Daily Dispatch 5/8/24: New Anti-Abortion Tactics Increase Legal Risks Of Consensual Sex, and More Progress Texas Podcasts

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:

New legal tactics allowing people who have sought abortion care out of state to be dragged into court increase the risks of engaging in sexual activity: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/7/2239233/-Texas-finds-new-way-to-punish-and-humiliate-anyone-who-tries-to-get-an-abortion

ERCOT issues a "weather watch" due to hot weather and their own apparant failure to plan for ever hotter springs and summers: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/ercot-issues-weather-watch-for-wednesday-expects-unseasonably-high-temperatures/

...While renewable energy passes 30% of global electricity generation for the first time: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/renewable-energy-passes-30-of-worlds-electricity-supply

A new federal investigation of Katy ISD over their transgender policies has been announced: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/08/katy-isd-lgbtq-policy-investigation/

...While Ken Paxton threatens Austin over a new City policy deprioritizing pursuit of cases involving transgender care for young Austinites: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2024/05/07/texas-attorney-general-threatens-legal-action-against-city-of-austin

UT Dallas professor Ben Wright writes on his experience after being arrested during a pro-Palestinian protest on that campus last week: https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2024/05/what-my-students-and-i-learned-in-jail-after-protesting-on-the-ut-dallas-campus/

Tomorrow! Thursday May 9 at 12 noon, join us for our "Burning Issues" town hall on liquid natural gas (LNG) pollution in Texas: https://progresstexas.org/blog/progress-texas-hosts-climate-justice-town-hall

Also for your calendar: a public forum will be held on May 20 by the Texas Medical Board on proposed exceptions to Texas' near-total ban on abortion: https://x.com/hannahnorton89/status/1785054901661216800?s=12&t=Bt_w1MN2AlTfFkWGHJiOJg

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