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  • How two Texas megadonors have turbocharged the state's far-right shift

    07/25/2022 6:54:37 AM PDT · by karpov · 45 replies
    CNN ^ | July 24, 2022 | Casey Tolan, Matthew Reynard, Will Simon and Ed Lavandera
    Gun owners allowed to carry handguns without permits or training. Parents of transgender children facing investigation by state officials. Women forced to drive hours out-of-state to access abortion. This is Texas now: While the Lone Star State has long been a bastion of Republican politics, new laws and policies have taken Texas further to the right in recent years than it has been in decades. Elected officials and political observers in the state say a major factor in the transformation can be traced back to West Texas. Two billionaire oil and fracking magnates from the region, Tim Dunn and Farris...
  • Texas school shooting: Uvalde gunman threatened rapes, shootings on Yubo before massacre, users say

    05/28/2022 8:24:46 AM PDT · by Mariner · 26 replies
    CNNWire via ABC 13 (TX) ^ | May 28th, 2022 | By Daniel A. Medina, Isabelle Chapman, Jeff Winter and Casey Tolan
    UVALDE, Texas -- Salvador Ramos told girls he would rape them, showed off a rifle he bought, and threatened to shoot up schools in livestreams on the social media app Yubo, according to several users who witnessed the threats in recent weeks.But those users -- all teens -- told CNN that they didn't take him seriously until they saw the news that Ramos had gunned down 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, this week.Three users said they witnessed Ramos threaten to commit sexual violence or carry out school shootings on Yubo, an app that...