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The STAAR test is rigged against Texas kids and it’s setting our #txed neighborhood schools up for takeover. Find out how ⤵️

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He better call David Komie! I've heard from other lawyers that he does lawyer very well, in fact. www.kxan.com/news/local/a...

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Housing abundance is good politics, pass it on.

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Cuomo spent the whole campaign trashing the Democratic Party while Mamdani never shied away from being a Democrat. For both centrists and leftists it's an important lesson: if you want to win a party primary you should outwardly like the party.

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holy shit California is about to fix the NIMBY scourge that is CEQA this will finally destroy Ronald Reagan’s legacy

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It really is amazing we had solved this problem, decided to unsolve it, and then make it a billion times worse, the American way baby

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I’m sure this experience with a bottom-up, community-led approach to neighborhood change and public infrastructure will inform Mr. Marohn’s future writing on housing.

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THE ROMULANS AND THE KLINGONS HAVE BEEN FIGHTING SO LONG THAT THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THEY'RE DOING ANYMORE, THEY NEED TO CALM DOWN!! #StarTrek #Sisko197

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Real-time examples on how Approval Voting would be superior. I agree that instant results is an unfair expectation, but that's gonna remain unchanged. Easy/quick/simple tabulations bolster public trust.

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every day I imperfectly attempt to practice The Way of logging off and reading a book when social media starts to become extra deranged

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One month until Messi is #Verde! No? Not quite? Oh, one month until Messi is in #Austin for the #MLS #All-Star game? Got it. Who are you most excited to see play at Q2 next month?

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Shadows! SF nimbys are notorious amongst the (online) yimbys. In Austin, 'neighborhood character' was frequently mentioned. 'Traffic' also but that's more generic. 🥑

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Sometimes terrible things happen. Sometimes they’re so terrible we feel like someone must be punished, and sometimes the someone we point at is one or more of the victims, and that’s fucking monstrous.

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I strongly believe that almost everybody who works in housing and objects to upzoning bills because of displacement is using it as cover for another concern – either an ideological aversion to market-rate housing, or typical NIMBY things like parking

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"The Trump Administration’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities is illegal, unconstitutional, and a violation of international law... A return to diplomacy is urgently needed to prevent more tragedy." @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social buff.ly/Ayq2dgi

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Five things to remember about war:

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This was I think triggered by young men desperate to justify their preference for Trump with something approaching the personal urgency of their female peers' desire to regain/protect abortion rights

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Current mood youtu.be/YZuMe5RvxPQ?...

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This bill affects all of Texas, but nowhere more so than Austin, where: 1. Simple rezonings regularly spend $10k investigating whether they're vulnerable to petitions before even starting. 2. The city itself bundles zoning code tweaks, pays $500k in notification costs, and still loses in court.

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amtrak’s marketing team gets it

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House passed this 373 to 14, a bill increasing the cargo preference for all DOT-funded materials/equipment shipped over the ocean to 100%, meaning all ships must be US-flagged Yet more costs to pile onto public projects for the sake of special interests www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet?

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Anyone know what this is gonna be at the corner of SJ and 15th? Lol at the pink granite facade.

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Taxable sales growth in Texas metros and larger cities and counties in 2024:

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Happy Juneteenth! Photos and videos from the parade in #atx earlier today. It was a hot one! 🥵🥵

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logging on

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I’m a patriot. My parents immigrated to America chasing a better life. It’s not patriotic to spend $25M on a military parade while cutting $2B from veterans’ care. What Donald Trump is doing isn’t patriotism — it’s political theater. And we deserve better. @austinchronicle.bsky.social

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extremely common congestion pricing W

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Look, I said this as a Guy Who Works With Radiation metaphor two years ago and I don't like it coming true.

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what gets me about this stupid ass shit is that Ukraine is dealing with literal russian tanks and meanwhile the president is about to toss american power into the MENA meatgrinder once again

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If the Denver city council wants to see what a reasonable set of safety requirements for Single Stair buildings looks like, they should review SB 2835, recently passed by the #txlege & based 1+yr input from local & national stakeholders in Austin lead by @aura-atx.org, AIA Austin and TX 2036.

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they’ve gone from “clearly uniformed” to “partially uniformed” to “in no way identifiable” in like three weeks

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The boys and I at the battle of Tehran after Joe Rogan convinced a bunch of broccoli haired zoomer incels to vote for trump:

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Kendra mentions approval voting in the third reply. @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com has convinced me that Approval Voting > RCV, it's easier to explain and the tabulations are straight forward (multiple rounds are unnecessary). It's a straightforward tabulation on election night.

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"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

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Unfortunately the conditions Denver’s building and fire departments are seeking to impose are the most unreasonable I’ve seen, and if they go through as they’re proposing, nothing will be built. See here: denver.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

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This is upsetting. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

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Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

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🇺🇸 NO KINGS AUSTIN WAS A PRO-AMERICA PROTEST! 🇺🇸

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CBC video on the movement in British Columbia to allow European-style elevators (in size and technical standard), citing my work on cost and availability: youtu.be/sMYPCv6ZVJs?...

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