For the third or fourth week in a row, the annual Texas Progressives roundup got too big and too diffuse in focus to run in one piece. So, here's the second half.
SocraticGadfly, from his summer vacation, snarked on Yellowstone concessionaire food.
A group affiliated with the Lipan Apache and a Terlingua-based river rafting company are suing the feds to block a border wall in Big Bend. That said, the rafting company's real problem is lack of water on the river; it should be suing BOTH duopoly parties over the climate crisis. The Observer has more
The Monthly reports in detail about bulldozers on the ground and other things at Big Bend. It's right in noting the noise pollution this involves, as well as other things. Much of the story is pull quotes, like this:
When I saw the photos of the bulldozers in front of Santa Elena Canyon, I thought of another sickening image: the two colossal, 1,500-year-old Buddha statues in central Afghanistan being blown up by the Taliban in 2001. What is happening in Big Bend is an act of mindless zealotry being sold as border security. And it forces us to realize that the things of this earth that are beautiful and sacred and mysterious to most of us will always be regarded by a cynical, powerful few as just being in the way.
—Stephen Harrigan, longtime Texas Monthly contributor and former staff writer
Give it a read. Then click on the Monthly's construction photo album.
Olivia Julianna has a lot of questions about the Big Bend border wall.
Supposedly, work on the wall has now been paused, whether what was being installed was a physical wall or not.
Related: A federal judge has extended a pause on border wall work in the Valley along the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge. (It's still on my bucket list to get down there to that and the National Butterfly Center.)
Meet the guy running the Thornscrub Sanctuary.
Would-be lithium mining from the Salton Sea hit a roadblock.
Per new STAAR results, Austin ISD is closer to falling in the hands of slimy evangelical TEA commish Mike Morath. The Observer talks about how much these takeovers cost local districts.
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