- Texas Legislative Black Caucus asks Gov. Abbott to name policing reforms a top priority next session
- Former Sheriff Keel: Remove Austin City Council authority over APD
- Lawmaker, Dan Flynn, Calls for STAAR Testing Requirements to be Waived, Evaluation System Diversified – he’s reaching for anything for his runoff
- Texas Supreme Court Denies Petition to Review Austin Paid Sick Leave Ordinance
- Democrats have a plan to turn Texas blue: Latino voters
- Chaotic by Liberal Design; The Georgia-Texas Connection
- HD47: Abbott prefers Berry, Austin police officer, for Travis House seat, more – makes me wonder if Fleck might not be the more conservative candidate.
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- Coronavirus related
- Lawsuit against Abbott’s virus orders is sound, will judges have fortitude?
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Not admitting mistakes is subverting freedom
- Map of Texas COVID-19 Test Collection Sites
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 6/11/2020 (pdf) – 1885 deaths in Q1 plus over 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.
- WHO Now Says Asymptomatic Spread Of Coronavirus Is Rare
- Dr. John Lee: Science, doubt and the second wave of COVID
- Liberals: Which ‘Science’ Are We Supposed to Believe? – “Earlier this year the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rejected the notion that the public should be wearing face masks. CDC Director Robert Redfield told a House committee, “There is no role for these masks in the community.” And U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted, “STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing the general public from catching coronavirus.””
- Lax social distancing, mask habits tied to coronavirus surge, Austin officials say VIDEO
- UT researchers find success treating severe coronavirus cases with blood from recovered patients
- COVID-19 testing in Texas stymied by delayed results, waning demand
- Tahoka under stay-at-home order after rise in positive COVID-19 cases
- Lubbock reports 16 cases Wednesday, but marks month without coronavirus death
- Harris County issues COVID-19 Threat Level System – worthless
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says ‘we can’t shut down the economy again’
- Trump Administration Cuts Oil, Gas Fees in Hundreds of Cases
- John Cornyn disagrees with push to rename Fort Hood and other Army posts named after Confederate generals
- FEMA denies Texas appeal for disaster relief for October tornadoes that caused millions in damage in Dallas County
- Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo tells U.S. House committee defunding police is “not the answer”
- U.S. intel viewed Steele dossier as ‘highly politically sensitive’ and mostly uncorroborated
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Biden or Trump? 22% of Americans say ‘who cares?’
- Trump Heads to Dallas for Race Relations Talk, Fundraiser
- Trump to unveil plan for ‘holistic revitalization and recovery’ during trip to Dallas
- Trump lands in Dallas for talk about policing and race that excludes Dallas’ police chief, sheriff and DA, all black – why talk with the failures, it’s not their race but their failure in Dallas to get a handle on explosive crime
- Trump in Texas for church conversation and fundraiser
- Trump Resumes Fundraising to Build Cash Lead Against Biden
- Blue-checks now criticizing President Trump for abbreviating the Secret Service as ‘S.S.’
- Joe Biden says Donald Trump wrong choice to heal divided nation – since when has Biden or any liberal Dem tried to unify or heal the nation?
- Biden: You’d better believe the military will have to force Trump out of the White House, or something
- Voters by 2-1 margin, with 56% black voters, say America’s best days still in future, not in past
- A North Carolina professor who sparked outrage with his tweets still has his job. Why? It’s called the First Amendment. – Amazing we have to explain such.
- Michael Moore Questions Environmentalists’ Claims and They Don’t Like It
- The Krugman-Led Mob Comes for Academic Freedom
- Cancel Cancel Culture
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- Border / immigration
- Trump Administration Proposes Sweeping Asylum Restrictions
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- Business
- 1.5 million more laid-off workers seek unemployment benefits – thanks governors and mayors
- Crude price plunges by as much as 11%
- Texas gas prices up 14 cents
- Jason Modglin named president of Texas Alliance of Energy Producers
- Claim: Ford owes $315 million to Lubbock-based bankrupt car dealerships
- Industrial Downturn to Weigh on Austin’s National Instruments
- Coronavirus Might Forever Change What’s ‘In’ When Dining Out
- The oil crash folded their old business. Now they’re betting on a new kind of oil.
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Authorities Probe Radio, Website Disruptions During Protests
- Armed Jewish Group Takes Security into its Own Hands in Los Angeles
- Seattle Protesters Issue Demands: Abolish Police, Grant Amnesty, Give Free Health Care and College
- Reports: Antifa-Linked Armed Volunteers Join Seattle’s ‘Autonomous Zone’
- Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Clueless on Seattle Takeover: ‘News to Me!’ VIDEO
- Disney Fans Say Splash Mountain Should Be Re-Themed Because of Ties to Racism – the insanity of mobs
- For black mayors, police reforms are a personal mission to make sure ‘another black man doesn’t die the way George Floyd did’ – they’ve run the cities for generations now so why has such happened in the past and then again now?
- Calls for resignation after Texas mayor says she sees Black Lives Matter as ‘a threat to our lives’ – how dare she give her opinion!
- Hays County mayor criticized after calling Black Lives Matter ‘threat to our lives,’ reports say
- Antifa explained
- Protests calling to defund police planned for Lamar Blvd. in Austin
- Head of Texas Democrats urges Williamson County sheriff to resign over stun-gun death
- ‘Live PD’ reality show shutting down after police protests, Javier Ambler death
- ‘It is on you.’ George Floyd’s brother urges Congress to act – my point about the “movement.” “Congress” does not run state and local police departments and many of the policies in the bill are state legal issues.
- Dallas activists coming to Midland to protest Anders incident – here we go
- Ector Co. ISD trustee, Woodall, resigns after mob pressure to deny his free speech
- Ector County School Board Trustee Resigns
- EOW Ride to Remember stops in Midland to honor fallen police officer Nathan Heidelberg
- Country group Lady Antebellum changes band name over word’s association to slavery – what? They didn’t know before?
- Lubbock’s Quinones facing federal charges, accused of threatening to ‘off racists and MAGA people’
- Vandal puts ‘blood’ on hands, head of Christopher Columbus statue in Houston
- Protesters Shout at Bexar Co. DA’s Office: Reopen Cases of Black Men Killed by Cops
- Organizer Says ‘For Us, By Us’ Rally Could Be The Start Of Systemic Change In Austin
- Dallas Police Sued by Protesters Ahead of Trump Visit
- Las Vegas police officer shot in head during protests will likely remain on ventilators, family
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Wichita Falls FD fighting grass fire on 287
- Abilene: Flames rage for a while along Elm Creek
- Former Henchman of Houston Killer Corll Dies of COVID-19
- Man Gets Prison for Ramming Truck Into Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi Gate
- 1 killed on Texas 71 near Pedernales River
- Shooter sought after teen, juvenile killed, Caldwell County authorities say
- Family of Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen want answers on her disappearance
- 6 sentenced for smuggling Big Bend cacti
- Motorcycle accident on Loop 250 in Midland leaves one dead
- WF mother indicted for allegedly leaving sick child home alone
- Two Wichita Falls men accused of beating up man, forcing him to flee naked
- Levelland police investigate suspicious death
- Victim shoots suspected burglar in Central Lubbock home
- Anti-Wimp: Jilted lover kicks down door, shot by new beau
- Lubbock Police Ask For Help Identifying Suspects Shown in Video
- Wolfforth man pleads guilty for possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor
- Man found shot dead outside southwest Houston motel
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- Local government
- City of Austin wants voters to spend $10 BILLION more on light rail
- Austin City Council Approves $150,000 Contract With Abortion Group
- Austin Program for Socially Distanced Meals for the Homeless to Continue Through July – no kidding
- Austin City Council seeks hotel to shelter victims of family violence
- Austin Chief Manley to address changes to police tactics
- Here Are Some Areas Austin City Council Could Put Money Toward Instead Of Police
- Former Sheriff Keel: Remove Austin City Council authority over APD
- Austin: More than 300 expected to comment on police reforms at council meeting
- Pflugerville takes first steps in establishing equity panel
- Williamson County approves $150,000 settlement for former sheriff’s commander
- Williamson County issues more than $28.5 million to small businesses for coronavirus costs
- Head of Texas Democrats urges Williamson County sheriff to resign over stun-gun death
- San Antonio City Council grapples with reforming police discipline, budget in wake of George Floyd protests, more
- ‘Fix SAPD’ Vows to Dismantle Police Union, Keep Bad Cops off the Force
- Unions have helped create a culture of unaccountability within many police departments
- Grappling with budget shortfalls, Texas cities prepare for hard choices
- Wichita Falls residents face waived water bills during COVID-19
- Abilene city council stalls developer’s ACU-area plans again – anti-growth
- Groundbreaking on North Lubbock Police Substation set for tomorrow
- City of Dallas asks Court of Appeals for permission to remove Pioneer Park’s Confederate War Memorial
- Dallas Council Claims They Can Make Cuts to Police and Still Deliver Public Safety
- Ellis County Rejects ‘Coronavirus Cash’ for Now
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- Colleges & universities
- TTU evolutionary biologists awarded grant to study bats as possible Covid-19 solution
- Texas Tech Experts Unified In Zoonotic & Infectious Diseases Research Center
- UTPB gives more than $500,000 to students
- MSU President issues new response to national protests after black student organizations call initial statement ‘vague, safe’ – you must join the chaos and revolution, denounce yourself, and agree to be a pawn or you are the enemy.
- Pete Gallego Takes Over At Sul Ross State During A ‘Transformational Period’ In Higher Education
Pratt’s post for 6/11/2020
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