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That Texas could be so big and so backward, is disgusting:

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/28/texas-measles-abbott-lawmakers-response/

State and local health officials are setting up vaccine clinics and encouraging people to get the shot, which is more than 97% effective at warding off measles.

But neither Gov. Greg Abbott nor lawmakers from the hardest hit areas have addressed the outbreak publicly in press conferences, social media posts or public calls for people to consider getting vaccinated. State and local authorities in West Texas have not yet enacted more significant measures that other places have adopted during outbreaks, like excluding unvaccinated students from school before they are exposed, or enforcing quarantine after exposure.

The response to Texas’ first major public health crisis since COVID is being shaped by the long-term consequences of the pandemic, experts say — stronger vaccine hesitancy, decreased trust in science and authorities, and an unwillingness from politicians to aggressively push public health measures like vaccination and quarantine.

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I'm grateful that the people I care about also care about science and the well-being of their kids, so I don't think this will affect anyone I know personally. but it's gonna fuck up a lot of lives and it was preventable.


Well, the MMR vaccine efficacy against measles is 97%, so if this shows up in schools, you could expect about 1 in 33 vaccinated kids to get measles. So the selfish and/or ignorant anti-vax crowd is hurting more than just their own family, and even some normal responsible people will suffer.
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7 hours ago, Satchel said:

That Texas could be so big and so backward, is disgusting:

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/28/texas-measles-abbott-lawmakers-response/

 

State and local health officials are setting up vaccine clinics and encouraging people to get the shot, which is more than 97% effective at warding off measles.

But neither Gov. Greg Abbott nor lawmakers from the hardest hit areas have addressed the outbreak publicly in press conferences, social media posts or public calls for people to consider getting vaccinated. State and local authorities in West Texas have not yet enacted more significant measures that other places have adopted during outbreaks, like excluding unvaccinated students from school before they are exposed, or enforcing quarantine after exposure.

The response to Texas’ first major public health crisis since COVID is being shaped by the long-term consequences of the pandemic, experts say — stronger vaccine hesitancy, decreased trust in science and authorities, and an unwillingness from politicians to aggressively push public health measures like vaccination and quarantine.

It's christianity. 0/10. Would not recommend. Remember that era called the dark ages?

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11 hours ago, Satchel said:

That Texas could be so big and so backward, is disgusting:

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/28/texas-measles-abbott-lawmakers-response/

 

State and local health officials are setting up vaccine clinics and encouraging people to get the shot, which is more than 97% effective at warding off measles.

But neither Gov. Greg Abbott nor lawmakers from the hardest hit areas have addressed the outbreak publicly in press conferences, social media posts or public calls for people to consider getting vaccinated. State and local authorities in West Texas have not yet enacted more significant measures that other places have adopted during outbreaks, like excluding unvaccinated students from school before they are exposed, or enforcing quarantine after exposure.

The response to Texas’ first major public health crisis since COVID is being shaped by the long-term consequences of the pandemic, experts say — stronger vaccine hesitancy, decreased trust in science and authorities, and an unwillingness from politicians to aggressively push public health measures like vaccination and quarantine.

instead they're addressing important issues:

 

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5 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

that story is sooooo fucking made up 

Friend who works for a State Rep in Austin told me about that, so fucking infuriating our political hero’s are wasting time renaming things and burdening all the businesses in the state with that change instead of fixing shit that actually matters…

 

 

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19 hours ago, elfenix said:

instead they're addressing important issues:

 

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"We are fucking going to rename the NY Strip to the Texas Strip."

Dipshit Texas magats...

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36 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

"We are fucking going to rename the NY Strip to the Texas Strip."

Dipshit Texas magats...

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New grift:

start a restaurant that only serves gulf of America sea food and Texas strips.

Charge twice the price.

Profit.

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It's so fucking easy to please the lowest common denominator. Fake patriotism and hate. They'll take everything up the ass as long as you make hate a patriotic act.

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43 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

They'll take everything up the ass as long as you make hate a patriotic act.

Freedom fondling.  

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2 hours ago, bluto said:

Can you imagine the hellfire outrage if a dem county chair said this in reverse? IMG_7716.thumb.jpeg.8312c6afbc056842c44b370148ced307.jpeg

I'd like to hope the Tarrant chamber of commerce GOPers will give him the Robert Morrow treatment, but I doubt that will happen.

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On 2/26/2025 at 5:02 PM, safe sex said:

Sucks for the innocent kids. Can't force the parents to vaccinate. Fuck this shit

Thomas Jefferson and Catherine the Great got their families vaccinated against smallpox in the 1700s.   But these smooth brains realize how evil vaccinations are in the 2020s. 

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2 hours ago, bluto said:

Can you imagine the hellfire outrage if a dem county chair said this in reverse? IMG_7716.thumb.jpeg.8312c6afbc056842c44b370148ced307.jpeg

That dude Bo French is a real grade A piece of shit, so much so that even more "reasonable" Texas republicans have had issues with some of the dumbass shit he says like this...

 

At this point, I'm at the FAFO place with stuff like this, why not let them try and have Tarrant County 100% red and see who they can figure out to blame when things go wrong. Already slowly starting to happen at the State level when R's have been in control for so long they are running out of people to blame for things like schools not all being excellent and property taxes not being out of control, etc. Its starting with calling any republican who isn't straight 100% MAGA a "RINO" that must be primaried and voted out... but what happens then when there are still shitty schools and property taxes are still outta control? 

It's gonna be a real-life Tim Robenson sketch:

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18 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Thomas Jefferson and Catherine the Great got their families vaccinated against smallpox in the 1700s.   But these smooth brains realize how evil vaccinations are in the 2020s. 

Jefferson being told about current events

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1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

It's so fucking easy to please the lowest common denominator. Fake patriotism and hate. They'll take everything up the ass as long as you make hate a patriotic act.

Like fucking clockwork.

"Ignore that I'm Putin's bitch. Hate the immigrants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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On 2/27/2025 at 7:09 PM, tx 3 putt said:

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) has a warning for veterans: you'll have to "contribute" to society if you need food assistance.

So I guess fighting for your country and maybe taking a few bullets, or maybe losing a limb is not a big enough contribution to society. Apparently one must still slave in order to be compensated by the very government that is responsible for your condition, you must work regardless of your physical or mental stability.

Republicans are flat out the most vile psychotic assholes on the planet. Why veterans support this piece of shit party is beyond me.

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On 2/27/2025 at 4:52 PM, High Plains Drifter said:

 

I honestly can't decide which face is more punchable. 

 

Two of them look like they've already been punched a couple of times. And the third's legs (and peepee) don't work.

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Receipts now coming in detailing that Mike Miles, now head of HSID, is a lying, corrupt, piece of shit.

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Soon after starting at Sam Houston, Miller told the Texas Observer in an interview last year, she noticed something odd about how TFS-Texas ran the elementary school: Some classes the students were taking didn’t match their report cards.

State law requires that Texas school children take social studies—“consisting of Texas, United States and world history, government, geography, and economics”—and receive physical education, including for elementary schoolers a specified amount of daily or weekly physical activity. But, in a written complaint to TEA and interviews with the Observer, Miller alleged the school failed to provide social studies courses, a claim supported by an ex-Sam Houston teacher and TFS documents. Miller also alleged the school did not provide sufficient physical education to all students. She and two ex-teachers described problems to the Observer with the way corresponding grades were recorded.

Texas’ upper elementary school students typically take civics, Texas history, and U.S. history to fulfill social studies requirements. Instead, upper-grade students at Sam Houston took Miles’ “Art of Thinking” course, which TFS officials have argued, in response to Miller’s complaint, fulfills the state social studies requirement but which former school employees described as more of a reading or critical thinking class. 

Additionally, instead of all students taking a traditional physical education class, some took other electives instead. TFS officials have said, again in response to Miller’s complaint, that all students received sufficient physical activity “through a variety of classes” including “physical education, dance, martial arts, team sports, and fitness classes.” But Miller alleged that students in grades three through six did not receive the state-mandated hours of physical activity because these upper-grade students rotated through electives—which included, per a 2023-24 list provided by TFS, at least four classes that appear to lack physical exercise: sketching, photography, sign language, and choir.

Yet, on their report cards, Sam Houston students received grades for “Social Studies” and “Physical Education,” according to Miller and a report card reviewed by the Observer. The teachers who taught the school’s PE classes were required to enter PE grades on behalf of contractors who taught other electives, according to Miller and an ex-PE teacher. TFS has confirmed that certified teachers entered grades on behalf of these contractors.

https://www.texasobserver.org/mike-miles-third-future-schools-midland-classes/

 

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4 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Receipts now coming in detailing that Mike Miles, now head of HSID, is a lying, corrupt, piece of shit.

I think we all knew that when it came out about his scheme to transfer Texas taxpayer funds to his Colorado charter school

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3 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

I think we all knew that when it came out about his scheme to transfer Texas taxpayer funds to his Colorado charter school

Too convoluted for the hoi polloi to swallow. They need pablum. This is easy serve and easy to digest.

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35 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Receipts now coming in detailing that Mike Miles, now head of HSID, is a lying, corrupt, piece of shit.

https://www.texasobserver.org/mike-miles-third-future-schools-midland-classes/

 

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Miles is the only evidence anyone needs to support the claim that the government is actively trying to destroy public education.

Absolutely nobody involved thinks the man is doing a good job, except for those who actually have the power to fix the issue... if they wanted to.

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23 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Too convoluted for the hoi polloi to swallow. They need pablum. This is easy serve and easy to digest.

Well, I believe the TEA gave him the green light following a brief "investigation" of the allegation.

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10 Commandments and prayer time. Following Oklahoma and Louisiana's lead. That's what has become of this state. We are just another dipshit SEC state. Fuck our "leaders".

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2025/03/05/bill-requiring-ten-commandments-in-classrooms-heads-to-senate-floor/81351406007/

A Texas Senate committee on Tuesday approved a bill to require all public schools to display the Ten Commandments in each classroom, teeing it up to breeze through the Republican-dominated upper chamber.

Senate Bill 10 continues the conservative Christian movement’s confrontation with separation of church and state as established by the U.S. Supreme Court nearly 45 years ago. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the three-term Republican who presides over the Senate, has identified the proposal as a legislative priority.

Sen. Phil King, R-Weatherford, who authored SB 10, said he expects Texas will be sued if the Legislature enacts the bill, and he expressed hope that "it'll work its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court." There, the conservative-leaning bench would have the chance to overturn a 1980 decision that blocked Kentucky from putting the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.

The Senate panel on Tuesday also advanced SB 11, which would allow school districts to provide dedicated prayer time for students and teachers, and SB 13, which would let parents access their children's school library checkout histories and review library catalogs. Parents can choose to opt their children out of participation in prayer periods and school boards can vote not to set aside time for religious practice.

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15 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Parents can choose to opt their children out of participation in prayer periods and school boards can vote not to set aside time for religious practice.

Can our school board vote to not display the 10 Commandments in the classroom?

One of the things I used to like about this State is we did things our own way, regardless of whether it was Democrats or Republicans in charge. Now we just seem to crawl on our bellies to copy whatever Oklahoma does or whatever Donald Trump does. Texas isn't Texas anymore, it is just another branch of the MAGA project.  That sucks.

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Williamson County Judge Bill Gravell resigns to take position in Trump administration

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Gravell announced his resignation just before the March 11 Commissioners' Court meeting.

Gravell will serve as the Region 6 advocate for the Small Business Administration in the Office of Advocacy. The office represents a five-state area including New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas.

Gravell was supposed to be the top contender to replace John Carter in Tx31 next year. I wonder if he'll still run, or if this was some sort of plan to clear the field for one of Carter's grandkids or something. 

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Williamson County Judge Bill Gravell resigns to take position in Trump administration
Gravell announced his resignation just before the March 11 Commissioners' Court meeting.
Gravell will serve as the Region 6 advocate for the Small Business Administration in the Office of Advocacy. The office represents a five-state area including New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas.
Gravell was supposed to be the top contender to replace John Carter in Tx31 next year. I wonder if he'll still run, or if this was some sort of plan to clear the field for one of Carter's grandkids or something. 

I’m going to assume that he’s still the next Congressional Rep from District 31.
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7 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Williamson County Judge Bill Gravell resigns to take position in Trump administration

Gravell was supposed to be the top contender to replace John Carter in Tx31 next year. I wonder if he'll still run, or if this was some sort of plan to clear the field for one of Carter's grandkids or something. 

 

2 hours ago, scottsins said:

I’m going to assume that he’s still the next Congressional Rep from District 31.

Fitlump imo

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7 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Gravell was supposed to be the top contender to replace John Carter in Tx31 next year. I wonder if he'll still run, or if this was some sort of plan to clear the field for one of Carter's grandkids or something. 

It’s Kelly vs that crazy Florida lady that was trespassing in the Moody Center. 

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I can envision a near future state where lake Travis and other communities like it won’t have a school board because a combination of loss of funding and loss of students to private schools because of vouchers will shutter the ISD. 
 

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11 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Fundraising don't mean shit.

The dollars you would have spent on fundraising are better spent on ammunition and other necessary supplies for the coming events.

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13 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Fundraising don't mean shit.

Fundraising in small local elections such as the school board elections mentioned in Troph’s post absolutely matters.

National and statewide elections is another story.

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31 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I can envision a near future state where lake Travis and other communities like it won’t have a school board because a combination of loss of funding and loss of students to private schools because of vouchers will shutter the ISD. 
 

 

school board karens disagree



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