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Where Things Stand: Airlines Buck Abbott’s Confusing Anti-Mandate Mandate 
Two Texas-based airlines plan to follow federal regulations about vaccination mandates, defying the state’s Republican governor’s recent mandate barring such mandates in the Lone Star State.
How many times can we say mandate?
Gov. Greg Abbott’s whole positioning on COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Texas would be amusing if it weren’t so dark. Abbott passed an executive order on Monday, banning “any entity” from adopting vaccine requirements in the state, even if private businesses want to implement them and/or follow federal requirements on vaccinations for employees. His order is hyper-focused on the badness of government mandates, while being a mandate in and of itself.
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Where Things Stand: Backlash To Extreme Texas Abortion Law Is At A Slow Burn
The backlash to the new anti-abortion law in Texas is only slowly coalescing, and it remains unclear whether it will manage to put any kind of serious economic or political pressure on the state.
Case in point: the city council in Portland, Oregon is set to vote Wednesday on a measure meant to punish Texas for the ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
Where Things Stand: Washington State Finally Does It — All School Workers Must Be Vaccinated
Being vaccinated is now a condition of employment in all Washington state schools. And that includes public, charter and private.
Where Things Stand: Contender For Worst COVID Governor Gets COVID
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who has distinguished himself with his incredibly lax approach to handling the COVID-19 outbreak in his state, has tested positive for COVID-19.
Where Things Stand: Florida And Texas Dig Their Heels In
As at least one Republican governor expresses regret over a state law that bans mask mandates at the local level, Texas and Florida’s top officials are doing the opposite.