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Founded in 1954, the Texas Observer is a #progressive #nonprofit news outlet and print #magazine covering the Lone Star State. Follow Interim Editor-in-Chief nostr:npub1dkzdupjtmnfd7m5u4z9yhrhyzslynd62uuqv92xnv4ghhn0ngljqe8ymlm McHam Investigative Reporting Fellow nostr:npub1ayp3cq0ka7272pxn7ngjgnm59cfjtsvqc9qmtc6pxxvatqrtc2jsr5yw0l 🤠 Learn more about us: https://linktr.ee/texasobserver Become a member and support our work: https://www.texasobserver.org/join/ #Texas #Politics #Culture Homepage: https://www.texasobserver.org Contact Us: https://www.texasobserver.org/contact/ Join TXO: https://www.texasobserver.org/join/ Mission: "We will serve no group or party but will hew hard to the truth as we find it and the right as we see it."
From Francesca D'Annunzio: Police—sheriffs, Texas state cops, and even ICE—can follow the location of your smart phone without a warrant. Yet, we know little about how this software has been used.
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Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It.
One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause.” Civil liberties...
 Presented with support from Pulitzer Center. #surveillance #tech #police #Texas #politics #USpol #news
Update from Steven Monacelli: James Rodden, the attorney for ICE which we identified as the operator of a white supremacist account on X, is back on the job in a Dallas immigration court.
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ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court
James Rodden, identified by the Observer last year as the operator of an account that routinely posted hateful statements, appeared to be back at w...
“Police are doing an end run around this well-articulated system of judicial oversight by just paying money instead of going to a judge.” New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Civil liberties experts are raising the alarm about "Tangles," a law-enforcement surveillance software that allows police to bypass judicial oversight by spying on smartphone users without a warrant.
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Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It.
One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause.” Civil liberties...
 #tech #Texas #police #news #politics #USpol #law
"You talk about the fact that while you may not be on SNAP benefits, everyone’s cost of #food is going to go up. You talk about the fact that they’re pulling this money away from those that are just trying to eat and that also impacts our #farmers—as we’re seeing record bankruptcies with farmers and ranchers."
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Everyone Knows Jasmine Crockett. Could That Be a Good Thing?
Her critics would prefer a lesser-known candidate who can concoct a bipartisan pitch. But the Dallas congresswoman believes she’s starting “on ...
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Earlier, from Francesca D'Annunzio: “All the evidence we have seen suggests that this had nothing to do with gang enforcement—no one was arrested on any charge remotely related to gang activity. It appears that DPS simply raided this house because the people throwing a party were Latinos from another country.”
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Prosecutors Drop Only Criminal Cases from Hays County Airbnb Raid
Pending drug charges have been abandoned from the multi-agency April operation that supposedly targeted Tren de Aragua and led to multiple deportat...
 #Texas #police #Immigration #ICE #CentralTexas #politics #USpol #news #fascism
#BestOf2025: 34,000 employees work at VA outpatient and inpatient care sites across the state, and in the Central #Texas VA healthcare system 45% of #workers previously served in the military. Some told the Observer the system is at its limits.
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Veterans Who Work in Texas VA Health System: ‘The Dam’s Gonna Break’
Some vets say they’re being hurt as both workers and patients by Trump administration staffing decisions.
 #veterans #politics #USpol #news #CentralTexas #healthcare
No matter how deep the darkness, sparks of light, beauty, and joy surround us—in, say, a baby’s smile, a lover’s touch, a refugee family’s safe arrival in a place of sanctuary, the first drops of rain on dry earth, a fragile monarch butterfly pausing its 3,000-mile migration to sip nectar from a blue mistflower.
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A Light the Darkness Cannot Extinguish
At the close of an awful year, a religion scholar offers reflections on resisting despair in dark times, for the religious and non-religious alike.
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