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NEW: Texas lawmakers rejected over five dozen bills that could have protected residents from last summer’s deadly floods. “We need to resist this narrative that this disaster was unpreventable,” an environmental studies director said.

propublica.orgTexas Lawmakers Repeatedly Failed to Pass Legislation That Could Have Protected Residents From Deadly FloodsDozens of bills were rejected over nearly 60 years, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. The most consequential measures could have saved lives by prohibiting youth camps and new construction in areas at high risk for flooding.

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This is why I roll my eyes at the talk of TX going blue. Election after election these people vote to kill their own children. What "message" do people think will cut through that kind of nihilism?

Texas sees that passage of these life saving bills would be an admission that there was something wrong and MAGA/GOP cannot be wrong. 😠

Texas voters prove time and time again that they are much more concerned with brutalizing the “others” than advancing their own rational self-interests.

I live in North Texas, and check the weather in the hill country. I got an elert for that area a day before the floods! They blocked Biden directed funding for an alert system in Kerr County because they're assholes. And who would send their young girls to camp for 30 days with no AC in cabins? 😰