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I live in Clarksville and had a homeless man attempt to break into my house this morning. He tried opening the back door, which my wife heard, he then pushed the grill, laid down and began humping the storm drain. The cops knew the man, said they have interacted with him 100’s of times, we pressed charges for trespassing and this man will be out in less than 48 hours. Ridiculously eventful morning.

Wish this wasn't so relatable, but it is. Welcome to Austin, where we have close brushes with death just for the crime of existing. Normal people who have to rely on the city bus deal with more frequent random acts of violence and pure hatred than probably any other demographic.

Happy Fourth of July

Friends family and fireworks on Lake Austin by the penny backer bridge.

The way our cities have forced our libraries to become the default distribution channel for social services is a total disaster. The library is a place of learning for our community and our children. Not a shelter. I am rarely a person that would say “don’t go there, it’s too dangerous”, but I have literally told my wife not to take our baby girl to the downtown library. Our $125M, award-winning library. It’s a damn shame. We’ve not only failed our children, but we’ve also failed our homeless neighbors by failing to build the mental institutions that they so desperately need. Instead, we leave them to have psychiatric episodes in front of innocent children or arguably worse, let them literally rot on the street. Our librarians should be in the stacks organizing books and leading story-time, not on the frontline doing untrained social-work. I’m always thinking about how we can communicate public failures like this to other liberals. The large majority of liberal voters agree that this situation and others like it are unacceptable, but balk at the way that it’s presented. The disaster porn of trashed encampments, or exposés like this one feel brash or uncouth. Low brow. Reactionary. But on the other hand, it’s visceral and uncomfortable. It’s hard to look away. How do we communicate something like this in a way that appeals to urban liberals without making them feel like they’re being insensitive to the plight of our sickest and poorest neighbors? This is a question we have to answer if we want to solve public disorder in our cities.

@data_atx Seems reasonable enough

City of Austin has signed a new $50k contract for goats to come in and eat some hard to reach vegetation

He will be funded by ALPAC

@JenRobichaux “If you fund it, they will come”

$1.5 billion spent on homelessness in the last six years. Austin's general fund budget for fiscal year 2026 is $1.58 billion. Let that sink in. Austin is pouring *your* tax dollars into perpetual services that haven't solved the problems of homelessness in any meaningful way.

This is the formula for a guaranteed good movie #citizenvigilante

@OliverJanich @Amherro71 Need more Jews speaking out like this! Thank you Mandy!

🔥Jewish Actor Mandy Patinkin (brillant in Homeland) gets really passionate about Gaza and the child killer Benjamin Netanyahu.

@VividProwess My respect for JD has leveled up - way up

Has anyone else lost all respect for JD Vance?

@SECcousinShane Beautiful women

First thing you think of when you see this logo?

@365Aggie Whoop!

2027 5⭐️ LB Kaden Henderson has committed to Texas A&M! Henderson is from Tampa, FL and checks in at 6’2, 220! He is the #1 ranked LB prospect and the #23 ranked overall prospect in the country! He chose A&M over Notre Dame & LSU!

@Ric_RTP insane how perverse the incentives are when passing bills

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America. A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact. It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy: 56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases. More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide. 343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information. That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison. The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once: The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry. Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate. Now look at the individual leaderboard: - Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100 - Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers - Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late - Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked. She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO. The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine. The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero. And the cruelest part is this: A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed. But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is. They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing. The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

@unusual_whales But IRAN!!!

The U.S. Dollar has lost 30% of its purchasing power over the last six years, per NYT

Lake Austin family day

"Official" inflation just came in at 4.2% What does that actually do to $100k? 2026: $100,000 2027: $95,800 2028: $91,776 2029: $87,922 2030: $84,229 2031: $80,732 2032: $77,341 2033: $74,113 2034: $71,020 2035: $68,053 2036: $65,219 2037: $62,500 2038: $59,895 2039: $57,394 2040: $54,994 2041: $52,690 2042: $50,485 ← half your money gone. 2043: $48,365 2044: $46,334 2045: $44,392 2046: $42,528 2047: $40,742 2048: $39,031 2049: $37,392 2050: $35,821 ← what your kids get. 2051: $34,316 2052: $32,875 2053: $31,494 2054: $30,171 2055: $28,904 2056: $27,690 2057: $26,527 2058: $25,413 2059: $24,346 2060: $23,323 2061: $22,343 2062: $21,404 2063: $20,505 2064: $19,644 2065: $18,819 2066: $18,029 2067: $17,272 2068: $16,546 2069: $15,851 2070: $15,185 2071: $14,547 2072: $13,936 2073: $13,351 2074: $12,790 2075: $12,253 2076: $11,739 2077: $11,246 2078: $10,774 2079: $10,322 2080: $9,888 ← what your grandkids get. 2081: $9,473 2082: $9,075 2083: $8,694 2084: $8,329 2085: $7,979 2086: $7,645 2087: $7,324 2088: $7,017 2089: $6,722 2090: $6,440 2091: $6,170 2092: $5,911 2093: $5,663 2094: $5,425 2095: $5,197 2096: $4,979 2097: $4,770 2098: $4,570 2099: $4,378 2100: $4,194 ← you might not be around.

@Polymarket But let’s keep sending money to every foreign nation we can think to!

JUST IN: New report projects the U.S. Social Security trust fund will run out of money in 2032, a year earlier than previously forecast.

@Polymarket That is the American dream baby

JUST IN: SpaceX welder who immigrated from Mexico & started with $10,000 in company equity expected to become a millionaire post-IPO.

What happened to President Trump? From the Iran war to the Epstein files, to MAHA & mass deportations- what explains all of the reversals? It is critical that we look past the emotions & ask the hard questions, because the answers will tell us who truly runs our nation.