Friday, February 18, 2022

The Weekend Environmental, Social Justice, and Calm-Me-Down Wrangle from Far Left Texas


'Texas Republicans behaving badly' is again trending on my timeline, but as referenced previously, that is a) annoying and tiresome; and b) seemingly not moving the needle away from them electorally.  So without posting more of their BS, I'll hold a few of the most egregious for another day.  This Wrangle is for the other things that bother me, and a few things at the end that soothe.


The freeze from last year has been an over-reported item this week.  Beto isn't getting any traction from it, either.  Maybe time to move on.

Let me use one more as my segue.


A couple of young capitalists found a way to make money on flaring, which is good, but isn't really going to solve the crisis.


There's just no point in building the Ike Dike now.  It's too late in the game.  Seriously.  Don't bother. This kind of too-expensive, unfeasible mitigation would be a boondoggle akin to the F-35.  (Speaking of Lockheed Martin ...)


That's a good segue to the social justice tweets.  There's also some criminal justice and labor news following.


Just entirely too many instances of the cops behaving poorly as well.


Mattress Mack has had a bad week (for him).


That news could have just as easily gone into 'Repubs acting badly'.

More guns = more gun deaths.  Our children are paying the price, and hiring more cops isn't going to solve this.


Their stories in the thread.


Perhaps a lawsuit I can feel good about Ken Paxton winning.


And the other feel-goods.  First: my friend Charles is writing "Leaving Texas"; here's the first part.

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Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Still Not Voting Wrangle from Far Left Texas


Update:


Not voting, obviously.


Harris County Greens and other progressives who have given up on the partisan duopoly:

Please clear your busy social calendars to make time for these important upcoming events:
Other counties in Texas with Green Party organizations will also hold their precinct and county conventions on those dates, which are specified in the Texas Election Code.  Those counties include Collin, Dallas, Denton, Travis, and Tarrant; Bexar may also have one.  Other Houston-metro counties (Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Montgomery)  may have a consolidated county convention in the near future.  Watch txgreens.org or Green social media for details.

I am not voting in the D primary so that I can participate in the Greens' conventions.  You'll note in the right-hand column that -- for those of you who are -- there are some Democrats I recommend you choose for statewide offices.  Here are the Texas Green Party's nominees:



Molison's filing is in protest of the state law restricting political participation by financial access.  That lawsuit by the Texas Libertarian Party is currently under consideration at the Supreme Court of Texas (scroll down to Dr. Mark Jones' tweet and read from there) and in federal district court.

So we'll see if Molison can make the November ballot.

Our Tex-Pukes actin' like fools since Monday:


Please put your clothes back on anyway.  I will acknowledge that sex work is still work, but IMO we have too many whores on the RRC as it is.


Bianca Garcia vows to become a "mini Marjorie Taylor Greene" if elected to the state Senate (District 11; Galveston, Pearland).  Praise the Lawd and pass the gazpacho.  Garcia also serves as the president of the national org Latinos for Trump.  And I decided to leave Ted Cruz and his latest antics out of this one, because I'm really getting worn out by that asshole.

Honestly starting to hate this part of the collation.  I'll have environmental, criminal and legal and social justice updates, and the soothers in the next Wrangle.
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