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Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Muslim student was arrested at his high school in Irving, Texas, after bringing a homemade clock to class, which school officials mistook for a bomb. Mohamed showed his engineering teacher first, but when the alarmed went off later in the day, that’s when the trouble started.
TEXAS IS NOT HOME TO PROGRESS……Parents who have children desperate and yearning to LEARN or even show what they can do…….SHOULD MOVE FAR AWAY FROM TEXAS.
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The school and the police department need to be held accountable for wrongful arrest and child abuse.
Do you want to make your outrage known by people who could do anything about this? Tell it to the district's Board of Trustees.
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Save Our Kids (8/8/15): Christian Taylor, a 19-year old college football player was gunned down by police early Friday morning in Arlington, TX. Christian crashed his vehicle into a car dealership. Police claim he was trying to rob it. How and why a kid with his own new car and a promising college career, would try to single-handedly rob a car showroom by crashing into it, I couldn’t tell you (reeks of bullshit/this ain’t Fast & Furious). He was unarmed. Police will always prioritize property over our lives. Don’t be shocked if/when video gets released later contradicting the killer cop’s story though.
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I’ll be waiting. In the meantime, this just shows that the new “sensitivity” and “updated procedures” and “situation response” “training” these cities are saying to have imposed on the officers are bullshit. Fresh out the academy, smokin niggas. That’s Gun Training 101.
Say his name: Christian Taylor.
Following the July 13, 2015, death of 28-year-old Sandra Bland in police custody, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) says the FBI has now opened an investigation, which will include forensic analysis of videos related to the case. The Texas Rangers are also conducting an investigation.
Source: colorlines.com
What's wrong with this picture? On Monday, two sisters set up a lemonade stand in Overton, Texas. But they were forced to close up shop after police said it's illegal to sell lemonade without a permit.
Do you know what IS legal without a permit in Texas? Carrying a loaded long gun.
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Texas has chronically underfunded the child protection system," said Ashley Harris, a former CPS caseworker who now works for the advocacy group Texans Care for Children. "I don't think we can expand privatization until some of these basic issues are addressed.
That's your smaller, leaner government at work.
Source: Mother Jones
These programs were marketed as focusing on and deporting the worst of the worst — gang-bangers and violent criminals. But only 30% of those deported from Houston were convicted of violent crimes, the reminder being convicted of a mix of non-violent crimes, traffic offenses, or the civil (not criminal) offense of being here without papers.
Many local governments and law enforcement agencies across the country stopped complying with the request to hold people for ICE to pick up and deport them. Adrian Garcia, on the other hand, has continued to support these programs, including an appearance on Democracy Now! in 2011 to defend the programs.
This fall President Obama announced that he was going to take executive action on immigration, which included an end the Secure Communities Program, which would be replaced by a “New Priority Enforcement Program” which works in a similar way, but should only target those convicted of violent and serious crimes. Adrian Garcia appeared on the NPR Radio program Hear and Now a week after President Obama’s announcement and said that this new program means less people will be deported and that that is a good thing.
Source: freepresshouston.com
The GOP is determined to undermine Roe v Wade. After embarrassing defections from members of their own party, House Republicans tabled a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks and instead are forcing yet another vote to prohibit federal funding for abortions. Let’s be clear: this is still an attack on choice. Prohibiting federal funding for abortion chips away at Roe v. Wade and is an insulting assault against low-income women that eliminates their equal protection. Democratic defectors need to know that votes like this will not be tolerated. We simply cannot afford to allow these attacks on critical protections to go unanswered. Put these anti-choice Democrats on notice: When anti-woman, anti-science politicians try to take away women’s rights, we fight back. P.S. The three Democratic defectors are Reps. Henry Cuellar (TX-28), Dan Lipinski (IL-03), and Collin Peterson (MN-07.)
Four of these Republican presidential hopefuls have been invited to a closed to the press donor meeting of the Kochs’ “nonprofit” Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce in Palm Springs, California, according to Politico.
It’s a gathering of the rich who intend to stay rich by imposing austerity and deregulation thinly disguised as “ideology” (based on a work of fiction) upon the rest of the country. The Kochs were named the 10th top polluter in 2010 and they’ve been fined millions for lying about poisoning people.
Sources told Politco that the four include Koch “favorite” Governor Scott Walker, Senators Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio. They are expected to attend, though none would confirm their attendance at the secretive meeting. Governor Mike Pence (R-IN) is another Koch favorite, but he is not expected to attend this event.
"Do you see how those who are your critics say that is just heartless?" Banfield asked. "We've got kids being raped in overcrowded detention facilities. They need help. These are people who are desperate, and they need help. And, effectively, your critics say you're just turning your backs on them." Thiess said that she would not accept that criticism because "the unaccompanied minors account for about 18 percent of the total numbers that are in detention right now. And so, you don't get a choice as a locality as to who you will accept into your community." "Councilwoman, there's 50,000 of these kids expected this year," Banfield interrupted. "Whatever numbers you're working off of are completely skewed by the craziness that's going on right now! And I know you've seen it, and I know you've seen all those people who have come out to protest busses, where kids inside of busses have their faces pressed up to the glass, and they're seeing Americans who look like the land of the rabid!" "And what I'm asking you is, a policy like this kind of smacks of that," she said. "Do you not see the difference between illegal immigrants who are here — maybe — to get a free ride, and those who are desperately seeking protection from murderers?" Thiess argued that she had a "singular responsibility" to the residents of her community, and "right now my protection has to be for them first." As the councilwoman began to explain that the solution was for "the federal government to start enforcing the laws," Banfield cut her off. "Ms. Theiss, please stop with this, you know full well that these people aren't escaping into America!" the CNN host exclaimed. "They're volunteering at the border to be caught. No one is getting through the wall of those who are there. This is a different circumstance. It's the desperate who are begging for help. It's not those who are sneaking in. You understand the difference, right?" "The children, right now, who are arriving at the border are volunteering, surrendering themselves to the border agents! The border agents are actually doing their jobs! It's being enforced!" Banfield continued. "The problem is there's so many, it's overcrowded. They're being raped, they're being beaten, and they need help! Some of them don't even have water. And in at least one case, 100 of them are sharing one toilet that doesn't even have a door."
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The men, members of the groups Open Carry Texas and Open Carry Tarrant County, asked him which news network he was with. When he said he wasn't, things began turning frosty. They pressed him about what he thought of their demonstration, and he replied with an unvarnished opinion that included profanities, language he told me he regrets having used.
"I'm all for responsible gun owners," he says. "What I was taught was not to wear it around like a gold chain. What they're doing is irresponsible. It intimidates the public, and people have just as much right to be comfortable in their public environment as these guys have a right to own their firearms."
Suddenly he was surrounded by about a half-dozen armed men. They started badgering him with questions and accusing him of being anti-American. "I said, 'Are you kidding me? I served in the military.' They were trying to intimidate me, and when I didn't cower that upset them," he said. But he was starting to feel nervous and decided to disengage and walk away.
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A new study has underscored just how little is known about the health consequences of the natural gas boom that began a decade ago, when advances in high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and directional drilling allowed companies to tap shale deposits across the United States.
"Despite broad public concern, no comprehensive population-based studies of the public health effects of [unconventional natural gas] operations exist," concluded the report published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Last week, The Center for Public Integrity, InsideClimate News and The Weather Channel reported on the health data gap in the Eagle Ford Shale, where a lack of air monitoring and research is aggravated by a Texas regulatory system that often protects the gas and oil industry over the public.
Source: publicintegrity.org
Step right up and let us examine the excellent parenting advice of “don’t be a whore,” “don’t be a kid abandoner” and “children and a job can coexist” from Bristol Palin (known for underage drinkin’, underage-baby-poopin’, and dancing the hand jive in a gorilla costume) to Wendy Davis (known for being a lying liar who lies because she was only a single mom living in a trailer for a while before waitressing through college, marrying, going on to Harvard Law, and becoming a politician nationally known for standing up for women’s reproductive rights).
Pay Bristol back by messing with Texas: donate to Davis' campaign in her name.
How do you get angry, deranged people to tweet to you? Skip a rock in the fever swamp they fester in.
Source: twitter.com
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This man is currently in the U.S. House of Representatives. And this is his official campaign account for the U.S. Senate.
I just can’t…
Stop feigning that indignation cripples you from identifying right-wing extremists for what they are. We all know that these people thrive on being petulant and reducing political opponents to abstractions. They lack a combination of character and capacity to debate the issues.
It should be noted it's hard to qualify how the sophistry of Stockman's opponent is any better:
Amazing what WH will do to distract attention from O-care
— JohnCornyn (@JohnCornyn) November 24, 2013
20 astonishing seconds of @SenTedCruz being as disingenuous as possible http://t.co/AjmNw2LQFi (via @ThisWeekABC today)
— Slade Sohmer (@SladeHV) December 29, 2013
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