At least 41 people have died in the Lone Star State’s unairconditioned prisons due to heat-related or unknown conditions this summer, according to the Texas Tribune.
Even so, it’s hard to firmly establish how many have succumbed to heat-related illness, according to observers. That’s because TDCJ’s official stance is that no inmates have died of heat exhaustion since 2012 — the same year the agency began to be bombarded with wrongful death lawsuits from inmates’ families, the Tribune reports.
Honestly, you’ll do a hell of a lot more good staying and helping Texas turn purple. I’ve thought a few times about leaving the states, but last election I got to help my whole state flip blue. It’s hard, because the assholes will never stop fighting to turn America into a shithole, and so the fight to turn it into something better is never over. But America isn’t unique in that aspect.
Blue, while better than red, is still too right for America to ever change in our lifetime. Unless we get an actual left wing party in the States, the Overton Window will just continue to move further and further right.