Texas Progressives talk guns, Bryan Slaton, Alan Vera

There was enough stuff from the Lege to separate it from the rest of this week's Roundup, especially since the Slaton news kept on giving.

A state House committee found Bryan Slaton did have sex with that intern and recommends expelling him. If the full House does give him the boot, it would be the first time in nearly a century. Even worse for his cause from the Religious Right POV, he deflowered a virgin. Update: Slaton resigned late Monday but still faced a House expulsion vote on Tuesday. Update 2: Slaton has now unanimously been expelled.

 

Guess even Matt Rinaldi got shamed enough, per this new site riffing on Texas Scorecard. Seriously, click that link, which I saw via Chris Tomlinson. Mucus, Christofascist Tim Dunn, nutbar-squared talking head Luke Macias, and, natch, Former Fetus Forever Fuckwad Jonathan Stickland all come out as being as morally loathsome as Slaton. My one business email account got signed up for Macias' blasts and I referenced that as well as tagging him on Twitter. Crickets. I also said on Twitter that he looked like Mucus' bastard love child.

And, back to Slaton to wrap. Given that he was a former Baptist youth pastor for more than a decade, I wonder if this was the first virgin he deflowered. Or even "just" the second. Or third. And ditto for getting them blotto drunk as part of that.

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Did either Joe Biden or Lina Hidalgo kill Alan Vera? 

The House may loosen up the Senate's anti-DEI bill over fears of universities losing federal funds. Why all the worry? If the House passes the Senate's no-tenure bill, universities will lose funds from the students not attending due to all the profs leaving, and this will especially hit at the grad school level.

For whatever reason, Strangeabbott has once again decided to #StopTheBorder with unnecessary stops of Mexican semis. And, I say for whatever reason, because as of now, Abbott and McCraw haven't stated one.

How much can House Dems delay at least some of the tidal wave of Republican social legislation?

Fire burn down your petrochemical plant? No problem, we won't consider it as part of permit renewal, TCEQ says. In the hearing, TCEQ in general was part of a clown car. So is the Biden Administration, as long as it allows TCEQ to run federal permit hearings. Wonder if pseudoskeptics Naomi Baker and Jeff Wagg weigh in on stuff like this. (And yes, I like to keep kicking them on occasion.)

 

The guns? See my separate post about the Allen shooting.