(CRN) — Hello, My name is Derrick Broze. I am a journalist with Activist Post, Anti-Media, and MintPress News. I am also an activist and an author based in Houston, Texas. I am being targeted by the Houston Police Department.
The floor of the state Capitol is packed with protesters opposed to Senate Bill 4, the “sanctuary cities” bill, on May 29, 2017. (Photo:Erika Rich/The Texas Tribune)
The largest city in Texas will join San Antonio, Dallas, Austin and other local governments in a lawsuit against the state’s new immigration enforcement law.
(ANTIMEDIA) The ACLU issued a “travel alert” in the state of Texas Wednesday, warning “anyone planning to travel to Texas in the near future to anticipate the possible violation of their constitutional rights when stopped by law enforcement.”
Exxon Mobil’s Billings Refinery in Billings, Mont. (AP/Matthew Brown)
In a huge win for environmental groups, a federal judge has ordered ExxonMobil to pay nearly $20 million for spewing millions of pounds of excess air pollution from its Houston-area industrial facilities.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks during an appearance at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del., Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. (AP/Patrick Semansky)
The Supreme Court’s decision Monday not to hear an excessive-force case drew a fiery dissent from two left-leaning justices, who say the lower courts should have let a jury decide instead of taking the word of a police officer over that of the man he shot.
Dr. Jason WestinIn the earlier post about the Ryan ACA repeal today we promised to introduce you to a doctor running for Congress in Harris County, Texas. TX-07 is one of those gerrymandered, traditionally Republican Texas districts where well-educated voters don't like Trump.
A few days ago we looked at why South Carolina Congressman Mark Sanford has the political leeway to publicly denigrate Trump. For one thing, his coastal district is npt Trump territory. Rubio beat Trump in the primary there and Hillary won the largest county in the district (Charleston).
Food and gifts were thrown in the trash rather than given to the homeless.
Fran Person and Mick MulvaneyLate Friday, Trump announced that he's nominating South Carolina's far right, libertarian-leaning Mick Mulvaney Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
