It would seem to me the bounty hunter laws would only provoke just more criminality. Allowing something like this could be done with malicious intent. A state that supports legislation like that is not just irresponsible but also morally bankrupt. Federal tax money that goes to Texas should be cut off until that law is completely repealed. A state that enables malicious behavior should Never be supported by the Federal government. Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick are all corrupt dirt bags.
There should be some regulations limiting the permissible hours for legislation to be debated and voted on. Something like normal business hours plus television prime time!
I read that the new law would even expose package delivery companies to liability. As if these companies know (or even should know) the contents of every package they deliver. Welcome to ZealotTown.
I wonder if the prospect of low taxes is sufficient elixir to get women to keep applying to Texas' once great universities. On the surface of it, living in Texas is getting progressively more dangerous for women and children. From not getting measles shots to chasing women who need healthcare across state lines to sending national guard troops to Blue cities. Maybe Texas would like to once again secede? It's been 160 years since General Gordon Granger informed Texas that slavery had in fact ended in the US.
It makes me sad that after living most of my life in Texas, it's now going to the dogs of culture war and fascist authoritarian antidemocracy. Texas has five big cities and 500 small towns that used to thrive on farming and ranching, but now are slow and lowdown. What killed the prosperity of small towns? Was it walmartization of everything retail in a small town? Boom and bust of the oil biz? John Deere Credit bankrupting landowners? The mood seems mean in small Texas towns I drive through now.
It's hard to see small towners rehabilitating themselves and giving the fascist coup crowd the boot. They won't get good education from now on -- so the authoritarians could lock in their power by disinformation, book banning, text books filled with half truths and pseudo science and rewritten history.
Let's hope that the Trump regime's going overboard and destroying vaccine delivery and getting people sicker on average wakes some of them up to the fact the Dear leaders wish they were too sick to fight off anything dastardly. And the Dear leaders don't care if lots of them die either. If you find people you can talk to in TX, show them this write up by Noah Smith as understandable by republican voters, while educating that the regime is going way too far and it's not good for you:
I already try to support a couple of organizations in TX that help women, and will add this one to my list.
Texas and informers...when I was a girl, and we were hiding under our desks for air raid drills, our teachers warned us of the horrors of Soviet Russia, where neighbors informed on neighbors, friends betrayed friends, and parents and children could not trust each other, not to turn them over to the government.
It appears that a whole group of people (including the 2025 gang) look back on Soviet Russia and think: Sounds good to me. I'm sure Abbott is for all of it, bitter little man that he is. I believe he enjoys having power, and causing suffering for those he thinks are beneath him, and that would include women (and girls).
texass should spend more time figuring out how not to drown the children it already has by allowing kids camps on the flash flood alley river........Duh
It would seem to me the bounty hunter laws would only provoke just more criminality. Allowing something like this could be done with malicious intent. A state that supports legislation like that is not just irresponsible but also morally bankrupt. Federal tax money that goes to Texas should be cut off until that law is completely repealed. A state that enables malicious behavior should Never be supported by the Federal government. Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick are all corrupt dirt bags.
There should be some regulations limiting the permissible hours for legislation to be debated and voted on. Something like normal business hours plus television prime time!
I read that the new law would even expose package delivery companies to liability. As if these companies know (or even should know) the contents of every package they deliver. Welcome to ZealotTown.
I wonder if the prospect of low taxes is sufficient elixir to get women to keep applying to Texas' once great universities. On the surface of it, living in Texas is getting progressively more dangerous for women and children. From not getting measles shots to chasing women who need healthcare across state lines to sending national guard troops to Blue cities. Maybe Texas would like to once again secede? It's been 160 years since General Gordon Granger informed Texas that slavery had in fact ended in the US.
It makes me sad that after living most of my life in Texas, it's now going to the dogs of culture war and fascist authoritarian antidemocracy. Texas has five big cities and 500 small towns that used to thrive on farming and ranching, but now are slow and lowdown. What killed the prosperity of small towns? Was it walmartization of everything retail in a small town? Boom and bust of the oil biz? John Deere Credit bankrupting landowners? The mood seems mean in small Texas towns I drive through now.
It's hard to see small towners rehabilitating themselves and giving the fascist coup crowd the boot. They won't get good education from now on -- so the authoritarians could lock in their power by disinformation, book banning, text books filled with half truths and pseudo science and rewritten history.
Let's hope that the Trump regime's going overboard and destroying vaccine delivery and getting people sicker on average wakes some of them up to the fact the Dear leaders wish they were too sick to fight off anything dastardly. And the Dear leaders don't care if lots of them die either. If you find people you can talk to in TX, show them this write up by Noah Smith as understandable by republican voters, while educating that the regime is going way too far and it's not good for you:
https://www.noahpinion.blog/i/172653305/why-conservatives-fear-green-energy and great explanations of how the republican party is hurting them or planning to in money policy, choking colleges by stopping foreign students from coming, both of which stall the economy.
I already try to support a couple of organizations in TX that help women, and will add this one to my list.
Texas and informers...when I was a girl, and we were hiding under our desks for air raid drills, our teachers warned us of the horrors of Soviet Russia, where neighbors informed on neighbors, friends betrayed friends, and parents and children could not trust each other, not to turn them over to the government.
It appears that a whole group of people (including the 2025 gang) look back on Soviet Russia and think: Sounds good to me. I'm sure Abbott is for all of it, bitter little man that he is. I believe he enjoys having power, and causing suffering for those he thinks are beneath him, and that would include women (and girls).
texass should spend more time figuring out how not to drown the children it already has by allowing kids camps on the flash flood alley river........Duh
Texas will be passing a law to punish those who send and use abortion pills the same way as those who provide reproductive healthcare.
Not wanted by many of us.
Texas government needs to stay out of women's health choices. As a Texan, I resent this backwoods style of control over females.