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Browse everything from the July/August 2024 issue of our magazine, so far: www.texasobserver.org/issues/july-...
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Exactly this.
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Garrett is part of a longstanding tradition of “writ writers” ... prisoners who engage with the legal system from inside, filing petitions and motions, launching lawsuits based on alleged civil rights or constitutional violations.
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Coe said his deputies need the weapons “in the event that something happens like what happened in El Paso,” referring to an upheaval at the #border in March where a couple hundred migrants tore down a chain link fence and rushed into Texas.
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Some context re this article for non-Texans. Our SCOTX is all GOP. But all the major courts of appeals (divided regionally) are majority or all Dem (both elected). Creating a state-wide COA appointed by the GOP governor with a special docket is a way of avoiding those election Dem COAs
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New today: The all-GOP 15th Court of Appeals soon will hear disputes involving the state’s environmental regulators. “It’s BYOC—bring your own court—for polluters and powerful interests.”
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Evergreen post in Texas
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it's a vibe here in Texas
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Our cover story, out today: “In 2019, I was invited to a journalism event, and everyone in #Cuba urged me to defect on that trip. But a glimpse of America’s usurious economy made me feel so small.”
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lol, also sob
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“Trans teachers can be good teachers or bad teachers. They’re just teachers like anyone else.”
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oh, well then, carry on! 🙃
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“I think it’s going to become more and more important for the state for a variety of different large energy users to have some conditions on them being able to connect [to the grid].”
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The Kinney County Sheriff’s Office is buying pepper ball and tear gas launcher rifles to potentially use against migrants to prevent them from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Francesca D'Annunzio reports.
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“I knew [the suit] was going to be a long road. But I didn’t think it was going to be this long.” From yesterday: Michael Garret has spent over a decade waging a legal battle against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, demanding a good night's sleep.
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After unprecedented protests swept #Cuba, a huge wave of people fled. A journalist shares his saga of being smuggled to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The cover story to our magazine, presented in partnership with NAHJ's palabra.
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“Above all else, one asks for humanity. ... We are warriors who just want a better life—to work—for our children.”
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We appreciate y'all! 🤠
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I don't normally make suggestions about who to follow, but in these times when so much of the media produces little more than clickbait, I'd strongly suggest following @texasobserver.org They still do real journalism reporting on stories you might otherwise never hear about. texasobserver.org/join/
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Judges rule that there is no constitutional right to be able to sleep in prison?? As an insomniac, I get nervous every time another study comes out indicating lack of sleep is deadly in a variety of ways. I hope this guy wins in the end and lives to tell about it.
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Thank you! <3
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“Narrowing access to asylum at the border doesn’t make it more orderly. It makes it unnecessarily complicated.” Earlier: More migrants are being stranded at the U.S.-Mexico border under Biden's executive order.
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If you've ever spent a sleepless night, it should be disturbing to imagine living that way constantly in prison!
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“He knows the rules. He knows the hurdles that lawyers face. He’s patient, and he is in it for the long term.”
New today from Michelle Pitcher: Michael Garrett sued the #Texas Department of Criminal Justice more than a decade ago, and he’s working from inside to keep the case alive.
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“Narrowing access to asylum at the #border doesn’t make it more orderly. It makes it unnecessarily complicated.”
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“I’m not going to dress in a way that changes who I am. Rather than causing me to change how I dress, because I can’t change who I am any more than Abbott can … it would cause me to have to look at leaving Texas.”
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“There is now an average of 105 days at or above 90 degrees in Arlington, compared with 93 days within the same temperature range when I was born in 1991.”
#ClimateChange
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”In the over three years since Winter Storm Uri, there’s been far more attention paid to and media coverage of #Texas’ oft-precarious electric grid. ...”
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“Racial hierarchy offered white people a reprieve from the class hierarchy and gave white women an escape valve from gender oppression.”
From the archives: In Clinton, Arkansas, a reporter examines the effects of a stagnant economy on the place she came from.
#racism
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From the archives, 2007: “She was the most famous unknown person I've ever known.”
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What's happening in the GOP? The crusade against Texans for Lawsuit Reform and the rise of conservative lawfare reveal a new side of #Texas’ ruling party.
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Introducing the July/August 2024 issue of Texas Observer magazine.
Visit texasobserver.org/editors-lett... for a special preview from @gusbova.bsky.social
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Earlier from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: “They can try to pass legislation on this, but it would become a court battle pretty immediately, and I think it would go about as well for them as the drag ban has, which is to say, not well.”
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Indeed. and there's very little unique about Texas problems, they're just sometimes more blatant
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Sadly, this only scratches the surface of that one! www.texasobserver.org/abbott-pardo...
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“If you have 100 issues, and you agree with them 99 times, you’re their enemy.”
New from Justin Miller in our magazine: The crusade against Texans for Lawsuit Reform and the rise of conservative lawfare reveal a new side of #Texas’ ruling party.
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“It feels like no one’s got our back, no one’s in our corner.” An Arlington environmentalist calls for courage at the local level despite state limitations.
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The State of Texas executed Ramiro Gonzales by lethal injection on June 26, ignoring his pleas for clemency.
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Introducing “Going to See the Volcanos.” Cuban journalist Jesús Jank Curbelo shares his harrowing journey ending with his Rio Grande crossing to seek asylum in the U.S.
Collab w/ palabra.
🗓️Story available online July 9.
Read a preview 🔗 bit.ly/3VL9xgo
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Thanks for sharing! 🤠
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Hmmm. Let’s check in on the guys who kept calling everyone “groomers.”
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So do we! Thank you for reading.
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“Above all else, one asks for humanity. ... We are warriors who just want a better life—to work—for our children.”
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“As the group proceeded to search for textiles, they realized they had stumbled onto a crime scene. ...”
A massive theft of pre-Columbian art reveals troubling truths about Texans’ role in the illicit antiquities trade.
#science
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From the archives: Asylum-seekers risk life and limb to reach America as President Biden tries to dissuade them. Featuring one of TIME's top photos of 2023.
#photography
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“Earlier this month, a bombshell report from a religious watchdog group roiled one of the largest megachurches in Texas. ...”
But some Texas Republicans, who’ve campaigned on ostensibly protecting children from sexualization, are conspicuously quiet. via @stevanzetti.bsky.social
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Featured: “This group of migrants, three young children and several adults, were desperate. They looked exhausted and dehydrated. Their windswept faces looked at us for a response.”
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Earlier: We spoke with Doug Lewin about what he’s watching for as we hit the summer heat, the huge projected increases in grid demand, and how lawmakers and regulators are handling it all.
#energy
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Introducing “Going to See the Volcanos.” Cuban journalist Jesús Jank Curbelo shares his harrowing journey ending with his Rio Grande crossing to seek asylum in the U.S.
Collab w/ palabra.
🗓️Story available online July 9.
Read a preview 🔗 bit.ly/3VL9xgo
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