Texas Progressives talk Beryl

Off the Kuff wrote lots of things about Beryl. 

Neil at the Houston Democracy Project said hurricanes are political.

Space City Weather argues that Houston deserves a much better electricity distribution system.  

CultureMap showed how to help wildlife post-Beryl.

The Press gave its props to the Whataburger outage map.

Strangeabbott got back from his Korean junket and did some faux outrage about CenterPoint. Whatever investigation he wants will be a sham. Ditto in spades for Lite Guv Danny Goeb. We remember Uri.

In his latest Chron column, friend Chris Tomlinson did some real outrage, with a callout of Goeb, and of Kenny Boy Paxton for play-acting at AG, but even more, looks at CenterPoint as a big lying capitalist deregulated utility.

And legal shark Tony Buzbee has filed a class-action lawsuit against CenterPoint.

Tex-ass could have been on the national power grid in the 1970s. If only ...

Vox talks more on how this happened, and how this likely isn't the last time. (I personally continue to troll former Helltown mayor Annise Parker on Twitter about her mayoral-years statement about wanting Houston to get bigger than Chicago.)