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Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
Quite a scandal: Biden was prepared to spend a few hundred thousand dollars on Teslas for the State Department, and the Trump administration altered that to $400 million, then back-dated the records to make it look like Biden did it.
State canceled the contract after @DropSiteNews exposed it.
DOGE should ask us for tips in saving actual money for the taxpayer, beyond just canceling Reuters subs
BREAKING: NPR has obtained a State Department document revealing that the Biden administration planned to allocate only $483,000 in the 2025 fiscal year for electric vehicle purchases—far less than the $400 million Drop Site revealed was being set aside for Tesla vehicles under the Trump administration (until a recent quiet revision to the procurement document).
A former White House official familiar with the plans suggested the $400 million allocation to Tesla was a deliberate move, not a clerical error.
The State Department and Tesla had agreed to research armoring electric vehicles under Biden, but no funds had been earmarked for “Armored” Teslas. The approved $483,000 budget was intended for light-duty EVs, and another $3 million was set aside for supporting equipment, like charging stations.
The revised procurement document indicates it was originally published in December, at the end of then-President Joe Biden's term, but it doesn’t appear in the Internet Archive for that month.
Read Drop Site’s story 🔽
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
Tom Homan was picked as Trump's next border czar.
Before the election, Homan ran Border 911, a non-profit that started out as part of The America Project, an org founded by serial election deniers: Patrick Byrne and Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
texasobserver.org/border-911…
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
Elon Musk once fired someone at Twitter for not laughing at his 69 joke, so let's just say his staffing decisions are not exactly going to be high quality.
Elon Musk was among Donald Trump’s most visible and powerful surrogates on the campaign trail. He remains within the inner circle, joining calls with world leaders and weighing in on staffing decisions. to.pbs.org/4fpT0qS
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
Mike Siegel: (1) wants to build more housing, (2) staunch defender of an affordable public electric utility, (3) embraces fiscal sanity about Austin’s general fund, (4) loves messaging on pro-growth green jobs.
He’s what we need to help stop Travis County redshift. Help him out.
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
President-Elect Trump has promised to implement "largest deportation in the history of our country.”
Carrying out such an operation may require turning the US into a surveillance state. 🧵
texasobserver.org/how-mass-d…
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
If he wins, Trump's mass deportation regime will start with the immigrants liberals haven't show sympathy for: the Venezuelans, Haitians, and others who arrived in the last four years. If there's not real outrage and backlash, that's how he gets the camps up and running.
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
You can vote early today until 7pm or until 10pm at 8 early voting locations.
Find a list of locations and hours at VoteTravis.gov and show us your #iVoted stickers!
First election since moving back to Austin is in the books! ✅
Props to @TravisCoClerk for making the process easy. 🗳️
THANK YOU to all of the election workers! 🇺🇸
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
At least from me. wsj.com/articles/immigration…
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
This is today. We're delighted by the level of interest in this afternoon's virtual event on human rights along the borderline in Texas.
Do join us at 5pm Eastern, with @amerikag, @DylanCorbett23, @blibal, and @guerreroandi.
You can still register at wola.org/events/texass-opera…
ALT VIRTUAL WEBINAR Wednesday, October 30, 2024 5:00 - 6:30 PM EDT Virtual on Zoom TEXAS'S OPERATION LONE STAR Abuse on the Borderline Speakers: AMÉRIKA GARCÍA GREWAL Border Vigil-Eagle Pass Border Coalition DYLAN CORBETT Hope Border Institute, El Paso BOB LIBAL Human Rights Watch, Austin ANDREA GUERRERO Alliance San Diego Moderated by: ADAM ISACSON Director for Oversight, WOLA LEARN MORE/RSVP: www.wola.org/events
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
In an unsurprising pivot telegraphed months ago, proponents of the adopted APA contract are reconciling its brutal fiscal realities by urging the shift of Project Connect funds into the unrestricted GF.
Too bad low turnout May ballot measures are still allowed by the Charter…
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
Anyone who tells you that your vote doesn’t matter is full of s%*t. Here’s why.
@WorkingFamilies
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
This approval officially marks the end of “defunding” as a performance justification for APD response times, clearance rates, academy transformation, transparency, accountability, etc. It is a _monumental_ investment that will inevitably require a TRE & tough choices on AE.
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
The propagandists at Stephen Miller’s anti-ACLU want you to think that people who enter the country legally at ports of entry, who have not violated a single immigration law, are “illegal aliens.”
It shows you they don’t truly care about the law, they just don’t like immigrants.
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
He was talking about Vanessa Guillen from Houston.
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Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
WOW. Don't be surprised if AE gets a bond rating downgrade+real ops issues in a few years because Council was backed into raiding AE more & more to pay for the new APA contract (plus future general fund basics). It's the "between the lines" in this memo:
services.austintexas.gov/edi…
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
Kamala Harris to hold a rally in Houston amid early voting in Texas trib.al/PcADd0a
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
Executing a potentially innocent man is the exact opposite of justice.
#txlege #RobertRoberson @RyanChandlerTV
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
At 6PM, the State of Texas will execute an innocent man if Greg Abbott doesn’t act.
If he doesn't, I will attend Robert Roberson’s execution with a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
We will witness this travesty and ensure Robert’s story is never forgotten.
@GovAbbott: Act now.
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
WEBINAR: Join us to discuss new data from our Locked Out 2024 report and the importance of restoring voting rights w/ @chrisuggen, Kemba Smith, @OLENewMexico's Justin Allen & @FLRightsRestore's @desmondmeade.
📅 Oct. 16, 2024
🕑 2PM (ET)
Register: bit.ly/3U3fCVg
ALT Promotional graphic for 'Locked Out 2024 Webinar' by The Sentencing Project, scheduled for October 16, 2024. Includes the title, a brief description stating it discusses new data on voting rights disenfranchisement on October 16, 2024 at 2pm ET. Features photos and names of four panelists: Christopher Uggen, Kemba Smith, Justin Allen, Desmond Meade, and the moderator Nicole D. Porter.
Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc retweeted
It really can't be emphasized enough: Texas's top officials, who live on the taxpayer dime, do not feel like they have to answer for their actions in the court of public opinion.
Three unsurprising lines in this story:
-Abbott did not respond to requests for comment
-Paxton, who did not respond to a request for comment ...
-DPS did not respond to a request for comment for this story #txlege