“This can’t be interpreted…as anything else but an attack directly on trans kids.” In my first byline for @teenvogue.com, I spoke with trans students, with Texas teachers, and those who support them about this troubling law that's singling out trans, enby and gender nonconforming young folks:

New from Special Correspondent @marytuma.bsky.social: House Bill 7 attacks one of the last remaining options for reproductive care in Texas and declares legal war on blue states.

I’m outside the Don Hutto ICE detention center in Taylor, Texas CoreCivic just denied Congressman Greg Casar access to the facility

In my first of two articles about the Barton Springs attack, I connected the incident with what I recently learned about Sister Rivers, a Polish group devoted to queer Femme environmental action and defense. Out today at @deceleration.bsky.social ...

“It’s been an open secret in the Legislature for a while that if your bill has the word ‘climate’ in the caption, it’s not getting a hearing.” Great work by @candicebernd.bsky.social in @texasobserver.org:

Out today from @CandiceBernd.bsky.social: “It’s been an open secret in the Legislature for a while that if your bill has the word ‘climate’ in the caption, it’s not getting a hearing. That has been true for many sessions.”

NEW: TX Rs blame decamped Dems for holding up flood response. They also argue a disaster-response bill they shunned in the regular session wouldn't have gone into effect until after the 7/4 flood. Here's the climate bills they've ignored for over a decade now: www.texasobserver.org/texas-gop-sa...

~NEW EPISODE~ Texas Floods, Mutual Aid and the Climate Crisis! @bobbuzzanco.bsky.social and @sparki1969.bsky.social talk with @candicebernd.bsky.social about her new article in the @texasobserver.org about the Texas floods and what led to a worse disaster. 🎙️: bit.ly/4flOyu0

We’re proud to welcome to the Observer masthead @candicebernd.bsky.social and @marytuma.bsky.social as special investigative correspondents, joining @stevanzetti.bsky.social as freelance reporters helping us tackle the environment, reproductive rights, & extremism: www.texasobserver.org/home/staff/

This is my first piece as @texasobserver.org's Special Investigative Correspondent on the climate beat in what is a pretty intense start to an exciting new gig!! You can reach me for tips, etc., at [email protected].

New from @candicebernd.bsky.social: The state’s deadliest flood since 1921 has now put the county’s lack of sirens into the spotlight. Lawmakers had a chance just earlier this year to establish a council to lay out a new disaster response plan including outdoor sirens, but the measure failed.

NEW: I dispatched to Kerr County on Tuesday for an on-the-ground view of how Hill Countries families are coping with the catastrophic July 4 floods and banding together to support one another through mutual aid in the midst of unimaginable loss. www.texasobserver.org/texans-hang-...

NOW: Hundreds have taken the streets of Austin in an impromptu march following the conclusion of the #NoKings rally at the Capitol. Starting separate thread to track the march here.

NOW: #NoKings Austin proceeds despite the evacuation of the TX Capitol at 1 pm in response to what TX DPS called a “credible threat” against lawmakers attending today’s rally, one of more than 1,800 across the country.

BREAKING: LA solidarity protesters in Austin are occupying JJ Pickle Federal Building, which houses local ICE processing center

NOW: 500 LA solidarity protesters are trying to March from the Texas Capitol to the local ICE processing center three blocks away and are being blocked by Austin PD.

@candicebernd.bsky.social was on with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social, and i learned a lot about Texas' power grid being savaged by crypto miners and deregulation. Two parts of a singular scam.

"Increasing strain on the Texas grid worries Navarro locals, who have not forgotten the winter storm of 2021, when at least 246 Texans died after a polar vortex blasted all 254 counties." @candicebernd.bsky.social @texasobserver.org www.texasobserver.org/the-crypto-r...

@candicebernd.bsky.social of @texasobserver.org delves into the buzz attracting politicians to Texas Bitcoin: prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Oh hey — my first @prospect.org! Thanks for repubbing!

NEW: In my first cover feature for @texasobserver.org, I dig into the on-the-ground energy, environment & health impacts of the Texas crypto boom. A former-employee-turned-whistleblower at what's set to become the world's largest cryptomine tells me "it's the most dangerous place" he's ever worked.

Texas is the national epicenter of Bitcoin mining, writes @candicebernd.bsky.social with the @texasobserver.org. There are an estimated 40 crypto mines in Texas, which together consume enough electricity to power 800,000 homes. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

NEW: In my first cover feature for @texasobserver.org, I dig into the on-the-ground energy, environment & health impacts of the Texas crypto boom. A former-employee-turned-whistleblower at what's set to become the world's largest cryptomine tells me "it's the most dangerous place" he's ever worked.

In our magazine, from @candicebernd.bsky.social: Texas is the national epicenter of Bitcoin mining, with only about 24 total mines operating outside the state’s borders. Approximately 40 mines are operating in the state, together consuming about 3,200 MWs, enough to power 800,000 homes.

The May/June 2025 issue of Texas Observer magazine will be out starting May 1, featuring stories from @candicebernd.bsky.social, @michellepitcher.bsky.social, Brant Deboer and more. Become a member to support our work, and get the best of our reporting in our magazine.

Red states we hear you

They want us divided. We showed up united.

#HandsOff Austin, Texas

NOW: More than 100 people are protesting outside Austin’s Tesla Gallery as part of the #TeslaTakedown Global Day of Action. A group of about 20 Trump supporters are counterprotesting across the street.

This was a helluva protest, right outside the CERA conference in downtown Houston where Trump's Energy Sec Wright had just boasted of reversing US climate policy...for the sake of the global poor. Can't make this shit up. (Oh, and that's me in the video, blue shirt, rolled-up sleeves, and ball cap.)

NOW: Houston PD are arresting a small group of Houston-area climate activists who blocked the street outside the George R. Brown Convention center hosting the annual CERAWeek oil and gas conference.

I wrote about the importance of not getting caught up in useless conflicts. Some fights are so big and decisive that they demand our focus and participation. So, choosing what's worth our time and what isn't will make all the difference in these moments. prismreports.org/2025/01/23/f...

Leonard Peltier is finally going home.

This is real (at least in the US). It's not one of those stupid things where you put an idiotic statement on your FB page declaring something illegal. I just checked it on FB settings and it had a list of every website I visited recently. Fucking weird. The future kind of sucks.

This is bad: Stephen Miller the white nationalist & Trump's homeland security adviser/deputy White House chief of staff for policy, laid out Sunday Trump's first days/week policy blitz-it's as bad as you think-maybe worse, incl a "national energy emergency" declaration c/o @punchbowlnews.bsky.social

Major loss for the Texas billionaires who have spent millions over the years to lay the groundwork for a school privatization bill, which they hoped to pass this session

just in: a federal judge finds patriot front liable for $2.75mil in damages for a july 2022 assault on a black man in boston storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Mexican wildlands firefighters of Conafor (Mexico's forestry commission) are considered some of the best wildland firefighters in the world. They've helped us with large wildfires in the US including California, Colorado, Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, and they helped up in BC too

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

Fucked up shit. I wish I had better words to describe this.

NEW FOIA Files EXCLUSIVE: I obtained more 800 pages of Kash Patel's emails (and thousands more are coming) during his stint at ODNI, which offer some insight into how he might lead FBI & raise questions as to whether he’ll use his position to settle political scores www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

scoop: will oklahoma be the first state to ban renewable energy? its becoming increasingly likely. as investments from the inflation reduction act flow into red states, we're seeing backlash. republicans are disliking renewables *more* than before. cc @heatmap.news heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

US media casually discussing invading a sovereign nation by force to steal their rare earth minerals.

The Louisiana Department of Health reports the first death from H5N1 bird flu in the United States ldh.la.gov/news/H5N1-de...

Fraternal Order of Police undecided on whether it's okay to punch the police

The president has used his final days in office to guarantee the continuation of Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza.

NEW: Texas has never publicly reported where it has built border wall. So @texastribune.org requested records, interviewed landowners and traveled the Rio Grande to compile a first-of-its-kind look of the $3.1 billion in construction. apps.texastribune.org/features/202...

When Musk put his foot on the scale, half of Congress bowed down. The world’s richest man could shut down the government, and that’s just the start. He wants to gut public services and sell them for parts, screwing all of us over while billionaires get even richer. www.jphilll.com/p/the-riches...