Do you think they chose “Rebels” because the school’s name had “Southern” in it? That might have seemed pretty clever a few decades ago. These days, “UNLV Runnin’ Rebels” makes next-to-no sense (what’s rebellious about Vegas?) so it strikes me as pretty innocuous – but if people automatically associate “Rebel” with “Confederacy” regardless of context, it’s likely to be changed soon.
Well, you know, they keep insisting on eating meat and wearing leather despite being Vegans.
Not me. Where I worked, HR was under the supervision of a Rebel. Rebel Costanza. She was good at it, too. Must be a suck job.
Dang … Rebel Wilson is gonna need new business cards.
To add to that, after he and his band took off in waiting cars. SBC came back in another disguise and hung around the rally organizers who thought he was a cameraman.
That flag change will never happen so long as it’s required that the voters approve a new design. If the state continues to fly the current flag until a new flag is approved, then all the legislature has done is pass the buck.
After the bill is signed by the governor (he says he will sign it in the next few days), the flags have to immediately be taken down from public buildings. Some places are even getting a head start.
Glad to hear that, aurora_maire, thanks. But I think my point stands that as long as the new flag design must be approved by the voters, there will never be a new flag for that state.
Okay, but think of what doing such would do to pop culture:
I’m just a sweet Trumpvestite,
From Trumpsexual,
Trumpsylvania!
Trumplifornia, here I come,
All those Libs are really dumb…
Trumplahoma, where the wind combs his hair over his pate…
New Trump, New Trump, it’s a wonderful state,
The Dow is up, and there’s plenty to hate…
Yeah. Maybe we should hold off on renaming states to honor the Cheeto-in-Chief. Although he deserves being made fun of, it’s far too easy to make fun of him if we do.
Put “God” on the new flag in big enough letters, and I’m confident you’ll have a solid block of voters who would approve it regardless of the overall design.
First Baptist Dallas took several steps to try to curb the spread of the virus during the service, encouraging people to wear masks, conducting temperature checks, providing hand sanitizing liquid, and encouraging vulnerable populations to stay home.
But the church also had its choir sing ― despite the fact that indoor choir rehearsals and performances have been linked to outbreaks of COVID-19.
The choir wore masks while sitting down between songs, according to CNN. But during performances, members removed their masks and sang loudly and energetically while facing the audience. They performed the national anthem, the anthems of each branch of the military and several hymns. The indoor service lasted for about one and a half hours.
My bold.
Yeah, that probably helped. 
Personally, I think that any state flying the Confederate battle standard officially should be taken at their word: Flying that standard is a statement that the state is still in revolt against the US government. Which should in turn be taken as consent to remove the state’s representation in the Senate (the Constitution says that can’t be done without a state’s consent, which implies that a state can consent to it).
It may depend on how the write the referendum. If its written to only allow voters to decide between designs A, B and C, none of which contain the Confederate flag, then it could work. If on the other hand the choice is keep the current flag or change it to flag X, then its not going to go anywhere.
Then they get to be flagless.
Extra bonus, from the other side, it says DOG.
Tsurtew dogni
"As Planned Parenthood attorney Alice Clapman told NBC News, “The situation feels like Groundhog Day because we were here only three years ago seeking the same emergency relief and litigating a mandatory delay law that was indistinguishable from this one.”
" She signed the bill even as a similar law requiring a 72-hour waiting period was ruled unconstitutional by the state’s Supreme Court in 2018."
The Texas Medical Association is encouraging Texans to practice social distancing, stay home when possible and wear masks to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. But despite the potential mixed message it may send, the state’s largest medical organization said Monday it is not reconsidering its sponsorship of the Texas Republican convention next month. Some 6,000 people from across the state are expected to gather indoors without a mask mandate at the convention in Houston, one of the nation’s fastest-growing COVID-19 hot spots.
A spokesperson for TMA, which represents more than 53,000 Texas physicians and medical students, told The Texas Tribune that it will honor its commitment to the event.
“The agreement will not be revisited,” Brent Annear said in an email Monday.
He added that despite the fact that the GOP organizers won’t require attendees to wear masks, TMA “encourages everyone who goes anywhere to wear masks.”
That should go really well. 
So much for “first, do no harm” 
Is the Texas Medical Association a real group, or is it a conservative front like the American College of Pediatrics?
That is an excellent question. Here is a description from Ballotpedia:
From this I get the impression this is like a Chamber of Commerce for doctors, i.e., it’s oriented to the business side of medical practice, not the scientific/medical side.
But today the organization is reversing the position I cited yesterday.