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From Texas Monthly's February issue: texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
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Christopher Hooks
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Christopher Hooks
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Journalist. Let me explain something to you, Walsh. This business requires a certain amount of finesse. [email protected]
NYC/Austin Katılım Ağustos 2011
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In adults, limiting smartphone functionality to texting and calls and blocking all social media and mobile internet for 2 weeks significantly improved attention, self-reported well-being and mental health. 90% of participants experienced a benefit.
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@bo_austin_ I feel so vindicated. Another crazy byproduct of the 0 interest rate era.
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possibly time to unlearn a lot of the MMT bullshit the left managed to absorb
davide🚩🔻@criticofpolecon
The content of Mamdani's budget obviously matters, but I'm sorry it's insane to see people just accept the praise of balanced budgets when DECADES of activism has been spent on arguing AGAINST that. It's really sad to see honestly how much people just wanna win.
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binge drinking is bad but in junior year of high school they should take kids out to a cliff—three or four times a semester—and teach them how to have a couple cold ones in glass bottles and then throw them a long way
Grant Bailey@grantjbailey
Huge collapse in drinking among high schoolers 👀
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just want to shout out @DylanBaddour and @insideclimate for following the corpus christi water story so closely for years and doing the lion's share of the reporting that national outlets are now picking up on
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just got a premonition of future texas candidates being required to show foreskin and eat bacon in public at the start of campaigns
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People's resistance to an industry they can tell is making the world steadily worse—but whom no one in power is confronting—is inchoate and a little disjointed, you're telling me? This is very interesting and unusual... will study more...
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Interesting—I wonder if someone could do something on a societal level about the technological forces driving the spread of misinformation?
Adam Thierer@AdamThierer
the misinformation campaign against data centers is working. You really have to hand it to the anti-AI forces, who just layered on one lie after another to whip up this panic. No matter how many times we debunk them, their lies just keep spreading.
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I want to read a story about the Nixon social media renaissance and have not succeeded in pitching it to anyone. Someone please do this
Spectra@spectraimsim
so funny to me that there's a full time social media manager out there whose job is making videos that can only be described as "Richard Nixon Hype Moments and Aura"
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Immigration politics show signs of fading potency in Texas GOP via @serrano_alej texastribune.org/2026/05/13/tex…
Trend data context below: Share of TX voters citing immigration/border sec as MIP facing Tx & share favoring immediately deporting anyone undocumented. #txlege
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i went to the border security expo and all i got was this creeping sense of dread
theverge.com/report/928726/…
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things have never been worse in America, of course, but any time I check in on the UK these days I feel like I've been huffing glue
Jonathan Shainin@jonathanshainin
I cannot find the words for how insultingly stupid this is. Stig Abell thinks "postmodernism" made people "question all authority" starting 20 years ago.
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An absolutely astonishing account of Israel's AI-assisted targeting in the @latimes
They called 62-year-old Ahmad Turmus and asked: “Ahmad, you want to die with those around you or alone?” His response, below, is chilling.
Story by @nabihbulos
latimes.com/world-nation/s…
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@roryisconfused for me it didn’t quite track-dialogue felt weird and the concept/premise seemed like it was in the wrong part of the political system. but I had seen and loved the thick of it
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American pals who watch Veep: could you sorta tell that the first 4 seasons had an exclusively British writing team or did it all just seem authentically American?
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@cd_hooks @Lux_Stella_ I mean it is twitter. being snotty is kind of the whole thing.
I also don't think you can cleanly take what Texas did and apply it to a jurisdiction like Vancouver.
I am sure there will be tax breaks in some form but these projects have to be weighed for their overall benefit
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US data center freakout really is a "my steak too juicy, lobster too buttery etc" problem
the things convert capital and electricity directly into property taxes
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney
It’s time to build.
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one funny thing in politics is that you can get a reputation as a technocrat if you're fluent in whitepapers
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@MTe005 @Lux_Stella_ one example of how this works, but only a small part of it. next time try not being so snitty about something you can google texastribune.org/2026/04/08/tex…
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@cd_hooks @Lux_Stella_ Can you provide a source for this claim ? Or did you just make it up?
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Third Way's anti-Hasan push probably the biggest backfire of the cycle for Dems, right?
It's an attention economy; that was the cue to say "pay attention to Abdul," who confidently grabbed the attention to say things liberals like and agree with.
Joe@electionsjoe
I can't believe this primary is still three months away.
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