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Monday, June 06, 2022

The "Bad News for Baptists and Greg Abbott" Wrangle


Scattershooting (*groan*) while the Texas Progressive Alliance stands around and watches the neo-Nazis in Ukraine rebrand themselves ...
Don't believe I've ever seen Governor Fish Lips' lips so tight.  He must be under duress.


Perhaps that additional $50 million that Dave Carney was bragging about last month is out of reach now.  Speaking of $50 million:


More committees, fewer school doors, bulletproof shields for cowardly cops; anything they can think of to avoid the actual problem.  Speaking of shitty law enforcement officers:


On and on it goes, with no end in sight.  Same old shit, same old nothing.


Vote harder.  "Vote Blue".


I just don't think that's going to work out any better than it has for the past twenty-something years.


Consider the definition of insanity.  Then consider doing something besides what you've been doing over and over again.


Just a suggestion.

When I read this my first thought was, "Hey! Maybe Shelley Kuffner has finally seen the light!"  Then I read 'her', and realized, 'nope, not yet'.


Here's a few more environmental notes.


Once again: thank you, Joe Biden.

A few social justice tweets; bad news first.


Some good news and some activist items.


Segue-ing into the soothers.

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Monday, April 11, 2022

"Women Still Have Reproductive Rights in Texas" Wrangle


But they are hanging by a thread.  Let's begin with the political tweets from the weekend.


The arrest of Lizelle Herrera reverberated across the nation.  Not just because we all thought it was about Texas being, you know, but because the law enforcement officials in Starr County are all Democrats, including the DA, whose office would've -- under the usual procedure -- presented a charge of murder to a grand jury for indictment before suddenly deciding the law wasn't on his side.  There is a great deal more the public needs to know about this matter, and I suspect it is going to smell very bad.

RGV Democrats are in a world of hurt, it seems.


Greg Abbott's border fiasco is also being exposed.


It will be a pretty nifty trick if the governor can stifle commerce with America's largest trading partner, choking the supply lines and driving up inflation to new heights, and get away with blaming it on Biden.  I think the only real question is whether Democrats will let him.



Teddy Wilson explains how much worse it can get after Roe v Wade is overturned.  And with the postpourri from the TPA, Kuff notes that the state of Texas is seeking to do violence to the Voting Rights Act as it defends itself against multiple redistricting lawsuits. The San Antonio Report reports on the city's settlement of two "sanctuary cities" lawsuits filed by Ken Paxton.  The Texas Signal highlights Dan Patrick's obsession with Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law, and the TSTA Blog has some straight answers as to why there's a teacher shortage.

One more:


The environmental news still dominates the headlines (or at least it should).


SocraticGadfly took note of the new IPCC climate report, which (he interprets as saying; it doesn't actually say...) we're up shit creek and doubts either major party will take the actions needed to address this as a crisis (he gets this right).  And Texas 2036 announces the results of its poll about younger Texans' preference for electric vehicles.


I posted at length about the Cyber Rodeo, the splashy open house for Musk's GigaTexas factory east of Austin, on Friday.

A few social justice updates.


And closing today with the soothers.

Ahead of Scott Scheffler's victory at the Masters yesterday, Richard Justice wrote a profile of the UT alum who is professional golf's top player.

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Monday, March 28, 2022

Rock-Slapped Wrangle from Far Left Texas


(A)ny references to geopolitical causes or pleas for humanity were overshadowed by the blow that Will Smith landed on Chris Rock. It used to be that partisan statements triggered a bit of discord and division in the room; this time it was one of Rock’s crass jokes about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.


The segue to Texas relevance:

(Oscars co-host Wanda) Sykes later took aim at the wave of new voting restrictions when she presented a shredded piece of paper. “You like democracy? Here is a voter registration form for the state of Texas,” she said.

And with that ...


And the Texas Observer would like the next land commissioner to forget the Alamo and focus on more important things.


Only the usual fail by our corporate state media.  Here are the social injustice Tweets.


And the legal and criminal injustice ones.


And some environmetal headlines.


It was unsettling to read about the upheaval at the Observer.


This review of a very disconcerting week -- not taking into account the developments in Ukraine, at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and essentially every direction in which you might have glanced -- requires a few extra soothers.

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Thursday, March 10, 2022

The Legal and Social Justice Wrangle from Far Left Texas


Opening today with the growing crusade by Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton to prosecute Texans for raising their children in a manner of their own choosing.  Those efforts have been blocked for now.


Concern for the burden of Texas teachers has also surged.


Brittney Griner becomes a secondary casualty -- or perhaps a prisoner -- of the Russian war on Ukraine.  She may eventually be a bargaining chip.


I may have more about this defamation lawsuit in a subsequent politics Wrangle, or I may just Tweet a few items.  This is the sort of red-blue bantering that simply does not interest me all that much any more, TBH.  I will echo Shells Seas and say that when we start barbecueing the 1%, I'm lining up for a fatty piece of Kelcy Warren's rump.

Let's see what the bad-behaving cops have been up to lately.


(You miss the Jeff Younger talk?  He didn't get to say much actually.)


Both the ACLU of Texas and anti-gun death activist Shannon Watts noticed the Border Patrol's fascist actions at Brownsville's Charro Days weekend-before-last.


Last: H-Town mayor Sly Turner still loves him some po-po.


One conservative who behaved badly got his comeuppance this week.


But the fascists aren't letting up.


A few labor pieces:


Wrapping up this very long Wrangle with some social justice and injustice items.  A couple of people picked up on the irony of renaming SH288 the Barbara Jordan Memorial Parkway.

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Thursday, January 13, 2022

Thursday Morning Wrangle from Far Left Texas, Part 1: COVID, primary skirmishes


Opening today with the latest on the pandemic.


If you want to backtrack to about a week ago ...


Very bad and getting worse.  I hope you're not one of those "putting it in Gawd's hands", but if you are, have the ambulance take you to church instead of the hospital, because there are no beds in ICUs.


As the DMN's Bob Garrett noted, Canon had been instrumental in getting state Rep. Tony Tinderholt elected, and was a background player in former Cong. Joe Barton's sexting scandal.

That might be my segue to the politics news.


The tweet's teaser is lazy and lame, but the story is lively.  Here:

"Beto O'Rourke is dangerous to the communities and to the safety of the public and the people of this state and he is not fitting to serve as governor," Abbott said.

The governor accused O'Rourke of supporting defund the police movements and attacking him for his position on bail reform.

"This is Governor Abbott lying about me," O'Rourke said. "I do not want to defund the police. I want to make sure law enforcement have the resources they need to solve and investigate violent crimes."

[...]

"As long as there's not a freeze between now until the end of March, Abbott should be in good shape," (Rice political scientist Dr. Mark) Jones said.

Dr. Jones can be really good at political analysis when he wants to be.


That's a Republican news source for those of you unfamiliar, so if you click on the link for the schadenfreude, be sure and scrape the cookies off your browser immediately after.


Drag a dollar bill past the Governor's Mansion and count on a whore in a wheelchair coming after you.


It's not politics.


That's enough Hell on Wheels for one post.


Senator Cornhole wants to be the next Majority Leader, if indeed Trump's play to blow out Moscow Mitch succeeds.  He'll have to contend with South Dakota's John Thune for the title, who looked as if he was ready to leave the Senate for a minute there.


I'll take that as my segue to post a few updates about Texas Democrats.


This is both awkward and unfortunate for Beckley.  Wu in particular is a committed shitlib -- he's still tweeting Hillary Clinton -- but Howard and Martinez are a letdown personally.

I'm also disillusioned by Jessica Cisneros.


I don't know whether Benavides is as, or less or more progressive than Cisneros.  This establishment centrist tweeted a smear against Jessica for the move, so there's that.


I'm Green, but Suh, Zapata, Reynosa, and Israel are Democrats I could vote for if I lived in their jurisdictions (and if I were voting in March).  I'm not so antagonistic as some #DemExiteers to those who seek to reform the Donkey Party from within.  I'm over that; maybe they will get there too.

More in the next.
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Friday, January 07, 2022

The Weekend Wrangle


It's been a very bad start to the new year for Texas Republicans.  Update:


To say they stepped in their own understates it.  Just follow the mockery.  Before I get to the rest of that, there's a few things that are more important to the rest of us.


But it might not matter, at least for Greg Abbott's political future.


Hope all those statewide Dems running on keeping the power on have a backup campaign plan.  Looks like they're gonna need it.

That's my segue.


So Ted Cruz had a worse week than this.  First, the Dallas Observer introduced us to his very online daughter, and then his treasonous actions from January 6, 2021 caught up with him, and his feeble explanations only dug his hole deeper.


But he was by no means alone.


Both Cruz and Crenshaw have been branded RINOs by the QAnon Caucus as fallout for these transgressions, i.e. telling the truth.  And I can't stop laughing.


Just cannot wait for the next poll in the TXGOP AG race.



So to summarize:


Unfortunately, Texas Democrats' top two prospects took serious hits themselves from what might usually be considered friendly sources.


Beto O'Rourke going rote was no surprise.  Lina Hidalgo discovered as a puppet of the oligarchy -- for this observer -- was.


 This probably won't register on the shitlibs' meters.

Here are the criminal and social justice updates; the first intersects with the environment.  (More climate news next week.)


Background on ShotSpotter.


Going long on soothers today.

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