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"GOP state leaders have for years engaged in an expanding war on local control—aimed at big blue cities—in favor of state supremacy. But that ideological shift now has local Republicans finding that they, too, have fallen prey to that crusade."
Big leopards eating faces energy
NEW: I went inside one Texas county's data center boom—and backlash—to report on how the state GOP's data center divide will shape the next legislative session.
Bonus scooplet: I got into a local meeting with a state senator working to draft a data center bill.
www.texasobserver.org/data-center-...
Jesse Rizo, uncle to a 9-year-old lost in the Uvalde shooting: “If I was having a conversation with somebody that’s thinking about voting for Herrera or for somebody that extreme, I would caution that person: You never know when it’s going to affect you.” www.texasobserver.org/brandon-herr...
In rural areas like Caldwell County, local Republican officials and citizens are scrambling to find ways to empower counties and slow AI-fueled development.
The Texas data center boom has exposed a growing intra-GOP tension over local control, between hamstrung and wary county officials and pro-state supremacy, pro-uninhibited growth state leaders. www.texasobserver.org/data-center-...
“Governor Abbott could call [a special session] tomorrow. He has chosen not to. I mean … we have special sessions over who can use which restroom, but we don’t have a special session for this.”
Kit O'Connell (🏳️🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽)
New today: "When we have immigration detention and immigration arrests, mass deportation, the result of that is going to be parents without children and children without parents."
As Republicans seek to wring another five House seats out of Texas in their desperate bid to hold on to the chamber in November, the 23rd wasn’t a district they planned on worrying about. But now, both sides see a battleground.
In rural areas like Caldwell County, local Republican officials and citizens are scrambling to find ways to empower counties and slow AI-fueled development.
New from @gaigedavila.bsky.social: "Now, general immigration practice has become habeas corpus. Because for your client to get out of detention, to fight their case out of detention, you have to win a habeas case in most instances."
Justin Miller
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On his YouTube channel, Brandon Herrera has discussed the relative merits of weapons used in mass shootings and made light of political violence. He’s now on a glide path to the U.S. House.
Great work here from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: www.texasobserver.org/brandon-herr...
On his YouTube channel, Brandon Herrera has discussed the relative merits of weapons used in mass shootings and made light of political violence. He’s now on a glide path to the U.S. House.
In rural areas like Caldwell County, local Republican officials and citizens are scrambling to find ways to empower counties and slow AI-fueled development.
The revival of the Dilley detention center and a scorched-earth approach to immigration arrests has led advocates to embrace a novel strategy rooted in old law.
New, from @unclecrizzle.bsky.social in our magazine: This March marked one year since veteran Dallas journalist Robert Wilonsky returned to the Dallas Morning News as a city columnist.
He didn’t have to come back. Here's why he couldn't stay away from the city and the work he loves ...
The revival of the Dilley detention center and a scorched-earth approach to immigration arrests has led advocates to embrace a novel strategy rooted in old law.
New, from @unclecrizzle.bsky.social in our magazine: This March marked one year since veteran Dallas journalist Robert Wilonsky returned to the Dallas Morning News as a city columnist.
He didn’t have to come back. Here's why he couldn't stay away from the city and the work he loves ...
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As an actual Texas abortion rights reporter (and lifelong Texan) I assure you this take is severely flawed. Not only does it underestimate the popularity of abortion rights, it reinforces the centrist fallacy of acquiescing to Republicans to gain power –– reality shows "compromises" do not work.
Meet the veteran Dallas newspaperman and devoted follower of “the religion of righteousness and truth-telling.”
“Texas Democrats’ failure to calibrate on abortion serves as a microcosm for what’s happened to abortion politics in the party writ large,” the journalist Zaid Jilani writes.
