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Hurricane Harvey may have hit Dickinson harder than any other Texas city, local press and law enforcement suggest, with severe flooding and winds resulting in upwards of 7,000 homes damaged. It was in Dickinson that the viral photo of elderly patients in a nursing home trapped in waist-high water was taken.


The American Civil Liberties Union has called the requirement a violation of the First Amendment, and ACLU of Texas Legal Director Andre Segura points out that &quot;the government cannot condition hurricane relief or any other public benefit on a commitment to refrain from protected political expression.&quot; Dickinson city attorney David W. Olson said that he was only following the statewide Anti-BDS law signed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) earlier this year, which &quot;prohibits all state agencies from contracting with, and certain public funds from investing in, companies that boycott Israel.&quot; There is no clarification of the law's application to individuals.
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Hurricane Harvey may have hit Dickinson harder than any other Texas city, local press and law enforcement suggest, with severe flooding and winds resulting in upwards of 7,000 homes damaged. It was in Dickinson that the viral photo of elderly patients in a nursing home trapped in waist-high water was taken.


The American Civil Liberties Union has called the requirement a violation of the First Amendment, and ACLU of Texas Legal Director Andre Segura points out that &quot;the government cannot condition hurricane relief or any other public benefit on a commitment to refrain from protected political expression.&quot; Dickinson city attorney David W. Olson said that he was only following the statewide Anti-BDS law signed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) earlier this year, which &quot;prohibits all state agencies from contracting with, and certain public funds from investing in, companies that boycott Israel.&quot; There is no clarification of the law's application to individuals.
Watch local news coverage of the discovery below. The Week Staff


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							 <p>Dickinson, Texas, a suburb about 30 miles away from Houston, is requiring that applicants for relief funds in the wake of Hurricane Harvey pledge not to boycott Israel, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/20/texas-town-makes-hurricane-harvey-aid-applicants-pledge-not-to-boycott-israel"><em>The Washington Post</em> reports</a>. <a href="http://www.ci.dickinson.tx.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=186">The application document</a> reads: "By executing this agreement below, the applicant verifies that the applicant: (1) does not boycott Israel; and (2) will not boycott Israel during the term of this agreement."</p>
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							 <p>For seven months, Trenton Lewis would walk 11 long miles to work, getting up way before dawn in order to arrive on time for his 4 a.m. shift.</p>
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							 <p>White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has severely mishandled the allegations of domestic abuse against former staff secretary Rob Porter, numerous White House aides and advisers <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-reels-as-fbi-director-contradicts-official-claims-about-alleged-abuser/2018/02/13/f010f256-10d9-11e8-9570-29c9830535e5_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_kelly-740pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.62056e2d6b07" target="_blank">told <em>The Washington Post</em>,</a> so much so that one said it "amounts to dereliction of duty."</p>
<p>Last week, Porter's two ex-wives came forward and said Porter had physically and verbally abused them during their marriages. Kelly first defended Porter, and the White House <a href="http://theweek.com/speedreads/754627/white-houses-story-about-rob-porter-incoherent-mess" target="_blank">eventually landed on a time line</a> that had Porter's background investigation ongoing through his departure. In front of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray contradicted this version of events, saying the White House <a href="http://theweek.com/speedreads/754971/rob-porters-initial-background-check-finished-all-way-back-july-fbi-chief-testifies" target="_blank">received a partial background report on Porter last March,</a> with the full report sent in July.</p>
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							 <p>President Trump's longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/us/politics/stormy-daniels-michael-cohen-trump.html" target="_blank">told <em>The New York Times</em></a> on Tuesday he paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who told multiple media outlets ahead of the 2016 presidential election that she had an extramarital affair with Trump a decade earlier.</p>
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							 <p>In Florida on Tuesday, the Democrats flipped a Republican-held state House seat in a Sarasota district that President Trump won in 2016 by 5 percentage points.</p>
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							 <p>Last fall, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) made the surprise announcement that he would not seek re-election, but now — with Republicans worried about losing Senate seats to Democrats and Corker's relationship with President Trump somewhat mended — he's listening to people who are asking him to reconsider.</p>
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