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  Mark Zuckerberg Won't Save Us From Liars. Skepticism Will.

  December 19 at 4 a.m.

  Tell me this. Recently I looked at the website of a prominent Dallas consulting firm and noticed they have a social media specialist on their staff who “guides paid social strategy … working with clients to generate content that educates, motivates and empowers target audiences to act in ways that...

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  Russian Trolls Successfully Peddled Texas Pride in 2016, Senate Reports Say

  December 19 at 4 a.m.

  If you thought Texas' Facebook fever swamp got especially weird as the 2016 election approached, you were right. According to a couple of new, third-party reports released by the Senate Intelligence Committee this week, the Internet Research Agency, the Russian troll farm behind the country's fake news campaign to interfere...

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  Speech Pathologist Sues for Her Right to Boycott Israel in Texas

  December 18 at 4 a.m.

  A Texas speech pathologist is suing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Pflugerville Independent School District over a Texas law that requires contractors and businesses to sign a pledge promising not to boycott Israel. For nine years, plaintiff Bahia Amawi signed an annual contract with Pflugerville ISD without an...

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  No Matter What Anybody Says, Not Shaving's Not Saving Ted Cruz

  December 17 at 4 a.m.

  The key to likability was there all along, hiding in plain sight for Ted Cruz, Texas' junior senator. Turns out, he didn't need to be a fan of The Simpsons, country music or The Princess Bride in order to convince people that he wasn't a time-traveling serial killer doing his best to...

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  Julian Castro for President? Then He Needs to Explain his Dallas Decision.

  December 17 at 4 a.m.

  If former San Antonio mayor Julian Castro really wants to be president of the United States, maybe he’ll come back to Dallas and tell us why, when he was President Barack Obama’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development, he killed our best shot at overcoming racial segregation. Castro is testing...

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  Did Dems Like Me Ever not Care if Clinton Broke the Law?

  December 13 at 4 a.m.

  Here’s a challenge I put to my fellow lifelong loyal Dem libtards: Back during Lewinsky, did we ever say we didn’t care if Bill Clinton broke the law? I’m serious. I don’t think it’s an easy question. Was there ever a point during the Monica Lewinsky scandal when I told...