Drew Springer

@RichOToole Love the guy, with the buckets, doing his part to clear the highway!

A truck crashed in Louisiana that was full of live Crawfish. When I used my third wish with the genie I specifically asked for this to happen next to my house. Get it right bro. 🧞‍♂️ 🦞

Happy "North Texas Upsets Purdue" Day to all who celebrate!! 5 years ago today @MeanGreenMBB secured their 1st NCAA Tournament win in school history with a 78-69 upset over 4th seeded Purdue. #GMG🦅

@HortonHearsTx I bet you're like me and would like to see all 72 of the SD30 ISDs.

Whew. 😵‍💫

@Texasfurever @fakenewsdetect3 @Dallas_Matters @lukemaciastx @MQSullivan I believe in Texans and they know what's good for them. Now you have it.

@DrewSpringer @fakenewsdetect3 @Dallas_Matters @lukemaciastx @MQSullivan So you don’t actually believe in The grassroots cuz you know what’s good for them. Got it

“Republican” Drew wants more government to regulate people engaging in degenerate behavior. Kalshi better get ready indeed…..to take another L in the #txlege. @Dallas_Matters @lukemaciastx @MQSullivan

@grok @shanaka86 Sounds like the decision has already been made by the farmers 🤔

According to the latest detailed USDA ERS data (2016 ARMS, with similar patterns holding in Corn Belt surveys through 2024), ~20% of N for U.S. corn is applied in fall (pre-winter), ~58% in spring before planting, and ~22% after planting (sidedress). So about 78% is applied before seeds go in the ground. Corn Belt states follow this closely (e.g., IA/IL fall ~25-30%), though splits have risen slightly for efficiency amid wetter springs—no big shift in the last 5 years per extension reports.

Right now, in barns and equipment sheds across the American Midwest, farmers are making the most consequential decision of this war. Not generals. Not senators. Farmers. At $683 per ton urea, corn economics have collapsed. Nitrogen is the single largest input cost for corn production. At pre-war prices a farmer could justify 180 pounds per acre and expect a margin. At $683 the math breaks. Soybeans fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere through root bacteria. They do not need the molecule trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz. The seed decision is being made this week across roughly 90 million acres of American cropland. Once the planter rolls into the field, the choice is irreversible. Corn seed in the ground stays corn. Soy seed stays soy. The acreage allocation locks in. USDA Prospective Plantings reports March 31. That report will tell the world how American agriculture responded to the Hormuz blockade. But the decisions it captures are being made now, in conversations between farmers and agronomists and seed dealers who are looking at nitrogen prices and making the rational economic choice: plant the crop that does not need the input you cannot afford. Every acre that shifts from corn to soybeans tightens the corn balance sheet for the rest of the year. Corn feeds livestock. Corn feeds ethanol. The Renewable Fuel Standard mandates 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol annually, consuming roughly 43 percent of the US corn crop regardless of price. That demand is inelastic. If acres shift and production falls while the mandate holds, corn prices spike. Feed costs spike. The protein cascade reverses. The US cattle herd sits at 86.2 million head, a 75-year low. Poultry and pork margins that were benefiting from cheap feed compress when corn crosses $5 per bushel. This is how a naval blockade 7,000 miles from Iowa reaches the American grocery shelf. Not through oil. Not through shipping. Through nitrogen. The farmer cannot afford the molecule. The molecule cannot transit the strait. The farmer plants soy instead. The corn supply tightens. The ethanol mandate consumes its fixed share. The remaining corn reprices. The feed reprices. The meat reprices. The grocery bill reprices. The decision is not political. It is arithmetic performed on a kitchen table by a person who needs to plant in three weeks and cannot wait for a ceasefire, an escort convoy, or an insurance normalisation that the Red Sea precedent says takes years. The deepest penetrator in the American arsenal cannot reach a sealed Iranian doctrinal packet. But the fertiliser price it failed to resolve is reaching every planting decision on 90 million acres of the most productive farmland on Earth. The war’s most irreversible consequence is not happening in a bunker. It is happening in a barn. And by the time USDA publishes the data on March 31, the seeds will already be in the ground. Full analysis in the link. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@gwfulce @KennethRWebster 🤣🤣🤣

@KennethRWebster One might call that a tell.

Texas Republicans will tell you they’re against Sharia law but then they crack down on CBD shops and poker rooms

@RyanGuillen You gotta like Liz's loyalty! 👍

Our office staff just finished filling out our brackets for this year’s March Madness tournament. Who's got the best picks? Fill out your own at: ncaa.com/march-madness-… #MarchMadness #txlege

@jamesdickey Trump doesn't want to lose the AI race to China so one could assume the administration will be having @DavidSacks & others weigh in.

NERC is heading toward building a permanent regulatory framework off one Virginia incident, with no baseline data on AI load-swing frequency or magnitude. Is that prudent grid planning, or an overcorrection that slows 50 GW of capacity the grid desperately needs?

A 2024 Virginia transmission outage knocked 1,500 MW of datacenter load off the grid in seconds. @NERC's response could rewrite interconnection rules for 50 GW of planned AI capacity countrywide, including in Texas. 🧵

@cvasut #IYKYK

You telling me you’ve never ate Gabe’s hamburgers? #txlege

@gravatt @TXAG Paxton won't, he's afraid of upsetting Don Jr. who is a "strategic advisor" for Kalshi. In 2027 I can see the new AG doing something, even before the Lege hears any bills.

I expect @TXAG may do something along these lines... azag.gov/press-release/…

@RepMattSchaefer We'll never know. But Cornyn will

Paxton will beat “No Meat Talarico”

Congratulations to @TarletonPrez & the Texans on the big win!

$5.9M bet by halftime 🤔

$1.7M, 30 min before the UT game starts. How much $$$ is from TX residents? No gaming taxes & no gaming commission to help those with problems. Will be interesting to see if #txlege, especially the Senate, addresses next session. @Kalshi better get ready. Hard to take away after a year. Get the 🍿

@TanParkerTX Easy... Go Mean Green 😃

Hard to pass on the St. Patrick’s Day treats. After all, if the corned beef fails, luckily l’ll have back up plans for Beth and me. Enjoy the celebration - and don’t forget to wear plenty of green. 🍀

@JaceYarbrough Congratulations!!!

Thank you to my fellow Republicans for a spirited primary. I’m grateful for the support across our party and proud to be the Republican nominee for #TX32. Now it’s time to unite and turn our focus to November. The stakes couldn’t be higher. This election is a choice between advancing President Trump’s America First agenda or handing power back to a Democratic majority obsessed with sham investigations and petty obstruction. We’re full speed ahead into the general election, and I’m ready to win this fight for the people of TX-32. Let’s Go! 🇺🇸

@HunterBonner I think Doc is starting a go fund me at Camping World. #UpgradeToClassA

Good morning from East Texas: Friendly reminder: Doc Chambers didn't win the election for Texas Governor. He was never "Statistically in a dead heat." No votes were stolen from him despite what some fringe group from Missouri is claiming. Worst part? Doing videos, and using scripture to validate his delusion and outright fabrications about this election. You can dislike Governor Abbott all you want. That's anyone's right. But lets be at least honest on this topic. #grifters

Thanks to @JohnCornyn's lead on the CHIPS ACT, Texas is becoming a manufacturing juggernaut. In #SD30, Sherman, Texas Instruments is building 4 fab plants. Great jobs, great pay, property taxes reduced for everyone! Cornyn, Proven leadership for Texas!!!