Skip to content

Thatsthewaythecookiecrumbles

#1 Trusted news

  • Home
  • Politics Matters
  • BBC US politics
  • A boy saved by barbed wire, a ‘destroyed’ camp and missed warning signs in Texas floods

A boy saved by barbed wire, a ‘destroyed’ camp and missed warning signs in Texas floods

5 July 2025byThe editor

Survivors describe a sudden deluge that struck with devastating speed in central Texas.

BBC US politics

Post navigation

BBC witnesses destruction after house ripped from foundations in Texas floods
Greene to introduce ‘weather modification’ bill

Related Posts

Dozens hospitalised as heatwave descends on North America

150 people were sickened at outdoor graduation ceremonies in New Jersey due to the sweltering conditions.

How Trump’s immigration raids sparked protests and unrest

The BBC’s Carl Nasman explains how the ramping up of deportation efforts led to protests in many US cities.

Trump mega-bill takes one step closer to House vote

It squeaked through a key commitee but faces more challenges before the whole chamber will vote on it.

  • Home
  • All of Trump’s decisions at #1 place
  • Must-Watch Videos
  • US Constitution Explained Simply
  • Save Democracy: Current Challenges and Lessons from History
  • Dr. Heather Cox Richardson: Bringing the Civil War—and Today’s Democracy—to Life
  • Trusted sources of information
  • The LBJ Foundation: Preserving a Legacy of Leadership, Civil Rights, and Public Service
The LBJ Foundation: Preserving a Legacy of Leadership, Civil Rights, and Public Service
Fact checking by PolitiFact
  • In Context: Zohran Mamdani’s use of phrase ‘seizing the means of production.’ What’s it mean?

    Mamdani referenced ‘seizing the means of production’ in ‘21

  • Ask PolitiFact: How will the Republican megabill affect Social Security’s future solvency?

    Ask PolitiFact: How does Trump’s bill affect SS solvency?

  • TikTok posts - No, Donald Trump did not close US borders ‘with no set reopening date’ starting July 1

    President Donald Trump signed an executive order for “a total border shutdown with no set reopening date” on July 1.

  • Republican megabill will mean higher health costs for many Americans

    GOP bill's Medicaid, ACA cuts will raise health care costs

  • TikTok posts - No, there is no new law allowing people to apply for ‘permanent residency directly’

    A new “community recognition” law allows people to apply for “permanent residency directly, quickly, and without leaving the country” if they have “resided continuously in the United States for at least seven years, regardless of their current immigration status.”

Categories

  • Architecture
  • Astronomy
  • BBC US politics
  • CNN
  • Democracy matters – defending democracy
  • Featured articles
  • FiveThirtyEight
  • Fox news
  • Just security
  • Movie Stuff
  • NPR
  • Painters Matter
  • Politico
  • Politics Matters
  • Talking Points Memo
  • The Atlantic
  • The Guardian
  • The Hill
The Atlantic
  • Trump Targets Google After Meta and X Payouts

    Mark Zuckerberg paid $25 million. Elon Musk followed with $10 million. Now it could be Sundar Pichai’s turn.

  • No One Loves the Bill (Almost) Every Republican Voted For

    But they didn’t want to anger the president.

  • The Most Perverse Part of the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

    The Republican megabill could be setting America up for the worst energy-affordability crisis since the 1970s.

  • Trump World’s Wizard of Oz Problem

    Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon don’t speak for Trump or his base. So why do people think they do?

  • The Patriotic Punk

    Listen to Jeffrey Goldberg’s interview with Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys.

Recente posts

  • Iran’s supreme leader makes first public appearance since Iran-Israel war started
  • The UN is our best defence against a third world war. As Trump wields the axe, who will fight to save it? | Simon Tisdall
  • Texas flooding death toll hits 43; Rep’s daughters evacuated safely from summer camp
  • 7 injured, 2 killed in Indianapolis shooting
  • Trump news at a glance: Elon Musk announces new political party targeting sway in Congress
The Guardian
  • The UN is our best defence against a third world war. As Trump wields the axe, who will fight to save it? | Simon Tisdall

    If the US cuts off the cash it will have world-changing effects, but it’s not the only country falling short in its obligations to the United Nations The United Nations and its agencies have long struggled with funding shortfalls. Now an entrenched problem is becoming an acute crisis in the shadow of Donald Trump’s executioner’s axe. The US is the biggest contributor, at 22%, to the UN’s core budget. In February, the White House announced a six-month review of US membership of all international organisations, conventions and treaties, including the UN, with a view to reducing or ending funding – and possible withdrawal. The deadline for decapitation falls next month.Trump’s abolition of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and scrapping of most aid programmes, has already badly damaged UN-led and UN-backed humanitarian operations, which rely on discretionary funding. Yet Trump’s axe symbolises a more fundamental threat – to multilateralism and the much-battered international rules-based order. The basic concept of collective responsibility for maintaining global peace and security, and collaboration in tackling shared problems – embodied by the UN since its creation 80 years ago last week – is on the chopping block.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

  • Trump news at a glance: Elon Musk announces new political party targeting sway in Congress

    Musk, the world’s richest man, only departed from the White House this May but has been critical of Trump’s signature policy bill – key US politics stories from Saturday 5 JulyThe fallout between the US president, Donald Trump, and tech billionaire Elon Musk has reached a new low, with Musk declaring this weekend that he will bankroll a new political party to rival the president.Musk, the world’s richest man, only departed from the White House this May but has been critical of Trump’s signature policy bill, which he has described as “utterly insane and destructive”. Continue reading...

  • ‘Blatant misinformation’: Social Security Administration email praising Trump’s tax bill blasted as a ‘lie’

    Previously apolitical agency lauds Trump’s spending bill with false statements about federal taxes, experts sayAn email sent by the US Social Security Administration (SSA) that claims Donald Trump’s major new spending bill has eliminated taxes on benefits for most recipients is misleading, critics have said.The reconciliation bill – which the president called the “one big, beautiful bill” before signing it on Friday after Republicans in Congress passed it – includes provisions that will strip people of their health insurance, cut food assistance for the poor, kill off clean energy development and raise the national debt by trillions of dollars. Continue reading...

  • Hegseth falsely cited weapon shortages in halting shipments to Ukraine, Democrats say

    Reports indicate defense secretary unilaterally acted to halt shipment even as Pentagon suggested US arsenal is stockedPete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, unilaterally halted an agreed shipment of military aid to Ukraine due to baseless concerns that US stockpiles of weapons have run too low, it has been reported.A batch of air defense missiles and other precision munitions were due to be sent to Ukraine to aid it in its ongoing war with Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in 2022. The aid was promised by the US during Joe Biden’s administration last year. Continue reading...

  • If the US president threatens to take away freedoms, are we no longer free?

    Donald Trump’s dramatic escalation in threats to deport or arrest citizens – from the world’s richest person to Democratic lawmakers – should be taken seriously, experts sayThreats of retribution from Donald Trump are hardly a novelty, but even by his standards, the US president’s warnings of wrathful vengeance in recent days have represented a dramatic escalation.In the past week, Trump has threatened deportation, loss of US citizenship or arrest against, respectively, the world’s richest person, the prospective future mayor of New York and Joe Biden’s former homeland security secretary. Continue reading...

Shrinking Trump: Dr. Gartner and Dr. Segal about Trump
  • About us
  • All of Trump’s decisions
  • Dr. Heather Cox Richardson: Bringing the Civil War—and Today’s Democracy—to Life
  • Home
  • Must-Watch Videos on Politics, Art, Movies and more
  • Save Democracy in America: A Critical Look at Current Challenges and Lessons from History
  • The Atlantic
  • The Hill, everything you need to know
  • The History of the United States & US Constitution Explained Simply
  • The LBJ Foundation: Preserving a Legacy of Leadership, Civil Rights, and Public Service
  • Trusted sources of information | US Politics

Copyright © 2025 Thatsthewaythecookiecrumbles | Brief News by Ascendoor | Powered by WordPress.