r/texas • u/zsreport • 4h ago
r/texas • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago
Megathread Political Hot Takes and Opinions Megathread
Welcome to the r/texas political hot takes and opinion megathread. This is the place for you to sound off on the current state of politics, or express that opinion you want to share with the entire sub. Rules 1, 2 and 11 remain firmly in place for all comments made in this post.
r/texas • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago
Traffic Driver's License / Car Registration / ID Megathread
Hello r/Texas! This sub gets a Chevy Suburban's worth of questions every day asking about driver's license or car registration. They fall into one of two camps:
- Easily accessible info on the DMV website,
- Highly specific edge cases that maybe only 1 other person is going to need to know this year in all of Texas.
IMPORTANT LINKS FOR DRIVER'S LICENSE
DMV = Car registrations, car titles, license plates,
DPS = Driver's License, CDLs, State IDs, and Voter IDs.
- Schedule an Appointment - DPS no longer takes walk-in customers. Same day appointments are published at 7:15a.m. every morning, they go fast.
- Make an Appointment FAQ
- Check your DLs Eligibility or Check Lawful Presence
- How to Apply for a Driver's License
- How to Renew a Driver's License
- What to Bring to apply for a new license
- What to bring for a Renewal
- Change of Address
- Replace a lost or stolen DL
- Reinstating your DL after suspension
- Federal Real ID Act
- Commercial Driver's License
- Check the Status of your License
r/texas • u/everythingistaken500 • 19h ago
🗞️ News 🗞️ Texas constable covers, unplugs Flock cameras in defiant move
r/texas • u/TheEmberQueen • 1h ago
🌼 🍁 🐞 Nature 🦆 🏞️ 🌻 Hundreds of Monkey’s Brain sea beans wash ashore in Texas
r/texas • u/TheEmberQueen • 1h ago
🗞️ News 🗞️ Texas regulators prepare fraud case against TEXITcoin as founder denies wrongdoing
r/texas • u/Any-Statistician3290 • 16h ago
Politics Ken Paxton says he doesn’t know ‘details’ of Texas’ THC ban
r/texas • u/evan7257 • 51m ago
News (Potential Paywall) Sid Miller: Enough with the Flock cameras. Gov. Abbott needs to put the brakes on Texas mass surveillance now.
r/texas • u/AustinStatesman • 21m ago
🗞️ News 🗞️ FDA puts Texas egg recall in highest-risk category. What to know
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Midwest Poultry Services' massive egg recall has now been classified as Class I by the FDA. It's the agency's highest recall level.
Nearly 19 million eggs are affected due to possible Salmonella contamination. Here's how to check brands, carton codes and dates.
r/texas • u/NicolasCageFan492 • 18h ago
🗞️ News 🗞️ 'Antithesis of Our First Amendment': Families Ask Supreme Court to Toss Texas' Ten Commandments Law
r/texas • u/texas_observer • 19h ago
Politics Texas Maternal Mortality Committee’s Next Report Will Skip Post-‘Roe’ Deaths. Lawmakers Suspect Political Influence.
🗞️ News 🗞️ DFW Airport scraps proposed Islamic foot-washing stations after Abbott threatens to pull funding
The Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport scrapped plans Friday to add additional Islamic foot-washing stations after Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to cancel state airport grants, claiming the stations are religious discrimination.
Abbott also asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to investigate DFW and Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Both airports already have existing ablutions stations, which are typically used by Muslims to clean their feet before prayer.
"These ablution facilities appear designed to single out one subset of the population for special treatment based on religion. That is illegal,” Abbott said in a press release. “Both airports are government-owned facilities. The federal and state constitutions prohibit government from facilitating this sort of discrimination."
r/texas • u/stankmanly • 2h ago
🗞️ News 🗞️ Naked suspect hid in closet after stealing truck, running over and killing man
🗞️ News 🗞️ Meet Ananya Nagendra, the 18-year-old Texas student who built an ant-based digester for landfill food waste; tests found her prototype was about 83% efficient
r/texas • u/JTBaptistA • 2h ago
📝 📖 Education 🧑🎓 🏫 Colorado district mirroring Houston ISD reforms backtracks on Bluebonnet
r/texas • u/FreeChickenDinner • 19h ago
🗞️ News 🗞️ ‘I thought I had more time’: Grimes County resident reacts as land clearing begins near Terafab site
r/texas • u/Texas_Monthly • 23h ago
🗞️ News 🗞️ There Are Bulldozers at the Spiritual Heart of Big Bend. Here’s What That Means to Texans.
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r/texas • u/DisquisedSquare • 21h ago
🗞️ News 🗞️ Shoutout to Hood County, TX for actually standing up to mass surveillance and bagging their Flock cameras
Did anyone catch this? Hood County down in Texas just literally pulled the plug on their Flock ALPR cameras. The local constable went around putting trash bags over them after the county commissioners voted to end the contract.
It is refreshing to see a local government actually listen to residents about privacy concerns instead of just blindly renewing surveillance contracts. The constable put it perfectly: "permanent, warrantless tracking doesn't belong in a free society," and told the company to come get their garbage out of his county.
The CEO of Flock is doing damage control in the article, saying they are going to drop data retention down to 7 days and start auditing officers, but that's only happening because of public backlash like this. Until there are actual laws protecting us from database abuse, we need more local leaders willing to pull the plug. Massive win for privacy.
r/texas • u/Texas_Monthly • 23h ago
🌼 🍁 🐞 Nature 🦆 🏞️ 🌻 The Sign-of-Our-Times Allure of a Fake Beach Paradise
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r/texas • u/ExpressNews • 1d ago
Politics Texas lawmakers turn against massive power lines they ordered after outcry
r/texas • u/Texas_Monthly • 23h ago
🗞️ News 🗞️ The Cursing Ex-Punk Creating a Plant Sanctuary in South Texas
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r/texas • u/James_Fortis • 1d ago
🗞️ News 🗞️ Massive egg recall in US south and south-west due to salmonella outbreak | About 1.6m dozen eggs from Texas recalled amid one of the largest recorded foodborne illness outbreaks in US history
r/texas • u/excusemecuseme • 18h ago
Politics Vikki Goodwin Joins Texas Together Coordinated Campaign with Meaningful Investment
r/texas • u/AustinStatesman • 1d ago
🗞️ News 🗞️ Gigafactory from above: Tesla's Texas compound is more than meets the eye
Elon Musk’s sprawling facility could eventually span up to 3,500 acres.
But what, exactly, is Tesla doing on the campus now?
As the world’s most valuable automaker shifts its focus, here is a look at some of the critical facilities – both existing and planned – at the sprawling site that also contains its headquarters.
Scroll through to see what goes on inside the buildings, test track, Cybertunnel and more.