"The #water in our rivers is over-allocated and under-protected. And with all this growth, there’s tremendous pressure to push environmental needs to the side." https://www.texasobserver.org/staying-afloat/
As one of the worst heat waves on record set in across the southern United States this summer, authorities and activists in South Texas found themselves embroiled in a mystery in this arid region near the border with Mexico.
Barrels of life-saving water that a human rights group had strategically placed for wayward migrants traveling on foot had vanished.
Apparently, right wing Christians are really the devil incarnate! #News#GOP#Texas
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
A Texas A&M Regent says "McElroy’s hiring would derail the “purpose” outlined for the journalism program: “to get high-quality Aggie journalists with conservative values into the market.”
Tell me again how liberals are controlling university values? /s
While Texas has rules for keeping animals cool, they have no rules for humans!
Across Texas, in prisons that have no cooling systems, up to 100,000 incarcerated people are baking in concrete and metal cells that act as heat traps. Inside temperatures are estimated to rise regularly above 115F (46C), and have even been recorded to reach as high as 149F, pushing individuals to the point of mental or physical breakdown, or even death. #News#Texas
Today, freshman Congressman Greg Casar hosted a vigil and day-long thirst strike at the United States Capitol in efforts to push for federal guarantees of water breaks for workers.
This comes weeks after Republican Greg Abbott signed the “Death Star” preemption bill, eliminating water-breaks for construction works and weakening other worker protections instilled by local governments. #News#GOP#Politics#USA#Texas#AureFreePress
In-N-Out said the decision to ban masks was to highlight employees "smiles and other facial features while considering the health and well-being of all individuals.”
Officers working for GOP Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as “inhumane.” #News#GOP#Politics#USA#Desantis#Texas