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Gizmo and I keeping warm with my electric blanket. Stay warm y'all in #Texas #Cats #CatsOfMastodon


Featured story: "The conservative campaign to harass the libs out of academia has already sent a chill through #Texas’ world-class public universities, making professors and administrators so fearful of setting off the lunatics in charge at the Capitol that they censor themselves—in scholarship or in their communications with students and the public."

From Editor-in-Chief @gabrielarana: https://www.texasobserver.org/mccarthyism-texas-am-journalism-freedom/

#schools #diversity #racism #education #journalism #FreeSpeech #essays


Ben Sargent's latest Loon Star State cartoon, from the July/August 2023 issue of Texas Observer magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/july-august-2023-abbotts-border-boondoggle/

#TexasNeedsAnObserver! Become a member and get our magazine, six times per year: https://texasobserver.org/join

#politics #news #USpol #Texas #GregAbbott #HB2127 #democracy #journalism #comics


“Data shows for the first time that the peak demand for electricity this summer will exceed the amount we can generate from on-demand, dispatchable power, so we will be relying on #renewables to keep the lights on.”

But rather than fix the grid, #Republicans spent their time in the #Texas legislature trying to block renewable #energy:
https://www.texasobserver.org/88th-session-texas-legislature-lgbtq-energy-schools/

#environment #infrastructure #ClimateChange #TXlege #politics #news #USpol #OilAndGas


Gender-affirming care—for ADULTS—is now predictably under attack in #Texas. This is part of a Republican plan of genocide underway against #trans people. We need cis allies to be loud and angry on our behalf. Pay attention, this doesn't end here or with us:

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/25/transgender-health-care-legislature/ via @texastribune

#LGBTQIA+ #transgender #transphobia #HumanRights #Healthcare #news #Politics #TXlege #USpol #gender


”Employees are expected to comply with this dress code in a manner consistent with their biological #gender.”—#Texas Department of #Agriculture memorandum

Ag Dept employees received an unwelcome surprise in a new dress code issued last week that seems aimed at oppressing #transgender and #nonbinary workers, reports Digital Editor Kit @oconnell based on a document leaked to us:
https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-department-agriculture-dress-code-transgender/

#transphobia #LGBTQIA+ #news #politics #USpol #trans #HumanRights #GregAbbott #Republicans


Join the fight for #Texas!

Our readers came together to save the Texas Observer after we almost went under. The crisis is over. But we need you to sustain us.

The Observer was born in 1954. Help us ensure we're still here in 2054: https://texasobserver.org/join/

#TexasNeedsAnObserver


Important #SaveTXO update: We now have a GoFundMe that is LIVE and accepting donations!

This money will go to support the staff, but donations will also go a long way towards showing that there's a will to keep this magazine alive. https://www.gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texas-observer-journalists-and-staff

#SaveTXO #journalism #Nonprofit #Texas


Texas state Sen. Creighton has filed a bill to prohibit all public colleges and universities in Texas from granting tenure.

If SB 18 passed, it would affect employees who start after Sept. 1, 2023. The bill is one of Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s top priorities.

#Texas #HigherEd


1836. When Texas declared independence from Mexico after Mexico outlawed slavery, the early government was so devoted to slavery and to white supremacy that they wrote it down, explicitly and at length, in the constitution of the new republic.

To teach students a race-blind history of Texas is simply to lie to them.

#Texas #WhiteSupremacy


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Hello all! I have newly arrived from the wilds of Twitter and am trying to find my people. I am a reporter and I post about #journalism #texas #deathpenalty and the shitshows that are #prisons.

And sometimes I pose in cemeteries in front of hearses.

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