Ash Hall
@LGBTActivist
Advocate who fights oppression and centers love. They/them. 🏳️⚧️ Writer, consultant, policy nerd, musician. #Txlege adjacent. @Aclutx = work, opinions = mine.
The only thing the governor and #txlege have any business prioritizing in the special session is flooding. None of the extra garbage items on the agenda. People are dead and missing. A bathroom bill sure as hell won’t fix that.
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This lawsuit is nothing more than the ACLU’s desperate attempt to stay relevant. SB 12 stands firm on a simple truth: parents—not activist groups, bureaucrats, or political ideologues—are the chief decision-makers in their child’s education. Texans overwhelmingly support…
.@GregAbbott_TX orders a special session to start July 21 with an initial agenda that includes revisiting hemp regulation/SB 3 #txlege
happy 5th annual @TravisCountyTX pride flag raising 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ thank you @TravisCoJudge @AndyBrownATX & our 4 fabulous county commissioners for kicking off Pride by celebrating the love and equality our county is known for. I love my county!! 💖
NEW: Natl Association of Deaf files suit against White House Press Secretary, Chief of Staff and Exec office of President. They're seeking court order to restore American Sign Language interpreters to White House events/briefings: Suit: "The White House inexplicably stopped…
NEW: Texas politicians passed a bill that defines sex based on the ability to reproduce and requires state agencies to identify Texans as “male” or “female” on government records. H.B. 229 is a cruel attempt to erase trans, nonbinary, and intersex Texans from public life.
I don’t get why House republicans are shocked that Dan Patrick broke his promise about the THC bill? He screws over the House every session and he doesn’t care about your re-elections. Now y’all have to face educators, parents, medical patients, and the hemp industry. #txlege
Today, we remember the 21 lives lost three years ago in the Robb Elementary Massacre in Uvalde, Texas. For 77 agonizing minutes, law enforcement stood down as 19 students and two teachers were massacred in their classrooms by a teenage gunman with an AR-15 and thousands of…
Always…fascinating to watch legislators talk about the 10 commandments when they’ve been bearing false witness against their trans neighbors for 10 years. And don’t get me started on the coveting. 🤐
Lyin', cheatin', stealin'. Bills speeding up. Bills stalling out. Last-minute desperation, stunts, double crossing. Finding your "friend" was never a friend to begin with and that your adversaries actually agree with you now & then. 9 days left in the Texas legislative session.
Had a dream last night that I missed the press conference I needed to attend this morning. Very realistic, complete with agonizing over telling my team and everything. Then I woke up and was 10 minutes late to the press conference. 🙃
This can also apply to #txlege!
This week's forecast in Texas, essentially #txwx