- Abbott Provides Update On State’s Response To Protest Violence, Calls For Unity And Peaceful Protests – see full section lower on page
- Governor Abbott, U.S. Attorneys Announce Federal Prosecution For Protest Agitators Violating Federal Law
- Texas Gov. Abbott: Horrific George Floyd death must be met with change, peaceful protests
- Abbott says Texas doesn’t need U.S. military to deal with protest violence – no because Texas took action early on.
- Texas Democrat lawmaker urges Governor to call special session to address ‘police violence against the black community’ – political grandstanding for her runoff
- First Lawmaker Calls for Special Session to Review Disaster Declarations
- A Zero-Growth Budget to Restore Texans’ Liberty
- Superintendent: Valley lawmakers need to make digital divide a top priority – in other words, no amount is enough, send us more money.
- Federal judge rejects conservative lawyers’ challenge to State Bar of Texas fees – this is a shame, the suit is correct in its allegations.
- AG Paxton Opinion: Employees Must Consent to Payroll Deductions for Public Sector Union or Organization Fees and Dues
- AG Paxton Warns U.S. Senate Leadership of Dangers to Election Integrity in Expanding Mail-In Balloting with the HEROES Act
- TX24: Democratic Group to Spend Six-Figures on Direct Mail Campaign Targeting Kim Olson in Dem Runoff
- TX13: Records Reveal Congressional Candidate Winegarner Lobbied Against Trump Administration – Winegarner is a groomed by the Swamp candidate.
- Announcing the 2020 RPT and SREC Questionnaires
- Young Conservatives of Texas to host three town halls highlighting conservative candidates in run-off elections.
- Texas Democrats hold virtual pep rally as they look to beat Donald Trump, win state House
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- Coronavirus related
- Conservatives ask court to strike down Abbott coronavirus orders, law behind them, more, more
- With about 400 plaintiffs, Dr. Hotze and other conservatives file suit against Abbott calling his COVID-19 executive orders unconstitutional – originally posted here on 21 May 2020
- Lawsuit against Abbott’s virus orders is sound, will judges have fortitude?
- GOP Lawmakers, Leaders Allege Abbott’s Shutdowns Violate Constitution
- Not admitting mistakes is subverting freedom
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Texas Making Progress Against Coronavirus, Says Governor
- Map of Texas COVID-19 Test Collection Sites
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 6/02/2020 (pdf) – 1678 deaths in Q1 plus 2/3rds of Q2. Official Texas 2018/19 flu season P&I deaths were 9249 by end of July last year, over 10,095 for the annual season.
- Why Didn’t the 1958 and 1918 Pandemics Destroy the Economy? Hint: It’s the Lockdowns
- Doctors admit: Masks are nothing more than “symbols”, do little
- WHO Advises Who Should Wear a Mask and When: The Mask Police Are Not Going to Be Happy
- Protests could lead to spike in coronavirus cases, health and local officials warn – yeah, that’s what we need to worry about!
- Neurological symptoms: ICUs become a ‘delirium factory’ for Covid-19 patients
- Health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- Fort Stockton prison sees spike in COVID-19 cases VIDEO
- 67 active offender COVID-19 cases Pecos County jails VIDEO
- Austin’s ‘Stay Home’ Order Still Theoretically in Place Through June 15
- Take Liberty Back From Government
- As coronavirus hits Texas, the state’s top health chief is spending 30 hours a week on a second job — that pays $600,000
- COVID-19 pandemic will cost U.S. $16 trillion over 10 years, CBO estimates
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- The Shame of Proxy Voting in the House of Representatives
- Barr says feds will treat instigators of riots as domestic terrorists under federal law
- Sens. Cruz, Blackburn, Cornyn, Cotton, Inhofe, Lankford, and Lee Submit Amicus Brief to Supreme Court in Voting Rights Act Case
- Black Texas Congress members call for justice, urge peaceful protests after death of George Floyd
- Cruz and Cornyn stand by Trump on tear gas, church photo-op as Democrats slam dictator-like tactics
- New proposal to end the “qualifified immunity” held by police
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump’s approval rating hold steady over month of May, Just the News poll finds
- War footing: can Trump turn left-wing protests into victory?
- The contrast between Reagan era optimism and Trump era decline could hardly be more striking
- Republicans should now reclaim their strong history on civil rights
- Biden blisters Trump, says ‘moment has come’ to deal with America’s systemic racism – how long was Biden in the White House, Congress?
- Joe Biden Tells Huge Whopper in Church VIDEO
- Julián Castro Makes His Support for Joe Biden Official
- CNN Is Basically InfoWars Now as Don Lemon Has a Mental Break Live on Air
- Kamala Harris Has Joined the Riot Bailout Program and This Only Looks Worse for Democrats
- George W. Bush urges ‘America to examine our tragic failures’ in wake of George Floyd’s ‘brutal suffocation’
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- Border / immigration
- Reynosa, a confusing pandemic panorama
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- Business
- Businesses Struggle to Recover After COVID
- Scaleworks Founders Launch New Ag-Tech Company
- American ends service to Oakland, is first US airline to permanently drop a city after coronavirus
- American Airlines delays by a month the introduction of a new fee structure for award tickets
- State Reopenings Give Oil And Gas Producers A Temporary Boost
- ITC sued by energy companies over tank fires that closed Houston Ship Channel
- Musk confirms cause of most recent Starship prototype failure
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Governor Abbott, U.S. Attorneys Announce Federal Prosecution For Protest Agitators Violating Federal Law
- Abbott Provides Update On State’s Response To Protest Violence, Calls For Unity And Peaceful Protests
- Out of State Rioters Beware: Texas Governor Greg Abbott Takes Action to Protect Peaceful Protests
- Rioting is contagious: London protesters are outraged about events in the US
- Democratic governors reject Trump’s call to send in military
- Ill-defined, undisciplined movements often produce results opposite original intent
- Floyd family to march in Texas as governor heads to Dallas
- San Antonio police chief: Out-of-state ‘extremists’ infiltrating peaceful protests – maybe but I’d bet there were plenty of locals doing the same
- On third day of San Antonio protests, demonstrators and heads of law enforcement agencies talk it out
- ‘This Is San Antonio. We Don’t Do Riots in the Street’ – really?
- Pity the shopkeepers
- Riot Fallout: Real people, real jobs, real destruction
- Austin: Demonstrations deal blow to downtown businesses reeling from pandemic – and yet the city council is angry police acted to suppress riots. Austin City Council sets emergency hearing to review police tactics during protests – not focused on order but on the police in a negative way. Whose side are Austin politicians on? The rioters.
- Photos: Cleanup Efforts After Austin Protests Leave Behind Graffiti, Property Damage
- Downtown Austin Transitions from Riot Hot-Spot to Community Cleanup
- Man ‘Fighting for His Life’ After Austin Police Shot Him With Bean Bag Round
- City of Laredo Statement on Local Protests
- Protesters Invoke Different Names to Decry Police Treatment
- Trump Cites Dallas Beating to Governors, Leaves Out Details
- Atlanta: Texas Woman Pulled From Car by Police Says She Feared for Her Life
- George Floyd Protesters Vandalize, Deface Texas Capitol
- If Antifa is Designated A Terrorist Group, There Are A Lot Of Possible Charges Coming
- Black cop, white victim, no riots: A 2017 Minneapolis killing foreshadowed failed police reforms
- Putting Cops Killing Blacks In Its Proper Perspective
- How Much of a Role Does Race Play in Police Killings?
- Texas soldiers, state police maintain presence in 3 major cities following weekend protests turned violent VIDEO
- Son of police officer wants to see needle move in right direction
- Hundreds gather as Wichita Falls peaceful protest emphasizes passion, rage across the country VIDEO
- Media screams over reporters arrested, etc.
- Abilene police: ‘No credible chatter about (protest) violence in our city’
- Hundreds Attend ‘Silent Solidarity Walk’ Organized by The 100 Black Men of West Texas, more VIDEO
- Protests to be held at the Midland County Courthouse at 2 & 6 p.m., Midland: City, county to close downtown offices Tuesday due to protests
- Man charged with damaging Houston police car window during George Floyd protests
- Dallas police chief defends arrests of peaceful protesters, report says
- “I didn’t care if I was exposed to COVID”: Protesters’ anger outweighed their fear of getting sick
- Rioters Try to Smash Their Way Into a Bakery in Cleveland, But the Armed Owners Have Something to Say About It
- 4 St. Louis cops shot after ‘peaceful’ protest turned violent
- Cleveland, Ohio: New evidence shows vandalism and looting downtown were organized – surprised? That’s what community organizer means!
- Man with gun at Lubbock protest charged with making interstate threats
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Round Rock man accused of 2016 sexual assault when he volunteered at Pflugerville High
- Pflugerville man accused of possessing child pornography
- Waco Police Believe Body in Dumpster Is Missing 2-Year-Old, more
- 2 Texans Sentenced for Spending $25,000 With Fake Cards
- CNN legal analyst: Midland PD went ‘above and beyond’ during Anders’ arrest
- Man charged in Burkburnett hit and run
- NASA researcher collects hailstones in Burkburnett VIDEO
- Driver hospitalized after colliding with mail truck in south Abilene
- Abilene man accused of sexually abusing young child
- Abilene parents arrested after 10-year-old tests positive for meth
- Lamesa: Multi-agency raid nets arrests, suspected meth
- Lubbock family loses home after apartment fire
- Police ID body found in Central Lubbock playa lake after vehicle submerged in water following crash
- Lubbock police chase ends after car hits building and officers fish suspect out of a lake
- Houston man charged after officer hit with car, alleged wooden post attack
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- Local government
- Attorney Pleads Guilty to Moving $800k in Bribes for Dallas Schools Bus Agency Chief
- Williamson County reopens its offices
- Pilot program brings long-awaited mental health services to South San ISD
- Superintendent: Valley lawmakers need to make digital divide a top priority
- Bexar County approves millions in coronvarius aid for suburbs, businesses
- Midland: City, county to close downtown offices Tuesday due to protests
- Wichita Falls nonprofits could get additional funds from city – no, those funds come from taxpayers not the “city.”
- Tensions flare at Abilene City Council, but mayor says city has focused on racial progress
- City of Lubbock Accepting Applications For Boards & Commissions
- Lubbock PD puts officer on leave, internal investigation after Facebook comment
- Activists urge action from Dallas city officials on police accountability – run by fellow Democrats and the chief is a black woman.
- Dallas police chief defends arrests of peaceful protesters, report says
- Houston, Dallas, San Antonio Face Sharp Revenue Shortfalls Due To COVID-19
- Head Of Houston Police Union Urges Cops To Speak Out When Fellow Officers Do Wrong
- San Antonio mayor to forego plan to expand public transit in favor of coronavirus recovery – some “good” from the WuFlu?
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- Colleges & universities
- Odessa College expects 3,000 students to enroll for summer courses
- Texas A&M System to reopen this fall: ‘It’s very hard to be an Aggie online’
- Sul Ross: Board of Regents adds BSN program, gifts and donations acknowledged
- Ranger College plans for students this fall, excited about drone program
- ACU works to keep freshman enrollment numbers steady following pandemic impacts
- ACU president address death of George Floyd, racial divide in the U.S.
- TTU Professor Combines Passions For Law, Education To Benefit Students
- TTU Researcher Awarded Large Grant To Investigate Antimicrobial Resistance In High-Risk Beef Cattle
- South Plains College Culinary Program talks about impact of COVID-19; offer class to laid off, furloughed employees
Pratt’s post for 6/2/2020
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