TX Progressives assess Betomania 2.0, Senate 2020 Greg Abbott's latest hypocrisy, bathroom bill 2019, more

The Texas Progressive Alliance stands against the threat of white nationalist violence as it brings you this week's roundup.

Off the Kuff looks at the anti-sick leave bill that may serve as a stealth "bathroom bill".

SocraticGadfly takes note of Beto O'Rourke entering the presidential race, notes that he still is not unequivocally for single-payer, and wonders when Sema Hernandez will apologize for endorsing him last fall and claiming he did support it. **

Stace at Dos Centavos wonders if people may be "Beto'd out".

John Coby lists some people he'd prefer not run for Senate in 2020.

Brains and Eggs also takes a whack at Beto, but gives Sema a pass on that Just.Another.Politician.™ endorsement of R.F. O'Rourke last year. **

And here are some posts of interest from other blogs and news sties about Texas.

Jim Schutze calls out Gov. Abbott’s self-righteous fake indignation over the college cheating scam with two words: “TCEQ Wallace Hall.”

Mile Coleman analyzes the 2018 Texas Senate race to see what it may mean for a Beto Presidential run in 2020.

Juanita cheers the news that Sandy Hook parents will be allowed to sue Remington in Connecticut state court over how it marketed its guns.

Sanford Nowlin is also on the sick leave/bathroom bill beat.

Vice, starting in Marble Falls, talks about underground marijuana doctors.

Michael Li previews the return of racial gerrymandering before SCOTUS.

Texas Observer has the latest on antivaxxers in the Lege. (Note: The anti-science from the wingnuts may be greater than climate change anti-science.)

The Texas Trib says Gov. Strangeabbbot apparently wants personal control of bail reform. (Your blogger knows bill author Kyle Kacal; Abbott is surely behind this.)

TCEQ pretended to measure air pollution after a petrochemical fire in Deer Park.

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** Brains, in his version of the Wrangle, claims I don't have my targets correct. I think I do. Scap was the flack-runner for Sema, but Sema's the ultimate target and I've got her "endorsement letter" on my linked post. He can, instead, worry about posting a link to Seth Rich conspiracy theorist Ty Clevenger's SLAPP lawsuit against Seth's family as well as media people without identifying Clevenger as a Seth Rich conspiracy theorist or the lawsuit as a SLAPP lawsuit. (I suspect Ty listed Seth's parents beneath the media folks to try to gain more sympathy for his cause and to hide that this is a SLAPP suit; unfortunately, there is no anti-SLAPP law in federal jurisdiction, and may not be in the states in which Ty filed, as the feds will sometimes kind of align with state law.)

I've profiled Clevenger in depth here, where there's this comment:

Hey, I just link to his blog and put him in the Wrangle once in awhile. As with Ted and Kuffner.

Got it. Dunno about you, but I put Kuff in because he organizes the Roundup, no matter what you think of his neoliberalism or other things. (Where I may often agree.) You normally do the same. When you have put Ted in at any time from the 2016 Dem primaries on, it's usually been to laugh at a Hillbot.

I don't think you, this week, put Ty in for those reasons. Especially since, from commenting on my profile, you don't have an excuse for knowing Clevenger's background.