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Had to go to the Social Security office this morning. Here’s the line before it opened at 9am. This probably isn’t unusual. Should we be getting rid of SSA workers?

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"Nowhere in the country have rents declined as much as they have in Austin — now 22% off the peak reached in August 2023, according to Redfin. The median asking rent is $1,399 per month, down $400 in less than three years" #YIMBYworks

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I'm honestly not sure why they bother asking him questions anymore. Like what is the point of this? None of it is useful.

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Texas falls from global oil dominance, the 1970s energy crisis strikes, and a gas company cuts power to millions. What comes next? Political intrigue, a fractured system of Texas energy regulation and then.. JR visits OPEC! Check this episode out! kutkutx.studio/the-disconne...

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I once wrote an episode of Adam Ruins Everything where he said that IQ is a bad measure of actual mental ability. It got some of the most wild, furious responses online. There are people who base their entire world view on a relatively meaningless number

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Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

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A drunken fight in an Austin hotel prompted the state AG to say the “end was near” for the Texas oil lobby (it wasn’t). It had newspapers telling lobbyists to stop drinking whiskey (they didn't). But it did change the course of the oil industry forever. www.kut.org/energy-envir...

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Strong drink and a bad attitude are never a good combination. But, occasionally, they do change history. In this episode of The Disconnect learn how a drunken brawl in downtown Austin delivered a system of energy price fixing that persists to this day. kutkutx.studio/the-disconne...

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Yes, he comes off as deeply weird here. But the thing that bothers me most is that the premise of cutting waste and fraud is just accepted, despite them having shown no evidence that they’ve found any such thing.

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Bilbo Baggins-ass haircut

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Beginning to think obscene wealth is bad for you. If he had just stuck to making his little cars, people might have actually liked him.

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how does it suck shit even more after all that money spent on it? toilet world.

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It's been four years since the big Texas blackout. What's changed? What hasn't? And what to make of the ERCOT report showing potential energy shortfalls next year? www.kut.org/energy-envir...

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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

submitted 17 days ago • 852 comments

@mosebuchele.bsky.social and @mcglinchyreports.bsky.social tell some pretty wild stories about the history of oil and gas this season — fascinating stuff, even if you're not in Texas.

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Have a really hard time seeing how anyone could read the two letters—Sassoon’s initial one & Bove’s response—& come away thinking anything other than that the response only further confirms the precise issues raised in the initial letter about partisan favoritism & rule-bending for the powerful

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Made a little starter pack of folks reporting on Austin from @kutnews.bsky.social go.bsky.app/QfocwBJ

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Hello Bluesky! The new season of our power grid podcast The Disconnect is out! This time we look at the oil and gas industry's role in keeping the lights on. We start with the roaring history of martial law, oil bootlegging and con artistry in the East Texas oilfield! kutkutx.studio/the-disconne...

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Season 3 of The Disconnect — our podcast about the Texas power grid — has begun. This time: natural gas — how it failed in the 2021 blackout and why TX leaders call it the future of a reliable grid. The first episode is all about the con man who started it all. kutkutx.studio/category/the...

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What on Earth is happening here?

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I'd rather continue to fund the banking police (who have returned billions to consumers) rather than giving everyone a check for $2.15

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Elon Musk wants to kill the CFPB to help himself and his rich tech buddies scam you look at him with his buddy Austen here just a day ago the government didn't unfairly come after Austen. the CFPB found that Austen and his company were deceiving people like you.

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Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

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What expertise do these guys have in health care fraud? How would they know it if they saw it simply from looking at the payments?

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Finally watched Adam Curtis' "Century Of Self" this week and it helped me understand our current political moment a bit more. According to Curtis, the rise of mass marketing in the 1900s changed the "citizen" into a "consumer". And I believe a similar shift is happening again. Short thread...

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If I was running a major news org, I’d keep the focus on the Musk story, which is a real thing. Trump talking about x,y,z isn’t—unless he backs it up with action. Cover what he says, sure, but don’t let him dictate the news agenda.

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NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination. “We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”

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wow. this is embarrassing.

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this is an objectively hilarious reply

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hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

submitted 29 days ago • 1122 comments

I have some bad news for this dude about, uh, professional sports.

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This is extremely funny given that Elon is an NGO and what he is doing right now

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What if they’re both wrong?

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I get the sense that both dems and GOP are simply waiting for this all to play out — both believing that it will somehow benefit them in the end.

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this is like comic book villain shit

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Morbidly curious to see what 25% tariffs on Mexican imports do to the Texas economy, in particular.

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If the blueprint caused Twitter to collapse, it wouldn't really matter. No one would die or starve. We'd be fine. I guess Twitter still runs, if you can call it that. Seems like the stakes are a lot higher with the federal government of the most powerful country on Earth.

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INBOX: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is banning state workers from downloading or using Chinese AI, including DeepSeek, on state-issued devices or personal devices used for work.

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The incredible Mose Buchele and @mattlargey.bsky.social asked me to help out with a new season of @kutnews.bsky.social's podcast about the Texas electric grid, The Disconnect, and I couldn't say no. Season 3 coming next month: one.npr.org?sharedMediaI...

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I miss the old days when bribery was done in secret. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

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I went to the store to get a cucumber and they were all the same price but one was much bigger so of course I got that one. When I took it up to the cashier he said Dang and swung it like a baseball bat a few times. Now that's what I call Going to the Store.

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A taxpayer could get mighty upset that federal workers would be paid to do nothing for 8 months. Assuming any of this is true, of course.

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Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

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wild that all the guys going to jail for corruption say the system is bad

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