- Supreme Court Doesn’t Wade Into Texas Mail-In Voting Battle
- Texas Supreme Court Rules in Major Parental Rights Case – good ruling
- Quadriplegic COVID-19 Patient Starved by Texas Doctor because of his Disability – exactly why we must have life reforms passed
- Gov. Abbott gambled Texas’ reopening on contact tracing. Here’s how it went bust. – typical how stupidly command-and-control gov’t folk think actual work in the real world happens.
- SB: In pandemic response, Gov. Abbott is finally liberated from certain agitators in the GOP – Braddock is such a conservative hater it is almost funny. Abbott should take notice that his enemies are cheering his recent decisions.
- COVID Response in Texas Highlights Vicious War for Medical Freedom
- Judge Returns Ken Paxton Fraud Case to His Home County
- Paxton’s Lawyers on Criminal Case Shuffle: ‘This Case Has Gone on Far Too Long’
- Texas prepares for showdown over sex ed
- Report Urges Harris County to Begin Widespread Dismissal of “Non-Violent” Felony Charges
- Herman: The time has come for Confederate Heroes Day’s time to go
- Early voting starts Monday for the primary runoff in Texas
- Dickey: Texas GOP Convention as Scheduled, Masks Optional
- The Back Mic: Runoff Candidates Spar with Abbott, Release Attack Ads, Endorse Former Rivals
- TX13: Democrat candidate Trujillo holds first town hall since beginning of pandemic
- TX13: Ronny Jackson Says Radical Left Trying To Rewrite History
- TX13: Winegarner Doubles Down on Attacks on Jackson’s Military Service
- HD60 Runoff: Why you should back Jon Francis for the Texas House
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- House Democrats vote unanimously against resolution that condemns violence and rioting
- Texas lawmakers split on U.S. House police reform bill vote
- Viral Pandemic Exposed Poor Cash Management in Government
- Sen. Cruz Joins Parler, Says Big Tech Has Stacked the Deck Against the American People
- House Approves Bill to Make District of Columbia the 51st State; Measure Faces Opposition in GOP-Controlled Senate
- Complaint filed against Justice whistleblower Zelinsky alleged misconduct in Stone prosecution
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Hannity to Trump: What are you hoping to achieve in your second term?
- Biden Will Soon Choose His Running Mate, and He Has Three Good Options
- Biden Was Asked About the Destruction of Monuments, Here’s His Answer
- Biden Pledges to Unleash the Full Force of the Federal Government to Fix This Problem
- New Jersey attorney general charges local politicians in mail-in voter fraud case – but Dems keep saying this stuff doesn’t exist!
- Dana Loesch Stomps All Over Brian Stelter’s Colossally Stupid Comment About Trump Calling Monument Vandals ‘Terrorists’
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- Border / immigration
- 9th Circuit Appeals Court: Trump Wrongly Diverted $2.5B for Border Wall – Congress itself gave the Executive such power in a specific bill. 2 Clinton judges were the 2 to 1 vote in this.
- 11 Texas Immigration Detainees Test Positive for COVID-19
- Chihuahua State Police commander linked to the Sinaloa Cartel is sentenced to 15 years in prison
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- Coronavirus related
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 6/26/2020 (pdf) – 2,296 deaths in Q1 plus almost all 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. By the way, the # tested in Texas is now a whopping 1,805,642.
- COVID spread prompts Abbott to shutter Texas bars, limit restaurant capacity
- Governor Abbott Takes Executive Action To Contain Spread Of COVID-19 – stupid, the virus is going to spread and doing so more quickly is better for all of us.
- A Second Shutdown? Abbott Closes Bars, Other Businesses
- Abbott bans elective surgeries in 4 Texas counties, puts ‘pause’ on further reopenings, more – can these people ever learn? These hospital services bans are more dangerous than a virus.
- Gov. Abbott, TDEM to provide free masks to all Texans tested at state-run COVID-19 mobile testing sites
- Map of Texas COVID-19 Test Collection Sites
- Sen. Bob Hall Criticizes Abbott’s Face Mask Order Shift: ‘We Are Expected to Live As If We Have a Monarchy’
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional, Not admitting mistakes is subverting freedom
- Swiss Policy Research: Facts about Covid-19
- How Many COVID Deaths Are There, Really? – the numbers are inflated
- Here’s The Good COVID-19 News That’s Being Buried By The Press
- Second wave? Where was the first?, Dr. John Lee: Science, doubt and the second wave of COVID, What a Hospital Director Thinks about the ‘Second Wave’
- Government health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- Stories From the Dark Side of COVID-19 – right, our governor “is not interested in hearing about it.” So much of the so-claimed “compassion” for others is actually thinly veiled selfish action.
- The blind continuing panic over COVID-19
- Coronavirus Cases Are Climbing Again. So What?
- CDC director says COVID-19 infections likely 10 times higher than official numbers this is why studies that just look at numbers with such an unsure denominator (# infected) are so worthless.
- Horowitz: Bombshell Penn State study shows 80 times more infections existing in March than the official count
- New Data Suggests Coronavirus Lockdowns Didn’t Work
- Where are the deaths?: The drum beat to halt the reopenings gets louder by the day. It should be resisted
- 18 members of Texas family test positive for COVID-19 after birthday party – note the part far down: “While it appears that most of Barbosa’s family is on the road to recovery…”
- Abilene Refuses to Enforce Governor’s New Coronavirus Order on Bar Closures
- Texas, Florida roll back reopening as W.House revives virus task force
- Austin gets more than 100 complaints about masks, crowding Wednesday – what it is like to live with compliant subjects who will snitch on others
- Midland mayor “not prepared” to issue mask mandate
- Midland Mayor strongly encourages residents to wear a mask and social distance
- Odessa mayor waiting on mask mandate
- Colleyville won’t enforce Tarrant County’s mask requirements as coronavirus cases soar
- Tests show some coronavirus cases at Travis County nursing homes with no known outbreak
- Georgetown closes Blue Hole Park as coronavirus cases rise
- Don’t Panic: DFW Hospitals Can Handle Coronavirus Caseload
- President of Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Tells Public Not to Panic Over Coronavirus Numbers
- COVID Response in Texas Highlights Vicious War for Medical Freedom
- Harris County raises COVID-19 threat to most critical level, residents encouraged to stay home
- Laredo Hospitals Struggle To Find Staff And Space To Care For Surging COVID-19 Cases – much untold stuff in the B.S.
- San Antonio Health Department Director Resigns Amid Surge in Coronavirus Cases
- Gov. Greg Abbott needs to show more leadership to slow the dangerous spike of COVID-19 – this is an example of the press assault to which Abbott caves
- Arizona COVID-19 hospitalizations plunge by 14%; ventilator usage drops by 25%
- CDC revises list of those at high risk for coronavirus, now includes pregnant women
- Birx and VP say most new cases are millennials under 35
- City of Lubbock orders businesses and their employees to wear masks, not customers – goes way too far.
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- Business
- Baker Hughes Rotary Oil & Gas Drilling Rig Report
- Rig count down by one in 16th-straight week of losses
- Energy survey points to continued decline
- Oxy sues Sanchez Energy in bankruptcy court over Eagle Ford assets
- Now out of prison, ex-Enron CEO proves he can still fascinate
- Total plans eight new gas wells inside Arlington city limits
- American Airlines Will Book Flights to Full Capacity – is Abbott going to try and rule against them!?
- Sisters create American-made Permian brand
- Texas Book Festival moves from state Capitol to online – it’s a B.S. Leftwing affair to begin with.
- Abilene Chamber CEO appointed to Texas Association of Business Board of Directors
- Albertsons Resumes Trading on NYSE After 14 Year Hiatus
- GE Engine Services-McAllen lays off 350 workers in McAllen
- As evictions resume in Texas, unemployed renters have few options
- Midland’s Intrepid acquires directional drilling business of Gyrodata
- Texas bar shutdown likely dooms many San Antonio-area bars
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Goldthwaite residents stand guard at confederate monument after protest rumor seen on Facebook
- Laredo to remove Confederate flag imagery from the city – ruining their whole history marketing of living under 7 flags.
- Council advances plan to dismantle Minneapolis Police Department
- Abolish the Cops! Abolish the Prisons!
- New Black-led group at CHOP says protesters will decide how long they’ll stay
- Hundreds of Antifa Riot in Portland, Try To Set Up Another Autonomous Zone, Attack Police Precinct and Set It on Fire
- What’s Next? Ditching the National Anthem
- House Democrats vote unanimously against resolution that condemns violence and rioting
- The Liberty Cafe 012: The Cancel Culture
- Efforts to remove U.S. statues vs. lawmakers opposed heads for face-off over Lincoln statue in D.C.
- Biden Was Asked About the Destruction of Monuments, Here’s His Answer
- Dana Loesch Stomps All Over Brian Stelter’s Colossally Stupid Comment About Trump Calling Monument Vandals ‘Terrorists’
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Texas Medical Board disciplines Odessa doctor
- State regulators order Lubbock woman to cease and desist practicing medicine without a license
- Man charged with breaking into woman’s apartment, harassing her
- Accused “Odessa serial shooter” sent to mental facility
- Man charged with pointing a handgun during road rage incident
- Man charged with sending explicit text messages to teenage girl
- Second suspect arrested in connection to aggravated robbery
- Victim’s mom confronts robbery suspects
- Mother charged with injury to a child after chewing gum incident
- Woman arrested twice in two days for allegedly headbutting her brother
- Man sentenced to 5 years for setting fire to stolen car ‘to destroy his prints’
- Officers find man shot dead in Houston’s Third Ward
- Man in his late 50s found stabbed to death in Montrose
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- Local government
- Abilene Refuses to Enforce Governor’s New Coronavirus Order on Bar Closures
- Abilene City Council reinstates street fee, talks masks
- Activists Call on Dallas to Take Down Shingle Mountain: ‘This Is What Hate Looks Like’ VIDEO
- Pflugerville leaders claim to be looking at actual property tax cut in new budget
- Wichita County, VFDs make plan to boost communications for rural first responders
- Brownwood council OKs tax note for city projects
- Willis named as new Executive Director of Big Spring EDC
- Del Valle school district to discuss potential tax breaks for proposed Tesla factory
- Laredo to remove Confederate flag imagery from the city
- San Antonio Health Department Director Resigns Amid Surge in Coronavirus Cases
- Colleyville won’t enforce Tarrant County’s mask requirements as coronavirus cases soar
- Dallas ISD Plans to Place $3.7 Billion ‘Racial Equity’ Bond on November Ballot
- Is banning school suspensions the ‘bold’ step Dallas needs to help Black students? — insanity of Leftists
- Report Urges Harris County to Begin Widespread Dismissal of “Non-Violent” Felony Charges
- Harris County raises COVID-19 threat to most critical level, residents encouraged to stay home
- City of Lubbock orders businesses and their employees to wear masks, not customers – goes way too far.
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- Colleges & universities
- Odessa College to furlough women’s basketball program for upcoming season
- ACU Master of Athletic Training program earns accreditation from CAATE
- Howard Payne University holds groundbreaking ceremony for Newbury Family Welcome Center
- Under Armour, Texas Tech agree to contract extension
- TTU President Schovanec provides detail into facial covering requirements
- Texas Tech, Nanjing Agricultural University Research Teams Make Plant Nutrient Delivery Breakthrough
Pratt’s post for 6/26/2020
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