Texas Progressives look at school boards in the gunsights

We just had the primary election, and we're due a few runoffs. But, before them, it's time for school board and municipal elections. And, wingnuts who don't like COVID mask mandates, or are pushing false claims about CRT, or Kevin Krause's quasi-fascist book banning, are targeting big city and major suburban school district elections. Southlake and Lake Travis, white wingnut areas where the wingnuts like to look genteel by drinking coffee with their pinkies not attached to the cup, are among the areas being targeted.

We're now up to 1-in-8 mail ballots being trashed. NO breakout that I'm aware of if this affected Rethuglicans, Democraps or indy voters worse. Off the Kuff has the latest on mail ballot rejections.

SocraticGadfly looked at Ronny Jackson's Interstate 27 hypocrisy.

No, the electric grid isn't fixed. Per that link, ERCOT and the PUC are supposed to be announcing "summerization" rules soon. We need to make sure they don't try to avoid this.

In with the new, out with the old, at the top of the Texas Military Department. But, will Strangeabbott, who claims critics played politics with Texas National Guard suicides, address the issues? Will R.F. O'Rourke actually support a union here in Tex-ass, as Dems nationwide have traditionally been as leery of military unions as Rethugs?

Abbott issues disaster declaration for Texas wildfires. Will he own up to a climate change disaster?

Speaking of, Comptroller Glenn Hegar, who occasionally gives hints he's the one halfway sane Republican holding statewide office, is a fascist of some sort with his threat to yank state contracts from companies divesting away from investing in fossil fuels.

I totally support the idea of getting federal wilderness protection for a big chunk of Big Bend National Park, but that's not the only thing that needs addressing. There's light pollution from increased gas flaring at the southern end of the Permian leading into the park. Based on my most recent previous visit, there's the risk of increased light pollution across the river at Boquillas (no, really) with reliable regular electricity and night lighting. Why Congress never adopted the original 1978 NPS recommendation within the park, that said, I don't know. Actually, per the story and my own knowledge of NPS, I do know. It was apparently just a pro forma ask that NPS never pushed further.

Andrea Grimes tells what it's like to actually be fired for something she'd written. 

Out in SA reports on a divorce case involving two men who would be considered common-law married if that had been a thing for same sex couples before Obergefell.

The Current shows us some billboard ads from the Trevor Project that take aim at Greg Abbott's anti-trans order.

Texas Monthly reviews Mama Bears, a movie that premiered at SxSW about Christian mothers supporting their LGBTQ children.

The Austin Chronicle highlights the best music they heard at SxSW.

The Texas Signal mocks Ted Cruz for his fanboy love of the Russian army.