Tag Archives: Texas

What’s been going on in Texas?

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, threatened to impose a 100 percent tariff on New Yorkers moving to Texas after the mayoral elections. And… [T]he squirrel Chunkosaurus Rex, of Dinosaur Valley State Park, won Texas’s inaugural … Continue reading →

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Texas may not be lost to us forever

Posted on December 28, 2024 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: In Texas, a school district removed the Bible from classrooms under a new law banning sexually explicit or vulgar books.

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Jan 6 hearing: Some numbers offer news, and it isn’t bad news

Posted on June 11, 2022 by Naomi

To my dear pessimistic friends, I’ve heard you say, “Yeah but.” You still whip yourselves with the dim prospect of Trump getting away with everything, and cling doggedly to your depressive conviction that nobody’s convictions were changed by the first … Continue reading →

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