*Texas governor voice*

The buck stops anywhere but with me, because I'm just a little guy

Folks, I've just learned about this thing called the inexorable march of time

Incredible.

Pro-Palestinian protesters at Xavier commencement face felony charges for wearing face coverings, under an 1889 Ohio law that was targeted at Klan members.

Hamilton County has no record of any prior charges using the law, Cameron Knight reports: cincinnati.com/story/news/cri…

While Texas schools struggle with a huge budget deficits, Spectrum News 1 Texas has discovered that millions of Texas education tax dollars are being diverted out of state to the series of charter schools founded by #HISD ’s state appointed Supt. Mike Miles.

New: CHP isn’t supposed to aim less-lethal munitions at protesters’ heads and fire into crowds. It did at UCLA.

We found at least 25 instances in which officers appeared to aim their weapons at the eye-level of protesters or fired them into crowds.

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Abbott's tenure as Governor is old enough to beat you at Fortnite and the age of Republican single party control in Texas is old enough to drink but somehow Abbott thinks he isn't responsible for the school budget crisis

🧵: Public Safety comm. was briefed on Dallas Police Dept. upcoming AI facial recognition program. The company they hired has faced criticism / a class-action lawsuit on how it built its database of now over 40+ Billion facial images.

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From the Daily Dispatch: Texas Observer's steven monacelli exposes a scheme by Princeton ISD in Collin County to establish its own private school voucher program. If it's allowed, right-leaning ISD's will certainly replicate. Podcast: tinyurl.com/3p7thdcb
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'You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension'

Unfortunately I am able to comprehend the horrors, which are not good

A point I wanted to highlight in my interview: When I think about the suburbs, ofc I'm thinking about Houston

Previously: A new coalition of Christian nationalist groups, the Remnant Alliance, is mobilizing congregations to take over Texas school boards. Several leaders of the coalition are members of the Council on National Policy. buff.ly/3KgSc9T

Tarrant County GOP chair says he and State Rep. Nate Schatzline recently stood against 'hordes of racial activists' who criticized Republican elected officials. He seems concerned that some of the critics work at one church. Interesting juxtaposition to my recent reporting.

Very interesting to hear the chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party describe an LGBTQ+ friendly church as a part of 'evil forces' for which he hopes to make the county 'inhospitable'

One of the UCLA attackers identified as 'pro-Israel counterprotesters' also 'took part in several demonstrations over the past year where he was photographed making Nazi salutes. His social media history is rife with antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ+ posts.' theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they’re part of a right-wing plan.

I wrote about the broader autocratic project exploiting fears for “Jewish safety” in ⁦⁦The Guardian⁩. theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

People in Dallas can fix every large issue almost overnight if they cared and had the willpower to spend a little of their money. Very interesting place.