Off the Kuff noted two new names being mentioned as possible Democratic candidates for Senate next year. (Rump Fuck O'Rourke as a retread would be as laughable as Jill Stein as a retread. Terry Vierts, contra one Kuff commenter? Aridzona ran an astronaut without previous electoral experience and it worked; New Mexico and Ohio did so long ago.)
SocraticGadfly, off his Substack, offered a roundup of May Day thoughts.
Franklin Strong notes how wingnut school board members, especially those backed by Patriot Mobile, took a drubbing last Saturday.
Trump has created a second border military zone, this east of El Paso. It and the one in New Mexico will surely face a Posse Comitatus Act challenge eventually. Since the act of illegal entry is itself civil, what Trump is doing is creating a pretext for a criminal charge.
Muskville is now an official city.
The wingnuts-squared in the Lege have now officially voted to "protect" kids from their parents. And, to "protect" kids from libraries, of course. An author who testified at the House hearing said that an iconic Texas book like "Lonesome Dove" could be banned without recourse.
Related? Students at UT and A&M told Rethuglicans to "go drag themselves."
The Lege wants to violate the Constitution again with the Ten Commandments in classrooms bill and is so religiously ignorant it hasn't even asked WHOSE Ten Commandments — Catholic? Calvinist/Anabaptist? Lutheran? https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/30/texas-testify-house-committee-ten-commandments/
Strangeabbott wants to keep people in jail forever, stealing a page from Trump.
The Barbed Wire reports on the continued chaos of the Lege's abortion bills.
Your Local Epidemiologist participated in a frank conversation with MAHA types.
In the Pink Texas tries to put 100 days into some perspective.
Olivia Julianna will not be silenced by a thug in the White House.
Law Dork observes a Trump-appointed judge learning through experience that this administration cannot be trusted.
The San Antonio Report wishes Coach Pop a fond farewell.
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