In yet another reminder of how we all dance to our corporate masters, Dell has told its sales employees to get back to the office — immediately throwing lots of people’s lives into chaos. It’s not clear how many people have been affected, but Round Rock-based Dell has said it employs around 13,000 people in […]
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She Voted for Trump. Then She Had Two Terrifying Miscarriages in Texas.
My sister Victoria was wrangling Elias, her then-2-year-old, into his costume on Halloween when the spots of blood in her underwear became worrisome. It was almost exactly two years ago, in 2022, and Elias had woken up from a nap excited about trick-or-treating. She’d gotten him into a shiny black firefighter hat, a yellow jacket […]
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‘Governor Abbott, I Did Not Do This’: Texan in Death Row ‘Junk Science’ Case Pleads For His Life
UPDATE, Oct. 8, 3:55 p.m.: Robert Roberson, the father who is scheduled to be put to death on Oct. 17, has been granted a hearing by the Anderson County District Court on a motion to vacate his execution warrant, his attorneys announced on Tuesday. The motion to vacate alleges that a previous judge on Roberson’s sentencing, […]
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Texas Mayor Suggests We Nuke Hurricane Milton: ‘It May Save More Than It Can Hurt’
As Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida, one Texas mayor has a novel idea about how to deal with it: Nuke the damned thing. In a since-deleted Facebook post, Bobby Lindamood, the mayor of Colleyville (a Fort Worth suburb) wrote: “For the amount of destruction this next hurricane is brining, it’s time to throw a […]
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Federal Complaints Over ‘Bullsh*t’ Blue Alert Hit 4,500
Texans have turned to official channels to complain about last Friday’s ear-splitting Blue Alert, which spurred hundreds of angry posts on every social media channel used by the more than 30 million Texans who received the early-morning notification from police. As of Monday morning, approximately 4,500 consumer complaints had been filed over the alert, the […]
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Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness Attacked in ‘Upsetting’ Pro-Trump Ad
Jonathan Van Ness, the most famous of the five “Queer Eye” stars from the Netflix series, spoke out on Instagram on Monday morning after they were featured in a pro-Donald Trump attack ad, just weeks before the presidential election. The ad, which was posted to YouTube over the weekend, attacks Vice President Kamala Harris and calls […]
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Everything About Our Elections Has Been Politicized by the Right
Election officials were reviewing disputed ballots on a Wednesday morning at an unremarkable government building in downtown Miami when hundreds of collared-shirt-wearing Republicans — many of them political staffers — descended upon the building. It was November 22, 2000, and the men were chanting “Shut it down!” Before long, the demonstration turned violent, and the […]
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‘I Am Not Batman’: Texans Are Pissed the Cops Woke Everyone Up Before 5AM on a Friday
Hundreds of people have taken to social media to share their collective anger — and to announce that they’ve turned off their phone’s public safety alerts — over a 4:52 a.m. Blue Alert on Friday, which sent a piercing alarm to the roughly 30 million people who live in Texas (and hadn’t already opted out). […]
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Texas May Finally Get Connected (Kinda) to the National Power Grid
Imagine being part of a grid that doesn’t completely collapse during a crisp breeze! That could be in Texas’ future, since the federal government is giving us a bunch of money to force us to grow the fuck up and join the rest of the country. The U.S. Department of Energy announced $360 million in […]
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Texas Woman Gets Death Threats For Baking Tim Walz Cookie
If there’s one truism in life, it’s that people on the internet will take any opportunity to act like assholes. Case in point: A bakery in Flower Mound has received death threats for daring to make a cookie with vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s face on it. Haley Popp, who owns Hive Bakery, told The […]