TX GOP showing their authoritarian tendencies ...
"Freedom" on their terms.

Flood response is so important to Abbott and the TX GOP that the first Daily House Calendar has redistricting up for a second reading. #TXLege capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/...

Fort Worth Rep. Collier refuses to leave Texas House, protesting state trooper escorts Texas Democrat Nicole Collier said she won't sign "permission slip" to leave the chamber, which would require accepting round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers.

Solidarity with pro-worker champion Rep. Nicole Collier – we've got your back! 🔥 #txlege

Texas Republican lawmakers may “financially handcuff” cities that don’t play by their rules One proposal would allow the attorney general to sue cities and freeze sales tax revenues for up to 90 days.

New this morning: Texas GOP lawmakers may enact stiff financial penalties for cities & counties that adopt progressive policies

The proposal's among a slate of bills aimed at stopping local officials from pursuing those policies www.texastribune.org/2025/05/05/t... @texastribune.org #txlege

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

www.propublica.org/article/texa...
A first-of-its-kind analysis by ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021.

4️⃣ Finally, let's finish with Mansfield: bsky.app/profile/tani...

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races.

And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards.

I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

Officials Play “Accountability Ping Pong” With Jail Deaths in Texas - Bolts A bipartisan push for jail oversight comes after a North Texas sheriff flouted state law mandating independent investigations of deaths on his watch.

A 40-year-old man died from dehydration after being detained for more than two months inside the Tarrant County jail in Texas, he was one of at least three people with documented mental illness to die of thirst in the jail’s custody in recent years.

CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago.

Way to go RFK and Republicans. 😡

This is why ICE agents should be prosecuted. Secret police who refuse to identify themselves are no police at all. They give those subject to their orders no way to distinguish them from criminals except taking the word of a random masked thug. The courts need to be invoked to clarify this.

Gov. Greg Abbott signs 'Texas DOGE' bill into law The bill creates an efficiency office to streamline Texas regulations, reduce unnecessary rules and improve public access to regulatory information.

An actual quote from the article:

“Republicans have controlled all aspects of Texas politics for more than two decades, but Abbott said the new office is not a sign Republicans have mismanaged the state for the past 20 years.”

😂🤣😂 #txlege

"In Texas, the largest state to ban abortion, the trend is most pronounced: In 2022, the first full year Texas had outlawed most abortions, pregnancy-related deaths went up by 56 percent" #txlege

Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social lays out his amendment to allow Texans to have a say in the voucher debate, and put the issue on the ballot for Texas voters to decide.

If Greg Abbott is so confident that Texans want his voucher scam, why is he too cowardly to let them vote on it? #txlege (1/2)

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

We found the voter fraud!!!!!

Rs have the majority and can pass that on their own.
Why blame Ds??

Alan shouldn’t be a cop either. He missed all the evidence that was right there in front of his face.

D-Plano

More bg on the impetus for Phil King's Bill Waybourn Protection Act (SB 781) at the #txlege. If you don't intend to reduce the number of tragic and unnecessary jail deaths, apparently the next best thing is to make information about them secret.

New Texas program to redistribute wealth to the wealthy. #txlege

Describing funds allocated for public and private education by the Texas Legislature

In other #txlege news, they are actively defunding our public schools and funneling that money to private (Christian) education. We are living in a theocracy in Texas.