only that Supreme Court’s agenda is substantively abhorrent, but also that the justices are, at bottom, absolute fucking cowards about it. It should be humiliating for them to show their faces in public. Pathetic.

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. A scholar of genocide comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

#OtD 14 Jul 1912 influential populist US folk musician Woody Guthrie was born. Guthrie chronicled the difficult conditions faced by working class Oklahomans during the Dust Bowl and spoke out against class inequality and fascism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8576...

There's a new battery record in Texas. Last night was the first time batteries discharged over 6,000 megawatts of power to the ERCOT grid.

Solar record Thursday. Battery record Friday.

No conservation alerts, no grid emergencies. #txlege #txenergy

On tax day no less, you must have really been getting your finances in order.

Privacy is an interesting request from an Attorney General who is actively fighting against HIPAA privacy rules in order to access the confidential medical records of Texas abortion patients 🤔 (www.thenation.com/article/soci...)

[Searches for a Dave P feed]

Oh sorry was trying to make a joke, but was not at all clear, Livestreamimg ones ownself in a content creator way is offensive/annoying, Livestream the cops and ICE all you want.

(Except that guy that Livestreamed himself skateboarding, that was epic)

Neither is live streaming, but it's far more offensive than skateboarding.

the phillies cannot be remotely normal and bless them for it

This is exactly what Mitch McConnell, the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society wanted when they stole Obama’s Supreme Court nomination and then rammed through Barrett

A SCOTUS that would ignore established precedent and rewrite as much jurisprudence as conservatives could think of