Donald Trump and Beto O'Rourke Duke It Out In El Paso As Congress Works Against A New Shutdown

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FORMER CONGRESSMAN AND POSSIBLE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BETO O'ROURKE MARCHED IN HIS OWN RALLY MONDAY. IMAGE: IVAN PIERRE AGUIRRE FOR THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

Donald Trump and Beto O'Rourke Duke It Out In El Paso As Congress Works Against A New Shutdown

As Trump spoke, O’Rourke led a march to a park just steps away from the coliseum. There, the former congressman and U.S. Senate candidate pressed his case — to raucous cheers — that El Paso is “safe not because of walls but in spite of walls.”

“We can show the rest of the country ... that walls do not make us safer,” O’Rourke said, arguing such barriers force immigrants to cross in more remote, dangerous stretches of the border.

“We know that walls do not save lives,” he added. “Walls end lives.”

GOP Congressman Blake Farenthold Didn't Wear His Ducky PJs To Challenge Sen. Collins, Murkowski & Capito To A Duel Over Obamacare Repeal

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GOP Congressman Blake Farenthold Didn't Wear His Ducky PJs To Challenge Sen. Collins, Murkowski & Capito To A Duel Over Obamacare Repeal

What do you think? I just suggested to my W. VA Dem friends, who are doing such a bang-up job at organizing in Trump country, that they respond to the big shot Texas Congressman Blake Farenthold, who says if the three Republican women Senators were men, he would challenge them to duels -- and presumably be the last man standing, writes the Texas Tribune.

If you remember, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Shelley Moore Capito of W. Va brought the Senate health care strategy to a screeching halt last week. Interviewed by local Corpus Christi radio host Bob Jones on Friday, Farenthold said: "Some of the people that are opposed to this, there are female senators from the Northeast... If it was a guy from South Texas, I might ask him to step outside and settle this Aaron Burr-style." 

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News: Citizens Tell Sen. Susan Collins To Hang Tough On Health Care | States Move To Curb City Laws | Will Trump Ax WH Council on Women & Girls?

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News: Citizens Tell Sen. Susan Collins To Hang Tough On Health Care | States Move To Curb City Laws | Will Trump Ax WH Council on Women & Girls?

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is a creature of habit on July 4, marching now for 15 years in Eastport, Maine to celebrate America's day of independence. Collins was celebrated by this small town of 1,331 citizens and their children, cheered for her principled stand against repealing the Affordable Care Act. 

“There was only one issue. That’s unusual. It’s usually a wide range of issues,” Collins said in an interview after the parade. “I heard, over and over again, encouragement for my stand against the current version of the Senate and House health-care bills. People were thanking me, over and over again. ‘Thank you, Susan!’ ‘Stay strong, Susan!’ ”

Eye | Vogue Explains Meerkat | East Austin, Texas Under the Lens | Rick Perry Called By God To Serve

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Meerkat Obsessed

What Is Meerkat and Why Is Everyone Obsessed With It? Vogue.com

If you weren’t in Austin last weekend for SXSW, Vogue writes Meerkat is a new app that allows users to easily livestream video from their cellphones onto their Twitter accounts.

Another sign of the imminent rise of Meerkat is that Twitter decided to remove Meerkat from its social graph. So while Meerkat users can still broadcast live videos on their Twitter feeds, a user’s followers will no longer get a notification when a new live stream begins, making it harder to know when to tune in. This move came shortly after Twitter purchased a similar app, Periscope. But the social graph ban only increased Meerkat’s draw—who wouldn’t want to root for the little app that could?

Austin’s Friends & Neighbor’s Jill Bradshaw

The Fashion Insider’s Guide to Austin Vogue.com

In town for SXSW, Vogue’s Laird Borrelli-Persson tracked down hot spots in Austin, starting out with Jill Bradshaw’s Friends & Neighbors. ‘I wanted to see more of the sky,’says Bradshaw, who returned to her college town from Nolita in Manhattan. In New York, the teepee lover ran I Heart, a fashion boutique for emerging labels. Friends & Neighbors, mixes vintage clothing, housewares, music, and food in her signature colorful way.

Her partners in Friends & Neighbors—located in a house in East Austin —are Greg Mathews and Jade Place Mathews, who run local eatery Hillside Farmacy, as well as Brooklyn’s El Diablo Tacos at Union Pool. Check out more Austin hot spots.  

Cruel Joke in Austin

Austin mayor Steve Adler called this week’s placement of professionally-printed ‘whites-only’ stickers on six businesses on the city’s East Side (home to Vogue.com highlights above) ‘an appalling and offensive display of ignorance in our city … Our city is a place where respect for all people is a part of our spirit and soul. We will keep it that way.’

State Rep. Dawnna Dukes (D-Austin) spoke loud and clear on the incident:

‘Some jokes just are not funny. If this is a joke at all, it is tasteless,’ Dukes wrote. ‘Pardon mon française mais, I will be damned if this will occur in my House District, district 46 on my watch on 12th St. in this historical Black Community or any community.’

Dukes, wrote on her Facebook page:

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