Texas Observer
Texas ObserverOur top story, from @josephinelee@texasobserver.social: Deep cuts at VA #healthcare centers leave both veterans and workers suffering, especially the 45% of workers who also served. https://www.texasobserver.org/veterans-texas-healthcare-doge-trump/
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Texas ObserverIn our magazine: Palestinian artist and writer Iasmin Omar Ata-Delta is frustrated by how American fiction depicts their people. They take us from Adam Sandler to James Cameron and beyond in this visual essay ... https://www.texasobserver.org/picturing-palestine-media-film-comic/
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Texas ObserverIn 2024, the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program’s 208 students co-authored more than 180 peer-reviewed publications. Those students regularly work more than 12 hours a day conducting and repeating experiments in laboratories followed by reading, writing, and coding at home. https://www.texasobserver.org/lindale-to-harvard-trump-nih-grant-cuts/
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Texas ObserverEarlier, from @drdrbrockman@mastodon.social: The ban on churches endorsing candidates is overwhelmingly supported. 77% of Americans surveyed oppose houses of worship endorsing political candidates and 67% say houses of worship should keep out of political matters altogether. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-irs-texas-churches-johnson-amendment/
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Texas ObserverDavid Peña sees about 60 patients a day, but he tries to understand each one as a veteran with “their own story.” He says it’s becoming increasingly challenging—worker morale dropped after his department lost two supervisors this year. https://www.texasobserver.org/veterans-texas-healthcare-doge-trump/
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Texas ObserverOur top story, from Justin Miller: While House Democrats in Chicago, plus some in New York, seem willing and able to withhold their numbers for the remaining weeks of this first 30-day special session, all that would do is delay the inevitable. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-house-dems-quorum-break-gerrymandering/
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Texas ObserverFeatured story: People did not die solely because of forgetfulness but because this amnesia allowed succeeding generations to erase the past and their responsibilities to the future. When they could have enacted post-flood, life-saving interventions, they chose not to act on their progeny’s behalf. https://www.texasobserver.org/san-antonio-hill-country-floods-history-1921-2025/
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Texas ObserverOur top story: In order to truly throw a wrench in the GOP’s machinations, #Democrats would likely have to keep their quorum break going through November, when the state opens up candidate filing for the 2026 #elections. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-house-dems-quorum-break-gerrymandering/
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Texas ObserverOur top story: In order to fully block redistricting, #Democrats will likely need to maintain an organized quorum break of more than 90 days—easily the longest in Texas history—through possibly three special sessions and under more punitive political conditions than ever. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-house-dems-quorum-break-gerrymandering/
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Texas ObserverFeatured story: Michael Li, a #Texas native and redistricting expert at the Brennan Center, gives us his take on the redistricting plan which sent Democrats fleeing from #Texas again. https://www.texasobserver.org/redistricting-plans-michael-li-interview-2025/
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