Texas Progressives talk Biden, Bannon, Bernie and more

Texas has gotten approved for the $300 in supplemental unemployment bennies. Note that it, like most states, is not doing the state's own $100 kicker. Also note that even Dan Patrick is silent about people gaming the system, making more money unemployed than working, etc. In addition, although Texas data isn't available to me yet, nationally, average weekly pay for those who are employed has continued to drop from April on. And, that's average as in "mean." The median probably looks worse.

Turns out more than Jim Schutze can smack down Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall. Grits has the goods on her getting lambasted by the Dallas City Council here.

Pro Publica/Texas Trib talk about the Texas ties of We Build the Wall and its indicted Brian Kolfage and Steve Bannon.

Kenny Boy Paxton's latest attempt to stall out his criminal proceedings has failed.

Off the Kuff looks at the updated voter registration figures, which have now topped 16 million in Texas.

DPS' hardcore criminal pursuit of protestors at the Capitol is so overblown prosecutors have rejected one case already. At the same time, it should be noted that, as elsewhere, many true criminal justice activists are seeing many white so-called "antifa" old Black Bloc renewed behavior as just using police brutality as an excuse for anarchism. I agree, and it's part of why I'm leery of anarcho-Greens. None of this justifies police brutality or ongoing police overreach. But, that doesn't justify random anarchy, either. Brer Rabbit and Tar Baby.

DosCentavos celebrates the first Spanish-language album by The Mavericks. Hint: It's pretty good!

Reform Austin notes that gun seizures are up at Texas airports despite travel being down.

The newly-renamed San Antonio Report checks in on a pro-Post Office rally.

The Texas Signal reports on state Republicans putting a quiet end to public redistricting hearings.

National

A state-national mix here. The prosecutors who got Steve Bannon indicted want to seize the assets of his nonprofit, Citizens of the American Republic.

Joe Biden supports austerity measures if he's elected president. In other words, per Dick Cheney, deficits don't matter if you're a Rethuglican, but they do if you're a virtue-signaling Democrat.

Biden and national Dems at the DNC continue to diss Palestinians.

Environmental justice for the poor, often minorities, doesn't just involve things like petrochemicals or mining waste. Grist looks at the archaic practice of sugarcane burning in Florida.

Bernie isn't endorsing anybody in the increasingly heated Massachusetts Dem primary for US Senate and many Bros are getting disappointed. Bros? Bernie is, as he showed with his nice-guy to Biden months ago, about the politics of the personal, and beyond that, he's self-sunsetting. You can join the Our Revolution grifters over at Movement for a People's Party, you can become Greens and try to better it without any "Bernie is god" thoughts, or you can lump it in the current Dem party.

Tennessee joins Louisiana and other states (in Pelican-land, it started over anti-oil protesting) to felony-criminalize at least some protesting.

Lafayette, Louisiana police are dangerous, seemingly especially to Blacks.

Funny how James O'Keefe and Project Veritas, for all their talk about liberty, don't like it when a state law protecting privacy rights blocks another of their scams.

Here's what we know about Jacob Blake and Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, so far.