Now: Texas's 6-week abortion ban law, SB 8, is in effect again for now — the 5th Circuit has granted a temporary, administrative stay of this week's preliminary injunction (which halted enforcement of SB 8) to consider the state's request for a longer stay pending appeal pic.twitter.com/wdTIH5emjm
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) October 9, 2021
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a lower federal court ruling that temporarily blocked Texas from enforcing its ban on abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
The Department of Justice now has until Oct. 12 to reply to the ruling, and the ban remains in effect until then.
So the horror show is back on.
🚫 No exceptions
— Thomson Reuters Foundation News (@TRF_Stories) October 7, 2021
🚨 After she was raped, one 17-year-old teenager in Texas was desperate to get an abortion.
⭕️ But her worst fears were confirmed: she was denied a termination as she was eight weeks pregnant.
♀️ @WholeWomans Health Clinic said her story is just one of many. pic.twitter.com/o0pO18RiEt
(I'm sorry to have to point this out again, but clearly this was written and/or scheduled for publication this morning at 5 am without awareness of the 'breaking news' from last night. Maybe he'll get around to that, but as of 7:30 am ... nada. Again, my interest in having someone read yesterday's newspaper to me is less than zero, but people can be a little, shall we say, stuck in their ways. After all, I would've thought the Catholic Church had ended itself a long time ago ...)
NEW: The Texas Senate has approved a map that would largely protect incumbents in Congress, while reducing the number of districts in which Black and Hispanic residents make up the majority of eligible voters. https://t.co/XFww8NQY7t
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) October 8, 2021
So unless a court intervenes, we'll get to see a Sheila Jackson Lee versus Al Green primary for the 9th Congressional District of Texas. Perhaps one of them will retire before then, but ...
Here’s the rubric sent to teachers in Southlake, Texas, this week to help them decide which books to remove from their classrooms. It comes days after the district disciplined a teacher who’d had a copy of “This Book is Anti-Racist” in her class.
— Mike Hixenbaugh (@Mike_Hixenbaugh) October 8, 2021
Story: https://t.co/9uHZcm6JBN pic.twitter.com/F73QzIhVsh
Editorial: The phony 'critical race theory' crusade strikes again - and Katy ISD fell for it https://t.co/6JKTgKOOgi
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) October 8, 2021
Under Gov. Abbott's new border initiative, thousands have been arrested for trespassing, yet the deterrent effect he intended has not come to fruition, local officials are overwhelmed + advocates claim constitutional violations. Via @jaspscherer:https://t.co/hRNbRGjJks #txlege
— Taylor Goldenstein (@taygoldenstein) October 8, 2021
Remember the Texas prisoner who sued for a cotton blanket because he was allergic to the prison's blankets and officials refused to give him a cotton one instead?
— Keri Blakinger (@keribla) October 7, 2021
I got records showing the state spent >$20,000 fighting his case instead of giving him a blanket. pic.twitter.com/jfmptIW0Jj
🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴 Latest on the teen who ran over 6 cyclists in Waller
— Jay R. Jordan (@jayrjordan) October 6, 2021
Attorney Charlie Thomas: "... it's caused us to raise an eyebrow as to whether or not this (investigation) is being done fully on the up and up" https://t.co/PT3s0xRx84
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Failed Lawsuit to Block 2020 Election Result Was Secretly Pushed by Prominent Christian Conservative Lawyer https://t.co/BI5aAo5a9P via @RANewsTX
— RA News (@RANewsTX) October 8, 2021
The political battle in one Texas county where Trump got 81% of the vote offers a rare view into the virulent distrust and unyielding pressure facing elections administrators. https://t.co/JFVjpHoeff
— ProPublica (@propublica) October 4, 2021
I completely empathize with the Romans who fed Christians to the lions. I just wish they had been able to do more of that.
There are some small arcs bending toward justice.
U.S. Army officials disciplined 21 officers and non-commissioned officers, including firing eight senior commanders, related to the murder of Spc. Vanessa Guillén, who was killed at Fort Hood in April 2020. https://t.co/ecVaRTYXSl
— News 4 San Antonio (@News4SA) October 8, 2021
Houston council could vote on outside investigation into former housing director’s claims against @SylvesterTurner https://t.co/B5lW4arRdx #HouNews
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) October 8, 2021
Proponents of segregation said it was necessary because Mexican Americans were not as smart as Anglo students, or were deficient in the English language.
— Texas Standard (@TexasStandard) October 7, 2021
This former UT professor fought those claims and won. https://t.co/LHwt7aXSSf
More than 270 Texans from across the state are suing the Electric Reliability Council of Texas for “negligent management” of the power grid during the February winter storm.https://t.co/Iz5gNVqGkH
— KXAN News (@KXAN_News) October 9, 2021
Here's what passes for my business round-up.
A story told many times recently but needs repeating:
The Texas Railroad Commission is one of the most powerful agencies charged with environmental protection in the country’s oilfields, and all three current commissioners profit off fossil fuels, according to reports by @CommissionShift. https://t.co/Ks0UlNBenb
— grist (@grist) October 6, 2021
.@SpaceX public hearings on Oct 18 & 20 won't have Spanish translation & closed captioning even after 65 RGV residents requested it months ago from the Federal Aviation Admin @FAANews; grounds for a discrimination lawsuit. (Title VI Civil Rights Act 1965)https://t.co/vfxfW6c67K
— Bekah Hinojosa (@beksbot) October 7, 2021
There was a good listing of distractions in yesterday's post, so I'll just add this one and then get my Saturday going to more enjoyable pursuits.
An ambitious traveling exhibition of California artists asks how we became a state of endless fences, dams, and gas flares.https://t.co/zsvbbfOnlL+
— Texas Monthly (@TexasMonthly) October 7, 2021
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