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Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Dec 4, 2024 · Cyan Cruz/TheOfficial1984. Screenshot of Twitter/X profile of @TheOfficial1984 account . Cruz’s X account, TheOfficial1984, regularly posts antisemitic, pro-Hitler, and Holocaust denial content ...
Brownsville Elected Officials Are Doing PR for Embattled LNG …
Dec 19, 2024 · Local elected officials in the border city of Brownsville are receiving talking points and media strategy from the company developing Rio Grande LNG—the Central Park-sized liquefied natural gas ...
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Why Houston’s Urbanist Movement Is Doomed
Dec 2, 2024 · Northside is among the oldest Latino neighborhoods in Houston, but it hardly receives the same scholarly attention as its elder Second Ward (aka East End, or, if you ask today’s neighborhood ...
Texas Will Be on the ‘Front Lines’ of Mass Deportation
Nov 7, 2024 · Francesca D'Annunzio is the Texas Observer's 2025 David McHam investigative reporting fellow.D’Annunzio has reported on topics ranging from deportations in the Dominican Republic, Christian ...
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Jan 14, 2025 · Inside this month's print issue Texas’ War on Drug Users. A mass overdose event in Austin reveals the state’s backward approach to the ongoing crisis spurred by fentanyl and other super-potent ...
Texas Gave $1 Million in Expert Contracts to Defend Border Buoys …
Jan 9, 2025 · The Biden administration’s Department of Justice swiftly sued the state, arguing that installing the buoys in the Rio Grande was an illegal and unauthorized obstruction of a navigable waterway ...
Texas Uranium Mining Portends Nuclear Revival
Dec 5, 2024 · Industry describes in-situ mining as safer and more environmentally friendly than surface mining. But some South Texas water managers and landowners are concerned.
How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration
Nov 19, 2024 · Border and Immigration. How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration. Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.”