Texas Progressives: What's next on border, immigrants, more?

The General Land Office is offering Trump land for a concentration camp on the border even as Strangeabbott puts up more floating barriers in the Rio Grande. The land was bought from a private owner who had opposed a state border wall in the area. I guess the state's dinero was too much to resist.

The Observer looks at what it was like a century ago when Texas jails served as immigrant detention centers, and again, during the "Operation Wetback" 1950s, including a comment by ConservaDem then-Congresscritter Lloyd Bentsen.

Strangeabbott has also ordered hospitals in the state that get Medicaid or CHIP money to start asking citizenship questions. You don't have to answer, but how many patients will know that?

Strangeabbott likes to thing he's part of the federal government when Washington makes a decision under international law over which he has no power, but that he doesn't like. The sensical amendment to the 1944 US-Mexico water treaty is the latest. Let's add in, which the Trib doesn't, that Mexican President Lopez Obrador, beyond the drought hitting both sides of the river, had cited Strange's floating border barriers as part of why water was being held up. Big John Cornyn and Havana Ted Cruz, per the story, also didn't talk about that.

Off the Kuff analyzes the question of undervoting in judicial races to see if it tells us anything about what happened in this election.

Kenny Boy Paxton has put Dallas in his gunsights as the latest city to be sued over marijuana decriminalization. He's lost so far on cities large enough with the money and legal manpower and willpower to stand up to him. (Denton has the first two, but not the third.)

SocraticGadfly offered up some snark on the JFK assassination anniversary.

Horse torture at A&M's Veterinary School. Will it crack down even more than it already has, as necessary?

RIP Fred Harris, better than Bernie Sanders long before Bernie.

Lone Star Left urges the passage of a bill to require air conditioning in Texas' prisons.  

Steve Vladeck describes getting ambushed at a legal forum. 

 Law Dork calls on President Biden to commute all of the remaining federal death sentences. I've already said, in my own Tweeting about this, that A. it won't happen, and B. Why didn't Geidner ask for Biden to free Leonard Peltier? 

Mean Green Cougar Red mourns the closing of a longtime Houston restaurant, which fell victim to the I-45 expansion. 

Reform Austin looks at the connection between vouchers and educational re-segregation.  

The Eyewall declares an end to the 2024 hurricane season and turns its attention to those big storms in the Pacific.