UT police charge San Marcos man with illegally having gun at pro-Palestinian protest statesman.com/story/news/loc…

Greg Abbott speaking about teachers in 2023:

accusing them of “teaching a radical, woke agenda,” engaging in “indoctrination” & “using their positions to try to cultivate and groom” young kids into being transgender & teaching “our children to hate our country.”

Abbott today🙄:

a good day for texas university professors

- a University of Houston professor won the 2024 pulitzer in history
- a recently retired UT Austin professor won the pulitzer in memoir

houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/…

We couldn't be more thrilled for UT History Department Prof. Emerita Jacqueline Jones! Posting more on this soon, but for now learn all about 'No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era' at: bit.ly/4bskQQQ.

We're still very much in a drought but the last week's rain has made a difference. Our lakes are now 45% full.

Today’s protest at UT Austin ended after an hour and a half of chanting and speeches from doctors who had been in Gaza, a student who had been arrested, and faculty who support protesters and call for a ceasefire in Gaza. There was no police intervention. statesman.com/story/news/edu…

Jewish community members walk outside the Texas Capitol as they participate in a Walk for Solidarity: Honoring the Past, Defending the Future in downtown Austin.

Scoop: A Texas man has filed legal action to investigate his ex-partner who got an abortion *in Colorado,* where abortion remains legal. The latest antiabortion strategy to intimidate + stop women from crossing state lines. washingtonpost.com/investigations…

Our opinion team Houston Chronicle has an op-ed from University of Texas President Jay Hartzell about recent campus protests.

hat tip to Lisa Gray for her work houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outloo…

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