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How Texas Turned a Grid Failure into a Public Bailout Texans continue to bear the costs of 2021 winter storm blackouts

While "natural gas sellers and pipeline companies made roughly $11 billion" during Winter Storm Uri in 2021, consumers were left to foot the bill "through non-bypassable bill charges for 20 to 30 years." #txlege

How Texas Turned a Grid Failure into a Public Bailout
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Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate | Houston Public Media Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.

Horrific injustice upon horrific injustice compounds in Texas. These young girls — some as young as 13 — deserve freedom, access to care, and control over their own bodies. Half of these CHILDREN are pregnant as a result of SA. Again, abortion bans are a weapon for authoritarian rule.

Literal LOL

The Trump administration is forcing child rape victims to give birth in captivity in Texas. I sound like an insane person but that is actually what this news story says

This is Molly Phillips erasure.

Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.

Pregnant children detained by ICE are being sent to a shelter that has inadequate medical care. The whole area has little medical care. All of these pregnancies are high risk because the girls are very young - some only 10 or 11.
Most became pregnant because they were raped.

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WaPo editorial board when TX imposes a legislative gerrymander: don't freak out guys! Not a threat to democracy!

When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship.

There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.

Or, and hear me out, don't upload photos and videos that could facilitate a statewide takeover of your local school district and arbitrary consequences for children.

Kudos to Julie Le for upholding her duty of candor to the tribunal.

I fear your never in front absolutism would not survive a visit to Phoenix or other parts of the desert southwest

I've criticized Heller and Bruen, but the only thing worse than an unfettered right to guns is an unfettered right to guns that's selectively extended or withheld by the state.

Kavanaugh broken window and assault.

Who should we be rooting for?

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Donald Trump Is Frightened Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.

“An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package.”

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There can be no mob veto on enforcing the law. That's why we're proud to introduce this new t-shirt for patriots who unapologetically. back ICE! Pitch in and claim yours now.>> 大火 THIS AMERICAN BACKS ICE GET YOUR SHIRT This patriotic t-shirt proudly declares your support for our brave men and women in ICE and Border Patrol who are increasingly under threat. Wear it loud and proud, because supporting law enforcement and secure borders isn't just a statement... it's American. Grab yours today. and show support to those who protect our communities! Thank you for not backing down. -Team Abbott

Honestly, weird day for Greg Abbott’s campaign to drop this merch.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar indicted on federal fraud charges The five-term sheriff and brother of Congressman Henry Cuellar denied all wrongdoing through his lawyer.

Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar, brother of Rep. Henry Cuellar, indicted on federal fraud charges www.texastribune.org/2026/01/22/w...

Predictably the Kavanaugh stops have turned into Kavanaugh abductions

The middle finger 'i' is inspired

Predictably the Kavanaugh stops have turned into Kavanaugh abductions

Just a reminder that Trump is selling Venezuelan oil and depositing the proceeds into a bank account in Qatar that is NOT under any control by the US government or Congress.

He's just stealing it. It really is that simple.

Imagined victimhood is a foundational tenet of fascism. Persecution fantasies permeate conservative politics. Their great oppressors include racial diversity, science, drag brunch, children's literature, public education, N-95 masks, electric cars, medicine, the rule of law, empathy, and Ms. Rachel.

Add another one to the great big board of "Urban Planning Debates: Academic Research vs. Some Guy"

Or mango lassi

A constitutional amendment was necessary to get around the various spending caps.

Jan Crawford's attack on SCOTUS "corruption" narrative was its own substance-free narrative On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.

NEW: Jan Crawford's attack on SCOTUS "corruption" narrative was its own substance-free narrative.

On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Do you think this is a problem endemic to civil law? or perhaps just exacerbated by a relatively recent dedication to textualism and formalism in the U.S. legal system? I think other modes of jurisprudence and prior judicial opinions in the U.S. allowed the leeway that you ascribe to common law.