UPDATE: a spokesperson from JP Morgan Chase told the Texas Observer they fired the operator of a neo-Nazi X account who we identified as their employee. "This person is no longer at the firm. We do not tolerate hate in any form and take incidents such as this very seriously."
The Texas Observer
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseu...
 #politics #USpol #extremism #racism #antisemitism #Texas #news #SocialMedia #ElonMusk
“I was in Houston public schools during the McCarthy Era, and [the school] board alternated every couple of years, and it would sometimes be run by the Minute Women. And the Minute Women were the female equivalent of the John Birch Society.”
The Texas Observer
What Trump 2.0 Could Mean for Public Education
Houston native and education expert Diane Ravitch urges a fight for "the future of Texas, and for the future of the children" under Trump's pr...
 #politics #education #USpol #history #racism #extremism #Trump #schools #Houston #GulfCoast #news
Yesterday: Among the neo-nazi X accounts revealed by Texas Observer are a 35-year-old vice president at JP Morgan Chase and a worker at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland.
The Texas Observer
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseu...
 #politics #USpol #extremism #racism #antisemitism #SocialMedia #ElonMusk #news
Though among the country’s most diverse cities, #Houston has long resisted racial integration, its leaders instead enforcing separation into ethnic enclaves.
The Texas Observer
Why Houston’s Urbanist Movement Is Doomed
The unexpected fate of Houston's Northside holds lessons that the city’s boosters may not wish to hear.
 #news #politics #USpol #poverty #inequality #GulfCoast #housing #racism
New today: The Texas Observer has identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that regularly share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content on X. Three of the operators appear to live or have claimed to own property in Texas.
The Texas Observer
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseu...
 #extremism #politics #USpol #SocialMedia #Texas #ElonMusk #news #racism
“I pulled up to the train depot in the East #Texas city of Palestine, $220 poorer after falling into a speed trap in the nearby town of Oakwood. Thankfully, I was scheduled to be a passenger, not a driver, for the next four hours.”
The Texas Observer
Riding the Pines in Palestine and Rusk
Railways have long defined these East Texas towns, and the Texas State Railroad aims to keep that history on the books.
 #travel #GulfCoast #culture #history #politics
This week's top story, via @npub1ayp3...yw0l: In the ’70s and ’80s, Taiwanese migrants settled in #Houston seeking freedom from the Kuomintang’s oppressive regime. Many were believers in Taiwanese independence, and they continued organizing for that goal in America.
The Texas Observer
Texas’ Hotbed of Taiwanese Nationalism
For decades, Houston families like mine have helped keep the flame of independence burning.
 #politics #USpol #China #Taiwan #history #GulfCoast #HumanRights #immigration #news
From the archives, by former Editor @npub12s4a...07n6: Each year, one publication after another pushes some version of a piece doling out advice for avoiding conflict with one’s problematic relatives at the dinner table. This isn't one of those guides.
The Texas Observer
This Thanksgiving, Call Your Racist Uncle a “Racist”
Avoiding political conflict at the dinner table is overrated.
 #politics #USpol #news #culture #family #Thanksgiving #racism #Trump
These unheard stories from young #trans people unable to flee #Texas now hold urgent lessons for all of us about how to resist by existing, in the face of fascistic movements seeking to deny so many communities the right just to be alive.
The Texas Observer
‘Not Everyone Can Leave’: Survival Advice from Trans Teens in Texas
Media attention often focuses on trans teens fleeing the anti-trans states they’re living in. But what about those who can’t leave?
 #LGBTQIA #news #politics #USpol #transphobia #fascism #TXlege #transgender
Featured story: Over the last three years, #LGBTQ+ activists say they have faced not just increasing social harassment but expanding administrative roadblocks, placed by local elected officials, in the way of organizing events and meetings in their small town’s public parks and schools.
The Texas Observer
Pride and Prejudice in Princeton, Texas
A school board vote to cancel a summer Pride event represented one of the first government-sponsored cancellations of the LGBTQ+ celebration in the...
 #LGBTQIA+ #news #pride #NorthTexas #Texas #USpol #politics #homophobia #transphobia