After three decades in statewide office, Greg Abbott suddenly has plans to “keep Texas affordable.” What’s he been doing for the past 30 years?
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At the national level, instead of mass deportations, the U.S. could have funded: 🧑🏫 more than 925,000 school teachers or 🏡 9.7 million housing units or 🧑🍼 paid parental leave for 6.2 million parents or 🧑🚒 over 1 million firefighters Try the calculator →
The Cost of Deportations Calculator
The Trump administration is taking billions of _your_ taxpayer dollars to pay for mass deportations. The Cost of Deportations Calculator shows what could this money be used for instead.
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@jamestalarico.bsky.social for Texas US Senate gets it - under his opponent Ken Paxton and Gov. Abbott, data centers are running amok in TX. Talarico has a sensible plan to regulate data centers. Texas, he is the right choice for your next senator, not the corrupt, 15 home owning Paxton.
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Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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Reuters@reuters.com · 3h agoThe Trump administration plans to impose a 15% tariff on polysilicon derivative products, sources told Reuters, and also plans to unveil results of its Section 232 investigation into foreign imports of polysilicon as soon as Thursday reut.rs/4pYh9uB
66-year-old Dale Schultz was killed in the In-N-Out shooting in Idaho. His wife Reinette was also severely injured in the shooting. The gunman used an AK-47. Urge your Members of Congress to cosponsor the bill to #BanAssaultWeapons. 📞 (202) 224-3121 📝 secure.everyaction.com/tQceIFM-V0Ot...
Federal lawsuit alleges kids are being repatriated despite many of them qualifying to remain in the US legally
Trump administration targets children amid push to ‘deport at all costs’
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ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.
NEW in TX: Galveston County is quietly planning to change its district maps between the primary & November election. It's a dangerous test that, if not stopped, could be repeated elsewhere in TX to undermine the will of voters, a new legal filing warns. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
A Texas county is quietly planning to swap voting maps between its primary and November election
If allowed to proceed, it would likely be the first time Texas voting maps are changed between the primary and general elections.
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Nearly 150 U.S. billionaires are immigrants. Here are the richest in Texas, according to Forbes www.houstonchronicle.com/business/art...
The richest immigrant billionaires in Texas, according to Forbes
The richest immigrants in Texas have made their mark in technology, chemicals, space and Houston’s famous food scene.
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In this new opinion piece, Daniel Dawer and Ruth Kravetz argue that, after the state takeover, Houston ISD systematically held back students and hurt their learning opportunities in order to inflate school ratings:
The ‘Houston Miracle’ Shell Game
How Houston ISD’s takeover regime inflated school accountability ratings by systematically holding back certain students
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Dustin Volz@dustinvolz.bsky.social · 7h agoNEW: Cyberattacks on U.S. water supply now being reported in 12+ states and 100+ municipalities, though some may be unrelated to wave of suspected Iranian attempts. The nationwide threat follows years of ignored warnings and neglect to water systems. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
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El-Sayed, an epidemiologist, backs Medicare for all and decries corporate money in politics. He beat Rep. Haley Stevens, whose supporters said she would have had a better chance in the fall. n.pr/4fTo83l
Progressive Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan's Democratic primary for Senate
El-Sayed, an epidemiologist, backs Medicare for all and decries corporate money in politics. He beat Rep. Haley Stevens, whose supporters said she would have had a better chance in the fall.
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The Trump administration has sent bulldozers to plow through Big Bend National Park for the construction of border barriers and roads.
If you live in Georgia, South Carolina or any of the other states deploying National Guard troops to DC, maybe tell your Governors that there's a far more productive way for these people to spend their time. And less costly to taxpayers and democracy.
Pentagon budgets $1.4 billion for National Guard in D.C.
It's the clearest accounting yet of what it'd take to keep thousands of troops on city streets.
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Exclusive: cases of Afghan man, Ukrainian man and Saudi woman show repeated nasogastric tube insertions and lack of legal representation
‘What they’re doing qualifies as torture’: new details of ICE force-feeding revealed
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Families are bracing for change as the Third Future charter network takes over more struggling Texas schools. The Waco school district is one of the latest to partner with the network as a last-ditch effort to stave off state intervention. bit.ly/4wHDfEk
Waco families brace as charter network takes over schools
The Waco school district is the latest to partner with Third Future charter network as a last-ditch effort to stave off state intervention.
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A retired US Army captain and Iraq War veteran is taking legal action after National Guard troops approached her outside her Washington, DC home, pushed her to the ground and detained her in an aggressive, caught-on-camera confrontation.
Purple Heart vet sues after National Guard troops detained her at her DC home
National Guard troops seized Anna King, slamming her to the ground and leaving her with injuries that required surgery, according to a federal tort claim
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