- Dan Patrick Skewers Fellow Republican George P. Bush Over Alamo Management
- Texas Attorney General has good plan on in-custody deaths
- Why Texas schools won’t get their $1.2 billion in federal coronavirus aid – this story demonstrates how out of control ISD folks are as well as how financially ignorant they are.
- Floyd’s death inspires bias training for officers in Texas, more
- Texas Democrats urge Abbott to call special session as details emerge showing Javier Ambler’s death at the hands of sheriff’s deputies
- Federal Appeals Court Clears Way for Texas Execution
- Company That Won Texas Contact Tracing Contract Celebrates LGBTQ Ruling
- Supreme Court: Texas death row inmate’s lawyer was deficient
- Gun sales spike dramatically throughout Texas amid protests, pandemic concerns
- Permian Basin Leaders Make Case for New Interstate Route
- Plans for New West Texas Highway May Provide Another Route Through State
- Congressmen Jodey Arrington and Henry Cuellar Propose Interstate 27 Expansion with Ports-to-Plains Highway Act
- Commentary: Education and the Culture of Fear
- Get the Economics Right: An Interview with Bill Peacock – our old friend who appeared on Pratt on Texas many times.
- Abilene group organizing independent political party
- TX13: Ronny Jackson releases hardhitting “I’m From Here” advert VIDEO
- TX13: Ronny Jackson on Air Force One with President Trump in Dallas VIDEO
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Supreme Court ruling extends workplace protections to an estimated 1.2 million LGBT Texans. more – with John Roberts and Gorsuch help, the court made law that only the Congress has the right to do.
- The Supreme Court Decides Who Is a Woman
- Alito Warns SCOTUS Decision Is a Threat to Religious Liberty
- Justice Thomas Chides the Court for Dodging Gun Rights, Qualified Immunity
- Supreme Court declines to hear Trump administration challenge on California ‘sanctuary city’ law
- Head of NASA’s commercial program picked as chief of manned space
- Dozens of scientists forced out because of foreign ties, mostly with China
- Voice of America director, deputy resign amid Trump clash
- Senate Republicans set this week to unveil police reform measure
- Rep. Arrington looks to tackle debt concerns in next relief bill
- Cruz engages in flame war with ‘Hellboy,’ in tweetstorm that spotlights peddler of ‘Pizzagate’ hoax
- A List of Texas Congressional Members’ Stances on Defunding the Police
- Sen. Cruz Leads Congressional Push to Halt Putin’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline With Clarified & Expanded Sanctions
- House GOP Report Finds WHO ‘Complicit’ in Beijing’s COVID Coverup, Calls for Director Tedros’s Ouster
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump’s birthday marks RNC, Trump campaign’s single best online fundraising day ever
- Trump ‘losing female vote to Biden by a historic margin not seen in more than 50 years’ – but men still on his side
- Abacus Data: Biden ahead by 14 among registered voters; Trump approval below 40%
- ‘He knows he has to do more.’ Skeptical Latino voters key to Biden’s campaign in Texas
- Photo shows Biden with Byrd, who once had ties to KKK but wasn’t a grand wizard – no, he was some other officer, a Grand Klegal or some weirdness
- COVID-19 Hypocrisy: You can’t rally. We can riot
- Conservatives — corporations are not your friend – using the word “corporation” is as dumb as it is when libs use it.
- Neocons come home to roost
- Society isn’t systemically racist. It is systemically woke
- The Confederate-Monument Controversy Is a Democrat-vs-Democrat Question
- Despite Donald Trump’s stand, some leaders now support NFL players kneeling during national anthem
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- Border / immigration
- Four Human Smuggling Attempts Thwarted in Texas near Border
- Ease in coronavirus restrictions in U.S. is followed by surge last month in illegal border crossings
- 200 Pounds of Meth, Heroin Seized in Texas at Border Crossings
- ICE, advocacy group disagree about number of coronavirus cases at Taylor detention center
- Mexico extradites high-ranking Sinaloa Cartel drug trafficker to the U.S.
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- Business
- Oil rises on tightening worldwide supply-and-demand signals
- Robert Granfeldt named general manager of Hearst Texas Panhandle properties, MRT
- Rio Grande Valley will not benefit from latest donation to NPR
- 24-Hour fitness closing multiple Houston-area, Texas locations
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- Coronavirus related
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 6/15/2020 (pdf) – 1976 deaths in Q1 plus 3/5ths 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.
- Map of Texas COVID-19 Test Collection Sites
- 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
- Swiss Policy Research: Facts about Covid-19
- WHO Now Says Asymptomatic Spread Of Coronavirus Is Rare
- Dr. John Lee: Science, doubt and the second wave of COVID
- Bexar County Judge Asks Governor to Allow Facial Covering Mandates – what a tool. See: Mask wearing is little more than virtue signaling
- Gov. Abbott ‘concerned but not alarmed’ by coronavirus surge as he further loosens business restrictions – the original restrictions were unwarranted as that “wave” never materialized thus a “second wave” is fantasy of the doom crowd.
- Let them out: Advocates want inmates granted parole freed as COVID-19 stalks prisons – so which is it? A controlled environment is better or not?
- ‘This virus is not going to rest,’ disease expert says – this is exactly why we must go on with life, it won’t go away while hiding in our closets.
- Hidalgo Co. Judge: Current plan for COVID-19 is not working – in what way? What government action will stop a virus?
- Krouse: Increase in COVID-19 cases was predictable
- COVID-19 Hypocrisy: You can’t rally. We can riot
- Tulsa Health Department director: ‘I wish we could postpone’ Trump rally – and this “Dr.” is not even a medical doctor, he has a Ph.D. in the business of healthcare!
- De Blasio Tells Covid Contract Tracers Not to Ask Positive Cases If They’ve Attended BLM Protests – yep
- Fauci: U.S. may not return to ‘real normality’ from coronavirus until at least next year – why “next year” Dr. Faulty? Viruses will still be around including WuFlu.
- Members and staffers are asked to avoid the Texas Capitol Monday after 2 more state troopers were diagnosed with COVID-19 – it would be OK to just avoid the sick people!
- Alpine ISD to close for 14 days after staff member tests positive for COVID-19
- San Antonio River Walk businesses announce reopening
- Midland: Younger than 40 makes up 63 percent of COVID-19 cases this week
- The number of Houston-area coronavirus cases is at 26,434 with 504 deaths and 10,651 recoveries
- Delays in test results frustrate local efforts to stem spread of COVID-19 in Texas
- Commentary: Education and the Culture of Fear
- As Texas Hospitalizations Spike, Officials Urge The Public To Be More Vigilant Against The Spread Of COVID-19
- Cows Being Used to Produce COVID Vaccine
- FDA revokes emergency approval of hydroxychloroquine – sort of flies in the face of most of the media reporting!
- Even as he rejects local pleas for mandatory masks, Gov. Abbott chides young people for not wearing them – Abbott is a wind watcher and weak
- TABC warns of crackdown on bars and restaurants not strictly adhering to reopening guidelines issued by Abbott – more tyranny from an agency that has always enjoyed tyrant status.
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Texas Prepares for Rioters: ‘Don’t Mess with The Alamo’
- COVID-19 Hypocrisy: You can’t rally. We can riot
- Lockhart residents march to have Confederate monument removed, honor George Floyd
- Kaswan, Patiño Houle: Time to take down Brownsville’s Jefferson Davis memorial is now – it’s a rock with a plaque.
- Society isn’t systemically racist. It is systemically woke
- Floyd’s death inspires bias training for officers in Texas
- Seattle’s CHAZ: Non-conformist Utopia, or Politically Correct Hell?
- Black drivers in Lubbock are getting stopped, searched and arrested at higher rates
- Review Of Midland Police Records Shows Blacks And Hispanics Are Pulled Over At Higher Rates Than White Drivers
- Social media gives protests staying power – lockdowns and the jobs lost because of such is giving this its biggest boost.
- Las Vegas Cop Shot During Protests Paralyzed From Neck Down
- ‘White Conquest’: Pioneer Statues at Univ. of Oregon Pulled Down, Damaged
- Organizers Prepare to Fight Police Contract, Dubbing It Root of the Problem
- Some National Guard Members Are Likely To Face Discipline After Refusing To Deploy To Protests
- Protests against police brutality and racism: scenes from small Texas towns and cities
- Faith, civic leaders in Houston to call for reconciliation and criminal justice reform
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Police officer shot, wounded responding to call in northeast El Paso VIDEO
- San Antonio Police: Man Turned Away From Texas Bar Shoots, Wounds 8 – guess those tough gun control laws about bars don’t work either!
- Dozens gather at Fort Hood to demand answers in missing soldier case
- Austin PD Internal affairs review of deputies in Javier Ambler case still open
- Overnight shooting in Odessa leaves one person dead, suspect now in custody
- Pecos High has no valedictorian following dispute for top spot
- Big Daddy Zane’s protest leader arrested for drug distribution
- Levelland police identify suspects arrested in connection to Sunday shooting
- Former State Trooper arrested in Lubbock for online solicitation of prostitution
- Big Spring DPS Trooper retires after prostitution arrest in Lubbock
- Lubbock: One person seriously injured after early Monday morning shooting
- Lubbock police describe drive-by shooting that injured one, two arrested
- Multiple fire departments respond to massive fire in Northeast Lubbock
- Fire reported at North Lubbock concrete company VIDEO
- Police investigating shooting after 2 suspects rob ice cream cart in north Amarillo
- Crews responding to wildfire in south Abilene, more
- Runnels County wildfire fully contained, but 3,200 acre fire still burns in Coke County
- Report: Eastland man tells police he’s ‘sorry’ after killing 18-year-old girlfriend
- Texas Rangers investigate in-custody death at Ector County Jail
- Sleeping man jailed; $12K worth of meth sized
- Burkburnett woman jailed for running over boyfriend after fight
- WF police asking for surveillance video for Thursday night shooting
- Shooting victim shows up at hospital E.R with serious injury in Wichita Falls
- Police surveillance on Wichita Falls hotel yields 3 arrests
- Multiple people, including children, injured in Crystal Beach crash
- Houston man shot in the leg during drive-by shooting
- One killed, one injured in west Houston apartment burglary
- Man missing, 2 injured after Jeep crashes into Galveston Causeway guard rail
- Body of missing boater found in Houston Ship Channel Monday
- Children duck for cover as gunmen shoot up Houston block party, leaving man dead
- Man shot, killed during meet-up at gas station in Harris County
- Nationwide cell service outage is affecting local ability to call 911, HCSO says
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- Local government
- Austin City Manager Cronk under fire from council over policing concerns
- Top Executive Pay Should Be Cut First; Dallas Mayor to City Manager
- Dallas Agrees to Temporary Ban on Less-Lethal Police Weapons
- Bexar Co. commissioner touts modern New Deal stimulus for pandemic-era jobs creation
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas Tech remains ranked as one of top universities in the world
- MSU Texas names President’s Medal for Excellence recipients
- MSU Texas president commits to action for racial equality
- A&M System approves $100 million scholarship fund to address “diversity issues”
- Baptist ministry classes find home at Abilene Christian University
Pratt’s post for 6/15/2020
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