First, from the real world? Even other Republicans are getting more and more tired of Trump — and Vance — and this is one issue.In response to the recent influx of around 15,000… Read More

Politico's magazine has an in-depth story about a doctor deciding to seek out just such training, and all the work involved. It shows that a cram course, while certainly better than nothing… Read More

Strange that part of why Brainworm Bobby dropped out (he did, the "suspended" is just to remain eligible for any dribblings of federal matching funds) was because his campaign was reportedly… Read More

That convoluted headline riffs on my post from last week about the pressure Southwest Airlines faces from Paul Singer and his vulture capitalism hedge fund Elliott Investment Management.Afte… Read More

 It is weird — or laughable — that the New York Times publisher and owner chose to write the op-ed mentioned in this Substack in the Washington Post and not his own paper.Th… Read More

Fast Company offers the latest observations on lab meat. Julie Guthman, in a book excerpt, dismisses the latest round of claims that lab meat can be environmentally more healthy than meat.It… Read More

#BlueAnon nutters inside and outside Tex-ass are pushing pieces by BOTH Kos AND TPM (complete with rhetorical headline) about the bullshit of Russiagate 2.0. Or 3.0 or whatever. Beyond these… Read More

The Trib interviewed eight allegedly independent voters. I wrote that first sentence in anticipation that they'd screw the pooch on this.And, they didn't totally.  They did include one… Read More

Off the Kuff examines Ken Paxton's lawsuits against Bexar and Travis counties for attempting to register voters. The Barbed Wire (which so far is doing as much re-reporting with bits of… Read More

The Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD, won German state elections in Thuringia state and came in second in Saxony. Of additional note, the left's Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) br… Read More

And, support it they do, per a long string of comments by unhinged SWP entry-ist Cort Greene on this blog post.Support it they do, per Wiki's page on the SWP, which notes that from Greens on… Read More

As is the norm, these were the most-read posts in the last month, but not necessarily written IN the past month. As is usual, older posts will be noted.Tenth was last week's Texas Progressiv… Read More

I did not say "THE" other, because I don't know what shoe will drop, but am sure some shoe will.A month ago, I wrote about how Southwest Airlines announced that, as of the first of the year… Read More

Kenny Boy and the under-the-radar semi-nutter, Comptroller Glenn Hegar, are being sued for the state's law requiring "divestment" from companies that themselves have divested of fossil fue… Read More

Many Democraps, and their Zionist allies in Israel, like to justify the genocide in Gaza by saying "Hamas hates gays." That may or may not be true.But, what's true? Israel hates gay Palestin… Read More

Greg bin Laden, living up to his Obamiac mindset, is full of shit when he claims climate change is not accelerating. I've written about the James Hansen news myself, and climate change Obam… Read More

Per my third-party update last week? I seemed to have lassoed a true-blue Trot, one who still worships at the altar of the moribund Socialist Workers Party — edit: the Zionist genocide… Read More

This is an update and condensing of an old blog post about Robert F. Kennedy's assassination by Sirhan Sirhan. The original was written for the 50th anniversary of the assassi… Read More

Jill Stein remains on the Wisconsin ballot for now. But Democraps, after an initial legal screw-up, said they'll be back.==She and Claudia de la Cruz both, among others, beat back a Democrap… Read More

Carl Zimmer reports on discovery of 700,000-year-old teeth and an arm bone from Homo floresiensis, our "human hobbit" evolutionary kin. The biggest takeaway? They're even tinier than previou… Read More

Many capitalist Americans have heard of "tax-free day," the date in which the average American (these things are always done by the mean, not the median, so of limited insight) has earned en… Read More

Saw the photo at left as the first photo in a slider of pix from a visit to Rocky Mountain National Park, in a post at Reddit's r/nationalpark.I said:A camera-selfie for first photo? OK. The… Read More

Author photo, Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National ParkWhat could go wrong with this? At r/NationalPark, it was noted that the Lilly Endowment is giving $100 million to the National Pa… Read More

Even more than as I noted in my original Goodreads review, that's the bottom line of his autobiography.Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative by Glenn C. Loury My rating: 1 of… Read More

Another legal fix is sort-of in. Despite the Tex-ass Constitution seeming to indicate otherwise, the Texas Supreme Court says that Strangeabbott's new 15th Court of Appeals is constitution… Read More

Steve McCraw is retiring from running DPS rather than fess up to everything it got wrong at Uvalde. Yeah, yeah, per the story, and his letter, there are other stated reasons. But the timing… Read More

First, to take the new header I added to Wednesday's piece when this was hinted?Endorsing Trump IS the functional equivalent of dropping out, even if he never says the magic words "I'm drop… Read More

In a scene reminiscent of third-party and independent presidential candidates trying to get ballot access, by a 4-3 margin, the Arkansas Supreme Court yesterday barred a petition to put a pr… Read More

Off the Kuff reports on the CD18 nomination and special election.SocraticGadfly says that declining water in Rio Grande reservoirs isn't entirely Mexico's fault.Law Dork brings the latest ba… Read More

The national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, politely and indirectly, basically told Donald Trump to go fuck himself for his "asinine" Medal of Honor comments. Will this sway man… Read More

Meet Tim Walz, Zionist toady and not much better than Josh Shapiro. Perfect Veep pick for Kamala is a Zionist Cop. So, sorry, Mike Elk, both might be good on labor, but I wouldn't pay for yo… Read More

Yes, Brainworm Bobby is a political whore, and a candidate without relevance, and a candidate who knows that, if, after contacting Donald Trump looking for his 30 pieces of cabinet office si… Read More

Seriously, the Monthly needs to have an outside person vet most its environmental news stories.Contra the Monthly, black bears have never really been "gone" from West Texas. I've seen two… Read More

Virtual roll call presidential votes? No diff.Zionist Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker's threats? Not a problem.The indifference of Conservadem leaders in the Shiny Pointy Abandoned Object St… Read More

That was the news yesterday, that she had picked Butch Ware, professor at Cal-Santa Barbara, over any of the two Arab-American names she floated two weeks ago via Al Jazeera as three potenti… Read More

An Aeon piece is the headliner. It talks about the ongoing discoveries in genetics, which go beyond the fact that much of our genome is not "coding" but rather produces regulatory proteins t… Read More

The City of Uvalde has released the additional documents it promised to after the settlement of a lawsuit. There's nothing hugely dark in there, just more on the general shittiness of the Te… Read More

They're Texas' as well.Note to Strangeabbott et al? It's called climate change.As for the degree this might have been New Mexico's fault, before a Texas-New Mexico settlement that a 6-3 SCOT… Read More

Current and former Green Party voters have seen this play out before, not only in attempts to block presidential candidates like Jill Stein, but in North Carolina, particularly egregious, tr… Read More

The Unified Green Party of Georgia has been accepted by the Green Party US, per Independent Political Report, which has several links of note. They replace the Georgia Green Party, disaffili… Read More

In his first extended comments since stepping away from seeking re-nomination and re-election, Joe Biden has officially blamed Nancy Pelosi for pushing him out.True indeed.But, whether it's… Read More

And, my mehness has been growing for years.I've not watched extended activity in any sport and have watched nothing beyond ESPN-level 90-second clips.I had to Google a week ago to find out w… Read More

Reminder for readers: The filing period to become a write-in candidate in Texas runs through Aug. 19. Specific information about presidential candidates here. The Secretary of State's office… Read More

You can't beat that, can you?I had planned on running this as part of the third-party and independent candidate roundup that's coming up later this afternoon, but, like Jill Stein's Veepstak… Read More

I'm old enough to remember his speech from the day before. And, as discussed in the run-up to the first 1960 presidential debate and how Jack Kennedy outfoxed him on the use of TV makeup, ho… Read More

I pulled this from the Texas Progressives weekly roundup to run it separately.Law Dork analyzes the Biden/Harris Supreme Court reform proposal. There, Chris Geidner ignores that the term lim… Read More

Israel's assassination of Ismail Haniyeh is having plenty of fallout in most circles that are not either US wingnuts or Kamala is a Zionist Cop #BlueAnon. Part of the fallout is Iraq's gov… Read More

Jill Stein, Veep panderfesting? Say it ain't so, but per Al Jazeera, she's getting somebody to ignore her boundless investments hypocrisy as she talks up her Veep choices:The candidates are… Read More

SocraticGadfly eyeballed the Department of Justice investigation of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, especially the Gainesville State School.The Trib says being a rural wingnut in a na… Read More

Off the Kuff has a roundup of potential candidates for the vacancy in CD18.  SocraticGadfly offers a roundup of hominid-related and other science news of recent note.Neil at the Ho… Read More