The Lege
Rethuglicans claim their SB7 Christmas-treed proposal to let judges overturn elections on dubious grounds "just got there by accident." Suuuure. And, beyond thinking Texas Dems and indy voters will buy this, I guess they think their own wingnut backers like them more as anonymous shitweasels.
A Black Republican is looking at running for statewide office. Sit down, Allen West, and no, it ain't him. State Rep. James White says he won't run for for the Lege again but is eyeing other things.
I missed this: Bills to extend the Chapter 313 tax break never cleared the Lege. The Observer has more. Per that piece, I suspect that extending it from the petroleum world to wind farms drew a backlash.
Off the Kuff gives you even more State House electoral data to ponder.
Reform Austin tries to shine a light on the Legislature's lack of transparency.
Texas
Chris Tomlinson et al's tri-authored new book about Alamo legends gets solid, but not uncritical, review praise from the Observer.
Dallas: The vegan capital of Texas. Black Americans and Black Texans. More vegan than you might think. More here.
The real reason Strangeabbott wants to build a Texas wall? The Dreamy Don Huffines, of course.
Trump Trainers tried to drown out Beto in Denton. The Dallas Observer can't stop there, though, and instead fellates his 2018 run against Havana Ted, even though the numbers show Justin Nelson did better against indictee Kenny Boy Paxton, while Danny Goeb and Jeebus Shot Sid Miller had races almost as tight. Otherwise, Strangeabbott had a big win because of Loopy Lupe Valdez and Texas' closest statewide equivalent to a Joe Straus Republican, Glenn Hegar, had an easy win, as did Pee Bush and Christi Craddock. See a pattern? It wasn't Beto being good, it was the clearest wingnut Rethuglicans struggling.
Sanford Nowlin has the Louie Gohmert news you need.
Grits for Breakfast wonders what will happen to all those old convictions for unlicensed carrying of a weapon.
Catherine Wendlandt disputes a map that claims Houston is not in the South.
Parents of binary children celebrated the use of pronouns.
National
SocraticGadfly offers up his latest installment on what you didn't know you didn't know about Glenn Greenwald, with the still-needed reminder that Glenn never has been, is not today, and never will be, a leftist in any way, shape or form.
I'm sure that Dems will bitch about a Charlie Kirk / Turning Point front group astroturfing for Greens in 2018. To mash up Clauswitz and an old cliché? Politics is war by other means. All's fair in love and war. Ergo, all's fair in politics, so Dems / Dem-tied activities, go astroturf for some Libertarians in 2022.
Will some Rethuglicans, per a Borat song, and per the Jared Sexton backstory on critical race theory being "Marxist" in the end, find a Jew to throw down a well?
The Fed is seriously eyeing a digital dollar to battle cryptocurrencies. Opposed include the American Bankers Association, which calls it an unnecessary panic move. Agreed.
Looks like the New Hampshire Libertarian Party is in the middle of a massive implosion led by Trumpy-thinking types who think Libertarians should support Jan. 6 type movements.
World
Saudi Arabia is trying to undercut the UAE as the Gulf's business hub.
Biden and Harris continue to hate Ill Eagles on the one hand more than they're nice to them on the other. Team Biden continues to keep up the Title 42 bullshit, for example.
Kind of like "Florida Man"? Career Man Putin calls Biden a "career man," while slathering praise on Trump. Reality is that both Trump and Biden were/are largely craptacular on foreign policy. Trump a weathervane who pretended to be knee-jerk anti-establishment but wasn't always that much. Biden? The establishment.
This is why capitalism as usual won't address climate change — corporate greenwashing in net-zero pledges.
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