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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · 6d

Trump is trying to deport DACA kids, who have mostly been left alone by the gov't for the simple reason that they are fundamentally innocent-brought to the US as children. Still he’s trying to kick them out. And a couple of El Paso Dreamers just beat him.
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They Thought DACA Kept Them Safe From Arrest. They Were Wrong.

For over a decade, “Dreamers” have lived and worked in the U.S. without fear of detention. More than a dozen have been swept up in this year’s immigration crackdowns.

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · 29d

Singing, dancing, celebrating: Home Is Here!

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Aug 29

What happens when you put six blind kids and one enthusiastic teacher in a room full of synthesizers? The Semi-Modulars, that’s what. @texasmonthly.bsky.social
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How These Blind Students Formed Texas's Hottest Young Synthesizer Band

Inspired by a dedicated teacher, they come together to make inventive music at the state's school for the visually impaired.

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Jul 30

If you grew up in the 70s in the West Village with a writer mother & a businessman father & moved to SF & met a 7th gen Tx artist & married & moved to Austin, you too might have written 6 novels & made Fargo & Alien: Earth. But I doubt it. How did Noah Hawley? www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

Meet the Not-So-Mad Genius Behind ‘Alien: Earth’

‘Fargo’ writer-director Noah Hawley has taken on ‘Alien: Earth,’ the biggest challenge of his career. Can he pull it off while learning to be a Texan?

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Jul 23

"People, after all, are just people. We laugh. We cry. We order lunch meat at HEB. Most of all, we rock out to Ozzy Osbourne, & when his imperfect voice combines w mighty riffs & thumping drums, we feel something innately human." www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta... @texasmonthly.bsky.social

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star

The Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, was an unlikely Texas icon.

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Jul 11

The most haunting story you will read about the flood. "If I or anyone else had been closer to them, we would have helped her. We would have grabbed one of the kids. But we didn’t know that we were about to be plunged into the water. We simply didn’t know." www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”

The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Jul 7

“Pastor, I just need to be reminded: Is God good?” @allegrahobbs.bsky.social goes to church in Kerrville after the flood. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic... @texasmonthly.bsky.social

Prayer Is “All We Have”: Sunday Morning in Kerrville After the Flood

A grieving community looks to their pastor, and their God, for solace.

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Jun 24

11 years ago, Rev. Charles Moore set himself on fire in the parking lot of a Dollar General in Grand Saline, Tx. Why? “He wanted his death to count for something,” said a friend. “He wanted his life to count for something.” www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/m... @texasmonthly.bsky.social

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Jun 19

Happy Juneteenth! For generations, Lake Mexia hosted the finest Juneteenth celebration in the US, w African Americans flocking there from all over. In 1981 3 Black teens were arrested-& drowned. The celebration has never been the same. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic... @texasmonthly.bsky.social

The Ghosts of Comanche Crossing

In 1981 three Black teenagers drowned while in law enforcement custody during a Juneteenth gathering at Lake Mexia. Four decades later, Texas’s proudest Emancipation Day celebration still hasn’t recov...

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Apr 20

Oh yeah, Margaret had great stories about that night. She appreciated the spectacle.

Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · Apr 20

Here's Margaret Moser's account of a Sex Pistols show at Randy's Rodeo. @mikehalltexas.bsky.social, had you heard this story? www.randysrodeo.com/features/pis...

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Apr 18

A crazed undertaking! A beautiful list! Of course it’s @dansolomon.com ranking all the songs named “Texas”-separating the garbage from the gold, including Chris Rea, BigXthaPlug, Stevie Ray, Trae tha Truth, Tanya Tucker, Merle, Willie-and of course Big Black. www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Apr 2

Here’s a story about a kid-a legal immigrant to the US-who Trump deported to the worst prison in the world. The kid wasn’t in a gang & didn’t have tattoos. Your federal government in action: no due process, no common sense, no decency. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic... @texasmonthly.bsky.social

The Austin-Area Teen Trump Disappeared to El Salvador

Eighteen-year-old Daniel Terán was taken from his home and shipped to a notorious prison on the charge that he is a gang member. The government hasn't produced evidence supporting the claim, says his ...

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Mar 7

Wanna see the human cost of DOGE’s reckless cuts of people who work for the federal govt? @sashavonawesome.bsky.social interviewed 2 of the 5 employees slashed from Big Bend Nat’l Park—people who made the park a safe place to visit. @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Feb 23

great story, Scott, thanks for finding it and putting it out there!

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Feb 7

"For better or for worse, the meat-packing industry relies on immigrants; changing that would likely require fundamentally changing how America feeds itself." Great story by @jherrerx.bsky.social revisiting the site of a 2006 mass deportation in Cactus, Tx.
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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Feb 4

Gloria Smith, who lives in Fort Worth, didn’t expect to find her roots in rural Burleson County. Then she started looking. Now she’s saving the Dabney Hill freedom colony, one building at a time. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Gloria Smith Goes Down Home

After stumbling upon her rich family history, the Fort Worth woman made it her mission to save a historic freedom colony in Texas.

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Feb 2

66 years ago tonight Buddy Holly played his last song, “Brown Eyed Handsome Man," an anagram of which is “rhyme man be dead on snow” www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the...

The Night the Music Died

Fifty years ago, a plane carrying Buddy Holly crashed in a remote Iowa cornfield. This month, hundreds of fans will gather at the ballroom where he played his final show to sing, dance, and mourn the ...

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Jan 28

Whatever happened to "The Gulf of Smelly Brown Water"?

Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · Jan 28

“The Gulf of America” sounds petty and insecure.

We raise you: “The Sea of Storms.” www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

If We’re Renaming the Gulf of Mexico, Texas Would Like a Word

“The Gulf of America” sounds petty and insecure. “The Sea of Storms” sounds epic.

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Jan 23

Director Smriti Mundhra made the best death-penalty doc since The Thin Blue Line. Now “I Am Ready, Warden,” which she worked on with @keribla.bsky.social, just got nominated for an Oscar. Here’s my review: texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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‘I Am Ready, Warden’ Is a Gripping Examination of Vengeance and Redemption on—and Off—Texas’s Death Row

The new documentary is the best film about the death penalty since ‘The Thin Blue Line.’

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Jan 18

For all who celebrate Brentmas:

MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Dec 18

Some good things happened this year: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Texas Legislators Kept Robert Roberson—and Bipartisanship—Alive (for Now)

State legislators from both parties put aside their differences to halt the death row inmate’s execution.

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · Dec 17

Can plants be evil? @mikehalltexas.bsky.social convinced me.

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My Never-Ending War on the Weed From Hell

Spiky, tenacious, and hard to spot, goathead burs have burrowed into my shoes, my dog’s paws, and my West Texas home.

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Dec 11

If you want to fight the devil, you'd better bring a shovel and a good pair of gloves. www.texasmonthly.com/travel/my-ne... @texasmonthly.bsky.social

My Never-Ending War on the Weed From Hell

Spiky, tenacious, and hard to spot, goathead burs have burrowed into my shoes, my dog’s paws, and my West Texas home.

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Dec 2

Love great music? Believe in treating refugees like human beings? One week from tonight, Patty Griffin, Britt Daniel, Adrian Quesada, & others are getting together to welcome our immigrant friends & build a new shelter for women & children at Casa Marianella. Join us! www.acllive.com/event/2024-1...

Home is Here: A Concert for Casa Marianella - ACL Live at The Moody Theater

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MikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · Nov 21

Mundhra makes us do the same. Do we really believe in forgiveness or is it just something we like to talk about? Are we really defined by the very worst things we did in our lives? Do executions really bring closure? “I'm asking a lot of the viewer,” says Mundhra www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

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