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Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
As a migrant child dies on a Greg Abbott bus to Chicago, California Governor Gavin Newsom calls our Governor's care for human life "absolutely appalling": https://www.ktvu.com/news/newsom-calls-out-texas-gov-after-3-year-old-migrant-dies-on-bus-to-chicago
Also appalling - someone is stealing water barrels intended to save the lives of migrants in the Texas desert: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/12/1193621286/texas-migrants-drinking-water-barrels-disappeared
Texas AG's office reverses itself on status of unborn fetuses - are they people, or not? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/12/texas-fetus-rights-prison-guard-lawsuit-abortion
Austin attorney Mindy Montford - a Democrat - will play a role in the Ken Paxton impeachment trial: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2023/08/14/texas-impeachment-austin-lawyer-could-be-key-witness-in-paxton-trial/70570511007/
Dallas attorney Sidney Powell - definitely not a Democrat - is thought likely to be the target of impending criminal charges in the Trump investigation: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-jack-smith-sidney-powell-indictment-1234804906/
The EPA trashes Texas coal cleanup as "do-nothing policy", demands drastic reduction of emissions that are affecting national parks: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13082023/epa-texas-disagree-haze-rules-national-parks/
And here we go again: COVID-related hospitalizations are spiking in Texas, just as the kids go back to school: https://www.ktsm.com/news/texas-covid-hospitalizations-jump-again-maps-show-where-its-worst/
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