- Abbott: Texas hair, nail salons can reopen Friday – and we are to say thank you for lending us back our freedom? B.S.
- Governor Abbott Expands Business Openings In Texas, Announces Surge Response Teams To Combat COVID-19
- In leaked audio, Gov. Abbott talks about the way the spread of COVID-19 will increase as Texas reopens – yeah and so?
- Texas tops nation $41 billion in SBA loans – only because politicians moved to kill business.
- Changes coming to Texas Workforce Commission | Q&A with TWC on reopening business, finding jobs and catching fraud VIDEO
- Texas oil and gas regulators dismiss production cut proposal – great!
- Craddick opposes prorationing plans
- Texas agency won’t cut oil production despite cratering prices
- GOP lawmakers get illegal haircuts while calling on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to reopen salons – way to go!!!
- AG Paxton Joins Coalition Expanding Crack-Down on Robocallers
- Governor Abbott Declares May 3-9, 2020 Hurricane Preparedness Week
- Tarpley Wastewater Fight Heads to TCEQ Administrative Judge
- TX17: Sessions spends campaign money for legal fees
- Pete Buttigieg endorses MJ Hegar for Senate
- Dallas County Encourages Citizens to Commit Election Fraud
- Dallas County Set to Defy Texas AG on Vote by Mail
- Voting by mail: Why Ken Paxton May Try to Prosecute Me, and How the Governor Could Stop It – it is not legal for very good reasons.
- Dallas County Encourages Voters Fearful of Coronavirus to Claim Disability for Mail-In Ballots
- HD26: Runoff Review: With Rick Miller Out, Jacey Jetton and Matt Morgan Square Off
- Everytown for Gun Safety starts its big spending in Texas – gun banners
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- Coronavirus related
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- COVID-19 mitigation is a weighing of harms
- Comparing the Wuhan virus with the 1968 Hong Kong flu, more
- Experts now admit COVID-19 mortality rate much lower then predicted
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 5/5/2020 (pdf) – (update is 906) 884 deaths in Q1 plus April, a third of Q2. Official Texas 2018/19 flu season deaths were 9249 by end of July last year, over 10,000 for the year. Should our rights have been scuttled for that? Only 8% of the 390,560 tested have tested positive.
- Are daily local COVID-19 case number proclamations useful?
- Does Anyone Really Know the Number of COVID-19 Deaths?
- COVID statistics are just politics by other means
- Health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- Understanding why mask wearing is little more than virtue signaling
- Do face masks work?
- Masks May Become Mandatory For Future Airline Travelers, more
- Coronavirus in Austin: Continue wearing masks, avoiding gatherings, local officials say
- GOP Ohio state lawmaker refuses to wear face mask because faces are the ‘likeness of God’
- Dr. John Lee: Could the lockdown have side-effects no one has considered?
- Podcast: Pratt on Texas Interview with Dr. Stephen Balch AUDIO
- Lubbock gym holds off on reopening, trying to get Governor Abbott’s attention to open up for all VIDEO
- Some Odessa businesses reopen against Abbott’s orders, Ector County Sheriff’s Office identifies suspects arrested at West Odessa bar, Ector County Sheriff discusses arrests at local bar, Owner, Armed Men Held After Bar Reopens Despite Texas’ Order – since when did “a show of force” become illegal? Sheriff and his deputies are lucky to be living.
- Pastor hit with $300 fine for holding Sunday service in Mass.
- Dear politicians, life must go on
- Israel has an antibody breakthrough
- California building “army” to track those infected with COVID-19
- Virginia now double-counting Wuhan flu cases
- A “gallery of snitches, busybodies, and employees who rat out their own neighbors and employers.”
- Harris Co. Judge Tries to Tell Texans to Snitch on Businesses Over Capacity or Shouldn’t Be Open, Texans Respond
- 3 charged in killing of store security guard over virus mask – told you.
- COVID-19: Amarillo prepares for federal, state help – this is actually about the meat plants across the panhandle
- Intel Report: China Hid Coronavirus’ Severity to Hoard Supplies
- Study claims European strain of coronavirus is more infectious than the original (but is it?) (Update: Virologist says this looks shoddy)
- If the delicate White Rock herons can weather a storm, maybe we humans can face COVID-19
- Parkland’s COVID-19 Unit Sees Encouraging Results For Patients On Ventilators
- Health care workers are living in treehouses, RVs and hotels to protect their families from coronavirus – excuse me but healthcare workers chose their field and they work around infectious diseases routinely including many far more fatal and dangerous than Wuhan virus.
- Author of chart projecting 3,000 coronavirus deaths per day says report was not ready to be shared – no kidding, it is absurd to begin with. Just one guy’s idea of a model.
- Buffalo Springs Lake says large crowd caught them by surprise
- Bexar County: four more deaths reported, including first jail inmate
- ‘It was a jungle out there’: Port Aransas local takes photos of crowded beach – so what? Snitches get stitches.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- White House blocking entire coronavirus task force from testifying to Congress – good
- Trump: Fauci will testify only to Senate because ‘House is a bunch of Trump-haters’
- Report: White House weighing whether to wind down coronavirus task force?
- Cuomo challenges Trump on suggestion that feds shouldn’t give ‘bailouts’ to Democrat-led states
- FBI: April 2020 Sets Record for Firearm Background Checks
- Sens. Cruz, Cornyn, GOP Colleagues Send Letter to FBI and ATF on Firearms Background Check System during Coronavirus Pandemic
- Cornyn Says Congress Still Doing Important Work Despite COVID-19
- Senate Democrats frame Ratcliffe as Trump loyalist in confirmation process for top intelligence post – I would hope all presidential appointments are “loyalists”
- Rep. Will Hurd: John Ratcliffe is the right selection for director of national intelligence – I like the Ratcliffe appointment but am concerned now because Hurd, of the deep state for the deep state, likes him too.
- Trump’s pick for intelligence chief, Rep. John Ratcliffe, assures Senate he’ll deliver only ‘unvarnished’ advice
- In confirmation hearing for intelligence director, U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe promises he “won’t shade the intelligence”
- Amid coronavirus, House Democrats push to end members sleeping in offices – ‘unethical,’ and ‘nasty’ – an odd thing to suddenly care about.
- Federal scientist ousted over malaria drug files whistleblower complaint
- Trump appoints Katy sex trafficking survivor Courtney Litvak to advisory council
- House Republicans Demand Schiff Stop ‘Blocking’ Release of Russiagate Interviews
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- Presidential race / national politics
- How to lose a Biden in 10 days
- POTUS: Biden really messed up that sexual assault accusation, eh?
- Notice how no Democrats are talking about Biden picking an Asian VP?
- Presidential Debates Are In Dire Need Of A Different Format
- George W. Bush’s Platitudes Ring Hollow
- A Compass for Navigating the Right’s New Debates
- Pulitzer Prize for New York Times Essay with Fake History – screwed up world
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- Border / immigration
- 102 Illegal Aliens Apprehended in Tractor-Trailers at Texas Checkpoint in a Week
- Advocates Say Trump is Quickly Grabbing Land For Border Wall, Even During Pandemic – good, virus is more reason to build it!
- 92 Pounds of Cocaine Seized at Interior Checkpoint 70 Miles from Texas Border
- Mexican Judge Releases Cartel Boss Who Ordered Hit on Breitbart Texas Writer
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- Business
- Permian drillers cut output themselves with Texas oil caps dead
- Shale producers hint at possible fracking revival at $30 oil
- New capacity limits will destroy many remaining restaurants
- Why Southwest just became more appealing for business travelers
- No flying necessary: Earn Southwest elite status by just spending on a credit card
- Some retailers too broke to go bankrupt
- North Texas theaters form alliance to navigate stagecraft in a COVID world
- Coronavirus in Texas: Gold’s Gym files for bankruptcy
- The American rancher has always been a critical worker
- Despite reopening, coronavirus inhibits business
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Austin Police Officer Talks Man Off Ledge of Congress Avenue Bridge – if he’d talked a woman out of killing a baby in her womb the Left would decry this.
- Kilgore gas leak contained, traffic flow returned to normal
- Smith Co. Sheriff’s Office releases name of motorcycle rider who was shot, killed
- Tyler police identify man killed in auto-pedestrian crash
- Jacksonville ISD police chief: ‘Joint effort’ led to arrest after truck crashes through gates of remodeled Tomato Bowl
- Man leads WFPD on 26-mile chase, arrested for sexual assault
- Police: Clever thief forgets something important on second attempt
- Lubbock Man Arrested After Leading Police on High Speed Chase
- Shots fired in traffic early Saturday morning in Lubbock
- South Houston homicide leaves man dead, police say – ummm, it usually does!
- Man shot, killed in downtown Houston brawl
- Deputies arrest known felon wanted in Central Texas party shooting VIDEO
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- Local government
- San Angelo Police Chief Frank Carter sworn in for second term
- Wichita Falls ISD will have in-person commencement ceremonies
- Dallas County Encourages Citizens to Commit Election Fraud, Dallas County Set to Defy Texas AG on Vote by Mail
- Dallas County Encourages Voters Fearful of Coronavirus to Claim Disability for Mail-In Ballots
- Harris Co. Commissioner Adrian Garcia’s Small Loan Program exceeds expectations
- Harris Co. Judge Tries to Tell Texans to Snitch on Businesses Over Capacity or Shouldn’t Be Open, Texans Respond
- Fort Worth begins furloughing employees as coronavirus cuts into city budget
- Big-footed by Gov. Greg Abbott, San Antonio panel to release its own guidelines for business reopening
- San Antonio ISD superintendent plans to open schools Aug. 10
- Coronavirus in Austin: Continue wearing masks, avoiding gatherings, local officials say
- Child breaks free from would-be abductor near Waco neighborhood park
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- Colleges & universities
- How Political Ideology is Pushing Religion Out of Religious Studies
- Midland College awards employees for service and excellence
- West Texas native takes on dean’s role at TTUHSC
- Texas Tech Alumni Association announces 2020 top Techsan Honorees
- TTU: World-Renowned Architect Thom Mayne To Participate In College Of Architecture’s Final Reviews
- LCU announces 2 appointed to VP roles
Pratt’s post for 5/5/2020
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