With that, dive in and see what I'm talking about in this week's issue.
Dallas
Jim Schutze says the city of Dallas is probably going to lose another battle over Jim’s Car Wash in South Dallas.
Unfortunately, Schutze also continues to be a personal PR
agency for Amber Guyger, apparently willfully ignoring her family social media photos, as when he claims there’s nothing to connect her fatal shooting of Botham
Jean to race. I like about 90 percent of what Big Jim says, but when he’s
wrong, he’s WAY wrong. And I'm pretty sure he's seen those pix before. He also doesn't discuss that courts have refused changes of venue on more serious, more legitimate grounds (whether true or not). This is not to say that Guyger's act necessarily was racial, it is to say Schutze's wrong when he makes his blanket statement that it was not.
Robot baggage handlers are getting a trial at DFW Airport.
Houston
Dos Centavos is keeping an eye on what local Houston officials are saying about the ICE raids.
Texas politics
Kenny Boy Paxton and Gov. Strangeabbott can lose state as well as federal lawsuits. A state district judge has dismissed most the lawsuit they filed against San Antonio's sanctuary city stance. If that holds on appeal, we'll have all sorts of fallout.
As Royce West continues to play Hamlet / get fellated by Gromer Jeffers and Kuff, Latin@ activists, apparently ignoring or not caring about Sema Hernandez (I'm going to have an update on her soon) want Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez to run for Senate. Patrick Svitek, like Gromer Jeffers, and the mainly NOT Latin@s Svitek's story cites, apparently willfully can't find the name of Sema Hernandez with both hands. And she's not the only Hispanic who's already officially filed. Rather, if some of these people have serious ties to Bob O'Rourke, they're more fauxgressives than progressives.
At the Texas Observer, Michael Barajas calls out Julián Castro for turd polishing his record as San Antonio mayor, especially on housting. Schutze's done the same on his record as HUD secretary.
Off the Kuff wrote about the Obamacare hearing at the Fifth Circuit.
Robot baggage handlers are getting a trial at DFW Airport.
Houston
Dos Centavos is keeping an eye on what local Houston officials are saying about the ICE raids.
Juanita
recognizes Rep. Gene Wu for his words and actions on the ICE raids.
Texas politics
Kenny Boy Paxton and Gov. Strangeabbott can lose state as well as federal lawsuits. A state district judge has dismissed most the lawsuit they filed against San Antonio's sanctuary city stance. If that holds on appeal, we'll have all sorts of fallout.
As Royce West continues to play Hamlet / get fellated by Gromer Jeffers and Kuff, Latin@ activists, apparently ignoring or not caring about Sema Hernandez (I'm going to have an update on her soon) want Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez to run for Senate. Patrick Svitek, like Gromer Jeffers, and the mainly NOT Latin@s Svitek's story cites, apparently willfully can't find the name of Sema Hernandez with both hands. And she's not the only Hispanic who's already officially filed. Rather, if some of these people have serious ties to Bob O'Rourke, they're more fauxgressives than progressives.
At the Texas Observer, Michael Barajas calls out Julián Castro for turd polishing his record as San Antonio mayor, especially on housting. Schutze's done the same on his record as HUD secretary.
Off the Kuff wrote about the Obamacare hearing at the Fifth Circuit.
Christopher
Hooks notes the egregious hypocrisy of Chip Roy and Ted Cruz when it
comes to executive authority and the rule of law.
Better
Texas Blog has the crazy idea that our state should treat
asylum-seeking migrant families with respect and dignity.
Better
Texas Blog has the crazy idea that our state should treat
asylum-seeking migrant families with respect and dignity.
Texana
The newly football-recrazed folks of Mount Vernon, Texas,
are lying to themselves first, and the general public second, if they really
believe that their new Old Ball Coach, Baylor’s sexual abuse enabling Art
Briles, was “clearly wronged.” What's clear is that former D(r)unca(ke)nville High and KU hoops star Greg Ostertag is politician enough about it to be mayor of Mount Vernon.
The Rivard Report commemorates 80 years of Planned Parenthood in San Antonio.
National
SocraticGadfly says the most egregiously wrong ruling of this Supreme Court term was not the gerrymandering case but seven justices, including two liberals, hating First Amendment religious freedoms.
Speaking of, Gadfly also says RIP John Paul Stevens, a "librul" only by Rehnquist and Roberts Court modern SCOTUS standards.
Border Patrol agents speaking candidly tell Pro Publica that the inhumanity in the detention camps has become ever more accepted. One military veteran says its growing acceptance "is kind of like torture in the army."
Brains updates his Dems 2020 with kind words about Nate's Liver, I mean Nate Silver.
Beto-mania vanishes as more people learn the truth about Bob the Knob. (He's too downtrending to qualify for the header this week, even.)
Egberto Willies wonders if Jay Inslee and/or his staff have some racial issues. Note: Sea-Tac is definitely white majority, and even the core, King County, is white majority by several percentage points against all other minorities combined, with blacks behind both Asians and Hispanics. And, outstate Washington, outside of Hispanics concentrated in farm areas, is highly white.
Jeff St. Clair of Counterpunch gets it right on left-wingnut hawking of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory.:
"I think Julian Assange's lowest moment was his inculcation of the Seth Rich conspiracy in some of the more credulous precincts of the Left. The strangest part of the affair is that if the preposterous Rich conspiracy had proved true, it meant that Assange would have outed his source."
Couldn't have said it better myself, Jeff, even as I'm on a Twitter thread debate about Rich.
In addition to driving while black and cooking while black, we now have policing while black.
Paradise in Hell muses about Vice Presidents.
The Rivard Report commemorates 80 years of Planned Parenthood in San Antonio.
White supremacists are stepping up college recruiting, says Silas Allen at the Dallas Observer.
RIP to the talented but troubled Rip Torn.
My own RIP to the interesting but hypocritical and nutty Ross Perot.
National
SocraticGadfly says the most egregiously wrong ruling of this Supreme Court term was not the gerrymandering case but seven justices, including two liberals, hating First Amendment religious freedoms.
Speaking of, Gadfly also says RIP John Paul Stevens, a "librul" only by Rehnquist and Roberts Court modern SCOTUS standards.
Border Patrol agents speaking candidly tell Pro Publica that the inhumanity in the detention camps has become ever more accepted. One military veteran says its growing acceptance "is kind of like torture in the army."
Brains updates his Dems 2020 with kind words about Nate's Liver, I mean Nate Silver.
Beto-mania vanishes as more people learn the truth about Bob the Knob. (He's too downtrending to qualify for the header this week, even.)
Jeff St. Clair of Counterpunch gets it right on left-wingnut hawking of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory.:
"I think Julian Assange's lowest moment was his inculcation of the Seth Rich conspiracy in some of the more credulous precincts of the Left. The strangest part of the affair is that if the preposterous Rich conspiracy had proved true, it meant that Assange would have outed his source."
Couldn't have said it better myself, Jeff, even as I'm on a Twitter thread debate about Rich.
In addition to driving while black and cooking while black, we now have policing while black.
Paradise in Hell muses about Vice Presidents.
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