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  • Federal judge strikes down workplace protections for transgender workers

    05/16/2025 4:54:34 PM PDT · by Salman · 16 replies
    AP on their own site ^ | May 16, 2025 | CLAIRE SAVAGE
    A federal judge in Texas struck down guidance from a government agency establishing protections against workplace harassment based on gender identity and sexual orientation. Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Thursday determined that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission exceeded its statutory authority when the agency issued guidance to employers against deliberately using the wrong pronouns for an employee, refusing them access to bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity, and barring employees from wearing dress code-compliant clothing according to their gender identity because they may constitute forms of workplace harassment....
  • Supreme Court maintains block on some Trump deportations of migrants

    05/16/2025 4:14:09 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 52 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | May 16, 2025 | Ann E. Marimow
    The justices did not address the broader question about whether Trump officials can legally invoke the Alien Enemies Act to target alleged gang members.A divided Supreme Court on Friday kept a block on the Trump administration’s use of a rarely invoked wartime power to deport migrants in Northern Texas and said administration officials had not given those targeted for removal last month sufficient time to challenge their deportations.The majority called the detainees’ interests “particularly weighty” because of the risk of removal to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador where the migrants could face indefinite detention.President Donald Trump’s use of the...
  • Texas city of Big Sandy becomes 75th Sanctuary City for the Unborn in US

    05/15/2025 11:04:53 AM PDT · by Morgana · 1 replies
    Live Action News ^ | May 15, 2025 | Mark Lee Dickson
    Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this guest post are solely those of the guest author. On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, Big Sandy, Texas (pop. 1,343) became the 75th city in the nation to pass an ordinance outlawing abortion. The “Ordinance Outlawing Abortion, declaring Big Sandy a Safe Haven for the Unborn” was passed by a unanimous 4-0 vote. The vote also made the Big Sandy the 58th city in Texas, and the third city in Upshur County, to pass a SCFTU ordinance. After the vote, Mayor Linda Baggett shared, “I am blessed to serve with a City Council that is brave...
  • Mother allegedly buys ammunition, tactical gear for son's planned 'mass targeted violence' at middle school: Officials

    05/14/2025 6:25:09 PM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 38 replies
    https://abcnews.go.com ^ | May 14 2025 | Megan Forrester
    A Texas mother has been arrested and charged for allegedly buying ammunition and tactical gear for her son's planned "mass targeted violence" at his middle school, officials said. Ashley Pardo, 33, was arrested on Monday and charged with aiding in commission of terrorism after she allegedly provided ammunition and tactical gear to her son, whose behavior demonstrated plans for a "mass targeted violence" aimed at Rhodes Middle School in San Antonio, according to an affidavit obtained by ABC News.
  • Mother allegedly buys ammunition, tactical gear for son’s planned ‘mass targeted violence’ at middle school: Officials

    05/14/2025 5:18:02 PM PDT · by crusty old prospector · 61 replies
    ABC News ^ | May 14, 2025 | Megan Forrester
    A Texas mother has been arrested and charged for allegedly buying ammunition and tactical gear for her son's planned "mass targeted violence" at his middle school, officials said. Ashley Pardo, 33, was arrested on Monday and charged with aiding in commission of terrorism after she allegedly provided ammunition and tactical gear to her son, whose behavior demonstrated plans for a "mass targeted violence" aimed at Rhodes Middle School in San Antonio, according to an affidavit obtained by ABC News. Back in January, Pardo's son was first contacted in reference to "drawings of the local school he currently attended," the affidavit...
  • Texas RINO John Cornyn Gets Awful News as MAGA Candidate Opens Up Major Polling Lead against Him

    05/14/2025 12:33:48 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 29 replies
    American Tribune ^ | May 14, 2025 | Staff
    Texas Senator John Cornyn is facing stiff competition from Challenger Ken Paxton, who currently serves as the Attorney General of Texas. Many have criticized Cornyn for being a RINO, or a Republican in name only, and it seems that the public agrees, as Paxton has started to pull ahead in the polls. For context, even in deep red states like Texas, Republican lawmakers will compromise on their conservative principles to get ahead. Often derogatorily referred to as RINOs, these legislators see more in common with the DC sDCmp than their constituents at home. In any case, Punchbowl News reports that...
  • HORROR: 79-Year-Old Army Veteran Dragged and Killed in Brutal California Carjacking

    05/13/2025 9:53:08 PM PDT · by george76 · 31 replies
    Gateway Pundit, ^ | May. 13, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    A 79-year-old Army veteran was brutally murdered on Monday during a carjacking in Southern California. James Norman was at a gas station in Norco, California, cleaning his Chevy Trailblazer with the engine running when 29-year-old Ryan Hewitt jumped in the driver’s seat and drove off. Norman was hanging out the back door and was dragged and then thrown from the vehicle. His family said he was just too frail to get out in time. Hewitt was charged with felony carjacking and second-degree murder. He is being held on $1 million bail. ... James Norman is survived by his beloved wife,...
  • Utah Oil Tycoon James Jensen and Wife Arrested in $300M Mexican Oil Smuggling Scheme — Feds Raid $9.2M Mansion with Battering Ram

    05/13/2025 7:12:00 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 60 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | May 13, 2025 | Staff
    Federal agents have arrested Utah oil magnate James Lael Jensen, his wife Kelly Anne Jensen, and two of their sons, Maxwell Sterling Jensen (aka “Max”) and Zachary Golden Jensen, in connection with a sprawling $300 MILLION smuggling and money laundering conspiracy tied to Mexican criminal organizations. Court records reveal that all four members of the Jensen family were arrested on Wednesday, April 23 — with sons Max and Zachary taken into custody in the Rio Grande Valley, while James and Kelly Jensen were apprehended at their 26,893-square-foot mansion in Sandy, Utah, reportedly worth over $9.1 million. The arrest was carried...
  • Texas is Being Flipped

    05/12/2025 2:03:18 PM PDT · by george76 · 65 replies
    Dallas County GOP. ^ | May 12, 2025 | Chairman's Monday Message
    Good Monday morning, everyone! The title of this missive is not some signal of defeat, hardly so. However, it is a realization of a ground truth that Texans must accept, or run the risk of being a Colorado or other former red states. It was not too long ago, in November 2024, that we celebrated a resounding political victory here in Texas. Donald Trump increased his margin of victory from 2020 from 6 percent to 15 percent. We also saw 12 of 14 border counties in Texas go for Trump. In the so-called “hotly contested” Texas Senate race, Ted Cruz...
  • Crockett suggests Democrats looking to run 'safest White boy' in 2028, hints at specific candidate

    05/12/2025 9:32:44 AM PDT · by rdl6989 · 60 replies
    Fox News ^ | May 11, 2025 | Hanna Panreck
    Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said Democrats were eyeing the "safest White boy" in the 2028 presidential race, hinting at "one specific candidate" being floated by the party's donors, during a podcast conversation this week. "It is this fear that the people within the party, within the primary system, will have about voting for a woman because every time we voted for a woman, we’ve lost, so far," she said in a clip posted to Instagram. "And I think that that’s a natural fear because we just want to win." SiriusXM host Clay Cane posted the clip to Instagram on Friday,...
  • Paxton Leads Cornyn By Double Digits In Texas Senate Race, Poll Shows

    05/12/2025 8:12:04 AM PDT · by CFW · 38 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 5/12/25 | Ireland Owens
    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading Republican Sen. John Cornyn by double digits in the 2026 Texas Senate race, according to a recent Republican primary poll. Paxton is ahead of Cornyn by 16 percentage points — 56% to 40% — in a two-way poll commissioned by the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), Punchbowl News first reported on Monday. Meanwhile, in a hypothetical three-way matchup with Republican Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt, who is reportedly considering entering the primary contest, Paxton notched 44% of the vote to Cornyn’s 34% and Hunt’s 19%. SLF, a super PAC that supports Republicans, is backing Cornyn’s...
  • Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night

    05/10/2025 1:56:55 PM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 75 replies
    The Hill ^ | May 9, 2025 | Saul Elbe
    The Texas Senate passed a bill Thursday that leading business interests fear would lead to an age of expensive power and rolling blackouts. If passed by the House, state S.B. 715 would require all renewable projects — even existing ones — to buy backup power, largely from coal or gas plants. This would require solar plants in particular to buy backup power to “match their output at night — a time when no one expects them to produce energy and when demand is typically at its lowest anyway,” consultant and energy expert Doug Lewin wrote in an April analysis. The...
  • Biden’s Weaponized DOJ Crushed Texas Developer Who Blew Whistle on CCP Land Grab Scheme

    05/09/2025 8:24:55 PM PDT · by bitt · 7 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | May. 9, 2025 | Robert Semonsen
    In a saga that reads more like a political thriller than a real estate dispute, Texas businessman Timothy Barton is at the center of a high-stakes legal storm that some allege is less about justice and more about silencing dissent. Timothy Barton—a Christian businessman, proud Trump supporter, and founder of the successful JMJ Development—has, in yet another glaring example of Biden-era political persecution, become the latest target of lawfare by a weaponized federal government more interested in shielding the Chinese Communist Party than protecting American citizens. Barton’s “crime”? Sounding the alarm on what he believed to be a covert Chinese...
  • JUST IN: DOJ Launches Investigation Into Planned ‘Sharia City’ with Mega Mosque and Sharia Compliant Schools Near Dallas

    05/09/2025 2:02:50 PM PDT · by george76 · 50 replies
    Gateway Pundit, ^ | May. 9, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    The Justice Department on Friday opened an investigation into the planned Sharia City near Dallas, Senator Cornyn said. Last month Texas Governor Greg Abbott launched a campaign against a planned Islamic “mega-city” outside Dallas. The East Plano Islamic Center, via its affiliate Community Capitol Partners, is seeking to construct a 1,000-home settlement around 40 minutes from Dallas. The “Sharia City” would come complete with a mega mosque, Sharia adherent Muslim schools, community college, and sporting facilities. KHOU reported: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an investigation into EPIC City, a Muslim-centric development proposed in Collin County, following calls...
  • Texas Judge, Five Others Indicted In Massive Voter Fraud Scheme

    05/09/2025 7:23:35 AM PDT · by Yashcheritsiy · 49 replies
    Tampa Free Press via MSN ^ | May 9, 2025 | Maria Hernandez
    A Democratic judge and five other individuals have been indicted on charges of voter fraud, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday, shaking the political landscape of Frio County. The allegations stem from a multi-year investigation into potential vote harvesting during the 2022 primary elections. Judge Rochelle Lozano Camacho, an elected Democratic judge in Frio County, faces three counts of vote harvesting. The indictment also names her sister, a county trustee; the county’s election administrator; two Pearsall, Texas city council members; and another woman. The investigation was triggered by a complaint filed by Mary Moore, Camacho’s opponent in the Democratic...
  • Payments, lunches, a job: Indictments reveal allegations against Frio County officials in voting investigation (Texas)

    05/07/2025 9:05:42 AM PDT · by CFW · 5 replies
    KSAT ^ | 5/7/25 | Daniela Ibarra
    Frio County [Texas] Judge Rochelle Lozano Camacho, Pearsall officials among 6 suspects charged Frio County sheriff’s deputies arrested the following suspects on May 2 after an investigation by the state attorney general’s office: Pearsall City Council member Ramiro Trevino on one count of vote harvesting Pearsall Independent School District board member Adrian Ramirez on three counts of vote harvesting Former Frio County Elections Administrator Carlos Segura on one count of tampering with evidence Pearsall City Council member Racheal Garza on one count of vote harvesting Rosa Rodriguez, who the Frio County Sheriff’s Office described as a campaign worker, on two...
  • Migrant nonprofits resort to donations, litigation as federal funding dries up

    05/07/2025 5:19:45 AM PDT · by Puppage · 20 replies
    WTNH Television ^ | 5/7/25 | Julian Resendiz
    EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Migrant services nonprofits are resorting to donations and litigation as federal funding cuts force them to furlough workers and find alternative sources of funding.The cuts come as the Trump administration prioritizes border security and deportations over asylum. The tactic has dramatically cut down on new arrivals at the Southwest border but leaves millions of people with cases pending in U.S. immigration court in need of legal assistance.
  • Jasmine Crockett: “It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally.”

    05/06/2025 11:23:34 AM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 84 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | May, 6, 2025 | Benny Johnson
    Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson Jasmine Crockett: “It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally.” 12:18 PM · May 6, 2025
  • Politics Trump administration urges judge to toss states' lawsuit over access to abortion pill mifepristone

    05/06/2025 7:41:32 AM PDT · by Coronal · 5 replies
    CBS News ^ | May 5, 2025 | Melissa Quinn
    Washington — The Trump administration on Monday urged a federal district court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration's actions expanding access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone. Justice Department lawyers wrote in a filing with the U.S. district court in Amarillo, Texas, that the three states pursuing the lawsuit — Missouri, Idaho and Kansas — should not be able to do so in that court. The administration is pursuing a request initially made by the Biden administration last year in the closely watched challenge to mifepristone, a drug used to terminate an early pregnancy, that...
  • Another ‘undercover interview’ leads to Texas AG investigation into Austin ISD

    05/05/2025 6:22:19 PM PDT · by T Ruth · 7 replies
    KXAN ^ | May 5, 2025 | Jala Washington, Kelly Wiley
    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking legal action against the Austin Independent School District after his office said it was made aware of a claim that top officials “implemented an unwritten policy of developing and teaching curricula in the (district) in violation of state law prohibiting instruction on critical race theory (CRT) and related topics,” a court document said.Critical race theory is a concept that looks at how race relations have shaped the current social, cultural and legal world in the present time. It was banned from being taught in Texas classrooms in 2021.Paxton’s office is accusing AISD’s school...