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[Link] Far-right InfoWars website files for bankruptcy protection
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Facing multiple defamation lawsuits, the far-right website InfoWars on Sunday voluntarily filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal court in Texas.
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[Link] Reminder: Telling Cops to ‘Fuck Off’ Is Completely Legal
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
When cops confronted Michael Wood while wearing his “fuck the police” T-shirt at a local county fair in Dayton, Ohio, six years ago, he tried to explain he was well within his rights. He even removed the shirt. But the officers still asked him to leave.
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[Link] Someone Keeps Papering This Texas Neighborhood in Racist Flyers
Read: 16/2/2022 www.vice.com
For the second time in a week, residents in a Houston neighborhood woke up to the sight of dozens of racist flyers strewn across their properties.
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[Link] QAnon Sex Trafficking Conspiracies Have Shut Down a Texas Butterfly Center
Read: 30/1/2022 www.vice.com
The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas is situated on the Rio Grande river less than half a mile from the U.S.-Mexico border, and has long been the focus of intense and completely baseless conspiracy theories pushed by the QAnon community.
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[Link] Fight Club author praises Chinese cut of film: ‘Super wonderful!’
Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
The author of Fight Club has praised the “happy ending” afforded to David Fincher’s film of his book for a new Chinese cut of the movie. Chuck Palahniuk described the change, in which the police successfully foil an anarchist plot and the heroes are incarcerated, as “SUPER wonderful”.
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[Link] The QAnon JFK Cult in Dallas Is Tearing Families Apart
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Katy Garner and her sister grew up in a small town in Arkansas and were always close. “We both were cheerleaders in school, made pretty good grades, and loved to just hang out with friends and each other. No one has a perfect childhood, but we had each other. We knew that.
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[Link] He Made a Horror Movie About Pizzagate, then the Death Threats Started
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
No movie has captured our current political mood like The Pizzagate Massacre. The low budget grindhouse movie from Texas follows Duncan, a schlub convinced interdimensional lizard people are controlling people from the basement of a pizza restaurant.
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[Link] Michael Flynn Wants to Outlaw All Religions Except Christianity Now
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
Disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn claimed this weekend that if the U.S. wants to be one nation under God, then it needs to outlaw all religions aside from Christianity.
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[Link] Ted Cruz Doesn’t Think Texas Should Secede—Yet
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is “not ready to give up on America yet,” but he might support a Texas secession eventually if the party elected to run the federal government were to “fundamentally destroy the country” by enacting progressive proposals.
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[Link] The QAnon Followers Who Went to Dallas to See JFK Refuse to Leave
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
A group of QAnon believers who gathered in Dallas last week to see the late President John F. Kennedy and his late son reappear, remained in the city and over the weekend, and began discussing establishing a permanent base there where they could all live.
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[Link] Meet the Antisemitic QAnon Leader Who Led Followers to Dallas to Meet JFK
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Tuesday morning, hundreds of QAnon followers gathered on the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, believing they were going to see John F. Kennedy reappear. These people had traveled from all over the U.S.
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[Link] Hundreds of QAnon Fans Are Going to Texas to See JFK Return. No, Seriously.
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Hundreds of QAnon supporters are currently traveling from all across the U.S. to Dallas, where they expect to see John F. Kennedy suddenly reappear on Tuesday night and ordain former President Donald Trump as the “king of kings.
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[Link] How the 'Craigslist of Guns' Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist.
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[Link] Northern Territory chief minister and US senator Ted Cruz in Twitter spat over Covid vaccines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Northern Territory chief minister, Michael Gunner, has hit back at US senator Ted Cruz who criticised the Northern Territory’s vaccine policy, telling the firebrand Texan conservative “you know nothing about us”.
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[Link] Texas governor bans all vaccine mandates, including from private businesses
Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order late Monday prohibiting all state entities, including private businesses, from requiring people to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
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[Link] Unvaccinated patients are getting kicked off organ transplant waitlists
Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com
A growing number of medical facilities across the country are directing coveted organ donations to patients who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, pushing people who remain unvaccinated down or even off of transplantation waitlists.
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[Link] Ted Cruz Says Bitcoin Mining Can Fix Texas' Crumbling Electric Grid
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Texas’ energy grid has problems. Those issues were laid bare this past winter when a storm put the state in a deep freeze, causing blackouts for millions and killing hundreds of people.
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[Link] DHS Temporarily Suspends Horse Patrol in Del Rio After ‘Horrific’ Display
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Less than a week after videos and images of U.S. border patrol officers on horseback whipping Haitian migrants at the U.S.
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[Link] Texas couple denied service at restaurant for breaking ‘no mask’ rule
Read: 20/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Natalie Wester spoke to CBS DFW, a local TV station, about her experience with her husband, Jose, and a few friends. Last week, she said, the Westers went to Hang Time, a bar and restaurant in Rowlett, 20 miles outside Dallas, for a rare outing.
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[Link] DoJ vows to protect women seeking abortions in Texas after radical state ban
Read: 6/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
US attorney general Merrick Garland announced on Monday that the federal government will take action to protect those in Texas trying to obtain an abortion in the wake of the strictest anti-abortion law in the US taking effect last week.
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[Link] OnlyFans Model Murdered by Man Suspected to Be a Stranger
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Police were called to do a wellness check on Morr, whose legal name was Janae Gagnier, on Sunday. When they entered, they found her and a man, Kevin Alexander Accorto, deceased in the apartment.
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[Link] A Texas School District Shut Down After 2 Teachers Died of COVID
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Connally Junior High seventh-grade social studies teacher David McCormick, 59, died of COVID-19 on August 24, Connally ISD assistant superintendent Jill Bottelberghe told Fox News.
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[Link] What You Need To Know About Texas’ Near-Total Ban on Abortion
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The Supreme Court let an unprecedented law that bans abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy go into effect in Texas overnight on Wednesday, effectively demolishing the protections of Roe v.
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[Link] Dallas cops lost 8TB of criminal case data during bungled migration, says the DA... four months later
Read: 23/8/2021 www.theregister.com
A bungled data migration of a network drive caused the deletion of 22 terabytes of information from a US police force's systems – including case files in a murder trial, according to local reports.
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[Link] Austin Police Decline to Investigate Complaints in Protest of Reform Attorneys
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
As has been the case with many progressive district attorneys elected in recent years, the backlash to the Texas DAs’ approach has come in large part from law enforcement and right-wing media.
[Link] Mother whose 11yo son died in Texas freeze sues electricity companies for $100 million
Read: 27/2/2021 www.abc.net.au
The mother of an 11-year-old boy who died after they lost electricity and heat in their Texas mobile home during last week's freeze has filed a $US100 million ($126 million) lawsuit against two power companies for gross negligence.