Texas Progressives talk more on defunding police, other issues

Once again, as cases and deaths both continue to rise, coronavirus news in Texas and beyond has been split off from the rest of this week's Texas Progressives roundup.

But, there's policing news, elections and more to talk about.

So dig in.

Texas

SocraticGadfly says that if Black Lives Matter, and Confederate statues are a worry, even in Gainesville, it's interesting that, as part of that Young Republicans PR also matters. He also offers a few thoughts on various statues issues in general.

Michael Barajas has a great long piece at the Observer about defunding law enforcement.

Grits, in a follow-up to previous pieces, talks about how COVID has piled on top of THC testing requirements to get yet more county and district attorneys to abandon low-level pot cases.

Rafael Edward Cruz is once again a hypocrite on free speech.

Should Republicans in Texas be worried about the bad underperformance in the runoffs? Erica Greider says yes.

MJ Hegar, former wingnut, beat Royce West, Legiscritter grifter, for the right to be ONE of the candidates to face John Cornyn this fall. Others include Green and acquaintance David Bruce Collins. As for the two Dumbocrats, who is the DSCC to say that Hegar would/will do better than West?

Meanwhile, Ronny Jackson upset Jason Winegarner in CD13. Winegarner took 40 percent of the vote in the original primary, but, for whatever reason, couldn't build on it. My theory is that with Trump's popularity falling even within the GOP, over the coronavirus and his handling of it, we're getting a litmus test backlash.

The attempt of Dan Solomon at Texas Monthly to turd-polish 1-term incumbent Travis DA Margaret Moore was a big fat fucking flop.


Texana

It was a slow week at DosCentavos , but he reminds everyone to send healing thoughts and vibes to Tex-Mex Legend and great Democrat Little Joe Hernandez.

Texas Monthly has several pieces in this category.
First, new information on ancient dinosaur dilophosaurus. Since the first one was discovered on the Navajo Reservation, I like it for that reason.
Mike Judge has revived Beavis & Butthead.
Former Cowtown barbecuer rotates to tortillas. Here's where to eat in Whitney.


National

Black Lives Matter has LA County's Black DA in its sights.

Slate has a great take on just what Chief Justice Roberts accomplished this term. In short, he again, as he has ever since "preserving" Obamacare while using his concurrence to open the door to gutting it, played 11-dimensional chess for ultimately conservative objectives while offering an alleged cloak of the "rule of law."

Get yourself caught up on the basics of the boogaloo movement. And Q.

The St. Louis McCloskeys who whipped out guns on protestors? Nothing new for a HIGHLY litigious and self-entitled couple. Mark McCloskey has sued his sister and his father, among others.

Kanye West has filed to run in Oklahoma. Stand by elsewhere.