Gov. Abbott reappoints Dr. Surendra Varma to Texas Medical Board review committee

https://thelemmy.club/post/51476332

Supreme Court declines to hear Texas man's intellectual disability case in capital case

The court's action means Victor Saldaño is likely to be executed even though both defense and state experts determined he was not eligible for execution under the law.

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/22/nx-s1-5866741/supreme-court-texas-death-penalty

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Husband of #FortWorth #texas mayor listed as lobbyist for #dataCenter industry group since January. He serves as the managing director of government affairs and strategy with the #lobby firm.

The city’s ethics rules prohibit public officials or their partners from accepting or soliciting “any benefit from any person, group or business entity that might reasonably tend to influence the officer, employee or advisory board member in the discharge of their official duties.”
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article316168803.html?__vfz=medium%3Dconversations_top_pages

"Writer Patrick Blanchfield noted in 2020 that the police “are in our minds as a solution rather than as a problem.” There is a powerful false consciousness at play, violently reinforced when every social problem is met solely with a carceral, policing-based solution.

“We don’t know what our nation without police would look like,” the abolitionist scholar Mariame Kaba wrote. “But we know that our society with police is violent, racist, precarious, unequal, and unfree.”

As the response to Uvalde makes clear, this is not a knowledge problem. It is well established what flooding schools with police does and does not do. It does not promote safety; it does increase life-altering incidents of violence against children.

Texas is not alone in choosing violence."

https://theintercept.com/2026/05/29/uvalde-texas-schools-police-violence/

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Texas may require more Bible stories, change history lessons in public schools

The State Board of Education will vote on incorporating more Christian stories into public classrooms as well as on deemphasizing race and cultural diversity in history lessons.

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/22/texas-votes-bible-history-lessons-public-schools/

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