Texas Progressives

Off the Kuff notes Greg Abbott's pseudo-evolution on data centers, in which even Sid Miller is making him look bad. 

SocraticGadfly talked about self-hating Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims attending the GOP state convention.

Talarico told Texas Democrats in convention the party must stop taking Blacks for granted. Black Democrats agree, beyond Jasmine Crockett's tepid support for him, which will remain tepid through November. That's why people like Kuff need to pump their brakes.

Bernie Sanders hater Dolores Huerta, not the most democratic person in Nevada, told Texas Democrats to "save democracy." See here and here for my take on 2016 and 2020 Nevada primaries.

Neil at the Houston Democracy Project posted on Abbott’s likely far-right pick for Texas Secretary of State. With Harris County having a Black Muslim progressive woman as Democratic nominee for County Judge & Texas Republicans being anti-democratic and bigoted, we must be prepared for anything. 

Big John Cornyn makes a tiny break with the GOP establishment, worrying about closed primaries backfiring. 

Texas rabbis rip the Jewish fig leaf off "Judeo-Christian" over the State Board of Ed's proposed list of bibul verses for public school reading. Yeah, there will be lawsuits. 

In something parallel, the Monthly says "Christian nationalists are cheering" for the SBOE's proposed changes to school curricula. 

Contra RRC claims about doing all it can about old well blowouts, Russell Gold talks about "the Dead Sea of Texas," a Pecos County brine lake that's been around 20 years. 

SpaceX: Unsafe workplace.

"'Hunter vs United States': The most important criminal case of the term" is a very good and very important read about Justice Neil Gorsuch's likely thought on expanding the scope of jury trials, and as a sidebar, how, on at least some issues, SCOTUS conservatives don't all fit in one package.

The Texas Signal celebrates Pride in Caldwell County.

Your Local Epidemiologist highlights the great success of the HPV vaccine.