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Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father,
who were detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held at an ICE facility in Texas,
have been released following a judge’s order.
They have returned to Minnesota, according to Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro.
The boy and his dad, Adrian Conejo Arias, who is originally from Ecuador,
were detained in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20.
They were taken to a detention facility in Dilley, Texas.
Katherine Sch…

5-year-old and dad return to Minnesota from Texas detention facility
Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his dad have returned to Minnesota after being released by ICE, Texas lawmaker says. The two were detained in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20. Images of the young boy wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack surrounded by immigration officers caused outrage over the Trump administration immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. A judge on Saturday ordered the father and son's release.

So horrible to allow measles to break out at a facility with parents and children.
#ice

ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles​ cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.

RFK Jr halts all intake at Texas ICE gulag - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2026/02/01/rfk-jr-halts-all-intake-at-texas-ice-gulag/

Nice Times Are Bigger In Texas: Tabs, Mon., Feb. 2, 2026 (Marcie Jones/Wonkette)
https://www.wonkette.com/p/nice-times-are-bigger-in-texas-tabs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p68#a260202p68

Texas AG Ken Paxton says he is investigating Shein to determine whether it violated state laws on unethical labor practices and the sale of unsafe products (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/shein-

Bericht: iPhone-18-Bildsensor von Samsung made in Texas
Auf Druck der Trump-Administration holt Apple mehr Produktion nach Hause. Dieses Mal geht es südkoreanischen Medien zufolge um Foto-Hardware.
https://www.

With 2026 elections just over the horizon, economic concerns deepen in new UT/Texas Politics Project Poll https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/with-2026-elections-just-over-the-horizon-economic-concerns-deepen-in-new-ut-texas-politics-project-poll

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Texas & Wu-Tang Clan:
🎵 Say What You Want (All Day Everyday)
#NowPlaying #Texas #WuTangClan

Ewers: Chose NFL over portal to cement UT ties https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47465518/quinn-ewers-said-chose-nfl-preserve-texas-relationships

Democrat Christian Menefee won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election Saturday
that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority, telling Donald Trump that the Democratic district “topples corrupt presidencies.”
Menefee, the Harris County attorney, prevailed in a runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member.
He will replace the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, who died in March 2025.
The seat representing the heavily …

Democrat Christian Menefee wins House seat for Houston in special election
Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority. Menefee, the Harris County attorney, prevailed Saturday in a runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member. He will replace the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, who died in March 2025. The seat representing the heavily Democratic Houston-based district has been vacant for nearly a year. Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott didn’…

Drama Erupts in Texas Senate Primary as Crockett Opponent Slammed for Racist Attack on Black Men (Andrew Stiles/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/drama-erupts-in-texas-senate-primary-as-crockett-opponent-slammed-for-racist-attack-on-black-men/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p118#a260202p118

Texas Tech DT Lee Hunter Details his Mentality at the 2026 Senior Bowl https://www.newyorkjets.com/video/texas-tech-dt-lee-hunter-2026-senior-bowl-practice-interview

"‘A fraudulent scheme’: New Mexico sues Texas oil companies for walking away from leaking wells"
#NewMexico #Environment #Climate

‘A fraudulent scheme’: New Mexico sues Texas oil companies for walking away from leaking wells
New Mexico’s lawsuit accuses three Texas executives of pocketing revenue from oil and gas wells and offloading cleanup costs to the public.

After His Democratic Victory in Texas, a New Working-Class Star Rises (J. David Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/taylor-rehmet-texas-working-class-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JFA.CQIS.VkBiEJ_8_rZV&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p77#a260202p77

RE: #USpol #Texas

Democrats flip Texas state Senate seat in shock upset
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5716988-democrats-score-upset-texas/

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Sunday it has
locked down the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas
amid a measles outbreak.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told NewsNation, that the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) confirmed Saturday that two detainees at the center had contracted measles.
McLaughlin added that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Health Service Corps “immediately took steps to quarantine …

Democratic victory in deep-red Texas district casts a pall over GOP plans to keep the House (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/democratic-victory-deep-red-texas-district-casts-pall-gop-plans-keep-h-rcna257060
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p145#a260202p145

A look at US tech laws rolling out in 2026, including California's SB 53 AI transparency law and Virginia's new social media limits for minors, effective today (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/851664/new-tech-internet-l…

Meet the new tech laws of 2026
Texas, California, and many other states have laws coming into force about AI, social media, and more.

🧮 The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-texas-instruments-cc-40-invades.html
#calculator

The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
I've mentioned on the blog several times the continuum that exists between handheld computers and pocket computers , battery powered devices...

TIL about:
“I remember seeing a story years ago where a prison cook was caught having stolen $1.2 million of fajitas over 9 years.
One week he took off sick, someone else answered the order call and was like "what are you talking about? We don't serve fajitas."”
https://www.<…

Fajita heist: Texas man sentenced to 50 years for stealing $1.2 million worth of food
A Texas man was sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $1.2 million in fajitas while acting as a public servant.

Ah yes, the government of #ProLife & #FamilyValues & #Christianity strikes again, demonstrating their sense of mercy, compassion and common sense.
ICE detains Texas father as son’s health de…

Ah yes, the government of #ProLife & #FamilyValues & #Christianity strikes again, demonstrating their sense of mercy, compassion and common sense.
ICE detains Texas father as son’s health de…

4200 Errors Found In Texas "Bible-Infused" Curriculum - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/01/4200-errors-found-in-texas-bible-infused-curriculum/

On the one hand, the GOP is doomed if we actually make it to the midterms with real elections. On the other hand, are we going to make it all the way to the midterms with real elections? These people are going to prison, and they will do whatever it takes to ensure that doesn't happen.
https://

Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social)
JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

Teslas Robotaxis fahren in Texas autonom, Musk verspricht weiten US-Ausbau 2026
Vollautonome Tesla-Taxis sind jetzt im texanischen Austin verfügbar. Trotz starker Konkurrenz will Elon Musk Robotaxis bis Ende 2026 in den USA weit ausbauen.

Texas A&M committee finds university wrong in firing professor | AP News https://apnews.com/article/texas-am-professor-fired-mccoul-gender-trump-52049257b6eb4a3fa0dc7254c146ef1c

Texas A&M committee finds university wrong in firing professor
A Texas A&M committee agreed the university was wrong to fire a professor earlier this year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender identity. The internal committee ruled that the university didn’t follow proper procedures and didn’t prove there was good cause to fire Melissa McCoul, who was a senior lecturer in the English department with over a decade of teaching experience. Republican lawmakers, including…

Texas Tech LB Jacob Rodriguez Reflects on Dominant Performance in Senior Bowl Practices https://www.newyorkjets.com/video/texas-tech-lb-jacob-rodriguez-senior-bowl-practice-interview

Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon Valley, AI and manufacturing, and how China and the US are building the future (Dan Wang)
https://danwang.co/2025-letter/

2025 letter | Dan Wang
Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal's Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair

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Texas:
🎵 Inner Smile
#NowPlaying #Texas
https://orangegrooverecords.bandcamp.com/track/paul-sirrell-x-texas-inner-smile
https://open.spotify.com/track/0yvDNlMoafoHNR9M5LIOGJ

Veteran from TEXAS IN UKRAINE: From farming to fighting Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/veteran-from-texas-in-ukraine.html

DHS locks down detention center hit by measles outbreak (Max Rego/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5718614-texas-dhs-measles-outbreak/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p48#a260202p48

🔥Dems win special election in Texas, narrowing Republicans majority.
⭐️Friends, there are now just 37 days until the special election in Georgia to fill the seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene. 
20 Republicans are running. 
One Democrat is running. 
I’m that Democrat. 
This is how we win. 
This is how we take back the House -- and put a check on Trump's rampage against our Democracy.
I’m Shawn Harris.
I’m a Democrat. Husband. Father. Reti…

Help Defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene
Chip in $3 to support Shawn Harris for Georgia!

This Isn't What De-escalation Looks Like -- Trump can't tame the monster he made. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-isnt-what-de-escalation-looks-like-trump-ice-border-patrol-minneapolis-election-texas-midterms
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p35#a260202p35

At least 1 football team in Texas has a dominant defense https://insidethestar.com/at-least-1-football-team-in-texas-has-a-dominant-defense

RE: #FreeLiam

A good thing the republicans just gerrymandered texas assuming theyd keep the latino voters they picked up in 2024 forever!
https://bsky.app/profile/isilanor.bsky.social/post/3mdrjno2ngs2f

eressëa 🦭 (@isilanor.bsky.social)
a "fun" fact is that texas' state senate map is so gerrymandered that this swing would flip all but four republican districts [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Ole Miss wins Egg Bowl as college football world waits for Lane Kiffin to announce his next move

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ole-mis…

Texas sues 5 smart TV manufacturers over data collection practices https://therecord.media/texas-sues-5-smart-tv-makers-over-acr-tech

Amazon-Lieferdrohne kappt Internetkabel: Nächste Untersuchung der FAA
Weniger als einen Monat, nachdem Amazon Prime Air in Waco/Texas angekommen ist, hat eine Drohne dort direkt ein Kabel gekappt. Die FAA untersucht den Vorfall.

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Beyoncé:
🎵 TEXAS HOLD 'EM
#NowPlaying #Beyoncé
https://drakodrmtk.bandcamp.com/album/beyonc-texas-hold-em-drmtk-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Z7nGFVCLfixWctgePsRk9

Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset (Alejandro Serrano/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/texas-senate-district-9-runoff-rehmet-wambsganss-special-election/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260201/p3#a260201p3

#Texas

She Wanted to Speak on Anti-Muslim Bigotry. She Was Labeled a Terrorist Leader.
Shaimaa Zayan, who works for the Austin chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, urged the Texas State Board of Education to reconsider its curriculum changes.

🇺🇸 Buck from Texas: How I became a Ukrainian intelligence scout #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/buck-from-texas-how-i.html

Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old from Minnesota who was detained last week after coming home from preschool,
is being held in the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.
Congressmembers who visited Liam report that has been depressed and hasn’t been eating well.
Javier Hidalgo, legal director at RAICES, has worked with families at the detention center for years.
“We often hear about food with bugs or worms in it,
half-frozen food being given,
gua…

“Let Us Out”: ICE Detention of Children Sparks Protests at Immigration Jail in Dilley, TX
Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old from Minnesota who was detained last week after coming home from preschool, is being held in the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. Congressmembers who visited Liam report that has been depressed and hasn’t been eating well. Javier Hidalgo, legal director at RAICES, has worked with families at the detention center for years. “We often hear about food with bugs or worms in it, half-frozen food being given, guards yelling at parents if their kid…

Texas Democrats score landslide upset in race Trump badly wanted to win (David Nir/The Downballot)
https://www.the-downballot.com/p/breaking-texas-democrats-score-landslide
http://www.memeorandum.com/260201/p2#a260201p2

A federal judge grants a temporary injunction blocking a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users' ages from taking effect on January 1 (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/849752/texas-app-store-accounta…

Judge blocks Texas app store age verification law
Texas’ app store age verification was set to be the first among several states’ to take effect.

Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins a reliably Republican Texas state Senate seat, stunning GOP (John Hanna/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/texas-state-senate-democrat-taylor-rehmet-c8cb6685c49696b8a607a8f93111ae2e
http://www.memeorandum.com/260201/p7#a260201p7

A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping Congress
https://www.theverge.com/policy/830877/app-store-age-verification-act-pinterest-endorsement

A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping Congress
The App Store Accountability Act is getting a spotlight in Congress after similar laws passed in states from Texas to California.

🌊 Long ago, Mars had massive watersheds—now finally mapped
#mars

Long ago, Mars had massive watersheds—now finally mapped
What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the red planet's watery past? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) conducted a first-time mapping study involving Martian river basins. This study has the potential to not only gain insight into ancient Mars and how much water existed there long ago, but also develop new methods for map…

Snap Benefits Resume In Texas, Despite Future Sabotage - The Concho Observer #Texas

Snap Benefits Resume In Texas, Despite Future Sabotage
Relief has hopefully arrived for the 3.2 million Texans, and 12,000 citizens of Tom Green County who rely on assistance through SNAP.

As ICE ramps up deportations, Texas prosecutors say they’re losing key witnesses in criminal cases - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/26/as-ice-ramps-up-deportations-texas-prosecutors-say-theyre-losing-key-witnesses-in-criminal-cases-partner/

Talarico brings in nearly $7M with latest haul for Texas Senate race (Caroline Vakil/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5669726-talarico-crockett-senate-race/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p35#a260102p35

Dozens of immigrant families protested Saturday
behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where
a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week
after being detained in Minnesota.
Aerial photos taken by The Associated Press
showed children and parents at the
"South Texas Family Residential Center"
clad in jackets and sweaters,
some of them holding signs that included
“Libertad para los niños,”
or “Libe…

Immigrant families protest Texas detention of Minnesota boy and father
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota. Aerial photos taken by The Associated Press on Saturday showed some of the detainees coordinating to form “SOS." They were standing outside the residence areas of the South Texas Family Residential Center in the rural town of Dilley. One detainee told AP families inside sought to send a message that t…

Freitag: Intel wieder in den roten Zahlen, Verkauf von TikTok USA wohl genehmigt
Intel-Aktie unter Druck Closing von TikTok-Verkauf Tesla-Robotaxis autonom in Texas Investoren für Kernfusion-Start-up Podcast zu Datenschutz am Gericht

Texas Instruments reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.42B, vs. $4.44B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates; TXN jumps 9% after hours (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/analog-chipmaker-tex…

Texas Man Charged with Providing Bomb Components and Funding to Individuals He Believed Were Involved with Foreign Terrorist Organization (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-man-charged-providing-bomb-components-and-funding-individuals-he-believed-were
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p18#a251230p18

Incarcerated Texas Women Raised $11,000 for a Sick Senior Cat https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/13/i-didnt-know-so-many-people-cared-how-incarcerated-texas-women-raised-11000-for-a-sick-senior-cat/

‘I Didn’t Know So Many People Cared.’ How the Daughter of an Incarcerated Woman Raised $11,000 for a Sick Prison Cat.
OJ is a lifeline for the incarcerated women at the Patrick O’Daniel Unit.

In Houston suburbs, Abbott's attacks on CAIR unnerve Muslim residents (Molly Hennessy-Fiske/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/11/28/texas-cair-muslim-brotherhood-houston-abbott/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p22#a251130p22

College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/politics/college-student-deported-thanksgiving-texas.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p46#a251130p46

A 5-year-old boy and his father must be released by Tuesday
from the Texas center where they’ve been held after being detained by immigration officers in Minnesota,
a federal judge ordered Saturday in a ruling that harshly criticized the Trump administration’s approach to enforcement.
Images of Liam Conejo Ramos, wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack,
being surrounded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
sparked even more outcry about the admini…

US ordered to release 5-year-old and dad taken into custody in Minnesota
A judge has ordered the U.S. to release a father and 5-year-old son who were taken into custody during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Images of the preschooler in a bunny hat and Spiderman backpack being surrounded by federal agents in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20 added to the outcry about the immigration actions of President Donald Trump’s administration. The government says the father and son, originally from Ecuador, entered the U.S. in 2024. They were taken to a detention faci…

‘Back Up Off Me!’: Black Man Standing at a Bus Stop Is Accused of Jaywalking — Seconds Later a Texas Cop Decides He’s a Threat and Everything Spirals
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/01/24/black-man-standing-at-a-bus-stop-is-accused-of-jaywalking-seconds-later-a-texas-cop-decides-hes-a-threat-and-everything-spirals/

Troy Nehls' Identical Twin Brother Wants to Replace Him in Congress (Amelia Benavides-Colón/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/campaigns/troy-nehls-identical-twin-brother-trever-campaign-congress-replace-texas
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p45#a251130p45

Congratulations to Democratic State Senator-elect Taylor Rehmet for flipping ruby red Texas SD9 from red to blue!
Trump endorsed Taylor’s opponent, which helped Taylor because Trump is so weak and unpopular.
Democrats will win Congress in Nov, and it won’t be close.
http…

In Texas, Tierra Walker Wasn’t Offered an Abortion Before a High-risk Pregnancy Killed Her — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-tierra-walker-preeclampsia

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

Coinbase plans to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, saying Delaware "once provided companies with consistency" but now has "unpredictable outcomes" (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/coinbase-m

Coinbase moves incorporation to Texas from Delaware, following Musk's lead
Coinbase's legal chief wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the crypto platform is moving its state of incorporation to Texas.

A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving
was instead deported to Honduras
in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19,
had already passed through security at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20
when she was told there was an issue with her boarding pass,
said attorney Todd Pomerleau.
The Babson College student was then detained by immigration off…

College freshman deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise
A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was deported to Honduras in violation of a court order. That's according to an attorney for Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old at Babson College. She was detained by immigration officials at Boston Logan International Airport on November 20. A federal judge issued an emergency order the day after her arrest prohibiting the government from removing her from Massachusetts for 72 hours. However, withi…

Trump's Texas troubles (Mike Lee/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/12/29/trumps-texas-troubles-00707260
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p32#a251229p32

A pregnant mother kept getting sicker. She died after she couldn’t get an abortion in Texas.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/22/2354678/-A-pregnant-mother-kept-getting-sicker-She-died-after-she-couldn-t-get-an-abortion-in-Texas

‘Call a Republican’: Viral phone booth connects Calif. liberals, conservative Texans
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-22/california-texas-phone-booths-experiment-political-divide

California to Texas pay phone sparks conversation across party lines
Matter Neuroscience installed phone booths in liberal San Francisco and conservative Abilene, Texas, encouraging strangers to engage in conversation across party lines.

Anthropic plans to spend $50B on a US infrastructure buildout, starting with data centers in Texas and New York in partnership with Fluidstack, opening in 2026 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/anthropic-ai-data-centers-texas-new-york.html…

Anthropic to spend $50 billion on U.S. AI infrastructure, starting with Texas, New York data centers
Anthropic rival OpenAI has secured more than $1.4 trillion worth of deals with Nvidia, Broadcom, Oracle and the major cloud providers.

Wesley Hunt says Texas GOP has a Joe Biden problem (Mabinty Quarshie/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/4355501/wesley-hunt-texas-gop-joe-biden-problem/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p38#a251229p38

Texas:
Teachers are outing trans students thanks to state's new "Don't Say Gay" law - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/teachers-are-outing-trans-students-thanks-to-states-new-dont-say-gay-law/

After deadly shooting by immigration agents,
Texas Democrats
-- Rep. James #Talarico,
and Rep. Jasmine #Crockett,
-- running for Senate say:
✅‘clean house’ at ICE and ✅‘take that money back’

After deadly shooting by immigration agents, Texas Democrats running for Senate say ‘clean house’ at ICE and ‘take that money back’
Democrats Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico differed more on style than substance in their first debate for U.S. Senate in heavily Republican Texas.

Texas A&M Ends Women's Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender (Alan Blinder/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/texas-am-gender-ethnic-womens-studies-academic-freedom.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p94#a260130p94

Texas courthouse unveils illegal Ten Commandments monument, inviting legal challenge
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-courthouse-unveils-illegal

Professor: Texas used to have universities (Jacob Beck/Dallas Morning News)
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2025/11/25/professor-texas-used-to-have-universities/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p46#a251127p46

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer says Amazon canceled a $150M advance for a Texas AI data center campus; FRMI fell 34% on Dec. 12 after saying a tenant had canceled (Dakin Campbell/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fermi-america-amazon-tenant-t…

Mystery solved: Amazon is the prospective tenant in talks with data center developer rocked by stock plunge
"The lead negotiator for Amazon called me on Thursday," Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer told Business Insider. The deal would pay more than $20 billion over the next 20 years, he said.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz told Republican donors last year he had warned Donald Trump that his tariffs and economic policies were steering the GOP toward a midterm election disaster

According to recordings from two meetings with donors obtained by Axios,
Cruz said he told Trump,
“Mr. President, if we get to November” of 2026 “and people’s 401(k)s are down 30 percent and prices are up 10 to 20 percent at the supermarket,
we’re going to go into Election Day, face a bloodbath…

The tale of the Ted Cruz tapes is not one Trump wants to hear
The Texas senator forecast a midterms disaster for the GOP on voter’s economic concerns.

#GiftLink
Supreme Court, For Now, Keeps in Place Texas Republican-Friendly Congressional Map - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/supreme-court-texas-congressional-map.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3E8._MjU.9YimkP8txP5p&smid=url-share

The tug-of-war over space shuttle Discovery is becoming more volatile.
Discovery — the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia
— is the subject of a political battle over whether the shuttle should remain part of the National Air and Space Museum's collection
or be relocated to Houston, home to NASA's Johnson Space Center.
New correspondence between the space agency, Ted Cruz and the Smithsonian shows both the p…

The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces
"You'd be doing irreparable damage."

Texas sues Delaware nurse practitioner accused of mailing abortion pills across state lines (Carter Sherman/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/texas-abortion-pill-prescriber-lawsuit
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p112#a260127p112

Muslim civil rights group sues Texas governor after terrorist accusation
https://religionnews.com/2025/11/20/muslim-civil-rights-group-sues-texas-governor-after-terrorist-accusation/

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted on board a plane Tuesday, leaving Texas, ahead of a severe winter storm expected to hit the state over the weekend.
It was a repeat of his "cut and run" in 2011
https://myfox8.com/news/politics/us/te

Texas A&M System declines to reinstate fired lecturer despite faculty panel's findings (Jessica Priest/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/texas-am-system-fired-lecturer/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p17#a251226p17

New maps that added
five Republican districts in Texas
hit a legal roadblock on Tuesday,
with a federal judge saying
the state cannot use the 2025 maps
because they are probably “racially gerrymandered”.
The decision is likely to be appealed,
given the push for more Republican-friendly congressional maps nationwide
and Donald Trump’s full-court press on his party to make them.
A panel of three federal judges in Texas said in a decision t…

Texas adds to redistricting war deluge at Supreme Court (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5622226-texas-redistricting-supreme-court/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p126#a251125p126

'Only begun to fight': Texas Senate race heats up as Republicans brace for a runoff (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/texas-senate-race-republicans-brace-runoff-rcna245613
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p32#a251125p32

“This precedent could result in people facing terrorism charges for doing very simple mainstream activism.”
There is no doubt a police officer was shot at the Texas protest.
Prosecutors have brought charges against people they say helped the alleged shooter escape.
But the case has drawn considerable alarm because of the way that prosecutors have sought to create a criminal enterprise
– a “North Texas antifa cell”
– among a group of demonstrators who were uninv…

Republicans go all-in on 'Sharia law' attacks ahead of Texas primary (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/26/republicans-go-all-in-on-sharia-law-attacks-ahead-of-texas-primary-00745647
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p50#a260126p50

The state of New Mexico is accusing three Texas oil executives of
orchestrating “a fraudulent scheme” to pocket revenue from hundreds of oil and gas wells in New Mexico
and offload the cost of plugging and cleaning up the wells onto the state’s taxpayers.
The suit, filed in late December by the New Mexico attorney general’s office, is the latest salvo in the state’s fight against oil and gas executives accused of 💥foisting old wells onto the public.
The 72-page compla…

“A Fraudulent Scheme”: New Mexico Sues Texas Oil Companies for Walking Away From Their Leaking Wells
New Mexico’s lawsuit accuses three Texas oil executives of pocketing revenue from oil and gas wells and offloading cleanup costs to the public. An investigation in 2024 by ProPublica and Capital & Main uncovered some of these business dealings.

Immigrant families protest inside Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota (Berenice Garcia/Associated Press)
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/24/immigration-facility-protest-texas-liam-conejo-ramos/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p17#a260125p17

Texas men indicted in plot to take over Haitian island and enslave women and children (Kristin Wright/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/23/nx-s1-5618242/texas-haiti-gonave-island-plot
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p78#a251123p78

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said he would
"impose a 100 percent tariff"
on New Yorkers moving to Texas.
“After the polls close tomorrow night,
I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC,”
the Republican wrote on X on Monday night.
Abbott’s post came on the eve of New York City’s mayoral election, in which Democrat Zohran Mamdani is the frontrunner.

Greg Abbott Threatens ‘100% Tariff’ On New Yorkers Moving to Texas
As NYC elects its next mayor, Governor Greg Abbott said he would "impose a 100 percent tariff" on New Yorkers moving to Texas.

Texas Asks Supreme Court to Clear Way for Republican-Friendly Congressional Map (Abbie VanSickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/supreme-court-texas-congressional-map.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251121/p123#a251121p123

Texas seeks Supreme Court order to use a congressional map judges held is likely racially biased (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-texas-redistricting-trump-republicans-discrimination-c1bbf88e2a1f7d49cda512b8ef165750
http://www.memeorandum.com/251121/p129#a251121p129

Supreme Court allows Texas congressional map favoring GOP for now (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/21/supreme-court-texas-congressional-map-republicans/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251121/p132#a251121p132

Some DACA recipients have been arrested in the Trump's immigration crackdown (Valerie Gonzalez/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/daca-immigration-trump-texas-f6b4d275e62fa888285fb65004a969c4
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p87#a251125p87

Supreme Court Justice Alito blocks hold on GOP-backed Texas map (Megan Stringer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/san-antonio/2025/11/22/supreme-court-texas-congressional-map-redistricting
http://www.memeorandum.com/251121/p137#a251121p137

Reagan-appointed judge torches colleagues in Texas map fight, calls ruling 'fiction,' 'judicial activism' (Ashley Oliver/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reagan-appointed-judge-torches-colleagues-texas-map-fight-calls-ruling-fiction-judicial-activism
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p75#a251120p75