A judge rules a new Texas law governing elections in Democrat-controlled Harris County (Houston) unconstitutional, but the corrupt, GOP-controlled AG's office says it will appeal. #elections #Houston #HarrisCounty #txpol https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-calls-new-texas-election-law-unconstitutional-but-state-says-it-will-appeal-ruling/ar-AA1fjReg?cvid=eeae262cb5eb4d5684b85868f488ea54&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=11

@TexasObserver

▶️ Maybe younger, student guards will better be able to stand the 110º heat inside many Texas prisons.

A majority of those incarcerated in the state (and their guards) have no air-conditioning — a fact not unrelated to the officer retention and recruiting problem in Texas prisons.

Prisoners are dying, the State says it's under control.

No A/C for prisons because that would be "soft on crime?"

#FreeRead from #NYTimes (6/29/2023)

#TxPol #HumanRights

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/texas-prisons-heat.html?unlocked_article_code=IzPJWc90kVpPrBBjYv4C9DbsgYJLrut3J78kcB9_bz8_wytdACuX0uHb9pzFiHZVlWlPovZ1AyhuoglMkT-BVqN_IoV_TGZD5Hb_jqyORF7gxd2UjzlkFu0uzzLFuhO-TqMf-Va5qROWepoAAzFPLMSmmM_o7UihPGJvu_zXvjPnE8x7KdsiQztpkbea5efsPy_ipJw-HGKrDOSoPqQ94jJkR739Q4ntAHi8umSKwOZ1X7V9tQAo19YGjuyIgrU9JOn7FZ4bYrOkPQRp-zgtWM5qZG5QeHB0UsPNtBqyfkZtz2_Jm_3l6sa-KonoHOIMyRnXy5WmXw&smid=url-share

In 2006, @TexasObserver legend #MollyIvins wrote how #AnnRichards (my political #Shero) could have been President if born just a decade later.

#Texas #politics #TXPol #Women #Democrats #GOATS https://www.texasobserver.org/2309-a-men-a-women-a-ann-10-years-difference-and-ann-richards-couldve-been-president/

🎧 #YouTube served up some #ZZTop. I thought: "Haven't heard or read the name "Greg Abbott" since escaping the #hellsite.

▶️ In 1975, when ZZTop recorded "Heard it on the X," #Texas had a #Democratic #Governor, Dolph Briscoe Jr. An upstanding and benevolent child of Texas. Briscoe was a richaf rancher—at one point the largest landowner in the state—but he extended a hand back, down, across the aisle to lift others. As #Democrats do.

#TxPol #TXHistory #ThePeople https://youtu.be/zvgGNaTH7ds

@TonyStark There is always something we can do to help with elections. 2021 has a lot of important races.

Every single race counts and local seats need to go blue as much as national seats. Let’s pitch in and help #Texas #TX06 #FlipItBlue

#GOTV #SpecialElections #TXpol