@tylerfromtexas.bsky.social
Writer. Bylines in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Inkstick, Al Jazeera, NYT + more.
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.socialReposted by @tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialThe @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others.
Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.
@taniel.bsky.socialReposted by @tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialSchool boards are way under the radar in a big year like this, but the same battles you've heard about (book bans, Moms for Liberty, trans kids) are happening this year too.
I identified 19 school boards where there battles like this — and what's up: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
@tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialShameless (maybe slightly shameful) plug for my new DART story: www.dallasobserver.com/news/she-lov...
@inkstickmedia.comReposted by @tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialThe Iran war "has rippled through supply chains worldwide. Disrupted shipping through the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz makes transporting fuel, food, and manufactured goods more expensive, which, in turn, leads to higher costs for necessities."
@texasobserver.orgReposted by @tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialFrom @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social: Tarrant County is Texas' most important battleground county—at the top of the ballot it's flittered red to blue and back again, but for county-wide offices Dems have failed to gain power.
Will this November be different?
@texasobserver.orgReposted by @tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialTarrant County residents flooded a meeting to air their grievances when a Republican-led court voted to close dozens of voting locations in September. But will the justified anger at this and other anti-Democratic moves by the GOP transform into votes for Democrats?
@taniel.bsky.socialReposted by @tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialbig dynamic this fall
@texasobserver.orgReposted by @tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialOut today: “In 2026, the numbers are just exponentially greater in the amount of people who are organized, who are active and who are on the ground working to bring about change in our leadership. I think it’s a cumulative effect of all of the horrendous things that our current leadership has done.”
@tylerfromtexas.bsky.social@taniel.bsky.social: You might like this one! Thank you for all the great work you and your team are doing.
@byjustinmiller.bsky.socialReposted by @tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialTarrant County is Texas' most important battleground county—at the top of the ballot it's flittered red to blue and back again, but for county-wide offices Dems have failed to gain power. Will this November be different? www.texasobserver.org/tarrant-coun...
@tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialIf you’ve seen those viral videos coming out of Tarrant County commissioners court (a sentence I never thought I’d say) then this story is for you. Big thank you to @byjustinmiller.bsky.social and @texasobserver.org for the assignment. www.texasobserver.org/tarrant-coun...
@texasobserver.orgReposted by @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social“Every time Tim O’Hare cuts our polling locations, or every time Bo French says something awful on Twitter, I get more volunteers.”
New from @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social: The people of Tarrant County are frustrated, but Democrats need to turn that frustration into votes.
@inkstickmedia.comReposted by @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social"Last year ... the US government put 76 children from Guatemala on a deportation plane over Labor Day weekend. The children were woken up in the middle of the night; one had a panic attack, another vomited from their nerves."
@tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialThis is a compelling and timely longread from @patrickobrienstrickland.com and @inkstickmedia.com. Worth every minute, and then some: inkstickmedia.com/the-sedition...
@tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialIf you ask me, Bolts is a major pub
@tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialWhy let someone else have all the fun? (And not even a “someone”, at that.)
@taniel.bsky.socialReposted by @tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialnew, extraordinarily important, distressing reporting by @burness.bsky.social
@inkstickmedia.comReposted by @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social"Virginia has also become one of many states where so-called 'mega-master' hearings take place ... This is another area where the Trump administration is breaking records: These hearings have led to a record high number of in-absentia deportation orders."
@tylerfromtexas.bsky.socialI read it when it came out, but I’m due for a re-read. I remember thinking it was so dang good.
@inkstickmedia.comReposted by @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social“It’s very disheartening and scary,” says Naila Syed, who lives in Dallas. “I have my two kids at public school, and then I have one son who goes to a private school at our mosque. It’s very scary to drop him off there every day when I know that there have been protestors showing up there, as well.”