Texas Onlooker reader,
Gall. We stay in a state whose leading leaders have totally, significantly, monumentally way too much goddamn gall.
Just 5 days after the most dangerous Texas flooding in 104 years, Guv Greg Abbott revealed an unique legal session not directly concentrated on the catastrophe yet instead covering a Xmas checklist of reactionary pet dog political jobs consisting of a Trump-led redistricting power grab. At the time of his news, greater than 150 humans were still formally missing out on in capital Nation.
By the moment you review this, you’ll currently understand exactly how that unique session ended up. You could also– God assist you (me, all of us …)– be currently complying with tales regarding a 2nd one. So it goes. Today’s information steps at an abnormal rate, sped up by modern technology, and today’s national politics do the exact same, unobstructed by responsibility.
Maybe you understand that all also well, or feel it, something like a humming in the mind spreading complicated ideas or solid ethical belief. Perhaps that becomes part of why you got this publication, a journalistic item whose standards created in a lost period yet might be most required today. Uniqueness, quality, difficulty, curation, compassion, style– all attributes of this type that are disfavored by profit-driven formulas.
In this concern, I wish you’ll discover and take pleasure in these sorely missed out on metachronisms. Whether in our investigatory attributes that take on persistent plan concerns– each amounting in its very own means to state persecution of the prone– or in our much shorter items that light up a Jewish situation versus boundary militarization, an intellectual fight over Texas background, and, yes, the state of screamo songs in Austin book shops.
It’s an enjoyment to modify this stapled pile of documents you keep in your hands (or PDF you see on your display), also in shadowy days for our career. As constantly, I wish you’ll discover enjoyment, along with the unpreventable indignation, in reviewing it.
Anyhoo, I have actually invested as well lengthy creating this. It’s time I returned to researching different types of witchcraft to fend off that 2nd unique session …
Solidarity,
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