The mystery woman from the Houston-area home surveillance video, seen frantically ringing the doorbell in the middle of the night with shackles hanging from her wrists, has given her first interview about the ordeal.
The Texas Board of Education has voted to cut Hillary Clinton from the K-12 curriculum, deeming the first woman to be nominated for U.S. president by a major political party unworthy of young Texans’ brain space. Helen Keller, Also on the chopping block: Helen Keller. Billy Graham gets to stay, though, lucky kids.
A federal judge has blocked a despicable Texas law that required fetal remains and embryonic tissues to be cremated or buried. Good fucking riddance. U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra ruled on Wednesday that the law, passed by the Texas legislature in 2017, violated the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and…
One of the only things I enjoyed about the 2016 presidential election was how much everyone fucking hated Ted Cruz. Somehow, even with the tonsil stones, Zodiac killer rumors, and Craig Mazin tweets about Cruz’s college masturbation habits, Cruz managed to stay in the Republican primary race until the very end. But…
This story is stranger, and sadder, than it initially appears.
A new poll from Emerson College places incumbent Republican senator and mutated blob fish Ted Cruz just one point ahead of his Democratic challenger, Congressman Beto O’Rourke, setting them at a statistical tie. It’s just one poll, but damn I hope it makes Ted Cruz feel like shit!
A couple of guys with goatees plus one woman stole a shark from a Texas aquarium on Monday by passing it off as a baby. “Oh, this 3-foot long thing with fins that’s dripping wet and trying to eat the stroller? This is our child. Her name is Terri, she’s teething,” they probably said.
The state of Texas is doubling down on its efforts, previously suspended by courts, to require the burial or cremation of fetal remains resulting from abortions or miscarriages—regardless of one’s wishes.
On Sunday, hundreds of people attended a protest against family detentions in Tornillo, Texas, where a “tent city” has been set up to accommodate unaccompanied immigrant minors, as a realistic or official path towards family reunification remains unclear. Among those protesting were a handful of actors and musicians. …
On Monday, the Supreme Court largely sided with Texas and North Carolina in cases challenging the fairness of their legislative maps. Per CNN, this means that officials will probably use those congressional district maps in the upcoming midterm elections, which is good news for racists and Donald Trump, and bad news…
I usually find it lazy to begin writing with a disclaimer, but I’m already breaking my rules by writing about my face, so here goes nothing: My name is Maria Sherman, and I’m product-phobic.
In February, Texas and 19 attorney generals of other Republican-led states filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionally of the Affordable Care Act. On Thursday night, the DOJ sided with them, saying that it won’t defend the Obama-era healthcare law “with the approval of the President of the United…
It’s been less than a week since 10 students were killed and another 13 were injured by a 17-year-old gunman in a mass shooting at Santa Fe High School, near Houston, Texas, and state officials are scrambling to avoid saying literally anything meaningful about gun control.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott—who is up for re-election in November—has done so much to bring us closer to sensible gun control since the mass shooting at Santa Fe High School near Houston last Friday, in which a 17-year-old armed with a pistol and a shotgun killed 10 people. Abbott asked Texans to join him for a moment…
Survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting are tweeting in solidarity with students from Santa Fe High School, who were rocked by a school shooting Friday morning.
At least eight people have died and “several” more have been injured in a mass shooting early Friday morning at high school in Santa Fe, Texas. KTRK News reports the suspect, a student, is currently in police custody. Another person has been detained.
There’s already too many podcasts in this cold, cruel world, but here’s one I bet you didn’t know about: The Green Line, which is by and and for border patrol agents. The podcast, which is put out by the Border Patrol union, has about 200 episodes, and is recorded in studios owned by Breitbart, your friendly…
The Texas Observer has published a gruesome story about fetal burials, a practice mandated by many Catholic hospitals and, if Republican lawmakers have their way, state governments: A woman named Blake Norton, after miscarrying in 2015, was treated at Seton Medical Center Austin at the recommendation of her OB-GYN,…
According to a new study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, the number of women who died in Texas from pregnancy-related complications is less than half of what was originally estimated in a much-covered 2016 study.
