SocraticGadfly: Texas Progressives talk SS Texas Democrats, Uvalde and more

July 20, 2022

Texas Progressives talk SS Texas Democrats, Uvalde and more

SocraticGadfly calls out the "Deep in the Heart" Texas wildlife film for Texas exceptionalism and greenwashing, among other things.

Off the Kuff has the first fully post-Dobbs poll to analyze. 

Stace gives us his take on the FLOTUS taco controversy and how Dems lose opportunities to capture Latino votes.

Several items up on Uvalde. First, the problems and screw-ups keep looking bigger. The AP adds on with "egregiously poor decision-making."  Second, and related, and why I back red-flag laws (which have to be applied, of course), unlike Green gubernatorial Delilah Barrios opposing them by her silence, Salvador Ramos was identified as being "at risk," with good reason, a year before the shooting. And, local residents (rightly) are tired of finger-pointing. Third? The Uvalde cop with the "Punisher" logo on his phone in the "infamous" Twitter pic? Husband of Eva Morales, a Robb teacher killed in the shooting. The Monthly has more.

The Korean War Veterans Memorial's Wall of Remembrance is riddled with errors.

San Antonio's city government hates birds.

The Observer talks criminalized abortion, on what we know pre-Roe and what we can guess about post-Roe.

Mark Pitcavage corrects the title of a new HBO show.

The TSTA blog reminds us that a revenue windfall for Texas is only good news for public schools if the Legislature sees fit to make it good for them.

The Dallas Observer notes that the Texas Secretary of State is still a Big Lie aficionado.

The Austin Chronicle sums up Ken Paxton's latest threat to society

Steve Vladeck documents how the state of Texas has hand-picked the judges hearing most of its 27 challenges to Biden administration policies.

The SS Democrats in the header is the state party re-electing Gilberto Hinojosa as boss.

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