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We all lose at this dance contest: Vouchers become subsidies for families who had already decided to pay for private school, at the expense of public schools that must serve all students.
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Trump's pick for top drug enforcer, Derek Maltz, formerly worked at PenLink, a Nebraska-based tech firm that has sold software that can track phone locations without a warrant to agencies like ICE and Texas DPS.
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Who wins and who loses with vouchers? PTA president Lenora Boulton interrogates the sinister profit motive behind dismantling Texas public schools.
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“When I meet with lawmakers to try to convince them not to support policies that take away my daughter’s medical care ... I ask them to pray with me. My hope is to show that lawmakers who weaponize my own faith against my family don’t speak for me.”
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As Republicans made bigoted rhetoric a key part of their campaign strategy, there were at least three assaults, six bomb threats and 30 protests against LGBTQ+ events last year according to the nonprofit GLAAD.
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Death penalty experts refer to people who forego part of their appeals to expedite their executions as “volunteers.” 39 people executed in Texas since the 1980s have sought to fast-track their executions. At times, Richard Tabler wants to be one of them.
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“Christians have been tempted by—what do we call it?—I guess the siren song of power.” Our top story: Religious scholar David Brockman on the hypocrisy of conservative Christians who now support ICE agents raiding churches and other sacred places.
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“So many in Texas have lived or are living in this uncertain state of undetermined status. I, too, have known what job insecurity looks like.” From 2022: To celebrate the finale of "Mo" on Netflix, we revisit this essay on the first season by Nguyên Lê.
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Featured story: Over 72 hours, Austin police reported more than 70 overdose calls. Records from Travis County and neighboring Williamson County indicate that as many as 12 may have died. The culprit: a bad batch of crack cocaine.
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The ALERT Desk, a hate tracking project from the nonprofit @GLAAD, logged 918 anti-LGBTQ+ incidents nationwide last year, of which 61 took place in our state. Only New York, with 61, and California, with 125, had as many or more hate incidents.
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“I am a former private school teacher, a sixth-generation Texan, a graduate of K-12 public education, and the mother of three public-school children, and I oppose SB2, legislation that would create publicly funded savings accounts for private schools.”
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RT @IDRAedu: Texas state lawmakers are doing what we call the Texas Three Step💃, an effort to defund, demonize, and privatize our public sc…
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RT @LiseDigger: Full house for discussion of #sheriffs and #democracy w @JessPish & @francescadannun at Alienated Majesty #book in #ATX…
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RT @drdrbrockman: In light of the president's hypocritical EO re "anti-Christian bias," I was recently spoke with @TexasObserver about the…
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Death penalty update, via @MichellePitcher: During his more than 15 years on death row, Richard Tabler alternately fought for his right to appeal and asked for death. His execution is now scheduled for February 13.
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“Many, many of the people involved in influencing policy in Washington D.C. are not registered as lobbyists. The most important people tend not to be registered as lobbyists.”
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From our magazine: My husband was supposed to have arrived in Mexicali on the U.S.-Mexico border by the time I woke up, but his location on WhatsApp showed: ‘‘Last seen today at 09:22 a.m.”—on a remote desert highway connecting Tijuana to Mexicali.
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Learn to dance the “Texas Three-Step,” and you too will be able to defund, demonize, and privatize public schools.
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Our top story: “One of the things that I grieve about is that what we see here is a kind of echo of other shameful episodes in Christianity’s past: the Crusades, antisemitic pogroms in Europe, biblical defenses of American slavery by Christians.”
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Among dozens of troubling incidents in 2024, the hate-tracking project of the nonprofit @glaad documented a wave of bomb threats linked to anti-LGBTQ+ influencer Libs of TikTok, including several targeting Texas locations of the Planet Fitness gym chain.
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