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Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22348693
- feeds.texastribune.org How some Texas parents and historians say a new state curriculum glosses over slavery and racism
Education officials say the materials were designed to be age appropriate but critics argue they repeatedly omit key context and oversimplify history.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22172806
> Since it was proposed by the Texas Education Agency earlier this year, the elementary school reading and language arts curriculum has faced strong opposition from parents, advocates and faith leaders for its heavy use of biblical teachings, which critics say could lead to the bullying and isolation of non-Christian students, undermine church-state separation and grant the state far-reaching control over how children learn about religion. > > A second grade lesson called “Fighting for a Cause” notes that “slavery was wrong, but it was practiced in most nations throughout history.” It does not detail the race-based nature of slavery in America that made it distinct from other parts of the world. > > Another second grade lesson covering the U.S. Civil War focuses heavily on Robert E. Lee’s “excellent abilities” as general of the Confederate Army, which fought to maintain slavery, and his desire to find “a peaceful way to end the disagreement” with the North. It does not teach that Lee enslaved people or highlight his racist views that Black people were neither intelligent nor qualified to hold political power. > >
- apnews.com Texas Supreme Court overturns ruling that state Attorney General Ken Paxton testify in lawsuit
The Texas Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that state Attorney General Ken Paxton testify in a whistleblower lawsuit at the heart of impeachment charges brought against him in 2023.
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Texas Education Board backs Bible-infused lessons in public schools
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22215817
> Summary > > The Texas State Board of Education approved a preliminary vote for a new optional curriculum integrating Bible-based lessons into elementary school reading and language arts, sparking controversy. > > Serving 2.3 million K-5 students, the curriculum introduces Christian themes like the Sermon on the Mount and da Vinci’s Last Supper, but critics say it lacks balance and could violate the First Amendment. > > Supporters argue it reflects America’s Christian cultural roots, while opponents, including parents and educators, warn it may blur lines between education and evangelism. > > A final vote is expected soon, with potential nationwide implications.
- www.motherjones.com Texas may be next state to restrict abortion pills as “controlled substances”
Republican legislator Pat Curry has introduced a bill seeking to follow in Louisiana's footsteps—despite warnings from doctors.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22145812
- slatereport.com Pregnant teen died agonizing sepsis death after Texas doctors refused to abort fetus
A pregnant Texas teenager died an agonizing death from sepsis after doctors refused to abort her fetus even after she began to miscarry. Navaeh Crain, 18, visited the ER three times and had to wait 20 hours before she was admitted. The expectant mom had woken up on the day of her baby shower with na...
- www.404media.co 'Scared the Life Out of Me': Here Are the FCC Complaints After Texas 'Blue Alert' Blast
After getting hit with a 4 a.m. emergency alert about a shooting hundreds of miles away from where they were sleeping, a lot of Texans were very pissed.
- www.texastribune.org U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz defeats Democrat Colin Allred
U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, a former NFL linebacker and civil rights lawyer from Dallas, repeatedly broke fundraising records in his campaign, raising more than $80 million by mid-October.
>U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz easily defeated U.S. Rep. Colin Allred on Tuesday, defying another spirited and well-funded effort to turn Texas blue and preserving his status as a leading conservative voice in American politics.
>"The results tonight, this decisive victory, should shake the Democrat establishment to its core," he said in a speech to supporters at his campaign watch party in downtown Houston.
>The Associated Press called his victory after 10 p.m. as Cruz was leading by more than double digits.
>Shortly after, Allred told his supporters at his election night party in Dallas that he had conceded to Cruz.
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May he ride off into the Cancun sunset never to be seen again.
cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/14614168
- www.motherjones.com How Ken Paxton built the foundation for the new big lie
The Texas AG has been on a years-long crusade to spread fears that Democrats are importing immigrants to steal the election.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21609288
- www.ksat.com Brown water, extreme chlorine smells: E. coli found near Floresville water sparks outrage
Forty-five homes in a subdivision near Floresville, Texas depend on a well for water, but they tell KSAT that for about two years now, the water quality has them afraid for their health.
- www.propublica.org A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms
It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened. Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.” She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s abortion ban.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21511759
> Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023. > > Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby shower, the 18-year-old had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours, returning home each time worse than before. > > The first hospital diagnosed her with strep throat without investigating her sharp abdominal cramps. At the second, she screened positive for sepsis, a life-threatening and fast-moving reaction to an infection, medical records show. But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave. > > Now on Crain’s third hospital visit, an obstetrician insisted on two ultrasounds to “confirm fetal demise,” a nurse wrote, before moving her to intensive care. > > By then, more than two hours after her arrival, Crain’s blood pressure had plummeted and a nurse had noted that her lips were “blue and dusky.” Her organs began failing. > > Hours later, she was dead. > > Fails, who would have seen her daughter turn 20 this Friday, still cannot understand why Crain’s emergency was not treated like an emergency. > > But that is what many pregnant women are now facing in states with strict abortion bans, doctors and lawyers have told ProPublica.
- www.dallasnews.com Texas is abdicating safety to private toll road operators
A lengthy investigation of the deadly pile-up on the North Tarrant Express toll road in Fort Worth three years ago shows Texas transportation officials were...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21403581
> Reporter Yamil Berard scoured through thousands of pages of court records, documents from the National Transportation Safety Board, and videos of that tragic day in February 2021 when 130 cars, trucks and semis piled up along a stretch of the North Tarrant Express. Early morning commuters, unaware of the black ice beneath them, crashed one after another along two lanes bound by concrete barriers on both sides. The horrific scene spanned the length of three football fields.
- www.newsweek.com Texas megachurch youth leader arrested for child sex videos
The 24-year-old male had passed two background checks before he began youth volunteer work.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21485655
> A youth leader at a Texas megachurch has been arrested for allegedly inducing young girls to send him explicit inappropriate images. > > Prosecution documents in Abilene, Texas, state that 24-year-old Charles Goff admitted to police that he went on social media and solicited nude photos from girls aged 14 and 15. They also allege that Goff met with a fellow church member and admitted his wrongdoing. > > Goff was a youth volunteer at Beltway Park Church, a large baptist megachurch in Abilene in north central Texas with two campuses in the city and a congregation of nearly 5,000 people every week.
