Carrie (in Texas) 💙♿

The Barbie who masquerades as the Texas Land Commissioner got upset the Alamo posted a celebration of "Indigenous People's Day" - at a place educated Texans kinda remember who won.

Hint: the "white folk" lost.

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

Why ban books when you can ban the entire library?

New Braunfels ISD has frozen library purchase orders & closed secondary campus libraries following a harassment campaign by Libs of Tik Tok & other out of district extremists.

bookriot.com/new-braunfel...

Do this ⬇️

U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Republican Attack on Voting Rights A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that's designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week.

In 2013, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority in gutting the landmark law's requirement that states and local governments with a history of discrimination, mostly in the South, get approval before making any election-related changes.

Breast cancer, dizziness, headaches: El Paso residents ask if a warehouse's toxic emissions are to blame After a Grist investigation revealing exposure to the carcinogen ethylene oxide, El Paso residents confront troubling questions about their health.

Breast cancer, dizziness, headaches: El Paso residents ask if a warehouse’s toxic emissions are to blame.

grist.org/accountabili...

#Cancer #Health #Chemicals #Texas #TX #Environment

In Juárez, a Militarized Border Makes Drug Use More Deadly Growing security deployments pose unique challenges for harm reduction groups.

Out today: Today's border “is hypermilitarized, as we’ve never seen. Now if you go, like, to a shopping center, just to the store or a market, you will find a lot of military trucks full of soldiers. I work with people who are homeless, and the stories that they told us are very awful.”

Telemed things should not advertise "next in line, wait less than 5 minutes!" and THEN send an AI nurse to ask me tons of questions. #healthcare

Kinda like the committee to “get to the bottom of” the 2021 grid failure?

Here’s the final report:
• no way to foresee it
• no way to prevent it
• [conflation of risk mitigation w/ risk elimination]
• no new regulations (unless profitable for GOP donors)
• HUGE contract to donors
• *pats on backs*

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Morning Digest, sponsored by Campaign Legal Center: What's more important to the GOP than gerrymandering? Anti-trans laws Kansas Republicans fear a "flood" of trans people wanting to change their driver's licenses

Holdouts are making it hard for the Kansas GOP to pass a new gerrymander, so party leaders are offering a new incentive: agree to convene a special session and we'll hold a vote on banning trans people from changing their gender on their driver's licenses.

We explain it all in today's Digest →

For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions. Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...

Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations.

Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.

By @emcahan.bsky.social

Via Anna Barrett: Former U.S. Attorney and U.S. Sen. Doug Jones and former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley on Friday discussed the prosecutions of the men responsible for the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. https://ow.ly/BJgq50Xab5t

This is very "books on the ground" to me, but -- I have vivid memories of Kuwait and Iraq and ....

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Huge crowd for James Talarico in deep red San Angelo, TX!

This county hasn’t voted for a Democrat since LBJ, but they showed up for Talarico.

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

What the Texas National Guard Deployment Tells Us About Greg Abbott Our governor can be a maddeningly inscrutable figure. His latest exercise in ordering troops around can help us understand him.

Where have Abbott's soldiers gone? www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

JPL Workforce Update A message from JPL Director Dave Gallagher

A message from JPL Director Dave Gallagher announces a JPL layoff of 500 people has been announced that is "not related to the current government shutdown". www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/jpl-wor...

T*ump just delivered a 1.5 hour campaign rally (disguised as a speech) for a foreign leader - and I'd have a problem if a Democrat did that.

(7 months of warning? really?)

and even those of us who don't ship/receive intl packages know what happened re de minimis - it affects all in logistics 🙄

brain cells are dying off

Oh My Word Andrew White thinks he's an "Independent Democrat" and I'm laughing.

[Just tossing this out there - December is the filing deadline "just in case" anyone else is planning to run for Texas Gov]

Now, rewatching The Diplomat with periodic breaks to rewatch Kill Me Love Me.

[Yes, my viewing habits are eclectic - but they keep me sane. For now.]

Now, an image of Cruz in '70's style bball shorts is now stuck in my head. 🤢

A breakdown of the "Kavanaugh Stop." A Supreme Court ruling that made it ok to target people based on how they look. Which has led to indiscriminate arrests of American Citizens.

Finished House of Guinness this eve. And now I'm singing Irish shanties round the house 🎶

The Many Times Ken Paxton Refused to Defend Texas Agencies in Court The Texas attorney general said he’s “back to work” after his recent acquittal, but his office has repeatedly declined to fulfill one of its key duties: representing state agencies who are being...

The Many Times Ken Paxton Refused to Defend Texas Agencies in Court

The Texas attorney general said he’s “back to work” after his recent acquittal, but his office has repeatedly declined to fulfill one of its key duties: representing state agencies who are being sued.

And, Paxton only cares about himself (and "former female staffers") ...

#txsen #txlege

Just a Texas sized reminder:

Cornyn doesn't care. #txsen

Ken Paxton’s crimes are well known. But John Cornyn may be even more corrupt.

Cornyn was the deciding vote on the “Big Ugly Bill” — kicking millions off their healthcare to give his billionaire donors a tax cut.

That is corruption of the highest order.

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