- Governor Abbott Establishes Statewide Face Covering Requirement, Issues Proclamation To Limit Gatherings, more – told you he would cave to pressure! List of counties exempt from order.
- 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 Declares Open War on Conservatives
- Texas’ Anti-Riot Act Means Peaceful Protesters Can Be Deemed Guilty ‘By Association’
- Governor Abbott, HHSC Secure $2.67 Billion In Federal Funding for Texas Hospitals
- Abbott, HHSC Announce Extension Of Emergency SNAP Benefits During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Texas will administer STAAR test next year, education commissioner says – of course as should be the case.
- DPS: Newly Redesigned LTC License Card Debuts
- New team steps up TDI focus on health insurance issues
- Gun Sales Continue to Soar, Texas Sets Another Record for Background Checks
- If Texas Republicans don’t cancel Houston convention, will Abbott do it for them?
- U.S. Supreme Court won’t fast-track Texas Democrats’ bid to expand mail-in voting during pandemic
- ALERT: Texas voters do not have to wear masks
- Travis County voters who received mail-in ballots without runoff races now told to vote in person
- Rep. Joaquin Castro endorses Royce West for U.S. Senate
- MJ has more money than Royce but he has Joaquin – it’s a sick political party in which Joaquin is influential
- MJ Hegar has $1.6 million in bank for Senate runoff against Royce West, more
- SD27: Business groups backstop Sen. Lucio as progressive activists aim to take out longtime incumbent in South Texas runoff
- TX4: Sen. Pat Fallon files paperwork to run for seat in Congress being vacated by Rep. John Ratcliffe – he’d be great but he is more valuable in the Texas Senate
- TX24: Democrats Prepare For Runoff In Their Pursuit To Flip Congressional District
- HD60: Ted Cruz says Jon Francis Will Stand up to Austin Swamp
- Opinion: With a wingman like Dan Patrick, who needs critics? – more example of how Patrick vexes the press in the way Trump does.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Ted Cruz ‘furious’ with recent Supreme Court decisions
- TX13: Rep. Mac Thornberry honored by House military spending bill
- Cruz blocks Senate Democrats’ attempt to pass DACA bill
- Sen. Cornyn accurate on ‘top-to-bottom’ review of criminal justice system
- Second stimulus: Mnuchin says White House will ‘seriously consider’ more payments
- House panel intensifies showdown with Trump over renaming of Fort Hood and other Confederate-named bases
- Big Bend National Park to close beginning July 2nd – beyond stupid
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Biden and DNC outraise Trump and RNC during blockbuster fundraising month – but Republicans have much more cash on-hand.
- Donald Trump holds narrow lead over Joe Biden in Texas, UT poll finds – it’s a big lead. It is stupid to polls “registered voters” as opposed to likely voters.
- Poll: Joe Biden Leads in Key Swing States as Coronavirus Concerns Rise
- NASCAR driver to race ‘Trump 2020’ vehicle sponsored by pro-Trump PAC – fine but NASCAR has likely ruined its relationship, and viewership, with much of its base.
- What we need is social media distancing – best headline of the week!
- Kotkin: Triumph of the Oligarchs
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- Border / immigration
- 66 Illegal Aliens Found in Tractor-Trailer at Texas Immigration Checkpoint
- Cruz blocks Senate Democrats’ attempt to pass DACA bill
- Mexican Border State Labor Organizer Faces Riot, Coercion Charges
- Judge Deals Setback to Key Trump Policy Limiting Asylum
- US Signals It Will Resist Freeing Detained Migrant Families
- He built a privately funded border wall. It’s already at risk of falling down if not fixed.
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- Coronavirus related
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 7/02/2020 (pdf) – 2,481 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 2,174,548.
- Governor Abbott Establishes Statewide Face Covering Requirement, Issues Proclamation To Limit Gatherings, more – told you he would cave to pressure! List of counties exempt from order.
- 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
- U.S. Rep. Arrington: Bar Owners Should Be Compensated For Shut-Downs
- Attorney calls Gov. Greg Abbott’s bar closure ‘unconstitutional’ VIDEO
- 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
- 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
- Midland Mayor Payton: Civil liberties have been violated during pandemic,
- CDC: Considerations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings
- Trump: ‘I’m All for Masks,’ Just Not Mandatory; ‘I Looked Like the Lone Ranger’
- Fauci: Coronavirus ‘Allowed’ to Perpetuate in U.S. Because Only ‘50% of the Country Locked Down’ – more insanity.
- CDC Grossly Overcounting Active China Coronavirus Cases Causing States to Keep Their Economies Closed Indefinitely
- 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!
- New study provides visual proof of effectiveness of face coverings in stopping COVID-19 – another B.S. laughable example of stupidity. This looks a water droplets, which are massively larger than bacteria and astronomically larger than virus particles most of which are aerosolized.
- McNulty: SPI could not enforce beach closure even if we wanted to
- We have to go be back to shelter-at-home, McCormick tells KURV – the typical tunnel-vision of an academic where only the one goal matters and competes with no other interests.
- Local officials drop COVID-screening order after San Antonio businesses balk – the only real power officials have is what we give them and that’s why you should fight back.
- Fort Wroth Woman Spits on Counter After Being Told to Wear a Mask – that’s a bit vulgar but a sympathize.
- Midland: Coronavirus cases fall by one-third
- Face masks now required in businesses in Andrews County – time for a new county judge and commissioners.
- More than 300 children in Texas day cares have caught COVID-19, and the numbers are rising – and they are not particularly ill.
- Austin Mayor Considering Shutting Down City Again
- Plano Passes Mask Order With No Penalties
- Houston Mayor Turner Lists Three Businesses on Coronavirus Compliance ‘Wall of Shame’
- Why Does Texas’ Death Rate Appear To Be Low? – because COVID-19 is not the death sentence the media and politicians want you to think it is.
- Texas won’t specify where hospital beds are available as coronavirus cases hit record highs – so what? Tracking beds is not a state matter.
- High school coaches’ convention will draw thousands to San Antonio as pandemic rages across Texas – oh my gosh! All the coaches will die!
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- Business
- Paul R. Beane Elected Into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame – a great friend and a wonderful Pratt on Texas guest host over the years!
- Number of Texans filing for unemployment benefits increases by 7% over previous week – thanks politicians
- American and 4 Other Airlines Reach Loan Agreements With US
- Perryman: Tourism in Turmoil
- Covia files bankruptcy, pact would hand lenders company
- Exxon faces more pressure than ever to release a private outlook
- SpaceX facility under FAA review after changing rocket tests in South Texas
- Blue Origin delivers its first BE-4 rocket engine
- Dallas-based hemp facility considers Wichita Falls for major investment, more
- More restaurants going under in Wichita Falls – thanks politicians
- Shutdowns kill off another successful Lubbock bar & grill – thanks politicians
- Texas BBQ Restaurant Owners Struggling Under Coronavirus Restrictions – thanks politicians
- Unemployment claims again rising as coronavirus surges in Bexar County
- Xenex Makes Disinfecting Robots Available for On-Demand Service
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- The neoliberal counter-revolution
- Black Lives Matter: Not Just Communist, But Viciously Anti-Semitic Too
- Pigeons are the solution to the statue controversy – this is very good!
- Sen. Cruz on Violent Rioters: We Need Leaders to Stand up and Defend America Unapologetically VIDEO
- Florida sheriff vows to deputize gun owners if violent protests erupt: ‘You’ve been warned’
- Texas’ Anti-Riot Act Means Peaceful Protesters Can Be Deemed Guilty ‘By Association’
- Feds arrest alleged antifa ‘ringleader’ in connection with attack on Andrew Jackson statue
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Fort Hood soldier took own life after being linked to Vanessa Guillen disappearance, Army says
- Neighbors shocked by suicide of suspect in soldier’s disappearance VIDEO
- Harris Co. DA Files New Charges Resulting From Deadly Drug Raid
- Motorcyclist involved in two-vehicle fatal collision near Odessa
- Police: Elderly woman zaps hubby with pepper spray – spicy relationship
- Abilene registered sex offender arrested on new child sex crime 2 months after probation
- Abilene woman says man stabbed her after trying to carjack her at stop sign
- Vacant home destroyed by fire in Breckenridge
- 38 indicted by Taylor County grand jury
- Straight-line winds derail 86 train cars near Colorado City
- 18-year-old arrested after firing gun at Abilene park
- Texas Tech Wide Receiver Caden Leggett Arrested for Street Racing
- $5,000 reward offered for information in overnight homicide in Lubbock
- Two dead in overnight shooting in Lubbock
- Levelland Police searching for missing teen girl, described as a runaway
- DPS: One person injured following Wednesday night crash south of Abernathy
- 5 transported to Lubbock’s UMC after vehicle crashes into 18-wheeler
- Man killed by Memorial Village police outside west Houston hospital, HPD says
- Police: Argument ends with phones in toilet, husband in jail
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- Local government
- Defying mayor, VIA board launches pursuit of San Antonio sales tax vote in November, more – why is mass transit even open in virus paralyzed San Antonio?
- Holliday ISD ushers in Carroll as superintendent
- Archer County Courthouse moves to appointment only visits
- Lubbock County Commissioners bracing for ‘conservative budget’
- Mesquite city official takes new job in The Woodlands
- What Do North Texas Democrats Want to Hide From the Public?
- Alamo Heights ISD Community Fractured Over Reopening Schools
- State Sen. José Menéndez, Other Elected Officials Call on Edgewood Trustee to Resign – libs gang up on a minority woman?
- Austin police will no longer cite or arrest people for possessing small amounts of marijuana
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- Colleges & universities
- Universities Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Obsolescence
- NCAA penalizes Texas A&M football, Jimbo Fisher for recruiting violations
- TTU Faculty Member, Alumnus Selected In 40 Under 40 For Financial Planning
- TTU: Insects That Spread Disease Could Also Hold Key To Prevention
Pratt’s post for 7/2/2020
July 2, 2020 by 3 Comments
My husband is 83 and has macular degeneration! He no longer drives and has problems with his vision when he looks down trying to read a book ect. and masks do impair his vision while reading. We thought we would early vote this morning before the mask mandate came into effect at 12:01 p.m. today! We went to vote at United on 4th and Slide and the signs were already posted about wearing masks in their store! Oh well….early voting was closed today anyway! I guess if you want to early vote next week, you will have to do so with a mandated mask rule…our freedom to even vote is being affected….if you don’t COMPLY with the mask mandate, will you get to early vote?
You specifically cannot be made to wear a mask to vote – even that is in the governor’s “order.”
Ah, the puppet Abbott just doing what his puppeteers Bill Gates and cronies want him to do. I wonder when Abbott’s call for the “Two Minutes Hate” will follow. It’s tragic when a society doesn’t understand they are subject of “War Gaming” from the Institutional level. Event 201. Episode #4.