The Texas Progressive Alliance doesn't take loyalty pledges
as it brings you this week's roundup.
Off the
Kuff considers the possibilities of Big John Cornyn's Senate
seat being vacated by an appointment as FBI Director.
SocraticGadfly
skips his writing about the Comey firing, and politics in general. It's
baseball season, and he offers an update of a piece on how the Cardinals are
lucky they
didn't overpay to re-sign Jason Heyward.
CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme
notes Sally
Yates owned John Cornyn and Ted Cruz this week. Cornyn proved he's a
Trump puppet and an excellent choice of FBI director - if you want to destroy
our democracy and make Trump officially god emperor.
On the
day the world lost its mind, PDiddie at Brains and
Eggs was a little dizzy and nauseous but otherwise got through
it ... same as everyone else.
Dos Centavos has a laugh, a cry, and a
head-shaking about the ACLU’s Texas
travel advisory.
John Coby at Bay Area Houston lauds what
he sees as local
school district voters rejecting the Tea Party.
Neil at All People Have Value attended
a Trumpcare Die-in and saw a Sandra
Bland memorial railroad car. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.
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And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Paradise
in Hell notes a correlation between life expectancy and Trump
support.
The Texas
Election Law Blog comments on a big ProPublica voter ID story.
Better
Texas Blog laments the likely demise of some good school finance
legislation.
Andrew
Edmonson tells what you can do to fight against attacks on LGBT
Texans.
The TSTA
Blog wonders why charter schools are asking for more tax money.
Texas
Vox bemoans the bills killed by the House "Freedom Caucus"
in a fit of legislative pique.
Grits
for Breakfast has an update on some criminal justice bills in the
Lege.
TPJ
adds up how much predatory lenders have been spending this legislative session.
And, R.G. Ratcliffe is now officially Texas
Monthly’s politics editor.
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