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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SteveThompson ("Steve Thompson") wrote:
"The goal of Death Star is simple. The deeply conservative Texas Legislature wants to effectively deny cities—the state’s large Democratic-leaning cities, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin in particular—the ability to pass local laws and regulations in eight major policy areas: agriculture, business and commerce, finance, insurance, labor, natural resource law, occupational law, and property law. And it does all this in a bill that is 10 single-spaced pages long..."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/greg-abbott-texas-attacks-austin-with-death-star.html #GOP