Texas is keeping a list of trans people; no one will say why
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/texas-is-tracking-trans-drivers-who-try-to-change-their-licenses-gender-markers/

* data going to mysterious email account
* m/w Texas Republicans criminalizing trans identities

#TransLivesMatter
#USpol #Trump #GOP #fascism #Christofascism #transgenocide #GregAbbott #KenPaxton

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-maternal-mortality-analysis-methodology

#Abortion #Texas #GregAbbott #KenPaxton #GOPKillers #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Out today at Austin Free Press: Respected UT professor Richard Heyman was arrested and lost his job after an altercation with police at a protest for #Palestine last year. Newly released video shows the Texas state trooper deliberately shoving Heyman multiple times. https://austinfreepress.org/days-of-rage/

#Austin #education #UTAustin #news #politics #USpol #GregAbbott #protest #activism

Boycott Texas.

Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna195642

#TransRights #HumanRights #Texas #GregAbbott #USPol

“Rank favoritism, such as a sole-source award to a contractor who is a major donor to the governor, leads past waste to outright #corruption, for the motivation of the award is not the bid’s economy but the governor’s campaign treasury.” https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-operation-lone-star-contractors-bonanza/

#politics #USpol #border #immigration #GregAbbott #Texas #TXlege police #HumanRights #news

“Eighty-eight percent of us identify as women. Seventy-nine percent of us are people of color. We don’t get any sick leave. We have no health care benefits, and so this is the population of workers that we’re talking about. This is definitely a woman’s issue.”

Over at @deceleration, I interviewed an organizer with a caretakers' and personal attendants' group who are demanding fair wages for their often physically demanding work caring for the #disabled. Also included was legendary #disability rights organizer Bob Kafka of ADAPT of #Texas. Together, they discussed how they're preparing for #Trump and the Texas lege: https://deceleration.news/disability-rights-texas-bob-kafka/

#TXlege #HumanRights #politics #USpol #news #activism #TXlege #DonaldTrump #GregAbbott #workers #labor #accessibility

AOC may have shifted to the center, but the Democrats aren’t ready for change https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/aoc-centrist-politics-democrats-change #AlexandriaOcasio-Cortez #HouseofRepresentatives #GisèlePelicotrapetrial #Israel-Gazawar #USimmigration #Mentalhealth #Alzheimer's #USpolitics #IvoryCoast #GregAbbott #Democrats #Worldnews #Feminism #ElonMusk #Society #USnews #Gender #Health #Women #Texas