[neo-noir set in texas]
the dame walked into my office, she had a face like the alamo. i could never forget it
A California doctor has asked a federal judge to rule that a Texas law allowing private citizens to sue abortion providers on behalf of the state is unconstitutional and dismiss the first lawsuit filed under it reut.rs/4sz60jr
Wired headline: MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president.
👀 “If you cannot look at this story and use critical thinking skills and have at least some questions, you are the problem and we need you to snap out of it."
- Trisha Hope, a GOP national delegate from Texas & former Trump supporter
🫣😂
www.wired.com/story/maga-i...
This appears to be old guard dead-enders who are mad about various changes Kendall has made, too afraid to put their names on the letter, all while he's filed a candidate in every major legislative race in Texas for the first time. This is stupid.
In Texas, advocates are demanding the release of a longtime court interpreter and the only licensed Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu interpreter in the state, who was detained by ICE last month. Meenu Batra has lived in the U.S. for over 35 years.
Her attorneys fear Batra could be deported to a country she has no ties to, under Trump’s so-called third country agreements. Batra has spoken out against the inhumane conditions of her detention at the El Valle ICE jail in Raymondville, Texas.
Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has threatened to cut about $200 million in public safety funding to Houston, Dallas and Austin if their local law enforcement agencies refuse to collaborate with ICE in the arrest and detention of immigrants over minor infractions such as traffic stops.
this is a compelling case for clemency — where, as the linked documentary explains, someone else has come forward to confess to the crime for which Broadnax is condemned to death in Texas, with an execution date of April 30 — and his fate is in Greg Abbott’s hands
www.jamesbroadnax.org
YIKES.
"Thirty-six Texas Democrats — including a congressional candidate, a former Texas House member and former party staffers —are urging Kendall Scudder to forgo reelection as chair of the Texas Democratic Party..."
www.texastribune.org/2026/04/17/t...
Really pretty west Texas moss agate cab I finished today. This one has a more bluish chalcedony mixed with the golden moss. Gold colored sterling silver wrap. #bluewizardrocks #lapidary #cabochon #jewelry
One of the greatest pieces of writing is the first chapter of Path to Power by Robert Caro where he details the life of people in the Pedernales River Texas c.1900 He and his wife lived there to recreate the backbreaking life they led, one of unremitting hardship. The past sucked.
texas taking away smokeable thc to just let us have it again. TO TAKE IT AWAY AGAIN ???
May 2026
archive.ph/Rchvy
Sam Altman’s Stargate datacenter in Abilene, Texas, will be “roughly the size of New York’s Central Park," while OpenAI’s Project Jupiter in New Mexico could be larger still. Amazon and Anthropic are developing Project Rainier on 1,200 acres outside Indiana.
They started the fight. Texas. Florida. North Carolina. Gerrymandered maps, rigged districts, stolen seats.
Virginia can answer back — but only on April 21.
Early voting is open NOW. Show up.
#VoteYesForVirginiaLive
Two Texas pregnant women have died because of delay of care and the state medical board is sanctioning 3 ER doctors for it. Hmm, could it have something to do with their drastic, stupid and inhumane strict abortion laws 🤔
Meenu Batra is the only Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu court interpreter in Texas. She had spent most of her life in Texas, working and raising her kids. ICE detained her despite having humanitarian protection.
Batra has lived in Texas “since 2002, and has worked as a court interpreter for more than 20 years. She is the state’s only licensed interpreter for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu, according to the Texas Observer, the first outlet to report on Batra’s detention.”
Image of the Deep Sea Princess mascot for the Deep Sea DTX event in #Dallas , #Texas #Art
🌊🐛 Introducing the mascot for Deep Sea DTX!
After meeting Scuttle on his cosmic journey, this Deep Sea Princess has decided to call Dallas, TX her new home! Please welcome her and her loyal sea slugs!
With the newest addition to the Texas Splatoon family, what should we name her?
#CompSplatoon
lot of Texas Republicans and Republican supporting groups, like Texas Restaurant Association, were just fine with Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric and ugly state policies
Now, they're getting fucked by the reality of mass deportation - that Trump told them was coming
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
I finally received my Texas Voter Registration Card almost 2 months after the Texas Primary and a month before the May 26th Runoff. Rethugs are really serious about upending the midterms.
#GovAbbott is punishing San Antonio because it is a blue city 🤬
Texas wasn't the target of ICE's blue-state aggression. Tell that to the Texas restaurant industry ICE just gutted. Cruz and Cornyn: crickets.
Free article!
When I visited Larry McMurtry's bookstore in remote Texas, he told me what's below. I've always loved that he (delusionally but righteously) called 150,000 books "manageable." I think about my own (modest!) collection's eventual fate semi-frequently. 1/2
If you like bats at all, and are ever in Texas in high summer (🪦), try to see the bats emerge from Bracken Cave near San Antonio. It claims the largest bat colony in the world. One of the best nature experiences of my life. I've gone three times, even though the weather is hellish.
A lot of reasons to be skeptical about this Texas poll, but even if a fraction of this is true it’s not hard to see why National R’s don’t want Paxton