Cora Neas
@corabora.bsky.social
Reporter covering courts, housing, TX lege, and our queer community. Currently @kxan.com
Views are my own, sometimes jokes. 🏳️⚧ Anti-AI
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Views are my own, sometimes jokes. 🏳️⚧ Anti-AI
Tips: neasnews @ proton.me
muckrack.com/cora-neas/
Sometimes you have to buy a book for a single paragraph about a historical event that has haunted your thoughts for a year
December 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Sometimes you have to buy a book for a single paragraph about a historical event that has haunted your thoughts for a year
Working parents, any advice on how to juggle daycare drop off/pick up with your work schedules?
December 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Working parents, any advice on how to juggle daycare drop off/pick up with your work schedules?
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Please be aware of possible scams! My client, Mel Curth, is not seeking any donations at this time.
She is grateful for your support, and asks folks that want to help to give back to the community by donating to a local organization of your choice.
She is grateful for your support, and asks folks that want to help to give back to the community by donating to a local organization of your choice.
December 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Please be aware of possible scams! My client, Mel Curth, is not seeking any donations at this time.
She is grateful for your support, and asks folks that want to help to give back to the community by donating to a local organization of your choice.
She is grateful for your support, and asks folks that want to help to give back to the community by donating to a local organization of your choice.
X to support the Williamson County GOP chair's second appeal to try to preemptively prevent the Travis County district attorney from charging her with a crime.
The prior opinion said that since she hadn't been charged, it would be improper to enjoin the DA from its duty.
AGAIN THERE'S NO CASE.
The prior opinion said that since she hadn't been charged, it would be improper to enjoin the DA from its duty.
AGAIN THERE'S NO CASE.
December 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
X to support the Williamson County GOP chair's second appeal to try to preemptively prevent the Travis County district attorney from charging her with a crime.
The prior opinion said that since she hadn't been charged, it would be improper to enjoin the DA from its duty.
AGAIN THERE'S NO CASE.
The prior opinion said that since she hadn't been charged, it would be improper to enjoin the DA from its duty.
AGAIN THERE'S NO CASE.
Avatar: Fire and Ash was a lot like this
December 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Avatar: Fire and Ash was a lot like this
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“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
God it would be so easy to point at the Nazis as an example of this trifecta
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
God it would be so easy to point at the Nazis as an example of this trifecta
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People keep ignoring the part where the TA in this story is trans and it is a part of a deliberate effort to remove trans people from public life and it is incredibly frustrating watching it happen over and over again! Details matter!
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
December 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
People keep ignoring the part where the TA in this story is trans and it is a part of a deliberate effort to remove trans people from public life and it is incredibly frustrating watching it happen over and over again! Details matter!
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it's wild to know that Bari is doing all this with a wife and two recent babies. girl they don't even think you are a real mother
December 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
it's wild to know that Bari is doing all this with a wife and two recent babies. girl they don't even think you are a real mother
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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
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Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
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New: archivists have distributed the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss killed. iCloud, Mega, torrent too. Shows won’t be able to keep this episode offline www.404media.co/archivists-p...
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
New: archivists have distributed the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss killed. iCloud, Mega, torrent too. Shows won’t be able to keep this episode offline www.404media.co/archivists-p...
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One of my fav things about Austin is they’ll argue about the name of a lake that is clearly just a section of a river.
December 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
One of my fav things about Austin is they’ll argue about the name of a lake that is clearly just a section of a river.
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Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
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If you want a picture of the future, Winston, picture a pundit dealing with workplace friction by radicalising himself against everything he associates with young people, forever.
Matty has negatively polarized himself against the concept of activism to the point where he no longer seems to understand how political parties work at all.
December 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If you want a picture of the future, Winston, picture a pundit dealing with workplace friction by radicalising himself against everything he associates with young people, forever.
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🚨We just got the unsealed records in Texas AG Ken Paxton's divorce case and published pertinent documents in the story here.
They show the couple has entered mediation and set aside $20K each from their blind trust to pay for lawyers. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege
They show the couple has entered mediation and set aside $20K each from their blind trust to pay for lawyers. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege
Records in Texas AG Ken Paxton’s divorce case are unsealed
A group of eight media organizations had requested records in the divorce case between Paxton, who is running for U.S. Senate, and his wife be made public.
www.kut.org
December 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
🚨We just got the unsealed records in Texas AG Ken Paxton's divorce case and published pertinent documents in the story here.
They show the couple has entered mediation and set aside $20K each from their blind trust to pay for lawyers. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege
They show the couple has entered mediation and set aside $20K each from their blind trust to pay for lawyers. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege
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OPINION by @katelynburns.com:
“The proposed rule would make the future for trans kids in this country look very bleak if it’s approved as currently written.”
READ MORE:
www.ms.now/opinion/tran...
“The proposed rule would make the future for trans kids in this country look very bleak if it’s approved as currently written.”
READ MORE:
www.ms.now/opinion/tran...
Opinion | The looming disaster for trans health care
Katelyn Burns: How the GOP is using its anti-abortion playbook against trans health care.
www.ms.now
December 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
OPINION by @katelynburns.com:
“The proposed rule would make the future for trans kids in this country look very bleak if it’s approved as currently written.”
READ MORE:
www.ms.now/opinion/tran...
“The proposed rule would make the future for trans kids in this country look very bleak if it’s approved as currently written.”
READ MORE:
www.ms.now/opinion/tran...
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An obscure Texas law makes it a felony to "solicit" nonpublic information from a government official "with intent to obtain a benefit." Police in Laredo tried to use it against Priscilla Villareal to make a crime out of common journalistic practice. She won at the Supreme Court, but now can she sue?
A Texas news vlogger asks SCOTUS to decide whether criminalizing journalism is ‘obviously unconstitutional’
Priscilla Villarreal, a news vlogger, was arrested under an obscure law, raising major First Amendment concerns.
reason.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
An obscure Texas law makes it a felony to "solicit" nonpublic information from a government official "with intent to obtain a benefit." Police in Laredo tried to use it against Priscilla Villareal to make a crime out of common journalistic practice. She won at the Supreme Court, but now can she sue?
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NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
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The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
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Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?
December 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?
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Friendly reminder that if you experience any adverse consequences using a bathroom in Texas while transgender, and you want to talk to a journalist, hit me up
December 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Friendly reminder that if you experience any adverse consequences using a bathroom in Texas while transgender, and you want to talk to a journalist, hit me up
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the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
Rep Sarah McBride on the steps of the Capitol
YouTube video by David Steinglass
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
The form includes a photo/video upload. Note that 5th Circuit judges ruled last week that taking photos in restrooms is unlikely to be protected under 1A, regardless if someone is transgender.
My story for KXAN about this: www.kxan.com/news/texas/t...
My story for KXAN about this: www.kxan.com/news/texas/t...
December 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The form includes a photo/video upload. Note that 5th Circuit judges ruled last week that taking photos in restrooms is unlikely to be protected under 1A, regardless if someone is transgender.
My story for KXAN about this: www.kxan.com/news/texas/t...
My story for KXAN about this: www.kxan.com/news/texas/t...
Texas AG Paxton has released a complaint form for people to report instances of SB 8 violations, ie. if they suspect a person is using the "wrong" restroom or changing room:
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
Texas Women’s Privacy Act Complaint Form (SB 8) | Office of the Attorney General
The Texas Women’s Privacy Act requires a political subdivision or state agency, including public schools, open enrollment charter schools, and state institutions of higher education, to designate each...
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov
December 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Texas AG Paxton has released a complaint form for people to report instances of SB 8 violations, ie. if they suspect a person is using the "wrong" restroom or changing room:
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...