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By Grace Yarrow The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In summer 2021, about 50 Democrats from the Texas House arrived at the nation’s capital —...
by Texas Tribune
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on Tue Jan 16, 2024 at 10:14 AM PST
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I was saddened to get the news shortly before lunch that former Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, the longest serving female Representative in Texas History had passed away. WFAA writes: Prior to serving in Congress, Johnson also served three terms...
by DemSign
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on Sun Dec 31, 2023 at 11:01 AM PST
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Since this morning, a number of additional editorial cartoons have been posted online; hence, I posted a second diary. Link to My Second Diary — JFK on Trump, The Week in Editorial Cartoons — and Happy Thanksgiving One Brief Shining Moment” In the...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 08:40 AM PST
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Though the mayor’s position in Dallas is technically nonpartisan, Johnson joins Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker as one of two Republican mayors to lead a major Texas city. By Joshua Fechter And Brian Lopez Sept. 22, 2023 Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, a...
by Texas Tribune
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on Sat Sep 23, 2023 at 07:30 AM PDT
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PART I TEXAS BLONDIES I had it tough, in England, looking for love. Being an engineer is minus 50 points just for starters. Besides, I spent most of my time in foreign lands. While my friends were getting married and mortgaged, I was installing giant...
by Adventurist
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on Thu Jun 01, 2023 at 04:21 PM PDT
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On a Wednesday morning, 26-year-old Gabriella Gonzalez and 22-year-old Harold Thompson were walking near a service station in the West Oak Cliff neighbourhood of Dallas. Gonzalez returned the night before after getting an abortion in Colorado, to the...
by OK Dodo
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on Fri May 12, 2023 at 09:37 PM PDT
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In their ongoing efforts to regulate sexual behavior, Texas Republican geniuses have created Senate Bill 1601, which is a doozy designed primarily to hammer drag shows. In recent years, urban areas have seen an increase in the art form, also often...
by Rule of Claw
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on Thu May 11, 2023 at 12:22 PM PDT
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Keith Self defends prayers to mass shooting victims, says an almighty God "is absolutely in control" Keith Self, a Texas Republican representing Dallas suburbs such as Allen and McKinney in the US House, stands by the notion that prayers help after mass shootings, especially with the recent mass shooting at Allen Premium Outlets. Asked by CNN's Paula...
by OK Dodo
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on Sat May 06, 2023 at 10:03 PM PDT
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From CNN: North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the current Republican favorite to be the party’s nominee for governor in 2024, has a long history of remarks viciously mocking and attacking teenage survivors of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Sat May 06, 2023 at 07:04 PM PDT
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Rabbi Arnstein is about peace. Peace of the soul. This article is about pushing your fear button. Local conservative online news puts out an article about the FBI holding nuclear drills in Houston. Nuclear attack drills start in Houston under the FBI...
by iarnstein
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on Wed May 03, 2023 at 05:10 PM PDT
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Chinese natural restoration project https://inhabitat.com/a-restoration-project-in-china-uses-a-sponge-system/ Urban Permaculture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qXgbrIYcFE Floating farm in Rotterdam...
by gmoke
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on Thu Mar 16, 2023 at 08:01 PM PDT
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Two schools within the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District, which serves several areas northwest of Fort Worth, have had racist graffiti painted over their property. In Chisholm Trail High School, which is actually within the Fort Worth...
by OK Dodo
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on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 07:28 AM PST
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Jerry Jones was pictured at a demonstration where white students blocked black students in the 1950s Recently, a picture of a demonstration at North Little Rock High School, where several white boys have blocked six black students from desegregating the school, has been circulated. Famed Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones can be spotted in the crowd of...
by OK Dodo
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on Sat Nov 26, 2022 at 05:35 AM PST
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Tell me the Dallas Morning News Editorial Board is all men without telling me the Dallas Morning News Editorial Board is all men. In the open race to replace the outgoing and disgraced Van Taylor (R-Plano) are Sandeep Srivastava (D), Keith Self (Q),...
by DemSign
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on Fri Oct 14, 2022 at 09:06 AM PDT
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Brace yourself: A big bank and zero-down home loan are in same sentence. Still, this may be a keeper In the the midst of deadening inflation—the kind that has left one in six American homes, some 20 million households, unable to pay utility bills, according to one report—there is finally some good news to report. And it’s in that other part of the...
by Lauren Sue
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on Thu Sep 01, 2022 at 12:38 PM PDT
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When it comes to reporting on Texas, far too often liberals and progressives are tempted to shrug our shoulders and say, “Well, what did you expect? It’s Texas.” And I get it. But ultimately, it’s a harmful and painful response that doesn’t do much to...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Wed Aug 31, 2022 at 11:14 AM PDT
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As the school year begins again, Republicans are making it more than clear that their plan is to stomp down on students and teachers whenever possible. While we don’t always have a lot of recourse for vulnerable LGBTQ+ students in private schools, we...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Thu Aug 25, 2022 at 11:16 AM PDT
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In connection to a shooting in Dallas’ Koreatown, a Texas man was charged and indicted for alleged hate crimes against Asian Americans, Dallas County Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot announced Tuesday. According to Creuzot, a Dallas County grand...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Thu Aug 11, 2022 at 10:22 AM PDT
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When Roe v. Wade was overturned, the anger was palpable immediately. I remember my mother-in-law telling me, when I called her to talk about it, that her progressive women’s group was already starting a postcard writing campaign. I had a GenZ/Zoomer...
by Toro Blanco
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on Mon Aug 08, 2022 at 05:34 AM PDT
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No Sam Hsieh, this RWNJ stunt was perhaps a disquisition on the Britney Griner crisis, considering the presence of so many fascistic autocrats at CPAC in Dallas. Trumpists cannot ever do original acts other than hacky imitations that function as vapid...
by annieli
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on Fri Aug 05, 2022 at 03:02 PM PDT
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