Progressives voice anger at Democratic leaders over close Texas runoff
Progressives are voicing anger at the Democratic establishment following the closely fought runoff between Jessica Cisneros and incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), leading to what could be deep divisions in the district ahead of the general election.
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Hello Ten Bears. I thank you for the link and I strongly suggest everyone go to the page at the link. It gives the information known so far about the shooting in an easy-to-read short manner. I am stunned at how much weaponry and ammo the guy had. I still don’t know why he crashed his truck, but that seems to have stopped a lot of carnage as he couldn’t carry all the weapons / ammo with him on foot. As he is dead, I wonder if we will ever know what set him off, but we do know that if he had not had those weapons there wouldn’t be 19 dead kids, two dead teachers, and a lot more injured fighting for their lives in the hospitals. Hugs
The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Gun Control
The basic rules of American democracy provide a veto over national policy to a minority of the states.
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A Florida class president couldn’t discuss being gay in high school graduation speech — so he talked about his curly hair
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/us/florida-curly-hair-graduation-speech/index.html
Texas School Shooting Victims Were Killed in One Classroom
Official says shooter barricaded himself in a fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas
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What We Know So Far About the Elementary School Shooting in Uvalde, Texas
Robb Elementary School serves about 500 students in second-grade through fourth grade and enrolls mostly Latino students. Thursday was scheduled to be the district’s last day of school before summer break
Read in TIME: https://apple.news/A_dRc1-2PTmO6YRjjAlV_Og
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Shooter on loose at Texas elementary school
Police have killed the 18-year-old gunman that killed as many as 14 children and wounded several others after he opened fire inside a Texas elementary school following a shootout.
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Multiple taken to hospitals after active-shooter incident at Texas elementary school
A suspect was in custody following the active shooter incident at Robb Elementary School, the Uvalde Police Department said.
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With latest move, costs for Gov. Abbott’s Texas border security blitz hit $4 billion
With the approval of Republican state leaders, Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday pulled nearly half a billion dollars from various state agency budgets to fund the swelling cost of deploying thousands of National Guard troops to the southern border.
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Editorial: The Big Lie — How Texas steals your voting rights while you are sleeping
There’s a certain irony, and brazen hypocrisy, in the fact that Republican senators were perfectly comfortable voting past midnight last month on a bill that would ensure Texas voters cannot do the same at the late-night polling places Republicans are trying to ban.
Read in Houston Chronicle: https://apple.news/AAp4qF5GzQ7aULNsGbZaAoQ
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