Josephine Lee

An important and heartbreaking look at how incarcerated people are dying of overdoses under the care of facilities meant to rehabilitate them.👇
https://www.texasobserver.org/state-jails-drug-crimes-rehabilitation-overdoses/

FBI Investigating Renee Good While Obstructing Probes Into ICE Killer @sharonzhang.bsky.social https://truthout.org/articles/fbi-investigating-renee-good-while-obstructing-probes-into-ice-killer/

92% of private schools already enrolled in Texas’ voucher programs serving kids beyond kindergarten are religious. @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social found many of these exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids. #TxEd #TxLege #TexasSchools #ProtectPublicSchools #SchoolVouchers https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-voucher-schools-openly-discriminate/

Texas encourages students and university faculty members to engage in govt witch hunt of professors. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2026/01/09/texas-launches-website-to-collect-complaints-about-public-universities-violating-state-law/

Trump’s Department of Labor continues to degenerate. https://truthout.org/articles/why-is-the-department-of-labor-posting-white-nationalist-propaganda/

The Trump administration “has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in the document’s 920 pages” of Project 2025. https://19thnews.org/2025/12/project-2025-heritage-foundation-progress/

“In a year defined by escalating repression, 2025 delivered something unexpected: cracks in the censorship machine.” https://truthout.org/articles/in-2025-educators-didnt-just-endure-repression-they-built-resistance/

In winning the bid to administer Texas’ school vouchers, the venture-capitalist- backed firm, Odyssey, cultivated close ties to the political world of Gov Abbott. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-voucher-vendor-abbott-allies/

Houston ISD’s top schools may no longer be accessible to all its students through its open-enrollment lottery system under a proposal to turn these schools into private partnerships: https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-magnet-hspva-private-charter-tea-takeover-mike-miles/

The $50 billion rural health fund was set up to help rural hospitals shoulder cuts from Trump’s OBBBA. It’s looking unlikely that will happen… https://www.cbsnews.com/news/states-rural-health-fund-trump-medicaid-cuts/

“The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter.” https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-irs-investigations-left-leaning-groups-democratic-donors-612a095e

“We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.” https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will