Not much to cheer about down here in Deep in the Hearta, but it's almost the weekend, and we'll take what we can get.
#Texas federal judge will hear arguments Friday court in Justice Dept.'s suit to block state's new #abortion ban@TexasTribune
— ChickenFriedPolitics (@ChkFriPolitics) September 30, 2021
-Southern politics are on the menu at ChickenFriedPolitics.com-https://t.co/g9royfnrBq
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman of Austin will hear arguments Friday over whether to temporarily halt the Texas law, which stands as the nation’s biggest curb to the constitutional right to an abortion in a half-century.
The Justice Department has pushed for the court to act swiftly, but it is unclear how soon Pitman will decide.
The smirking General Lazy Eye must be doing.
Texas defended the most restrictive abortion law in the country by arguing that it’s “stimulating” interstate commerce. https://t.co/s24J4fLFtB
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) September 30, 2021
There are marches tomorrow, here and everywhere.
Texans are up against so much right now- a hateful anti-abortion bill, erasure of voting rights, and a humanitarian & Constitutional crisis at the border.
— Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) September 23, 2021
Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the U.S. Its govt & the majority of its ppl oppose @GovAbbott's heinous bills.
As a follow-up to yesterday's Doubtful post...
A great first day for my friend @matthewjdowd. @DanPatrick is at the forefront of political extremism in this country. He is a significant abettor and author of the insanity that has been unleashed that divides and threatens us. He has embraced nihilism as his animating ideology https://t.co/NOsfGstDs2
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) September 30, 2021
The bipartisan consultantocracy force is strong with Dowd.
I will effort to make the latest redistricting takes as brief as possible, with the action item first.
📢📢TESTIFY VIRTUALLY! At 9AM on Monday 10/4, you can tell the House committee exactly what you think of this map from the comfort of your own Zoom. The deadline to register is 9AM on Sunday 10/3. Get those sign-ups in here: https://t.co/xvvkrcb74T https://t.co/SDz3dwAQDf
— Texas Civil Rights Project (@TXCivilRights) September 30, 2021
This one below, by the only Republican state representative who has passed a sanity test, was yesterday's winner.
If the map process was entirely objective and took a non-partisan approach the map would look quite different than the draft.
— Lyle Larson (@RepLyleLarson) September 30, 2021
No one in the house is worth gerrymandering for..
The job pays 600 dollars a month. Tell everyone thanks for the use of the hall and run from this asylum. pic.twitter.com/2oMAncu5bs
ICY(really)MI: Want to know whether Texas maps are being drawn to disenfranchise minorities?
— Lauren McGaughy 🌟 (@lmcgaughy) September 30, 2021
Good luck finding out. Texas lawmakers passed a law in 2019 that will let them keep key communications secret. https://t.co/A0oq5sflnr #txlege
I have several Tweets regarding "Texas Republicans behaving badly in areas besides redistricting" that have piled up.
Offering no deets, @GregAbbott_TX at @TPPF event says 'add'l caravans' of migrants are coming to Texas-Mexico border.@TxDPS, state's National Guard are hatching 'different strategies that we will try to use to repel these.'
— Bob Garrett (@RobertTGarrett) September 30, 2021
Background: https://t.co/MmmabeTEGR 1/3 #txlege pic.twitter.com/MlipIKbgrC
Greg Abbott is calling for Texas lawmakers to increase the penalty for illegal voting — weeks after he signed a bill lowering it.
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) September 30, 2021
This comes after an audit of the 2020 election in four counties was announced, despite no evidence of widespread fraud. https://t.co/Mgf105dI6B
Somebody on the far right yelled "Jump", Greg Abbott replied, "How high?", and Dade Phelan said, "not this time".
After Gov. Abbott adds a change to SB 1 to the special session agenda, Speaker Phelan says “now is not the time to re-litigate” and that the House will be focused instead on “its constitutional obligation to pass redistricting maps.” #txlege https://t.co/nv4xV0dNiv
— Madlin Mekelburg (@madlinbmek) October 1, 2021
Speaker Phorehead still doesn't earn a gold star from me, but it's nice to see someone occasionally saying 'no' to something.
Lawmakers using leadership PACs as "slush funds" to live lavish lifestyles: report https://t.co/juxRJXiUB6 pic.twitter.com/X3us80X8ce
— The Hill (@thehill) October 1, 2021
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) spent 18 percent of his PAC’s $2.2 million on political activities, spending $12,000 on Houston Astros games and $5,000 at the Cloister at Sea Island, Georgia’s top-rated luxury hotel, the report found.
CanCruz's lawsuit against the FEC, seeking to get more of his money back, has reached the SCOTUS. (Given our Citizens United world, I would expect the justices to rule in his favor.)
Senator Ted Cruz’s challenge to a federal election law that limits how candidates can recoup loans to their own campaign will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) September 30, 2021
His lawyers argued the law deters candidates from loaning money to their campaigns. https://t.co/hi9h9CMbq9
Round and round the grifter wheel spins.
6/ The report looks specifically at the record of Commission Chair @ChristiCraddick.
— KUT Austin (@KUT) September 28, 2021
It found that Craddick "cast a deciding vote" in favor of a pipeline company that she owned thousands of dollars of stock in and received $22,500 in campaign contributions from the company.
The second- and third-tier Republinuts are... well ...
SCOOP: A Texas judge has ruled default judgements against Alex Jones and Infowars in two separate Sandy Hook cases. He will now be liable for all damages and a jury will now be convened to determine how much he will owe the plaintiffs. https://t.co/9TOSYkbYhZ
— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) September 30, 2021
NEW: An unidentified person has tried to burn down the Democratic Party headquarters in Austin, Texas. pic.twitter.com/hdzdFpUUx3
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) September 30, 2021
Two weeks' worth of tweets in this thread. Kinda entertaining until you realize these people are real, out there where you live ...
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) October 1, 2021
... and crazy as a buncha shithouse rats. https://t.co/GBRQDnVCol
#ExposeChristianSchools https://t.co/hl5LaMDXwA
— A Lefty Gamer (@A_Lefty_Gamer) September 29, 2021
How far right is too far for the Texas GOP? Link to this weeks's Second Reading podcast with @jamesrhenson & @JoshuaMBlank, with some supporting poll results and graphics https://t.co/vcvi4fEnvu #txlege pic.twitter.com/TOhf0RUuQw
— The Texas Politics Project (@TxPolProject) September 30, 2021
I sure hope we find out soon.
Regarding COVID:
On average, more than 260 Texans have died of COVID-19 every day in the last month https://t.co/bHyCRyK5ji
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) September 29, 2021
University of Houston professors develop intranasal COVID vaccine https://t.co/cJItdnPMLL
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) September 30, 2021
And the battle for justice for trans children never ends.
Texas has considered dozens of anti-trans bills. These moms have helped stop them. https://t.co/SV7qG1URGG
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 30, 2021
Though it will be the children themselves who win the battle for tolerance for all.
DEVELOPING: Temple HS students protesting outside after trans student is denied access to female facilities. pic.twitter.com/dhORrBNtM0
— Maiya Turner (@Maiya_Turner) September 29, 2021
The Boomers who ran The Rag Blog are leaving us. And LareDOS also shared the life and times of Powell St. John, who departed last month.
Wrapping up a long, difficult, frustrating week with a few soothers.
Among the featured events at the Oct. 2 Boerne Book and Arts Festival is a discussion about the Old Spanish Trail with author James Collett. https://t.co/To4aM3Fqbm
— San Antonio Report (@SAReport) October 1, 2021
“Just Put the Eggs”: Ana Hernandez’s Protean Punctuation
— Glasstire (@Glasstire) September 25, 2021
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.#AnaHernandez#christinafrasier#abelortiz#genievefiggis#JacintoGuevara#goseesomearthttps://t.co/dIcyobdiTd pic.twitter.com/MsL0X7bLxW
"We WILL have a great city, in spite of them, & if they don't behave very well up there in Austin, we will CUT OFF THEIR SUPPLIES, & throw them upon corn bread and beef."
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) September 30, 2021
-- the Houston Morning Star in 1839 after Houston lost the fight (to Austin) to be named the state capital pic.twitter.com/aEkgRcXc7l
