SocraticGadfly thoroughly discusses the political and social angles of EVERYTHING that was in that US Conference of Catholic Bishops policy statement, and likewise on one of its chief "pushers," and not just the ICE immigration thuggery rebuke to Trump.
Off the Kuff is amused by an effort to hold Ken Paxton to the same legal standard as Letitia James.
Texas has more than 60 bitcoin mines (and growing) reports the Observer. Per the story, were or are local government elected officials who voted for these projects more sincerely clueless or more capitalist bullshitters? I think you know my answer. The story adds that the Public Utility Commission is compiling a list of the worst of these, but it doesn't want John Q. Public to see.
Neil at the Houston Democracy Project said with bar owners on Washington Ave, homeless ticketed under the Civility Ordinance and protesters at the Pride Crosswalk, Mayor Whitmire uses police and the law to punish opponents and obstacles to his plans.
Timothy Snyder, in talking about the republic of grift, more than thuggery, under Trump, says something I can actually agree with.
The Camp Mystic lawsuits are ramping up.
Tylenol shareholders are officially as safe as Tylenol itself, as a judge told Kenny Boy Paxton to STFU on his attempt to block dividend payments. Once again, wingnuts love capitalism until they don't.
Texas wingnut churches: Officially anti-lifer even for infants.
Speaking of? There actually are pro-life conservatives who are anti-death penalty. And, if Nan Tolson is at Baylor, she's surely not a non-cafeteria Catholic but some sort of Protestant.
Mitch McConnell, trying to out-Dan Patrick Dannie Goeb on hemp and THC.
The Lone Star Project wants to know what Greg Abbott knew about Ghislane Maxwell's transfer to a Club Fed in Texas. (I want to know why Kuff won't talk about a Palestinian-American protestor from Columbia still being incarcerated in a non-"club" federal prison.)
The Current is relieved to see Rep. Nate Schatzline leave the Texas House.
Pete von der Haar was sadly unimpressed by the movie Nuremberg.
The Texas Signal looks at the effect that Trump's immigration pogrom has had on the Texas economy.
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