I live in Midland Tx. I have lived through one mass shooting in which my friend’s brother died. Today I was in lockdown in my law office as another shooter with an automatic style weapon shot 12 people and kept police at bay for hours. In Texas it's become a part of life.

From May to August last year, Corpus Christi's Bitcoin mine consumed 11,563,000 gallons of water, according to utility records that the Observer previously obtained via a local resident’s information request. The city is refusing to share the latest data. texasobserver.org/corpus-chr…

I want a refund on every minute I spent in 8th grade learning that monopolies are illegal and that our government would protect us from greedy men....

In the 1940s, dozens of families were forced out of what’s now Big Bend National Park & told their sacrifice was to protect the land. Now the feds are back — this time to build a border wall. In honor of the park’s 82nd birthday, I’m telling their stories: bigbendsentinel.com/2026/06/…

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇵🇭 Protesters breached police barricades in Manila, advancing toward the US Embassy. The demonstrators are demanding the US troops to be kicked out and opposing the expansion of US military bases in the country.

This is the death knell for public education in Texas. I want you to think about the school in the middle of your neighborhood. The one that is close enough for you to walk your child there every morning. Unless you are ready to say goodbye to that school, vote for @GinaHinojosaTX

No, make buybacks illegal as they effectively were prior to 1982 This system of stock buybacks is about the purest demonstration of value extraction and redistribution to enrich already-wealthy shareholders

Dipped our toes in the Arkansas It dries up a few dozens of miles E of here, diverted (& depleted) for irrigation

Paxton siding with the interests of Tech against the direct interests of Baylor, TCU, and UH and against the indirect interests of UT, A&M, and SMU is maybe not the wisest read of how to navigate Texas politics

Here’s the well in November 2024. It’s been leaking toxic brine into the ground for over 18 months. Now it’s also flowing oil. Chevron doesn’t care. The Texas Railroad Commission doesn’t care either.

According to a new report released today by the Miami New Times, Trump threw and funded underage sex parties at his Palm Beach golf course. The president was made aware of the pending publication 2 days ago. Maybe now you understand why we struck Iran last night.

Does this mean the land and wildlife agencies will be making 72,000 hires of young Americans? The Forest Service and BLM are at half capacity as they cannot backfill post layoffs/DRP, so this would be great. Hire our people, take over the institutions. Run the country.

Nipple-Gate: How it was more important to protect Trump at all costs than it was for the DOJ and FBI to investigate Epstein's crimes against women and children. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjou…

Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet But don't worry guys age verification is going great!! Great reporting from @verge And this is for a purpose I'm understanding of age verifying people for!

He is bailing out Sam Altman. OpenAI cant IPO because they are massively in debt and dont make any money so Altman runs to the White House begging for a bailout and magically 3 days later we get this. This is the TARP bailouts all over again lol How "rich" did we get after '08

Richard Burgon just exposed the most glaring double standard in British policy "Imagine if this weekend in London there was a Russian real estate event selling Ukrainian land. The government would ban it immediately. Instead, we have an Israeli real estate event openly advertising the illegal sale of land in occupied Palestinian territories. The government recognizes Palestine. Why isn't this banned?"

By the way, public service announcement: if you're one of the numerous people posting about Anthropic's dystopian ways and you're thinking about getting Claude to help you write that post... don't! Another one of their terms is that you may not use Claude to do anything that "exposes [Anthropic to] reputational harms" 👇 And, if you do, under the - extremely unusual - clause 13 of their terms (anthropic.com/legal/consumer…), you have PRE-AGREED, by using Anthropic (and accepted their terms), that the harm you've done is irreparable, that you won't oppose Anthropic injunction, and they don't need to prove actual damage. They can simply go to a judge in a friendly jurisdiction (and of course, their terms precise that any dispute "will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco, California") and: a) file an injunction that shuts you down b) make you pay for everything since under section 11 of their terms you agree to indemnify Anthropic for "any and all liabilities, claims, damages, expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs), and other losses arising out of or related to your breach or alleged breach of these Terms." In other words, if you use Claude to help you talk shit about Anthropic publicly, their terms say you pay their lawyers to go after you and you've already pre-agreed you've lost the case. Oh, and cherry on the cake: in the odd case the judge were like "are you crazy, this is insanely abusive, you Anthropic are the ones at fault here," according to their terms Anthropic's maximum liability is... $100.

“A predilection for nipples…”

Stopped at an old Civilian Conservation Corps camp I found in the woods on my way home from court today. This country has a history worth celebrating it's just easy to forget those moments amongst all the horrors. Looking to the future we need a jobs guarantee. We need to invest in people and modern infrastructure. So much infrastructure from dams that create renewable energy in the modern day to decades old sidewalks in small towns they are still walked on by residents today, and so much more, were created by programs like the CCC and WPA. There is no reason we shouldn't renew that legacy. Our infrastructure is crumbling and unemployment statistics don't tell the real story. People are working 2-3 jobs and still struggling to survive. We can provide good jobs. We can rebuild the United States. We just have to invest in people and not endless wars and the billionaire class.