Far-Right Candidate Who Wants to Deport 100 Million People Leads Incumbent in GOP Runoff for Texas Oil Regulator

Everybody knows Talarico is a closet Vegan. He goes to BBQs as a beard but secretly eats tofu and Impossible burgers at home. Sez in Facebook.

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Speaking of sepsis The NASCAR driver Kyle Busch died from pneumonia and sepsis. Which is also the cause of death for women who don’t have access to reproductive healthcare in many states where NASCAR is popular.

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I know. That is why I picked it. Almost always fatal. And as many Hivers know, in my personal experience.

My wife. R.I.P

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That’s awful. My condolences. When I heard the story break on Saturday, it was breaking on my NYT email account I thought “Well that’s unfortunately how too many women in red states end up”. Maybe Planned Parenthood ought to sponsor a car. The Abortion Every Day Substack is an important but grim read regarding reproductive healthcare.

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Remains to be seen, but Bo French was too crazy for even the Tarrant County GOP to tolerate.

Seats on the Railroad Commission don’t usually get much attention from voters, but I expect this race will be quite different from the usual.

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Not very effectively, in the latter case.

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Hope your physical therapy goes well!

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A lot of pols have tried to use the RRC as a starting point for seeking higher-level statewide positions. The commissioner positions had looked like revolving doors for a while, but it didn’t work for Christi Craddick and I am hoping that French hit his level of mediocrity in Tarrant County.

I keep thinking that the nincompoops who reflexively vote GQP (because Everyone at the Country Club Votes Republican) will finally find a limit to what they are willing to endorse, but so far I’ve been disappointed. Wright might be a tool of his major oil company donors, but at least the RRC was taking some baby steps towards working on reining in over-injection and reducing the number of zombie wells.

A lot of the smaller independents have a business model based on the financial aspects - drilling enough wells to sell their interests and move on to the next venture. They really don’t give a shit about sustainability on any level.

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Planted an Aunt in Amarillo.

Death Valley has more charm

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But can you get the fragrance from feedlots in Death Valley? I’ll bet not.

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:rofl:

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Yee Haw! Another rootin’ tootin’ certified white Christian conservative gun nut cowboy to rape and pillage Texas. What could go wrong?

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Could we please circle back to the “deport 100 million people” part? Because that’s a third of the U.S. population and it seems like maybe people are doing that “oh, he can’t be serious” thing that people keep doing when Nazis propose monstrously evil policies that they for fuck’s sake should not be doing. Which citizens, exactly, is this Texas degenerate demanding be deported?

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