Texas Progressives say Who's Your Halloween Daddy?

The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you that Halloween is Friday. The two scariest costumes available are Michael Quinn Sullivan and Dennis Bonnen, with either one trying to look sympathetic.

Even better, since both are two-faced, you just use the same mask and flip it inside out and back again.

Stay warm after that chilling thought if you, like yours truly, is up in North Texas and enjoy this week’s roundup, and our sympathies to students at A-M Commerce. Speaking of ...

Greenville-Commerce shooting

This shooting shows a lot of societal issues beyond two obvious ones. ALL of these need to be addressed, starting with gun control. The rise of the Nones will address the #ThoughtsAndPrayers vacuous piety.


Texas politics

At the Dallas Observer, Stephen Young reports that Gohmert Pyle claims to know who the Ukraine whistleblower is. Young adds that Gohmert, who he says would be Reddit's r/TheDonald if it were a living thing, was among the Spartans under Matt Gaetz who charged the House's secure hearing room — and later ordered pizza.

In a trifecta, Young notes that Big John Cornyn's ideas for gun control don't actually include guns.

Off the Kuff says farewell to soon to be former state House Speaker Bonnen, brought low by his dumb decision to trust "Mucus" Sullivan and his own trash mouth.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban supports the third-party and independent candidates lawsuit over HB 2504. A federal judge's hearing on the plaintiff's move to enjoin the state from collecting filing fees from candidates for third-party nominations is Oct. 31. I'll have an update, probably with some sort of analysis.



Dallas

Big D and suburbs continue to recover from 10 tornadoes.


Texana

Yours truly reviews "Big Wonderful Thing" and finds that, while it's big, it ain't so much wonderful as it is kind of boring.

When it comes to things like re-routing petroleum pipelines, the Observer shows that the final privilege is that of capitalism.

The Trib reports on senior citizens facing college student debt.

The TPA congratulates Noah Horwitz for passing his bar exam.

The Texas Signal reads the Census report on income inequality in Texas. 

Nonsequiteuse reviews the Astros front office debacle.

The Daily Texan decries UT's lack of action against professors who have been accused of sexual misconduct with students.

Juanita finds new reasons to dislike Sen. John Cornyn.

 Sanford Nowlin is right there with her. 

Their dual losses mean Oklahoma and Texas can both say sayonara to the College Football Playoff even as Austin disgruntlement with Tom Herman increases.

National

On his weekly 2020, Brains writes about Greens and other third parties' kerfuffles.  That's as Green candidate Howie Hawkins gets the SPUSA nomination.

SocraticGadfly does his alt-history schtick again and says imagine a world that never had American Indians. (Contra Brains, there's no reason to be so PC as to cross out "American Indians and replace that with "Indigenous Americans."A plurality of the people prefer American Indian, including activists like Russell Means, a former leader of the ... American Indian Movement.)

G. Elliott Morris examines the value of 2020 general election polls at this time.

Jared Beck's nutter DNC fraud lawsuit is officially dead by appellate court. I've updated my old blog post.