If you’re someone who enjoys quality meats, we have a devastating story for you. Authorities confiscated more than 700 pounds of bologna at the Texas-Mexico border on Monday, when Border Patrol agents busted a woman who apparently had an uncontrollable addiction to cold cuts. In addition to seizing 748 pounds of Mexican bologna, authorities took […]
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The Unbearable Weight of ‘Democracy at Stake’
Like a reality show audience buckling up for yet another “most dramatic season ever,” Americans once again find themselves hurtling toward an historic, pivotal presidential election. One candidate would be the first woman elected to the country’s highest office. She’d also be the first South Asian president. The first president to be a daughter of […]
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Texas Kicked Millions Off Medicaid After COVID. It Was a Disaster.
Turns out that kicking millions of people off Medicaid is really bad! The Texas Tribune and ProPublica investigated how Texas behaved in the aftermath of COVID-19, and — surprise!! — we were extremely shitty toward poor people who needed healthcare. To briefly sum up, we kicked more than two million people off Medicaid, which provides […]
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Paxton, Enemy of State Fair and Tiny Lizard, Files Suit Against Child Safety
The state attorney general, Ken Paxton, is on a roll. Lately he’s targeted endangered lizards, the State Fair of Texas, and transgender Texans of all ages — and this time he’s suing the Biden Administration to make sure there are no protections for LGBTQIA+ children in foster care (a group the Human Rights Campaign says […]
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Infowars is Headed to Alex Jones’ Ancestral Homeland: The Trash
Great news! Alex Jones’ shitty media empire could be dead soon! The former Austin public access TV host may finally be suffering some consequences for his disgusting lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting being fake, which led to grieving parents being harassed for years by Jones’ followers. (One desecrated a child’s grave, and […]
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At 18, He Had to Pay a Poll Tax. Paxton’s ‘Illegal’ Raids Don’t Scare Him.
When Hector Flores turned 18, he had to pay to vote. More than 60 years later, he can’t remember the exact rate of the poll tax, maybe $2.50 or $2.75. But vivid in his mind is that the fee was roughly the price of a couple gallons of milk or a case of beer. In […]
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Man to Pay for Violating Ku Klux Klan Act in ‘Traumatic’ 2020 Biden-Harris Bus Swarming
Most of the “Trump Train” supporters have officially beaten voter intimidation allegations in a civil trial after a federal jury decided that they weren’t financially liable for swarming a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris campaign bus on Interstate 35 in 2020. Well, all except one. A lone Trump supporter, however, has been ordered to pay tens of […]
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Texas Maternal Mortality Rate Went Up 56% After Abortion Ban
Texas lawmakers fucked around, and now we’re all finding out. Since the state’s abortion ban passed in 2021, the state’s rate of maternal mortality cases rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationally, according to NBC News. The Gender Equity Policy Institute took a look at data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, […]
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Ken Paxton Has a New Nemesis: This Tiny, Endangered Lizard
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton bravely came to the defense of the oil and gas industry Monday, suing the Biden administration for daring to try and protect a rare lizard. The tiny reptile in question is the dunes sagebrush lizard, which lives in sand dunes about 30 miles west of Odessa, the Texas Tribune reported. […]
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Veterans Are Fighting Far-Right Extremists With Evidence, Not Weapons. And It’s Working.
It’s old hat to say everything is bigger in Texas. True connoisseurs know that things in the Lone Star State are also often wilder and weirder than what you see on the evening news. Every two weeks, Steven Monacelli will explore the dystopic, desperate, and despicable realities of contemporary Texas and channel the sense of […]