Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark. At the tail end of the recently completed legislative session, Democrats in the Texas House.
Despite Texas unwelcome distinction as the state with the most
anti-LGBTQIA bills filed this year, the rights of queer and trans Texans emerged relatively unscathed by the 87th Texas Legislature.
In a statehouse whose GOP leadership has situated itself in previous sessions at the vanguard of the evangelical right s moral panic over trans and nonbinary people, a win for LGBTQIA rights was among the few outright highlights for progressives under the pink dome. It s all the more remarkable considering the huge national wave of anti-LGBTQIA legislation, the right s most aggressive pushback in at least a decade.
Dependable theocrat Sen.
Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, carried the anti-trans student-
What’s the forecast?
The Coastal Bend has seen showers and thunderstorms in the weeks leading up to the start of the hurricane season. A disturbance in the western Gulf of Mexico has a 60 percent chance of developing into a tropical storm, the National Weather Service reported.
An above-normal hurricane season could be in store, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center. Forecasters predict a 60% chance of an above-normal season, a 30% chance of a near-normal season and a 10% chance of a below-normal season.
NOAA said with 70% confidence there could be 13 to 20 named storms, of which 6 to 10 could become hurricanes.