The State of Texas: What does Alex Jones do now?

What Texas is talking about today No Images? [Click here]( [Discover Shreveport-Bossier: Louisiana's Other Side]( [Texas Monthly]( August 9, 2018 QUOTE OF THE DAY “To roll back the clock and risk the health of millions of Americans is not only irresponsible, it’s dangerous.” —California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, on a lawsuit that was heard in federal court on Wednesday in which Texas, leading a coalition of twenty states,[tried to end Obamacare](. Becerra and his state led a counter-coalition of sixteen states fighting the lawsuit. THE LATEST [What Does Alex Jones Do Now?]( DAN SOLOMON The beleaguered Infowars boss has been pulled from the two largest media platforms in the world. Now what? [Read more.]( QUIZ 1. The cathedral-like beer garden at [Saint Arnold Brewing Company]( features alcoves painted with scenes of the brewery's namesake, who warned his parishioners of the dangers of drinking _________ and encouraged them to stick to beer. 2. [Dockless rental bikes]( have met their end in Dallas through a number of gruesome fates: toppled in a ditch, tossed beneath the cloudy surface of White Rock Lake, and even one improbably placed atop a _________. 3. [San Antonian Shea Serrano]( has released a new ten-part series of essays titled Conference Room, Five Minutes. The essays represent reflections on the hit TV show _________. 4. A Dallas overpass known as the [High Five](reaches an astounding _________ feet in height. 5. [Governor Greg Abbott]( created a brief furor on Twitter after his account posted a meme that misquoted _________. Look here every Thursday for our weekly news quiz—and check back on Friday for the answers! [Talk Like a Texan podcast: Listen Now!Discover Shreveport-Bossier: Louisiana's Other Side]( OUR TOP STORIES [Senator John Cornyn Is Pulling for Pop Singer Demi Lovato]( The second ranking Republican expressed admiration for the Dallas diva following reports of her drug overdose and entering rehab. [Read more.]( [Robert Griffin III and Johnny Manziel, a Study in Contrasts]( Both of the Texas college greats suited up to play football again. Only one of them looked rusty. [Read more.]( [The Rise and Fall of Dockless Bike Sharing in Dallas]( In memoriam. [Read more.]( THE STATE OF TEXAS Robert E. Lee Survives Going against the grain of much of the nation, the Tyler school board decided to [keep the name of its local high school Robert E. Lee](. In a precursor to today's movement against Confederate symbols, in 1972 the school changed its mascot from Rebels to Red Raiders, and they retired the school's Confederate flag as well as the school song, "Dixie." But when one of the board members this week made a motion to change the school's name, the rest of the board sat silently. The motion died and Robert E. Lee survived one more battle. When heroes and despots are [the same person]( "I Warned Him" A Houston grandmother told police she gave the intruder fair warning this week after he exposed himself and began masturbating in front of her. As she retreated into her house and locked the door, the 38-year-old man followed her and tried to gain access to the house—despite her warning that she would shoot him. [And shoot him she did](, pulling a gun and firing through her front door, striking him once in the chest. Police said the man was treated at a local hospital and is expected to survive. "I don't get in nobody's business," the 68-year-old grandmother said. "It's just me and him, and like I keep saying, I warned him." The shooting of [another intruder ]( She Did Cover Up A photo of an Austin woman responding to someone asking her to cover up as she breastfed her child is going viral. Melanie Dudley was nursing her child in the extremely humid Mexican resort town of Cabo San Lucas when someone approached her and asked her to cover up. Dudley dutifully grabbed a swaddling blanket and [threw it over her head,]( leaving her nursing baby undisturbed. "I’ve never met her, but I think she’s AWESOME!!! (Please share! With permission, I’ve made this post public — I’m SO over people shaming women for nursing!!!," wrote Carol Lockwood, who posted the photo, which has generated more than 16,000 comments and 202,000 shares, on Facebook. Is Beyonce [the perfect spokeswoman]( for breastfeeding? THE CULTURE [The Beauty and the Ugliness of “Random Acts of Flyness”]( DOYIN OYENIYI Dallas native Terence Nance’s new HBO series is a dream with a dark edge. [Read more.]( [Living the Bold Life: Arnold Moede]( [Living the Bold Life: Arnold Moede]( When Arnold Moede turned 88, he set his driver’s license on fire. “I wanted to protest getting old,” Moede says. 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