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SocraticGadfly looked at Texas and national Democrats embracing Henry Cuellar and laughed.

Off the Kuff has not one but two roundups of Deadline Day activity.

Birding from prison is a real thing. 

The bathroom bill has already brought bathroom police, workarounds and more. (The bill itself has only civil not criminal penalties, and these target the entity owning the bathrooms in violation, not violators. It also targets only local governments, but I "await" the day the Lege tries to bar unisex bathrooms in private businesses.)

Why does Southwest need to expand by 2,000 employees in Austin when it's more generally shitting the bed?

A GOP political battle in Lubbock is getting both uglier and funnier with likely statewide legal consequences. 

The Observer mourns the Lina Hidalgo Harris County once had, without fully wrestling with the issue of how much of her decline was self-inflicted.  (I personally think she was more the technocrat even early on.)

Yes, Steve Stockman is trying a comeback. The Observer discusses. 

Will wingnut anti-DEI efforts backfire on men wanting to attempt college? 

Neil at Houston Democracy Project Blog reported Mayor Whitmire suggested people speaking at Houston City Council Public Comment Session should “swear” are telling truth. Who will judge that? Whitmire?

Anna Genna-Hiroi wants you to watch out for conflict minerals as you do your holiday shopping.

Law Dork documents the forthcoming Humphries Executor atrocity.

Steve Vladeck delves into Justice Kagan's dissent in the Texas redistricting case.

 In The Pink Texas finds the true meaning of Christmas badly misspins the story behind the Lukan nativity myth to present an interesting, and politically supportable story about the Trump administration and religions right wingnuts, and an interesting sidebar, with no follow-up, about American Catholic political issues. No wonder Kuff the presumed Methodist loves this. And, of course, I had to write about it.