The Texas Progressive Alliance is celebrating the summer solstice with a cold beverage and toes in the sand as it brings you his week's blog post roundup.
Off the Kuff sets a couple of hopefully attainable goals for Texas Democrats in 2016.
Libby Shaw at Daily Kos has had it with political inaction after yet one more tragic mass shooting. Enough is enough. The carnage has got to stop. Fire the cowards who enable gun slaughter: When Political Cowardice is Lethal.
Socratic Gadfly reads Bernie Sanders' call for election reforms and wishes he had real reform that included third parties.
The Texas Democratic Convention was held in San Antonio this past weekend, and by all accounts was underwhelming, as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs predicted.
Oil and gas exploration is threatening the health of all Texans, and TXsharon at Bluedaze has it all mapped out.
Egberto Willies interviewed an East Texas secessionist who's closely following the Brexit scenario to see if Texas can apply any lessons.
Texas Vox takes note of the 17th and most recent state, New York, to call for a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United.
Dru Murray at the Lewisville Texan Journal toured that city's newest whiskey distillery.
Neil at All People Have Value took his efforts to the streets to promote the value of everyday life to the corner of Cesar Chavez and Harrisburg in Houston. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.
And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Diana Wray recaps Dan Patrick's very bad day on Twitter following the Orlando massacre, and TFN Insider reviews state Rep. Matt Krause's claims that it "doesn't matter" that the Orlando victims were gay.
Kris Banks asserts that gun safety is an LGBT issue, and Nancy Sims mourns the tragedy in Orlando and asks what we all will do about it.
The TSTA blog calls for educators to unite against Donald Trump.
Highlighting the divide among Texas bloggers (and the rest of the Texas Democratic electorate), Somervell County Salon didn't attend the TDP convention this year and won't be voting for Hillary Clinton in the fall.
Ben Becker has some questions for TEA Commissioner Mike Morath about the STAAR test.
Alamo Heights ISD Superintendent Kevin Brown and several of his colleagues warn that we can no longer fool ourselves into believing that just because many students seem to do well and graduate prepared for college and career, that we can sustain those results over time.
Scott Braddock peeks behind the curtain at the handful of rich radicals who were trying to buy this year's legislative elections.
Grits for Breakfast goes beyond the narrow, politicized explanations for the spike in homicides last year. He also has a terrific aggre-post regarding the limits of Politifact, crime wave hype, police pension politics, and Harris County as a driver of mass incarceration.
And in the latest installment of 'West Texas Exceptionalism', Make West Texas Great Again retells the stories of the Texas Cowboy Reunions from the 1930s up to the present day.
Off the Kuff sets a couple of hopefully attainable goals for Texas Democrats in 2016.
Libby Shaw at Daily Kos has had it with political inaction after yet one more tragic mass shooting. Enough is enough. The carnage has got to stop. Fire the cowards who enable gun slaughter: When Political Cowardice is Lethal.
Socratic Gadfly reads Bernie Sanders' call for election reforms and wishes he had real reform that included third parties.
The Texas Democratic Convention was held in San Antonio this past weekend, and by all accounts was underwhelming, as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs predicted.
Oil and gas exploration is threatening the health of all Texans, and TXsharon at Bluedaze has it all mapped out.
Egberto Willies interviewed an East Texas secessionist who's closely following the Brexit scenario to see if Texas can apply any lessons.
Texas Vox takes note of the 17th and most recent state, New York, to call for a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United.
Dru Murray at the Lewisville Texan Journal toured that city's newest whiskey distillery.
Neil at All People Have Value took his efforts to the streets to promote the value of everyday life to the corner of Cesar Chavez and Harrisburg in Houston. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.
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And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Diana Wray recaps Dan Patrick's very bad day on Twitter following the Orlando massacre, and TFN Insider reviews state Rep. Matt Krause's claims that it "doesn't matter" that the Orlando victims were gay.
Kris Banks asserts that gun safety is an LGBT issue, and Nancy Sims mourns the tragedy in Orlando and asks what we all will do about it.
The TSTA blog calls for educators to unite against Donald Trump.
Highlighting the divide among Texas bloggers (and the rest of the Texas Democratic electorate), Somervell County Salon didn't attend the TDP convention this year and won't be voting for Hillary Clinton in the fall.
Ben Becker has some questions for TEA Commissioner Mike Morath about the STAAR test.
Alamo Heights ISD Superintendent Kevin Brown and several of his colleagues warn that we can no longer fool ourselves into believing that just because many students seem to do well and graduate prepared for college and career, that we can sustain those results over time.
Scott Braddock peeks behind the curtain at the handful of rich radicals who were trying to buy this year's legislative elections.
Grits for Breakfast goes beyond the narrow, politicized explanations for the spike in homicides last year. He also has a terrific aggre-post regarding the limits of Politifact, crime wave hype, police pension politics, and Harris County as a driver of mass incarceration.
And in the latest installment of 'West Texas Exceptionalism', Make West Texas Great Again retells the stories of the Texas Cowboy Reunions from the 1930s up to the present day.
