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https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/113612440300700687 TexasObserver@texasobserver.social - UPDATE: a spokesperson from JP Morgan Chase told the Texas Observer they fired the operator of a neo-Nazi X account who we identified as their employee.
"This person is no longer at the firm. We do not tolerate hate in any form and take incidents such as this very seriously."
https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
#politics #USpol #extremism #racism #antisemitism #Texas #news #SocialMedia #ElonMusk
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In Texas’ Third-Largest County, the Far Right’s Vision for Local Governing Has Come to Life
https://www.propublica.org/article/tarrant-county-judge-tim-ohare-far-right
No Compromise: Tim O’Hare’s leadership in Tarrant County, Texas, gives a glimpse of far-right priorities: cutting programs for at-risk youth, targeting elections and stifling dissent.
The Last Battleground: Tarrant County, home to 2.2 million people and the city of Fort Worth, is the most significant political battleground between Republicans and Democrats in Texas.
Winning Elections: O’Hare has pushed to end free bus rides to the polls for poor residents and close polling locations on college campuses, which GOP leaders said would help the party.Over the past two decades, Tim O’Hare methodically amassed power in North Texas as he pushed incendiary policies such as banning undocumented immigrants from renting homes and vilifying school curriculum that encouraged students to embrace diversity.
#politics #texas #republican-party #republicans #right-wing #election #tim-ohare #far-right #radical #hate #bigotry
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October 8, 2024
U.S. Supreme Court Rules Texas Hospitals Cannot Be Compelled to Provide Emergency Abortions
In another blow to abortion rights, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday
Texas doctors cannot be compelled to perform emergency abortions if the
procedure is deemed to violate Texas's abortion ban. The far-right-led
Supreme Court, which overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, rejected the Biden
administration's invocation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor
Act, which requires health providers to intervene if a patient's life is
at risk.
#abortion #court #supreme-court #scotus #us-supreme-court #emergency-abortions #emergency-medical-treatment #texas
The Crisis for Transgender Texans: A Heartbreaking Reality
It doesn’t seem possible, but it is true. Being trans in Texas is likely about to get even worse.
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Trans Texans could be about to lose their licenses entirely - INTO
Despite how awful this already is for trans Texans, it’s getting worse. A letter from the Texas DPS Director, Steven McCraw, to Paxton details where this could all end up. McCraw expresses concern in the letter that the DPS might have “altered many governmental sex records in mistaken reliance on court orders that either lacked any basis in law or authority.” Beyond from continuing the fallacy of Paxton’s own “concerns,” McCraw wants to know if they can undo the gender marker corrections trans people have made in the past, noting that “when DPS has made an erroneous entry to a person’s records, the agency has on its own initiative corrected such a mistake.”
McCraw, here, is asking to open the door to tearing away valid ID from trans people who might have had their gender marker corrected years before. One such person, is TikToker @MamaMephistopheles, who spoke about her concerns in a recent video.
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Texas summer camp provides safe place for LGBTQ kids
The girl traveled to summer camp with two friends from Austin, giggling and singing and cracking jokes on the drive up Interstate 35. She was the oldest, at 14, and the tallest, so she claimed the front seat of the Prius.
#trans #transgender #Texas #AntiTransBigotry #SafeSpaces #ProtectTransKids
Ugh. If you are ever in a disaster and helped by FEMA, don't admit it in Texas
Louisana survivors of Katrina learned that many Houston landlords assumed they were criminal refugees if they were from out of state and have received government help. #texas #discriminiation
https://grist.org/state-of-emergency/lessons-from-houstons-katrina-response/
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August 22, 2024
TX Appeals Court to Review Acquittal of Black Mother Who Was Sentenced to Prison for Trying to Vote
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals will review the case of Crystal
Mason, a Black mother who was sentenced to five years in prison for
attempting to cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 election when she
was ineligible to vote. At the time, Mason was on supervised release for
a tax felony and was unaware that this barred her from casting a ballot.
Her ballot was never actually counted. Mason's conviction was already
overturned, and she was acquitted earlier this year, but Tarrant
County's conservative district attorney appealed the decision. Crystal
Mason appeared on Democracy Now! in 2018.
Amy Goodman: "Crystal, do you ever plan to vote again?"
Crystal Mason: "I do. I do. And that's what I'm encouraging my kids, to
get out there so we can make a difference right now. I do. I just feel
right now that the system failed me. You get out, you rehabilitate
yourself, you get a good job, you go to school, you graduate from
school, you're doing everything right - so, why would I go and vote, to
go back to prison?"
#democracy-now #texas #voting-rights #vote #voting #election
If trends hold, in 2028 or 2032, there will no longer be a #republican party. If the #GOP lose #Texas, they are over as a party, and can never win the #presidency again. It is at that point that #3rd parties will start jockeying for power and we could end up with 4 parties like when the whigs collapsed, though for several elections the #dems will have the majority votes. Most likely the new national party will build their power out of the states with #rankedchoicevoting . Libertarians, working families parties, democratic socialists and the green party are all possible candidates. If we are very lucky, more and more states will adopt RCV and make sure there are no longer any two dominating national parties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWC31X07w0w
On June 1, 2024, a passenger on an American Airlines flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Houston witnessed an unexplained aerial phenomenon. The incident, which occurred around 8:12 PM local time, was reported to the National #UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) a few days later. #Texas #usa #ufo #ovni https://activite-paranormale.net/news/read/19051/strange-ufo-seen-from-a-plane-in-texas
Good to know that Bellingcat is assisting.
♲ Texas Observer - 2024-08-04 15:36:53 GMT
Last week: Members or supporters of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, identified by the Texas Observer's @stevanzetti and @Bellingcat, appear to have perpetrated a possible hate crime at the location of a river tubing company. https://www.texasobserver.org/neo-nazi-martindale-arrest-gang/#extremism #WhiteSupremacy #Texas #news #CriminalJustice #police #racism
