- Texas legislators: Stop governments making people join private social media to get critical news
- Legislature convenes in muted ceremonies
- 87th session of Texas State Legislature convenes, lawmakers face $1 billion budget shortfall
- Troopers for security, virus tests, new speaker: Texas Legislature reconvenes amid COVID-19
- Texas Legislature Convenes, Set to Adjourn for Two Weeks
- Texas House Votes to Keep Office Budgets the Same
- Proposed House Rules Would Make it Harder to Get Record Votes – If passed, the change could work to shield lawmakers from accountability.
- Alcohol-to-go is closer to becoming Texas law
- A Texas lawmaker worked with the state restaurant association to draft an alcohol-to-go bill. His wife lobbies for the group.
- The Statesman’s Top 10 legislative issues
- Texas can mitigate budget pain by ending corporate handouts
- Democrat Introduces Bill to Address Implicit Bias, ‘Thoughts and Feelings’ of Police Officers
- DMN: How the Texas Legislature can prove its mettle – as you’d expect, the answer is to agree with Democrats on most issues.
- No Surprise: Commission Recommends Ending Partisan Judicial Elections – this effort has been underway for 30+ years with the ultimate goal of the lawyers and Austin-insiders picking all judges and you getting no say.
- SCOTUS Denies Democrats’ Suit to Force Universal Vote-by-Mail
- Attorneys General for each state sign letter condemning Capitol attack–except Ken Paxton – good for him, what good does it do except advance propaganda
- Homicides spike across Texas in 2020 regardless of police funding
- AG Paxton Issues Civil Investigative Demands to Five Leading Tech Companies Regarding Discriminatory and Biased Policies and Practices
- Torres: RGV is fertile soil for more voters
- San Antonio Woman Exposed by Project Veritas Arrested on Voter Fraud Charges
- AG Paxton: San Antonio Election Fraudster Arrested for Widespread Vote Harvesting and Fraud
- AG Paxton: Woman accused of voter fraud in San Antonio arrested, charged
- San Antonio woman arrested on election fraud charges based on Project Veritas video
- HD68 candidate profile: Jason Brinkley, John Berry
- HD68: Spiller campaigns for HD-68 ahead of Monday’s early voting
- Texas Democrats blast Trump on his visit to the Rio Grande Valley – so inclusive and unifying are these Democrats
- Texas Values Announces Legislative Team and Priorities
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Rep. Joaquin Castro to play key role in Trump’s second impeachment – why not, he’s a near revolutionary communist already
- ‘Aspiring tyrant’: Texas Democrats slam Trump as House moves to impeach him again – that’s an odd “tyrant” who can’t even get election cheating looked at in a court and who will be leaving office next week!
- McConnell Believes Trump Committed Impeachable Offenses
- McConnell: Trump Impeachment Trial To Be Heard After He Leaves Office
- Arrington opposes impeachment: ‘The president didn’t incite a riot’ VIDEO
- Rep. Jackson calls impeachment articles ‘sham’, votes no
- Demands for Trump to resign or be impeached push Texans in Congress into partisan camps
- Calls grow for Cruz to be punished for his role challenging electors – the mainstreaming of a brown shirt brigade!
- House Dems Introduce Bill To ‘Abolish Electoral College’
- Texas loses, US Space Command site to be located in Huntsville, Alabama – the King of Pork Richard Shelby strikes again!
- SolarWinds hack followed years of warnings of weak cybersecurity
- Henry Cuellar Says Trump’s Border Visit Can’t Deflect From Capitol Siege ‘Ingrained In Our Minds’
- Wait, ‘PAYGO’ Is Still a Thing? Who Knew?
- Who Wants to Cut Taxes for the Rich? Democrats!
- Telecommuting from a high-tax state? Beware your wallet
- Ted Cruz’s communications director resigns as fallout from Capitol riot continues – another DC staffer snowflake mouthing off to the New York Times. Typical.
- Ahead of Inauguration Day, Pentagon decides to arm National Guard troops in nation’s capital
- AOC Is “Discussing” the Launch of a Massive Attack on Free Speech to Combat “Misinformation”
- Pelosi Breaks Proposed Congressional Rules On Gendered Language That She Endorsed
- Texan Michael Cloud among Congress members shown to be unmasked during Capitol lockdown – and that matters why?
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Biden Personnel Chief Served At Chinese Intel Org Flagged By FBI For Recruiting Western Spies
- Biden’s choice to head the Civil Rights division of DOJ, advanced racism, anti-semitism at Harvard
- As Biden vows to ‘defeat the NRA,’ gun sales continue to soar with 2020 background checks up 40%
- Freedom House: President Trump Must Leave Office Immediately – petulance
- Reddit bans ‘/donaldtrump’ subreddit for ‘repeated policy violations’ – this service has tons of pornography and filth but bans Trump
- YouTube suspends Trump’s account, barring uploads and comments – and yet there are ton of videos of BLM and ANTIFA folk holding guns and intimidating citizens on the site and a ton of other filth.
- Google removes Parler from app store, could also be removed from Apple’s if it doesn’t implement a moderation plan
- Paypal says it blocked Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo
- Stop governments making people join private social media to get critical news
- Elon Musk Rips Big Tech Censorship Of Conservatives
- 5 Things to Know About the Spread of Big Tech Tyranny
- The New York Times Keeps Imitating A Chinese Propaganda Outlet
- PBS Principal Counsel Lays Out Violent Radical Agenda Against Non-Leftist Americans VIDEO
- Blame the Left, Not Trump, for America’s Crack-Up
- Arizona Librarian Fired for Push to Keep Libraries Apolitical
- Dallas-based AT&T suspends PAC contributions to GOP lawmakers who objected to Biden’s Electoral College victory
- Corporate Donors Punish GOP Due to Media Over-Hyping Election Objections, Ignoring Dem Opposition in 2016
- Airbnb blocks, cancels reservations made in D.C. during inauguration week
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- Border / immigration
- Trump touts immigration crackdown in visit to South Texas border wall
- Trump Says ‘We Can’t Let’ Biden Admin ‘Even Think About’ Deconstructing Border Wall During Texas Visit
- Three Armed Human Smugglers Arrested in 24 Hours near Border in Texas
- Six Armored Cartel Vehicles Found in Mexican Border City
- New Photo Surfaces of Mexican Cartel Boss Behind U.S. Consulate Attack
- Honduran President Took Millions from Cartel Lords Like El Chapo, Say U.S. Feds
- Aldrete/Gurbuz: Viral spread magnified at US-Mexico gateways
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- Coronavirus a.k.a. WuFlu related – See this link for archive of essential WuFlu-related stories
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 01/13/2021 (pdf) – 30,219* deaths & “active cases” of 353,669 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about 1% of the population.) * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy; Is US COVID-19 death count inflated?; Here’s how the media is misreporting COVID-19’s death toll in America
- San Antonio councilman wants more COVID aid for bars, restaurants – just open them up!
- Aldrete/Gurbuz: Viral spread magnified at US-Mexico gateways
- Hospital region including Midland and Odessa drops under 15% COVID-19 capacity to avoid business roll back
- Odessans left in dark on COVID rates – interesting
- Houston firefighter gets unexpected gift on ‘TODAY’ for hard work amid COVID-19
- At-Home COVID Saliva Test: What is it, and How Long Does It Take To Get Results?
- England: Council Recruits Men with TVs Strapped to Their Heads to Warn of Covid Lockdown Rules
- COVID & masks – See this link for a group of essential mask-related stories
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable
- Masks are neither effective nor safe: Summary of the science – ignore who the author is, it does not matter, simply check the sources/footnotes.
- Leftist media attempts to shame people into wearing masks
- Senator (and doctor) Rand Paul: Masks ‘Are All About Submission’
- Bruce Willis asked to leave store for ‘refusing’ to wear a mask
- Texan Michael Cloud among Congress members shown to be unmasked during Capitol lockdown – and that matters why?
- COVID & schools – See this link for more.
- CDC director says closed schools pose larger public health risk for kids than reopening, U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
- Study: Children are so immune to COVID-19 that even after extensive exposure they test negative
- Isolated, anxious and failing online classes, an 11-year-old Texas boy considered suicide – you libs have backed all this crap
- End of grace period leaves Texas schools at risk of losing millions – simple solution: get back to class.
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- Business/Economy
- Pioneer completes $4.5B acquisition of Parsley
- Permian deals lead merger rebound in fourth quarter
- Dallas Fed reports positive trends in oil and gas sector in fourth sector
- NTSB investigation finds Atmos’ ‘inadequate’ pipeline management contributed to 2018 explosion that killed 12-year-old girl
- SolarWinds hack followed years of warnings of weak cybersecurity
- Texas business owners have new guidance on worker classification, thanks to new Department of Labor rule
- Telecommuting from a high-tax state? Beware your wallet
- Dallas-based AT&T suspends PAC contributions to GOP lawmakers who objected to Biden’s Electoral College victory
- CNN’s Airport Network shutting down after 30 years – that will more than halve their U.S. viewers won’t it?
- AG Paxton Issues Civil Investigative Demands to Five Leading Tech Companies Regarding Discriminatory and Biased Policies and Practices
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- FBI arrests Midland’s Jenny Cudd over participation in Capitol riots, more, more
- Houston police officer was part of mob that stormed the Capitol, HPD Chief Acevedo says
- Houston police officer may face federal charges after entering Capitol during riot
- Dem Rep. Sherrill Claims GOP Members Led ‘Reconnaissance’ Missions for Capitol Attackers, more on this fruitcake
- OK Attorney Plans to Charge Oklahomans Who Took Part in Capitol
- El Paso man, Manuel Flores, who threatened to kill BLM protestors sent to prison – and yet hundreds of BLM and ANTIFA thugs on video threatening folk have never even faced arrest.
- Why did Black Lives Matter protesters face harsher policing than mob that stormed the Capitol? – exactly when and where did this happen? In most areas they were allowed to keep on looting and burning and few arrests made.
- CNN’s Don Lemon Justifies Black Lives Matter’s Violence Because It Was “Built on People”
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- El Paso Man Who Posted Threatening Video Sentenced to Prison
- Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges in ATM Thefts
- Deadly Dallas House Explosion ‘Could Have Been Prevented’, Atmos’ ‘inadequate’ pipeline management contributed
- American Airlines IT director allegedly gunned down in Oak Cliff by wife’s ex-boyfriend, affidavit says
- ‘Give Amber justice’: Mother’s plea on the 25th anniversary of Amber Hagerman’s kidnapping VIDEO
- Wichita Falls: Affidavits show murder suspect admitted shooting victims and throwing gun away
- Electra man indicted in October shooting in Wichita Falls
- ‘Armed and dangerous’ man found in Miles
- ‘Armed and dangerous’ man accused of trying to shoot at trooper arrested in Runnels County
- Brownwood man gets trapped in donation bin, dies
- Missing Abilene Christian University student found dead in east Texas
- Former Lazbuddie and Littlefield teacher arrested on indecency with child charges, more
- Ropes ISD coach arrested on online solicitation charge, more
- Lubbock man indicted on charge of sexual assault of an adult
- 1 injured in Central Lubbock shooting
- Lubbock man faces additional charge in fatal crash
- 2 arrested in armed robbery at West Lubbock hotel
- Police: Arrest follows tussle with short-order cook
- Emergency responders on the scene of a plane crash in north Lubbock
- Amarillo police: 2 hurt after man fires shots from SUV at another vehicle
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- Local government
- San Antonio councilman wants more COVID aid for bars, restaurants – just open them up!
- Recall CPS campaign falls short of signatures needed to reform San Antonio energy utility
- CPS Energy’s commitment to leaky natural gas not in line with climate plan goals
- Bexar County officials upbraid sheriff for overtime expenditures
- Wichita Falls ISD to create committee to name new high schools
- Sweetwater hires hometown kid as next police chief
- Lubbock Homicide Rate Alarms City – it should and shows how much attention has been diverted to harassing businesses and spending money from the basics of local government.
- Dallas City Council to consider renaming part of South Lamar Street after Botham Jean
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- Colleges & universities
- Roger Hinesh affected many lives at MSU Texas and beyond
- ACU psychology professor Richard Beck shapes lives in and out of the classroom
- Abilene universities return to campus with more COVID-19 guidelines in place
- Dr. Lawrence Schovanec Talks New Texas Tech Semester & Vet School
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- Military
- Texas loses, US Space Command site to be located in Huntsville, Alabama
Pratt’s post for 1/13/2021
January 13, 2021 by 2 Comments
FDA Admits PCR Tests Give False Results, Prepares Ground For Biden To “Crush” Casedemic.
https://dawsoncountyjournal.com/blog/2021/01/04/fda-admits-pcr-tests-give-false-results-prepares-ground-for-biden-to-crush-casedemic/
We have known of the absurdly high false positive rate of these tests from the beginning. The makers admit such. As to it then somehow being used to show Biden “crushing” the number of cases, I guess such is possible but you’d need a different test.