Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) is hosting a free in-person workshop with legal experts who will help explain basic renters’ rights and laws. Staff will be available to help, and you can join them on July 24th, 6:00 PM at Mission Library, 3134 Roosevelt Ave, 78214 🏘️

Math is hard.

And to keep the housing that is already supporting vulnerable neighbors, we need massive reform at the Building Standards Board. Stop demolishing the homes of our neighbors Jalen McKee-Rodriguez 🩷 . Remove Evelyn Brown from the BSB

The lives of 17 people who were killed in recent years by law enforcement in San Antonio will be remembered this Saturday in Milam Park. sanantonioreport.org/activists-vict…

I don’t think it’s ever been clearer just how much work we have to do to rebuild an actual society.

San Antonio police say an officer shot and killed a man during a struggle over a gun. Neighbors dispute that, saying the man's hand were behind his back at the time. ksat.com/news/local/202…

Nothing like having Judge Peter Sakai and his staff literally steamroll and push off a family asking for answers for their family member who died in Bexar County Jail. Disgusting!

"May her memory be for a revolution." ❤ Read this beautiful reflection about Sam by Jenny Nathan Simoneaux. ⬇️ nu-detroit.com/sam-woll-chang…

wrapped up grading the first semester and got a new nameplate, now it’s official

I have heard these strange squeaky, whistling, peeping sounds in Austin for years. This year I finally resolved to do a story on what they are. Chirping frogs! These tiny frogs are all over, but I had never actually seen one... 1/ kut.org/energy-environ…

❗️The Supreme Court just ruled to make it easier to jail or fine unhoused people for sleeping outside, even when adequate shelter or housing isn’t available. This will only make homelessness worse. Housing - not tickets, jail, or fines - ends homelessness.

Paying cops’ rent on top of their salary for arresting people for not being able to afford homes is phenomenally sinister

Councilman Marc Whyte asked Chief McManus to confirm the notion that law enforcement says a curfew can assist with public safety at Hemisfair Park. The Police Chief says there’s no data that shows there’s a public safety issue in the area and went on to say a curfew at Hemisfair

Excellent reporting on inhumane treatment of unhoused neighbors. Not only is seizing and destroying property cruel, its unconstitutional. This is happening on a massive scale in San Antonio. City council put millions of dollars into illegal sweeps and will do even more in 2025

Barack Obama won 28 Texas counties in 2008 and 26 in 2012. Hillary Clinton won 27 in 2016. Joe Biden won 22 in 2020. Kamala Harris won 12 in 2024. #txlege #tx2024

THREAD. A little good news about the importance of civil rights lawyers, especially in times of rising authoritarianism.