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In yet another reminder of how we all dance to our corporate masters, Dell has told its sales employees to get back to the office — immediately throwing lots of people’s lives into chaos. It’s not clear how many people have been affected, but Round Rock-based Dell has
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My sister Victoria was wrangling Elias, her then-2-year-old, into his costume on Halloween when the spots of blood in her underwear became worrisome. It was almost exactly two years ago, in 2022, and Elias had woken up from a nap excited about trick-or-treating. She’d
Crime & Justice
UPDATE, Oct. 8, 3:55 p.m.: Robert Roberson, the father who is scheduled to be put to death on Oct. 17, has been granted a hearing by the Anderson County District Court on a motion to vacate his execution warrant, his attorneys announced on Tuesday. The motion to vacate
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As Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida, one Texas mayor has a novel idea about how to deal with it: Nuke the damned thing. In a since-deleted Facebook post, Bobby Lindamood, the mayor of Colleyville (a Fort Worth suburb) wrote: “For the amount of destruction this next hurricane is
Crime & Justice
Texans have turned to official channels to complain about last Friday’s ear-splitting Blue Alert, which spurred hundreds of angry posts on every social media channel used by the more than 30 million Texans who received the early-morning notification from police. As of Monday morning, approximately 4,500
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Jonathan Van Ness, the most famous of the five “Queer Eye” stars from the Netflix series, spoke out on Instagram on Monday morning after they were featured in a pro-Donald Trump attack ad, just weeks before the presidential election. The ad, which was posted to YouTube over the weekend,
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Election officials were reviewing disputed ballots on a Wednesday morning at an unremarkable government building in downtown Miami when hundreds of collared-shirt-wearing Republicans — many of them political staffers — descended upon the building. It was November 22, 2000, and the men were chanting “Shut it down!” Before long, the
Crime & Justice
Hundreds of people have taken to social media to share their collective anger — and to announce that they’ve turned off their phone’s public safety alerts — over a 4:52 a.m. Blue Alert on Friday, which sent a piercing alarm to the roughly 30 million people who live
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Imagine being part of a grid that doesn’t completely collapse during a crisp breeze! That could be in Texas’ future, since the federal government is giving us a bunch of money to force us to grow the fuck up and join the rest of the country. The U.S.
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If there’s one truism in life, it’s that people on the internet will take any opportunity to act like assholes. Case in point: A bakery in Flower Mound has received death threats for daring to make a cookie with vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s face on it.
Crime & Justice
Last Friday, a cloudless, azure sky framed the Allan B. Polunsky prison unit — where 167 men await executions on Texas’ Death Row — as an unlikely group ventured through its doors in the name of salvation. Polunsky is the state’s supermax prison for the most egregious criminal offenders in Texas
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In what sounds like the grossest water show ever, a geyser of salty, possibly oil-laced water is blasting 100 feet into the air in West Texas, where earthquakes caused by wastewater injections have been shaking things up lately. We don’t know the source of the geyser yet; a