https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BQvxO1KQ8fo
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/23/congress/cruz-eyes-catastrophic-risk-01010231
The 19th-century law made it a federal crime to mail, possess, give away, or sell “obscene materials”—including items used for abortion. Parts of the law relating to birth control were repealed in 1971, but Comstock was never repealed in its entirety. When abortion providers started prescribing pills to patients in states where abortion was banned thanks to “shield” laws, anti-abortion activists argued that this was a violation of the Comstock Act. Project 2025 also called for criminal prosecutions of abortion pill providers under Comstock, though the document only references the law by statute number, not by name.
In response, a December 2022 opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel said it was not illegal for the U.S. Postal Service and other carriers like FedEx and UPS to deliver abortion medications to states that ban abortion, and that Comstock did not apply unless the sender intended pills to be used unlawfully. That interpretation has reassured abortion providers that they can prescribe pills across state lines without fear of federal prosecution...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/republicans-big-oil-climate-lawsuits
Ted Cruz may see a new path to the White House in today's changing political-media ecosystem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqI5LYkHy50
"Ted Cruz has spent years doing big oil's bidding, gutting climate research, defunding Noaa, and weakening the very systems meant to warn and protect the public,' said Cassidy DiPaola, communications director of Fossil Free Media.
"That's made disasters like this weekend's flood in Texas even more deadly. Now he's doubling down, pushing through even more cuts in the so-called big beautiful bill. Texans are dead and grieving, and Cruz is protecting big oil instead of the people he's supposed to represent. It's disgraceful."
Cruz, who has previously cast doubt over the scientific reality of the climate crisis, said that complaints about cuts to the National Weather Service are "partisan finger pointing", although he conceded that people should've been evacuated earlier...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/ted-cruz-trump-weather-forecasting-cuts
"You're a senator who's calling for an overthrow of the government and you don't know anything about the country," Carlson exclaimed in response to Cruz's difficulty answering a question about the population of Iran. Cruz called the line of questioning "snide."…
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5361330-stewart-carlson-iran-israel-conflict/