Quick Answer: 1. Greg Abbott sucks; 2. Greg Abbott sucks; 3. Greg Abbott sucks; 4. Greg Abbott sucks. 4 things to know about the Houston power crisis https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4774109-houston-grid-crisis-power-outages/mlite/
Remember to thank Governor Abbott for your lack of power. Why Texas’ mass power outages continue to happen Repairing electricity infrastructure after storms usually costs customers. So could strengthening it before the next weather event. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/0...-power-outages-climate-change-infrastructure/
Whole lotta houses available to buy in Texas right now, nearly the triple the number as just a few years ago. Not a lotta takers though. Gee, wonder why? Texas' Housing Market Hits Troubling Milestone as Inventory Triples https://www.newsweek.com/texas-housing-market-hits-troubling-milestone-inventory-triples-1936936
Abbott and the Texas GOP don't understand the difference between Mexico and New Mexico. Which Mexico are you? New Mexico furious after Texas installs razor wire along its border Texas’ latest move is a ‘political stunt’ that will have ‘will have no meaningful impact on our nation’s broken immigration system,’ New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...cs/texas-new-mexico-border-wire-b2615743.html In an effort to prevent migrant crossings from the southern border, Texas installed a razor wire along its border with New Mexico, not Mexico — upsetting the southwestern state’s governor. Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced on September 14 that his state would be “TRIPLING our razor wire border barriers to deny illegal entry into our state and our country.” However, rather than installing the razor wire along the Rio Grande river bank that faces Mexico, KTSM on Tuesday captured footage of Texas Army National Guard troops installing it along a bank that faces New Mexico. This newly-laid barrier extends from West Paisano Drive to the Texas side of the Anapra, New Mexico, according to the outlet. New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, told The Independent in a statement that Republican Abbott’s latest move was a “political stunt” that will have “will have no meaningful impact on our nation’s broken immigration system.” The Texas governor “seems to be pushing to make Texas its own country without regard for his neighbors or the fact that Texas is already part of a great nation—the United States,” Lujan Grisham said. She continued: “If he doesn’t think that New Mexico is important to the overall well-being of Texas, then he must be forgetting about the Permian Basin and the oil industry that straddles our two states. I don’t see him laying concertina wire there.” The New Mexico governor then urged Congressional Republicans to “stop holding up the carefully negotiated, bipartisan agreement they are deliberately stalling in Washington at the expense of our entire nation.” A bipartisan border bill designed to help deal with immigration failed in May after Donald Trump pleaded with his Republican allies in Congress to oppose it. Trump frequently blasts the Biden-Harris administration’s border record, but he reportedly called his GOP loyalists to “kill” the legislation to prevent his Democratic 2024 rivals from getting a “victory” in a key election issue, a source told HuffPost at the time. The Independent has emailed a representative for Lujan Grisham. When asked about the new razor wire, Abbott’s press secretary Andrew Mahaleris told The Independent in a statement: “Texas has been so successful in securing our southern border, migrants are now illegally crossing into New Mexico, and then into Texas.” Mahaleris noted this isn’t the first time that Abbott has directed the Texas National Guard to install a barrier along its neighboring state. Last October, Abbott announced on X that Texas was installing fencing “along NEW Mexico border” because “our barriers around El Paso forced the migrants crossing illegally to enter into New Mexico. They then entered into El Paso from there.” “This barrier has proven to be effective in deterring migrants who illegally crossed into the United States,” Mahaleris continued. “Under Operation Lone Star, Texas has allocated more than $11 billion of Texas taxpayer money for border security, deploying thousands of Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers, transporting migrants to self-declared sanctuary cities, installing strategic barriers, and building our own border wall. Texas will continue utilizing every tool and strategy to respond to the border crisis and protect Texans.” “This barrier has proven to be effective in deterring migrants who illegally crossed into the United States,” Mahaleris continued. “Under Operation Lone Star, Texas has allocated more than $11 billion of Texas taxpayer money for border security, deploying thousands of Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers, transporting migrants to self-declared sanctuary cities, installing strategic barriers, and building our own border wall. Texas will continue utilizing every tool and strategy to respond to the border crisis and protect Texans.” The Justice Department even sued Texas in January over Senate Bill 4, which permits Texas law enforcement officers to arrest migrants for illegal entry and authorizes judges to order migrants to leave the country. Then-US Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta called the law “clearly unconstitutional.” It was originally set to go into effect in March, but was blocked by a federal district court judge in February. (Article has pictures and video.)
How bad is Trump's victory? Texas wants to leave the Union. Texas Secessionists Declare 'Revolution' After Election Results https://www.newsweek.com/texas-secessionists-declare-revolution-after-election-results-1982559
Texas has 254 counties. Nearly half of them don't have maternity care available. Add in the highest uninsured rate in the US and it's clear the Texas GOP has done a marvelous job running the state these past decades. Rural providers, advocates push Texas Legislature to "rescue" maternal health care system Almost half of Texas counties have nowhere to get prenatal care, let alone deliver a baby. This plan offers legislative proposals to shore up what’s left. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/03/texas-rural-maternal-health-plan/
Governor Abbott to incoming migrants in Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese: "You're Gonna Get Raped". Texas governor buys billboards warning migrants they'll be raped if they illegally cross border 'How much did you pay to have your daughter raped?' reads one of the signs, which will appear in Mexico and Central America. https://www.sacurrent.com/news/texa...raped-if-they-illegally-cross-border-36334902
It takes real balls to repeatedly bump a thread where your entire premise has been completely debunked. This entire thread she be labeled disinformation and removed, since that is what you are into.
Let's see how things are going for juveniles in Abbott's Texas. The Feds Found Sexual Abuse of Kids in Texas’ Juvenile Justice Department. Will the Legislature Act? Advocates were hopeful that an August report, which found sexual abuse and excessive force being used on children in the state’s long-critiqued juvenile justice division, would spur reforms. Then the election happened. Will lawmakers do anything? https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/01/1...-justice-department-will-the-legislature-act/
What do Cuba and Texas have in common? Cuba suffers nationwide power outage, plunging millions into darkness https://www.wral.com/story/cuba-suf...age-plunging-millions-into-darkness/21911347/