- Texas Supreme Court Reminds Cities There Is No Pandemic Exception to the Constitution – but this idea was reported on Pratt on Texas on May 5th – what’s changed?
- Texas agencies ordered to cut spending 5%, why can’t locals seem to manage this?
- Republican Leaders Oppose Disaster Property Tax Increases, Say Loophole Doesn’t Apply to Coronavirus-Related Damage
- Texas families filing for SNAP food assistance almost doubled in April
- Texas Unemployment Rate Soars to 12.8% – we went from all-time record low unemployment to record high unemployment instantly because of local and state, yes Gov. Abbott, politicians caved to the doom-and-gloomers and did not rescind orders after the “overwhelm the hospitals” peak did not happen.
- Governor Abbott Issues Executive Order Suspending In-Person Visitations In County And Municipal Jails
- Governor Abbott Announces Extensions To Payment Deadlines For Certain Employers
- Driver License Offices to Reopen by Appointment Only with Limited Services, Additional Safety Measures Enacted
- Texas Appellate Court Allows Eminent Domain for High-Speed Rail Project
- Texas News Texas Court Holds First US Jury Trial Via Videoconferencing – not wise, should not have been done.
- Governor’s Committee On People With Disabilities Announces 2020 Barbara Jordan Media Award Winners
- Abbott Reappoints Craycraft And Kennedy To Texas Ethics Commission – may the new clown court members enjoy the circus!
- TX4: The eventual GOP nominee who emerges from the committee replacement process will have one of the easiest paths into the U.S. House of any new member.
- TX4: GOP District Leaders Will Select Rep. John Ratcliffe’s Replacement Nominee, Candidates Vie for Spot
- Lombardino is the better choice for the First Court of Appeals
- Could out-of-state migration tip battleground Texas?
- After calling LGBTQ Caucus member Sarah Davis anti-LGBTQ, national group backtracks.
- Harris County Appoints Democrat Party Official to Head Elections – yeah, that will ensure clean elections!
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- Coronavirus related
- Not admitting mistakes is subverting freedom
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Lawmakers Respond to Governor Abbott’s Latest Reopening Plans
- Map of Texas COVID-19 Test Collection Sites
- Texas to stop combining coronavirus antibody, viral test data – this is silly and it’s only because the bed wetters want a higher fatality number percentage reported.
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 5/22/2020 (pdf) – 1440 deaths in Q1 plus almost 2/3rds of Q2. Official Texas 2018/19 flu season P&I deaths were 9249 by end of July last year, over 10,000 for the year.
- Almost 75% of Texas COVID-19 deaths were in 65+ age group
- Sweden has pioneered an alternative to lockdown — and it works
- Antibody testing in Sweden finds just 7.3% infected in Stockholm
- Health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- Crane nursing home employees, residents test positive for COVID-19
- Crane County Judge issues court order for quarantine of Focused Care at Crane nursing home
- Midland Health announces plan for testing all city nursing homes for COVID-19 – again this is what should have been done, with much more, before any “orders” or anything happened to the general population and yet statewide and locally this is just now gearing up! How incompetent!
- Family member of infected Brownwood nursing home employee dies of COVID-19
- Over 4,300 virus patients were deliberately sent to NY nursing homes
- This is not a natural disaster, but a manmade one – beware the contextual numbers, those numbers will trigger those cowering under their beds.
- Freedom and Sweden’s Constitution
- Liberty v. Lockdowns
- The Dr. Fauci of South Texas – puff piece on a liberal
- Quarantine for Thee, but Not for Me – One Pandemic and Quarantine for the Elites, Another for Everyone Else
- Austin to increase monitoring, require day passes to walk-in visitors, cyclists at some parks – it’s all about control and control only
- Homeless, unemployed renters benefit from wave of federal funding – so the working folk pay for this crisis twice (or more.)
- Trump’s urging stokes furor in debate over in-person worship – with whom? Those who don’t actually believe in God?
- The only opposition that will matter to today’s lock down fascism will be opposition expressed in the ballot box
- Abbott predicts college football will return on schedule
- Odessa doctor believes he has found ‘silver bullet’ for COVID-19
- If We Can’t Predict the Weather, How Can We Predict the Chinese Coronavirus? – Thus far, every projected doom-and-gloom scenario that our “experts” have predicted will come to pass has not materialized.
- As Bars Prepare to Open Doors Again, Future Still Uncertain
- U.S. judge refuses to override Pennsylvania Gov. Wolf’s coronavirus business closure, stay-at-home orders – they are leaving people with no option but armed resistance as envisioned in the Declaration of Independence.
- Potter County Judge Says COVID-19 Has Been A ‘Nightmare’ For The Amarillo Area – bed wetter
- For some, forgoing masks in public during the coronavirus pandemic has become a political statement – maybe but it is about them being useless at stopping virus particles for me.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Trump orders flags at half-staff in memory of coronavirus victims
- Trump: States must allow churches to reopen this weekend, otherwise ‘I will override the governors’ VIDEO
- Trump appoints Texan Brooke Rollins as White House domestic policy chief – this is fantastic!
- Can the President Pull Funds from Mail-In Ballot States?
- Sen. Cruz Condemns China’s Moves to Deepen Control Over Hong Kong
- Sens. Cruz, Scott, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Protect COVID-19 Vaccine Research from Communist China
- Sen. Cruz Applauds Trump Administration Announcement Enforcing Sanctions Against Two High Profile Members of Ortega Regime
- As SBA works overtime to handle PPP, the agency’s disaster loan program has trouble scaling up
- Planned Parenthood Knew It Was Ineligible for Coronavirus-Relief Loans before Claiming Them
- FBI launches internal investigation into its handling of Michael Flynn case
- Less Than Two-Thirds of Americans Are ‘Very’ or ‘Somewhat’ Interested in COVID-19 Vaccinations
- Dem Sen. Attacks Appeals Court Judge for Daring to Question Unprecedented Actions in Flynn Case
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Joe Biden: I ‘honest to God don’t know who’ VP pick will be – yep, he has to wait until those running him tell him.
- Joe Biden tells radio host ‘you ain’t black’ if you vote for Trump over him
- Biden says ‘you ain’t black’ if you’d vote for Trump over him; uproar ensues
- The Three Strangest Lines from Biden’s Breakfast Club Interview
- Obama’s political police: Liars, leakers and lawyers
- The Cuomo comedy special
- Can we believe Ilhan Omar’s autobiography?
- Michigan AG calls Trump ‘a petulant child’ and says he is not welcome in Michigan
- Abortion Lies and GQ
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- Border / immigration
- Texas lawmakers want to keep business with Mexico open — but worry about opening border
- Rep. Pressley says illegal immigrants should receive driver’s licenses in Massachusetts VIDEO
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- Business
- Texas Unemployment Rate Soars to 12.8% – mostly gov’t caused
- Record-setting job losses, unemployment rate in Texas
- Baker Hughes Oil & Gas Rotary Drilling Rig Count Summary
- Rig count plunges 11th straight week to lowest level on record
- Texas Oil and Gas Production Statistics for March 2020
- Port of Corpus Christi adding 17 million barrels of crude oil storage
- U.S. LNG cancellations swell with storage space vanishing
- Schlumberger to overhaul business units
- The two astronauts who will test drive SpaceX’s brand new rocketship and return human orbital launches to the U.S. are classmates and friends
- Google steals; distorts search results to hide it
- Midland unemployment rate leaps to 10.2 percent
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- FBI Says Texas Naval Base Shooting Is ‘Terrorism-Related’, A Look at Recent Attacks on U.S. Military Bases, Group: Texas Naval Base Shooter Voices Support for Clerics, more
- Girlfriend accused of injuring ex-Texas lieutenant governor – reported here 2 days ago.
- Midland firefighters respond to grass fire
- Police write would-be watermelon thief a citation
- Abilene man who fled from police with bag full of weed, money, and a gun identified
- 2 teenagers severely injured in boating accident at Lake Nasworthy
- Woman sentenced for bringing toddler to deadly drug deal
- Big rig bursts into flames along North Freeway, driver burned
- Teens yanked 9-year-old girl off ATV, hit her when she held on, Texarkana police say
- Pickup carrying child plunges off North Freeway avoiding ‘brainless’ street racers, police say
- Body found floating in Buffalo Bayou in downtown Houston
- Ex-Midway high school player charged with capital murder
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- Local government
- Texas agencies ordered to cut spending 5%, why can’t locals seem to manage this?
- Austin to increase monitoring, require day passes to walk-in visitors, cyclists at some parks – it’s all about control and control only
- Austin City Council Approves $8.3 Million for Purchase of Hotel Appraised at $4.9 Million
- Harris County Appoints Democrat Party Official to Head Elections
- City of Abilene beginning ‘formal search’ for new police chief next month
- City of San Angelo reminds citizens blowing leaves, debris into streets is a code violation
- Boil water notice issued in Big Spring
- Archer City’s first Police Chief dies
- Newly-elected Iowa Park council members are sworn in
- Grant of $398,000 awarded for Coke County park
- Lubbock Police to increase patrol units for city parks, high levels of crime for Memorial Day weekend – might want to “up” everything all the time given the soaring homicide rate!
- City to Test Bicycle, Pedestrian-Focused Streets in West San Antonio
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- Colleges & universities
- MSU adds Master of Professional Studies program
- Odessa College opens to serve students
- TTU Office Of Research & Innovation Announces Guidelines For Return To Campus
- Graduating ‘Power Couple’ Reflect on Their Successes, Struggles at Texas Tech
- Court Ruling Paves Way for Wrongful Death Suit in 2013 UIW Police Shooting
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- Military
- Dyess AFB conducts Air Force’s First Virtual Collider
Pratt’s post for 5/22/2020
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