Yesterday, in order to avoid a quorum, Texas legislature Democrats left the state and flew to DC to make their case with Washington legislators about voting rights.

They are my newest heroes.

Of course, dumbass Texas Governor ("Hey!") Abbott (say it out loud, it's funny) has threatened to arrest them when they come back.

For what, I have no idea. Neither does he.

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In other news...

Summer camps hit with COVID outbreaks — are schools next?

The U.S. has seen a string of COVID-19 outbreaks tied to summer camps in recent weeks in places such as Texas, Illinois, Florida, Missouri and Kansas, in what some fear could be a preview of the upcoming school year.

In some cases the outbreaks have spread from the camp to the broader community.

The clusters have come as the number of newly confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the U.S. has reversed course, surging more than 60% over the past two weeks from an average of about 12,000 a day to around 19,500, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The rise in many places has been blamed on too many unvaccinated people and the highly contagious delta variant.

Gwen Ford, a 43-year-old science teacher from Adrian, Missouri, was cautiously optimistic when she eyed the dropping case numbers in the spring and signed up her 12-year-old daughter for the West Central Christian Service Camp.

Just as I was beginning to feel a little better about sending my children back to school in the Fall.

Now, not so much.

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Bill

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❓ PPS - I don't know how they do it: Texas keeps electing progressively dumber governors. I just hope none of them run for POTUS. Been there, done that.