Abbott has been systematically starving public schools to death for years
His ultimate goal is to utterly and completely destroy Texas public schools.
This is just more useless hot air for an election cycle.
Abbott HATES Texas public schools.
ICE shoot Virginia man with Taser—repeatedly punch his face while unconscious.
He woke up in hospital with internal bleeding & brain hemorrhage.
But agents refuse to let him get life saving MRI.
Doctors can't treat him—because agents won't remove ankle monitor.
Can't scan his internal body damage because ankle monitor interferes with hospital scanners.
His additional injuries include—black eyes, significant bruising, cuts & 7 stitches on his lip.
Whatever force agents used was so significant that his brain has blocked all memories of the trauma.
Don José Mejía has lived in the U.S. for the past 18 years with no criminal record.
Incident occurred in Arlington, Virginia.
Alba Gonzalez doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
Close up views of the man's injuries have been blurred so this video is safe for viewing by all audiences.
EXCLUSIVE: I've obtained a detailed account from the attorney representing Jose Mejia Hernandez, a man who says he was violently apprehended, hospitalized with a brain bleed, and held by ICE with almost no communication to his own family for three days.
On the morning of August 11, at around 6:30 a.m., Mejia Hernandez was walking to work when a truck sped up on him and two men jumped out and ran toward him. Scared and not knowing who they were, he ran. While fleeing, he says he was hit with what he believes was a stun gun or Taser. He has no memory of anything after that, not how he was injured, not how he was transported, nothing, until he woke up in a hospital many hours later with serious facial injuries consistent with blunt force trauma.
According to his attorney, two ICE agents stayed at his bedside the entire time he was hospitalized. He was never given a private moment with his own doctors. When he asked the ICE agents what happened to him, they told him they didn't know. He says hospital staff seemed reluctant to speak openly in front of the agents, and that medical staff appeared to communicate more with ICE than with him directly. A nurse eventually told him quietly, in Spanish, that he'd suffered a brain bleed and brain swelling, but he says he never got a full explanation of his diagnosis or how he got hurt.
Meanwhile, his wife and stepchild had no idea where he was for about three days. Neither DHS nor the hospital, according to his lawyer, ever notified his family that he'd been detained, injured, or hospitalized.
When ICE decided to discharge him, he says he didn't even understand he was being released. He was driven from the hospital, given food and told to contact his family, then taken to an ICE office where they strapped a GPS ankle monitor on him and handed him a Notice to Appear.
By Friday he felt significantly worse and went back to the hospital, where he was again diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and brain bleed and stayed for two more days. His lawyer says doctors couldn't even complete the imaging they needed because of the ankle monitor. When he later went to his ISAP appointment still in pain, dizzy, with doctors saying he needed an MRI, ICE reportedly refused to remove the monitor unless he could produce a specific MRI appointment date and time, forcing him to bounce back and forth between the hospital and immigration offices just to get basic care while suffering from a brain injury.
His attorney is now demanding a full accounting: who was involved, what force was used, why his family wasn't notified, why ICE was reportedly more involved in his medical communications than he was, and preservation of every record, custody log, and communication tied to this case. Mejia Hernandez still needs an MRI and further evaluation for a serious neurological injury.
Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Sid Miller: I'm very worried about the data centers. We're going way too fast. The reason they come to Texas, our counties have no oversight ability so they can just do whatever.
Abbott has got a huge conflict of interest, he has taken millions of dollars from the data center industry. I said, you know, governor, you ought to just give that back, if you're truly flip-flopping and you were big on bringing the data centers in but right before the midterm election trying, you know, garner votes by looking tough on data centers, give the money back.
Teach your kids about Ruby Bridges, the first Black child at an all-white public elementary school in Louisiana.
She turned 71 this year. She's only 71.
James Cameron says there’s a reason why the villain T‑1000 is a cop in Terminator 2.
“Cops think of all non-cops as less than they are, stupid, weak and evil. They dehumanize people they are sworn to protect, desensitize themselves in order to do the job
New 30-second Talarico spot features his grandfather:
"As a Baptist preacher in South Texas, he taught me to follow the two great commandments --- love God, and love your neighbor."
#TXSen
BREAKING: Bombshell new reporting just revealed Ken Paxton has taken hundreds of thousands from data center interests while slowing down local efforts to stop them. He’s unbelievably corrupt.