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kpete's JournalTexas Stops Enforcing Bans on Masking in Schools
Texas Tribune: “The Texas Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for school districts to require people to wear masks in classrooms.”
The Texas Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for school districts to require people to wear masks in classrooms — at least for now.
For cities, counties and school districts that have defied Gov. Greg Abbott by issuing mask mandates in public schools, the Thursday ruling is a victory on a technicality: The high court left in place a Travis County judge’s temporary restraining orders against Abbott’s ban on mask mandates. The court’s order cited a provision that typically requires matters to go to an appellate court before it reaches the state's highest civil court.
Paxton asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a series of temporary restraining orders issued by state District Judge Jan Soifer that allowed Harris County and eight school districts to mandate masks in public schools. Soifer also ruled that Abbott could not enforce his executive order banning mask mandates “against Texas independent school districts.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/19/texas-schools-mask-mandates-supreme-court-greg-abbott/“
Texas has stopped enforcing Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) ban on mask mandates in schools, at least for now.”
“The Texas Education Agency issued a public guidance letter saying it would stop enforcing the widely criticized ban, pointing to ongoing court challenges.”
https://politicalwire.com/2021/08/20/texas-stops-enforcing-bans-on-masking-in-schools/
OMG! People sick with COVID-19 waiting for Regeneron treatment at the Downtown Jacksonville library.
NEW: COJ confirms picture was taken at downtown library monoclonal antibody center yesterday. Woman who posted picture to Reddit says her husband took it, saw people crying in pain. COJ says they were waiting for treatment, providing triple # of wheelchairs now. Statement below.
https://twitter.com/bjoewolf/status/1428384975649447937?s=20
Where are the anti-war voices?
from: Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria, and Rebecca Crosby
.............. media reports are almost exclusively highlighting criticism of the withdrawal — often from people complicit in two decades of failed policy in Afghanistan.
We have reason to believe that this is not an accident. On Wednesday, Popular Information spoke to a veteran communications professional who has been trying to place prominent voices supportive of the withdrawal on television and in print. The source said that it has been next to impossible:
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I’ve been in political media for over two decades, and I have never experienced something like this before. Not only can I not get people booked on shows, but I can’t even get TV bookers who frequently book my guests to give me a call back…
I’ve fed sources to reporters, who end up not quoting the sources, but do quote multiple voices who are critical of the president and/or put the withdrawal in a negative light.
I turn on TV and watch CNN and, frankly, a lot of MSNBC shows, and they’re presenting it as if there’s not a voice out there willing to defend the president and his decision to withdraw. But I offered those very shows those voices, and the shows purposely decided to shut them out.
In so many ways this feels like Iraq and 2003 all over again. The media has coalesced around a narrative, and any threat to that narrative needs to be shut out.
The Rest:
https://popular.info/p/where-are-the-anti-war-voices
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1428363331916599315?s=20
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If you sat silent while that nazi nut sack dipped in Cheeto dust and Stephen Miller's gestapo ripped babies from mothers' arms at our border... you need to shut up about women and children in Afghanistan.https://twitter.com/rmayemsinger/status/1428366625929981955?s=20
What We Stood For In Afghanistan -Cronyism, rampant corruption, a Ponzi scheme...
Sarah Chayes
The Ides of August
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Americans like to think of ourselves as having valiantly tried to bring democracy to Afghanistan. Afghans, so the narrative goes, just weren’t ready for it, or didn’t care enough about democracy to bother defending it. Or we’ll repeat the cliche that Afghans have always rejected foreign intervention; we’re just the latest in a long line.
I was there. Afghans did not reject us. They looked to us as exemplars of democracy and the rule of law. They thought that’s what we stood for.
And what did we stand for? What flourished on our watch? Cronyism, rampant corruption, a Ponzi scheme disguised as a banking system, designed by U.S. finance specialists during the very years that other U.S. finance specialists were incubating the crash of 2008. A government system where billionaires get to write the rules.
Is that American democracy?
Well…?
https://www.sarahchayes.org/post/the-ides-of-august
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Larry David 'screamed' at Alan Dershowitz at grocery store over Trump ties
Dershowitz: “We can still talk, Larry.”
David: “No. No. We really can’t. I saw you. I saw you with your arm around [Former Trump Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo! It’s disgusting!”
Dersh: “He’s my former student [at Harvard Law]. I greet all of my former students that way. I can’t greet my former students?”
David: “It’s disgusting. Your whole enclave — it’s disgusting. You’re disgusting!”
Added the stunned source, “Larry walks away. Alan takes off his T-shirt to reveal another T-shirt [underneath it] that says, ‘It’s The Constitution Stupid!’.”
We’re told Dersh “drove off in an old, dirty Volvo.”
the rest:
https://pagesix.com/2021/08/18/larry-david-screamed-at-alan-dershowitz-at-grocery-store-over-trump-ties/
https://twitter.com/PageSix/status/1428090375164596226?s=20
The rush to judgment and hysteria from media wasn't necessary. Actually, it was embarrassing
Richard Engel
At kabul airport, military side, more order than before. Evacuations picking up. Seeing more Afghan families being taken through. Planes taking off. Base well guarded.
I understand chaos is normal in a country where a war was going on for 20 years. This wasn’t a planned social entertainment event which went wrong-it’s an ongoing war ending-hence chaos. The rush to judgment and hysteria from media wasn’t necessary. Actually, it was embarrassing
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so in less than 48 hours... despite the Afghanistan military roll over and its government deserting its own people, the US continues to evacuate both its citizens and Afghans at risk... as was ALWAYS THE PLAN
glad you had a nap and a xanax
https://twitter.com/cg_evie/status/1427973348408049671?s=20
https://twitter.com/Drea_got_rage/status/1427971567640797184?s=20
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