If you'r a BlueAnon Dem and you think Warmonger Joe "won" the debt standoff, per Jeff St. Clair of Counterpunch at last Friday's Roaming Charges, I reject your ethics even more than your analysis.
Dan Patrick, by his refusal to use a pen, is possibly deliberately blocking an upgrade to the Texas Public Information Act. Update: ProPublica/The Trib apparently shamed him into action. The reason Danny Goeb says at the second link that he originally held it up? Butt-hurt over Dade "Dade" Phelan.
More youth prisons! Another "gift" from the Lege, along with moving more juveniles into adult prison.
Foster care privatization — gee, what could go wrong with that?
Abbott can theoretically call all the special sessions he wants. Still doesn't mean something like school voucher expansion will be passed. Tricky Ricky Perry got stuffed a number of years ago when he did this. What's sadder is pro-vouchers Lege leaders holding a teacher pay raise hostage. At that link, anti-voucher House Republicans bluntly told Abbott to "come and take it."
TxDOT (by NO means unique on this among state highway and transportation departments) can't give up its addiction to widening freeways. I-10 in El Paso is now in its crosshairs.
Mike Morath and his team are already off to a rocky start within Houston ISD, the Observer reports.
Fighting climate change? Really? Gelato is part of the battle against climate change? Reuters reports there's a lot of grifting out there.
I knew most of the story of Snopes as reported in Fast Company before, via David Sterling Jones' linked piece. Missing? The politicization of Snopes IS real, and is not "leftist," but Blue Anon Democrat, a large part of why I deblogrolled it. And, given that its current owners also own Salon, I'm not holding by breath over it reversing David Mikkelson's sometimes ventures into politics, not fact-checking.
Off the Kuff games out the best political outcome of the Paxton impeachment saga.
SocraticGadfly talks about the origins of Memorial Day
The Dallas Observer notes the five craziest moments involving North Texas legislators this session.
Kimberly Vered Shashoua says that trans teens in Texas deserve so much better.
The Current reports on a grassroots effort to amend San Antonio's strict ordinances that regulate exotic dancers.
The Texas Living Waters Project names some winners and losers from the past legislative session.
The Fort Worth Report profiles small business owner Carlie Alaniz after she was discriminated against by a local homophobic crafts fair.
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