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Cartoons by Jason Adam Katzenstein, Adam Douglas Thompson, Ellis Rosen, and Carolita Johnson. See more toons from the issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/EK…
#FactCheck: Police found no evidence that Jewish institutions and Jewish businesses had been specifically targeted by French protesters for antisemitic reasons.
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When Trump began upending scientific research, dismantling the federal grant process and exerting more political influence over funding, foreign universities saw opportunity. They’re luring researchers, promising more stable funding and academic freedom.
apnews.com/article/trump-sci…
In the first year of Trump’s second term, the Justice Department fired some 100 of the country’s roughly 700 immigration judges and began to replace them with what the administration called “deportation judges.”
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Cooper’s Old Time Pit BBQ in New Braunfels, which hosted Ken Paxton and Ted Cruz for a GOTV event Saturday, says:
“We are not in the business of endorsing political candidates. This is the action of a rogue employee and was not authorized by ownership.”
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Big Tech is building big in rural America, where pastures, rivers and fields have become the newest frontier in the AI race.
There are more than 1,300 data center buildings across the U.S., according to Cleanview. An NBC News analysis of Cleanview and federal data finds more than 100 operate in rural America, with another 92 under construction. nbcnews.com/data-graphics/bi…
“It was so heartbreaking”: #Dallas school district pulls hundreds of #library books under pressure from #Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.
#TxEd #TxPolitics #libraries #books #reading #literature #election #voting
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NAVASOTA — Joie Miller moved to rural Grimes County to raise her daughter hunting, fishing and spending time with her grandparents on their 100-acre ranch. Then Elon Musk announced he was constructing the world’s largest building a little more than a mile from her in-laws’ property.
The Terafab semiconductor factory, which Musk has projected will be 50 times larger than the Pentagon, will produce computer chips for artificial intelligence. As construction kicked off, trucks rumbled past their property day and night. Big chunks of ash rained down.
Miller, 31, started investigating, joining the ranks of outraged rural Texans who have seen wide open spaces suddenly sold off to support the state’s rapacious growth. The more she dug, the more Miller, a born-and-raised Republican, came to blame the party that’s run the state her whole life.
Rural R turnout seems to be way down in TX. Here’s a piece exploring why that may be texastribune.org/2026/10/23/…
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Today in 1415, an English army led by Henry V defeats a much larger French force near Calais at Azincourt (or Agincourt).
A play by Shakespeare will later immortalize the battle:
"Gentlemen in England shall think themselves accursed they were not here."
David Forrest retweeted
Gina Hinojosa tried to recruit someone to run against Greg Abbott in the Texas gubernatorial race. “I couldn’t find a taker, because Abbott had a hundred million dollars,” she said. “Then I just realized, ‘Look, I’ve been fighting this man for years. I can do this.’ ” newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
