PSL is my favorite, but drinking one while roasting in this heat is a no. The reason Texas looks like fall is because the earth is scorched and dying. #iamup
Thursday - Scattered storms are possible today. Threat for severe weather is low, but storms could contain gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall. Otherwise, highs in the mid-90s with a heat index near 100. #wfaawweather#iamup
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Thursday - Scattered storms are possible today. Threat for severe weather is low, but storms could contain gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall. Otherwise, highs in the mid-90s with a heat index near 100. #wfaaweather
Senators Warren and Booker have asked Bed Bath & Beyond for more information on its mass layoffs, including how much of the debt financing its bankruptcy will go to employee severance https://t.co/rhp0NlnJ73
There's a lot of rich detail in this article that I co-wrote with @KitOConnell. Read the entire thing at @TexasObserver, consider becoming a supporting member of the historic progressive investigative journalism outlet that made this work possible.
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ACPEDs documents from the leak show that GENECIS had been on ACPEDs radar since at least 2016. That year, ACPEDs received a letter from Attorney General Ken Paxton thanking the organization for submitting an amicus brief in support of the state in the landmark abortion case.
Bennett also asked: “Is it wrong that I will volunteer to testify that you guys knew (by way of this email) that there was very little proof that your sterilization program was either safe or effective?”
“Please stop damaging our children. Before it’s too late," Bennett wrote. "And please send back immediately all the monies Ashford has ever donated...I cannot have my firm be associated with your experimentation on children. Ashford Inc. is Bennet’s publicly traded firm.
Bennett begins the chain with what seems like genuine curiosity...But he followed up with an email on January 26 expressing much stronger views. Echoing talking points used by right-wing protesters, Bennett described the clinic as a “sterilization program."
Starting in December 2019, Bennet sent a series of misinformation-packed emails to representatives of Children’s Medical about the GENECIS clinic. His tactics are tantamount to what is known as “sealioning”—a technique to wear people down with relentless requests for information.
Republican megadonor Monty Bennett personally exerted pressure on the clinic, while also pouring at least $790,5000 into the warchests of anti-trans lawmakers over last 13 years. Bennett also has used his wealth to fund a news website that has run critical reports about GENECIS.
In November 2021, the GENder Education and Care, Interdisciplinary Support (GENECIS) program at Children’s Medical Center Dallas dissolved after a vitriolic campaign that included attacks by Governor Greg Abbott. But there was a behind the scenes effort that we didn't know about.