Texas progs lasso Paxton, Abbott, John Sharp, Sul Ross

Plenty of weirdness at the state and national levels for this week's Roundup, a lot of it related to voting and elections issues, others to social justice.

And with that, let's dig in.


Texas

SocraticGadfly looks at Texas GOP coronavirus tea leaves and rumbllings and offers his initial wondering if Gov. Greg Abbott will be primaried in 2022, and if so, by whom?

Off the Kuff did an interview with Sherrie Matula of the Sisters United Alliance, a grassroots effort to turn out low-propensity Democratic female voters.

DosCentavos says that if Dems want to run up the score with Latino votes, they must sell the Biden Latino plan, too, instead of just pointing fingers at Trump's racism.

On the Sul Ross statue in College Station, John Sharp offers yet more evidence that he is surely a closet Republican, not just a ConservaDem.

Kenny Boy Paxton launched his latest attempt to stall out his securities fraud trial: Ask the current presiding judge to recuse himself because of possible bias.

Keith Schneider warns that Texas and its developers always forget about drought during rainy times

Space City Weather gives us a look ahead at hurricane season.

Michael Li shares a few charts to illustrate why Texas is (finally) competitive this year.

The Texas Politics Project has the Texas Presidential poll tracker you've been looking for.

Juanita asks for your help sending ballot by mail applications to Democrats over the age of 65 in small Texas counties where the county party can't afford or isn't organized enough to mail applications on their own.

In light of the recent Beirut catastrophe, James the History Teacher tells the story of the 1947 Texas City disaster.

Texas Monthly, in a short Texana, illustrates perfectly the diff between Tex-Mex and actual Mexican food. Matt Martinez's chile con queso not only uses, or allows, American cheese sliced singles, but also other dreck like cornstarch.

National

Donald Trump is so full of it on mail ballots that Fact Check devoted four staff writers to a through debunking.

John Roberts' controlling ruling in June Medical is having its first effect on further stringency on abortion law. Librulz continue to celebrate him, like they do Shrub Bush, at their own peril.

Liberty University's board of regents had to force Jerry Falwell Jr. into a leave of absense. Guess? There likely was real booze in that glass on the yacht with him and his "wife's assistant" both having unzipped pants, and he could well be alcoholic. There may be other issues. Like porn on computers?

This piece, from Portland, expresses a lot of what I see wrong in the "antifa" movement, which is really just 2.0 of the old Black Bloc. It doesn't really, usually represent those it claims to represent.

Beware the shadow docket of the Supreme Court, Slate says, especially how much it's grown since Kennedy's retirement. Also note that two of the so-called librulz continue to be even more squishy than the other two (who are themselves squishes at times).

Global

Canada's last Arctic ice shelf has collapsed, a disturbing issue in climate change.