Texas Progressives pre-Labor Day roundup

Friendly reminder that Labor Day inspired to some degree modern May Day celebrations in Europe, but no May Day here; Labor Day was also started by the capitalist class to co-opt that hated socialism. Barbecue or whatever next Monday, but don't go to a grocery store. If you don't do that in advance, you don't get it.

Matthew Dowd is dropping heavy hints about running for Lite Guv as a Dem against Danny Goeb. (Why not run against Gilberto Hinojosa to head the TDP instead, I Tweeted him.)

Christopher Whiteley still wasn't killed by a mountain lion in Hood County, despite claims of a clearly incompetent sheriff. The one question really is: was it a wild dog or a person that killed him? (It sure seems more like a person.)

Would you buy electricity from Elon Musk? Hellz no from me.

Stace updates us on Greg Abbott's border boondoggle, and why Texas should not be doing anything on the border.

Newsrooms at the Dallas Snooze, Fort Worth Startlegram and Austin Stateless all opted sometime back to join the News Guild and fight for unionization. Surprisingly to a degree, negotiations are going best at the one-pony Snooze, versus Craphouse/New Gannett in Austin and McClatchy/hedge fund in Cowtown, reports Gus Bova.

SocraticGadfly wonders why the Christian Century hates Palestinians. That's even as Ill Eagle Israeli settlers in Palestine's latest atrocity comes to light: Abducting and attacking a 15-year-old.