Texas Progressives talk Uvalde, more

Former Uvalde ISD police chief Pete Arredondo has been indicted for his role, or failed role, in the mass shooting two years ago. Will DPS head Steve McCraw, who testified to the still-convened grand jury, have to face the music?

Russell Gold says that, with the wide variety of THCa products that eventually deliver Delta-9, Texas has essentially legalized marijuana, because hemp sellers are going way over state and federal limits and the state is way behind on testing.

Doug Lewin talks about the electric grid.

Some splinter-sized Israeli settler nutbars want to make southern Lebanon the next West Bank.

More than 100 Texas counties, including mine, do not have a federally required hazard mitigation plan. In the wake of the East Palestine train disaster, and its possible happenings in my county, that alone is reason to have one.

Off the Kuff looks at the state of abortion in Texas two years after Dobbs, and notes that the EMTALA decision was not a victory.

In two separate criminal justice issues, Socratic Gadfly first talks about the release of Julian Assange, and then looks at PRO Gainesville throwing a Hail Mary to the Supreme Court, and the ACLU role in that.

Neil at the Houston Democracy Project said blathers about be certain to know how to contact friends & allies in a political crisis. You won’t be able to rely on big social media platforms. (That's your second strike or beyond, Neil; almost didn't run it.) 

 The Houston Press profiles new Sen. Molly Cook.  

Frank Strong looks at how the discourse over library books has curdled. 

 Law Dork warns of our imperial SCOTUS. 

 The Dallas Observer previews what you'll be eating at the State Fair this fall.