On Monday, dozens of bodies were found in a tractor-trailer outside San Antonio, Texas, in an incident that left 53 migrants dead. They included 27 Mexicans, 14 Hondurans, seven Guatemalans, and two Salvadorans who had been packed in stifling conditions. Some victims were as young as 13. The tragic episode is now thought to be […]
When Vicki Baker cleared out her home in McKinney, Texas, in 2020, she filled two 40-foot dumpsters with her belongings. It wasn’t the way she’d pictured emptying the house as she prepared to begin retirement in Montana. But there was little else to be done with her tear-gas stained items after a SWAT team careened […]
In early April, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott unveiled a controversial plan to send buses full of undocumented immigrants to Washington, D.C. The policy, Abbott said, would “help local officials whose communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants.” But it turns out those communities might be stuck footing the hefty bill for Abbott’s busing […]
It’s easy to understand why people moved to California—and it’s just as easy to understand why they are now leaving. In the 1950s, planned developments of sprawling single-family ranch houses sprung up throughout California. Postwar abundance meant normal people could have garages and swimming pools. Real estate magnates set their sights on creating full towns, […]
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw testified before state legislators today that the police response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was an “abject failure” and said he strongly believed that the door to the classroom, which police officers waited outside of for more than an hour, was unlocked. The statements were […]
In the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde Texas, news outlets around the country have filed scores of public records requests trying to uncover more information about the delayed police response, but law enforcement agencies are fighting to reject those requests. Last week, a law firm representing the city of Uvalde sent a letter […]
We’ve got 10 days left in Pride Month. That it takes place this year during an election cycle that has been heavily influenced by culture wars putting gay and particularly trans issues front and center has inexplicably brought back into politics some pretty old ideas about LGBT issues. Over the weekend, the Republican Party of […]
On Independence Day last year, Michael Lowe, a tour guide from Flagstaff, Arizona, was vacationing in Tucumcari, New Mexico, when he encountered local police officers who were investigating a disturbance. As part of their investigation, they asked Lowe and his friends for identification, which led to his arrest after the cops found that he had […]
I regret to inform you that Texas is at it again. “It” being absurd and melodramatic culture-warmongering, of course. In this latest round, Texas state Rep. Bryan Slaton is trying to ban minors from seeing drag queens, in response to a Dallas bar’s “Drag the Kids to Pride” event, which it billed as “a family […]
Angeli Gomez is the mother of two kids who attend school at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. On the day of the horrific mass shooting there that claimed the lives of 19 children and two adults, Gomez’s kids both had graduation ceremonies. Gomez is a farm worker; she attended the ceremonies, hugged her kids, and […]