Jim Bradbury

U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’ nytimes.com/2026/04/26/wor…

A federal judge is a lawyer who knows a senator. A state judge is a lawyer who knows the governor. A super lawyer is a lawyer who knows 8 other lawyers

West Texas is like falling head over heels in love with a beautiful woman who's always trying to kill you. @BeerPedaler

"Ramble On" is 56 years old and Robert Plant just walked onto The Late Show and made it sound like he wrote it this morning.

"One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests. An area larger than Texas. The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it. And they did it with a press release on a Tuesday." hatchmag.com/articles/trump…

@DylanBaddour Wow, one project moved it 5 years

@jimbluewind Here's one from GCGV saying their project would require a new water source "(e.g. desalination)" as soon as the late 2020s portlandcitizensunited.com/exxonsaudi-pla…

The region’s largest water user, an Exxon-SABIC plastics plant, also drilled test wells recently but found water that was too salty. “They continue to look for alternative water sources... Several of the big companies are doing that, and the choice is really just groundwater.”

Our job as leaders is to work through difference and facilitate difficult conversations. Today, I called Jon Barela on the phone and let him know that I would be sending him this open letter. My goal for this letter is to support our entire community (1/2)

@RichOToole Fort Worth

Spending the weekend in Dallas. Where should I eat?

Fantastic story today in the New York Times. Across the board, Texans are fighting like hell to preserve access to their sacred river.

Just like Austin is a P.O. Box for a tech industry with more footprint elsewhere, Dallas is basically NY Finance's janitors closet. Houston is the only city in TX with an economy that isn't four scammy toddlers in a trench coat, but its also a terrible place for a hedge fund. -OS

didn't realize just how huge these sales tax abatements were for data centers. over a trillion in foregone revenue in texas in 2025 for data centers alone

Texas saddles up for data center clash dlvr.it/TRkbpB

‘Tell me where to sign': Proposed Big Bend border wall hits close to home in Bozeman bozemandailychronicle.com/news/tell-me-w… via @bozchron

LORD GOD HELP US DOWN HERE IN AUSTIN

@rs_gage Its a terrible thing to watch. Not enough coverage on impacts to Ag and landowners

@jimbluewind The situation there is pretty grim, my parents live in Three Rivers & I grew up there. My Mom sent me some pictures of their land there & it’s all just dirt. When I grew up it was tons of weeds & brush, bluebonnets. Now it looks like a desert.

We have reached the Darwinian phase of Texas Water

Border walls no longer planned for Big Bend Ranch State Park, but many wall plans remain in the region. Latest from @MarfaRadio: marfapublicradio.org/news/2026-03-2…

I am proud to announce I have successfully negotiated my first oil and gas lease for the company. Shareholder value added. Rancher wanted to meet with me when he came out from Dallas. (Highland Park) 2,560 acres sitting on the rig schedule. (2027) Held by production. 1/8th royalty. He wanted to renegotiate terms. So did I. His ask list was long. Cost-Free. Depth severance. Drilling commitments. White noise. I conceded. Oil Co received well naming rights. (Priceless) The real negotiation began. He wanted 30 percent. We settled on 27. (No pity) We watched the sunset at Hemingway. (Cohiba) I let him pay. Lease negotiations hate to see me coming.

From East Texas all the way to Virginia, everyone who knows, knows the best BBQ and beef is found in a shack up on cinderblocks. Where Greg Abbott would never go. The best TX BBQ ain't in Austin or Houston. It's in Lockhart, Longview, etc. -OS