TX Progs take on AIPAC, Dallas politics, Jim Schutze

The Texas Progressive Alliance did not find any tigers in abandoned homes this week, but it did find the time to produce a weekly roundup.

Off the Kuff considers the people not named Beto who are considering running for the Senate in 2020.

SocraticGadfly looks at the dustup between AIPAC and Rep. Ilhan Omar and says she shouldn't have apologized in 2020.

And here are some posts of interest from other state and national sites about Texas.

Down with Tyranny does mention Sema Hernandez in his take on the 2020 Senate race, a person that somehow just doesn’t make it on Kuff’s radar.

In a brief, Pages of Victory agrees with Gadfly on AIPAC vs Omar.

Stephen Young at the Dallas Observer notes that In a brief, Laura Miller is back in the ring, challenging Jennfer Staubach Gates for Roger the Daughter’s Dallas City Council seat.

(Yours truly looks forward to this throwdown very much IF it’s Miller the former Observer reporter running. If it’s former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, not so much. I offer 50-50 odds, though, that it’s Miller the mayor we get.)

Therese Odell talks about her personal connection to gun violence in America.

Somervell County Salon discusses how Google pulled an Amazon on residents of Midlothian, even getting the city council there to sign off on Google creating a shell company for millions of tax breaks — a story that got all the way to the Bezos Post.

The Lunch Tray highlights the untold story of school food reform.

Better Texas Blog calls the signature bills to cap property tax revenues the "wrong approach" to the issue.

Grits for Breakfast shows why we know so little about the bad cops on some police forces.

Meanwhile, venerable (but quickly losing “venerated” status) Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze writes another blank checks for cops piece, this one fellating the Dallas PD’s union. (This is at least the third such piece in the past couple of months, and yours truly thought other Texas Progs needed it brought to their attention.

Paradise in Hell provides some other national "emergencies" for the President to deal with.

Elise Hu takes the O.J. Tour.

The Texas Trib details how rookie state Senate Legiscritter Angela Paxton has filed a bill that would let hubby AG Kenny Boy Paxton issue exemptions from state securities regulations — the same regulations whose avoidance of  which has led to criminal charges for Kenny Boy.

Brains and Eggs offers his latest installment of “your top Democrat,” handicappijng the 2020 prez race.

Stephen Young gets a second link, as he talks about the utter political weirdness of Dallas’ old guard backing Eric Johnson for mayor. OTOH, it’s not so weird when one thinks that Johnson had already done some degree of sellout even before throwing his hat in the ring.