Jeff Thompson

@MayorAdler UN Plan for 2050: Must be Carbon Neutral! Austin Plan for 2050: Must have places to park all the flying cars!

Hey @FarrahWaltonTV - you cited CM Duchen's $120m figure in your story for KEYE...would you happen to know where this number comes from? I can't find any source for that very specific number.

@dimpledwonder I think everyone in Texas needs to call Hall county sheriff department every time they see a man in a blue t-shirt

Ah good. A blue alert at 4:50 AM for *checks notes* HALL COUNTY when I’m in TARRANT

Republican Party so regressive that a teen movie from the 90s has more compassion.

Concepts of a plan

@mdahmus Maybe some of the lawyers on council would notice, but I wouldn't really expect most to recognize it was a problem. It's a management issue in that if you keep losing lawsuits and you don't change the legal team around, then it's your fault.

@fastmole This is the fault of staff and council. In a simple basic 1st line management kind of way, you can't fail to even ask "is combining all these into one going to create any problems".

AURA is hypocritical on good governance. It's obvious that city council and staff fucked up by carelessly assuming they could lump 13 charter changes' required public comment sessions into 1. Yet tools like Julio are harrumphing about how unfortunate it is.

BREAKING: In a stunning new leak, JD Vance completely endorses Project 2025. Donald Trump can’t run from this now. Retweet so all Americans see this.

@mdahmus @jamesrambin Both 5th and 6th streets are great opportunities for pedestrianization but they’ve built huge parking lots with their only access to these streets. First rule of getting out of hole is to stop digging.

@mdahmus @jamesrambin Even if all we can do today is bike boulevards, we should know which streets we want to pedestrianize in the future. City has future plans for all levels of car streets (1-5) but doesn’t have a level 0 street.

everybody’s used to closing sixth street to traffic downtown but maybe we should talk more about how simple it would be to pedestrianize sixth street east of the highway and instantly create one of the best public spaces in the city for the cost of like, some bollards

RT @DeanBaker13: The New York Times refuses to let the data on rising real wages interfere with its bad economy story https://t.co/Umnx9h5Z…

RT @Gothamist: Protesters march in Manhattan on what would have been congestion pricing eve buff.ly/3L5wYMn

@jamesrambin You're taking my Denny's, and now you want my IHOP too! Will there be no syrup sticky booths in central Austin?

upon completion in 2026, the tallest building in the state of texas will be located directly across the street from a large surface parking lot and an ihop

@AleshireLaw @TonyCardone Like we do for roads?

@TonyCardone No dummy. Like ask voters for specific amount of taxes for an honest price of a specific plan. Like every other type of contract. That obviously is not what happened in 2020.

Listen up for news about the Project Connect lawsuit soon. It is time for the leaders of the City of Austin, if any, to realize this plan for Project Connect is doomed, one way or the other. It is time to rethink how to legally, logically, and honestly give voters a mass transit

What would you choose?

@Jennifer_cleat @akahancrimesto1 Many conservatives would support Stand your ground in this case, but you call him a thug who should be locked up until his day in court. Wonder what it is about the defendant that you don’t like?

@Jennifer_cleat @akahancrimesto1 But your complaint was that his bond was reduced. It is perfectly OK to have a high bond that means only rich people can pay. Plus, did you even read the story? Armed people came to defendant’s home in a Rainey street apartment and broke down the door.

Another murderer out on bond…. “District Attorney’s Office did not oppose the motion to reduce bond” Once again, APD solves a homicide, drafts a PC affidavit, arrests the suspect, only for DA Garza to allow this thug to be released. Officers will continue to resign and the public isn’t safe.

@akahancrimesto1 @Jennifer_cleat To be clear, the original complaint wasn’t that there was a bond offered. @Jennifer_cleat is just frustrated that Garza didn’t fight hard enough to keep a poor person in jail.

@Jennifer_cleat We truly need to have a National Database of everyone who has been murdered by a defendant released on Bond

I'm not sure why everyone's making such a big deal about Alito's flags. I they hadn't flown the far right flags, those poles would have otherwise been vacant. nytimes.com/2024/05/28/us/…