For Blue MAGA who just can't understand why Warmonger Joe is so unpopular, even as inflation (starts to) decline? Try this great Pro Publica piece on tire inflation. Especially since tires continue to climb in price, and since it's not all about supply chain issues, but over things like carbon black, is connected to the Russia-Ukraine war, just maybe your eyes will be opened.
(That's all as Pope Francis prays for peace while Zelensky rejects that, but Z himself admits that long-touted counteroffensive, at least right now, isn't going to be all that.
SocraticGadfly read carefully world-renowned UT economist James K. Galbreath's new paper that notes sanctions often aren't crushing Russia but are even helping it at times, and discussed in detail how well he marshals his evidence, along with additional corroboration.
And with that, off to the rest of the Roundup:
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Post-James O'Keefe, Project Veritas is still Project Veritas, as it is reportedly behind Kenny Boy's investigation of Dell Children's in Austin.
Poor Strangeabbott and DPS head Steve McCraw. The DPS had to stop sending unwanted state cops to Austin so it could send unwanted cops to the border to once again slow down truckers. Let's not forget that regurgitated, returned, neoliberal Austin mayor Kirk Watson invited McCraw even though most the city council didn't want him.
Will the House really fight the Senate on tenure and DEI issues? Too bad Dems aren't talking about another D: Divestment.
Wingnuts in the Texas GOP hate on renewable energy even though it hugely benefits many of their constituencies. Surprisingly, that was Russell Gold that wrote that.
Battles over alleged, though not actual, "wokeness," have hit the staid TSHA.
Many bills hit the calendar deadline last Friday. Here's a look at some.
Sports gambling coming to Tex-ass? Maybe, but casino gambling is dead.
Yes, it's unconstitutional by SCOTUS ruling. (These days.) A full 20 years after the Lawrence ruling, Texas Dems finally got a bill to repeal Texas law on the House floor but ran out of time.
Others that ran out of time are at that link.
Andrea Grimes plumbs the depths of the dominant gun-loving culture.
In The Pink also has some thoughts about guns in our state.
Robert Rivard can hardly keep track of what mass shooting we're supposed to be praying about now.
Robert Moore reviews a book that tells the story of former Nazi scientists living in El Paso and how their children received a better education than the children of color that were already there.
Texas 2036 looks at legislation that could help alleviate medical debt.
The Austin Chronicle reports on the (as of the weekend) forthcoming strike at the Austin American-Statesman.
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