Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:

Law enforcement ratcheted up the rough treatment of protestors being arrested at UT Austin on Monday: https://www.kut.org/education/2024-04-29/ut-austin-protest-israel-hamas-war-palestinians

...Students harangued law enforcement about their failure at Uvalde: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-students-protesting-war-gaza-question-troopers-failed-uvalde-response_n_662ffbe9e4b0eb5fda512ea5

...A Slate writer provides a first-person account of Monday's melee: https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/04/protests-columbia-ut-texas-austin-student-arrest.html

...Meanwhile administrators at Texas State University in San Marcos showed restraint, and thus its similar protest remained peaceful: https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/student-protests-at-texas-state-and-ut-austin-differed-greatly-from-one-another

...All of this lays bare the hypocrisy Republican leaders and UT administrators are displaying in choosing which free speech to tolerate, and which to crush: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/29/ut-austin-pro-palestinian-demonstrations-free-speech/

Meanwhile, Governor Abbott and AG Ken Paxton are taking steps to resist new federal orders that LGBTQ students should be protected under Title IX from sexual discrimination: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2024/04/29/gov-greg-abbott-orders-texas-schools-to-defy-federal-nondiscrimination-rules/

A brave op-ed in the Nacogdoches County Daily Sentinel points out Governor Abbott's duplicity regarding a male teacher in Lewisville targeted for wearing a dress to school as a joke: https://www.dailysentinel.com/opinion/columns/greg-abbott-redefines-bully-pulpit/article_55ffd681-cfc7-51cf-89e1-686fe27c6b1d.html

Democratic Texas Railroad Commission nominee Katherine Culbert responds to reports of new permits being granted for oil producers to dump toxic produced water into Texas rivers and streams: https://www.facebook.com/Katherine4Texas

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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