The Texas Progressive Alliance wonders, with the start of a
new hurricane season, if anyone will ever be held accountable for the tragedy
in Puerto Rico, or if anyone will hold John Cornyn responsible for a Corps of
Engineers Ike Dike boondoggle attempt, as it brings you this week's roundup.
Meanwhile, Abbott on gunz in schools, and several takes on
the Green Party and organization, and related lefty political issues, top this
week’s issue.
Gunz
Gunz
Grits
for Breakfast looks at Greg
Abbott’s new pandora’s box from raising the age of accountability to
18 on gun owning but keeping it 17 elsewhere.
Texas Monthly calls Abbott’s gun “safety” plan “regressive.”
(Editor’s note: Even many small-town school districts in red-meat red-voting
areas are rejecting armed teachers.)
RG Ratcliffe at the same mag criticizes Greg Abbott's "too little, too late" response to school shootings.
RG Ratcliffe at the same mag criticizes Greg Abbott's "too little, too late" response to school shootings.
Sanford
Nowlin collects a list of things other than guns that Republicans
blame for school shootings.
Texas Observer decries the over-militarization of the border. The additional gunz, along with drones and other things, actually makes many residents feel less safe.
Greens and related
Texas Observer decries the over-militarization of the border. The additional gunz, along with drones and other things, actually makes many residents feel less safe.
Greens and related
SocraticGadfly
analyzes a Daily Beast story about Jill Stein's post-recount
transparency issues while speculating that she may have some sort of
end game for this.
David
Bruce Collins links to Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report to note how
the Green Party still
struggles to get traction, including failing on its ballot access
petition drive in Texas. (Like David, I largely agree with Bruce.) And so
does The North Star. (I will have a future blog post about this.)
Pages of Victory calls
for an authentic left.
Brains and Eggs discusses how many Democrats don’t want to discuss party disharmony.
The rest
Brains and Eggs discusses how many Democrats don’t want to discuss party disharmony.
The rest
Off the
Kuff interprets an optimistic poll
of Harris County.
The StartleGram details how former fetus Jonathan Stickland
and his money Texas Observer decries could
push the Texas House further right.
In the face of pushback from doctors, Blue Cross / Blue
Shield held up on a proposed controversial
elimination of out-of-network ER payments.
G.
Elliott Morris ponders the effect of candidate quality on
quantitative election forecasting.
Space
City Weather answers your early-season hurricane questions.
Therese
Odell grapples with the Samantha Bee controversy.
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