A good reason why, I have been suggesting people find alternative service providers, outside Us Jurisdiction.

#RuleOfLaw #UsJurisdiction #HumanRights #Justice

RE: https://infosec.exchange/users/hacks4pancakes/statuses/114207581162109270

From the @texastribune: Two people have been arrested and charged with performing illegal abortions at a Houston-area health clinic, the first criminal charges brought under the state’s near-total #abortion ban. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-first-abortion-arrests-attorney-general-investigation/

New from me: I created a guide to bad bills at the #Texas legislature.

It’s valid to feel afraid — the Republican Party is open about its desire to erase #LGBTQIA+ people from public life in the U.S. However, only a small portion of the bad bills will even reach committee this year, much less have a chance of becoming a law. I think it’s important to know which bills are most likely to move, because it shows us where we should focus our efforts to fight back. If we stop bad bills this session, it might be harder to pass worse ones next. https://kitoconnell.com/2025/03/22/bad-bills-texas-legislature-understanding-how-to/

New today: I created a brief guide to help Texans, especially #LGBTQIA+ folks and allies living here, better understand the legislature and which bills are likely to become law ... and which ones probably won't go anywhere.

If we're going to be share, fight, protest ... we should make it count. https://kitoconnell.com/2025/03/22/bad-bills-texas-legislature-understanding-how-to/

Earlier, from Francesca D'Annunzio: Texas law enforcement agencies and others around the nation are reviving a long-dead "task force" program that led to racial profiling in the past. https://www.texasobserver.org/local-state-police-ice-287g-task-force/

A team of troops in black with combative shields and helmets blitzed into the shower area looking like servicemen in an army on the battlefield. The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. The smell of burning flesh filled the air.
https://www.texasobserver.org/an-inside-look-at-taser-use-in-texas-prison/

Featured story: Last month, we revealed the owner of GlomarResponder, an overtly racist X account. It belongs to #ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, a key prosecutor for the agency. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/

"People don’t understand how we have touched so many people’s lives in so many different ways, and yet our work has gone unnoticed by the people who should understand its value."

New today: @josephinelee interviews two attorneys who, until #Trump's EO, worked for the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of #Education.
https://www.texasobserver.org/department-of-education-trump-union-cuts/

My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.

With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.

https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/

It’s clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.

(Don’t hold your breaths.)

Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, a certified nurse midwife, and Jose Ley, 29 and her employee, were charged with the illegal performance of an #abortion, as well as practicing medicine without a license. The abortion charge is a second-degree felony, which comes with up to 20 years in prison. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-first-abortion-arrests-attorney-general-investigation/