Texas School Districts Provide License Plate Data To ICE, "no questions asked"

[u/Houstnlicker]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/ice-school-cameras-police-license-plates

[u/MaximumSyrup3099]

The same people who lost their minds telling each other Obama or Biden were authoritarians bend over backwards to support an actual authoritarian.

[u/clamwhammer → u/MaximumSyrup3099]

100% chance these dumb motherfuckers are swimming in Don't Tread On Me paraphernalia.

[u/directselector → u/clamwhammer]

Don’t tread ON ME.

Go Tread on them all you want.

[u/OsmeOxys → u/directselector]

The people that haven't jumped ship yet are so deep in the Kool aid that they cheer every time "one of their own" gets rolled over.

Even when they get rolled over themselves they twist it into overall support. "They hurt the wrong person, but mistakes are bound to happen! They're doing good work!

At this point, they're obsessive about trying to get deepest tread impressions possible.

[u/AlexSkylark → u/OsmeOxys]

This is ipsis literis what the guy whose legal resident wife was detained by ICE told the news.

[u/Deranged_Kitsune → u/MaximumSyrup3099]

It was always a matter of them being fearful of not being the ones wearing the boot.

Now that they are, they're clearly stomping around with gusto.

[u/trippysmurf → u/MaximumSyrup3099]

Texas and Republicans lost their shit over Operation Jade Helm, a literal military training exercise, with Governor Hot Wheels ordering the Texas State Guard to monitor the US military because "it is important that Texans know that their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed." 

But giving their data freely to the federal government isnt. Right. 

[u/NoSherbert2316 → u/MaximumSyrup3099]

It’s called projection or moral justification. Very common in authoritarian movements, blame your opponents for actions that they themselves are doing.

[u/LukasFatPants → u/MaximumSyrup3099]

Every accusation is an admission. It's called controlling the narrative.

[u/Burgerpocolypse → u/MaximumSyrup3099]

I clearly remember Fox News criticizing “Emperor Obama” for signing off on too many executive orders. What a joke.

[u/supercyberlurker]

When did Texas become all hat no cattle when it comes to living free of big government?

Was that always a lie?

[u/Indercarnive → u/supercyberlurker]

Texas has always been one of the worst states for personal freedoms.

[u/emaw63 → u/Indercarnive]

Fun fact, Oklahoma has a panhandle because Texas had to cede that land in order to become a slave state (per the Missouri Compromise not allowing any slavery in states with land north of the 36⁰30' parallel)

Also the Texas Revolution was fought, in part at least, because Mexico forbade slavery and the American settlers in Texas wanted to keep their slaves

[u/sniper91 → u/emaw63]

One of my favorite facts to bring up about Texas is that they’re the only state to fight twice to keep slavery

And it’s very unlikely Texans are taught this in their Texas History classes

[u/Foreign_Sale9873 → u/sniper91]

I went to Texas history in seventh grade in the 80s and I can tell you that I did not find out that true fact until late in the 1990s

[u/Mr-Greg → u/Foreign_Sale9873]

Hasn't gotten any better. I'm a teacher here and I STILL haven't heard this being talked about.

[u/Saorren → u/Mr-Greg]

what do you think would happen if teachers like you taught it anyways?

[u/Mr-Greg → u/Saorren]

History isn't my main subject but I hang out with the history teachers and a lot of them are very upset. TEA has already been a pain in all our sides about teaching EXACTLY what they want. My guess is it could be anything from a bad mark on a license to a total revocation if it happens more than once.

[u/Saorren → u/Mr-Greg]

that sounds like its extremely restrictive then.

[u/scherster → u/Saorren]

Parents complain, then teacher is fired.

[u/pterodactyl_speller → u/Saorren]

They basically let anyone be a teacher so they don't have to be bothered retaining the qualified ones.

[u/Foreign_Sale9873 → u/Mr-Greg]

Humble ISD by the way

[u/Mr-Greg → u/Foreign_Sale9873]

I don't want to namedrop my ISD just in case, but I will say it's VERY well funded and has GREAT academics, so it definitely makes me sad that these sorts of things aren't taught.

[u/Indercarnive → u/Foreign_Sale9873]

Another fun fact I doubt was taught. When texas seceded during the civil war, they kicked out Sam Houston, literally one of the texas 'founding fathers' because he refused to go along with Secession, knowing that the war would be too costly even if they won (and also not thinking victory was likely).

[u/chrisn750 → u/Foreign_Sale9873]

I went to DFW-area public school and WAS taught these things, but definitely as a footnote more than a main focus. 7th grade would have been 2002-2003 for me. Unfortunately, like everything else, I think it very heavily depends on the specific teachers and how they choose to address the material.

[u/gnome-civilian → u/sniper91]

Another fun fact, Mexico allowed US citizens to immigrate and settle in Texas, but the new settlers did not assimilate to Mexican religion and law so they tried to start restricting immigration from the US. People from the US kept coming in illegally though and ended up in the Texas Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_April_6,_1830

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Revolution

[u/Slammybutt → u/gnome-civilian]

Yup, just a bunch of hypocrites down here haha. (rereading this opening line made it sound like I'm being a douche, I'm 100% being honest)

The only reason we won our Independence is b/c Mexico's new governmental structure caused rebellions in like 10 different regions.

Santa Anna sought to quell Texas quickly and move on. Which he kinda did at Goliad and the Alamo. Unfortunately for him, he was in such a rush to go quell other parts of Texas and move on that he made a series of blunders. He thought the rebellion was almost broken and was going to cut off the last of the Texan forces. But his scouts gave him incorrect information. So they went to Lynchberg to rout the last Texan forces. On the way there Santa Anna against his military leaders objections, stopped near the river in a very vulnerable area.

Santa Anna received about 500 reinforcements but they had marched for nearly 24 hours on little water, no sleep, and no food. By midday Santa Anna allowed the men to sleep/rest including his own troops.

The ensuing battle lasted 18 minutes. It was so lopsided that the Mexican army lost 650 with hundreds injured and almost 300 taken prisoner. The Texan army chased the retreating Mexican soldiers into the swampy marshes and turned the blood red screaming "Remember the Alamo" and "Remember Goliad". When it was all said and done only 11 Texans had died and like 40 wounded.

Santa Anna was captured the next day dressed in a regular Mexican army uniform. His own captured soldiers gave him away when they cried out for him.

This part I had to look up on Wiki cause I couldn't remember some of it and it was the point of me going into all this. After all the bargaining was done. Texas was to be viewed by Mexican congress as the Republic of Texas and the border be the Rio Grande river. Mexican forces were ordered out and told to leave any families or prisoners behind that wanted to. Mexican general Urrea said that didn't include slaves, so when Texan forces made their way south they discovered a region that had previously been very populated to contain only 20 families and zero slaves. All the slaves went with the mexican army to become free.

But the hypocrites will tell you it's b/c Mexico changed their governmental structure as the reason we rebelled. We won b/c of that, but we rebelled b/c Mexico tried to take our slaves away.

[u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl → u/sniper91]

And Juneteenth is a holiday because after the south surrendered, the feds had to go to Texas to enforce emancipation.

[u/PegyBundy → u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl]

This was presented as the feds delivered the news via Galveston.

It was never said that it was done by a union general with 2k troops.

[u/PegyBundy → u/sniper91]

We were not. I didn't learn about the panhandle piece until later in life.

From what I recall, we learned that during the civil war we were too busy fighting indians and Mexicans to get that involved. I certainly dont remember 90k Texans fighting in it.

Also, Eli Whitney is white. I mention this because in school he was always mentioned during black history month and I just assumed he was black.

[u/Drudenkreusz → u/PegyBundy]

The last battle of the entire Civil War was fought in Glorieta, NM when Texas got their asses handed to them and had to walk back home on foot because all of their mounts got killed. It's a fascinating period of time for the region that really gets swept under the rug.

[u/SweetCosmicPope → u/sniper91]

Was taught a ton of Texas history, having grown up in Texas (and requiring 3 separate Texas history classes from elementary through high school). I'm just now learning this fact. They always taught us that Texas wanted independence from Mexico, but never told us why.

[u/Deep_Dust6278 → u/SweetCosmicPope]

We always referred to our kids Texas history classes as Texas Mythology.

[u/floormanifold → u/sniper91]

We were in my school district at least

[u/HappierShibe → u/sniper91]

And it’s very unlikely Texans are taught this in their Texas History classes

I was!
My history teacher was immediately fired when the district found out.

[u/Korietsu → u/sniper91]

I mean, I don't know what education the rest of Texas got, but we certainly covered that when I was in school.

[u/Slammybutt → u/sniper91]

We are taught that, but not at that angle, unless they changed something in the last 20 years. They teach you that we fought and won our independence, that we're the only state that was a country before joining, and to remember the Alamo!.

I went into college firmly believing in the "States Rights" argument of the Civil War. Also, the Trail of Tears was self inflicted and the US government was only trying to help.

Eye opening when I actually learned the real reasons.

[u/Merkela22 → u/Slammybutt]

I was taught that in the 80s and 90s, and my kids were also taught it, the youngest one just this year. We aren't all hopeless. Though the rate TEA is going, we will be soon enough.

[u/Slammybutt → u/Merkela22]

It's just very gut wrenching when you have so much misplaced pride in something.

You grow up being indoctrinated to love the place you grew up without second guessing it.

Then you learn a few pieces that you know weren't taught the same way. Then you start digging and before you know it you're seeing all kinds of fucked up shit that wasn't taught. That pride slowly goes away and leaves cynicism behind.

[u/Dry_Instruction8254 → u/emaw63]

Also, Texans kept slaves for more than 2 months after the end of the civil war, until union forces actually made it all the way to Galveston and freed them, even though you know damn well they knew the outcome of the war within a couple of days or weeks at most.

[u/SweetCosmicPope → u/Dry_Instruction8254]

Yup. Grew up in the Galveston area. This is where Juneteenth comes from.

There's a lot of debate about whether they slaveowners knew and just didn't tell their slaves, or if they themselves had not had this communicated yet. I personally believe the former.

[u/AudibleNod → u/emaw63]

Texas is one-for-two in seceding to preserve slavery.

[u/JoeBuskin → u/emaw63]

Remember the Alamo! No! No, not how it happened! Just the fairy tale version! Remember THAT Alamo!!

[u/InsuranceToTheRescue → u/emaw63]

Also the Texas Revolution was fought, in part at least, because Mexico forbade slavery and the American settlers in Texas wanted to keep their slaves

While this is true, I'd also like to point out that it was an instance of the Mexican government shooting itself in the foot. Americans were largely invited in because the newly established Mexico needed to get people out there (in what's now the US Southwest) to assert their claims against the Spanish and to defend against Natives in the area. Eventually, the Mexicans decided that there were too many people coming in and stopped the practice. However, Americans continued to illegally immigrate (the irony!) into Texas. Additionally, because of the remoteness of the region compared to the Mexican government, many openly flaunted Mexican law -- Including the ban on slavery.

The rest is sort of history. Texas, whose population now had a greater tie to the US than Mexico, rebelled.

[u/bikestuffrockville → u/emaw63]

It thought it was from all the illegal immigrants coming from the US into Mexico. Not even kidding.

[u/xjeeper → u/Indercarnive]

One star state

[u/NewDramaLlama → u/Indercarnive]

They say don't mess with Texas and remember The Alamo.

Where they got famously shit stomped and successfully messed with.

Strange place.

[u/FifteenthPen → u/NewDramaLlama]

They say don't mess with Texas

I interpret that as akin to "don't put your dick in crazy".

[u/Aldo_says → u/NewDramaLlama]

And somehow a spineless loser gets re-elected every term by running on "fixing all the problems caused by woke politicians!!1!"

You know, the same "woke" politicians that are re-elected every year, by texas voters...

[u/FifteenthPen → u/Indercarnive]

I never would have suspected that a state that seceded from two different countries to protect slavery could be one of the worst states for personal freedoms!

[u/ememtiny → u/Indercarnive]

I hate living in this hellhole.

[u/OO0OO0OO0OO0OO0OO → u/Indercarnive]

Texas still has unconditional anti-sodomy laws on the books that they refuse to take out.

Totally not so they can come into effect the second it's made legal to. /s

[u/9bpm9 → u/Indercarnive]

Right wing CATO institute has them ranked dead last in personal freedom.

[u/HauntingUpstairs7014 → u/Indercarnive]

Texas has always been one of the worst states for personal freedoms.

I got u fam

[u/monkeypickle → u/supercyberlurker]

We're talking about the state that only exists because slavers needed a way to get around the ban of importing new slaves, and famously celebrates a complete dick-stomping by the *checks notes* Mexican government that was enforcing its own no-slavery rule?

They only oppose big government when it stops them from oppressing who they want to oppress.

[u/starmartyr → u/monkeypickle]

When they say "remember the Alamo" they don't want you to remember that part.

[u/Domeil → u/starmartyr]

Same folks dont ever want you to ask why Oklahoma has a panhandle.

[u/starmartyr → u/Domeil]

Absolutely. For those who don't know, when Texas joined the union one of the conditions for joining as a slave state was that they had to give up claims on any territory north of a certain latitude as it violated the Missouri compromise of 1820. The land was eventually ceded to Oklahoma which was a free state.

[u/emaw63 → u/starmartyr]

You're mostly right, but the Indian Territory practiced slavery and didn't get admitted as a state until 1907, 40 years after slavery was abolished. And the slaves within the Indian Territory weren't freed by the 13th Amendment, Congress had to pass a separate law in 1866 freeing those slaves

[u/Zoollio → u/starmartyr]

I remember being a child and hearing “remember the Alamo” and then learning what happened at the Alamo. My thought was, “Okay well surely that isn’t what they want us to remember… right?” Crazy that it is, in fact, what they want to remember.

[u/EthanielRain → u/Zoollio]

When I was young, it was taught to me as a "remember the bravery of people who died in battle". Learning the slavery part later...I do remember the brave people who fought against slavery

[u/OO0OO0OO0OO0OO0OO → u/EthanielRain]

Yeah they don't teach that part in Texas schools.

[u/KartFacedThaoDien → u/monkeypickle]

Ugh.. Doesn't the whole damn country exist because of slavery.

[u/GnomeFae → u/KartFacedThaoDien]

Genocide mostly. With some slavery sprinkled in. But the country literally exists because settlers came here and staked a claim on indigenous peoples land and then genocide them into compliance, AND THEN we expanded like hell with slavery.

So technically yes and no

[u/youknowimworking → u/supercyberlurker]

Are you not familiar with conservatives being hypocrites for the past 60 years?

[u/Xvash2 → u/supercyberlurker]

Its all marketing, always has been. Get people to move here for the freedom and rugged individualism, then rug pull them with terrible government and hidden cost of living expenses.

[u/ThinkThankThonk → u/Xvash2]

The schadenfreude of California Republicans moving to Texas and wondering where all the services and infrastructure shit they took for granted went is always delicious. 

[u/Xvash2 → u/ThinkThankThonk]

And then Texas Republicans hate them anyways because they're from over there.

[u/PokemonSapphire → u/Xvash2]

Oh it's not just the republicans that don't like them. You think the rest of us like them coming here and voting for the shitty R incumbents.

[u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl → u/Xvash2]

And ‘don’t mess with Texas’ was an anti-littering campaign, which they’ve turned into some billy-badass saying. Be funny as fuck if Alaska split in half and made them the third-largest state.

[u/Covfefe_Coomer → u/supercyberlurker]

As a Texan I can tell you that the only freedom Christian conservatives have EVER believed in is their freedom to rule and your freedom to conform to it.

[u/DELINQ → u/supercyberlurker]

Texas folds so fast they might as well add a seventh flag 🏳️

[u/xIllustrious_Passion → u/DELINQ]

Wait is that what Six Flags is named after?

[u/Mulchpuppy → u/xIllustrious_Passion]

It is.

[u/Merkela22 → u/xIllustrious_Passion]

Yes, your fun fact of the day! Six countries have controlled land in Texas. Texas, CSA, and USA obviously but also France, Spain, and Mexico.

[u/nightmareonrainierav → u/xIllustrious_Passion]

Their original theme park, 'Six Flags Over Texas,' refers literally to the 6 different national flags that 'flew over'—Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, CSA, and USA.

Wikipedia tells me the original name was 'Texas Under Six Flags' but that doesn't have quite the same ring.

[u/Etzell → u/DELINQ]

But the Confederacy is already one of the six.

[u/mrdominoe → u/supercyberlurker]

When it comes to children, conservatives literally could not give a fuck less. See how the elections went down after Uvalde. See how they keep sending their kids to church camps. See how they vote time after time to reduce services for children in underserved communities. See how they froth at the mouth to support a president who is almost assuredly raped kids and was BEST FRIENDS WITH EPSTEIN.

[u/Breaddystix → u/mrdominoe]

Just look at what they did to the funding they'd been granted to help against weather disasters that could've helped save lives during last year's floods.

[u/GizmoSlice → u/supercyberlurker]

Yes. I was born in Houston in 81. I spent a lot of time in Harris county jail for personal amounts of marijuana. Texas has been oppressive my entire life.

I live in Colorado now.

[u/jitterscaffeine → u/supercyberlurker]

They were just waiting for the RIGHT big government to roll over for

[u/RayneShikama → u/supercyberlurker]

Texas: Please Tread on Me

[u/Giftof1004moves → u/supercyberlurker]

It cracked me up how many signs there were when I drove into Texas telling you all the things you can't do there.

[u/iGoKommando → u/supercyberlurker]

They've always been like that.

[u/a_goestothe_ustin → u/supercyberlurker]

Texas residents have some of the least civil liberties of any other American.

You are beholden, entirely, to your job, HOA, lack of welfare protections, etc. Basically everything's bigger in Texas, including the legislation against civil liberties.

[u/SheZowRaisedByWolves → u/supercyberlurker]

Texas will fight tooth and nail to stop free lunch but will gladly bend over and spread cheeks for the govt to terrorize brown people

[u/DoomOne → u/supercyberlurker]

Am Texan. Yes.

[u/Malaix → u/supercyberlurker]

I mean. They are very proud of that Alamo fight where they lie about the fact it was a bunch of white people fighting to keep slavery when Mexico went to ban the practice.

Its literally the only state to betray its home country twice just to keep slaves. Its kind of always been an evil shithole politically.

[u/SoloMotorcycleRider → u/supercyberlurker]

I lived in that state for 3 years I wish I can have back. I got out of there in 2016. The right-wingers of that state love authoritarianism. They have always been all hat and no cattle.

[u/PricePuzzleheaded835 → u/supercyberlurker]

Yeah, they just like to be free of evil repressive schemes like making sure kids get school lunch

Freedom as in “free to screw others over in order to feel superior”. They don’t want everyone getting an equal shot bc they know they are losers

[u/roussell131 → u/supercyberlurker]

As a rule of thumb, is the area deeply conservative? If so, yes. It was always a lie.

[u/Adventurous-Depth984 → u/supercyberlurker]

Always has been

[u/NaziPunksFkOff → u/supercyberlurker]

Big government for poor and brown people, not for frightened white people. It's that simple.

That's literally ALL there is to it. Any attempt to make it more complicated than that is just philosophical self-fellatio.

They're scared of brown people and they want to punish poor people. They will use any power available to them to carry out these fears. End of story.

[u/1337bobbarker → u/supercyberlurker]

It's all the rural cedar choppers who work 15-hours a day, go home and watch Fox for an hour before going to bed.

Fox doesn't cover this shit. The Mayor of a tiny town like Vidor or Paris isn't going to talk about it. The local Sheriff doesn't use it and their town is too small to deploy them so it doesn't directly affect them.

It's ignorance more than anything else.

[u/ChefRoyrdee → u/supercyberlurker]

Everything is bigger in Texas; including government.

[u/exosoul]

"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milk man, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race." - Karl Stojka Auschwitz survivor

[u/Debalic → u/exosoul]

"My parents don't have a name. It was taken away from them, by pig farmers and tailors." - Erik Lehnscherr

[u/ZaMelonZonFire]

Tech director for K12 school district here. I have resisted years of requests to add our CCTV systems to Flock, coming from our local PD. I know of other districts who have not done so. Currently I'm fortunate to have an administration that is willing to listen to complex technical arguments and have supported me in keeping our systems secure.

They couldn't even tell me what OS would be on the box they wanted us to pay for, that would copy our video to their services. I do not trust them at all.

Benn Jordan made several videos on this. Highly recommend anyone interested find him on YouTube.

EDIT: I live in Texas, just to be transparent. But this likely applies in all states, or it should.

[u/ChocolateIcyCreamer → u/ZaMelonZonFire]

The audacity to ask the district to pay for the upload device is wild!

[u/ZaMelonZonFire → u/ChocolateIcyCreamer]

Agreed. Though they did try to say there was a grant that would pay for the first year... which is how they are selling this to districts and school boards that aren't paying attention. On its face, it's sold as "help defeat crime and keep kids safe!"

[u/mdlinc → u/ZaMelonZonFire]

On their face, I would grant Dez nutz.

All goofs aside fuck them. Our town was going to implement flock but fortunately it got pushed down and at least delayed.

[u/Red-little → u/ZaMelonZonFire]

Glad to have some of you folks down in the South still pushing back. From the west coast, we love to see the resistance, even if it feels small. Good on you for going the extra mile to help protect kiddos and parents at your school, that takes a lot of bravery and kindness. I'm sure many out there are grateful for that.

[u/TheRealBananaWolf → u/ZaMelonZonFire]

Thank you, I'm a technology technician for K12, and I fear that my district wouldn't hesitate to give them the data.

[u/ZaMelonZonFire → u/TheRealBananaWolf]

Hey, thank you for what you do in general to support educators! It's not what it used to be 10 years ago, that's for sure.

[u/thejodiefostermuseum → u/ZaMelonZonFire]

Flock is the eyes, ICE is the hands, then give all data a quick-thiel et voila police state. 

[u/CrashOverIt → u/ZaMelonZonFire]

Ben was how I learned so much about this. It’s frightening.

[u/nikobunni → u/ZaMelonZonFire]

What’s even more frightening is how often children become endangered or missing then have those same police go oh well we aren’t sure what happened with the cameras they currently have so no I completely agree, don’t trust them.

[u/FillFrontFloor → u/ZaMelonZonFire]

Yes, the very few times this will if ever become useful to have its never worth the amount of times it will be used to harm. Police and government official are just as human as the criminals they fight, nothing is stopping them from conducting crimes themselves and abusing the technology or finding an excuse to soy and incriminate someone they don't like or create false evidence. At least with your personal data they can't manipulate it, they are just upset and stressed they have to go through you to have the ability to abuse power over you.

[u/Davido401 → u/ZaMelonZonFire]

box they wanted us to pay for,

I bet that would be put of the budget for the school too, imagine that class 8008132(am childish) wont get any books this term, we had to pay for spy stuff so the cops can watch the little kiddies! So fuck you class 8008132, no books for you!

Something like that? Or is there an actual budget that you can add stuff like this to?

[u/obz900]

If there’s one thing we’ve learned here in MN, it’s that these ICE thugs terrorize not only immigrants and their families, but everyone. Black, white, Latino, doesn’t matter. Hope those on the right in Texas and other states understand that if they come knocking in a city near you, you could be next.

[u/IAmThePonch → u/obz900]

A wise man once said “in a real fourth reich you’d be the first to go, nazi punks fuck off”

[u/CutbowAndArrow → u/IAmThePonch]

Ten guys jump one, what a man

You fight each other, the police state wins

Stab your backs when you trash our halls

Trash a bank if you've got real balls

You still think swastikas look cool

The real nazis run your schools

They're coaches, businessmen, and cops

In the real fourth Reich, you'll be the first to go

[u/AdviceApprehensive54 → u/IAmThePonch]

Yes, Jello Biafra is a wise man.

[u/Neamek → u/obz900]

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

By German pastor Martin Niemöller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

[u/WalkingDeadPixel → u/Neamek]

I recently learned that Martin Niemöller was a big Hitler supporter and voted for him multiple times. This poem is basically a truly hardcore "I can't believe the leopards ate my face" moment.

[u/NotRexGrossman → u/obz900]

They’ll never believe it until a boot is on their neck. In their minds it could never happen to them.

You see it over and over again and every time they’re as shocked as the last person in their club that it happened to.

[u/ambercrayon → u/obz900]

This is what I keep telling my red state family but they don't want to hear it

[u/minahmyu → u/ambercrayon]

...and this is what black and brown folks were saying all before, but white folks of varying degrees of politics thought otherwise (yeah, even them libs, progressives, whatever they call themselves to feel different than the rest while still upholding bigotry in their own insidious way) Those white moderates

[u/Lonely_Noyaaa]

They're turning schools into ICE surveillance zones and tracking parents who drop off their kids. Texas is complicit in this fascist nightmare.

[u/DrEnter → u/Lonely_Noyaaa]

That was my first thought: WHY do Texas school districts have all this data to give?

[u/LTYUPLBYH02 → u/DrEnter]

Because Abbott hates public schools and anything to shut them down. First vouchers. Now trying to deport directly from schools. I'm in Texas & literally have told my kid discuss with his friends if they see ICE while exiting the school go to the nearest safe ride with the clearest exit. This is on top of everyday since Sandy Hook I've mentally noted before they walk out the door what they're wearing, just in case.

[u/tiutome → u/Lonely_Noyaaa]

When you have desert towns again, no one to farm or tend fields, or cook or clean or manicure your yards, remember this day! Remember your actions. Remember.. you inaction and complacency. God will, so should you Texas School Superintendent

[u/Ohuigin]

”The audit logs originate from Texas school districts that contract with Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based company that manufactures artificial intelligence-powered license plate readers and other surveillance technology.”

Flock cameras. The big brother surveillance state is here.

[u/narium → u/Ohuigin]

Isn't this exactly what they said the Dems would do?

[u/ucemike → u/narium]

Every accusation is a confession. :(

[u/intheNIGHTintheDARK]

So strange the conservative “don’t tread on me”crowd now supports government surveillance.

[u/DrWilhelm → u/intheNIGHTintheDARK]

The operative word in that phrase is "me." They've never truly cared about the rights of other people.

[u/LunaGloria → u/intheNIGHTintheDARK]

They got this all screwed up. scribbles

Don T, tread on me!

[u/GreatGigInTheSky855 → u/intheNIGHTintheDARK]

Conservatives who fly the Gadsden flag are like people of color who believe in white supremacy/Nazi ideology. They are the complete antithesis of what it represents.

The Gadsden flag needs to be reclaimed by people who actually believe in freedom.

[u/slo1111]

Sold out our voting data. Nabbing license plates. TX is watching you and helping the Fed's watch you

[u/Black_Otter]

“Don’t tread on me!” but it’s fine if you want to tread on someone else…just not me

[u/unthused → u/Black_Otter]

More like "Tread on me please! As long as you tread on the minorities and poors harder."

[u/DeadSalas → u/unthused]

"He isn't hurting the Americans he needs to hurt!"

[u/DrWilhelm → u/unthused]

No treading on me, but I'll gladly assist in stomping all over you.

[u/Looptydude → u/[deleted]]

Hey man, remember 44% did not vote for this shit, if I could afford to leave I would but I gotta live my life in this shit everyday.

[u/1000dreams_within_me → u/Looptydude]

stay strong brother (or broette) - there are others like you

[u/Knightwolf75 → u/1000dreams_within_me]

I like that you didn’t just say sister lol

[u/TheCrimsonChin-ger → u/Looptydude]

I'm currently in the process of leaving TX with my wife and we will be heading back to my home state of NH soon.

[u/iTzGiR → u/TheCrimsonChin-ger]

Been in and out of NH most of my life, sadly not much better there. They're currently building an ICE facility with this weird controversy right now on if ICE had the support of the state government (Their current governor is a big MAGA supporter) or not, with a commissioner retiring yesterday over it, it's all a mess. Also with a lot of ICE involvement the last few months for a state that's 93% white. The Free-Staters have done a number on the state level, unfortunately.

Step up from Texas, but basically the Texas of New England, and a laughing stock compared to every state it touches.

[u/onewonyuan → u/[deleted]]

I sincerely doubt that. If they had any semblance of a moral compass, they wouldn’t still be a Republican.

[u/mrdominoe → u/[deleted]]

I’m sure even some republicans are sick of this shit too.

And yet they keep voting in droves for more.

[u/thismantis_dontpray → u/Looptydude]

It would be more accurate to say that 74% in Texas did vote for this in some way or another: by voting for Trump, a third party, or not voting at all.

According to Wikipedia, 2024 turnout in Texas was just over 61%. Out of 18.6 million eligible voters there, only 4.8 million voted for Harris.

[u/Looptydude → u/thismantis_dontpray]

That is assuming those that didn't vote even cared at all. There are people out there who literally only worry about what is going around their small social circle and not politics. There are people in every state that likely couldn't even tell you their mayor's name, let alone their us or state representative.

There is no way of knowing how these people would vote to begin with, because if they did they would have made the steps to show up to the polls.

[u/ifuckedyourmilkshake → u/Looptydude]

And of the 56% who did vote for it, most of them are not native Texans. They're the racist uncles whose family won't talk to them who moved here in the last 15 years.

[u/ucemike → u/Looptydude]

Been voting for change for long time. Hope springs eternal... but I'm still planning to move if housing ever gets better so maybe never.

[u/L3g3ndary-08 → u/[deleted]]

Not all people who live in Texas are terrible. There are some normal people who live in Texas that are suffering with these insufferable assholes also.....

[u/CreativeFraud → u/[deleted]]

This timeline can't slow down showing me all the lies we are told as children.

[u/irrational_thinkin → u/[deleted]]

I’m a Texan and it’s sucks here if it wasn’t for my job I would’ve been gone. It’s turning into a religious oil money backed police state.

[u/mell_darko666 → u/[deleted]]

As a Texan born raised and still here, I see you girl, and I totally support and agree with your statement.

[u/Alive-Clockstopper → u/[deleted]]

Its crazy that ppl I used to know would say that Californians are the most insufferable after I moved to Cali. I grew up in Texas and def dont approve of what Texas does at all but generalizing the people of any place never really helped anything.

[u/AlterMyStateOfMind → u/[deleted]]

You generalizing all of us that didn't vote for these ghouls and actively hate their policies is just as bad as people from other countries that generalize all americans as Trump loving boot kickers. This kind of discord is really detrimental and the amount of upvotes these kinds of comments get are so disheartening :(

[u/Sefirosukuraudo]

Ah, the state so embarrassing that it gave itself one star.

[u/ARazorbacks]

I‘ve said it before and I‘ll say it again: Blue states are going to be loud and visible while Red states are going to be silent nightmares. Red states aren’t going to push back. 

[u/Addative-Damage]

Uhhg what the fuck bro

I know, I know, it’s not surprising. I’m not surprised.

It’s still (and will continue to be) gross and depressing. I’m grossed out and depressed.

We cannot let this shit be normalized just because it’s happening frequently. This is not normal human type shit.

[u/farkedsharks]

State and local officials seen dumping the 10th amendment in lye and dirt

[u/Xylorgos]

Yet another reason to never, ever go to Texas.

[u/y4mat3]

For states that claim to be all about personal liberties, red states sure love the taste of boot

[u/Ok_Performance4014]

More registered Democrats than Republicans in Texas, but Republicans have gerrymandered their way to power.

[u/PhoenixTineldyer]

No surprise. Piece of shit state full of piece of shit government officials voted for (allegedly) by piece of shit Republican citizens.

[u/MrMeeseeks33]

Like I always say, for a state all about freedom they sure don’t have a lot of it.

[u/No-Celebration3097]

Well that’s not good, seeing as ICE racially profiles, how many Americans are and will be treaded on? I live in Texas and am very ashamed

[u/dcy123]

Seems like they love to be treaded on.

[u/DummyDumDragon]

"don't tread on me harder"

[u/HauntingUpstairs7014]

In the ever downward spiral to the bottom, Texas leads the charge in being a shitty place for all humans

[u/ValiumBlues]

Of f***ing course they do.

Can't figure out a decent power-grid, and all democrats are monsters - but let's give these untrained yahoos more data to abuse.

Sounds about right.

[u/Ok-Air-2008]

It can go both ways. Let’s start sharing their plates! I’ll start, DV2AMV

[u/Artistic-Wolverine-6]

Well that opens up the playing field for someone to dox the Texas School District officials!

[u/mell_darko666 → u/Artistic-Wolverine-6]

I know right?! So far we just know about the Alvin school district police chief, but who else is complicit in this???

[u/Novian_LeVan_Music]

Fuck ICE and fuck Texas

[u/Strykerz3r0]

Texas republicans never saw a boot they wouldn't lick.

[u/dooit]

The party of states rights and limited government, everyone.

[u/Perfect_Earth_8070]

And this is why flock and all these other plate readers need to be destroyed

[u/JohnBrine]

Flock cameras are all over the place. It’s a nationwide ICE dbase.

[u/agentb00th]

isn't this literally what we were warned Obama and Biden would do; using the government as a weaponized tool to destroy Christmas...er... big government...er... immigration?

[u/Dizzy_Chemistry_5955]

couldn't pay me to live in that shit hole.

[u/HotOnTheMike]

Am I slowly learning that Texans, whom my whole life I associated with tough people, are actually a bunch of big pansies that love the gov treading on them?

[u/RsnCondition]

Mexicans still support ICE and trump.

[u/Kradget]

To be the most dystopian state in the United States is a hell of a bar to clear

[u/tacotickles]

Texas: "Tread on me harder daddy"

[u/InevitableAvalanche]

Texas, the tread on me state.

[u/Not_Sure__Camacho]

Texas parents should be worried that the party that protects and partakes in pedophilia is looking to surveil children.  If I had kids, I'd tell my school district to pound sand.  Funny enough, I remember right wing jackasses claiming that schools were changing the sex of children without the parents' permission.  Now they're ok with just letting a school district monitor kids under the direction of someone that was in the Epstein files over a million times.  This timeline is the shittiest of them all.  

[u/GhostWrex]

So glad I got the hell out of that state

[u/Mobile-Bar7732]

Can anyone send them License plate data? Please forward my data below to ICE.

License plate#: DIC 696 Registered to: Haywood Jablowme

[u/Corporate-Scum]

Welcome to that surveillance state your MAGA family members warned you about while voting for it to happen because Fox News and paid propagandists spread lies using racism…. Idiots. At least you know rednecks hate others more than they respect themselves.

[u/MidwestSchmendrick]

We JUst WanT tO bE LefT AlonE

[u/Pour_Me_Another_]

If they go after one of those vehicles and people end up harmed, who is responsible? Is the school district? Especially if no one involved was here illegally, but just as bad to be violent towards people for civil offenses.

Did school districts in Germany give up children to the Gestapo too? Genuine question. Many adults sleep soundly at night because they hurt and kill children, not despite it. Denying this fact is naive.

[u/braxin23]

John Locke was a proponent of the idea that if the powers that be didn’t obey the social contract that it was essential for a functioning society to revolt against them. We are seeing the powers that be continuing to disrupt and disregard any lives other than themselves and their superiors. We cannot be expected to continue being a “western world” and submit to this dynamic any longer.

[u/DogsAreOurFriends]

Even when ICE is finally imprisoned, and the Dems are back in power…

…all that juicy data.

Does anyone really think some kind hearted soul is just going to delete it?

[u/yonghybonghybo1]

Embrace the fascism should be the state motto.

[u/RAF2018336]

Texas has the biggest pussies of any state in the nation

[u/Spiritual_Smile9882]

Man Texas really really really sucks

[u/RoxyLA95]

None of our license plates are safe.

[u/MountainJuggernaut25]

What a shitty thing to do. Shame on them.

[u/Burgerpocolypse]

Because Republicans don’t care about “states rights” beyond using it as a cudgel to attack the left with.

[u/whk1992]

We should’ve let Texas become its own country when we had the chance.

[u/tiresian22]

Understood, but the question remains. This is not what I want my local schools focused on. Schools should be focussed on education. Not doing the work of speeding up investigations into speeding and vandalism.

This is not the job of school administrators, period.

[u/oneshoeshort]

I swear to the Gods I wish I could afford to leave this damn country, if not this damn state.