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How Latino voters in Texas made James Talarico the Democratic nominee for Senate Talarico dominated in Bexar and Webb counties and further south in the Rio Grande Valley. Combined, those four counties nearly offset all of Crockett's 70,000-vote margin across Dallas and...

Latinos are socially conservative people, and in Texas, have been voting Republican. Trump's racist targeting of them may turn them and Texas blue. Let's hope.

How Latino voters in Texas made James Talarico the Democratic nominee for Senate www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful In what appears to be a first in the country, legislation headed to the desk of Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) would prohibit public schools from teaching that the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capit...

History is what happened, but recorded history is someone's accurate or inaccurate/honest or dishonest account of what happened. It's foolish and futile to try to legislate the truth into the teaching of history. Well-intentioned but impossible.

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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

A good first step. But so many more - RFK Jr., Hegseth, Rubio ... - and of course, King Donald, himself, - all need to go.

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Trump Wants a Quick Victory in Iran. But the War May Be Costly.

Underestimating cost and consequences probably explains why he bankrupted those casinos.

Trump Wants a Quick Victory in Iran. But the War May Be Costly. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

Poll: Most Houston-area residents favor a path to citizenship over deportation Three out of four Houston-area residents now favor a pathway to citizenship over mass deportation for immigrants.

One of GWB's few worthwhile goals was immigration reform. He couldn't get it through his GOP Congress because his fellow racist Repubs wanted to preserve the issue.

Poll: Three in four Houston-area residents favor path to citizenship over deportation www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

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Attacking Iran is doing God's work?

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Iran Live Updates: Global Markets Tumble After U.S. Warns War Could Last Weeks

We helped Isael start an unnecessary war because Iran would blame us anyway. The war is spreading, and the price of oil is going up.

Iran Live Updates: Global Markets Tumble After U.S. Warns War Could Last Weeks www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Texas Democrats are surging in early voting. Will Republicans catch up? While Republicans are also experiencing robust early voting, Democrats in some of the state's largest counties had doubled the early turnout of 2022.

Let's hope. But I'll believe it whe I see Texas turn blue.

Texas Democrats are surging in early voting. Will Republicans catch up? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politic...

Opinion | One and done? Trump’s Iran operation is unfortunately the opposite. Khamenei may be dead — but war with Iran isn’t over.

Don't expect a quick easy end.

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Opinion | How Israel Lost Americans

Equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism worked for a while. but the horrors inflicted on the Palestinians cannot be ignored by everyone forever.

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Opinion | The Case for Striking Iran

Regime change, should it happen, would be great, but don't count on it.
The Case for Striking Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...

Live Updates: U.S. and Israel Strike Iran as Trump Calls for Overthrow of Government

I hope I'm wrong, but I don't expect this to end well. And it won't distract attention, for long, from the fact of Trump's place in the Epstein crime spree.

Live Updates: U.S. and Israel Strike Iran as Trump Calls for Overthrow of Government www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Opinion | What Hath Trump Wrought

If America survives the destructive disaster that is Trump and his MAGA Republican criminal mob, it will need to rebuild. Let's hope it does a better job this time.

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Trump Puts On a Show, Casting Democrats as the Villains

Skipped the mobster president's SOTU address and watched a movie on Netflix. From this account, it was a good for my blood pressure.

Trump Puts On a Show, Casting Democrats as the Villains www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Texas will run a lottery to pick who gets a school voucher. Here's what to know. Students will be sorted into several tiers based on disability, income and other factors.

The demand for vouchers may exceed the $billion appropriated to fund for-profit "schools." But it's enough to makes for-profit "schools" profitable.

More than 100K students have applied to Texas' voucher program. A lottery determines who gets a spot. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Opinion | What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy

The barbarians are burning the libraries. They don't value pursuit of the unknown because in their ignorance they think they already know all the answers.

What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Part of why I make it a practice to vote against Republicans.

Worms in the food, putrid water: Why are kids still being detained in Dilley? As reports emerge about the horrid conditions inside the Dilley family detention center, it's become clear that the facility is in violation of a legal settlement protecting the rights of...

Little kids in for-profit prisons. Crimes against humanity!

Worms in the porridge, despair in their eyes: Why are we still detaining kids at Dilley? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Texas could be sued for blocking Islamic schools from vouchers, Democrats say The callout comes two weeks after Hearst Newspapers reported that not a single Islamic private school has been allowed to participate in the program.

Of course, Gov. Abbott's school voucher program is a thinly vailed scam to divert Texas tax money to the support of religous schools. But only Christian, not Muslem.

Texas could be sued for blocking Islamic schools from vouchers, Democrats say www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Handing defeats to Trump, Supreme Court signals potential course change A pair of rulings on tariffs and National Guard deployment mark the justices’ first major decisions against the president. More may be coming.

Will Trump defy the Supreme Court? He probably would if he thought he could get away with it. But his political capital is depleting rapidly, so the Republic will probably survive.

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Opinion | What Trafficked Girls Think of Jeffrey Epstein and His Pals

So, Epstein's just the tip of the iceberg?

What Trafficked Girls Think of Jeffrey Epstein and His Pals www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

Opinion | Shocker! SCOTUS Schools POTUS

Did the mean old justices take little Donnies' favorite toy away?

Shocker! SCOTUS Schools POTUS www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

Live updates: In rare rebuke of Trump, Supreme Court strikes down tariffs The ruling deals a major blow to his signature economic policy and represents a stinging political setback.

The start of the fall of the house of Trump?

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Opinion | This Is How an Autocrat Goes to War

Is his hubris Trump's ultimate weakness?

This Is How an Autocrat Goes to War www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

White House economic adviser says Fed researchers should be punished One of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers assailed Fed research into the administration’s tariffs policies, saying the authors deserved to be punished.

The White House Economic Advisor wants to fire the truth teller for telling the obvious truth?

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Opinion | Rubio and Ocasio-Cortez just made cases to Europe. Only one is right. In Munich, the secretary of state and AOC were far apart on the meaning of “order.”

We humans are a single species. Science tells us we started in one place, spread out and populated the world. In early isolation we evolved into differing "races" and "cultures." Still, we are a family, that needs to lean to get along.

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UT to consolidate gender and ethnic studies programs into one new department Affected departments include those that focus on African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women and Gender Studies and American Studies.

So it goes. The Texas Constitution calls "the establishment of a university of the first class." The University keeps trying. The politicians keep interfearing.

After anti-liberal pressure, University of Texas to consolidate gender and ethnic studies www.houstonchronicle.com/news/educati...

Private prisons are cashing in on Trump's ICE crackdown. They're just getting started - Salon.com Over 90 percent of detained immigrants languish in prisons that aren't actually run by the government

A system that profit-motivates the caging of human beings has no place in civilized society.

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How Houston-area districts are hiring outside firms in the race for students With growing school competition and enrollment declines, districts like Spring Branch, Fort Bend, Houston are hiring companies like Caissa K12 to help win students, among other marketing strategies.

Another way for privateers to profit off Gov. Abbott's school voucher plan. And another reason to vote against Republicans.

Houston-area school districts ramp up marketing, hire firms to win back students www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Opinion | Whatever This Is, It Isn’t Anti-Zionism

I think John Lennon made more sense when he challenged us to Imagine there's no Heaven ...

Whatever This Is, It Isn’t Anti-Zionism www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...