#Texas#AnimalRescue > As a result of severe storms that ravaged parts of #Houston, Houston SPCA had taken in almost 100 displaced or injured wild #animals.
SPCA officials expected the surge of #animal intakes to last for a few days as cleanup efforts continued.
The titular character of Daniel Chacon's new short story collection, The Last Philosopher in Texas: Fictions and Superstitions, came to him as he was walking his dog in Pecos, the windblown West #Texas town where his father once lived. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-chicano-time-traveler/
Massive #thunderstorm swept from central #texas through #houston at 70+ MPH last evening, knocking out power towers. Not telephone polls. Big, metal towers. Trees & telephone polls widely downed. Massive lightning and #tornado risks.
Numerous broken windows in downtown skyscrapers. Nearly a million people without power, perhaps for days. Basically everything cancelled. For days?! #galveston also slammed.
I like how this article about why Austin didn't end up being the second tech hub skips the laws discriminating against women in the form of anti-abortion laws. Like 50% of potential employees were risking their lives in moving to the state, but maybe it was the power outage that did it in.
A #GrandJury found probable cause. A #Jury of his peers found him guilty. #GregAbbott the #Governor of #Texas told them all to go fuck them selves.
What a bunch of bullshit.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott granted a full pardon to Daniel Perry, a man convicted of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester in downtown Austin in 2020, after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously recommended the move. Perry claimed during the trial that he shot Garrett Foster, who was carrying an AK-47 rifle, in self-defense. Prosecutors argued Perry was seeking out the confrontation. Read more from USA Today.
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued a full pardon Thursday to a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#breaking#breakingnews#Texas
“The #Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Thursday recommended a full pardon for a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice” https://apnews.com/article/4b1d0c54b0de451642bcf1e8cd75a7e5
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While the Texas GOP’s ongoing destruction of public education may seem ideological, it’s worth looking past the culture war smokescreen. It’s simpler than that. The people doing it are pouring state money into their own pockets.
Courtney Gore, the co-host of a right-wing online talk show, won a seat on a Texas school board on the basis that she would undo leftist indoctrination and get rid of educational materials with inappropriate messages about sexuality and race. Then she took office and actually read the curriculum, finding that the subject matter simply taught children “how to be a good friend, a good human.” The Texas Tribune talked to her about why she ran for office, what she thinks is behind the push to take over school boards, and the backlash she's faced since speaking out against the ultra-right element of the Republican party.