Out today: Feeding #Texas estimates that its 20 member banks have lost a total of $57.6 million in federal funding cuts, and that’s only in immediate canceled funding. But this could actually be on the low end of the potential impact range.
The Texas Observer
Trump’s Federal Cuts Are Hitting Texas Food Banks Hard
Food pantries in the Lone Star State have lost over $50 million in funding this year, with more projected cuts to come.
 #food #SNAP #Trump #poverty #Texas #politics #USpol #news
From @npub13uq8...vy6g: In February, the Texas Observer confirmed that James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an #ICE assistant chief counsel in #Dallas—operates a white supremacist X account. Now, ICE refuses to tell us, or members of Congress, if he's still employed.
The Texas Observer
ICE Still Won't Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account
Congressman Marc Veasey arrived at an ICE facility Monday in his latest attempt to follow up on the Observer's reporting.
 #Texas #NorthTexas #immigration #law #fascism #genocide #WhiteSupremacy #politics #USpol #news
Texas #workers have long struggled with wage theft by their employers—and the state’s unwillingness to crack down on scofflaw employers. Now, rates of suspected wage theft are increasing and the state #labor law enforcement system is straining to keep up.
The Texas Observer
Texas Can’t Keep Up with Surge in Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints
State labor investigators struggle to process more and more paycheck complaints, with millions of dollars in workers’ pay at stake.
 #law #politics #USpol #Texas #news #HumanRights #economy
After we broke the story of the #ICE lawyer with a white supremacist X account, no one seems to be able to tell us whether James Rodden still works with the agency. Even Congress can't get answers.
The Texas Observer
ICE Still Won't Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account
Congressman Marc Veasey arrived at an ICE facility Monday in his latest attempt to follow up on the Observer's reporting.
 #racism #fascism #genocide #law #Dallas #NorthTexas #Texas #Immigration #politics #USpol #news #Trump
Greg Abbott is "running for an unprecedented fourth term on a record of schools in crisis, housing more expensive, groceries more expensive, electricity utility rates are up. This is a record of failure, and he owns it."
The Texas Observer
'Failures and Grift’: Gina Hinojosa Wants to Stop Greg Abbott from Making History
The five-term Austin state representative will wage an underdog campaign to deny the powerful Texas governor an unprecedented fourth term—and the...
 #GregAbbott #Texas #news #politics #USpol #Democrats #elections
Earlier: The new #Texas "bathroom bill" not only makes it harder for trans people to exist in public, it also attempts to grant immunity from prosecution to those enforcing it, even if they violate the constitution.
The Texas Observer
How the Bathroom Bill Weaponizes Transphobia Against Public Institutions
A legal expert called the new anti-trans Texas bathroom law “the most plainly unlawful, undemocratic legislation I’ve seen in recent history.”
 #law #HumanRights #genocide #fascism #politics #USpol #news #TXlege #trans #LGBTQIA+