Sunday, August 02, 2020
Saturday, August 01, 2020
Week-ending Lone Star Round-up
Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert to take hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 https://t.co/H0Y9baJ7Zc #hounews
— Matt Schwartz (@SchwartzChron) July 30, 2020
A Houston doctor who praises hydroxychloroquine and says that face masks aren’t necessary to stop transmission of the highly contagious coronavirus has become a star on the right-wing internet, garnering tens of millions of views on Facebook on Monday alone. Donald Trump Jr. declared the video of Stella Immanuel a “must watch,” while Donald Trump himself retweeted the video.
Before Trump and his supporters embrace Immanuel’s medical expertise, though, they should consider other medical claims Immanuel has made—including those about alien DNA and the physical effects of having sex with witches and demons in your dreams.
Immanuel, a pediatrician and a religious minister, has a history of making bizarre claims about medical topics and other issues. She has often claimed that gynecological problems like cysts and endometriosis are in fact caused by people having sex in their dreams with demons and witches.
She alleges alien DNA is currently used in medical treatments, and that scientists are cooking up a vaccine to prevent people from being religious. And, despite appearing in Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress on Monday, she has said that the government is run in part not by humans but by “reptilians” and other aliens.
In the interest of fairness, I'll concede that last claim of hers could be true.
Harris County, where Houston sits, has the fifth-highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases of any U.S. county.
— NPR (@NPR) August 1, 2020
"I signed more death certificates last week than in my entire life almost all put together,” one doctor says. https://t.co/OPzfdduZYP
Masculinity can be toxic, I've read. I will never believe the social and educational gains of having Texas schoolchildren return to the classroom is worth risking their lives and long-term health, or that of our state's teachers (or school bus drivers and custodians and cafeteria workers). Just know that the wealthy have options that the rest of you don't. I don't have any children or grandchildren in the state's school system but I do have a few nieces and nephews (and grands- of those). Should I care as much as their parents and grandparents? I don't really have a say or influence. I certainly didn't think that disregard for the threat, or poor planning and execution -- much less the economy -- was a good excuse for sacrificing our seniors, like Dan Patrick. (Nor the prisoners and immigrant detainees in our jails, but hey, maybe that's just me and a few other bleeding hearts.)
.@VanceGinn: Schools should reopen since most Texans dying from COVID-19 are elderly or Hispanic https://t.co/WIgi2aiCuZ #TXLege
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) July 29, 2020
I wasn't elected to anything, and I sure didn't vote for any of these people who do think that.
My uncle was one of the 93 deaths last week in Texas from #covid19. No federal leadership in #TX14 from Weber, no state leadership from Abbott. It did not have to be like this in Texas, with our loved ones dying. https://t.co/3sTk2VIkUB
— Adrienne Bell (@AdrBell) July 20, 2020
Rep. @EddieforTexas withdraws from SD14 special runoff election. Former Travis County Judge @sarah_eckhardt (D) will succeed former Sen. Kirk Watson (D-Austin). #txlege https://t.co/mzmqTVyIHL
— Texas Election Source (@TXElects) July 27, 2020
Gonna give this a closer look later, but at first glance I like what I see--esp. the "fixing broken Texas" gif.
— David B. Collins for Senate 🌻☮ (@dbcgreentx) July 30, 2020
Courtesy of Common Cause:https://t.co/slStTwQ1kW
Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday extended the early voting period for the November election by six days, citing continued challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic.
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 27, 2020
Early voting for the Nov. 3 election will now begin Oct. 13 instead of Oct. 19. https://t.co/Mvvr03y6G5
TX DEMS plan 7-figure digital ad buy as they try to turn Lone Star State blue in Nov.
— ChickenFriedPolitics (@ChkFriPolitics) July 27, 2020
--The Place for Southern Politics is ChickenFriedPolitics.com--https://t.co/RvKY3VJVHq
Because of the resignation of Diane Trautman and the withdrawal of Andrea Duhon, there are now two Democratic nominee vacancies on the November 3, 2020 General Election ballot:Harris County Clerk - Unexpired term, through 2022Harris County Department of Education Trustee, Position 7, At-Large - Full termUnder state law, precinct chairs from each political party nominate a candidate to appear on the November ballot. HCDP precinct chairs will vote at a County Executive Committee (CEC) meeting to be held virtually (conducted by computer, rather than in-person) on Saturday, August 15, 2020, at 11:00 am.
Environmental updates include these developments. First, from Juan Cole:
Ashton Nichols at The Dallas Morning News reports that ExxonMobil lost over $1 billion in the second quarter, up from a $600 million lost in the first. Year on year, its revenues are down 33% for the first half of this year. It has been forced to close down half its fracking rigs in the Permian Basin. In recent years, the company is responsible for 124 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually and it is one of the biggest polluters in the world, helping wreck the planet.Nichols quoted senior vice president Neal Chapman as saying, “Absolute demand fell to levels we haven’t seen in nearly 20 years. We’ve never seen a decline with this magnitude and pace before, even relative to the historic periods of demand volatility following the global financial crisis as far back as the 1970s oil and energy crisis.”
Chevron did even worse, losing a whopping $8 billion.
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This crisis is a foretaste of what is coming when electric cars take off in the consumer market, something that will happen through the 2020s.
As I have written before, I simply do not have the same amount of sympathy for these companies that I do for small businesses. They haven't only failied to adapt; they have refused to, and have denied that their commerce is at the root of a more serious global pandemic than COVID-19.
ExxonMobil has known about the catastrophic effects of using its product for decades, and has spent tens of millions of dollars to muddy the waters and discourage people from giving up gasoline. It also engages in greenwashing, pretending to be working on renewable energy or the (non-existent) carbon capture, when in fact only 1% of its profits go toward such research. ExxonMobil executives and flacks are committing premeditated inter-generational genocide.
Mike, it’s not just the GOP supporting big oil but many Democrats as well, both candidates and elected officials. We cannot afford centrist gradualism when our world is being destroyed. @sunriseatx @SierraClubAlamo @itsTracyChapman https://t.co/Znnqla0I5i
— Tom Wakely For Congress - TX21 (@Wakely2020) July 27, 2020
Every dark cloud has a silver lining, and the Progressive Forum's blog, written by Randall Morton, presents the capitalist opportunity in the midst of the crisis:
Let’s rouse the business opportunities at our feet. The next decade is an opportunity to generate a Houston renaissance by taking the most practical economic course. While still works in progress, post-industrial cities like Pittsburgh and Tulsa are proven examples of hope. This common-sense direction is also the path to solve our three major crises: Economic recovery, inequality, and climate. The pain of our current passage, the common suffering of rich and poor, the common suffering of politically right and left, are driving common support for dynamic business answers. The bottom line: Profitable investments toward renaissance and resilience are better than endless trillions for rescue. Let’s put our HAT on.
They'd better get after it because we're all running out of time. And shit like this isn't the right way to fix anything.
Didn't anyone in Houston consider how bad this looks??https://t.co/EOWZFwksnw?
— Geoff Dembicki (@GeoffDembicki) July 31, 2020
I have a variety of social justice posts and Tweets.
Darrington prison is named after a slave plantation. Draper is named after a KKK leader. Goree Unit is named after a Confederate captain.
— Keri Blakinger (@keribla) July 29, 2020
We talk a lot about racist monuments & team names, but here’s a look at prison names - which are just as bad: https://t.co/mPfIQjcxT1
US will not expel migrant children detained in McAllen, TX hotel https://t.co/9FqYS4kbI3 #TXLege #RGV
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) July 28, 2020
Vandals spray-paint crude swastika, other markings on Houston's Buffalo Soldiers Museum https://t.co/2xg8ZWwunA #hounews
— Matt Schwartz (@SchwartzChron) July 29, 2020
Spc. Vanessa Guillen’s family, along with their attorney, Natalie Khawam, gathered outside the Capitol on the National Mall to announce the #IamVanessaGuillen bill.https://t.co/sVBurJayXX
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) July 30, 2020
Zachery Taylor blogs about how the mainstream media continues to overlook the murders of US veterans beyond Vanessa Guillen. Which leads us to the latest news on the killing of Garrett Foster, the Austin BLM protestor gunned down last weekend.
Investigation exposes Army sergeant as murderer of #GarrettFoster https://t.co/EqsimTzs32 #ATX
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) July 31, 2020
The Texas Tribune has confirmed that Austin protester Garrett Foster’s suspected killer tweeted about retaliating against demonstrators. His posts have strengthened activists’ concerns over how police are handling the investigation of the deadly shooting. https://t.co/8FpgVXhxzZ
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) August 1, 2020
Today is the first of the month, and that is creating a crisis for many Texans who are unable to pay their rent. Once again, I'm not sure our state's leaders care.
“This is one area where we found that we did make a mistake, because we actually added a $600-a-week benefit from the federal government." - @JohnCornyn
— Progress Texas (@ProgressTX) July 28, 2020
As Texans struggle to make rent, remember who called for taking these benefits away. #TurnTexasBluehttps://t.co/tFsHJPoJYP
As this post was set to publish, some sad news came over the Tweet feed
derek howard, husband of rep. donna howard, passed away : https://t.co/05gyo03BOI #txlege
— quorumreport (@quorumreport) August 1, 2020
Sincerest condolences to Rep. Howard and her family.
Traces of Texas reader David McGill was so kind as to send in this photo of kids eating watermelon on a summer day in San Antonio, 1959. David is on the far right. His brother, noted actor Bruce McGill (Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in "Lincoln" among others) is on the far left pic.twitter.com/vTzrZ1Pspk
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) July 31, 2020
Friday, July 31, 2020
White House Update: When is the Election?
In their Newsweek piece, “How Trump Could Lose the Election–and Still Remain President,” CNBC founder Tom Rogers and former Senator Tim Wirth (D-CO) explain:
“This is how it happens, Biden wins. I don’t just mean the popular vote, he wins the key swing states, he wins the electoral college. President Trump says there’s been Chinese interference in the election. He’s been talking about Biden’s soft on China—China wanted Biden to win so he says a national emergency; the Chinese have intervened in the election.”
This is particularly ironic considering Trump’s former National Security Adviser, John Bolton, documents in his new book that Trump, during trade negotiations with China, pushed Chinese President Xi Jinping to agree to purchase American agricultural products as a means to bolster popularity with U.S. farmers to help with 2020 re-election prospects.
Tom Rogers adds:
“Just ten days ago [June 23] he [Trump] tweeted, he actually tweeted, ‘rigged 2020 election,’ millions of mail-in ballots will be printed by foreign countries it will be the scandal of our times. so he’s laying the groundwork for this. So he does an investigation and [Attorney General Bill] Barr backs this up with all kinds of legal opinions about emergency powers that the president has.”
“Then what happens is it’s all geared towards December 14th. Why December 14th? Well, that’s the deadline when the electors of the states have to be chosen. Why is that key? Because that’s what the Supreme Court used in Bush v. Gore to cut off the Florida counting. They keep this national emergency investigation going through December 14th. Biden, of course, challenges this in the courts and says, ‘hey, we won these states, I want the electors that favored me named. The Supreme Court doesn’t throw the election to the Republicans as it did in 2000; instead it says, ‘look, there’s a deadline here.’ If they can’t be certified in these states because of this investigation going on, there’s a constitutional process for this.”
That constitutional process lies within the 12th amendment, which states:
“If no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.”
Republican are already running full-tilt voter suppression ahead of November.
All it takes is for only a couple of states -- say, Texas and Florida -- to cast some doubt over the election’s integrity for it to be tossed to the House of Representatives.
That may appear on the surface to be good news since Democrats hold the majority in the House.
But they won’t be the ones to certify the election.
Remember, the 12th amendment stipulates, “The votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote.”
With more Republican-controlled legislatures than Democratic, this means Trump can legitimately lose both the popular vote as he did four years ago and the electoral college, securing re-election.
There is already a precedent for this.
In the 1876 election that pitted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes against Democrat Samuel Tilden, Tilden clinched the popular vote but was one vote shy of the requisite electoral votes.
As Ohio Republican Congressman James Monroe (no relation to our fifth president) published in The Atlantic in October 1893, “The votes of Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, and South Carolina, with an aggregate of 22 electors” would decide the election.
That election happening in the midst of Reconstruction, federal soldiers occupied the three southern states.
Ku Klux Klan presence was also heavy in all four states.
Congressional Democrats claimed soldiers intimidated and suppressed the votes of Southern Democratic voters.
With the threat of re-igniting the Civil War that had only concluded 11 years before, Republicans and Democrats hammered out a backroom deal to hand the presidency to Hayes if he agreed to withdraw Union soldiers from the South.
He did.
He was made president, thus ending Reconstruction.
Judging how this primary season has gone, it isn’t inconceivable for Republican-controlled states to revive the “three-to-five million illegal voters” lie Trump screamed about in 2016.
My, how I enjoy single sentences as separate paragraphs. They really add a dramatic flair that the content seems to lack. Have I spent too many pixels on this? In other postponement news ...
(Trump's) campaign has frozen a majority of its TV spending less than 100 days before the 2020 election. A campaign official said the demotion of former campaign manager Brad Parscale has led them to start a “review” and “fine-tuning” of their re-election strategy.“With the leadership change in the campaign, there’s understandably a review and fine-tuning of the campaign’s strategy. We’ll be back on the air shortly, even more forcefully exposing Joe Biden as a puppet of the radical left-wing,” a Trump campaign official told NBC News.
Sometimes it's difficult to judge which of Trump's minion's lies are the most ridiculous, but today I'll go with that last one, particularly since ...
- Former Planned Parenthood head Cecile Richards
— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn) July 28, 2020
- Obama Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis,
- SEIU president Mary Kay Henry,
- Senator Mark Pryor
- American federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten
- State Senator Oscar Braynon
The very next tweet in that thread lists all the votes. My response here is very easy.
“Those who support Medicare for All are throwing their vote away by voting for Joe Biden. A vote for Hawkins/Walker is a vote for Medicare for All. A vote for Biden means Medicare for All will get lost in the sauce."
— Howie Hawkins (@HowieHawkins) July 28, 2020
Read the full statement at https://t.co/jfMcxCLnGg pic.twitter.com/anWlfR5Dla
You get 2 choices for president. That's it. | Analysis https://t.co/3GJvnejy2C pic.twitter.com/2tWkITmXyB
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 28, 2020
As you should be able to predict, the response was swift and merciless.
Anyone telling you there are only 2 choices in November hasn't heard of guillotines.
— Astronaut 🦺 (@AATAstronaut) July 31, 2020
That is what @CNN @FoxNews #DEMS & #GOP would like you to believe, but it is a lie. My vision to build a nation where We the People truly means #AllThePeople far surpasses both Biden & Trump's vision, yet CNN has ignored our campaign for 14 months.https://t.co/spASviDNUW
— Mark Charles 2020 (@wirelesshogan) July 28, 2020
David Collins also got in a retort to last week's Jackass, One 'f' Rouner.
Biden's notes: ‘Do not hold grudges’ against Kamala Harris https://t.co/XguDAqiHJ1 via @politico
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) July 29, 2020
This could be performative to throw everybody off, but I'll bet a little more on the KHive. You really don't want to stir up those murder hornets, trust me.
Mark Charles = MC
— Mark Charles 2020 (@wirelesshogan) July 29, 2020
Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry = MC
Energy (for change) = E
E = mc2#AllThePeople @skcmcurry pic.twitter.com/Ru56FQtyWt
-- Trump's visit to the Permian Basin, his new Demon Sperm doctor, and his back-up plan for rigging the Census to screw over states with large immigrant populations like Texas and California are all items I'll put in the week-ending Lone Star wrap, coming later today or tomorrow.
They deleted the tweet this morning, but it’s still appearing if you click through from a link. Less than a month ago Herman Cain tweeted this. He died from COVID-19 this morning. pic.twitter.com/dDAHqA1ov8
— Greg Newkirk 🔦 (@nuekerk) July 30, 2020
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Lone Star Round-up catches COVID
As the saying goes...Everything’s bigger in Texas, including Trump’s body count. 😔#TrumpKillsTexas
— Jordan Mei (@J_Mei21) July 28, 2020
pic.twitter.com/wO9nhRnFFE
GOP governors in Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Florida see approval sink https://t.co/PvEgJjiMd3 pic.twitter.com/3VXU62mYbo
— The Hill (@thehill) July 24, 2020
As the #COVID19 pandemic is hitting Texans harder than ever, @GovAbbott is reportedly ducking interviews with large Texas outlets, especially print media.
— Progress Texas (@ProgressTX) July 24, 2020
What have you got to hide, @GovAbbott? #AbbottIsResponsible #txlege https://t.co/x6cBIkJIwk
BREAKING: The @DCCC, the entity charged with helping elect Democrats to the House, is rolling out its first-ever Hindi and Chinese language video ads in Texas today.
— The Yappie (@TheYappie) July 21, 2020
The videos are aimed at boosting @SriPKulkarni in #TX22, a district that is 19% AAPI.https://t.co/64i2FBbnED
When I was a little girl, we’d go on road trips from Texas to Minnesota in my mom’s ‘78 Ford Fairmont to visit my Uncle Dale.
— Julie Oliver (@JulieOliverTX) July 24, 2020
He had this big movie poster from the “The Rose”.
And for years I thought Bette Midler *was* Janis Joplin.
Always stuck with me. This will, too. https://t.co/myjdLeH7Zr
His approval faltering, Republicans in battleground Houston districts start to distance themselves from Trump https://t.co/YtJ5T1c9QA #hounews
— Matt Schwartz (@SchwartzChron) July 24, 2020
Texas added more than 600 coronavirus deaths to the state's official tally today after state health officials changed their method of counting fatalities. New @TwitterMoments. https://t.co/bu0xmHKFv4
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 27, 2020
Corpus Christi, Texas, was already wrestling with a worsening virus outbreak when Hurricane Hanna made landfall on Saturday. Here's where else the state's cases are spiking. https://t.co/FIoQ5WwLbf
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 28, 2020
Texas stumbles on COVID-19 contact tracing https://t.co/Iy9ukec1YT #hounews
— Matt Schwartz (@SchwartzChron) July 26, 2020
I cannot stress this enough.
— Matt Dempsey (@mizzousundevil) July 27, 2020
DSHS was counting fatalities the same way the Houston Chronicle Data Team does every night.
Looking at county/city reports.
(In fairness, we use DSHS data for all but about 18 counties. That still was more current then the state's count.) https://t.co/AmaqNKASAt
At FMC Carswell federal prison in Texas, women sleep 4 to a room. As COVID-19 tore through the prison, staff shut off the air conditioning and hung plastic curtains in the doorways to stop the virus’ spread. “The heat is about to get the best of us.” https://t.co/izEyPz8eiH
— The Appeal (@theappeal) July 27, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, the scope of the Permian bust deepens, and renewable energy becomes a stronger force in the energy markets, the risk of tethering Texas’ economy to fossil fuels will likely only heighten in the years ahead.https://t.co/mNLTJ96klL
— Texas Observer (@TexasObserver) July 27, 2020
"Everybody’s for equity, until they’re against it." For years, money for flood protection in the Houston area went mostly to richer and whiter neighborhoods. A new approach prioritizes disadvantaged neighborhoods, and it’s stirring up resentments.https://t.co/JwOkokQex5
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 25, 2020
Lol and the headlines were TESLA PICKS AUSTIN, instead of "Austin pays Tesla to come here" https://t.co/h0htGNs6Z7
— Brian Gaar (@briangaar) July 24, 2020
Public Citizen won’t sit idly by while state government officials use the COVID-19 crisis to give handouts to their polluting cronies. #txenergy #txlege https://t.co/c6yLwOCMUi
— Public Citizen Texas (@PublicCitizenTX) July 25, 2020
42% of renters in Texas have little or no confidence they'll be able to pay August rent (via @uscensusbureau). That uncertainty rises to 56% among Hispanic renters. @zoyamiddleton of @TexasHousers wrote about housing precarity during the pandemic https://t.co/x4RAAD6DjR
— Kinder Institute (@RiceKinderInst) July 24, 2020
We can enact a local grace period to keep people housed (this reduces infection rates) AND prep for more federal rental assistance funds. The two aren’t incompatible, we must use our power compassionately.
— already an ancestor (@zoyamiddleton) July 24, 2020
Why Houston Apartment Evictions Are Mounting https://t.co/7AssnC7wrC
When our government spends 54 cents of every discretionary dollar on military contracts and less than 16 cents of every discretionary dollar on healthcare, education, and infrastructure, we cannot ignore that –– our values are off. https://t.co/wzOGKrtlMT
— Texas Poor People's Campaign (@texas_ppc) July 24, 2020
JUST IN: This is the first time Wurstfest in New Braunfels has been called off in its 60-year history https://t.co/ScJpzRYT3C
— CBS Austin (@cbsaustin) July 23, 2020
Welcome to Houston, home of the drive-thru strip clubs...https://t.co/6aocbAJysU
— Unstripped Voice (@UnstrippedVoice) July 22, 2020
Celebrating the start of #baseballseason with these photos of LaGrave Field in Fort Worth! ⚾️ #BaseballisBack
— UTA Archives (@spcouta) July 24, 2020
[Left: Amon Carter throwing out the first pitch @ LaGrave Field, 1930, https://t.co/ztx0dWF3Ln; Right: LaGrave Field on opening day, 1928, https://t.co/CQMBTHbs5O] pic.twitter.com/pUoKLEH8xU
Monday, July 27, 2020
The TexProgBlog Wrangle: Fascism Rising
What in the boot-stompin-two-tooth-tobaccah-chewin-pearl-snap-wearin-disgraceful-racist-honky is going on in Weatherford, TX? https://t.co/JTHY48chQJ
— poor peeps’ department (@poorpeepsdept) July 26, 2020
Weatherford, TX - White man punches black man standing in the street as Confederate counter-protesters face-off against Black Lives Matter protesters The police do not arrest the white man. This is America.
— Michael Hendricks (@JudeNewcomb) July 25, 2020
Bottom middle stream.#texas #blacklivesmatter #racistUSA #racism pic.twitter.com/q4qHOG58Px
Shell Seas, blogging at Living Blue in Texas, has more.
Today, in Tyler TX: Trump goons attacked peaceful folks at a rally with @Hank4Texas, Democratic Party Congressional candidate for TX-1. Tyler Police watched the assaults at the Courthouse Square. https://t.co/9BwgE1kiNN
— BarbaraAnn Radnofsky (@TXBarbaraAnn) July 27, 2020
Gilbert's Twitter feed has three links to East Texas media accounts of the skirmish, all with video.
A person was shot and killed during a downtown Austin protest. According to @imhiramg, the shooter charged into the crowd and shot at protesters. https://t.co/gyVI0jOs8I
— Katie Hall (@Katie_Statesman) July 26, 2020
Last night, Garrett's death reverberated beyond Austin and made its way to the walls of Los Angeles. In both LA & Oxnard, protesters will march in his memory, and in solidarity with his fiancée, his loved ones, and his comrades in Austin.https://t.co/JSyh2axue2
— Mike Ramos Brigade (@mike_r_brigade) July 26, 2020
A distraught witness describes the shooting. Garrett was beloved by his community and he leaves behind his wife. 💔 pic.twitter.com/nCtV9TGLj0
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) July 26, 2020
Two gunmen released after Austin #BLM protester #GarrettFoster is shot dead https://t.co/vpuM2IBLNW #AustinShooting #AustinProtest #ATX
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) July 27, 2020
Here is a CONFIRMED GoFundMe for Garrett Foster, the victim of last night's drive-by murder at a #BlackLivesMatter march in #AustinTx.
— Kit O'Connell is Antifascist (BLM) (@KitOConnell) July 26, 2020
His wife is disabled & he was her primary caretaker. They will need a LOT of support. Please give. #GarrettFoster https://t.co/RdO9p1lioZ
While they’re rationing healthcare in #SouthTexas due to high #COVID19 numbers & #HurricaneHanna is pounding the TX coast....@realDonaldTrump is playing golf at one of his properties at taxpayers’ expense #TrumpVirus #COVIDIOT #GrifterInChief @JohnCornyn @tedcruz @RepRonWright https://t.co/1NmAMuH8kT
— J. Milford (@Onegreystray) July 26, 2020
Military contractor personnel in McAllen, TX block an attorney from visiting with migrant children illegally detained at a hotel: https://t.co/pb8S2HM8ms
— Aarón Cantú (@aaron_con_choco) July 23, 2020
🚨 ALERT: we learned that some of the remaining families are being moved from the Hampton Inn right now during #HurricaneHanna. Our legal team is rapidly responding to ensure we don't lose them.
— Texas Civil Rights Project (@TXCivilRights) July 26, 2020
Where are they taking them now? Congress must investigate: https://t.co/nP6h8r90dZ
Oh hey, did you see one Texas county has been hit so hard by COVID it has formed a death panel to decide which patients are too sick to save?
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) July 24, 2020
Yep, thanks to @GovAbbott and @realDonaldTrump not listening to scientists. https://t.co/WbcQhQdESO
Seventh Soldier from Vanessa Guillen's Duty Station Found Deadhttps://t.co/8pKg1TnL9J
— Niko House 🌺🌹✊🏾 (@nikoCSFB) July 26, 2020
'I will not sacrifice myself,' says teacher fed up with back-to-school debate https://t.co/6AREVUTS0E pic.twitter.com/tyOH5jM7vk
— ABC13 Houston (@abc13houston) July 22, 2020
“I Felt Alone”: The Story Of How An Immigrant Teenager Fought To Stay In The US While Under Guard In A Texas Hotel https://t.co/tjqZlqk1e6
— Shallremainnameless (@Spiggitzfan) July 24, 2020
The Texas Rangers were vicious enforcers of white power. J.T. Canales was the only Mexican American in the legislature. He lost the fight, but the reckoning he sought is finally underway.
— Texas Observer (@TexasObserver) July 23, 2020
From @MotherJones:https://t.co/NHIjMiPeMq
Today marks the 157th anniversary of the death of Sam Houston, who died on July 26, 1863. His last words were "Texas, Margaret, Texas." He was buried during a rainstorm in Oakwood Cemetery in Huntsville and, because of the Civil War, few people were in attendance. pic.twitter.com/IL2ECEdaRY
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) July 26, 2020
Much more Wrangled -- and to be posted -- shortly.