The new season of "Euphoria" premieres this weekend. In the show, Martha Kelly plays a terrifying drug dealer with a deadpan delivery. In real life, she’s a deadpan comedian who cut her teeth in Texas.
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“Being there and showing these younger girls that we can accomplish the same thing as the guys … means a lot,” Summer Williams, a 20-year-old from Mineral Wells, told The Barbed Wire.
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⛪ “I wanted to highlight the diversity within church leadership that often goes unrepresented in media coverage, especially coverage of Texas,” Corrie Aune, who grew up in Texas, told @19thnews.org in an email.
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Environmental and activist groups are rallying against a new proposal that would give SpaceX’s Starbase in South Texas more than 700 acres of wildlife refuge.
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In these one party states, the governing party finds new ways to suppress citizen efforts to pursue popular policy goals on health insurance, abortion, sick leave, and pay.
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The sound of fracking machinery was so cacophonous that children couldn’t play outdoors one day in December, @19thnews.org reported.
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Environmental and activist groups are rallying against a new proposal that would give SpaceX’s Starbase in South Texas more than 700 acres of wildlife refuge.
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