Corker: GOP becoming "cult-like" in support of Trump; cites unwillingness to challenge trade tariffs
Updating from last week:
I Was Fired for Making Fun of Trump https://t.co/aauivB2OEl— Rob Rogers (@Rob_Rogers) June 16, 2018
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Sunday Funnies
Corker: GOP becoming "cult-like" in support of Trump; cites unwillingness to challenge trade tariffs
Updating from last week:
Monday, June 11, 2018
The Weekly Wrangle
With its regularly-scheduled blog post and lefty news roundup, the Texas Progressive Alliance is going to give peace a chance.
The San Antonio Current takes note of the workers at a Baytown steel plant who sent 4.500 postcards to Trump asking him to remove the tariffs.
Texas Leftist praises Beto O'Rourke for visiting all of Texas' 254 counties.
Down With Tyranny writes that Dayna Steele just might be able to pull off the upset in TX-36 if the DCCC will stay out of the race.
Somervell County Salon covered the controversy that erupted after Trump disinvited the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles from a White House visit.
Texas Freedom Network reports that the state's board of education is holding a public hearing tomorrow in Austin on textbook curricula, and encourages you to demand that the SBOE #TeachTheTruth.
Houston Justice blogs about two Houston schools, Worthington HS and Woodson K-8, set for closure or state takeover.
Texas Vox has news about the Climate Action San Antonio Coalition calling on the city-owned public utility company, CPS Energy, to phase out its use of fossil fuels.
Better Texas Blog reminds us why an accurate census is important.
Equality Texas wants you to know three things about the Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court decision.
In the criminal justice collation of news at Grits for Breakfast, there's an explanation of the misunderstanding that the public has with respect to probable cause (and how attorneys and the courts interpret it). There's also this.
Socratic Gadfly sees major businesses remaining silent on single-payer, even though it would surely save them money. He suspects it's because they like keeping employees in serfdom as even more valuable.
Andrea Grimes at the Texas Observer wants men to read a reissued book about why women's literary voices are so often silenced.
Harry Hamid breaks it off with the Green Party (and throws dog poop on their shoe).
Lawflog wonders why the brother of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich won't authorize Wikileaks to tell what it knows.
The Houston Press features a review of artwork stolen by the Third Reich -- and reappearing on naked human canvasses -- at the G Spot Contemporary Art Space.
Gregg Barrios at the Rivard Report reflects on Andy Warhol and the myth of the American West.
David Collins advanced the H-Town version of the World Naked Bike Ride (it happened last Saturday night; sorry if you missed it).
And JC Reid chronicles the origins of Southeast Texas barbecue.
The San Antonio Current takes note of the workers at a Baytown steel plant who sent 4.500 postcards to Trump asking him to remove the tariffs.
Texas Leftist praises Beto O'Rourke for visiting all of Texas' 254 counties.
Down With Tyranny writes that Dayna Steele just might be able to pull off the upset in TX-36 if the DCCC will stay out of the race.
Somervell County Salon covered the controversy that erupted after Trump disinvited the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles from a White House visit.
What do the current standards teach Texas students? Moses was a major influence on the Constitution. The roots of our nation’s legal and political systems are found in the Bible. Slavery wasn’t the primary cause of the Civil War. Confederate General Stonewall Jackson is a role model for students. McCarthyism was justified. International treaties are an anti-American conspiracy. And plenty of other misleading standards push right-wing political arguments. In fact, even reviewers for the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute have called the current standards a “politicized distortion of history” filled with “misrepresentations at every turn.”
Houston Justice blogs about two Houston schools, Worthington HS and Woodson K-8, set for closure or state takeover.
Texas Vox has news about the Climate Action San Antonio Coalition calling on the city-owned public utility company, CPS Energy, to phase out its use of fossil fuels.
Better Texas Blog reminds us why an accurate census is important.
Equality Texas wants you to know three things about the Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court decision.
In the criminal justice collation of news at Grits for Breakfast, there's an explanation of the misunderstanding that the public has with respect to probable cause (and how attorneys and the courts interpret it). There's also this.
A fired Waco cop who choked a handcuffed defendant and claimed he acted in self-defense is on trial for two misdemeanor counts -- assault and official oppression -- reported the Tribune-Herald. A police trainer told jurors the officer had been specifically trained not to grab a defendant by the throat in that manner. Further, "trial testimony showed that while the other officers there that night said they were shocked by Neville’s actions, they did not report it to their supervisors or note the incident in their reports."
Socratic Gadfly sees major businesses remaining silent on single-payer, even though it would surely save them money. He suspects it's because they like keeping employees in serfdom as even more valuable.
Andrea Grimes at the Texas Observer wants men to read a reissued book about why women's literary voices are so often silenced.
Harry Hamid breaks it off with the Green Party (and throws dog poop on their shoe).
Lawflog wonders why the brother of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich won't authorize Wikileaks to tell what it knows.
The Houston Press features a review of artwork stolen by the Third Reich -- and reappearing on naked human canvasses -- at the G Spot Contemporary Art Space.
Gregg Barrios at the Rivard Report reflects on Andy Warhol and the myth of the American West.
David Collins advanced the H-Town version of the World Naked Bike Ride (it happened last Saturday night; sorry if you missed it).
And JC Reid chronicles the origins of Southeast Texas barbecue.
Sunday, June 10, 2018
Saturday, June 09, 2018
DNC changes rules to stop Bernie Sanders, but it might not work
His agreement with the Vermont DP is precedent (if the matter has to be litigated).
For those who are familiar with what's been going on for the past year and a half -- that would not include the little old lady at the Beauty Shop, by her own declaration -- I'll cut to the chase.
In fact, it might be on the path to... not killing off, but neutering the superdelegates. At least on the first ballot for the presidential nomination, taken at the national convention.
I am wary that this is progress, and don't harbor any hope that the Donks can manage to do the right thing in two months. The easy arguments against blocking Bernie from the nom on the "he's not a Democrat" fallacy are obvious: the 2016 split becomes a canyon, the centrists and the establishment succeed in driving him away to run as an independent or to anoint someone who does, and Trump cruises to re-election. And the blame game begins anew.
Squandering the millennial and independent base of votes ready to line up behind an FDR Democrat and not another incrementalist isn't something most of the neoliberals running the DNC seem to be concerned about. Doing the same thing over and over again -- like Texas Democrats trying to get Republicans to vote for them -- and expecting a different result is ... well, you know.
Just not a fight the Democrats ought to be having.
(In my proposed wager to Ted, this would have been one of those 'rules' things I would have been forced to accept. He wasn't smart enough to take my bet; it's off the table now.)
For those who are familiar with what's been going on for the past year and a half -- that would not include the little old lady at the Beauty Shop, by her own declaration -- I'll cut to the chase.
Sanders, who is currently running for reelection, typically runs in the state’s Democratic primary but declines the party’s nomination after winning. The move allows him to fend off Democratic challengers in the state while still running as an independent. Last month, the Vermont Democratic Party passed a resolution supporting this strategy and proclaiming that Sanders would still be considered a member of the party “for all purposes and entitled to all the rights and privileges that come with such membership at the state and federal level.” That membership could inoculate him against the DNC’s rules change.
In fact, it might be on the path to... not killing off, but neutering the superdelegates. At least on the first ballot for the presidential nomination, taken at the national convention.
One source familiar with the discussions told Yahoo News the rules change was not aimed at Sanders and wouldn’t necessarily affect him. In fact, the source described it as a step that was designed to make it easier for party leaders to accept one of Sanders’s main priorities — the end of superdelegates.
Committee members are continuing to discuss the proposal to eliminate superdelegates. They will meet again to make a final vote on the proposal in the coming weeks before all proposed changes head to the DNC for a final vote in August.
I am wary that this is progress, and don't harbor any hope that the Donks can manage to do the right thing in two months. The easy arguments against blocking Bernie from the nom on the "he's not a Democrat" fallacy are obvious: the 2016 split becomes a canyon, the centrists and the establishment succeed in driving him away to run as an independent or to anoint someone who does, and Trump cruises to re-election. And the blame game begins anew.
Squandering the millennial and independent base of votes ready to line up behind an FDR Democrat and not another incrementalist isn't something most of the neoliberals running the DNC seem to be concerned about. Doing the same thing over and over again -- like Texas Democrats trying to get Republicans to vote for them -- and expecting a different result is ... well, you know.
Just not a fight the Democrats ought to be having.
(In my proposed wager to Ted, this would have been one of those 'rules' things I would have been forced to accept. He wasn't smart enough to take my bet; it's off the table now.)
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