TX Progressives talk Labor Day and labor-based voting

The Texas Progressive Alliance wishes everyone a happy Labor Day week — and reminds you to vote only for Democrats and third-party candidates who show they actually care for labor — as it brings you this week's roundup. It also reminds you, per the material inside the dashes and World Socialist Web Site, that many Dems are ConservaDems whose support for labor issues is tepid.

SocraticGadfly offers some critical analysis about Corey Robin's claim that socialism is specially identifiable with freedom.

David Hogg has decided to intervene in the Texas Senate race. Yours truly told him on Twitter he should have been here during the Democratic primary, or even he really wants something to do, tend to political knitting in Florida and help out third parties and their candidates. Even worse in some ways, Basta Michael Avenatti in the Texas Senate race. If he visits South Carolina post-November, he’s running for president.

At least one of Beto’s campaign gambles, documented here, is at risk of backfiring. Reportedly, many Valley Hispanics still don’t know who he is..

Off the Kuff notes the motion by the plaintiffs in the Texas redistricting lawsuit to bring the state back under preclearance for its discrimination in map-drawing.

Via Grits for BreakfastOff the Kuff McLennan County DA Abel Reyna is officially barred from doing anything more on Twin Peaks until he is out of office.

Eric Berger invites you to share your memories of Hurricane Harvey.

Cory Garcia revisits a viral warning about Harvey.

David Bruce Collins laments “libruls” attacking Glenn Greenwald.

Dan Solomon tells Alex Jones' Tumblr tale.

Better Texas Blog says all workers deserve paid sick days.

Paradise in Hell cites Ken Paxton as a good role model for lower ethical standards.

Jackie Wang reports on the status of a Confederate monument that had been removed from a San Antonio park.

Finally, yours truly asks, via collected Tweets, if John McCain is finally fully dead and buried.