Texas women's basketball (Texas Women's Basketball) is ranked #4 and has their opening game today. It's not on the radio and the live feed on SECN+ has no announcers. At at time when women's basketball viewership is at all time high, it seems like a shame that UT Austin is moving backwards...

It appears that this is the man that Trump will tap to lead the largest deportation force in history.... huffpost.com/entry/thomas-h…

This is interesting to me, given the narrative... And San Diego County's vote is only 3/4 in. Obviously a huge swing towards Trump, but the border as a whole is much more Democratic than the rest of the country

The prison profiteers are celebrating

Elon Musk once fired someone at Twitter for not laughing at his 69 joke, so let's just say his staffing decisions are not exactly going to be high quality.

Tom Homan was picked as Trump's next border czar. Before the election, Homan ran Border 911, a non-profit that started out as part of The America Project, an org founded by serial election deniers: Patrick Byrne and Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. texasobserver.org/border-911-mis…

I've watched Texas' treatment of immigrants devolve to depths I couldn't imagine a decade ago. But even I'm unprepared for the wanton cruelty to immigrant children we are going to see in 2025...

Some rare good news in my email: Great to see Gus Bova 🗒️ named the permanent editor-in-chief of the critically important Texas Observer!

Going to try to make the migration: bsky.app/profile/blibal…

Joe Biden should not hand the keys to a mass deportation machine to Donald Trump. Take action, President Donald J. Trump!

The people who profit from incarceration of human beings are feeling great right now. If you need another reason to get involved in fighting this administration, here's a good one.

Austin run-off early voting starts today! I strongly recommend folks vote for: ✅ Mike Siegel for ATX City Council, D7 ✅ Fernando de Urioste for AISD Board Polls are open 7am-7pm. Early voting runs through Dec. 9th. Election day is Dec. 14 votetravis.gov/current-electi…

Today is the last day to EARLY vote in Travis County run-off. Get out and support Mike Siegel for Austin City Council D7 and Fernando de Urioste for AISD board today! You can vote at any of these locations until 7pm. votetravis.gov/current-electi…

Today (Saturday) is an important run-off election day in Austin. Get out and support progressive candidates Mike Siegel for Austin City Council D7 and Fernando de Urioste for AISD board! You can vote at any of these locations until 7pm. votetravis.gov/current-electi…

Buried in this excellent Francesca D'Annunzio Texas Observer story, a revelation that incoming border czar wears a Punisher skull on his windbreaker. The Punisher skull has been by some law enforcement to show support for right-wing vigilante justice. texasobserver.org/border-spendin…

Important piece from the Austin Statesman today. Commercial vehicle roadside inspections — important tools to keep highways safe — have plummeted since Gov. Abbott deployed hundreds of highway patrol officers to his troubled border program Operation Lone Star statesman.com/story/news/sta…

New from me and @HRW: Vehicle pursuits by TX troopers and local law enforcement have killed at least 106 people and injured 301 in counties participating in Texas’ Operation Lone Star. hrw.org/news/2025/02/1…

Quite a scandal: Biden was prepared to spend a few hundred thousand dollars on Teslas for the State Department, and the Trump administration altered that to $400 million, then back-dated the records to make it look like Biden did it. State canceled the contract after

"Musk is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the taxpayers’ coffers." washingtonpost.com/technology/int…