- 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.
- Lt. Gov. Patrick dismisses Fauci’s coronavirus concerns: ‘I don’t need his advice’
- Texas’ Lieutenant Governor Criticizes Fauci as Cases Surge
- ‘I don’t need his advice anymore’, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says of top COVID-19 expert Dr. Fauci
- State Sales Tax revenue totaled $2.7 billion in June, Down 6.5% over June of last year
- DPS Extends Hours at Four Driver License Offices as Part of Pilot Program
- Transportation Planning in Texas Has Deep Roots Thanks to TxDOT/TTI Relationship
- AG Paxton Releases Statement on SCOTUS Decision Defending Free Exercise of Religion and School Choice
- Texas election forecaster [a reporter] predicts Texas House will flip in 2020
- SD27: Progressive groups unite behind challenger Sara Stapleton-Barrera, denounce incumbent Eddie Lucio Jr.
- ‘Let’s go.’ Runoff between MJ Hegar and Royce West gets heated in final stretch
- ALERT: Texas voters do not have to wear masks
- 7th Court of Appeals: Vote for Justice Larry Doss
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Sen. Cruz to EPA: No Relief for Refinery Workers, No Consent for EPA Nominee
- Trump Vows to Veto Defense Bill if It Renames U.S. Bases Named for Confederate Figures
- Rumors Swirl [as always]: Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas May Retire
- DOD: ‘No Corroborating Evidence’ Russians Offered Bounties on Troops
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Poll: Joe Biden Leads in Key Swing States as Coronavirus Concerns Rise
- Fact-check: Did Trump lose a trade war that he started, per Biden ad? – this is a prime example of the “fact-check” if a fraud, it is an opinion gimmick
- Biden team putting together list of Black female court picks: No whites or men need apply!
- Ex-Bush officials launch super PAC backing Biden over Trump – same old anti-conservative agenda insiders
- Mark Cuban: NBA Players Kneeling During Anthem Is ‘a Beautiful Thing’ – another Leftist made wealthy by this great country who then hates us.
- CO3: Woman who confronted Beto wins GOP primary over incumbent
- Liberty or Tyranny? We Have a Choice to Make, America
- Democrat Strategy of Fear, Chaos, and Despotism
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- Border / immigration
- Immigration Judges in Lawsuit Say US Government Muzzles Them
- Federal judge strikes down Trump asylum rule targeting Central Americans
- Los Zetas Cartel Leaves Message for U.S. Agents in Texas
- Mexican Government Indicts 46 Officials in Student Mass Disappearance Case
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- Coronavirus related
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 7/01/2020 (pdf) – 2,403 deaths in Q1 and 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 2,119,036.
- Governor Abbott Extends Disaster Declaration
- 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
- Governor Abbott, HHSC Announce $9 Million for Nursing Facility Infection Control Projects to Prevent COVID-19 – NOW!? Months in??? See: Health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known (posted on 2 April)
- Swiss Policy Research: Facts about Covid-19
- Coronavirus Cases Are Climbing Again. So What?
- Horowitz: Bombshell Penn State study shows 80 times more infections existing in March than the official count
- U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
- Little Evidence That Protests Spread Coronavirus in US – same bars, no masks, etc.
- Coronavirus Patients Crossing U.S. Border for Treatment, Say California Hospitals – maybe it’s the same in Texas and why the Webb, Hidalgo & Cameron counties are seeing big increases in hospitalizations
- Texas’ Lieutenant Governor Criticizes Fauci as Cases Surge
- Lt. Gov. Patrick dismisses Fauci’s coronavirus concerns: ‘I don’t need his advice’
- Fauci raises possibility of ‘100,000 cases a day’ in Senate testimony
- After staffer dies, Texas youth lockups to get widespread COVID-19 testing
- Three more Allred Prison employees test positive for COVID-19
- Taylor County Jail: 7 officers, 2 inmates have COVID-19 – and odds are extremely high that all will be just fine
- Protest caravan seeks to free Hays County jail inmates amid pandemic
- Midland Mayor Payton: Civil liberties have been violated during pandemic, Notes from Mayor Payton’s press conference
- Odessa bar owner joins lawsuit against Abbott, more
- Texas bar owners file $10 million federal lawsuit against Gov. Greg Abbott, the second suit over the shutdown in two days
- Rep. Mayes Middleton Talks About Continuing Disaster For Texas Bars
- Tech: No active virus cases on football team – so as suspected, all of those positive tests didn’t mean anyone was ill in any serious way.
- San Antonio businesses struggling with city’s latest coronavirus order – Abbott has allowed this crap
- Austin to close parks, recreational facilities – but with zero evidence being in parks significantly spreads WuFlu
- San Antonio Metro Health ‘overwhelmed’ by COVID-19 surge – notice that once again, even after March and April, this local government agency was unprepared. Why in the world do people turn to government for these things?
- CDC: Considerations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings
- Dallas Democrat County Judge Calls for Nationwide Mask Mandate, Ban on Youth Sports
- McKinney Mayor Orders Mask Mandate
- Still No Mask Mandate for Denton County
- Abilene, county officials recommend wearing masks, but do not mandate them
- As coronavirus cases surged, Texas’ contact tracing workforce shrunk – good, there are simply too many to do contact tracing on now.
- Internal messages reveal crisis at Houston hospitals as coronavirus cases surge – notice the quotes from “modelers” who deserve not to be listened to. The story doesn’t really support the headline.
- ‘It Just Exploded On Us’: Coastal Bend Tries To Contain COVID-19 As ICU Capacity Dwindles
- Change in How ICU Capacity Reported in Houston Criticized – yep the Leftist mayor and county judge are hopping mad because accurate reporting doesn’t fit their agenda!
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- Business
- State Sales Tax revenue totaled $2.7 billion in June, Down 6.5% over June of last year
- Texas Service Sector Activity Picks Back Up; Retail Sales Rebound Sharply
- Austin City Limits Music Festival Canceled as Virus Surges
- Crude posts best quarter since 1990 after historic price crash
- RockHounds’ 2020 season officially canceled
- SpaceX’s reusable first stages and their dramatic impact on the bottom line
- SpaceX Starship prototype #5 passes cryogenic test
- Another successful SpaceX launch today VIDEO
- Visa Blacklisted My Business and My Family for Building Gab
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Black Lives Matter groups plan virtual convention – or revolutionaries plan war planning meeting?
- President Trump calls proposed Black Lives Matter ‘sign’ in NYC ‘symbol of hate’
- De Blasio Doubles Down on Threat to Paint ‘Black Lives Matter’ in Front of Trump Tower — Vows to Use Defunded Police Money to Pay for It VIDEO
- St. Louis man on confrontation with protesters: ‘I was worried that I was going to be killed’
- At Least 23 Arrests as Seattle Police Clear Out CHOP: ‘Failure to Disperse, Obstruction, Resisting Arrest, and Assault’ – see what happens when you take the stuff to the homes of the mayors, etc?
- Statue of Christopher Columbus in downtown San Antonio park comes down
- Protest caravan seeks to free Hays County jail inmates amid pandemic
- Fredericksburg, VA gets tough: Get a permit for your riot or you might get a traffic ticket
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Three Arlington Health Care Providers Indicted for Drug Distribution, Conspiracy, and Fraud
- Sweetwater attorney Christianson Hartman disbarred
- Family: Human Remains Found in Texas Are Missing Soldier Vanessa Guillen
- Equusearch: Man linked to Vanessa Guillen’s disappearance takes own life amid Fort Hood probe
- Side swipe leads to 3 damaged cars, 1 house in Wichita Falls
- El Paso man dies in single-vehicle crash reported in Taylor Co.
- Ballinger man dies in Taylor Co. crash
- Abilene man arrested for child pornography
- APD arrests 19 year old for Child Pornography
- Abilene Police Department arrests registered sex offender for new child sex crime
- Gucci Belt Sale Gone Wrong Leads to 20 Year Prison Sentence
- Lubbock PD and EMS respond to stabbing in Central Lubbock
- Iconic dance hall Broken Spoke damaged by truck in ATM heist
- Semi overturns on I-20, driver killed
- Houston worker rescued after tractor rolls on top of him
- Man shot dead in east Houston home, and police think they know who did it
- Toddler, grandparents pulled from house fire in SE Houston
- Anti-Wimp: Store clerk kills recent parolee who shot at him
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- Local government
- Midland Mayor Payton: Civil liberties have been violated during pandemic
- Lubbock police still lag in diversity, but improvement efforts continue
- Statue of Christopher Columbus in downtown San Antonio park comes down
- Candidates Narrowed to 6 for 2 Slots on SAWS Board
- Bexar County Commissioners Expand Rental Assistance Program
- Austin to close parks, recreational facilities
- Austinites share concern, enthusiasm for possible Tesla deal
- Harris County has publicly accessible courthouse data. Why can’t Dallas County, too? – well that happened under Republican control of Harris Co. Dallas hasn’t had such for a good while.
- Harris County Declares Racism a Public Health Crisis
- Dallas Police Announce Policy to Quickly Release Video
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- Colleges & universities
- UTSA is telling more than 300 employees they are being laid off – if we’d seen more of this early on, from these gov’t jobs, we’d have a hell of lot more folk demanding to re-open and screw all the restrictions, let us take our chances.
- MSU Students Will be Required to Wear Masks When Classes Resume
- Vernon College releases mandatory face-covering policy
- Howard College adjusts fall semester schedule
- WBU on Cutting Edge of Global Music Technology
- TTU Fall Academic Instruction To Include Mix Of Hybrid, Face-to-Face Instruction, Extensive Cleaning Measures
- TTU Clinical Pathology Expert Joins Texas Tech School Of Veterinary Medicine
- Tech: No active virus cases on football team – so as suspected, all of those positive tests didn’t mean anyone was ill in any serious way.
Pratt’s post for 7/1/2020
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