SocraticGadfly from vacation experience, talked about just how bad Southworst has gotten, along with an ethical reason to stop flying them.
Off the Kuff had the July campaign finance reports for US Senate and Congress.
The Texas Ten Commandments bill faces a new challenge — in state court, under state laws. (As I said in a comment at that Substack, its 1A-based federal challenge is not dead, contra the author of the piece; it simply has yet to be heard by the US Supreme Court after the Fifth Circuit overruled a federal district court.)
GLO Commish Dawn Buckingham is standing up to the Border Patrol, in an issue that (unironically, I am guessing) involves a private landholder called Trans Pecos Ice. Will she eventually fold like a cheap cocktail dress?
The Observer details the problems with outsourcing state foster care.
The battle over a proposed new high-voltage power line running to and from the Odessa area (a battle flooding my office email inbox) is heating up. And, Dannie Goeb is officially on the "no line" side.
At the Monthly, Robert Downen says Paxton is taking Talarico more seriously. That said, when you leave your own press conference, how serious are you?
The Observer looks at Houston's attempt to investigate ICE's killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, including Mayor John Whitmire's problematic opening stance. It's also complicated by Strangeabbott now getting the Texas stRangers (them, not the folks in Arlington) to do THEIR OWN investigation, with which the feds ARE cooperating. I see all sorts of reasons for this, not only PR and sweeping under the rug issues, but perhaps an attempt to deliberately generate state crime double jeopardy issues. Strangeabbott IS a lawyer, after all.
Neil at Houston Democracy Project said court decision ending Houston’s woman/minority setaside program, Whitmire still saying HPD does not contact ICE & HPD over-policing of protest shows how much work remains in so many arenas. The next action is when you organize it.
RIP Kay Granger. Did she get forgotten in that nursing home type place?
The Current finds CD23 candidate Brandon Herrera being an even bigger douche than before.
The Texas Signal reports on the “Data Center Week of Action” at the Capitol.
The Bloggess explains why she sometimes disappears.
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