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Beyond Juneteenth: "Now is a good time to talk about Black history in Texas, and an even better time to cut through the myths and get to the ugly facts."
Featured story, from @candicebernd.bsky.social: The drought-stricken City of Corpus Christi is withholding how much water a controversial cryptocurrency mine is siphoning away from surrounding residents.
From @collinsreports.bsky.social: The USDA is effectively trying to create a no-fly zone in South Texas. But despite the surge of state and federal resources, the screwworm problem may prove difficult to squash.
“Human beings, regardless of their race, want to live their lives without restriction. Juneteenth is about a spirit of renewal that celebrates freedom and opportunity.”
To understand Juneteenth, one must visit Galveston, its birthplace:
"Maroon communities throughout Texas, Louisiana, and other places were brought here for [their] knowledge; they were able to take it into these landscapes and continue to figure it out. And they also exchanged knowledge with Indigenous people."
From Dalyah Jones: "So I think that’s the message for us, especially today: that we got to go from the plantation to the thicket. It’s gonna be tough, but we gotta take action. "
Top story: “I wish somebody would really investigate. Because I want to know who took my brother’s life. Who had the nerve to take him.”
Laredo isn’t as widely known as the Big Bend for its history and natural beauty, but it’s one of the oldest cities in Texas, and the Rio Grande as it winds through South Texas is unlike anywhere else in the state.
From @emilymarkwiese.bsky.social: “We’re saying to the city, we should not treat neighbors who happen to be migrants trying to make a better life here like hardened criminals. We should not shackle them together and put them on shadow flights.”
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Freedom in Texas was achieved both after—and before—formal emancipation.
“The history of Juneteenth shows that Texas, more than any state in the Union, has always embodied nearly every major aspect of the United States of America.”
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Amid its water crisis, the city declined to supply public records on the Bitcoin mine's usage, citing a state law that allows nondisclosure of an individual customer’s account.
Texas was the last state to receive the news that slavery had ended.
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Activists are tracking and trying to pressure the city over the use of its municipal airport for deportation flights, as visitors from around the world flood in.
"A lot of the same arguments for why you wouldn't build it in Big Bend are the exact same arguments for why you wouldn't build it in Laredo," say opponents of the wall, as local officials have sought…
