Texas Progressives look at oiliness in the Permian and in politicos

The Trib offers its latest assessment of Dade Phelan's chances of keeping the Texas House Speakership.

Related? The Texas Observer wonders if the House will remain anti-voucher after the elections. (Answer: Too close to call right now, so the speculation doesn't matter yet.)

Given all of Oxy's problems within petroleum major and mid-majors, there's no way I'd trust it to run a carbon injection plant it wants.

The RRC is dealing with a major new blowout.

More and more medical societies and organizations, especially ones focused on women's health, are boycotting Texas and other anti-abortion states as sites for their annual conferences, or individual members are creating alternative meetings if the organizations won't relocate.

Shock me that Greg Abbott is engaged in A: Theatrics; B. Mislabeling a drug gang as terrorists; C. Doing something that attempts to intrude on federal power.

Tarrant County Appraisal District, under the new law with directly elected board members in larger counties, is allegedly violating state law. So says state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, the guy who pushed for such restructuring. And, it may not be the worst county district! Bettencourt repoliticized the system; his shock at the actual repoliticization is bullshit.

Off the Kuff covered some polling and campaign news for Colin Allred. 

SocraticGadfly offered up the latest installment in his series on Southwest Airlines vs Elliott Investment Management.

Neil at the Houston Democracy Project posted a list of questions local political press could ask the six Houston City Council Republican, to see if they support the authoritarians & proponents of mass deportations put forth by the Republican Party up and down the ballot in 2024.  (Yours truly could send Neil some questions to pass on to City Council Democrats to see if they support national Democrat vote suppression. He could also remind Neil that Kamala is a Border Cop. He does this rather than not run Neil.)

The Current tells you about some political events to avoid. 

Texas 2036 wants to spread the word about free or low-cost ACA plans that many people qualify for.

CultureMap offers some mammogram advice in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  

Evan Mintz reminds us what Donald Trump thought of Houston after Hurricane Harvey.  

Laney Hawes laughs at some election conspiracy infighting.