- Abbott Declares Open War on Conservatives
- Everyone [almost] in the Austin establishment protects everyone else in office from accountability, even when they are literally caught on tape – or red-handed.
- Abbott suspends elective surgeries in 4 more Texas counties to free up beds – this is fully Leftist/Progressive action that believes the “experts” and politicians can best manage economic function. Does Abbott believe these hospitals incapable of making their own decisions based on local conditions? They do during flu season each year. More
- Gov. Abbott: State looking at where people are catching COVID-19 to determine future restrictions – why now after accusing and harming businesses with no evidence. This is what should have been happening before all orders. See: Action that abridges freedom should be justified with empirical evidence
- Bar owners sue Texas Governor: “Where does it stop?”
- Frisco firm eked out victory for Texas COVID contact tracing deal, records show
- Texas Supreme Court Extends, Modifies COVID-19 Emergency Order Again – get to work
- 265 sign up to testify on first Texas sex ed changes since 1997
- Speakers call for changes to sex ed curriculum
- Texans urge state education board to expand sexual education standards and include [homosexual] LGBTQ information
- Texas police to be asked again for race data on traffic stops. This time it will be useful.
- TWC Pauses Work Search Reinstatement for Unemployment Payments
- Railroad Commission: Oil and Gas Monitoring and Enforcement Plan finalized
- Voting-By-Mail and Voter Fraud Become Lightning Rod Issues in Texas After Rise of Coronavirus
- Equality Texas, TPIF announce Queer Texas Crisis Fund
- TX6: Arlington congressman Ron Wright’s Democratic opponent blasts him for old columns
- TX13: Ronny Jackson releases “Battlefieds” ad VIDEO
- TX13 Runoff: Why you should vote for Dr. Ronny Jackson
- TX17: Pete Sessions and Renee Swan Clash in Primary
- TX23: Bucking party leaders, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz intervenes in Republican runoff for Will Hurd’s seat
- Senate runoff contenders MJ Hegar, Royce West clash over Democratic credentials, ethics
- Senate hopeful MJ Hegar banking on suburban women to carry her to victory against Royce West, John Cornyn – maybe all those hide-under-the-bed suburban women will not go to vote due to WuFlu…
- MJ Hegar Casts Her Senate Run As A Fight Against Entrenched Power – she wants to be part of “entrenched power.” AUDIO
- Royce West Has Won Police Reforms In The Past. Is It Enough To Win A U.S. Senate Seat?
- MJ Hegar, Royce West spar on party loyalty, ethics in debate
- Texas GOP Chairman Dickey says party leadership is taking convention cancellation request from TMA seriously
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Sens. Cruz, Rubio, Capito, Tillis Introduce Loan Interest Forgiveness for Taxpayers Under a Pandemic Act
- National Security Adviser: Alleged Russian bounties not verified intel, Trump not briefed
- Hoyer says he has the ‘impression’ Trump was not briefed on Russian bounties on U.S. troops
- Supreme Court strikes down Montana ban prohibiting state aid to church schools
- Supreme Court Rules States Can’t Discriminate against Religious Schools
- Scale Back Unemployment Benefits
- Ending Obamacare Won’t End Health Care Coverage
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Biden and Dems Are Set to Abolish the Suburbs
- Trump-Biden race has big divide between Texas men and women, polling shows
- Joe Biden: H-1B Foreign Workers ‘Built This Country’ – really?!
- Jill Biden: ‘A Lot of Republicans Are Going to Vote for Joe’ – and like last time a heck of a lot of Dems will vote Trump
- Overwhelming 73% voters say Biden VP pick should be most qualified person, no matter race or gender – sorry, that’s not how Dems do it.
- Biden gets it wrong; you could own a cannon during the Revolutionary War
- Biden Inadvertently Reveals During Disastrous Press Conference Why Handlers Keep Him in the Basement
- Trump: I Am ‘The Lone Warrior’
- More social media platforms shutting Trump supporters down before election
- Don’t Quit, We Must Win
- DNC: A Rally At Mount Rushmore Glorifies White Supremacy
- One wrong ‘like’ will get you canceled by cancel culture
- Alyssa Milano: Conservatives Responsible for ‘Cancel Culture’ – she enjoys showing her stupidity as much as does Joe Biden!
- ‘A Woman Identified as Male at Birth’
- Why Twitter Banished Graham Linehan
- NYT Reporter Creepily Defends Sharing Political TikToks of Kellyanne Conway’s 15-Year-Old Daughter
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- Border / immigration
- USMCA Goes Into Effect Amid Pandemic, Garza: USMCA in the time of COVID
- TX-MX border economy not doing well
- Joe Biden: H-1B Foreign Workers ‘Built This Country’
- Coronavirus Case in Refugee Camp at US Border Raises Alarm
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- Coronavirus related
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 6/30/2020 (pdf) – 2,403 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 2,061,939.
- Map of Texas COVID-19 Test Collection Sites
- Gov. Abbott: State looking at where people are catching COVID-19 to determine future restrictions – why now after accusing and harming businesses with no evidence. This is what should have been happening before all orders. See: Action that abridges freedom should be justified with empirical evidence
- Abbott suspends elective surgeries in 4 more Texas counties to free up beds
- 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
- How Many COVID Deaths Are There, Really? – the numbers are inflated
- Swiss Policy Research: Facts about 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
- Where are the deaths?: The drum beat to halt the reopenings gets louder by the day. It should be resisted
- U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
- Austin Hospital Withheld Treatment from Disabled Man Who Contracted Coronavirus, more – micro of a death panel & why we need reform
- CDC: Considerations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings
- Democrat Official Calls for Statewide Shutdown and Mask Mandate
- Williamson County mayors issue orders requiring masks at businesses
- Round Rock Defies State, Enacts $1,000 Fine for Unmasked Citizens
- HEB to require masks for customers in cities with no mandate – it has always been a Democrat owned and run company.
- Hannity: Wear the masks, people — they work!
- Use Homemade Masks as Last Resort Against COVID-19, TMA Task Force Says
- City of Odessa will not enact mask ordinance as COVID-19 cases rise
- Cameron Co. Judge Treviño closes county parks and county beach access areas
- Wolff, Nirenberg call on Abbott to give them more control over the coronavirus response as cases skyrocket – the tyrants crave power!
- Gov. Abbott says possibility of arrests keeping him from giving local officials more power
- Most eviction proceedings on pause again in Bexar County – what about the going broke landlords?
- Spike in cases ‘not just’ because of more testing
- Two Friends in Texas Were Tested for Coronavirus. One Bill Was $199. The Other? $6,408.– simple: ask and get the price in writing first, same with everything else in life.
- Montague County Judge says locally restaurants can stay at 75 percent occupancy
- Wichita Co. Judge Gossom prohibits outdoor gatherings larger than 100 people
- Abilene Mayor applauds private sector for COVID-19 response
- Teens test positive after attending huge Hill Country party
- Coronavirus Deaths Still Trending Down in Tarrant Co., Recoveries Rising
- Cases Are Surging in Some Blue States, Too
- New Jersey governor delays indoor dining ‘indefinitely’ due to coronavirus surges ‘in other states’ – see how far the tyrants will go!
- Once feared a coronavirus disaster in the making, Georgia just hit a 3-month low of COVID-19 deaths
- Houston Mayor builds a “Wall of Shame”, seeks retaliation for businesses re-opening
- Texas Teachers Consider Leaving The Classroom Over COVID-19 Fears – likely a good thing to lose these types
- Large lab stops supplying local clinics with COVID-19 tests
- Central Texas church uses buttons, bracelets to combat COVID-19 – why not prayer?
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- Business
- As Virus Roars Back, So Do Signs of a New Round of Layoffs
- Torres: TX-MX border economy not doing well
- IBC Bank leaders discuss USMCA, re-opening the Texas economy
- HEB to require masks for customers in cities with no mandate – it has always been a Democrat owned and run company.
- Rig count just one piece of energy’s economic picture
- TABC suspends license of Whiskey Girl bar in Abilene
- Antone’s owner tweets “F*** the Catholic Church” and “I despise the Israelis…”
- Bank of San Antonio to Merge With Austin and Hill Country Banks
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Two Men Charged With Rioting at Texas Capitol Amid Protest, DPS news release
- Connecticut GOP Calls on ‘Democratic Party’ to Change Name: ‘Years of Racial Oppression’
- Nolte: UW-Madison Students Demand Removal of Lincoln Statue
- Levelland Mayor Barbra Pinner shares Facebook post containing racial slur – this is ridiculous but she should have realized what the re-post would have brought
- Walmart removes ‘All Lives Matter’ merchandise from website VIDEO
- 3 Alamo Heights Girls, 2 Cops, and the N-Word
- Black Lives Matter OKC leader criticizes DA for protest charges
- Another Fatal Shooting at Seattle’s CHOP As City Officials Dither
- Father of CHAZ shooting victim: Bring in the National Guard — now
- 10 charged with burglary in connection with looting of Milwaukee stores during violent protests
- Whitmer: Ban chokeholds by police, make racially motivated 911 calls hate crimes – how does one determine “racially motivated?”
- Trump points out ‘incredible stupidity’ in removing John Wayne’s name from airport
- One wrong ‘like’ will get you canceled by cancel culture
- NBA will paint ‘Black Lives Matter’ on Orlando courts for upcoming return to the season
- Minneapolis Council members get private security after voting to disband police
- San Antonio Committee Pushes Columbus Statue Removal to Full City Council
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- 23-Month-Old Child Killed When Attacked by Dog in Hunt Co.
- Man charged with stealing van from church, burglary
- Odessa man steals $1400 of CBD products
- Bubba McDaniel reacts to WF police chief naming persons of interest in son’s death VIDEO
- Former Wichita Falls call center manager accused of cashing worthless company check
- Abilene man gets probation after pleading guilty to leaving apparent child porn pictures around town for several years
- Cisco PD arrests man after crime spree, including convenience store robbery
- Former Parmer County sheriff’s deputy gets life sentence for preying on children
- Houston store clerk ‘fortunate to be alive’ after killing would-be robber, police say
- ‘Unidentified remains’ found near area where soldier’s remains were discovered
- Human remains found in search for missing Fort Hood private (Vanessa Guillen)
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- Local government
- Round Rock Defies State, Enacts $1,000 Fine for Unmasked Citizens
- Wichita Falls completes key card access for City Hall
- Wichita Falls: Water disconnection service to resume
- Abilene police officer retiring after 35 years on the job
- Preservation League seeks help to save historic Abilene Courts from demolition
- COVID-19 in staff puts Houston Forensic Science Center ‘precariously close’ to limiting crime scene responses
- Harris County Extends Disaster Declaration, Emergency Powers for Judge to August 26
- San Antonio Committee Pushes Columbus Statue Removal to Full City Council
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- Colleges & universities
- UT Professor: ‘I Despise the Israelis,’ ‘#CatholicismMustDie’ – this is what you are paying for!
- UTPB Students Selected for Archer Fellowship in Washington, D.C.
- UT System Regents approve fall 2020 plan
- TTU Researcher Has Uncovered Biomedical Applications To Advance Work
- Texas Tech accused of killing four animals by watchdog group – so what?
- Nancy Trevino joins TTUHSC to direct mental health initiative
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- Military
- 317th Airlift Wing enjoying longest stint between deployments since start of war on terror
Pratt’s post for 6/30/2020
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