A Texas judge has granted a pregnant woman permission to get an abortion, an unprecedented challenge to the state's ban triggered by the fall of Roe v. Wade last year.
#FuckCars folks in #Texas needed to provide online public comment on plans to double the number of lanes on US 54 between Stratford and the Oklahoma state line.
“The only cars left in the Ward were wheelless hulks in backyards ... Only suburban people or rich folks had cars anymore—and those were all shiny, hyperway-compatible electrical vehicles.”
A new exhibit at the Houston Holocaust Museum is taking a look at the travel guides that Black road-trippers used to help them navigate safe spaces in the Jim Crow South.
PragerU announced that their videos had been approved for use in Texas classrooms, but after a flashy announcement video featuring a state board of education member, the chair of the Texas Board of Education denied that any materials had been approved.
Today in Labor History August 23, 1917: The Camp Logan Mutiny. After months of harassment by Houston cops, including ongoing arrests and beatings, 156 Black soldiers mutinied. They opened fire in Houston, killing 5 cops and 11 white civilians. 4 mutineers also died in the gun battle. The military tried 64 of the soldiers for murder and mutiny. They executed 19 and sentenced 41 to life imprisonment. Latino author and lawyer Jaime Salazar wrote an account of the mutiny and courts martial in his book “Mutiny of Rage.”
Growing up, someone was always telling her that she wouldn’t be able to make a living by #writing, regardless of which kind of writing she did. “I said, ‘OK, but what if I do them all?’”
A prison guard said she was forced to work while she experienced labor pains. Now, Texas is fighting her lawsuit by saying her fetus didn't have the "right to life." | Via The Texas Tribune
A state judge issued a temporary exemption to Texas' abortion ban that would allow those with complicated pregnancies to obtain the procedure. Now, the Attorney General is appealing. | Via The Texas Tribune
NASA lab hopes to find life's building blocks in asteroid sample: A sample from the asteroid Bennu, which could be key to understanding the formation of the solar system and our own planet, is set to be analyzed at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston after it reaches Earth in late September. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-nasa-lab-life-blocks-asteroid.html