Texas Taliban.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:44 pm And they wonder about "students are behind on reading levels, especially in 4th grade." I'm sure closing the library will help with reading levels.https://www.click2houston.com/news/loca ... -campuses/HISD to eliminate librarians, turn libraries into discipline centers at 28 campuses
Houston Independent School District will be eliminating librarian positions at 28 schools this upcoming year and converting the libraries into ‘Team Centers” where kids with behavioral issues will be sent, the district announced.
This comes as part of the new superintendent Mike Miles reform program, New Education System (NES). Currently, there are a total of 85 schools that have joined Miles’ program, and of those, 28 campuses will lose their librarians. The district said they will have the opportunity to transition to other roles within the district.
The remaining 57 NES schools’ librarians will be assessed on a case-by-case basis, according to the district.
Retired HISD Teacher in Charge of Library, Lisa Robinson, believes the library is full of some of the greatest stories ever told.
“It was such a joy to help them find the perfect book,” said Robinson.
She said those stories are now ripped to shreds.
“My heart is just broken for these children that are in the NES schools that are losing their librarians,” said Robinson.
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end . . .
So do our minutes hasten to their end . . .
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They're not closing the libraries, they're opening the Re-education Camps!I'm sure closing the library will help with reading levels.
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He shoulda asked….
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
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What’s not funny is the injuries and even deaths it sounds like that resulted from this asinine stunt.
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From the Houston Chronicle article above:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politi ... _TexasTake
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politi ... _TexasTake
Sounds like a job for Rafael Cruz, get Congress to declare the river unnavigable.Abbott’s attorneys had argued that the barriers were not the type of structure that needed review by the Army Corps. In addition, they claimed that the Rio Grande, despite being one of the largest rivers in America, doesn't count as a navigable waterway because it doesn't include commercial shipping.
Judge David A. Ezra wasn’t moved by either argument, granting the Justice Department’s request that Abbott remove the barriers by Sept. 15.
Ezra said Congress determined long ago that the Rio Grande was navigable and no other body can change that designation.
"Once a water is found to be navigable by Congress, it remains so until Congress, not the courts, declares otherwise," Ezra wrote.
In addition, Ezra disputed the state's claim that the buoys were not subject to the federal Rivers and Harbors Act, saying the "floating barrier interferes with or diminishes the navigable capacity."
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
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The right loves to use immigration issues to pander to their base, and yet the GOP-led Congresses have never passed or introduced any immigration reform, stricter rules, or extra funding to help increase enforcement, including never funding Trump laws.
If they were serious about immigration, they would actually do something in the one place you can make a difference: Congress.
They have not. All of it is window-dressing for the racists and bigots in their base. They have no intention of fixing it because their money base needs the undocumented folks working for them.
F*** em.
If they were serious about immigration, they would actually do something in the one place you can make a difference: Congress.
They have not. All of it is window-dressing for the racists and bigots in their base. They have no intention of fixing it because their money base needs the undocumented folks working for them.
F*** em.
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Yeah, and the base keeps lapping it up, so it's working.
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Great plan!
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Moar:Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan wrote: Texas just passed a law designed to replace existing public school counselors with chaplains and pastors, and they are paying them with your tax money.
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Just wait until Muslim counselors want to be recognized. Not to forget the chefs of the Flying Spaghetti Monster ![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif)
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Satanist.
I am an equal opportunity non-believer but noting pisses off the Evangelicals more than Gays, Drag Queens and Satanists.
Hell, you find you a good homosexual transvestite Satanic Priest and you can cause them to burst into flames on a good day.
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Hey Abbott, how many children have you maimed today?
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Horrifying pictures at link from TWO DAYS ago.Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX wrote: Texas will not sit by while the Biden Admin undermines our historic effort to secure the border.
The Texas National Guard took immediate action to install more razor wire after the Biden Admin cut it.
We won’t back down.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/25/migrant-c ... azor-wire/Migrant children pictured howling in pain as they crawl through razor wire to reach the US
Gut-wrenching images taken by The Post show migrant toddlers crawling through razor wire to reach Eagle Pass, Texas, howling in pain as spikes from the wire stick into their flesh.
The photos capture the sheer desperation of the humanitarian crisis playing out on the border, with families and even a double amputee crawling through the sharp coils of wire to get a shot at claiming asylum in the US.
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In this episode, Abbott declares war on the United States. A little more context would be nice.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar wrote: Greg Abbott: "There's a war going on at the border, and that was is between Texas and the United States of America"
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They already tried that shit 170 years ago....how'd that work out...raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2023 5:42 pm In this episode, Abbott declares war on the United States. A little more context would be nice.
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He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
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He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
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Well, really the war between Texas and the USA was the War with Mexico, as Texas was part of Mexico at the time. ![Old Man :oldman:](./images/smilies/old_man_SMILEY.gif)
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Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls Would scarcely get your feet wet
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Mexican territory, but seemingly coordinated with Mexican authorities at state level.
video matching above narrative
Texas Seizes Large Sanctuary Island in Campaign Against Cartels
By Todd Bensman
on October 11, 2023
NEAR FRONTON, Texas — Dawn was breaking on Monday as a Texas Rangers commander spoke to a heavily armed assembly of state police and Texas military personnel, much like a World War II military commander pep-talking soldiers about to invade an enemy-held Pacific Island.
It so happened that the Texans also were about to invade an enemy-held island, this one being a 170-acre, mile-long land mass in the middle of the Rio Grande. The declared enemy: ultra-violent Mexican cartels that have occupied and used it with impunity to smuggle cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, weapons, and illegal immigrants, all while shooting at American cops, riddling Border Patrol boats with bullets, and intimidating Texas farmers, ranchers, and the 180 residents of the isolated Texas riverfront village of Fronton.
https://cis.org/Bensman/Texas-Seizes-La ... st-Cartels
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FWIW
Wikipedia wrote: The Center for Immigration Studies is an anti-immigration think tank. It favors far lower immigration numbers, and produces analyses to further those views.
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ABBOTT FAILS ON VOUCHERS. AGAIN.
https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-fa ... ers-again/
https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-fa ... ers-again/
He threatened. He baited. But no amount of sticks or carrots helped Texas Governor Greg Abbott pass school vouchers—a means of redirecting public dollars to private institutions—during a third special legislative session he had explicitly called to see his pet project passed. After the state House twice rejected vouchers in the regular 88th legislative session, Abbott failed to persuade lawmakers. Again.
Last Tuesday, Abbott made a fourth-quarter effort to pass vouchers when he announced he had struck a deal with House leadership. “Working with Speaker [Dade] Phelan and his House leadership team, the Speaker and I reached an agreement on school choice for Texas families,” Abbott said.
But after Phelan dismissed House members Wednesday evening without any discussion of voucher proposals and announced a return Monday or Tuesday, when the session ends, it was clear: School vouchers are dead in Texas. For now.
“The House has rules, and we are up against the timeline,” GOP Representative Brad Buckley, chairman of the House Committee on Public Education, told reporters after the House met on Wednesday.
Abbott’s purported deal would have been more expansive than Senate Bill 1, passed earlier in the session, or House Bill 1, which Buckley had filed but was never referred to committee since it included school funding measures not part of Abbott’s agenda. Whereas the Senate and House bills restricted the number or types of students who would be eligible, Abbott’s alleged bargain would set up a universal voucher program where all Texas school-aged children would be eligible to receive $10,400 per year.
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The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow wrote: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), at a bill signing vastly expanding the authority of local police to arrest immigrants:
"Ronald Reagan once said 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall.' I say to Joe Biden: Mr. Biden, build up that wall."
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Raffi Melkonian @RMFifthCircuit wrote: The Fifth Circuit reverses the district court and grants an injunction(!) forbidding the United States from cutting Texas's barbed wire fence along the border.
I'm trying to get a link to work - sorry. It's a 2-1 decision.
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TX migrants bussed to Denver
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/h ... g-limited/
TX migrannts flown to Chicago
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/20 ... tt-busing/
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TX migrannts flown to Chicago
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Fresh law allows cop to arrest anyone they deem illegal immigrant. In a state with large Hispanic population.
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FURIOUS Stephen A. Smith goes OFF SCRIPT, DESTROYS Texas Governor on Live TV
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ESPN correspondent Stephen A. Smith did not hold back about Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Francis Maxwell reports.
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Justice Department sues Texas over law that would let police arrest migrants who enter US illegally
Edited to add link to complaint - https://www.justice.gov/media/1330861/dl?inlineThe lawsuit asks a federal court in Austin to declare the Texas law unconstitutional. It calls the measure a violation of the Supremacy Clause, which establishes that federal laws in most cases supersede state law.
"Texas cannot run its own immigration system," the Justice Department states in the lawsuit. “Its efforts, through SB 4, intrude on the federal government’s exclusive authority to regulate the entry and removal of noncitizens, frustrate the United States’ immigration operations and proceedings, and interfere with U.S. foreign relations.”
Tim Walz’ Golden Rule: Mind your own damn business!
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Since April 2022, Abbott has ordered to send buses with immigrant passengers to Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles, sometimes mocking those cities’ leaders for saying they welcome immigrants and criticizing the Biden administration’s policies on immigration.
In total, Texas has bused over 80,000 people from border cities to those six cities, according to the governor’s office. Tuesday’s flight was the first time Texas has used planes to transport immigrant passengers.
According to a report by WTTW, a Public Broadcasting Service member TV station in Chicago, city officials there have cracked down on some of the bus drivers coming from Texas, saying they’ve ignored municipal rules on where to drop off the passengers. Last week, the city impounded a bus because the driver was not licensed to transport passengers.
"Because [Chicago] Mayor [Brandon] Johnson is failing to live up to his city's ‘Welcoming City’ ordinance by targeting migrant buses from Texas, we are expanding our operation to include flights to Chicago, like the Biden Administration has been doing across the country,” said Andrew Mahaleris, a spokesperson for Abbott. “Until President Biden steps up and does his job to secure the border, Texas will continue taking historic action to help our local partners respond to this Biden-made crisis.”
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Abbott is ignoring that the busses are not dropping off the migrants in Chicago but instead leaving them in the suburbs, sometimes at Metra stations.
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