Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc
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Dad. Husband. Organizer. Immigration & criminal justice advocate.
Austin, TX
Joined March 2009
I'm going to keep this account live, but will be tweeting regularly from . Hope to see you there!.
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"Musk is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the taxpayers’ coffers.".
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New from me and @HRW: . Vehicle pursuits by TX troopers and local law enforcement have killed at least 106 people and injured 301 in counties participating in Texas’ Operation Lone Star.
hrw.org
Vehicle pursuits by Texas state troopers and local law enforcement have killed at least 106 people and injured 301 people in counties participating in Texas’ Operation Lone Star (OLS) since the...
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Important piece from the @statesman today. Commercial vehicle roadside inspections — important tools to keep highways safe — have plummeted since Gov. Abbott deployed hundreds of highway patrol officers to his troubled border program Operation Lone Star.
statesman.com
Inspections of semitrucks and other commercial vehicles dropped after Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas GOP diverted thousands of state troopers to the border.
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Buried in this excellent @FrancescaDnunz Texas Observer story, a revelation that incoming border czar wears a Punisher skull on his windbreaker. The Punisher skull has been by some law enforcement to show support for right-wing vigilante justice.
texasobserver.org
Top state officials have already made promises that, under Trump, money can be shifted to education. But that didn’t happen last time.
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Today (Saturday) is an important run-off election day in Austin. Get out and support progressive candidates @MikeSiegelTX for Austin City Council D7 and Fernando de Urioste for AISD board! You can vote at any of these locations until 7pm.
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Today is the last day to EARLY vote in Travis County run-off. Get out and support @MikeSiegelTX for Austin City Council D7 and Fernando de Urioste for AISD board today! . You can vote at any of these locations until 7pm.
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Austin run-off early voting starts today! I strongly recommend folks vote for:. ✅ @MikeSiegelTX for ATX City Council, D7. ✅ Fernando de Urioste for AISD Board. Polls are open 7am-7pm. Early voting runs through Dec. 9th. Election day is Dec. 14.
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The people who profit from incarceration of human beings are feeling great right now. If you need another reason to get involved in fighting this administration, here's a good one.
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Joe Biden should not hand the keys to a mass deportation machine to Donald Trump. Take action, @POTUS!.
"One of the ways that deportation is facilitated is by having detention capacity," says Silky Shah, executive director of @DetentionWatch. She says the Biden administration could hamper the Trump team's promised mass deportations if they “start shutting down facilities now.”
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Going to try to make the migration:
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Some rare good news in my email:. Great to see @gusbova named the permanent editor-in-chief of the critically important @TexasObserver!
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I've watched Texas' treatment of immigrants devolve to depths I couldn't imagine a decade ago. But even I'm unprepared for the wanton cruelty to immigrant children we are going to see in 2025. .
Rep. @NateSchatzline's HB 1072 would create a database of undocumented children . An employee participating in Operation Lone Star would also conduct a wellness interview with the child . Database would include the fingerprints of a child.#txlege .
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RT @FrancescaDnunz: Tom Homan was picked as Trump's next border czar. Before the election, Homan ran Border 911, a non-profit that started….
texasobserver.org
Dark money and charity organizations led by former intelligence officers and ex-feds have been spreading propaganda and laying the groundwork for presidential election challenges.
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RT @ReichlinMelnick: Elon Musk once fired someone at Twitter for not laughing at his 69 joke, so let's just say his staffing decisions are….
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The prison profiteers are celebrating
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This is interesting to me, given the narrative. And San Diego County's vote is only 3/4 in. Obviously a huge swing towards Trump, but the border as a whole is much more Democratic than the rest of the country.
Border Counties Popular Vote, as of today (CA, AZ, NM, TEX). Harris: 1,371,340.Trump: 1,187,683.
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It appears that this is the man that Trump will tap to lead the largest deportation force in history.
huffpost.com
In 2022, Thomas Homan, the head of ICE under Donald Trump, accepted an invitation to speak at a racist event hosted by Nick Fuentes.
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