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Shell_Seas

(3,547 posts)
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 03:34 PM Monday

Sine Die, Die, Die, DIE!

140 Days of cruelty, corruption, and corporate handouts is finally over.

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/sine-die-die-die-die



The 89th Texas Legislature is over, but the damage will echo for years. This session was 100% about control. Control over classrooms, bodies, ballots, and truth itself. In 140 days, Republican lawmakers pushed through some of the most cynical, cruel, and corrupt legislation we’ve seen in modern Texas history, and they did it with a smile.

Don’t let them pretend otherwise. Don’t let them say it was about “parents’ rights” or “border security” or “fiscal responsibility.” It was about power. It was about erasing opposition. And they think we’ll move on.

We won’t.

They passed plenty of garbage. But there’s the silver lining. They put it all in writing.

So, as they strut home to take credit for gutting public schools and bullying kids, we’re going to do something radical, and that’s pay attention. Because we’ve got receipts, and come November 2026 (and every fight before then), we plan to use them.

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WMDemocract

(48 posts)
1. They weren't legislating -- they were looting with a Bible in one hand and a culture war in the other.
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 03:39 PM
Monday

This wasn’t a session. It was a slow-motion coup masked as governance. 140 days of backroom cruelty dressed up as “values,” while they gutted schools, hijacked bodies, and rewrote the rules so they never lose again.

And let’s be clear — they don’t care if it’s legal, just that it’s permanent.

But you’re damn right we’ve got receipts. Every vote, every bill, every smug press release. They carved it into law — now we carve it into campaign ads.

LetMyPeopleVote

(164,198 posts)
2. No true Texan can sleep soundly in their bed while the Texas legislature is in session
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 09:30 AM
Tuesday

This was a horrible session and I am glad that it is over

RussBLib

(9,890 posts)
3. And Abbott is thinking about calling a Special Session...
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 12:55 AM
Yesterday

...to redistrict the state in the middle of the decade, to keep it from electing Democrats. They just will not play by the rules any longer. Oh god we have a rancid crop of Republicans in Texas.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

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