💪💪💪 #txlege pic.twitter.com/0jK6H7tyOq
— Laura Atlas Kravitz (@AtlasLaura) August 12, 2021
UPDATE: Texas Senate swiftly passes SB1 voting reform bill immediately after Houston Democrat's 15-hour filibuster #sb1 #txlege
— ABC13 Houston (@abc13houston) August 12, 2021
📃: @TexasTribune
Read more: https://t.co/CSLCKgoZxK
Perhaps these performative actions still have some value to "excite the base", or stimulate a bit of fundraising. Beyond that ...
Two arrests, or two more defections today -- or at some point soon -- and the statehouse will have a quorum, and then will get on with the business the Senate has already conducted. Another 'E' for effort from Gene Wu, et. al.
Responding to an emergency motion filed hours earlier, the Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an Austin district judge's order that prohibited the arrest of Democrats participating in the ongoing quorum break. https://t.co/gC8T0IMd2M
— Linda Hill (@bulldoghill) August 10, 2021
If you're Team Blue and reading this, I don't mean to be derogatory. It's just that with the US Congress currently on vacation, a voting rights bill on the schedule in September isn't going to be of much help to the Tex Donks' hard-fought cause.
Despite desperate pleas from Texas Democrats, the U.S. Senate failed to move federal voting rights legislation before leaving for recess.
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) August 11, 2021
It was a Texas Republican — @tedcruz — who blocked the last attempt to vote on a bill before the Senate left town. https://t.co/vedRLEWrge
And next month's third special session is when redistricting becomes the bulldozer that buries the Democrats six feet under for another decade.
The Senate is adjourned until September. Redistricting reform was not passed and tomorrow, the gerrymandering begins.
— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) August 11, 2021
Dems are not playing chess. They had 6 months to pass this reform and failed to prioritize it, surrendering democracy without a fight.
Bamboozled again!
I think it's more like 8 months; I seem to recall both Obama and Eric Holder saying that redistricting would be a top priority after they left office, though I can't find that reference now. Maybe it was a topic of discussion at the birthday party last weekend. (That would sure harsh your 60th-year mellow, wouldn't it?)
Anyway, fight on. Or keep blaming Jill Stein or something.
John Roberts and the Supreme Court might block anything Democrats do on #votingrights https://t.co/rkVRkfjRRb via @CNN
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) August 11, 2021
The good news is it doesn't seem as futile as trying to get Joe Manchin and the rest of the Blue Dogs in Congress to save the planet.
NEWS: Literally 24 hours after IPCC's dire warnings about methane & fossil fuels, 7 Democrats joined Republicans to pass an amendment to block the government from ever banning fracking.
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) August 11, 2021
The 7 Dems raked in $1.7 million from fossil fuel industry donors. https://t.co/ch17jnSVkP
Democrats who can fuck right off a cliff: Bennet, Casey, Heinrich, Hickenlooper, King, Lujan, Manchin, Tester. https://t.co/Rjk1nfCAMA
— Ben Hauck 🌹 (@fightdenial) August 10, 2021
And Joe Biden? Well, don't blame me; I didn't vote for him.
Literally two days apart. pic.twitter.com/0hVXxJYFrG
— Gravel Institute (@GravelInstitute) August 11, 2021
If you're getting mad again, please consider that I'm just the messenger. Blaming Republicans is too easy (though some fun), but I long ago concluded that the problems we suffer come out of a delusion that one party is trying to help. And that, far too often, is not the case.
Democrat Caught Bankrolling Abbott, Surprising No One#txlegehttps://t.co/ZOmvC3BgUW
— True Texas Project (@TrueTXProject) August 10, 2021
TTP, above, is a far-right freak, for anybody brave enough to click through. Here, I'll save you some trouble: he thinks Democrats voting in the GOP primary are the reason Republicans like Greg Abbott keep getting elected.
If Abbott wins the coming GOP primary, it’s a win-win for the Left. The GOP base is less likely to turn out for traitors like Abbott who do nothing but screw them, so a Democrat is more likely to win (especially with legalized ballot stuffing via mail-in). However, if he does survive the 2022 midterms, Abbott will go back to business as usual: placating the Left, leaving the border open, allowing child genital mutilation, and generally carrying on with screw jobs.
AHAHAHAHAHA
We are all so fucked.
— Usedtobe_JohnRJohnson (@JRobertJohnson4) August 10, 2021
Soothers, please.
What a weekend for a bunch of Cowboys, who might one day die but because of the @ProFootballHOF will never fade away. pic.twitter.com/9bGHPFY4ns
— Gil Brandt (@Gil_Brandt) August 8, 2021
Read our Q&A with #Austinartist Kerry Hugins and see more of her work at https://t.co/qKiQi6pErQ (Also find her work on the cover of SAR III: https://t.co/dfoQRVPfVI pic.twitter.com/EsacNEkFvF
— San Antonio Review (@SanAntoReview) August 8, 2021
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