Texas Progressives

Off the Kuff presented interviews with Reps. Christian Menefee and Al Green in advance of the Democratic primary runoff. 

SocraticGadfly had fun mocking Trump, the UFO-heads, Trevor Lawrence aka Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Rod Dreher all in one piece.

It's official, and shock me it's him among the wingnuts on the Supreme Court: Clarence Thomas invoked the hoary old Comstock Act in wanting to uphold the Fifth Circuit on Texas' mifepristone law. 

RIP Gwen Farrell Adair, "Nurse Gwen" (and others) from M*A*S*H.

The Monthly says you should go to Marble Falls for art, not just cream pies (which are overrated IMO). 

CD Hooks discusses Strangeabbott muscling Grand Prairie over Eid while overlooking the 2024 inverse of the True Texas confab at the Fort Worth Botanical Garden. 

VD Hooks is OK with Bernie (while surely still hating Greens, along with fellow Monthly writer Forrest Wilder.) 

In a blind taste test, could you really tell a Fredericksburg peach from a Palisade one (the most common touted Colorado one)? For that matter, could you tell it from one from Parker County, Clay County or Deep East Texas? I doubt it, Texas Monthly, and I've had roadside-type peaches from all those locations (well, Stonewall to be precise, not Fredericksburg) other than Clay County.

Customs and Border Patrol said earlier in May they wouldn't build a wall through Big Bend. So, WHY has a contract been awarded? CBP ain't talking, meaning that, until further notice, its head, Rodney Scott, should be considered a liar. Related? Team Trump is suing the Diocese of Las Cruces to get Catholic-owned border land in El Paso.

Houston Democracy Project Blog reported the solid Panzarella over Hellyar win in Houston City Council District C, was a strong rejection of Hellyar's police union endorsement. The work of making HPOU endorsement toxic for Democrats seeking municipal election in 2027 is well underway. Please join this effort.

The Eyewall takes an early look at the summer's hurricane forecast.

The Current finds that not everyone in Boerne is happy to be the site of a new Bravo show.

The Dallas Observer reports on another lawsuit filed in Hood County against a very noisy cryptominer.

City of Yes explains why social media is not a town square and what we need to do to get real town squares back.

The Texas Signal warns about private equity capture of OB/GYN care.