SocraticGadfly: Texas Progressives - the rest of this week and non-primary items

March 04, 2026

Texas Progressives - the rest of this week and non-primary items

Texas Progressives offer some recent news roundup insights while saluting the Iranian resistance to American imperialism, especially this Zionist-fueled portion of it. I am sure that I'm the only member of the Texas "Pergressuves" to fully oppose this war, and it's a war, Democraps as well as Rethuglicans who are lying.

As The Dissident notes, Iran was prepared for an attempt to force regime change by assassinating Ayatollah Khamenei and adds the likely backfiring effect in that this will increase the likelihood it builds a bomb. Trump now wants to try to get Kurdish militias involved, which risks Iraq and/or Turkey attacking them.

The Monthly interviews Jenny Lawson, aka "The Bloggess," whom I personally think is kind of "mid,"to use a young kids' social media word, about her latest book. 

Forest Wilder gets the Monthly up to speed in talking about Trump's truly stupid desire to run a section of border wall through Big Bend. Per my Monday roundup about primaries, Ag Commish Sid Vicious Miller is all in, of course.

The Barbed Wire takes a both serious and snarky look at White Date, a dating site that's for exactly who it sounds like it's for. 

Neil at the Houston Democracy Project said Republican Houston Councilmember Julian Ramirez left his Republican Party & himself off his list of top election security threats in Harris County.

Saraí Bejarano explains why they are fighting to protect Hispanic Serving Institutions in Texas.  

Tom Palladino and Linda Mais urge better support for caregivers.

The TSTA Blog wonders how the State Board of Education would handle the social studies curriculum standards post-Trump.

 

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