People entering Austin, Texas, from Interstate 35 will see two billboards warning them that the city defunded police.
One billboard says, “Warning! Austin defunded police. Enter at your own risk!&#8221; CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/austin-texas-defund-police-billboard-i-35/">reported</a>. The board is referring to the Austin city council’s vote last month to cut the police budget.
The second billboard reads, “Limited support next 20 miles,” the outlet reported.
The billboards were put up by the Texas Municipal Police Association, which announced its campaign Wednesday on Facebook:
<blockquote>Today, TMPA released two billboards (pictured below), along Interstate 35, entering Austin, intended to raise public awareness that Austin is a defunded city. This reckless act, a political stunt by the city council pandering to the radical left, will do nothing but endanger the people of Austin.
As the largest police association in Texas, it is our duty and responsibility to stand up for the brave men and woman of the APD, as well as the other law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction within the city limits which will have less of APDs resources to depend on, and to raise public awareness of the dangers of defunding not just Austin, but any city across the U.S.</blockquote>
Texas’ top politicians praised the campaign late last week. Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick called attention to the “great new billboards” and included a picture and the hashtag #BackTheBlue.
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Thank you to the Texas Municipal Police Association for these great new billboards that went up in Austin today. <a href="https://twitter.com/austintexasgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@austintexasgov</a> ignored public safety and made a dangerous decision to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/defundpolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#defundpolice</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bigmistake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#bigmistake</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/backtheblue?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#backtheblue</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#txlege</a> <a href="https://t.co/bGO8X1Hyur">pic.twitter.com/bGO8X1Hyur</a>
— Dan Patrick (@DanPatrick) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanPatrick/status/1303777387063250944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) also tweeted about the billboards on Thursday and included the hashtag #TexasBacksTheBlue.
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Billboard on I-35 warns &#8216;Enter at your own risk!&#8217; after Austin votes to defund police.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TexasBacksTheBlue?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TexasBacksTheBlue</a><a href="https://t.co/4RFhUfap10">https://t.co/4RFhUfap10</a>
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1303796951901777920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
CBS Austin previously <a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/gov-abbott-calls-on-all-candidates-texans-to-pledge-against-defunding-police?src=lnk">reported</a> that Abbott asked all Texans and candidates for political office to sign a pledge against defunding the police.
“I sign this Texas Backs the Blue Pledge to oppose any efforts to defund the police and to show my support for the brave law enforcement officers who risk their lives to protect and serve. Defunding our police departments would invite crime into our communities and put people in danger. That is why I pledge to support any measure that discourages or stops efforts to defund police departments in Texas,” the pledge states. “Our law enforcement officers have our backs every single day, and we need to show them that Texans have their backs. #TexasBacksTheBlue”
Some who support the slogan “Defund the Police” claim it’s not actually about defunding the police, CBS reported, it’s about “a reallocation of some money from law enforcement to other services that could help the community.”
It serves the same purpose, however, as the Austin city council voted to cut $150 million in funding to the APD and redirect most of the money to social services and elsewhere in the government.
Austin Mayor Steve Adler has said he looked to Denver, Colorado, as a model for police reforms. In Denver, mental health professionals are sent to non-violent 911 calls.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-in-florida-town-will-no-longer-respond-to-non-violent-911-calls">reported</a>, this same approach has been adopted by St. Petersburg, Florida, and law enforcement experts warned a “catastrophe” was waiting to happen. Law Enforcement Today—a police-centric news outlet—tweeted in response to the St. Petersburg Police Department’s announcement of the change by saying, “Not every 911 call starts violent &#8212; but many of them end that way. This is a catastrophe waiting to happen… and it’s spreading across America.”
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Not every 911 call starts violent &#8211; but many of them end that way. This is a catastrophe waiting to happen&#8230; and it&#8217;s spreading across America.<a href="https://t.co/V7IFpDDc8a">https://t.co/V7IFpDDc8a</a>
— LawEnforcementToday (@LawEnforceToday) <a href="https://twitter.com/LawEnforceToday/status/1281917435457740800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced on Friday that he will send additional firefighters to California as the West Coast state battles an onslaught of wildfires that have threatened thousands of residents and diminished air quality across the state.
&#8220;Texas is ready to answer the call for help when disaster strikes — whether it&#8217;s here in the Lone Star State or across the country,&#8221; said Governor Abbott in a Friday statement. &#8220;I thank the brave men and women serving in our fire departments across Texas for stepping up to help Californians in need as these fires continue to burn. I ask all Texans to join me and Cecilia in prayer for the courageous firefighters battling these wildfires, as well as those who have been affected by this disaster.&#8221;
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Texas is providing firefighters and equipment to help California battle the raging fires that are causing such devastating damages.
Texas is ready to answer the call for help when disaster strikes &#8211; whether in the Lone Star State or across the country.<a href="https://t.co/7867gnnUD6">https://t.co/7867gnnUD6</a>
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1304472717626933249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
Under the Texas <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-deploys-resources-to-assist-in-fighting-california-wildfires">governor’s orders</a>, California will receive 190 firefighters, 50 firetrucks, and ten command vehicles, in addition to the 44 firefighters, ten firetrucks, and two command vehicles the Lone Star State sent over in August, according to the statement. The fire-fighting resources were dispatched from over 50 different fire departments across the state.
California state Senator Shannon Grove, who is the leader of the Republican caucus, reacted to the assistance from Texas, tweeting: “It’s a good thing other states don’t hold a grudge like CA’s Democrat leadership seems to. Texas is helping in our time of need by supplying 190 firefighters, 50 fire trucks &amp; 10 command vehicles EVEN THOUGH CA has a travel ban for state workers to TX.”
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It’s a good thing other states don’t hold a grudge like CA’s Democrat leadership seems to.
Texas is helping in our time of need by supplying 190 firefighters, 50 fire trucks &amp; 10 command vehicles EVEN THOUGH CA has a travel ban for state workers to TX.<a href="https://t.co/Cs1mkZ2bY0">https://t.co/Cs1mkZ2bY0</a>
— Senator Shannon Grove (@ShannonGroveCA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShannonGroveCA/status/1304589319504629761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
According to <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-11/smoke-again-blankets-l-a-county-friday-even-people-far-from-fires-should-be-cautious-if-they-smell-smoke">The Los Angeles Times</a>, the wildfires have caused the air quality to severely diminish across the state, particularly in the Bay Area and in Central California. The Southern California region, which is also experiencing fires, has been having air quality problems as well.
“Throughout Southern California, everybody is experiencing this,” Philip Fine, an executive officer for the South Coast Air Quality Management District, told the news agency. “It looks like it’s overcast, but a lot of that is smoke from the Northern California and Oregon wildfires. They have created a plume up and down the West coast that’s over a thousand miles wide.”
Kristine Roselius, a spokesperson for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, told <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/Very-unhealthy-air-blankets-Bay-Area-15559693.php">The San Francisco Chronicle</a> that the general area has been experiencing “certainly the longest unhealthy air quality we’ve seen.”
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Lubbock may soon be the 15th and largest city in Texas to become a “sanctuary city for the unborn” and outlaw abortion, pending the decision of the mayor and city council.
Several state lawmakers and local activists have been pushing the city to adopt an ordinance essentially banning <a href="https://dw-site-staging.dailywire.com/news/cnn-a-baby-surviving-an-abortion-and-a-newborn-arent-the-same-thing">abortion</a> as the abortion provider <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-kanye-west-says-planned-parenthood-kills-blacks-strategically-and-on-purpose">Planned Parenthood</a> moves forward with plans to open a new clinic in the city.
“The fact that ‘the outlawing of abortion within the city limits’ is even being discussed as an option for the City of Lubbock shows just how far the Sanctuary City for the Unborn movement has come,” Right to Life of East Texas Director Mark Dickson told The Daily Wire in an email. “What started in a city of 2,189 is now being entertained in a city of about 300,000.”
Dickson is the founder of the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative and the author of the proposed ordinance. State Sen. Charles Perry and state Reps. Dustin Burrows and John Frullo, all Republicans representing the Lubbock area, sent a letter to the city’s GOP mayor, Dan Pope, and the city council in August urging them to adopt Dickson’s ordinance.
“It has come to the attention of many in our area that Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading provider of abortion services, is planning to open a clinic in Lubbock between now and the end of the year. We respectfully request that the City of Lubbock take all necessary actions to prevent them from opening, since this organization profits off ending the lives of unborn children,” the letter says, according to <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/members-texas-legislature-lubbock-outlaw-abortion/">Live Action</a>.
“The battlefield to protect the unborn has shifted from the state to the local arena in recent years. For that reason, passing an ordinance designating Lubbock as a Sanctuary City for the Unborn will help to continue the Texas belief that life begins at conception, while also protecting the safety of mothers,” the letter says.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-planned-parenthood-affiliates-improperly-applied-for-80-million-they-got-it-now-the-government-wants-the-money-back">Planned Parenthood</a> previously operated a clinic in Lubbock until a since-overturned law forced the clinic to shut down in 2013. The abortion provider recently posted new job listings on its website for a new facility in Lubbock, though it has said little else about the ongoing plans. Planned Parenthood blamed “harassment from extremists” for staying silent on many of the details of the proposed clinic.
“Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas recently posted for staff positions in Lubbock, and is planning to announce the opening of a new health center in that community later this year. In light of the history of harassment by extremists opposed to Planned Parenthood’s mission, it is our ongoing policy to not comment on health center projects for security reasons until they are completed,” Planned Parenthood said in a statement on its <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-greater-texas/newsroom/planned-parenthood-of-greater-texas-in-west-texas">website</a>. “Additional information, including health center opening date, location, and list of health services, will be shared when finalized.”
The proposed ordinance says that “It shall be unlawful for any person to procure or perform an abortion of any type and at any stage of pregnancy in the City of Lubbock, Texas,” and “It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly aid or abet an abortion that occurs in the City of Lubbock, Texas,” according to a copy of the ordinance obtained by <a href="https://thetexan.news/lubbock-officials-eye-outlawing-abortion-after-planned-parenthood-heralds-new-facility/">The Texan</a>.
The ordinance defines abortion as “the act of using or prescribing an instrument, a drug, a medicine, or any other substance, device, or means with the intent to cause the death of an unborn child of a woman known to be pregnant. The term does not include birth-control devices or oral contraceptives.”
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Hurricane Laura is quickly gaining speed as she moves across the Gulf Coast, the <a href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-08-26-hurricane-laura-forecast-rapid-intensification-texas-louisiana">Weather Channel reports</a>, opening up the possibility that Laura could become a category 4 &#8212; or even a category 5 &#8212; hurricane before she makes her projected landfall somewhere between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas.
The Weather Channel has labeled Laura&#8217;s inevitable strike, &#8220;potentially catastrophic,&#8221; and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/hurricane-laura-expected-to-reach-category-4-strength-with-life-threatening-storm-surge-before-making-landfall">Fox News reports</a> that the storm could bring with it a record-breaking, potentially &#8220;unsurvivable&#8221; storm surge to much of the Gulf Coast before it even touches land.
&#8220;Hurricane Laura has strengthened into a Category 4 as it heads for a destructive landfall near the Texas and Louisiana border Wednesday night into early Thursday morning. A catastrophic storm surge and damaging winds will batter the region and a threat of flooding rain and strong winds will extend well inland,&#8221; the Weather Channel notes. &#8220;Residents along the upper Texas and southwest Louisiana coasts should finish preparations now for a major hurricane strike. Follow any evacuation orders issued by local or state officials.&#8221;
Laura is about 175 miles south of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and is moving northwest at 16 miles per hour. Wind speeds currently measure around 140 mph, putting Laura on the threshold of being a category 4 storm. Visible satellite pictures show Laura with a massive &#8220;eye&#8221; measuring nearly 20 miles wide &#8212; a feature of &#8220;intense hurricanes&#8221; per meteorologists.
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Incredible to see this &#8212; while such eyewall structure &amp; mesovortices in the 👁️ are common in very intense typhoons &amp; hurricanes in the Pacific and sometimes elsewhere in the Atlantic basin, that&#39;s not the case in the NW Gulf &amp; making a beeline for the coast <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laura?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Laura</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StaySafe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StaySafe</a> <a href="https://t.co/r75rit3tHT">pic.twitter.com/r75rit3tHT</a>
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Water levels along the Gulf Coast are already rising and meteorologists following the storm believe some areas could be completely underwater as early as Wednesday night.
&#8220;The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami said Wednesday after that Laura, now a major hurricane has exploded into a Category 4 storm, threatening to bring life-threatening storm surge, extreme winds, and flash flooding over eastern Texas and Louisiana,&#8221; Fox News reported Wednesday.
&#8220;A life-threatening and &#8216;unsurvivable&#8217; storm surge of 7 to 20 feet will inundate the coast just east of the trajectory of the center of the storm. A storm surge warning is in effect from Freeport, Texas to the mouth of the Mississippi River,&#8221; the outlet continued. &#8220;According to the NHC, the worst of the storm surge will be along the immediate coast near and to the right of the landfall location, where the surge will be accompanied by &#8216;large and destructive waves.'&#8221;
The storm surge, the National Hurricane Center noted separately, could touch communities as far as 30 miles inland from the immediate coastline.
A number of social media users were already uploading photos of storm damage.
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Cameron LA a few hours apart as <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laura?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Laura</a> approaches Louisiana <a href="https://t.co/zpjPKlJbrV">pic.twitter.com/zpjPKlJbrV</a>
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Hurricane Laura is the first major hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic season. The storm is now a Category 4.
See photos as Louisiana prepares and starts taking on water: <a href="https://t.co/0ubWhkNbxg">https://t.co/0ubWhkNbxg</a> <a href="https://t.co/7dR70XktGy">pic.twitter.com/7dR70XktGy</a>
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The last major hurricane to make landfall in Louisiana was not Katrina <a href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-08-24-last-louisiana-major-hurricane-landfall-rita-2005">but Rita</a>, which struck eastern Louisiana just weeks after Katrina devastated New Orleans. &#8220;At peak intensity, Rita was stronger than all but three other Atlantic Basin hurricanes, joining the elite sub-900 millibar minimum surface pressure club,&#8221; the Weather Channel notes, and it caused waves as high as 15 feet in some areas.
President Donald Trump noted on Twitter that the White House is monitoring the situation closely.
&#8220;Hurricane Laura is a very dangerous and rapidly intensifying hurricane,&#8221; he tweeted, urging those in the storm&#8217;s path to evacuate immediately.
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Last week, Judge Mary Brown, appointed to the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-judge-rules-dad-has-say-in-gender-transition-of-7-year-old-james-younger-puts-gag-order-on-dad">Save James</a>&#8221; Texas case in January, reportedly scrapped a past ruling that allowed Jeff Younger joint conservatorship over his 8-year-old son James Younger, whom Jeff&#8217;s ex-wife, Dr. Anne Georgulas, claims is a transgender girl named &#8220;Luna.&#8221;
Now, Anne can reportedly enroll James as &#8220;Luna&#8221; in school without the father&#8217;s consent, and Mr. Younger will have to pay $5,000 a month for the child&#8217;s pro-trans counseling, as well as a $10,000 retainer required by the counselor, a Facebook post from &#8220;Save James&#8221; claims.
According to court documents, Jeff wanted his two sons homeschooled.
Jeff was awarded joint conservatorship last year, meaning he&#8217;d have to consent to parenting choices concerning James before his ex-wife moves forward, and vice versa. The father <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-james-younger-at-age-3-to-dad-mommy-tells-me-im-a-girl">claims</a> Georgulas has been telling his biological son that he is a girl since he was 3 years old, and that James wants to be a boy when he is with his father. Georgulas claims James identifies as a girl on his own and is apparently transgender.
The &#8220;Save James&#8221; account is run by a supporter of Mr. Younger and a journalist in contact with the father. Jeff was hit with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-father-of-7-year-old-trans-child-james-younger-speaks-out-before-gag-order/">gag order</a> from Judge Kim Cooks in October 2019.
Captioning a photo of Jeff hugging his boys James and Jude, a Facebook post from &#8220;Save James&#8221; said in part on Tuesday, &#8220;James and Jude did NOT have a victory in court today. Judge Mary Brown has condemned James and Jude to a life of therapy, confusion, and abuse without even having a hearing. There are no other words for what has happened today.&#8221;
Judge Brown, the post continues, &#8220;has forced James to live as &#8216;Luna&#8217; in a school surrounded by teachers and therapists who do not acknowledge that he has said multiple times to multiple people (without Jeff around) that he wants to be a boy and hates being forced to be a girl. She has forced Jude into a stressful existence of constant lies and misery as he watches his brother get destroyed before him without any hope for an end to this madness.&#8221;
&#8220;Anne won this battle without even a hearing,&#8221; the post says. There was a scheduled hearing set on August 11, but the judge canceled it. 
<blockquote>Judge Mary Brown, without even having a hearing, has wiped out thousands of dollars for Jeff. He had a Writ of Mandamus in place to appeal her order that forced him into therapy. That Writ of Mandamus cost him well above 15k. It is now gone. Jeff needs help with donations. Consulting lawyers, drafting responses, attending hearings easily wracks his cost into the thousands. By now, Jeff has spent enough money to put James and Jude through medical and law school. This is insane.</blockquote>
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The post noted that a &#8220;special evidentiary hearing is scheduled for September,&#8221; though the exact date and time remains unknown.
&#8220;There is the sneaking suspicion that this hearing will be used to solidify Anne’s dominance over Jeff,&#8221; according to &#8220;Save James.&#8221;
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‘Save James’: Court Scraps Past Ruling, Mom Can ‘Transition’ Son On Dad’s Dime, Report Says

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As other polls show that President Trump is climbing back into the race and threatening prospective Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s lead, a new poll conducted by YouGov finds that Trump has opened a 7-point lead over Biden in the state of Texas.
“<a href="https://www.txhpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/THPFFinalAug17.pdf">The YouGov poll</a>, commissioned by Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, surveyed 846 registered voters in Texas from August 4-13. Trump had a 7-point lead over Biden, 47.5% to 40.5%, among all voters surveyed and a 5-point lead among most-likely voters, 49.4% to 44.1%,” <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/us-politics/election/first-poll-in-over-a-month-shows-trump-ahead-in-texas-leads-biden-by-7/">KXAN</a> reported, adding, “Before the release of the most recent YouGov poll, Biden had topped Trump in <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/another-poll-has-biden-over-trump-in-texas-but-a-biden-adviser-reportedly-doesnt-think-texas-can-turn-blue/">four of the last five statewide polls in Texas.</a>”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-poll-shows-biden-dropping-trump-gaining-bidens-support-among-gop-leaning-voters-halved">The Daily Wire</a> reported on Sunday that a <a href="http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2020/images/08/16/rel8a.-.2020.pdf">CNN Poll</a> conducted by SSRS, which was conducted over cell phones and landlines between August 12-15,  showed Biden receiving 50% of the vote and Trump receiving 46% support among registered voters. When this poll was conducted in early June, Biden held a 14-point lead over Trump.
Biden’s lead shrank even more when analyzing the responses from places that the pollsters identified as battleground states, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin.
A  recent <a href="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_PA_071520/">poll</a> by Monmouth University of 401 Pennsylvania voters “found that a majority of voters think there are Trump supporters out there who aren’t being counted,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/curl-beware-the-secret-trump-voters-they-are-out-there-despite-what-the-polls-say">noted</a>. “The media consistently reports that Biden is in the lead, but voters remember what happened in 2016. The specter of a secret Trump vote looms large in 2020,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute.
“Most voters (57%) believe there are a number of so-called secret voters in their communities who support Trump but won’t tell anyone about it. Less than half that number (27%) believe there are secret voters for Biden. The suspicion that a secret Trump vote exists is slightly higher in swing counties (62%) and Clinton counties (61%) than in Trump counties (51%),” the pollsters wrote.
People may have forgotten the tough conservative populace in the Lone Star State and how determined they can be when they feel they have to speak out. In mid-July, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-resident-files-lawsuits-against-pro-abortion-groups-that-filed-defamation-claims-against-pro-life-activists">pointed out</a>:
<blockquote>Multiple residents in Texas filed lawsuits against various pro-abortion groups that had previously filed defamation claims against pro-life activists.
Eight different lawsuits were filed against various abortion-supporting groups including the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, the Texas Equal Access Fund, and the Afiya Center. The lawsuits can be found on the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn (SCU) organization’s <a href="https://sanctuarycitiesfortheunborn.org/lawsuits-filed?fbclid=IwAR3o27m2S8mt4A0uIjx7356OF8ugdSWs9Z89bR7SwRpKjIAbmUVuKgDyUBw">website</a>. The site is dedicated to the East Texas towns that have all but outlawed abortion.
The named organizations are alleged to have stifled pro-life speech with their defamation lawsuits, even though abortion “remains a criminal offense under Texas law,” SCU said in a press release.</blockquote>
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New Poll: Trump Pulling Away In Texas

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Tragedy in Princeton, Texas, as authorities discovered the body of an infant in a five-gallon bucket of tar.
Police responded to a tip of a possible unreported death of a child at the home of 42-year-old Roland Grabowski and his 41-year-old wife Donna, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/13/texas-couple-charged-after-infant-found-dead-in-bucket-of-tar/">reported</a>. Police went to the home but the couple wasn’t there, apparently having traveled to Dallas.
When police were able to question the Grabowskis, the couple apparently refused to cooperate and told “numerous lies” about the newborn’s whereabouts, according to the <a href="https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/crime/three-week-old-infant-found-dead-bucket-of-tar-collin-county-couple-arrested/287-5d046a6f-77f1-4622-a3d5-d9db037cca69">arrest warrants</a> obtained by WFAA. They were arrested on child endangerment charges at that time.
Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner told the outlet that the couple claimed they found their baby boy, Micah, dead in their bed on the morning of July 29. They alternatively claimed their baby was staying with a family friend. Donna also told police that she gave birth to Micah at Medical Center of McKinney, but detectives found no records of her being there or a live birth.
“There was an attempt to deceive us as to what had happened and the whereabouts of their child Micah,” Skinner told WFAA.
The arrest warrants show the couple even tried to get a friend to tell police that “your baby is ours.”
“Quick in and out,” the text allegedly read. “They just need to see.”
The arrest warrants also explained that the couple claimed to friends that Micah died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Police obtained a warrant to search the Grabowskis’ home and discovered Micah in a five-gallon bucket of tar in a shed behind their home. By the time he was found by police, Micah would have been three weeks old.
&#8220;They took the child and wrapped him in a blanket and submerged him into a five gallon bucket of tar and put him in a shed behind the residence,&#8221; Skinner told WFAA.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been in this business over 30 years and I&#8217;ve seen a lot of crazy things but this is the first time I&#8217;ve found a dead infant in a bucket of tar&#8230;and hopefully the last,&#8221; Skinner added.
The couple was arrested on multiple felony charges, “including tampering with or fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair human corpse, abusing a corpse without legal authority, and abandoning or endangering a child,” WFAA reported.
The outlet added that Roland has a criminal record with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
“He was sentenced previously for aggravated sexual assault of a child, burglary of a habitation, and possession of controlled substances. Grawbowski [sic], according to TDCJ records, is registered as a sex offender,” the outlet reported.
An autopsy conducted on Micah is still pending, The Dallas Morning News <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2020/08/12/collin-county-parents-facing-felony-charges-after-baby-found-dead-in-bucket-of-tar-authorities-say/">reported</a>. The couple could face more charges.
An attorney for Donna couldn’t be reached by the News, though the lawyer was contacted after business hours.
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Texas Couple Arrested After Police Find 1-Week-Old Infant Dead In Bucket Of Tar

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A Texas family is fighting to be removed from the Child Abuse Registry even after a judge dismissed a case from Child Protective Services (CPS) alleging that they had medically abused their young son.
Legal counsel for <a href="https://bringdrakehome.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ashley and Daniel Pardo</a> of Kaufman County, Texas, sent a letter late last month to Texas Department of Family Protective Services Commissioner Jaime Masters, urging her to remove them from the registry. The letter was endorsed by 26 signatories, including organizations and lawmakers.
A copy of the letter, written by Texas Home School Coalition (THSC) President Tim Lambert and provided to The Daily Wire, read in part:
<blockquote>Even though CPS dropped all accusations against the Pardo family and dismissed the case, CPS has placed the Pardo family on the Child Abuse Registry.
As you know, being on the registry stays on a family’s record, shows up on background checks, and can prevent the family from obtaining employment or even volunteering at their child’s school or church activities.
Being on the Child Abuse Registry also carries a naturally damaging cultural stigma because, as the average Texan would reasonably presume, such a registry is home to individuals who commit horrible crimes against their children, such as starving, beating, torturing, or killing them.
The fact that an entirely innocent family against whom CPS dropped all charges could be placed on such a registry and have their lives and professional futures forever marred by this stigma shocks even the most rudimentary sense of justice.</blockquote>
A <a href="https://thsc.org/child-abuse-registry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recent article</a> from THSC explaining the latest wrinkle in the case alleges that the Pardos&#8217; placement on the registry was an act of &#8220;vindictive punishment,&#8221; after both the Texas Supreme Court and county judge found the CPS case against them lacking.
In December 2019, the Pardos reached the end of a long legal battle fraught with red tape when Judge Tracy Gray signed a dismissal agreement between them and CPS. The agreement came after the Texas Supreme Court ordered the Pardo&#8217;s 4-year-old son, Drake, to be reunited with family in October, who had first been taken away from them on June 20, 2019.
According to <a href="https://thetexan.news/pardo-family-cps-hearing-scheduled-for-tomorrow-heres-what-we-know/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Texan</a>, which followed the complex case closely, the Pardos were alleged to be engaging in medical child abuse or Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, which &#8220;occurs when caretakers exaggerate or contrive medical conditions of the child under his or her care.&#8221; Drake, who has suffered from developmental issues, also struggled with feeding problems.
As The Texan <a href="https://thetexan.news/pardo-family-wins-dismissal-by-kaufman-county-court-controversial-cps-case-effectively-ended/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>:
<blockquote>They were told one potential solution was a G-tube, a surgically placed feeding tube.
During their consideration of the surgery, Drake’s doctor allegedly refused to visit him while he was in the hospital. After his refusal, the Pardos fired him and chose to see another doctor in the same hospital.
The doctor who was fired brought a concern to the hospital’s child abuse pediatrician that the Pardos were doctor-shopping to find someone who would approve of the G-tube surgery.
Subsequently, the child abuse pediatrician brought the complaints to CPS and said that she wanted Drake to be admitted to the hospital on Monday, June 10 to be evaluated so that they could determine if the parents were seeking unnecessary help or not.</blockquote>
Jeremy Newman, director of public policy for THSC, referenced court testimony to explain to The Daily Wire how the Pardos were never informed about the scheduled meeting with CPS, which he said first led to their problems.
&#8220;CPS used their failure to attend that meeting, which they didn&#8217;t know about, as a justification for declaring an emergency and running in and taking the child from the home,&#8221; Newman said. &#8220;So, if I can insert my perception, it seems to me that the place it went wrong was that nobody involved in the case ever spoke to any of the doctors who had actually treated Drake at the time that all of this happened. They kind of came in and did a theoretical assessment and never spoke to the family, never spoke to any of the doctors.&#8221;
Explaining how, according to court testimony, the doctor who originally notified CPS did not intend for Drake to be removed from his family, Newman speculated that what began as government incompetence snowballed. &#8220;It seems to me like it&#8217;s a face-saving issue; that by the time they realized they&#8217;d made a big mistake, they couldn&#8217;t reverse course without admitting liability.&#8221;
The Texas Department of Family Protective Services did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment in time for publication.
In a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TexasHomeSchoolCoalition/videos/740390303133487" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">video</a> with the Pardos that he posted to Facebook immediately after their initial case was dismissed in December, Newman said, &#8220;This is the end of the Pardo case, officially. But it&#8217;s not the end of it for the families.&#8221; Noting that the CPS bureaucracy gets to walk away from such legal battles relatively unscathed, he said, &#8220;For the families in these situations, the trauma and the effect of that lasts. I know that Ashley and Daniel would tell you that, and every family that I&#8217;ve ever talked to would tell you that.&#8221;
&#8220;And so, as much as we&#8217;re celebrating the victory, you also have to kind of stop and pause and consider the cost, and realize that the team of advocates and the whole state kind of responded to support Ashley and Daniel in this. Not every family has that. You kind of have to wonder, &#8216;What about all the families you never hear from? The families whose stories don’t make the news?&#8217; You don’t hear from them and you kind of have to wonder: &#8216;Do they just get eaten by the system?'&#8221;
The Pardo case is not an isolated one, according to a series of <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/do-no-harm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">in-depth investigative reports</a> done by NBC and The Houston Chronicle in 2019. Reporters spent nine months looking into 40 cases that explored how the &#8220;legal and medical system that sometimes struggles to differentiate accidental injuries from abuse.&#8221;
One <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/devastating-diagnosis-doctors-trained-spot-child-abuse-can-save-lives-n1055746" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">report</a> concluded, &#8220;Physicians intent on protecting the most vulnerable in some instances have overstated the reliability of their findings, using terms such as ‘100 percent’ and ‘certain’ to describe conclusions that usually cannot be proven with absolute confidence. Child welfare workers, overworked and untrained in complex medical issues, are not always sure how to proceed when the primary evidence against a caregiver comes in the form of a doctor’s note.”
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‘Vindictive Punishment’: Texas Parents Fight To Be Removed From Child Abuse Registry After Judge Dismisses CPS Case Against Them

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A bike shop founded by disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has terminated its contract with the Austin Police Department some two years early, following Black Lives Matter protesting.
According to social media posts from Austin&#8217;s Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop, the business made the call to terminate the contract in light of the &#8220;current evaluation of community policing in Austin.&#8221;
The bike shop supplied bicycles and repairs for officers within the APD via a $314,000 contract inked in 2019.
&#8220;In the context of the current evaluation of community policing in Austin, we have decided to no longer purchase, re-sell and service police-issue Trek bikes and accessories under a City of Austin RFP [Request For Proposal] the shop was previously awarded,&#8221; the statement from the shop said in part.
&#8220;It&#8217;s difficult in these times to balance the needs of a business and a community,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;Our entire employee group was engaged in this dialogue and we delved deep into our community to understand how we could best do our part to keep our customers safe and this city moving in the right direction. These are certainly trying times and we understand people will object to any decision made along these lines.&#8221;
&#8220;Businesses can no longer be non-participants in the communities they serve,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;We chose what we think will do the most to suture these divides and place our community on the right side of history.”
According to the bike shop&#8217;s <a href="https://austin.mellowjohnnys.com">website</a>, Armstrong is hailed as the &#8220;brainchild&#8221; behind Austin&#8217;s Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop. The business opened its doors back in 2008 in downtown Austin, and the cyclist is reportedly a <a href="https://communityimpact.com/local-news/austin/features/business/2019/08/07/mellow-johnnys-celebrates-10-years/">co-owner</a>.
&#8220;Austin police officers use bicycles to patrol the downtown area. They’ve been seen using bikes during events like South By Southwest,&#8221; kxan <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/local-bike-shop-will-stop-selling-bicycles-to-austin-police-department/">reported</a>. &#8220;More recently, Austin police officers used their bicycles to keep protestors in one area at Black Lives Matter protests downtown.&#8221;
According to the news report, it&#8217;s suspected that the bike shop sought to discontinue service for officers over their bikes being associated with cops patrolling BLM protests:
<blockquote>According to a now-deleted Facebook post, that’s why the bike shop wanted to stop doing business with police. The post was written by an account with the same name as an Austin police officer whose name is on the contract with Mellow Johnny’s. It said shop employees didn’t like that the bikes were being used as a crowd management tool during the protests.</blockquote>
The post from the bike shop noted, “We are not anti-police. We do believe our local police force will protect us from the very threats we are receiving right now.”
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Back in 2018, Austin&#8217;s Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop <a href="https://road.cc/content/news/239398-moral-maze-lance-armstrongs-bike-shop-drops-cycling-brands-owned-gun-firm">dropped</a> cycling brands owned by Vista Outdoors, a gun manufacturer.
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Lance Armstrong Bike Shop Cuts Off Police Following Black Lives Matter Protest

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On Thursday, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) acknowledged that an automated error had mistakenly attributed hundreds of deaths to the China-originated novel coronavirus that were not directly linked to the virus, adding that the department has revised the death count accordingly.
&#8220;DSHS corrects COVID-19 fatality counts for the week of July 27,&#8221; the department announced in a tweet Thursday. &#8220;An automation error caused 225 fatalities to be included even though COVID-19 was not listed as a direct cause of death on the death certificate.&#8221;
The post linked to the Texas coronavirus dashboard, which displays the following <a href="https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83">correction</a>:
<blockquote>July 30: Cumulative fatalities have been corrected for July 27, 28 and 29. As DSHS shifted to using death certificate data to count fatalities this week, an automation error caused approximately 225 fatalities to be included that did not have COVID-19 listed as a direct cause of death. A manual quality check revealed the issue late Wednesday.</blockquote>
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DSHS corrects COVID-19 fatality counts for the week of July 27.
An automation error caused 225 fatalities to be included even though COVID-19 was not listed as a direct cause of death on the death certificate. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19TX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19TX</a> dashboard: <a href="https://t.co/ofycOLqWQZ">https://t.co/ofycOLqWQZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/4mKBzjIrfO">pic.twitter.com/4mKBzjIrfO</a>
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On Friday, coronavirus task force members, including leading White House voice Dr. Anthony Fauci and Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield, testified before the House Select Subcommittee concerning the virus and the nation&#8217;s strategy.
Dr. Fauci said he&#8217;s hopeful a &#8220;safe and effective&#8221; vaccine will be available for Americans by the late fall or early winter, USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/31/dr-anthony-fauci-top-covid-19-experts-testify-house-committee/5547626002/">reported</a>.
In prepared remarks, Redfield advised Americans to get a flu shot this year.
&#8220;If there is COVID-19 and flu activity at the same time, this could place a tremendous burden on the health care system related to bed occupancy, laboratory testing needs, personal protective equipment and health care worker safety,&#8221; he said.
Earlier this month, Redfield promoted the general reopening of schools during a Buck Institute Webinar streamed on July 14. The CDC director highlighted the low coronavirus risk for children without preexisting conditions and the unfortunate spike in suicides and drug overdoses, which Redfield said are “far greater” in number than COVID-linked deaths in the young.
“It’s not risk of school openings versus public health. It’s public health versus public health,” <a href="https://www.buckinstitute.org/covid-webinar-series-transcript-robert-redfield-md/">asserted</a> Redfield.
“When we look at, right now, the mortality of this particular COVID virus, in the first almost 218,000 people we looked at February to July, there was 52 individuals under the age of 18,&#8221; the director explained. &#8220;And if I recollect, about 35 were actually school age. Some of them were younger than school age. We’re looking critically at those individuals. And, you know, clearly, there’s an increase in comorbidities related to significant medical conditions…”
“But I think that’s important because what that means, actually, is the risk per 100,000, so far, you know, into the outbreak, six months into it, is, in fact, that we’re looking at about .1 per 100,000,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So another way to say that, it’s one in a million.&#8221;
“Now, I’m not trying to belittle that,&#8221; emphasized Redfield, &#8220;I’m just trying to make sure we look at it proportional. Because if you do the same thing for influenza deaths for school-age children over the last five years, they’re anywhere from five to 10 times greater.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-director-threat-of-suicide-drugs-flu-to-youth-far-greater-than-covid?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=benshapiro&amp;fbclid=IwAR3xcpdPUNxup0BwZBucbyuX1dCrzhzYeOV-SqjgyRrCm6z3ylIsuuwZ72o">CDC Director: Threat Of Suicide, Drugs, Flu To Youth ‘Far Greater’ Than Covid</a>
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Texas Downgrades COVID Death Toll After Error Wrongly Attributes Hundreds Of Deaths To COVID

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Although the Austin Independent School District (AISD) has <a href="https://www.austinisd.org/covid19/faq">declared</a> that “all instruction will be virtual from Aug. 18–Sept. 7,” the YMCA of Austin has extended its summertime essential programming to children so they can work inside an Austin Independent School Building.
“After 20 weeks doing COVID-safe programming, we’ve gotten pretty used to all of the precautions. Kids have been very safe and we’ve had very few symptoms,” said Dr. Joan Altobelli, the Vice President of Licensed Childcare for the YMCA of Austin, according to <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/education/ymca-offers-virtual-learning-support-to-families-inside-austin-isd-buildings/?utm_campaign=socialflow&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=t.co">KXAN</a>.
“We’re in a small part of the building,” she added. “We know which rooms each children have been in every day. We know which adults have been with those children. If anybody comes up with a symptom in that classroom, we immediately close the classroom. We’re able to trace exactly which children, whose parents need to be notified.”
On July 20, Austin Mayor Steve Adler admitted, &#8220;You know, Dr. [Mark] Escott with Austin&#8217;s health authority here in the city has told people that the default is that it&#8217;s probably going to last longer than just to Sept. 8. Each of the school districts are supposed to submit plans to him and to the public so that they can be discussed over the next several weeks.&#8221;
&#8220;What Dr. Escott said is that the virus load is so high in our community right now that so many kids and so many teachers and staff would be showing up on the first day already infected. That&#8217;s why he put it off until September,&#8221; Adler continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s why the conversation is ongoing. They want to open schools. The best thing we can do, everybody needs to wear masks, show discipline and let&#8217;s drop the virus load in our city.&#8221;
Escott, the Interim Medical Director and Health Authority City of Austin/Travis County, issued a July 14 order that <a href="http://austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Health/20202.7.14%20Signed%20Health%20Authority%20Order_Schools_Final.pdf">stated</a>, “School systems shall not reopen schools for on-campus, face-to-face instruction until after September 7, 2020; as per a school system’s own plan … I believe this order includes appropriate control measures based on the higher risk for spread of COVID-19 in schools due to the necessity of large groups gathering in indoor spaces and the difficulty for children to follow social distancing and hygiene guidelines.”
“On July 17, the <a href="https://tea.texas.gov/">Texas Education Agency</a> released new guidance, saying schools <a href="https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/schools/texas-schools-reopening-tea-guidelines-update/269-df278dec-a2a8-408e-aed3-66a3c5f3a7b7">can stay online only for the first four weeks of school</a>,” KVUE reported. “After that, schools can continue to limit access to on-campus classes for an additional four weeks, if needed, with a board-approved waiver request to the TEA.”
“There is lots of uncertainty right now about who will be face-to-face in our schools and at what point students will be back in classrooms with teachers. Austin ISD will follow health guidance from local, state and federal officials to make the best decisions to keep our students and families safe,” AISD stated.
Doug Stafford, a strategist for Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul, tweeted, &#8220;You can’t send your kids to school. But you can send your kids to this daycare that’s being held inside the school where they will help your kids do their virtual learning. What.&#8221;
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You can’t send your kids to school. 
But you can send your kids to this daycare that’s being held inside the school where they will help your kids do their virtual learning. 
What. <a href="https://t.co/YrajxkrzQc">https://t.co/YrajxkrzQc</a> <a href="https://t.co/QDYJnO0ymO">https://t.co/QDYJnO0ymO</a>
&mdash; Doug Stafford (@dougstafford) <a href="https://twitter.com/dougstafford/status/1287956647529283584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Austin, TX Kids Have Virtual Classes Until September 8. Meanwhile, YMCA Offers Daycare In School Building Where Kids Can Do Their Work.

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Prominent podcaster Joe Rogan said that he’s had enough of Los Angeles and is leaving for Texas.
&#8220;I&#8217;m outta here,&#8221; Rogan said during a Friday interview with CEO of Spartan and Death Race Joe De Sena.
Rogan told De Sena he is leaving L.A. for Texas &#8220;soon&#8221; because he wants to live somewhere that is &#8220;in the center of the country, somewhere it&#8217;s easier to travel to both places, and somewhere where you have a little bit more freedom.&#8221; Rogan also cited L.A.’s overcrowding, which he says proves problematic in the age of COVID-19.
&#8220;When you look at the traffic, when you look at the economic despair, when you look at the homelessness problem that&#8217;s accelerated radically over the last six, seven, ten years, I think there&#8217;s too many people here,&#8221; said Rogan. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s not tenable. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s manageable. I think every mayor does a sh*t job of doing it, because I don&#8217;t think anybody could do a great job of it. I think there&#8217;s certain things you&#8217;re gonna have to deal with when you have a population of whatever the f**k L.A. is, it&#8217;s like 20 million plus people.&#8221;
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Rogan wouldn&#8217;t give details regarding his planned move to the Lone Star State but mentioned his producer Jamie was &#8220;all excited&#8221; to be doing the show from there soon.
Rogan <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OUz6I5UORg&amp;feature=emb_logo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">floated the idea</a> of relocating to Texas in May amid the lockdown order that Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom instituted in March. Though Newsom first rolled back his restrictive measures, he recently re-instated his lockdown in 30 of the state&#8217;s 58 counties, which encompasses about 80% of the state&#8217;s population.
&#8220;If California continues to be this restrictive, I don&#8217;t know if this is a good place to live,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;I might jet. I&#8217;m not kidding. I&#8217;m not kidding, this is silly. I don&#8217;t need to be here.&#8221;
&#8220;Texas is buck wild, bro,&#8221; he also said. &#8220;You can bring a gun.&#8221;
In a Wednesday interview with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro on &#8220;The Joe Rogan Podcast,&#8221; the two discussed Shapiro&#8217;s new book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-America-Three-Easy-Steps/dp/006300187X" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps</a>,” as well as the precipitous decline of L.A.
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ben-shapiro-joe-rogan-debate-lefts-new-definition-of-racism-unpopular-but-effective-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire</a>, both Shapiro and Rogan commiserated that &#8220;progressive policies&#8221; had led to an exponential increase of homelessness, drug abuse, and general lawlessness in California&#8217;s largest city.
Responding to Rogan&#8217;s assertion that L.A.’s collapse was gradual and then all-at-once, Shapiro said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve lived in L.A. my whole life. And the move from L.A. being a pretty safe, fairly nice city, suburban in orientation, to just overrun with horror shows is really — it was a lot faster than I thought it would be. But you&#8217;re right, it was a gradual decline, and then it&#8217;s just off a cliff.&#8221;
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Prominent podcaster Joe Rogan said that he’s had enough of Los Angeles and is leaving for Texas. &quot;I&#039;m outta here,&quot; Rogan said during a Friday interview

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Speaking on <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/beto-o-rourke-texas-gop-is-a-death-cult-that-wants-you-to-do-the-dying-88098373720">MSNBC</a> on Tuesday, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), never one to miss a chance for hyperbolic vitriol, snapped that the Texas GOP was a “death cult” that seemingly wants African Americans and Latinos to die.
Host Ali Velshi stated, &#8220;You have a growing and serious problem in Texas. Your governor’s moved a little bit on some issues having to do with the coronavirus, but this is a strange one, where counties want the ability to enforce stay-at-home orders, and the state government has taken that away from them.&#8221;
O’Rourke stated:
<blockquote>That’s right. You know, the United States has been hit hard by COVID. Texas, arguably, harder than almost any other state right now, perhaps with the exception of Florida and Arizona, and then within Texas, the Rio Grande Valley, and particularly Hidalgo County, is just getting the stuffing knocked out of it. They’re running out of beds and space in their hospitals and clinics. They’re running out of nurses and doctors to take care of the patients. It’s so bad that some ambulances are waiting up to ten hours in order to discharge the patients that they picked up because there is no bed there to receive them. There’s no longer space in the morgues, in the funeral homes, so they’re stacking the bodies in refrigerated trucks right there.</blockquote>
O’Rourke then turned to Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott:
<blockquote>And as you pointed out, our Governor, Greg Abbott, inexplicably, will not only not issue a stay-at-home order for the state of Texas, he will not allow the county judge there, Richard Cortez, to issue one for Hidalgo County to save the lives of the people that he was sworn to serve and to represent. And I want to make sure this is not lost on your viewers, that county is 95% Mexican American.
We know that Latinos and African Americans are disproportionately bearing the burden of COVID transmission that is out of control in the state of Texas. This governor, our governor, Greg Abbott, is choosing to allow people to die when he could choose to allow county judges to save their lives.</blockquote>
Velshi claimed he had spoken to “endless mayors and judges and other county officials&#8221; who said they were frustrated with Abbott and wanted to “fix this,” then asked, “Why is Greg Abbott not allowing this?”
O&#8217;Rourke then resorted to the kind of demagoguing for which he is famous, hilariously claiming that what Texas really needs is New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose policy vis-a-vis the coronavirus and nursing homes has often been credited for the vast swaths of death in his state.
O&#8217;Rourke concluded his invective with the &#8220;death cult&#8221; charge:
<blockquote>This is one of the most craven, callous failures of leadership that I’ve ever witnessed in my life. We don’t have a Governor Cuomo here, which we desperately need. Someone who’s going to be guided by the facts and the science and the truth, and whose sole mission is going to be saving the lives of those that he is elected to serve. Instead, we have a governor who perhaps is looking at the 2022 Republican primary for the office that he now holds, trying to fend off our lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, who on Fox News said there are more important things than living. In other words, let’s get on with the dying, knowing full well that it will be those front-line workers making $7.25 an hour, which is the minimum wage in Texas; it’ll be African Americans, it’ll be Latinos and Mexican Americans who will be doing the dying right here in Texas. This is a death cult, the Texas GOP, only they want you to do the dying, and that’s exactly what is happening in Texas right now.</blockquote>
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The Texas Department of State Health Services has seen to it that some 3,600 &#8220;probable&#8221; coronavirus cases have been removed from the state&#8217;s total positive COVID case count.
Before Thursday, the San Antonio Health Department was counting positive antigen tests in their total reported counts of positive COVID cases. The antigen tests are considered &#8220;probable,&#8221; unlike the more sensitive molecular PCR tests.
&#8220;Antigen tests quickly identify people who are currently infected with the coronavirus by detecting proteins from the virus in nose and throat secretions,&#8221; says the San Antonio <a href="https://www.sanantonio.gov/gpa/News/ArtMID/24373/ArticleID/19185/San-Antonio-Metro-Health-separates-“confirmed”-COVID-19-cases-from-“probable”-cases-at-the-request-of-the-state">Department of Government and Public Affairs</a> website. &#8220;This is the same technology used in your doctor&#8217;s office for rapid strep testing. By contrast, a PCR test, looks for genetic material.&#8221;
Since San Antonio is only one of three cities in the state to count and collect antigen tests, Texas&#8217; health department asked for the cases to be separated out from PCR tests so the state can have cleaner comparisons by city and county.
The initial news of the drastic downgrade in total positive cases sparked theories of general over-counting of COVID tests.
&#8220;The State of Texas today had to remove 3,484 cases from its Covid-19 positive case count, because the San Antonio Health Department was reporting &#8216;probable&#8217; cases for people never actually tested, as &#8216;confirmed&#8217; positive cases.- TDHS (Texas Department of State Health Services),&#8221; reported Fox 4 anchor Steve Eagar.
&#8220;What other departments make this same mistake?&#8221; he asked.
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The State of Texas today had to remove 3,484 cases from its Covid-19 positive case count, because the San Antonio Health Department was reporting “probable” cases for people never actually tested, as “confirmed” positive cases.- TDHS What other departments make this same mistake? <a href="https://t.co/wYhGWhHl5w">pic.twitter.com/wYhGWhHl5w</a>
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San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg responded in a thread about the antigen test removal, emphasizing that the city does not include &#8220;probable&#8221; cases of suspected COVID carriers, only those who test positive from the antigen test.
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&#8220;We do not report repeat positive tests as new cases,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We do not report spouses/household members of positive cases without a positive test. We do not report patients with COVID-like symptoms as positive cases without a positive test.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re 1 of 3 cities in Texas that counts and collects antigen tests based on their accuracy and FDA authorization. It allows us to see the full picture,&#8221; Nirenberg explained. &#8220;The State wants an apples-to-apples comparison with all cities in their reports, so they&#8217;re removing antigen counts.&#8221;
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We&#39;re 1 of 3 cities in Texas that counts and collects antigen tests based on their accuracy and FDA authorization. It allows us to see the full picture.
The State wants an apples-to-apples comparison with all cities in their reports, so they&#39;re removing antigen counts.
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&mdash; Mayor Ron | Wear a mask! 😷 (@Ron_Nirenberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ron_Nirenberg/status/1283894771665317895?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Thursday, the San Antonio government website issued a clarification on the change.
&#8220;At the request of the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), Metro Health is now separating COVID cases that were confirmed by a positive molecular test (PCR) from those that were detected by a positive antigen test combined with COVID-19 symptoms, otherwise known as &#8216;probable cases,'&#8221; the city&#8217;s <a href="https://www.sanantonio.gov/gpa/News/ArtMID/24373/ArticleID/19185/San-Antonio-Metro-Health-separates-“confirmed”-COVID-19-cases-from-“probable”-cases-at-the-request-of-the-state">website</a> says.
&#8220;<a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-first-antigen-test-help-rapid-detection-virus-causes">Antigen tests were approved by the FDA</a> for emergency use on May 8 and July 2, 2020, and they are considered very accurate in detecting the presence of COVID-19 in people with symptoms,&#8221; the city said. &#8220;The CDC includes positive antigen test results in its <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html">national count of COVID-19 cases</a>, as does Metro Health in Bexar County counts. However, the State of Texas does not include antigen test results in its COVID-19 dashboard counts, despite collecting this data from local health departments and reporting it to the federal government.&#8221;
Dr. Colleen Bridger said &#8220;probable cases&#8221; in this case &#8220;do not mean ‘maybe’ cases of COVID-19.&#8221;
“Antigen tests are FDA approved, and positive tests are highly accurate. San Antonio is one of only three Texas cities collecting and reporting this data per the CDC guidelines, but the State of Texas wants apples-to-apples comparisons between Texas cities,&#8221; she added.
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Texas Health Department Removes Thousands Of ‘Probable’ COVID Cases From Total Positive Count

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The Texas Department of State Health Services has seen to it that some 3,600 &quot;probable&quot; coronavirus cases have been removed from the state&#039;s total

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Florida and Texas, the two states leading the current surge of coronavirus infections, are also seeing shocking increases in COVID-19 infections in nursing homes, similar to the increases seen in states affected by the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, like Michigan, New Jersey, and New York.
<a href="https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/07/15/florida-nursing-homes-see-infections-surge-as-workers-spread-virus-1301255">Politico reports</a> that Florida has seen a 74% increase in &#8220;coronavirus cases in the past month despite efforts by Gov. Ron DeSantis to isolate the elderly sick and avoid the kind of catastrophe that hit New York earlier in the pandemic,&#8221; and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-rapidly-spreading-texas-nursing-homes-state-figures-show-n1233909">NBC News notes</a> that Texas, where the virus has largely affected people under 35, is seeing its own uptick in nursing home cases.
&#8220;Across Texas, nearly 1,000 new infections of nursing home residents were reported in the week ending last Friday, July 10, NBC News found in an analysis of data from the Texas health department,&#8221; NBC News reported Thursday. &#8220;That’s the highest weekly increase since mid-May when the state began publishing the data, and it reflects record increases last week in the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and El Paso regions.&#8221;
&#8220;Deaths from the virus are also mounting: 1,173 nursing home residents have died in Texas so far, according to state data — including 224 deaths since July 1,&#8221; the outlet adds.
Those numbers are still far below those posted by New York, where more than 6,000 nursing home residents died after Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered nursing homes and other adult care facilities to take in recovering coronavirus patients, often without regard for whether those patients remained contagious, and while threatening those facilities that did not take in recovering COVID-19 patients with state action.
In recent weeks, Cuomo has tried to deflect blame for the deaths away from the state policy, suggesting that responsibility for the spike in deaths lies with everyone from President Donald Trump to nursing home workers who provided patient care while sick with the virus themselves. A report from the New York State Department of Health tried to back up Cuomo&#8217;s claims but experts largely consider that report flawed, according to <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-07-14/blame-game-cuomo-takes-heat-over-ny-nursing-home-study">U.S. News and World Report</a>.
Florida and Texas, unlike New York, say they&#8217;re taking measures to keep the virus out of nursing homes, but that facilities&#8217; elderly population is among the groups most vulnerable to the deadly virus, and workers can, in fact, bring in the virus from outside.
“We’ve done a lot to guard that door, to keep that virus from getting into our facilities,” a Florida official told Politico. “Our staff are human beings who have lives outside of those facilities.”
Patty Ducayet, Texas’ &#8220;long-term care ombudsman,&#8221; told NBC News that the state is trying to learn from where other states, like New York, went wrong.
“We had an opportunity to avoid what we’re experiencing right now,” she said. “We got this chance to see what other states did, what awful things they were experiencing, so we might be ahead of the crisis. Now I’m bracing for more deaths to come and more cases.”
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A Washington Post editor said Monday that the Texas Rangers team name &#8220;must go.&#8221;
On the same day that the National Football League&#8217;s Washington Redskins announced it would do away with its 93-year-old team name, Global Opinions editor Karen Attiah said that the Major League Baseball team must deal with &#8220;the violent and racist implications of its name.&#8221;
&#8220;To know the full history of the Texas Rangers is to understand that the team’s name is not so far off from being called the Texas Klansmen,&#8221; Attiah wrote in an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/13/texas-rangers-team-name-must-go/">op-ed</a> for the liberal newspaper.
Attiah, who grew up in Dallas, reminisced about going to Rangers games with her father as a child, but said at the time she didn&#8217;t know the Rangers &#8220;were a cruel, racist force when it came to the nonwhites who inhabited the beautiful and untamed Texas territory.&#8221;
The Texas Rangers were unofficially created by Stephen F. Austin in 1823 as a statewide investigative law enforcement agency, headquartered in the capital of Austin. The Rangers stopped the assassination of President William Howard Taft and pursued such outlaws as Bonnie and Clyde. More than 120 have died in the line of duty.
Attiah, who said she is part of a Ghanaian immigrant family and calls herself a &#8220;black Texan,&#8221; said &#8220;the first job of the Rangers &#8230; was to clear the land of Indian for white settlers.&#8221;
<blockquote>That was just the start. The Rangers oppressed black people, helping capture runaway slaves trying to escape to Mexico; in the aftermath of the Civil War, they killed free blacks with impunity. “The negroes here need killing,” a Ranger wrote in a local newspaper in 1877, after Rangers fired on a party of black former Buffalo soldiers, killing four of them and a 4-year-old girl. A jury would later find that the black soldiers “came to their death while resisting officers in the discharge of their duty,” an unsettling echo of the justification for modern-day police killings.</blockquote>
The editor cited a new book, “Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers,” in which author Doug J. Swanson wrote, “In service to Anglo civilization’s slow march, they functioned as executioners. Their job was to seize and hold Texas for the white man.”
The Post writer isn&#8217;t the first to call for the Texas Rangers to change their name. After a Chicago Tribune piece last month, the team made a statement.
“While we may have originally taken our name from the law enforcement agency, since 1971 the Texas Rangers Baseball Club has forged its own, independent identity,” said the team statement. “The Texas Rangers Baseball Club stands for equality. We condemn racism, bigotry, and discrimination in all forms.
“To help bring about meaningful change, we are committed to listening to and supporting our communities of color. &#8230; We go forward committed to do even more, with a renewed promise that the Texas Rangers name will represent solutions and hope for a better future for our communities,&#8221; said the team.
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Washington Post Editor Says Texas Rangers’ ‘Violent And Racist’ Name ‘Must Go’

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A Washington Post editor said Monday that the Texas Rangers team name &quot;must go.&quot; On the same day that the National Football League&#039;s Washington Redskins

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Practitioners of witchcraft have joined the cause of liberal student groups at the University of North Texas (UNT) in an attempt to remove a conservative student organization from the school&#8217;s campus.
As first reported by <a href="https://texasscorecard.com/metroplex/democrats-declare-war-on-conservatives-at-university-of-north-texas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Texas Scorecard</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/UntDemocrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UNT College Democrats</a> joined LGBT campus group <a href="https://twitter.com/untglad" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UNT GLAD</a> and &#8220;Chicanx/Latinx&#8221; student group <a href="https://twitter.com/vivamueve" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MUEVE</a> to write a Change.org <a href="https://www.change.org/p/removal-of-the-young-conservatives-of-texas-from-unt-for-hateful-actions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">petition</a> demanding the removal of the UNT chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT).
The petition, addressed to University President Neal Smatresk and signed by more than 2,500 people as of Monday afternoon, alleges that YCT &#8220;has shown a pattern of racism, transphobia, and homophobia throughout the 2019 through 2020 school year.&#8221; It goes on to cite examples of what they deem objectionable behavior, such as when YCT tweeted that &#8220;pronouns in your [T]witter bio isn’t a personality trait.&#8221;
Also listed is the time YCT encouraged students to celebrate National Coming Out Day by &#8220;coming out&#8221; as conservatives, as well as when they made a point about affirmative action by holding a bake sale that charged different prices based on the customer&#8217;s ethnicity. Claiming &#8220;these actions have hurt numerous organizations, minority groups, and the well being of harassed students,&#8221; the petition maintains that &#8220;YCT needs to be held accountable for said transgressions.&#8221;
Various iterations of YCT have existed since the organization was first founded in 1980. Its chapters across Texas &#8220;participate in a variety of activities, including campaigning, political activism, informing the general public on a variety of political topics, and much more,&#8221; <a href="https://texasscorecard.com/commentary/commentary-conservatism-under-fire-on-campus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrote</a> Kelly Neidert, who is the chairman of the chapter at UNT, which was reinstated in Fall 2019 after being dissolved in 2005.
Screenshots provided to The Daily Wire of tweets and direct messages sent to YCT and Neidert show that the campaign against the organization took on a more ominous tone when alleged witches began claiming to invoke otherworldly forces against them. &#8220;It started with, like, one,&#8221; Neidert told The Daily Wire. &#8220;But now there&#8217;s like 30 of them threatening me.&#8221;
In one since-deleted tweet, &#8220;Anna Katz, a recent graduate of UNT, tweeted a picture of a drawing of a goat captioned ‘the devil’ and a cauldron. Katz, who later removed the Tweet, could not be reached for comment,&#8221; as reported by <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/student-invokes-satan-to-drive-conservative-group-from-campus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Washington Free Beacon</a>. Katz informed Neidert that she was performing a ritual with &#8220;intentions of misfortune&#8221; against her, but qualified her hex by explaining that it was not intended to induce &#8220;physical harm.&#8221;
Other tweets sent to YCT depict images of menacing Tarot cards, one of which shows an image of death, which a user interpreted as predicting imminent downfall. Other messages expressed overtly satanic sentiments.
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&#8220;I prefer the attacks that are just like name calling and that sort of thing,&#8221; Neidert said. &#8220;The whole witch stuff, it hasn&#8217;t really freaked me out, but it&#8217;s been concerning. I think that it&#8217;s alarming that there are this many young adults who find that acceptable.&#8221; As a Christian, Neidert views the witchcraft being used against her and her organization as &#8220;pure evil, especially when they make references to Satan and they think it&#8217;s funny.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not funny, and I&#8217;m definitely more concerned for them than I am for myself, if they think that&#8217;s okay,&#8221; she added.
A spokesman for UNT College Democrats told <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/student-invokes-satan-to-drive-conservative-group-from-campus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Washington Free Beacon</a> they had no comment on the hexing but stood behind their petition, which they said was not in response to YCT&#8217;s politics. &#8220;This is not a choice made by political decision, we do not care that they are conservatives, we would do this if any group on campus was spreading the rhetoric YCT spreads,&#8221; they said.
A spokesman for UNT GLAD echoed the College Democrats and said they would begin an emailing campaign if the administration fails to respond to the petition&#8217;s demands. The University of North Texas did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment.
Since the election of President Donald Trump, occultists have grown increasingly brazen in ceremonially cursing their political opponents. Shortly after Trump&#8217;s inauguration, self-proclaimed &#8220;magical thinker&#8221; Michael M. Hughes published a &#8220;mass spell to bind Donald Trump and all those who abet him,&#8221; which went &#8220;internationally viral&#8221; to become &#8220;the largest magical working in history,&#8221; according to his <a href="https://www.michaelmhughes.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">website</a>.
Since then, many have performed Hughes&#8217; spell repeatedly during <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39090334" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">waning crescent moons</a> with the intention of removing Trump from office. He later published &#8220;Magic for the Resistance: Rituals and Spells for Change,&#8221; which offers &#8220;ideas for altars, meditations, community organizing, self-care, and [&#8230;] a toolkit for magical people or first-time spellcasters who want to manifest equality and peace.&#8221;
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It&#39;s finally here! MAGIC FOR THE RESISTANCE: RITUALS AND SPELLS FOR CHANGE is on store shelves and shipping from online retailers. Ask for it at your local bookseller or order online: <a href="https://t.co/JjnB5ENBig">https://t.co/JjnB5ENBig</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BindTrump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BindTrump</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MagicResistance?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MagicResistance</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WitchHunt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WitchHunt</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/M4TR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#M4TR</a> <a href="https://t.co/cU503saxYv">pic.twitter.com/cU503saxYv</a>
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Shortly after contentious confirmation hearings for Justice Brett Kavanaugh, witches made headlines when they repeatedly gathered to hex him at Catland, an occult bookstore in Brooklyn. In a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/179836286297165/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">statement on Facebook</a> advertising the ritual to the public, Catland wrote, &#8220;We are embracing witchcraft’s true roots as the magik [sic] of the poor, the downtrodden and disenfranchised and it’s [sic] history as often the only weapon, the only means of exacting justice available to those of us who have been wronged by men just like him.&#8221;
Father Gary Thomas, the Catholic exorcist for the Diocese of San Jose, held a special Mass in response to hex, telling <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/catholic-exorcist-holding-special-mass-counter-witches-hex-kavanaugh-1176666" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Newsweek</a>, &#8220;The decision to do this against a Supreme Court justice is a heinous act and says a lot about the character of these people that should not be underestimated or dismissed. These are real evil people.&#8221;
During the protests that erupted last month in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death, videos offering instruction for performing rituals of protection for protesters went viral on the TikTok app under the hashtag &#8220;#BLMWitches,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/11/black-lives-matter-surprise-supporters-mitt-romney-gushers-elmo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Guardian</a>. One of the witches told <a href="https://www.bustle.com/wellness/witches-on-tiktok-support-black-lives-matter-with-spells-hexes" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bustle</a>, &#8220;Hexes and curses can be used to slow police down — witchcraft is all about manipulating the supernatural to your will.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-satanic-temple-threatens-to-sue-mississippi-if-god-mentioned-on-state-flag/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Satanic Temple Threatens To Sue Mississippi If God Mentioned On State Flag</a>
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‘Pure Evil’: Conservative Student Organization In Texas Under Attack From Witches And Liberal Student Groups

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Speaking on &#8220;Fox Report Weekend,&#8221; Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at The Hoover Institution and <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/scott-atlas">professor and Chief of Neuroradiology</a> at Stanford University Medical Center from 1998 until 2012, surmised that the spike in coronavirus cases around the southwestern United States could be attributed to two factors: crowds of protesters and people traveling back and forth across the U.S. Mexico border:
Atlas propounded:
<blockquote>The unwritten sort of story here is also why are all these cases exploding, particularly in the border counties? When you look in the southern counties of California, Arizona and the bordering counties of Texas — with the Mexico border — these are where most of these cases are really exploding. And then you look at the Mexico map and in Mexico, that&#8217;s where their cases are. Their cases are in the northern border zone states. And it turns out the timeline here correlates much more to the Mexico timeline of increasing cases than anything else.</blockquote>
He continued, “When you really look closely at these so-called re-opening policies, whether it&#8217;s in Georgia or Florida or Texas, you know, we didn&#8217;t really see a big correlation of cases and hospitalizations from that. That&#8217;s really not true. That&#8217;s sort of some sloppy thinking, I think, again. We really have to look closely at why these things are happening.”
Atlas pointed to the enormous surge in coronavirus cases in California, where the lockdown that was implemented was more severe than many states and yet Los Angeles County <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-09/los-angeles-critical-juncture-coronavirus-surge-continues-to-worsen">experienced a massive surge.</a> Atlas noted, “By the way, California didn&#8217;t really reopen. Yet they have cases coming up. Why is that? I mean, that&#8217;s because these cases don&#8217;t really correlate to that. They correlate mainly to two things — the big thousands and thousands of people with protesting, sharing megaphones, screaming. That&#8217;s a setup to spread cases. And also when you look at the analyses of the border counties, there&#8217;s a tremendous amount of cases coming over the border and exchanging with families in the northern Mexico states.”
<a href="https://www.healthline.com/health-news/black-lives-matter-protests-didnt-contribute-to-covid19-surge">Healthline</a> had a differing perspective on whether the protests caused spikes in the coronavirus: &#8220;A <a class="content-link css-5r4717" href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nber.org%2Fpapers%2Fw27408&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cdmills%40healthline.com%7C66a26a806ec9430f6f9108d8235bba5c%7C4289d6102cfd46218c9644a1518ddb0a%7C0%7C0%7C637298224183356005&amp;sdata=Tgg71dIKxXG74GSdt2EaVeg6b7MaoXQVc1eQn%2BLqB%2Fk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">paper</a> looking at virus data from protests between May 26 and June 20, found &#8216;no evidence that urban protests reignited COVID-19 case growth during the more than three weeks following protest onset.&#8217; &#8216;We conclude that predictions of broad negative public health consequences of Black Lives Matter protests were far too narrowly conceived,&#8217; the authors of the National Bureau of Economic Research paper wrote.&#8221;
Atlas pointed out that the numbers coming in from southern states could be deceptive, asserting, “If you look more than just superficially at the number, when you look at Texas, and in their overcrowded situation, where they really have about 85-90% hospitals occupied, only 10-20% of the patients are COVID patients. When you look at Arizona, where they do have isolated hospitals that are having problems and when you look at the numbers, it’s really about 60% of the COVID-hospitalized patients don’t have symptoms from COVID- they’re COVID positive. That’s from their own website. When you look at Florida, we know a significant percentage also have COVID-positive testing, but not COVID.”
His advice? “So the real concern that I see right now is that there are hospitals getting crowded in their ICUs and this is clearly a concern. The crowding is from the reinstatement of regular medical care, which is actually very important. We have locked that down before and that policy kills people. So we don&#8217;t want to go back to that. The solution to this is really protect the high risk in a more diligent way than we are, the very highest-risk group. We have been very, very clear about that to people. The second part is increase the hospital capacity.&#8221;
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Hoover Institution Doctor: Spike In Virus In Southwest From Protests, Families Crossing U.S.-Mexico Border

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In late June, Texas A&amp;M University student Isaih Martin made headlines after he said he found racist notes on the windshield of his car.
Martin posted a picture of the notes to his Twitter page, which <a href="https://www.kbtx.com/2020/06/26/texas-am-student-says-he-found-racist-notes-on-his-car/">according to KBTX</a> was shared more than 10,000 times. The notes said “All lives matter,” “You don’t belong here,” and one containing the n-word, Martin claimed.
“All three signs were different signs, and one said ‘All lives matter’ and the other said ‘You don’t belong here’, and the other was very explicit, it said the n-word with a hard ‘r&#8217;,” Martin told KBTX. “For them to tell me I don’t belong here, when I have earned my spot like everybody else here, and am working to get a degree like everyone else is, that was just kind of hurtful because if anything I deserve to be here just as much as anybody else.”
Texas A&amp;M responded on Twitter by saying, “Isaih, we are very sorry that this happened to you. Please report any incidents of hate you witness online or in person at <a href="https://t.co/KsF3Rfzgjv?amp=1">http://stophate.tamu.edu</a> so it can be reviewed.”
Martin told KBTX that he has seen things like this happen across the country but never thought it would happen to him.
“Racism is here in college station and that problem needs to be addressed and brought up and needs to be fixed,” he said.
A&amp;M President Michael K. Young offered $1,200 to anyone providing information leading to an arrest.
“Acts of racism are irreconcilable with the values we uphold here at Texas A&amp;M University. Those who promote hate, discrimination and disrespect are not welcomed at this institution. We are tired of bigoted members of our community marring the experiences of students of color,” Young said in <a href="https://president.tamu.edu/messages/those-who-promote-hate-not-welcome-at-texas-am.html?utm_source=TAMUSocial&amp;utm_campaign=TAMU_Social&amp;utm_content=those-who-promote-hate-not-welcome-at-texas-am">a statement</a>. “Let me be clear: Incidents like the one yesterday have no place at Texas A&amp;M. Anyone who believes that hate is acceptable is not wanted at Texas A&amp;M.”
Martin also commented that he never would have gone to A&amp;M if he thought he might be the victim of such an experience.
“To be an Aggie is to be a person of welcoming and accepting nature, and when I first came here on my first college tour here, everyone was so nice everyone was so welcoming,” Martin said. “I never would have thought that I would have experienced this here, going into my senior year. I have almost spent four years in college station and when I first got here, if I knew that, I would have never come to A&amp;M.”
Late last week, Texas A&amp;M police closed the investigation. Just as in nearly every other instance of an alleged hate crime like this, police determined that the accuser was responsible for the notes.
“Nobody has been arrested and we determined there was no offense committed,” Lt. Bobby Richardson, told KBTX, though he wouldn’t elaborate. “Our investigation is closed.”
Two days later, KBTX obtained the police report regarding the incident and discovered police believe Martin left the notes himself. Police wrote that Martin parked his car at his apartment complex shortly after 11:00 a.m. and walked away. Martin said he returned to his car 90 minutes later to discover the notes.
Police said there were no cameras to clearly capture what happened, but nearby surveillance footage showed only a few people walking near Martin’s car during that time frame, none of whom were near the car long enough to post the notes.
Martin, however, returned to his car during that timeframe, police explained in their report:
<blockquote>Martin immediately walks to the passenger side of his vehicle, but does not open any doors. Martin is seen toward the front of his vehicle. A brief white speck is seen from about mid-torso of Martin moving toward his vehicle. Another white speck is seen near his chest area. Martin is then seen stepping back and onto the sidewalk in front of his vehicle, most likely taking photos and videos. He then approaches his vehicle again on the passenger side and remains there for a few moments. He is then seen walking around the front of his vehicle. Martin then enters the driver`s door and drives away a few moments later. The total time spent at his vehicle is 1 minute, 15 seconds.</blockquote>
Police said that “based on video evidence, no other person had enough time to place the messages on Martin`s car other than himself.”
The other people who passed Martin’s vehicle, police say, “were not hidden for more than 5 seconds, and would have had to reach over the hood to place the notes.”
Martin told KBTX he would no longer cooperate with police and claimed there were “several things they did not include in this report,” adding he believed a man walking his dog in the video may have left the notes.
Martin will not face charges for filing a false police report because the notes contained no threat, therefore no crime was committed.
The officer who filed the report wrote that he “was told that this fell under the 1st Amendment free speech protections and that no crime had occurred.”
The university released a statement following the police report:
<blockquote>Racism of any kind has no place at Texas A&amp;M. I appreciate the efforts of university police who investigated with professionalism in pursuit of facts. We will continue to take an active stance to review claims of harassment, stalking and/or related retaliation that violates a person’s civil rights, wherever it may lead. We will continue to develop a safe and welcoming environment.</blockquote>
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HATE CRIME HOAX: Student Claims He Found Racist Notes On His Car. Police Say He Wrote Them.

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a new executive order on Thursday mandating that Texans must wear a face covering when they are out in public in counties that have 20 or more confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
The order <a href="https://open.texas.gov/uploads/files/organization/opentexas/EO-GA-29-use-of-face-coverings-during-COVID-19-IMAGE-07-02-2020.pdf">stated</a> that everyone in the state must wear a mask that covers their nose and mouth &#8220;when inside a commercial entity or other building or space open to the public, or when in an outdoor public space, wherever it is not feasible to maintain six feet of social distancing from another person not in the same household.&#8221;
Abbott&#8217;s decision comes as the state has started to see a spike in recent days, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/02/coronavirus-live-updates-us/">including</a> nearly 8,000 new cases on Thursday alone.
Abbott used graphs while speaking at a press conference, saying, &#8220;As you can tell in the last half of May, Texas averaged about 1500 positive cases a day. This past week, that number quadrupled to more than 6,000 positive cases a day.&#8221;
&#8220;Next is a graph showing the rise in the positivity rate, the positivity rate surged from 4.5% in late May to more than 14% today,&#8221; Abbott continued. &#8220;Last is a graph showing the rise in hospitalizations. Hospitalizations for COVID-19 averaged less than 1700 a day in the last part of May. This past week that number tripled to more than 5,700 hospitalizations a day.
Abbott conclude, &#8220;Importantly, these spikes are not limited to just the big cities. More than 91 counties have hit record high numbers in just the past three days all together. These numbers reveal a very stark reality. COVID-19 is not going away, in fact, it’s getting worse. Now more than ever action by everyone is needed until treatments are available for COVID-19.&#8221;
&#8220;Wearing a face covering in public is proven to be one of the most effective ways we have to slow the spread of COVID-19,&#8221; Abbott later said in a press statement. &#8220;We have the ability to keep businesses open and move our economy forward so that Texans can continue to earn a paycheck, but it requires each of us to do our part to protect one another—and that means wearing a face covering in public spaces. Likewise, large gatherings are a clear contributor to the rise in COVID-19 cases.&#8221;
&#8220;Restricting the size of groups gatherings will strengthen Texas’ ability to corral this virus and keep Texans safe,&#8221; Abbott continued. &#8220;We all have a responsibility to slow the spread of COVID-19 and keep our communities safe. If Texans commit to wearing face coverings in public spaces and follow the best health and safety practices, we can both slow the spread of COVID-19 and keep Texas open for business. I urge all Texans to wear a face covering in public, not just for their own health, but for the health of their families, friends, and for all our fellow Texans.&#8221;
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Wearing a face covering in public is proven to be one of the most effective ways to slow the spread of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> while continuing to keep Texas businesses open. 
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