- Fed Up Texans Plan Protest Against ‘King Abbott’ – should have had the mansion surrounded by May 1st.
- Citizen panel to revisit Alamo project in wake of state rejecting permit to move Cenotaph – poor babies.
- AG Weighs in on Hotze Lawsuit Challenging Abbott’s Power During Pandemic
- Lawmakers Say Texas Needs A Statewide Broadband Plan – typical government being way behind. Leave it alone. Starlink will be working soon.
- State looks to recoup millions it says it overpaid to jobless Texans
- TEA finds major failures in Houston ISD’s special ed department, recommends state conservator
- Radioactive wastewater coming to West Texas under DOE’s new high-level waste definition
- Texas Man Who Spent Nearly 40 Years on Death Row Released
- Governor Abbott, HHSC Announce Extension Of Emergency SNAP Benefits For October 2020 – so proud of the welfare
- Texans in need of rental assistance will receive $167 million in CARES Act funding to help avoid eviction
- Lubbockite reappointed as Texas State Historian by Gov. Abbott
- Abbott Appoints Haynes To Statewide Health Coordinating Council
- Abbott Requests Major Disaster Declaration From White House For Hurricane Hanna– B.S.
- Texas Receives $104 Million Federal Grant to Fight Opioid Epidemic
- Texas Supreme Court takes another look at mail-in voting
- $9.6 Million Zuckerberg Grant, Unvetted Vendors, and Blocked Poll Watchers Add to Harris County Election Controversy
- Harris County Republicans file Supreme Court complaint alleging ballot harvesting operation
- Sen. Miles comes out swinging against allegations of orchestrating a vote harvesting scheme
- Unlike the 2018 election in Texas, 2020’s top races won’t set spending records
- Cornyn says Trump should have released his taxes in 2016
- More details on Cornyn’s support among South Texas leaders
- Democrat MJ Hegar hauls in $13.5M in 3 months for Texas Senate race vs. GOP incumbent John Cornyn
- TX23: Lesbian Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones agrees to two debates
- HD148: Democrat with Communist Ties Battles Against Republican for Houston Texas House Seat
- SD30: Luther and Springer headed for runoff after virtual draw in special Texas Senate election, more
- SD30: Springer, Luther Move on to Runoff in Senate District 30 Special Election
- SD30: Drew Springer, Shelley Luther advance to runoff for state Senate special election in North Texas, more
- SD30: While Springer edged out in Senate district votes, Luther won Wichita County
- Austin school district makes Election Day this year a student holiday
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- House Majority Leader expects quick passage of $2.2 stimulus bill in absence of White House deal
- Judge accuses Trump admin of defying order on census count, threatens contempt
- Gohmert 1 of 5 House Republicans voting against resolution affirming peaceful transition of power
- PA court says federal law that protects firearm manufacturers unconstitutional
- Democrats’ book of revelations on Judge Amy Coney Barrett shows who they are
- Judge Barrett and Your Health Care
- Cattle producers welcome HAULS Act
- Comey doesn’t recall anything about the referral for investigation mentioned in DNI Ratcliffe’s letter
- Comey accepts responsibility for implications of Horowitz report, ‘this reflects on me entirely’
- Comey Denies Biden Brought Up Logan Act in Michael Flynn Case
- The Head of the FTC Is Yet Another Tyrannical Deep State Swamp Creature
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump’s leaked tax returns show how Democrats quietly buy the wealthy vote
- Chris Wallace lost control of the Trump-Biden debate on a historically bad night of TV
- Chris Wallace’s Debate Performance Was Absolutely Disgraceful
- The debate was no disaster for Biden — but Trump won
- The debate was a mud-wrestling match — and Biden won
- Trump was his own worst enemy in the first debate
- Is Joe Biden on drugs?
- Telemundo’s Poll Offered Some Very Bad News for Joe Biden
- Majority of Spanish speaking Telemundo viewers say Trump won debate
- Debate commission to make ‘changes’ to debate structure after chaotic first Trump-Biden contest – too much structure IS the problem
- Actually, The Debate Was About Issues
- The Debate Was No Rocky Graziano-Tony Zale Title Fight
- What Texas politicians said about the chaotic first presidential debate
- Chris Wallace Falsely Implies Trump Never Condemned White Supremacists
- Mutual contempt at first Trump-Biden debate, where death and taxes also feature prominently
- Trump, Biden, hurl insults that obscure substance in testy first debate
- Joe Biden’s UNREAL Comment on Antifa; First Debate: Trump vs Biden or Trump vs Wallace?
- Biden told so many whoppers last night, Burger King may sue him
- Chris Wallace fail had Twitter calling for Joe Rogan to moderate the next debate
- Fox News hosts blast presidential debate moderator — Fox News’ Chris Wallace
- Biden camp: You better believe we’ll show up for the next two debates — but we want new rules
- Media personalities suggest Biden shouldn’t participate in second debate with Trump
- Biden campaign says candidate will continue to debate Trump, amid calls to cancel rancorous events
- Joe Biden Snaps: ‘Would You Shut Up, Man?’
- 5 Times Joe Biden Dissed Bernie Sanders and the Radical Left 5 Times
- Kevin McCarthy on Joe Biden’s Claim Antifa Is Not a Group: ‘I Don’t Know What’s on the Streets Then’
- Biden Denies the Existence of Antifa and Refuses to Condemn Them, Americans Respond
- Chris Wallace, Joe Biden Use Charlottesville ‘Very Fine People Hoax’
- Dan Crenshaw uses Joe Biden’s ‘own words from the debate’ to demonstrate that Biden is definitely not in control of the Democratic Party
- NYT catches heat from lefties for actually fact-checking one of Joe Biden’s false statements about Donald Trump
- If Democrats try to pack the Supreme Court, they will fail at significant cost
- Trump has changed evangelical Christianity in America. But is he its ‘savior’ or its ‘death knell’? – ridiculous premise
- Who’s Funding Shady Ballot Harvesting Schemes?
- 9 discarded ballots weren’t fraud, PA state election chief says – really?
- Ben Shapiro: Why I’m Leaving California
- History Shows The Latino Vote Is Not A Monolith, But A Diverse, Dynamic Coalition
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- Border / immigration
- Judge blocks big fee hikes for citizenship, other benefits
- Deported Child Rapist Arrested in Texas After Illegally Crossing Border
- Guatemalan asylum seekers continue their activism from exile in Juarez
- Narco-Terrorist Cartel Now Operational in Mexican Border States
- Matamoros Cartel Lord’s Car Collection Seized in Raid
- Chinese National Convicted for Laundering U.S. Cash for Mexican Cartels
- Mexican nationals are paying property taxes but cannot visit their SPI homes
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- Coronavirus related (while I hold over some stories for a while this is not a collection that grows each day. You must go to previous days’ posts.)
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 9/30/2020 (pdf) – 15,604* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 6,200,826. * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy – a MUST read. Plus, according to the *CDC only 9,856 have died nationwide with COVID-19 as the exclusive cause of death!
- *CDC’s COVID-19 fatality numbers suggest fraud to cause panic
- Collin County Slams State’s Bad Coronavirus Data – Judge Chris Hill says the county is “100 percent certain” the numbers reported by Texas DSHS are not accurate. Collin County Pushes for Fix as State Agency Admits ‘Significantly’ Overstating Coronavirus Cases
- Texas overstated COVID positive testing rate by about 100%
- COVID Death Stats…Inaccurate or Just Misleading?
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional , ‘He’s decided he’s the king’: Gov. Greg Abbott’s COVID response leaves lawmakers on sidelines
- Texas press discovering Abbott’s rule by decree power grab months late
- A Timeline of Gov. Abbott’s Executive Orders and Case Numbers
- An Overview of the Texas Disaster Act, the Source of the State’s Coronavirus Response
- Never has a virus been so oversold, Dr. Sonal Desai: They Blinded Us From Science
- Thousands of scientists and doctors condemn COVID-19 panic, more
- Has Sweden been vindicated?, More data from Sweden demonstrates failure of lock downs everywhere else, Sweden declares victory over COVID-19
- How Reliable Are COVID-19 Tests? Depends Which One You Mean
- Could mass testing for COVID-19 do more harm than good? – a must read
- Texas GOP, doctors to Abbott: Data, science doesn’t warrant five months of shutdown, The Lockdown Has Gone From a Mistake to a Crime
- The lockdowns were a bad idea and did not work
- The Big COVID Con Exposed
- Tucker Carlson: From Its Very First Days This Pandemic Was Shrouded in Lies
- Federal judge rules Pennsylvania COVID-19 restrictions unconstitutional
- Liberty Going Out of Fashion: 69% of Britons Support 9pm Coronavirus Curfew
- Chinese virologist: China’s government ‘intentionally’ released COVID-19
- COVID-19 and the false positive trap: Current test results should not be automatically accepted as real
- Lawsuit Filed Against Gov. Abbott Over Nursing Home ‘Edicts,’ Alleges Constitutional Violations
- Abbott relaxes limits on restaurants, retail and gyms, but keeps bars closed
- Mayor Payton: Midland is ‘open for business’
- Major Hospital CEO Refutes Austin Mayor’s Coronavirus Doomsday Prediction, Texas Supreme Court clarifies CDC eviction order
- Nashville officials accused of hiding low coronavirus cases linked to bars and restaurants
- Despite fading epidemic governments vow to maintain lockdowns
- Dr. John Lee: The dangers of a COVID ‘elimination’ policy
- Dr. Daniel Jeanmonod: “Do you remember a winter without a cold?”
- The real sickness afflicting America
- Judge Hidalgo Insists Harris County Businesses and Schools Should Remain Closed – a tyrant Leftist and they’ve kept so many “restrictions” so why are thye having an uptick in cases? Coronavirus expert Dr. Peter Hotez worried Houston is heading toward ‘third peak’ this fall – and? Worrying about it is pointless.
- Four graphs prove the utter failure of lockdowns and masks
- COVID-19 could undo 6 years of gains for women in the workplace: Study
- Abilene asks Governor Abbott to reopen bars, relax mask mandate
- Doctor Tells Texans: Educate Yourselves, Educate Others, and Be Joyful
- U.S. Won’t Need 700 Million Covid-19 Vaccine Doses Anytime Soon
- COVID & masks
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable – things I pointed out the day the decree was issued from King Abbott
- Masks are neither effective nor safe: Summary of the science – ignore who the author is, it does not matter, simply check the sources/footnotes.
- Wearing face masks more than doubled Texas COVID-19 fatality rate! (But wait there’s more…)
- MASKS – manners, manipulation and maths – what are your odds of getting or dying from COVID-19? Healthy People Should Not Wear Masks
- Government routinely warned against mask use — before it was political – exactly as I have written and spoken about. See: More on face masks and why we should object to decrees to wear such
- Oxford: Evaluation of the Filtration Performance of Cloth Masks and Common Fabric Materials Against 20–1000 nm Size Particles
- Unmasking the surgeons: the evidence base behind the use of facemasks in surgery
- CDC inadvertently admits the uselessness of masks against COVID-19
- Europe’s Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren’t Helpful in Beating COVID-19
- Face masks are ‘NOT necessary’ and could even harm the fight against coronavirus, say Holland’s top scientists
- The danger of following ‘the science’
- The Dystopian Age of the Mask
- Americans Against Unconstitutional Mask Mandates
- State Mask Mandates Don’t Apply to Businesses, Say Lawyers for Local Chamber of Commerce
- Majority of voters take relatively relaxed approach to mask-wearing in public
- Mask Fanatics Have Officially Abandoned Science To Control Your Life
- Conservative legal group asks court to immediately halt enforcement of statewide mask mandate in Wisconsin
- Ohio mom tased for not wearing mask during football game charged with criminal trespassing VIDEO
- Sen. Feinstein caught with no mask in airport – even though she backed ‘mandatory’ masks at airports
- COVID & schools
- CDC director says closed schools pose larger public health risk for kids than reopening, U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
- Dr. Scott Atlas: There Is No Risk To Children From Covid-19, I Don’t Know Why People Deny This; Too much hysteria over school reopenings VIDEO
- TEA creates COVID-19 Data Tracking System for Texas Public Schools
- Texas officials rescind data on COVID spread in school districts
- Louise ISD cancels remote learning option, saying it has not been successful – good for them.
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- Business/Economy
- Austin’s Circuit of the Americas to host NASCAR race in 2021
- Halliburton VP: Technology, collaboration will lead to economic recovery
- Sante Labs first to test Texas hemp for total THC
- University Park ranks the richest of Texas towns, study finds
- Cities with the largest increase in home prices over the past decade
- $200M solar project shops for tax breaks in Bastrop County
- Austin firm plans 55-and-older apartment project in Kyle
- Austin’s Mitratech grows with fourth acquisition this year
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Man arrested, charged in connection with ambush shooting of two L.A. sheriff deputies
- LAPD Cops Dismayed After Chief, Mayor Promote Anti-police Lakers
- California prosecutor: Driver tried to kill Trump supporters
- Kyle Rittenhouse Attorney Threatens to Sue Joe Biden for False ‘White Supremacist’ Accusation
- Victims Committee Eyes Subpoenas for Boy Scouts Records
- Judge Tosses Case Against CEO Over Plant Fire During Harvey
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Father, daughter ice-cream run goes badly in Lubbock; dad goes to jail
- 1 dead, multiple people injured in charter bus crash on I-40 near Vega
- RIP: Country Music Legend, Lubbock-Native Mac Davis passes away at 78
- Midland man dies in exchange of gunfire, more
- Burkburnett Police say a man was caught on tape sexually assaulting a child. news
- Woman arrested for alleged earwax-kit theft news
- Wichita County deputies stop human smuggler
- Abilene police looking to identify man wanted in reference to a fraud case
- Cash rewards offered for info on wanted fugitives in Abilene
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- Local government
- New Home passes pro-life, anti-abortion ordinance
- TEA finds major failures in Houston ISD’s special ed department, recommends state conservator
- $9.6 Million Zuckerberg Grant, Unvetted Vendors, and Blocked Poll Watchers Add to Harris County Election Controversy
- Harris County launches mail ballot tracking system to ensure residents their vote has counted
- Odessa resuming water service disconnections for unpaid bills
- Abilene asks Governor Abbott to reopen bars, relax mask mandate
- Sweetwater tearing down old, dilapidated buildings as part of beautification effort
- Bellaire continues fight over sidewalks
- Bids are in to clean up Shingle Mountain. Dallas City Council to pick best one
- Incumbent Austin City Councilman Gaslights Public Over Alleged ‘Fiscal Responsibility’
- Opponents Argue Cutting Police Funding Will Make Austin Less Safe
- Travis Co. commissioners’ Project Connect debate canceled amid legal questions
- Austin school district makes Election Day this year a student holiday
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- Colleges & universities
- Campus survey: 42 percent of students say their college doesn’t empower free speech
- Texas A&M at Galveston to Open Hospital for Rare Sea Turtles
- Sam Houston State, Texas State University System to hire contact tracers as experts warn of a fall COVID-19 surge
- UTPB recognized by U.S. News
- UTPB adjunct professor working toward recycled water device
- ACU Remembers: Jeannette Lipford
- SFA officials say ‘swatting’ incident involved group of girls, could lead to charges
- Texas Tech Astrophysicist Named One Of Top 10 Scientists To Watch
- Texas Tech Researcher Receives Additional Funding For Cattle Antimicrobial Resistance Research
- TTU Biologist Launches Worldwide Network to Advance Bat Research
Pratt’s post for 9/30/2020
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