Texas Observer“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/
“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
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.
https://www.texasobserver.org/school-closures-across-texas-not-local-failure/
“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
Carrie 💙"Texas GOP passed a platform urging lawmakers to prioritize further tightening the state's election rules, including laws to bar mail-in balloting for seniors, require proof of U.S. citizenship to vote and close the primary. Delegates also called for lege next session that would ban IVF." #txlege
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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/
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/
Will New School District Takeovers Follow the Model—and ‘Chaos’—of Houston ISD?
The state education agency took over four additional districts this spring, installing leaders linked to Houston’s state-imposed superintendent, Mike Miles, including two who worked for his former charter school network.
“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
csCo-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]
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
