Cook Children's sues Texas over Medicaid contract denial Texas’ $116 billion Medicaid procurement would remove Cook Children's health plans from Medicaid STAR and CHIP programs, which serve low-income children and families. keranews.org/health-wellnes…

Disability advocates say special education funding in Texas falls short by about $2 billion — leaving school districts to foot the bill. And even wealthy districts are struggling to come up with the missing funds keranews.org/news/2024-06-2…

Shot: Supreme Court Justice John Roberts in the "Chevron" decision: "Perhaps most fundamentally, Chevron’s presumption is misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do." Chaser:

Detention officers indicted for murder in death of Anthony Johnson Jr. in Tarrant County Jail. Miranda Suarez has the latest keranews.org/criminal-justi…

Latin American immigrants are creating businesses at a rapid pace: more than twice the rate of the overall U.S. population wsj.com/business/entre… via The Wall Street Journal

NEW: In federal court today, a Texas prison official said “heat has been a contributing factor but not the casual factor” in inmate deaths. Also, Bernie Tiede testified. Watch this video for more. Apologies for the hoodie. Read my investigation kut.org/crime-justice/… #txlege

I love this. And also: $13/hour! We should pay reporters better

Earlier this month, some of the richest men in Silicon Valley, led by Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz (the billionaire VCs behind Andreesen-Horowitz) announced that they would be backing Trump with endorsements and millions of dollars: forbes.com/sites/dereksau… 1/

8. On July 26, Musk shared a doctored video featuring Harris' voice in which she calls herself "the ultimate diversity hire" and says if you criticize her, you are "sexist and racist." In the doctored video, Harris also says she "pretend[s] to celebrate Kwanzaa." Harris never

NEW: Two Texas women have filed federal EMTALA complaints against Ascension Seton Williamson Hospital in Round Rock and Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital for allegedly refusing to treat their ectopic pregnancies. More TK Texas Tribune

A team of NPR reporters & editors reviewed the transcript of Trump's press conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes. That’s more than two a minute. npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-…

Dallas Black Dance Theatre terminated its entire company of dancers. The surprise move comes months after the dancers had formed a union to negotiate with the company’s management. keranews.org/arts-culture/2…

How Close Are the Planet’s Climate Tipping Points? nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The financial services industry has blocked the Biden administration from requiring brokers to put retirees’ needs first — above lucrative commissions. It is the latest example of a pervasive pattern. wapo.st/4dAnwga

This oil tycoon brings in millions for Trump, and may set his agenda This is good, important reporting What's strange: No mention climate change or the existential threat to humanity that continued fossil fuel development poses wapo.st/3M1dw43

SCOOP: Texas DPS is committing to a five year, $5.3 million contract for Tangles, an AI surveillance tool that can track cell phones w/o a court order. ICE, IRS, BIA + other fed agencies have used Tangles. DPS' contract is far larger than even ICE's. texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surv…

🧵Ok I'm someone who has followed the RealPage price fixing conspiracy in the rental market closely, but this weekend I read the full U.S. Department of Justice complaint and my jaw hit the floor. This was flagrant, far reaching and deliberate. Let's dig in. 1/7 justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…

The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning: "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: economist.com/interactive/un…

bro somebody PLEASE tell me how to read this, who tf is winning