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Jul 13
New from @josephineklee: Districts across the state are arresting young children children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more police.
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In Texas Schools, a Crisis of Arrests of Kids as Young as 10
A groundbreaking data analysis shows how districts across the state are arresting and citing children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age...
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In our magazine: These 11 months of Robinson Gonzalez’s life are a microcosm of the immigrant experience—of resilience in the face of a contradictory system that welcomes your labor but not your full presence. texasobserver.org/american-skate…
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New from Mezabahnur Masum: A truly staggering expansion of AI data centers is underway in Texas, and the state wants to make them pay for the wires that connect them to the grid. But who pays for building a grid that can support data centers?
Who Pays for the High-Powered Grid that Data Centers Need?
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“I guess I was in more fear because of what I had just seen happen to the young guy in Maine. I had just seen that in the morning before I left to the movies. So, can you imagine my train of thought when I saw him pull the gun on the kid?”
ICE Never Stopped Chasing People in Cars in the Rio Grande Valley
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Top story: One estimate suggests there are more than 600k Cubans in the U.S. who don’t have a viable pathway to citizenship. The number of Cubans seeking asylum has spiked—but court statistics show their chances of success are slim.
Cuba's Government Is in Trump's Crosshairs, but Political Dissidents Find No Refuge Here
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