Tag: Texas

Seattle Hospital Flees Texas Over Trans Treatments – HotAir

Last summer, Texas Governor Gregg Abbott signed SB-14 into law, banning transgender surgery, puberty blockers, and hormone treatments for children. Texas is one of at least 24 states to impose such rules. Unfortunately, the people at Seattle Children’s Hospital didn’t seem to get the message. They reportedly continued to write transgender prescriptions for pediatric patients […]

Tesla to lay off thousands from Texas plant

Tesla will cut thousands of employees from its Gigafactory Texas as part of a companywide tightening effort. According to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification from the electric vehicle giant, the Texas facility in Austin will lose 2,688 workers starting in June. The news comes after Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced last week that the […]

Javier Milei, Argentina president, meets Elon Musk in Texas — and a bromance is born

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — One is an erratic billionaire entrepreneur and self-declared free-speech absolutist, prone to profanity-laden rants against “wokeness” and obsessed with making humanity a multi-planetary species. The other is an iconoclastic Latin American leader and self-declared anarcho-capitalist, prone to cloning his dead dogs and obsessed with destroying state controls. Tech executive Elon Musk […]

Louisiana Senate advances bill similar to Texas’ migrant arrest law

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s Republican-controlled Senate advanced a bill Tuesday that would empower state and local law enforcement to arrest and jail people in the state who entered the U.S. illegally, similar to embattled legislation in Texas. Amid national fights between Republican states and Democratic President Joe Biden over how and who should enforce […]