State appointed superintendent Mike Miles cancels moonlighting contract, which appears to violate state law. www.texasobserver.org/mike-miles-m...

New from @josephinelee.bsky.social: Mike Miles’ contract with Houston ISD allowed him to do outside consulting. But contract work as a consultant for Third Future Schools may have violated state law. Miles canceled the contract after the Observer asked about it.

New from @josephinelee.bsky.social: Under threat of possible takeovers by the Texas Education Agency, 9 school districts are set to hand over 15 public schools to Third Future Schools-Texas, a charter school operator previously run by state-appointed Houston ISD superintendent Mike Miles.

Some school district leaders say they believed they had only one option—to enter into a partnership with the Houston superintendent's former charter network— to avoid state takeover. www.texasobserver.org/mike-miles-f...

Putting Texans first, huh? www.texastribune.org/2026/03/27/d... and www.texastribune.org/2026/03/26/t... by @kaylaguo.bsky.social

Charles Flores is on death row based on wavering evidence from a witness, police hypnosis and other unreliable testimony. Listen to more about the ins and outs of Betty Black’s murder and the search to find the truth behind it by @michellepitcher.bsky.social www.texasobserver.org/riding-shotg...

“Even sites once protected by Congress, including a butterfly refuge and a historic church, are slated for fencing funded by the “one big beautiful bill”—while the river itself is transformed by a floating barrier.” www.texasobserver.org/trump-border...

“If you follow poker, you know the line about the folly of drawing to an inside straight. The odds are about 10-to-1 against your drawing the right card. To continue the poker metaphor, what Trump has done with Republican judges is to fold a straight flush.” prospect.org/2026/03/20/h...

Drive around Fort Worth, or any populous Texas city, and you’ll see Muslim mosques, Hindu and Buddhist temples, Sikh gurdwaras, and Jewish synagogues, as well as Christian churches of all sizes and varieties. A diversity that depends on a wall of separation. www.texasobserver.org/a-wall-thats...

Featured story: "It didn’t take long before Tammy Fogle, the leader of our local Moms for Liberty group, issued 27 book challenges. She had no children attending our schools, but SB 13 had opened the door for her."

Last week's top story, from Texas Observer magazine: “Long term, it’s going to set a lot of precedent that pushes the law away from environmental protection, which will either lead to more-harmful outcomes for the environment or will necessitate the development of new legal and policy approaches.”

From @dylanbaddour.bsky.social at @insideclimatenews.org: City officials in Corpus Christi on Tuesday released modeling that showed emergency cuts to water demand could be required as soon as May as reservoir levels continue to decline.

“The U.S. Education Department is handing off a portion of its student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department, a first step toward shedding management of all student loans as Trump administration officials dismantle the federal education agency.” www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...

Straight up- on the closure of 12 HISD schools. youtu.be/R2R-TivoFQk

“Harris County landlords dodged $119M in property taxes last year using controversial tax-break deals” www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

🚨BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is publicly offering to abandon his U.S. Senate campaign if Senate Republicans agree to change the filibuster rules and pass the SAVE America Act, a sweeping anti-voting bill. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Saturday sent panicked residents of the capital, Tehran, into the streets and parents racing back to schools where they had just dropped off their children. Follow live updates. trib.al/yRLAlzO

“This is the eighth military intervention of Trump’s second term in office”

“Nobody’s coming to save the working class and the regular American, so we might as well step up and save ourselves.” www.texasobserver.org/texas-labor-...

New from Josephine Lee: “People are tired of the same old politics. The working people of Texas are looking for somebody that is actually going through what they are, who can understand what their kitchen table issues are and make sure they have somebody that fights on their behalf.”

“Nobody’s coming to save the working class and the regular American, so we might as well step up and save ourselves.” (via Josephine Lee / @texasobserver.org) Featuring @marcosisaiasvelez.bsky.social, @joseloya.bsky.social, @rableforwesttexas.bsky.social, & other union-first candidates!

"When immigrant workers are targeted, it threatens all workers’ ability to fight for better pay and conditions," writes @sarahlazare.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com. That's why we need equal rights for ALL workers. See equalrightsforallworkers.com for more. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

“The Texas Education Agency on Tuesday warned school districts that they could be taken over by the state if they help facilitate students walking out of class to attend protests.” www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...

BREAKING: We just approved our Texas AFL-CIO COPE 2026 Primary Endorsements! We're ready to get to work to elect this wave of union members, and take on the billionaires and the big corporations. View our full list of endorsements here: texasaflcio.org/news/texas-a...

The Houston Chronicle editorial board says that Democrats should make state Rep. James Talarico their Senate candidate because he's running like he actually wants to win in Texas. bit.ly/4qfdZkM

New from @josephinelee.bsky.social: "I lived in Pearland for six years, but I didn’t learn about the Sri Meenakshi Temple until last year when I made a wrong turn. The temple’s sculpted stone tower rises 58 feet, seeming to materialize out of nowhere in this otherwise humdrum space ..."

While accusing Democratic leaders in Minnesota of inciting violence, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the federal government should “recalibrate” its immigration operations in order to garner respect.

@nytimes.com fails to answer its question! Jobs turned 'bad' because bosses use an underclass of workers to drag down our working conditions. The only way to end this is to unite the working class and fight against the criminalization of working people. Learn more at equalrightsforallworkers.org

You can see pretti’s hands under the pile all the way up to where gray jacket guy takes the gun. Pretti clearly never pulled it out.

I've been informed that the man in this video is Matthew James Obadiah Allen, better known as Twin Cities hip hop artist Nur-D

this guy just wanted to help defend his community and they murdered him for it and the highest officials in the nation are lying about what multiple camera angles are showing the nation this cannot stand

3) @josephinelee.bsky.social at the @texasobserver.org finds that many private schools accepted into the program openly discriminate by religion and sexual orientation - while rural Texans have few private school options at all. bsky.app/profile/texa...

Coalition group Youth Against Sweatshops put out a statement on Venezuela and how it will directly hurt American workers. www.instagram.com/p/DTdHMnsjWb... www.stopcriminalizing.us/articles/tru... Join Break the Chains and learn more at equalrightsforallworkers.org

The execution of Renee Good clearly shows that ICE's assaults are not just a war on immigrants but a tool to silence all workers. We must go further beyond ICE accountability to demand equal rights for ALL workers @ equalrightsforallworkers.org. time.com/7345243/ice-... #SayHerName #stopiceviolence

Exactly @channel5bluesky.bsky.social ! Our government criminalizes immigrants so we fight among ourselves! We cannot let our bosses and landlords continue to exploit us and divide workers! Unite to fight back against those who are killing us! go to: equalrightsforallworkers.org to learn more!

An important and heartbreaking look at how incarcerated people are dying of overdoses under the care of facilities meant to rehabilitate them, by @michellepitcher.bsky.social for @texasobserver.org 👇 www.texasobserver.org/state-jails-...

Out today: “Isn’t it ironic that the same system that punished him for his addiction on the outside continued to supply and feed it on the inside?”

The expansion raises questions long-term about the size, strength, and investigative firepower of the state’s press corps—particularly at the Capitol. Is it in fact a good thing that Hearst now runs the papers servicing the four largest metros in Texas?

The neo-fascist group Patriot Front is building a network of businesses in North Texas in an attempt to create a parallel, self-sufficient white nationalist economy. The Observer identified the men behind 4 of these companies.

FBI Investigating Renee Good While Obstructing Probes Into ICE Killer @sharonzhang.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/fbi...

As someone on the Dallas subreddit said: "This article provides the best description of the individuals attempting to undermine homeless services in Dallas." Give it a read. www.texasobserver.org/dallas-texas...

New from Josephine Lee: Our investigation of the state's voucher program shows that many schools discriminate against potential students. Around 40% of the religious schools have policies that favor their own faith and around 25% discriminate against LGBTQ+ students.

92% of private schools already enrolled in Texas’ voucher programs serving kids beyond kindergarten are religious. @texasobserver.org found many of these exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids. #TxEd #TxLege #TexasSchools #ProtectPublicSchools #SchoolVouchers www.texasobserver.org/texas-vouche...

Texas encourages students and university faculty members to engage in govt witch hunt of professors. www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...

New: I spoke to Rice University Latin American Studies Professor Luis Duno-Gottberg and @sdonziger.bsky.social about the history of U.S. oil adventurism in Venezuela and the role Chevron is set to play in Trump's blood-for-oil imperial venture. www.texasobserver.org/houston-oil-...

New from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: A Dallas megadonor, a new nonprofit, and a scheme to relocate the homeless out of downtown shed light on a larger right-wing triumph over “housing first.” www.texasobserver.org/dallas-texas...

#ICYMI: Between mid-October and early November, Texas Department of Public Safety and ICE signed a pair of agreements that will authorize some state police within DPS’s Criminal Investigations and Highway Patrol divisions to effectively operate as ICE agents.

Save the date: Join us January 28, 7pm at the Austin Film Society Cinema for a special screening of La Libertad De Fierro, the new documentary about the life of former death-row inmate César Fierro after his release from prison. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com.mx/e/la-liberta...