To start this week's Roundup, I cannot recommend enough this piece by Jessica Wildfire. It's a bit hyperbolic on COVID, as no, not each new variant is worse than the previous. But, it's good enough there, and it's totally spot-on on environmental issues, the Russia-Ukraine war and more. But, her Substack offers more concrete thoughts on COVID. (Her Substack is generally good, though also a bit hyperbolic at times.)
As Texas home values skyrocket, and Rethuglican voters realize they don't REALLY like capitalism when it makes them pay a bunch more in property taxes, the Texas Lege feels the same way. #fify TexasTrib. (And, the Californios moving here? Will they be moderates? Moderate conservs? Or will they push the Lege to adopt a full-on equivalent of California's infamous Prop. 13?)
Off the Kuff isn't really interested in moving up the date on the Presidential primary in Texas.
SocraticGadfly looks at the several political COVID hacks connected to Judge Mazelle's mask mandate ruling.
Stace offers some thoughts (on Viernes) regarding Greg Abbott's political play-calling on the border and at the death chamber.
CultureMap has found your next dream job.
Your Local Epidemiologist talks ventilation and filtration on airplanes.
The Current brings us the Ray Perryman projection about how much Greg Abbott's border-truck-inspection stunt cost us.
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