About 30-40 folks in front of the J.J. Pickle Federal Building (which houses an ICE processing center) in Austin on a third night of protest in solidarity with Minneapolis and Portland. State troopers and APD have formed a police line in front of the building. 🧵 #ICEOutForGood

This. We can break the videos down frame-by-frame, but as long as they show a woman who rejected the authority of a fascist state, fascists will say she deserved it—and so, in their view, does anyone who isn't actively assisting the fascist state in body or, importantly, belief.

Someone who calmly tells you she “isn’t mad at you” isn’t signaling murderous intent. Someone who calls you a “fuckin bitch” seconds after shooting you in the face, on the other hand, is clearly signaling murderous intent.

Didn’t film, but this action got rowdier. Folks took the parking lot and starting beating on the building/windows.

About 100+ folks have gathered to mourn Renee Nicole Good outside an unmarked ICE facility north of Austin in Pflugerville that agents have been using as a temporary holding facility. #AustintoMinneapolis #AbolishICE

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning. “SAY HER NAME!” “RENEE GOOD!”

Our latest from Special Investigative Correspondant @candicebernd.bsky.social ...

New from @candicebernd.bsky.social: At a time when the globe is warming at alarming rates, Venezuela's oil reserves represent a "climate bomb" waiting to go off. Here are the Gulf Coast companies hoping to tap into that blood money ...

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-...

The Trace has been tracking shootings connected to Trump's immigration crackdowns — an important project that I had somehow missed but shines today: www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Minneapolis, once again, taking no shit.

Right, when you compare the two DHS statements, it looks like cut-and-paste language cooked up in advance in the expectation of incidents exactly like these.

These frames don't show intentional weaponization of the vehicle. They show an ICE officer who shot to kill rather than move his torso ever so slightly out of the way.

Context: A decade ago, Border Patrol agents had to be ordered not to put themselves in front of moving vehicles as a pretext to use deadly force www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...

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Chevron stock jumped up this morning in the wake of Trump’s attack on Venezuela.

Pics from today’s No Blood for Oil protest at Austin City Hall, led by activists with @austindsa.bsky.social, and Students for a Democratic Society, among others.

Rather than properly lying us into a war, they’re lying about the war altogether.

This too is a kind of climate politics.

These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.

Chevron out there saying, “We’re prepared to work constructively with the U.S. Government during this period, leveraging our experience and presence to strengthen U.S. energy security.” (Source: www.newsweek.com/chevron-reac...)

The U.S. is a rogue petrostate operating without pretense or even real pretext.

Gahdamn, really wish we prosecuted Bush for doing exactly this 20 years ago. But y’know #MoveOn.

Possibly relevant! www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

Trump's got a taste for blood.

𝗢peration 𝗜mperial 𝗟andgrab

Bari Weiss and her benefactors vastly overestimate the remaining percentage of Americans who want their racism watered down. There's no market for the diluted stuff any more when people can get it undiluted directly from the source.

#BestOf2025: “The improvements made so far by the state are inadequate for what’s coming. [The crypto industry isn’t] interested in investing in alternative energy. They want a lot of energy, a lot of electricity, right now, which means fossil fuels. The industry creates an enormous footprint.”

As total membership in Texas unions grows, the state's labor federation is moving into a new era of leadership, with Latin@s in both of the top roles for the first time: www.texasobserver.org/texas-afl-ci... from @josephinelee.bsky.social

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Every nazi movement needs a youth wing.

“Trans visibility is important, but also trans people deserve to have fun.” For @texasobserver.org magazine, I teamed up with photographer Harmon Li to document a "Trans Takeover" at Austin's Barton Springs swimming hole. A moment of queer and trans joy that came weeks after a violent attack ...

From @candicebernd.bsky.social in our magazine: A Texas Observer analysis found since 2021, at least 60 cryptomines have been developed or are under construction in at least 33 counties statewide. Experts worry our grid, and water supply, can't handle the load.

2 in 3 Americans are “one paycheck away from homelessness” And in Utah they’re building a concentration camp for unhoused people Modeled after Alligator Auschwitz and serving as a test case for the criminalization and disappearance of poverty Caused by the very same government that ended SNAP.

NOW: A small group of protesters briefly blockaded the entrance to the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin to demand shareholders reject a $1T pay package for the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. The blockade dispersed after a Travis Co. Sheriff threatened to arrest protesters without any official warning.

The Texas Dept of Public Safety carried out aerial surveillance of Austin's No Kings protest after Gov. Abbott suggested that "violence & destruction" were likely. Of course, the event was peaceful. Even the pilot, in video I obtained via FOIA, says: "Seems like it’s gonna be pretty peaceful, huh?"

If you're in DFW, don't miss the premiere of @abbymartin0.bsky.social's anti-imperialist environmental documentary "Earth's Greatest Enemy" at the Texas Theater. Doors open at 5! www.eventbrite.com/e/earths-gre...

#NoKings Austin marching from the Texas State Capitol to Auditorium Shores park, where local organizations have set up tables and stations to get folks further organized.

Austin #NoKings march to Auditorium Shores has started. Hundreds still at Capitol lawn finishing up speeches. Thousands here today.

#NoKings Austin tagging in. Massive crowd at the Texas State Capitol despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s activation of the National Guard.

The Barbed Wire conducted an in-depth review of court records and statements thus far in the July 4 Prairieland case in which 17 people have been charged related to a shooting at an ICE facility — and found holes that call into question the government’s narrative. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/24/n...

“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...