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While praising Charlie Kirk’s commitment to free speech, Texas leaders move to punish students celebrating his death www.texastribune.org/2025/09/22/t... via @texastribune.org

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Texas AG Ken Paxton and Trump’s DOJ have moved to a “new level” of using the courts to change policy, said one legal expert. Paxton is working to “challenge Texas’ own laws. There are no statutes that allow, or even anticipate, this behavior.”

TODAY at 2 p.m. CT, ProPublica and @texastribune.org contributor Bob Garrett will be hosting an AMA on r/Texas about this legal strategy. 📌 Drop questions here: www.reddit.com/r/texas/comm...

NEW: ProPublica and seven other news organizations — including @kutnews.bsky.social and @texastribune.org — are arguing that the records in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s divorce case are of the public interest, especially in light of his bid for a U.S. Senate seat.

So excited to be working behind the scenes on this AMA. Check out this story by Bob Garrett, Texas veteran reporter, and ask him anything you want about it! www.texastribune.org/2025/08/25/t...

The Ancil Payne Reporting Fellowship at @propublica.org is open for applications. The two-year fellow will report on the many federal agencies that have been pulled into immigration enforcement. The role is based in DC. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

📢 If you or someone you know — friends, family members, neighbors — have been or could be affected by ICE raids in Chicago, we want to hear from you. You can reach our reporter @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social on Signal or WhatsApp at 872-444-0011.

The competition was tough! But this would not have been possible without the wonderful @cgaribay.bsky.social @heathergilligan.bsky.social and @hiramaduran.bsky.social, plus @pulitzercenter.org . Thanks so much to @journalists.org 🎉

So amazing to see our work recognized for the @journalists.org Knight Award for Public Service! Feeling really grateful to have worked with @jas-aguilera.bsky.social @hiramaduran.bsky.social and @heathergilligan.bsky.social to make it happen!!🎉 #OJA25

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We won! Congrats to us @cgaribay.bsky.social, it was an honor to work with you on this  #INNYs2025

NEW: Internal records show how Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt has worked to get Elon Musk access to state and local officials ahead of a formal bidding process for a Houston flood project. Both stand to benefit should Musk be selected. By @lmcgaughy.bsky.social‬ and @chengyilun.bsky.social‬

EXCLUSIVE: For years, local officials in Houston have been studying whether building giant tunnels under the city could ease the area's flooding woes. Now, Elon Musk wants a piece of the project. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege

“One ought to be extremely disturbed by this thoroughly authoritarian administration,” said Levinson, who has taught constitutional law for 45 years. Important news analysis by Bob Garrett www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Congratulations @jas-aguilera.bsky.social! So happy to see your hard work win such an amazing recognition!!

So honored to be a @journalists.org Knight Award for Public Service finalist with @jas-aguilera.bsky.social for our lead series. @heathergilligan.bsky.social's ⭐ outstanding leadership ⭐, community input + @pulitzercenter.org support was truly essential! awards.journalists.org/entries/pois...

A project @cgaribay.bsky.social and I worked on for @eltimpano.bsky.social is a finalist for the Knight Award for Public Service by @journalists.org 💪 Wouldn't have been possible without @heathergilligan.bsky.social and the support of @pulitzercenter.org 🤝 awards.journalists.org/entries/pois...

BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi. This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org. We ditched X for BlueSky early this year. And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof. I don't know what we'll do next. Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.

Under Donald Trump, ICE detainers in Texas jails rose 30% compared to last year. A new law could push those numbers higher. bit.ly/3JjQR4D

Texas’ education landscape is changing. Whether you’re a teacher; parent; school leader; student; or one of the government employees shaping state laws, we want to hear from you. Write to me and my colleagues by using this link: www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

What happens in Texas schools is shaping the future of our state. That is why education reporting is always a priority for The Texas Tribune. Here’s what we are working on as students head back to school. 🧵

Texas is about to give more than $1 billion in public money to private schools. We found that they routinely engage in nepotism and enrich insiders in ways that would be illegal for public and charter schools. Just out @propublica.org @texastribune.org: www.texastribune.org/2025/08/13/t...

Texas’ education landscape is changing. That’s why we need your help. Tell us what issues you believe require greater oversight, whether they are the impact of vouchers, misuse of public funds or anything else that is affecting how students learn 👇

NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social

For months, we had been talking with Carmen, Lina and Doris about the void their sons' detention in #ElSalvador had left. They wondered whether they were eating, if they were cold. Were they alive? Following the men's release, these families sat with us to talk about what they lived through.

NEW: The IRS will allow churches across the country to endorse political candidates. Texas — with more than 200 megachurches — will be the epicenter for pastors and congregations to test out their new influence, one expert said. With @fortworthreport.bsky.social & @texastribune.org

LOTS of Texas news this week, but don't miss this one from our colleagues and partners in Fort Worth:

Such a powerful (and difficult) story by my colleagues. ICYMI, this team from ProPublica, @texastribune.org, @cazadoresdefakenews.info, and Alianza Rebelde Investiga have been partnering on a series of stories investigating the deportations of more than 200 Venezuelan men to CECOT in El Salvador...

#Nuevo | Venezolanos deportados dicen haber soportado meses de abusos físicos y psicológicos en la prisión salvadoreña del CECOT. Están felices de estar de vuelta, pero afirman que el hecho de que hayan sido liberados demuestra lo absurdo de sus detenciones. www.cazadores.info/hombres-envi...

NEW: Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work. With @texastribune.org

"We obtained internal data showing the Trump administration knew that at least 197 of the men had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S.... The truth of all their stories—one by one—will begin to be told." Astonishing reporting from my colleagues: projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

1/ “I would like the whole world to know that my son is not a criminal. He’s not a terrorist.” That’s what the mother of Yolfran Alejandro Escobar Falcón told us. Yolfran is one of the 230+ Venezuelan men who the Trump admin. imprisoned in El Salvador.

NEW: On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away. These are their stories.

Ozzy Osbourne, one of the inventors of heavy metal who became known as “Prince of Darkness,” died on Tuesday. He was 76. The news comes after he gave his final concert this month, closing out his career by reuniting the original lineup of Black Sabbath. https://trib.al/BmFKeBR

NEW: Over the years, Texas legislators have declined to pass at least three bills that would create siren or alert systems, a tool that Kerr County officials tried to secure for years before the July 4 flooding. By Lexi Churchill & @lomikriel.bsky.social, w/ @texastribune.org

New: Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a notorious Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules when he arrived at the Texas-Mexico border. Then Trump rewrote them. With ProPublica, Cazadores de Fake News & Alianza Rebelde Investiga:

A must read story by my @propublica.org colleagues. The IRS is building a vast system to share tax records with ICE and just last month the immigration enforcement agency requested the addresses of 7.3 million taxpayers. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

As part of an effort to track Musk's influence in Texas, @kutnews.bsky.social @lmcgaughy.bsky.social requested emails between Abbott and his staff and the billionaire and his companies since last fall. The governor’s office said it believed all of the records were confidential.

This is especially fascinating (and frightening) considering how rapidly the East Side has expanded

Historically, Border Patrol’s El Paso sector has had among the fewest migrant deaths across the southern border. By 2024, two years after the city joined Texas’ border mission, the El Paso sector had become the deadliest place for migrants to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. 🧵

NEW: In 2024, Border Patrol’s El Paso sector was the deadliest place for migrants to cross along the entire southern border. The death toll increased exponentially since 2022, when the city of El Paso joined Operation Lone Star.

So DOGE used crappy AI to “munch” VA contracts. We got the code. Killed contracts included: -support for nurses -a gene sequencing to improve cancer treatment -blood analysis Story by @bxroberts.org @vernalcoleman.bsky.social and me. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

An overwhelming amount of immigration news coming out today, but don't miss this one. My colleagues @propublica.org + @texastribune.org found that the majority of the 238 men deported to a max security prison in El Salvador had ZERO convictions in the U.S. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/30/t...

NEW: Of the 238 men deported to the prison in El Salvador, DHS data shows: • 130 had no U.S. criminal histories aside from immigration violations; • 32 had been convicted of crimes in the U.S.; • 6 of those were violent crimes.

NEW: Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees to El Salvador were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found nearly three dozen school districts were missing required campaign finance reports online. Now lawmakers are pushing to impose steep penalties on local governments that fail to abide by the law.

I attended @healthjournalism.org for the first time last year thanks to @womenjournos.bsky.social. This year I got invited back as a speaker! Come say hi if you’ll be in LA at the end of the month 👋

Out of the 5.8 million migrants stopped by Border Patrol during a three year period, only 11 were caught carrying fentanyl. Our new investigation for @pogo.org shows just how INCREDIBLY RARE it is for migrants to bring drugs across the border. www.pogo.org/investigatio...