I count at least 50 Texas DPS troopers. They all have batons. Some of them have zip ties

While we are grateful for this recognition, the two year anniversary of the shooting is upon us, yet families continue to fight what they see as a lack of accountability as news orgs, including ours, battle the state/city to release basic records. 

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Honored to be awarded the Collier Prize for government accountability for our team’s Uvalde reporting & hope that it keeps attention on the devastating failures that day, the warnings they should send every community, & the lack of accountability & transparency 2 years later. 🧵

Overwhelmed to see @texastribune honored alongside ProPublica FRONTLINE for amazing #Uvalde reporting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Biggest congrats to lomikriel Lexi Churchill Zach Despart Perla Trevizo #txlege

CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST ALL UT STUDENTS.

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Yale faculty to Yale administration: hands off our students.

The Daily Princetonian Editorial Board urges Princeton to “cease student arrests” and “refrain from expelling students for simply engaging in prolonged protest,” and to “instead follow its tradition of productive dialogue with protesters.” dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/0…

“Who failed Uvalde? DPS.” Quite the chant at UT Austin yesterday as Texas DPS arrested student protestors. (DPS had the most police at Uvalde, 91, after CBP, which had about 200.) Only a handful of DPS have been disciplined for their inaction at Robb. texastribune.org/2024/03/29/uva…

#Breaking : Charges dismissed against 46 people arrested during pro-Palestinian protest at UT Austin. Story by Andrew England Weber.

kut.org/crime-justice/… #atx #UT #HookEm #txlege

UT Austin published this video for Free Speech Week 6 mos ago.

Q: Why can members of the public come to campus at any time and engage in demonstrations

A: State law in Texas allows members of the public...to come onto campus and use our common outdoor areas for speech activity

Reminder: Abbott’s “invasion” rhetoric & his extreme border policies further the often antisemitic “great replacement” conspiracy theory

Abbott champions anti-immigrant SB4 law, pushed by org with close ties to neo-Nazi

(Receipts: justsecurity.org/91700/the-bide…)

#txlege

This is how Texas Department of Public Safety troopers dealt with a member of the local media in Austin today. The cameraman works for Fox 7 Austin.

This is how amped up troopers were, in a crowd of students.

The freedom to protest is integral to our democracy.

UT Austin students have a First Amendment right to freely express their political opinions — without threats of arrest and violence.

If you or someone you know needs legal support, call the Austin Lawyers Guild: 512-817-4254

I helped organize an unpermitted walkout and rally in front of the Tower in 2003 to protest the Iraq War. The police were never this heavy-handed.

This has gotten exponentially more violent and out of control since DPS began dispersing protestors. At least 5 arrested now. Watch:

An absolute bombshell. Alameda County prosecutors allegedly kept Black people and Jews off juries in murder cases, believing they would not convict if the death penalty was in play.

Now dozens of capital cases from prior decades must be reviewed.

oaklandside.org/2024/04/22/ala…

According to Prof. David Pozen, Columbia’s crackdown on student protesters may have been within the formal bounds of law, but disrupted a speech-protective and peacekeeping norm since 1968. balkin.blogspot.com/2024/04/norm-b…

Very unimpressed with Texas Tribune fundraising plea to help 'elevate stories of people most affected by our border policies' & 'strengthen TX-MX border journalism' w new hires

TT laid off veteran reporters covering Operation Lone Star & TX race/power dynamics last year 😒😒

New: Mexico's Foreign Affairs Secretary Alicia Bárcena pens an op-ed in the Dallas Morning News saying that #SB4 'threatens to jeopardize the entirety of Mexico’s cooperative relationship with Texas.'

dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…

“I would like to say that everything has changed and winning the World Cup gives us more things, but no. I can’t say that” 🇪🇸

2023 Ballon d’Or Aitana Bonmatí speaks about a lack of change in Spain despite winning a World Cup trophy 🏆