Texas Progressives: Non-election news of the week

In order not to distract from all the nuttery related directly to election day, non-election news gets its own mini-roundup.

Dallas 

Schutze weighs in on elected Black leaders giving former chief U. Renee Hall a pass on the protests handling.

Texas politics

Last week, Trey Martinez Fischer became the second Dem to announce for state Speaker of the House. He was later joined by a longshot (you are) third Dem and and four Republicans. My money is on Paddie, then Ashby, if Republicans hold the House with diminished numbers, though if there's a split there, Thompson could wiggle in on a second ballot. She's the favorite if Dems win.

Texana

Midland Lee is now no longer that. As for wingnuts saying why waste the alleged "all this money" on the renaming, it's not that much. As for other wingnuts saying they'll vote against any future bond issues, did y'all vote FOR any in the past? Remembering all the Confederate-named streets in downtown Odessa is a reminder that change needs to come elsewhere in the Permian too.

National-politics

"Bloodlands" author Timothy Snyder, in this piece by Jane Mayer about Trump's likely post-election future, thinks he'll have a TV show — but on RT, not Fox, and from inside Russia. (Russia has no extradition treaty with the U.S.; Mayer's piece is in part about the possibility of criminal as well as civil charges being filed against Trump.) Option B, among others, is Trump replacing Rush Limbaugh when Rush does his #JackDorsey.

Paradise in Hell does a little time traveling. 

Lew Moorman worries about the cost side of inequality.

Americana 

McDonald's is bringing back the McRib. Why?

Dunkin Donuts has been sold to Inspire Brands, the parent of Sonic, Jimmy John's, Arby's (my nearest one has remain shuttered through COVID) and Buffalo Wild Wings.

World 

You can now legally kill yourself in New Zealand but you can't smoke a doobie while doing it.