re: #159 JOE 🥓

As if TexASS isn’t fucking up enough…

Texas abruptly pulls suicide hotline webpage for teens offline after Abbott’s opponent criticizes it.

According to a report from the House Chronicle, a website the state of Texas maintained that directed at-risk teens to a suicide hotline was abruptly taken offline after a conservative critic — and Republican primary challenger of Gov. Greg Abbott — attacked it.

As the report notes, Abbott foe Don Huffines used the existence of the page run by the Department of Family and Protective Services to claim Texas’ child welfare agency was “promoting transgender sexual policies to Texas youth,” adding “These are not Texas values, these are not Republican Party values, but these are obviously Greg Abbott’s values.”

Noting that the webpage “linked to a suicide prevention hotline and other resources ‘dedicated to helping empower and celebrate” young LGBTQ people,’” the report states that it quickly disappeared.

houstonchronicle.com

Just in case you weren’t clear on the fact that Abbott’s running for president.