Texas Progressives

Off the Kuff is all over redistricting. 

Related? Will the Texas GOP win its gamble that it can continue to run strong with Hispanics?

SocraticGadfly notes new climate modeling that says Southwestern drought will likely last the rest of this century. Having already noted that a drying Rio Grande won't fix itself means that US-Mexico water treaties, as well as Texas-New Mexico interstate compacts, are null and void by the laws of nature.

Sid Miller may have a hankering for ganja puffs as well as Jeebus shots.

One of the big failures of Charles Perry's big beautiful water constitutional amendment is that it has no provisions to stop the likes of Kyle Bass pumping the hell out of groundwater then shipping it hundreds of miles.

Greg Abbott's veto of a bill that could have protected Dripping Springs is a poster child not only for his anti-environmentalism, but the Lege's failure this spring to pass a constitutional amendment that would have created either a special session, or time at the start of the next regular one, for veto overrides.

The Lege is eyeing further attempts to strangulate local governments on property taxes.

But youth camp safety (to the degree the Lege would protect kids from rich camp owners anyway, per my piece on the Kerrville floods) will likely get screwed. (The Texas Living Waters Project a;so looks at the state of flood response in the special session.)

RIP Flaco Jimenez.

The International Court of Justice has ruled nations have an obligation to address climate change. I'm sure the next Democrap prez will ignore that just as much as Trump. After all, the Paris accords are voluntary, toothless Jell-O due to two people: Xi Jinping and ... Dear Leader.

Neil at Houston Democracy Project says Texas Democratic Party electeds & rank and file must find path to common course similar to what happened in South Korea last year when martial law was declared.

The TSTA Blog worries about the end to desegregation enforcement in public education. City of Yes would like for cities to be built for both children and dogs.

The Barbed Wire teases Love is Blind: Austin, which we're sure will be totally normal and generate no discourse at all.

The Dallas Observer finds a local case of ICE coming for a Trump supporter who surely wasn't expecting it.

Texas 2036 has concerns about ditching the STAAR test.

Olivia Julianna gives Dems permission to be ruthless.