Episode 3530: Muleshoe NWR “landgrab” isn’t but it is bad policy | Texas wins huge data privacy settlement from Meta- Pratt on Texas 7/30/2024

Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas scores a huge, $1.4 billion, settlement victory with Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc) over data privacy but there is so much more that needs doing. Google is monitoring Gmail and it’s Googlegroups for political speech it doesn’t like and, the Chinese communists are mapping our infrastructure and gaining intel through apps the likes of which no one has ever seen. Texas has the tools to fight, and is doing so, but needs to do even more.
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Landowners decry Muleshoe Niational Wildlife Refuge ‘land grab’ despite manager of federal agency’s assurances. I explain how this is neither a big immediate threat as it is voluntary, nor is it benign because it is part of the anti-private land ownership movement.
Biden and Democrats suddenly don’t like how the Supreme Court works after almost of a century of getting their way ends. Biden talked Supreme Court “reform” in Austin yesterday and his supporter Jonathan Turley takes him to task for it.
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