MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING (6/4/26)
Screw Worms, Screwed Bots, Screwed Representation, Screwed Movement.
Welcome to Many People Are Saying, our weekly paid-subscriber article where we cover the weird, funny, strange, and scandalous happenings throughout Texas.
THIS WEEK:
Screwworm Walks Across the Open Border, Starts With the Cattle
Is an RPT Chair Candidate Using Bots to Increase Views?
Black (Female) Democrats Furious Over Lack of Representation at Texas Democratic Convention
The Texas Nationalist Movement is Dead
Screwworm Walks Across the Open Border, Starts With the Cattle
Many people are saying our southern border is so open that even the maggots are crossing now. This week they were proven right.
On June 3rd, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins and the Texas Animal Health Commission confirmed the first U.S. screwworm case in livestock in over forty years, a little baby calf outside La Pryor, in Zavala County, being eaten alive through an open wound. Thirty miles from the Mexican border that is, these days, more of a polite suggestion.
For the uninitiated: the New World screwworm lays its eggs in the open wounds of living animals, and the larvae eat their way in. Cattle, deer, your dog, occasionally you. We wiped it out in 1966. We are now, somehow, un-wiping it due to uninvited guests crossing the border. Many such cases.
THE MATH
Texas runs a $15 billion cattle industry. USDA says the worm could chew through $1.8 billion of it; Texas Parks & Wildlife puts the combined livestock-and-hunting hit at $2.1 billion. Cattle futures jumped on the news, because traders, unlike Greg, can read a map.
The fix is the same trick that beat this bug in ‘66: flood the zone with sterilized flies until the wild ones can’t breed. Containment needs about 300 million a week. Texas is getting four million.
Let’s check that.*puts on bifocals.*
Four million, divided by three hundred million, is one-point-three percent.
takes off bifocals, sets them on the counter.
We are defending a $15 billion herd at 1.3% effort.
THE FLY FACTORY
Washington’s answer is a $750 million sterile-fly plant at Moore Air Force Base in Edinburg, built to pump out those 300 million males a week. It isn’t running. A three-quarter-billion-dollar fly factory, and not one sterile fly has left the building.
Somebody got paid to build it, though. They always do.
This story is brought to you by school choice, and the $750 million fly factory in Edinburg that has yet to produce a single fly.
FAILURE
The warnings started in 2023, when the worm punched through the Darién Gap and headed north. Sid Miller said so. Don McLaughlin said so. The cattlemen said so. Greg got around to a disaster declaration in August 2025 — by which point the worm was about a mile from Texas. Welcome to Texas politics.
Even Sid is done pretending. Our own Ag Commissioner called the federal response:
THE TEXAN SOLUTION
Naturally, we have a backup plan. For due diligence, our team ran the legalities past Claude Opus 4.8 Super Maxx and GPT-5.5 Extra Hard Pro, and both confirmed what every rancher already felt in his gut: it is 100% legal to shoot a screwworm.
Texas, you know what to do.
The screwworm remains at large in Zavala County and is, as of press time, evading the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Is an RPT Chair Candidate Using Bots to Increase Views?
The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) is next week and chair candidates are getting in their verbal blows and last minute appeals to delegates to earn their votes.
Earlier this week, RPT chair candidate D’Rinda Randall and her vice-chair running mate David Covey hosted an X-Space. The metrics show over 17,000 people tuned in to listen:
However, a deeper dive into the analytics advertising the X-Space show that less than 300 people saw the posts.
So how did an X-Space have 17,000 people tune in but less than 300 post views?
Current Revolt spoke to a social media consultant to inquire why the number of tuned-in listeners was 17,000 but only less than 300 viewed the post, they provided the following statement:
