Texas Progressives talk this and that

Off the Kuff has a roundup of potential candidates for the vacancy in CD18. 

 SocraticGadfly offers a roundup of hominid-related and other science news of recent note.

Neil at the Houston Democracy Project visited Washington, D.C. If enlisted men could be 97% of American dead in the Korean War, then politicians who have navigated our systems bringing authoritarian outcomes can do whatever is needed to fight the anti-democratic right.  (huh, Neil/?)

Equality Texas released its 2023 legislative scorecard.  

Law Dork heard the signals that this Supreme Court was sending out to the far right. 

 City of Yes finds a lesson on urbanism in the movie Jaws.  

Reform Austin profiles Democratic legislative candidate and former Miss Texas Averie Bishop.  

Sara Cress can tell you from personal experience why CenterPoint's communications are terrible.

Tarrant County has adopted formal policies for facility rental, just several weeks after the Texas True Project was at the Botanical Gardens, owned by the city of Cowtown.

Quakes in the Snyder area, up to 4.9 magnitude, were caused by fracking. (Reminder: Kamala Harris is now pro-fracking.)

Despite some libruls applauding it because it would seem to crack the black box of social media companies' algorithms, the Kids Online Safety Act could be a Trojan horse for wingnuts to mind-filter those kids.