The Texas Progressive Alliance is buying some peanuts and Cracker Jack as it brings you this week’s roundup.
Off the Kuff looks at the potential redistricting effects of Texas’ continued population boom.
Libby Shaw contributing to Daily Kos discovers that Trump’s Presidential candidacy is proof that the GOP is, in reality, a Neo-Confederate Party. The Dixiecrats are still in charge. The Bigoted Party of Jesus, Bait and Switch Deserves its Devils.
Lawyers figured out how to monitor late payments from insurance companies. Who’s at fault? The people who found the problem? Nope. The lawyers. According to the people who are paying late. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme knows we live in an oligarchy.
Socratic Gadfly found yet more reason last week to be disappointed with Rachel Maddow.
In developments in the special election to fill the vacancy on Harris County commissioners’ court, PDiddie at Brains & Eggs notes that interim appointee Gene Locke has broken his word and decided to run for the job, and state Sen. Rodney Ellis and his long career as a municipal bond lawyer has come under scrutiny.
Neil at All People Have Value said that even worse than Trump’s comments on punishing women who have an abortion, is the fact that in Texas women seeking an abortion are subject to the state-mandated rape of the forced sonogram law. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.
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And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Chuck Smith decries the current wave of discriminatory politics.
The Lunch Tray is not loving McDonald’s latest attempt to get into schools.
Tamara Tabo explains why the Planned Parenthood video fraudsters really did break the law.
Austin Eater reports that the gas station used as the set for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s barbecue restaurant will soon be opened as a “horror barbecue resort”.
Abby Johnston wades into the sweet tea debate.