Josh Baker

@fawfulfan No one wants to walk in houston/texas. It's 100 degrees and 100 percent humidity for large swaths of the year.

Houston is basically what it looks like when you pair abundance policies with massive, massive overinvestment in freeways. Spend less on freeways and more on transit, while keeping the rest of Houston's development policies, and you'll get something denser and more walkable.

@SarahQ Old Mans War by John Scalzi comes to mind

This is a great way to get a LOT of families to move out of the country. We would be gone tomorrow if this went into effect. Zero hesitation. My children will not die in a pointless war started by a pedophile. Absolutely fucking not.

@TexasHumor Comfort in the Curves and Running Buddy by Max Stalling Down the Road Tonight by Hayes Carll Hill Country Nights by South Austin Jug Band

If you see this, reply with your absolute Texas roadtrip music bangers. I’m making a playlist.

@TexasHumor I'M Coming Home by REK Heck the whole No. 2 Live Dinner album Having Fun All Wrong by Roger Creager My Hometown by Charlie Robison

@tamusystem Further on the path to being the state diploma mill while canceling Professors but taking Qatar Money.

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@realEstateTrent Oh, we don't do burritos in Texas. Not really. Tacos all day! Mi Tierras is always a good choice

Landing in San Antonio tonight. How are the burritos?

@AngelaPaxtonTX Isn't your husband fucking around on you? Maybe stand up for yourself

Thank you, Senate District 8, for your support, your encouragement, and for 4 more years to represent our incredible district in the Texas Senate! #txlege

@BrettFavre Go steal more money

Tick, tick… I really hope our country goes in the right direction tomorrow. 🇺🇸

@TheJacobTurner Thanks, had not heard of this one before

@azulox Tracks spending, helps with budgeting etc..

Softwares I use to track my money: Fidelity - Investing Monarch - Budgeting Black Diamond - Reporting

Trump's "secret plan" with Mike Johnson to steal the election is more devious than you probably think. It's not just electing Trump via the House. It's decreasing the overall number of electoral votes until Trump wins a majority. I explain in @thenation: thenation.com/article/politi…

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@mikefinger Thought the mermaids were even more impressive:)

San Marcos has not seen an athletic performance this impressive since Ralph the Swimming Pig.

@Fire5280 Not at all. Austin area here, family of 4. That's about ballpark for us and we are not wilding out.

For those that live in a HCOL area, such as Denver, San Francisco, Manhattan, Miami, Maui, or San Diego. Would you say a family of 4 living on $20,000/mo is "insanely lavish"...?

@bethanyjbabcock Because public schools have to teach everyone. Imagine if your private school took in special needs children. Also imagine they had to be held to actual standards. It cost less because they don't provide services on the outside of the bell curve.

It costs the State of Texas $9,871 per student per year to teach kids k-12 in public schools. This is among the lowest per student costs in the nation. Yet, it costs $7,500 per kid to send my kid to a private, for profit, fully bilingual school with class sizes between 10-15 students. Kids are ages 10 and under. Most of the teachers have been there for 5-10 years. A few even have PhD’s. While I’m biased, my children are excelling in academics beyond their grade levels. We all know it’s not from me, so the school must be doing a good job. So why is a small private school who pays property taxes and doesn’t get bonds able to educate my children for less and keep teachers long term? How are they able to do this with class sizes 1/3 the size of public school and less funding per student? Honest questions: After a certain point, Is there a correlation between academic performance and school funding? Of the increase in property taxes, most of which is for schools, how big of raises did the teachers get? Are schools underfunded or do we need to start from scratch and figure out where the bloat is? We say teachers need to be treated better. Is it a money or a work environment problem, or both? As it stands now we aren’t allowed to question school funding because those in power have coupled the conversations regarding funding and teacher pay as if they are perfectly correlated. Recent years have shown it’s not impacting their pay. Link to data source in comment

@Fire5280 DCA, but have the liquid funds in hysa or short term CDs to earn a little as well

So after liquidating some RE holdings, I have $1,000,000 that I need to deploy into the market. I feel pretty good about my individual stock/crypto holdings ATM, so my plan is to push it all towards ETFs. So here is the question. Do I... 1. YOLO the full $1m into ETFs this week. 2. DCA weekly, or even daily over the next 6 months. What would you do?

@CozomoMedici It's amazing in person at the @BlantonMuseum

Bill has generously loaned The Sugar Shack to the Blanton Art Museum in Austin, where you can go see it today. Share this thread to let the world know it’s remarkable story, and follow me @CozomoMedici for more unforgettable art tales

In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia broke into the Louvre and stole The Mona Lisa In 2022, Bill Perkins stole a grand grail of American art, acquiring a $100m painting for just $15m Strap in for this wild story👇🧵

OK, it's time to talk about Egypt. The thwarted DoJ investigation into an alleged $10 million Egyptian bribe to Trump in 2016-17 has gotten attention on here But I haven’t seen any discussion of the wider *context* of U.S. foreign policy toward Egypt, and why it matters 🧵(1/n)

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@Fire5280 My best guess is asylum seekers in his brain means insane asylums.

Has anyone figured out why Trump keeps bringing up "the late great Hannibal lecter"...? It's gotta be some obscure joke right? He can't serious adulate a fictional, sociopathic serial killer, right? Even the most recent TV installment of the character wrapped up nearly 10 years ago. Is there a more recent pop-cultureal reference that I'm missing?