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June 29, 2023

Texas Progressives talk Paxton, suing, fascism

Off the Kuff looks at the rules adopted by the Senate to govern the Paxton impeachment trial, with a link to my post about it there, or here.

The Supreme Court has said Tex-ass doesn't have standing to sue Ill Eagle Hunter Joe Biden to force him to restore Trump's Title 42. The said reality is that, as a site like Border/Lines said at the time, the Biden Administration's new program is really the same and maybe worse in some ways.

Speaking of suits? The Texas Supremes said ERCOT can't be sued over Winter Storm Uri electric pricing issues, or deaths from power outages, granting it sovereign immunity even though it's not an actual state agency.

Of COURSE Will Hurd is running for prez. Makes an even dozen now, if not more, in the GOP race. And, the Trib shows its Overton Window allegiance by calling him a "moderate." Kuff snarkily says it's all about the books and speaking fees to come.

SocraticGadfly goes to his second blog and looks at the barely contained, if that, issue of fascism in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

Big Bend National Park's retiring superintendent talks to the Monthly about the need for more money for the NPS as a whole, for BB in particular, and what he learned in his years there.

"Extreme Heat is Deadlier than Hurricanes, Floods and Tornadoes Combined." Scientific American takes us into the details of that.

The Roman Republic probably didn't salt Carthage, but Golda Meir DID poison Palestinian land.

Washington Monthly citing the Founding Fathers to approve modern work from home has to be one of the dumbest things I've read there and that says a lot.

El Paso Matters talks to local health experts about the effect of the Dobbs ruling, one year later.

Your Local Epidemiologist looks at the same ruling through a scientific lens.

Jef Rouner sees a big Republican-induced brain drain coming.

Therese Odell rages about the obliteration of Turner Classic Movies.

Equality Texas offered tips to celebrate Pride safely.

Trans activist Kai Shappley and her family were forced to relocate from Texas for their safety in the wake of the Lege's anti-trans crusade. She and her mom were featured on the Positively Dreadful podcast to talk about their current situation.

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