John Gravois

Dallas Morning News assistant politics editor. Ex-political editor Houston Chronicle, FW Star-Telegram, Houston Post. Proud dad, grandpa and Cajun. @dallasnews

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President Trump has touted his experience as a real estate builder who is good at building things “on budget and on time,” as he did Oct. 15 for donors to his White House ballroom project. Then, the price doubled a week later, to $300 million. https://t.co/TIvd8LV3kX

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State pulls trigger on FWISD takeover, saying it’s “necessitated, unfortunately, because Fort Worth ISD has just seen chronically low levels of support given to students and very low levels of academic performance,” ⁦⁦@MillaSurjadi⁩ writes.#txlege https://t.co/gt2kRHbrlJ

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FBI indicts more than 30 people related to their alleged roles in an explosive gambling scandal that has rocked the NBA. Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier & former Dallas Mavs player Damon Jones all were arrested. https://t.co/YBSsEJSMpS

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Texas GOP state Sen. Brian Birdwell of Granbury, nominated as an assistant secretary of defense in what would be a return to DC for the 6-term senator. Birdwell is a survivor of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon, @PhilJankowski reports. https://t.co/UtyjJjCTN6

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President Trump says the federal government owes him “a lot of money,” upwards of $200 million, for prior Justice Department investigations into his actions and says he has the final say on any payout because any decision will “have to go across my desk.” https://t.co/M5PyGaGiTl

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Practicing mass destruction from land, sea and air today as Putin rattles militaries worldwide with tests of a land-based intercontinental ballistic missile, launch of a ballistic missile from a nuclear submarine and a missile launch from strategic bombers.https://t.co/IBpRpS7WY2

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A deadly twist of fate: Man dies after being crushed by burial vault at Dallas funeral home, Dallas fire officials say, @jamielandersx reports. https://t.co/JB94urTpys

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Trump’s long-running promises to the world that he’d easily & quickly end Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine continue to be mired of in a muck of politics and failed deal-making that lets bloodbath of soldiers & citizens from both countries continue. https://t.co/UciNG8ktE4

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“He lost us”: War Secretary Pete Hegseth loses trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public “grandstanding” viewed as unprofessional and his personnel moves leading to a dangerous exodus of senior leadership from the Pentagon. https://t.co/PIGw0gGgtX

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Texas prop translator: Explaining what Constitutional amendments topping the state’s November ballot really mean. @kbrooksharper has the guide. #txlege https://t.co/wOMqmMQMiq

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Trouble in Tiger Land … big time. Major negative mojo. A bad moon’s a-risen.

[T-Bob Hebert @TBob53]

I have never seen a softer culture at LSU than what we are witnessing right now

Everyone is overpaid, and underperforming, satisfied to go home to their bank accounts

There's no toughness to this team and no toughness to this program

LSU has forgotten the face of its Father

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The “Landman” effect: Cowtown was built by cowboys, oil and railroads, but its future is being shaped by the entertainment industry. “We believe that film is the next great industry in Fort Worth, just like cattle, railroads, energy…& defense,” mayor says.https://t.co/FaJtgsL4L3

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As ‘No Kings’ protests test how far Trump will go to with surveillance & retribution, transparency watchdog says, “Given Trump’s open hostility to even minor dissent, such surveillance now poses an existential threat to what remains of American democracy.” https://t.co/r6KLCvtYVD

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Flip-flop Friday at the White House: After earlier raising hopes he was ready to deal Tomahawks to Ukraine, President Trump says he wants to stop Russia’s invasion without sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukrainians. He changed his mind after talking to Putin. https://t.co/Qdrr1toCZD

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High profile missing person mystery in Austin: The police search for Julie Straus, the wife of former Texas House Speaker Joe Straus III, is intensifying after she went missing outside San Antonio Thursday night, @kbrooksharper reports. #txlege https://t.co/Al7vMeiKGD

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Criticism of Trump’s handling of food and energy prices and consumer costs overall is coming not just from Democrats, but also from bedrock MAGA conservative Republican elected officials. #economy https://t.co/9YTqTPcpTZ

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Debate rages on about Trump’s false claims that grocery and electricity prices are down.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

The president just concluded an event by declaring "groceries are down" (grocery prices are up this term and rose in August at the fastest month-to-month rate in three years) and "electricity's way down" (prices are up this term and in August were 6.2% higher than a year prior).

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So if you’re keeping score at home, a Chinese religious cult has a spot in the Pentagon press corps but no American newspaper is represented.

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Adios time this weekend for Big Tex in Big D at the #StateFairOfTexas. Last call for corny dogs on Sunday.

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Last call for a photo with Big Tex! 😭
👔: @Dickies, @Lucchese1883, @ShinerBeer
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Using social media to recruit assassins: Mexican man living in Dallas arrested after he allegedly created TikTok posts to solicit people to kill ICE agents, according to a news release from federal prosecutors. @suryataparazzi reports. https://t.co/7PxqzA2txj