Brint Davy

@_adamdoug @SEANO4D5 @data_atx They’d probably see the bus fleet as sunk cost committing us to an inefficient model. Lolz

@SEANO4D5 @brintdavy @data_atx easier to resell also - the finances are a no brainer which is why the dolts at capmetro wont be able to figure it out.

CapMetro currently only gets 4% of its expenses from fares It could easily make the bus free with minor changes In the past they've said the fare is there to keep homeless from camping on the bus.. but I believe they already ride for free, so its really just a tax on the poor

@data_atx @_adamdoug Yup. Dispatched van drivers aren’t so keen to act like rolling shelters and insane asylums.

@brintdavy @_adamdoug that would also make it easy to ban problematic passengers . win win

@_adamdoug @data_atx Passengers love the door-to-door ride share service model. Arlington, Texas uses this. Same price as a bus, and no waiting at bus stops.

@brintdavy @data_atx totally agree - one van would take care of 70% of our bus routes and if they fill up, send more vans! Sadly, the people in charge of CapMetro seem to be public policy women and they tend not to math well.

@data_atx @_adamdoug We need to consider a system-wide overhaul. Austin’s layout doesn’t lend itself buses. No street grid amongst many rural patches. Replace inefficient service areas with ride share vans dispatched by algorithm providing door-to-door service. Win-win for taxpayer and passengers!

@_adamdoug yes would love to see an audit on some of the numbers

The Iranian regime executed a 19 year old for demanding democracy. I stand with his memory and the thousands of other young Iranians. Those who grieve the elimination of Iranian leaders over murdered protesters is telling.

Is he talking about his intrusive thoughts?

@elonmusk @weeklyshowpod @CaseyNewton @noUpside And a senior citizen!

@weeklyshowpod @CaseyNewton @noUpside He is a great comedian too

How has Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) influenced our democracy? On a new pod, we’re unpacking Big Tech’s election disruption with Casey Newton, editor of Platformer, and Renée DiResta, research professor at Georgetown University. New episode out now! @CaseyNewton @noUpside #theweeklyshow #jonstewart #politics

@danielgothits @elonmusk @diana_dukic X: US EDITION I love it.

@elonmusk @diana_dukic Let everyone filter by country ASAP

Went from scrolling 24/7 to not even wanting to log in. X just hasn’t been hitting the same lately.

@elonmusk @diana_dukic Everyone's trying to reshape society via X. It gets old.

@diana_dukic What needs to be better?

Texas Tech is arguing to the Texas Attorney General that my educational records cannot be released because doing so poses a threat to national security. They are citing the Texas Homeland Security Act -- a post-9/11 statute designed to prevent terrorists from obtaining blueprints of power grids and water treatment plants. They are applying it to a student who earned his PhD and was dismissed during his third year of medical school. I am attaching the pages from their legal brief to the Attorney General. Read it yourself. Texas Government Code § 418.177 -- "preventing or detecting an act of terrorism or related criminal activity." They are arguing that releasing my student records may enable terrorist attacks. But it gets better. The Texas Attorney General is also defending Texas Tech in the federal lawsuit I filed. The Assistant Attorney General cited my tweet as a "perceived threat to the TTUHSC community" in his Motion to Dismiss. Here is how he quoted it: "Each and every one of us is going to be dead someday very, very soon. [...] These other people, too, are going to be dead very, very soon." Why did the Assistant Attorney General truncate a tweet? Here is what the "[...]" omits: "Why most people put so much stock into what other people think about them is completely beyond me." The full tweet is an unmistakable memento mori reflection about not caring what others think. The truncation removes the only sentence that makes that clear -- and turns it into something that sounds like a threat. The AAG knows what the tweet means. He showed it by how he cut it. He truncated a tweet. @KenPaxtonTX -- your office is defending Texas Tech in court while simultaneously reviewing whether Texas Tech can use anti-terrorism statutes to withhold my own student records from me. Is this your agency? @GregAbbott_TX -- this is your university.

@JasonVaughn @EddLeal29 Without comment.

@EddLeal29 Here’s the real image

Someone verify this isn't AI slop.

Promoting the "Save America Act" on the Senate floor, John Kennedy's going off against early voting. Nobody's got complaints against early voting. Someone on his staff needs to check his noggin'.

I fact-check the Senate, you guys.

"Violence is also dangerous, and you can get hurt." — Sen. John Kennedy FACT CHECK: TRUE

James Talarico may be vegan, but the sanctimonious insanity of his "political theology" is eating my brain. It’s hard to win a statewide office when your platform is a sermon nobody in the state asked for.

I’m convinced the Texas Dem strategy is artificially designed in a lab to lose by 10 points. They run on magazine covers and "moral victories" while the GOP runs the state.

@ATXVideos Austin Videos, you have to stop Videoing Austin because that booting bro said so. I don’t make the rules. He does.

Our entire interaction with Central Parking Enforcement:

On the bright side of Talarico’s vegan-based Senatorial campaign, come October we won’t see him in an orange vest cosplaying a hunter for the optics.