The Texas Speaker of the House battle hit a new high, or low, last week, when GOP Housecritter Cody Harris (presumably backing Dustin Burrows) filed a legal complaint against Texas GOP Chair Abraham George alleging intimidation and other issues over the threat to censure, complete with two-year primary ban, dissidents. Lone Star Left adds what the Trib missed — and maybe that Cody overlooked, too? Part of his complaint involves matters of criminality, not just civil law.
UPDATE: It's Burrows, 85-55 in the second round. The Trib reports nine "present" after Ana Maria Ramos fell out after the first round. That's still one short of 150; not sure if anybody was legally absent or what. BUT, contra the Trib, the stormtrooper followers of Christofascist Tim Dunn are NOT "insurgents." Shock me that Justin Barragán and Jasper Scherer have the bylines; they probably wrote the fucking header, too.
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Shades of "Cadillac Desert" stupidity! Strangeabbott wants to take water from Houston and sell it to West Texas. Other than the water stupidity itself, one wonders if, in today's Tex-ass, this isn't a backdoor political punishment for Helltown.
How well will New York State's shield law protect the mifepristrone-prescribing doctor being sued by Kenny Boy Paxton? It may hang on the difference between a lawsuit by a private actor and one by a state government, an issue rarely explored by federal courts.
To me, it's no surprise that UT-Austin's presidency remains vacant. DEI-busting, or busting anything that looks close to that, by the state, and more. At the same time, people like UT's outgoing Jay Hartzell have done little at public universities to protect pro-Palestinian students, so good fucking riddance — and I wish the best to pro-Palestinian protestors at SMU, where Hartzell is headed.
Disgusting — Texas has the fifth-highest rate of abandoned calls on any state's national suicide hotline. Why? In fair part due to a federal funding deficit that is set to grow, in part due to the state not picking up the gap. Not having more counselors manning more phone lines also wears out the ones who are already there.
Strangeabbott, Kenny Boy, et al, paid out $1M in private legal contracts to defend the state vs the feds on the floating buoys and razor wire in the Rio Grande.
SocraticGadfly critically reviewed Jimmy Carter's presidential years and also discussed 1976 Democratic options.
In an overlooked part of the story that Fuckbook is getting rid of fact-checking, Hucksterman said that Fuckbook's safety and content team is being moved from California to Tex-ass because California might be biased. And Tex-ass isn't?
Look out for the New World screwworm in south Texas.
The Monthly thinks an "Ode to High Beams" is worth paywalling. It also thinks mini-profiling 10 rando librulz who left Tex-ass, even though four left back in 2022 and one in 2021, is worth something. It's "worth something" to the Monthly to presumably goose circulation for its paywall outside of Tex-ass borders, by 10 randos gushing to their friends that they were in the Monthly.
What's up with Matt Mullenweg putting his thumb on the scale at WordPress?
Off the Kuff analyzed the precinct data for the Railroad Commissioner's race in Harris County. (A piece that only a Kuffner could love; I got the Speaker's challenge links off Kuff and he could have submittted that.)
The Texas Signal has a timeline of Texas Republicans and January 6.
The Observer documents how Texas' ban on testing strips contributes to fentanyl-related deaths.
Jef Rouner says book reading challenges are doing it all wrong.
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