SocraticGadfly: Texas Progressives talk fall elections, environment, conspiracy theories

October 16, 2025

Texas Progressives talk fall elections, environment, conspiracy theories

Off the Kuff would like us to pay more attention to the SD09 special election. 

SocraticGadfly looks at the latest JFK assassination conspiracy theory, that "Israel did it," and thoroughly debunks it while adding that he sees it as injurious to anti-Zionism.

Meet the American Jew seized as a 1970 Palestinian hostage who became an anti-Zionist. 

The Texas Medical Association has told Brainworm Bobby to go fuck himself over childhood vaccine schedules, and that made Kenny Boy Paxton butt-hurt. 

Texas youth camps are bent out of shape by new state safety requirements, above all, the cost. Maybe if some of you had not only not built into floodplains, but also had not gotten the feds to pencil-whip floodplain boundaries, and had been more proactive on emergency communications, you wouldn't be facing this. 

A lot of Texas Dems with local party organizational power just do not like the Soros-funded, Beto-Bob-alumni-staffed, Texas Majority PAC, and from the story, it's understandable why. Beyond undermining local control, there's bullshit statements and actions, and a refusal by the TMP to be explicitly pro-union in its hiring.

Meet what may be a new species, the Dixon's whiptail lizard, which lives in two isolated spots and reproduces asexually.  

Neil at the Houston Democracy Project said refusal of Houston municipal political leaders to address role of HPD in cooperating with federal government in taking our rights, only lessens trust.

Franklin Strong presents the Book-Loving Texans' Guide to the November 2025 school board elections.

The Waco Bridge covered the lives and deportations of Sergio Garcia, a celebrated chef in Waco, and his wife Sandra.

The Barbed Wire checks in on the Texas Stock Exchange following its SEC approval.

El Paso Matters reports on Pope Leo XIV's visit with an El Paso delegation and his support of immigrants, refugees, and people facing deportation.

Olivia Julianna documents a week of reckoning for the Republicans.

The Texas Signal alerts us to the world's first coloring novel, written by a Houston author.

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