Texas Progressives talk Speaker drama and more

SocraticGadfly talks about Dade Phelan and Dustin Burrows.

Whoever the new Speaker is, whether Burrows, GOP caucus guy David Cook, or some better never-Patrick GOP alternative to Burrows, the sense of Legiscritters, or at least ones that blathered to the Tribune along with various lobbying types, is that vouchers will be a done deal. (It appears nobody from TASB was at the event.)

Gene Wu replaced Trey Martinez Fisher as leader of Texas House Dems. So far, he's been less than perfect, though not godawful, on the GOP side of the Speaker battle.

Off the Kuff shared a couple of thoughts about where to go from here.

Dannie Goeb wants to ban THC products and it's high on his priorities list.

This one is nothing new to me — I wrote back in 2006 about Rick Perry's "economic miracle" and noted that it was based on two things: oil and Ill Eagles. The state had data about the economic benefits of illegal immigrants then and hasn't updated it — because Strangeabbott et al know they can't refudiate it.

Biden did an el foldo to Paxton on confidentiality for teen birth control meds.

Blocking social media accounts on school district WiFi, as is generally already done? Good thing. Blocking minors from starting accounts in the first place, even if they have parental consent? Unconstitutional as I see it. Shock me that Rethuglicans are pushing it here in Tex-ass. It has parallels to blocking medications for transgender and / or transsexual minors even if they have parental consent.

The Observer gets the real names behind four neo-Nazi accounts on Shitter. 

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy: Nick Fuentes arrested on battery charge.

Reform Austin leans into their discontent.

The Eyewall reviews the 2024 hurricane forecasts. 

Law Dork looks to the trans representation at the SCOTUS hearing on gender affirming care.

Uranium mining is heating back up in south Texas. I never knew it was much of a deal there.

Neil at the Houston Democracy Project posted on the Houston Planning Commission stalling the silly & selfish revision process of Houston’s sidewalk ordinance.

Texas statewide media news sites get more incestuous. The Monthly ran the Trib's piece about Phelan bailing out. And now, the Barbed Wire, the new kid, is running stuff from Steven Monacelli, who normally is at the Observer.