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37 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

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

Wow.  This year's elementary school field days are going to be epic.

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1 hour 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. 
 

thats the unspoken plan. When that occurs, some political donors will be celebrating.

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This is really wild - billionaire Monty Bennett suckered a bunch of Dallas-area education  bigwigs into signing on to help a new nonprofit, the Dallas Education Alliance - which turned out to be a front for a push to start a right-wing charter school that would benefit from a new state voucher program. Those folks fell all over themselves distancing from it when they found out. 
 

https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2025/03/monty-bennett-is-secret-mastermind-behind-dallas-charter-school-group/

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8 hours ago, troph said:

 

Thank you for sharing your concerns. I’ll make sure management is notified. 

Good.  They need to bump up their numbers, show some decent returns before asking for more money.

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A local school board candidate is spending $10-15k of their own money on a $25k race. They have day jobs and kids in the school and care about what’s going on. These aren’t career Dems man. Jesus fucking Christ. This place is jaded to fuck all. 

Oh, “jaded” doesn’t even scratch the surface.
I believe that humanity is beyond any redemption, and that we fundamentally like it that way.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A new bill filed in the Texas House would prevent students from behaving like anything other than a human being at schools in the state.

The Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education, or FURRIES, Act, filed by Austin-area Republican State Rep. Stan Gerdes, would "prohibit any non-human behavior by a student, including presenting himself or herself, on days other than exempt days, as anything other than a human being."

 

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/texas-legislature/texas-house-furries-act-filed/269-857d860f-539d-4497-a53a-4e201fa251bf

Is this the adults being in charge?

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I think this is one of those bills where you have to be steeped in right wing moral panic mongering to get it. I think this is about the legend of kids identifying as cats and having litter boxes in school or some shit like that. But I don't know for sure.

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On 3/12/2025 at 11:04 AM, Brisketexan said:

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

Just put my go bag together. 6 days rations then it's mad Max time.

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19 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

Bill filed to eliminate TPWD. Enjoy your state parks before they are sold to the highest bidder.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/state/2025/03/17/texas-parks-and-wildlife-department-pat-curry-house-bill-hb-4938-representatives/82490153007/

Kinda telling that it proposes to move TPWD's historic sites to the General Land Office instead of the Texas Historic Commission.

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On 3/12/2025 at 5:28 PM, bolverk said:

Texas Senate majority unveils bill requiring voters to prove their citizenship
All 20 GOP senators signed on to Senate Bill 16, which would apply to currently registered voters, and restrict some to only congressional elections.

How exactly would the average voter be able to prove their citizenship status? And realize that Trump is fighting to remove birthright citizenship. If that occurs, then showing up with a certified birth certificate means nothing other than you were born here. And just saying your parents were citizens, and therefore confers citizenship on you, may not be enough. Whos to say that your parents were citizens or their parents? 

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Just now, Nice Guy Eddie said:

How exactly would the average voter be able to prove their citizenship status? And realize that Trump is fighting to remove birthright citizenship. If that occurs, then showing up with a certified birth certificate means nothing other than you were born here. And just saying your parents were citizens, and therefore confers citizenship on you, may not be enough. Whos to say that your parents were citizens or their parents? 

Quite the conundrum, ain't it? It's almost as if they want to prevent a lot of Texas citizens from voting by a) creating an elaborately Byzantine process and b) intimidating the shit out of our darker-hued neighbors.

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2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

you have to prove citizenship to get a texas DL ?

You don't have to be a citizen to get a driver's license, or at least you used not to have to. Now, I'm unclear.

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Just now, bolverk said:

You don't have to be a citizen to get a driver's license, or at least you used not to have to. Now, I'm unclear.

my last DL i had to bring a passport or approved papers 

 

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From the DPS website: https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/driver-license/apply-texas-driver-license

Step 1.  Gather the Required Documentation:

  1. Proof of U.S. Citizenship or Lawful Presence (if not a U.S. Citizen)
  2. Proof of Texas Residency
  3. Proof of Identity
  4. Social Security Number
  5. Evidence of current Texas Vehicle Registration for each vehicle you own. Visit Texas Vehicle Registration website for more information.  Proof of vehicle registration applies to new residents who are surrendering an out-of-state driver license only.
  6. Proof of Insurance for each vehicle you own or a statement affirming you do not own a vehicle.
  7. Impact Texas Driver (ITD) certificate, if you will be taking a driving test for the issuance of your driver license.  The certificate must be dates within 90 days for your driving skills test.
  8. A six-hour adult Driver Education course, if you are 18 through 24 years of age and applying for your first Texas driver license.  This requirement is waived for new residents 18 or older who are surrendering a valid, unexpired driver license from another state.  (No driver education requirements for ages 25 and older)  
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17 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Quite the conundrum, ain't it? It's almost as if they want to prevent a lot of Texas citizens from voting by a) creating an elaborately Byzantine process and b) intimidating the shit out of our darker-hued neighbors.

Why are they bothering?  Non GQP people don’t vote now.

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3 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

they're just on a tear to eliminate whatever they can regardless of the consequences.

 

the funny part, trump doesn't give a shit about abbott / patrick / paxton 

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1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

Bill filed to eliminate TPWD. Enjoy your state parks before they are sold to the highest bidder.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/state/2025/03/17/texas-parks-and-wildlife-department-pat-curry-house-bill-hb-4938-representatives/82490153007/

Friend who works as staff for a House member told me this morning that this bill is already dead (see how high the bill number is,  will likely never even make it to a committee hearing) and is likely just a freshman rep trying to swing his tiny little dick around. Said its likely someone at TPWD slighted that member and he is trying to get their attention...

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3 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

they're just on a tear to eliminate whatever they can regardless of the consequences.

The entire country seems to be in a non thinking space right now.

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1 hour ago, Radical Larry said:

McKinney Falls State Park brought to you by Carl’s Jr. 

More like The Villas at McKinney Falls by DR Horton.

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1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

How exactly would the average voter be able to prove their citizenship status? And realize that Trump is fighting to remove birthright citizenship. If that occurs, then showing up with a certified birth certificate means nothing other than you were born here. And just saying your parents were citizens, and therefore confers citizenship on you, may not be enough. Whos to say that your parents were citizens or their parents? 

The elimination of birthright citizenship absolutely has this as the end-game.  You say you're a citizen?  Well, your birth certificate isn't enough.  You need to show proof your PARENTS were citizens/legal residents when you were born.  What, you don't have that paperwork?  Then GIT OUTTA HERE, YOU DIRTY FOREIGNER!*

* Please note that this will NOT be the way the law works....at least, it won't be if your name is John Smith, Bill Jones, etc.  You only have to worry if you have a name like Juan Gomez or some dirty messican shit like that.  And don't think I'm not looking at you, too, Maheer Abdul.

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Just called Pat Curry’s office.  I’d recommend you all harass them too.  Fucking insanity 

Here’s the number - 512-463-0135.  They have some kid answering the phone.  He was cordial, but I want to shame him for working for a dickhead 

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8 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Great idea. Maybe if enough people call their elected leaders and voice their outrage it’ll have absolutely no impact whatsoever.

I don’t disagree, but it made me feel better for all of 1 minute and for the minute it took me to type my post haha.   These people answering the phones deserve to hate their jobs at least…

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43 minutes ago, HalfSack Horn said:

Just called Pat Curry’s office.  I’d recommend you all harass them too.  Fucking insanity 

Here’s the number - 512-463-0135.  They have some kid answering the phone.  He was cordial, but I want to shame him for working for a dickhead 

Kinda surprised you got an answer right away on the phone, have heard some rather astonishing stories of how far the phone skills of the fresh meat Gen Z new capital staffers have fallen...

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25 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

Kinda surprised you got an answer right away on the phone, have heard some rather astonishing stories of how far the phone skills of the fresh meat Gen Z new capital staffers have fallen...

I harangued the staff of my State Rep, my State Senator, and my U.S. Rep late Friday afternoon. It felt so good to unload on them, I'm pretty sure I'm going to make it a weekly thing to call just before 5 pm while they're getting ready to leave the office for the weekend.

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For all the fuckupedness Texas politicians demonstrate, I have an equal disdain for New York and South Carolina idoit politicos. The three states have produced some of the most craven windbags in the history of this nation. A pox on all of them. 
 

 

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The lege is really going after the furries and the anime dorks (probably quite a bit of overlap in that Venn diagram) this session. 

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2 minutes ago, Tonesky said:

I hope my kid's theater department selects a fuck you Abbott version of Cats for their next production.

Abbott won't STAND for that kind of disrespect 

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