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@annamccachren.bsky.social
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director of editorial operations at Texas Monthly // often found walking the streets of Austin, looking for a cat to pet

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026
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Police report ICE-involved shooting in Austin, Texas | CNN
A federal immigration agent shot a man Sunday in Austin, officials in the Texas city said.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s hard to judge such things but the firing of the Stars and Stripes EIC is a huge scandal, or should be.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
JB Sauceda interviews his 10-year-old daughter Evie about Ella Langley, the "the one musician my daughter and I both agree on at this stage of her life." It's as delightful as you would imagine it to be @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/culture/texa...
J. B. Sauceda: I think sometimes kids have interesting perspectives. Do you agree with that?

ES: Yeah. I have the greatest opinions. 

JBS: What’s a song that you love that you might not play for me? Is there anything you’re embarrassed to play in front of me? 

ES: I’m never really embarrassed, but I sometimes don’t play songs because I know you won’t like them.

JBS: Like what?

ES: Like Olivia Rodrigo or something. I just don’t think she’s your style.JBS: What’s my style? 

ES: Country. You don’t really rock out unless it’s like . . . [sings “Orinoco Flow (Sail Away),” by Enya]
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
We're just hurtling toward immense destruction & suffering & the entire US political class has agreed it's better not to talk about it. "Insanity" barely covers it.
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U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate Target
Carbon removal combined with emissions reduction is the only remaining pathway to avert catastrophic levels of warming, a new report warns.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"The Rio Grande is one of the most threatened rivers in the country—more imperiled than the Colorado, which tends to generate all the headlines. The crisis is worse—significantly worse—than most realize." Urgent, propulsive reporting by @jherrerx.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/interactive/...
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Millions Depend on the Rio Grande for Water. Some Could Run Out as Early as Next Year.
The Colorado River crisis has been in the headlines this year, but our diminishing border river is in an even more severe state of collapse. This is the story of a water crisis without precedent in Am...
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Michael Hardy’s rigorous review of a “breezy hagiography” www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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Ted Cruz Wrote a Book About Clarence Thomas. It’s Remarkably Similar to Clarence Thomas’s Book About Clarence Thomas.
Texas’s junior senator didn’t work up much of a sweat researching this life of a conservative icon.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🤠🤠🤠 thanks! an annual digital subscription is only $15/year. One might say it’s a steal—certainly cheaper than a Montblanc pen… subscription.texasmonthly.com/pubs/TZ/TXP/...
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Texas was once considered a leader on government transparency. But now it's getting harder and harder to access public information. A great and timely explainer on an oft-overlooked issue:
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Texas Was Once a Leader in Government Transparency. No More.
Our state once wanted residents to know what politicians were saying and doing behind closed doors. Now leaders are redacting most everything.
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 21/08/2026
fantastic storytelling here about what happens when once-in-a-lifetime flooding happens two years in a row. i expected to be devastated by it; instead, it reads like people discovering in real time a path to the resiliency we are all going to need in the years ahead
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Step 4: “Decide there is a grace period wherein, if the cockroach disappears quickly enough, you will be able to persuade yourself you did not see it at all. Leave the room, resolved that if the roach is gone when you return it never existed to begin with.” by the inimitable @lonlozzin.bsky.social
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 13/08/2026
wrote about my tv uncle www.texasmonthly.com/culture/kyle...
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Is Kyle Chandler the Greatest Television Actor of All Time? A Texas Monthly Investigation
As the star of ‘Lanterns,’ the new HBO series out this weekend, Kyle Chandler is as good as he’s ever been. Meaning: the best.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#journalismjob alert: we have not one, not two, but THREE openings right now at @texasmonthly.bsky.social 🧵 www.texasmonthly.com/about/jobs-a...
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"It’s a historic landscape, an archaeological site, and a sacred place for the descendents of the massacre, and it has taken decades for us to get the public to understand what happened there.”
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I 💙 Wet City and I 💙 Spagetts!!!! www.thebanner.com/culture/food...
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How Baltimore accidentally invented the Spagett, one of summer’s hottest cocktails
Bartender Reed Cahill first came up with the Spagett as a "dumb idea" a decade ago at Wet City. It's garnered national fame since.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“It’s like two eras colliding. We used to be known for the tallest dinosaur. Now we’ll be known for the tallest power lines.” Took a break from the clergy abuse and Christian nationalism beat to write about the fight against powerlines and data centers in the Dinosaur Capital of Texas. (Gift link):
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“It’s Like Two Eras Colliding”: The Fight Against Power Lines in the Dinosaur Capital of Texas
Visitors come from across the country to see prehistoric prints at Dinosaur Valley State Park. Locals are fighting to preserve the view.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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James David Walsh Obituary Jul 5, 2026 - Candle Light Funeral Home by Craig Witzke
View James David Walsh's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
theyre not “predictors” theyre gamblers, hes trying to get 18-34 year olds addicted to gambling
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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Baltimore sues Agora, accusing Mount Vernon publishing giant of ‘selling snake oil’
A recent consumer protection law allows Baltimore’s Law Department to pursue penalties.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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The Post’s Opinion Non-'Sense’
After Jeff Bezos mandated a rightward overhaul of the opinion section, a Status examination of Adam O'Neal’s podcast feels more like culture-war red meat than "personal liberties and free markets,” an...
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Longreads @longreads.com · 04/06/2026
"But expertise only gets you so far in ballooning. Everyone, from the freshest- faced rookie to the most experienced veteran, is at the mercy of the elements." —Katy Vine and Meher Yeda for @texasmonthly.bsky.social
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The Rise and Rise of Balloon Racing’s First Family
Joe Heartsill and his sons Rhett and Lucas are international eminences in the obscure corner sport of balloon racing. Will this San Angelo clan get a chance to ride the currents on the world stage…
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
After months of being noncommittal, President Donald Trump finally announced he’s endorsing Ken Paxton. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
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John Cornyn Bowed to Trump. The President Overlooked Him.
After months of being noncommittal, President Donald Trump finally announced he’s endorsing Ken Paxton.
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 11/05/2026
the texas gop senate primary runoff between ken paxton and john cornyn requires you to be deeply, wildly invested in the minutiae of ken paxton’s life to make the slightest bit of sense of cornyn’s campaign against him. i tried to explain it a lil bit here www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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John Cornyn’s Inexplicably Deep-Lore Campaign Against Ken Paxton
Are there enough persuadable Texas-politics junkies for the U.S. senator’s obscure posts to matter?
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
On Monday @freshparsley.bsky.social won the Pulitzer Prize for his feature last year about his family and the flood last year. Coincidentally, this week was our last week of print production for the June issue, featuring this follow-up story by Aaron, on the months since the flood.
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"Cinco de Mayo. . . reminds us that Texas remains a former Mexican province called Tejas, that braided histories of our state and Mexico, of Texans and Mexicans, cannot be undone," writes @tacotrail.bsky.social. Read more on the history of the holiday here:
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The Hero of Cinco de Mayo Was Born in Texas
Ignacio Zaragoza led ragtag Mexican troops to victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Unreal stuff, here. One of the best and most harrowing magazine stories I've read. Strongest possible recommendation with all the obvious caveats re: you wanting to read something like this.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I'm so unbelievably proud of Aaron, and so, so grateful to him and his family for trusting Texas Monthly with their story. And so proud of the Texas Monthly whole team who rallied around Aaron to get his story out into the world.
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Texas Monthly senior editor Aaron Parsley has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, for his heartrending, first-person account of his family’s fight for survival during last year’s devastating Central Texas floods.
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Texas Monthly Senior Editor Aaron Parsley Wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
His first-person account of his family’s experience in last year’s devastating Central Texas floods was honored in the most prestigious awards in American journalism, a first for the magazine.
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Sandi Villarreal @sandivillarreal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
You can spend your whole life in Southern Baptist churches and not know how the faith group got here. @robertdownen.bsky.social spent nearly a decade uncovering just that. Set aside some time to read this. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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How an Alleged Child Predator Remade the Nation’s Second-Largest Faith Group in His Image
Paul Pressler helped ordain the marriage between white evangelicals and the GOP, all while accusations of sexual abuse piled up. Right-wing groups are still using his political playbook
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Also: You could already have gotten this story in your mailbox if you paid the mere $25 A YEAR for a print + digital subscription to Texas Monthly. We are, IMO, the best bargain in journalism. subscription.texasmonthly.com/pubs/TZ/TXP/...
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 23/04/2026
saying farewell to the large red man who helped ruin society www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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Goodbye to Alex Jones’s Infowars, the Darkest Product of Austin’s Weirdness
Jones was once a local oddball, shouting his black-helicopter conspiracy theories on the city's public access cable network. Now we're all living in the post-truth world he helped create.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
A heartrending, sensitively told account of the two factions that have formed around the question of Camp Mystic's future. by @peterjholley.bsky.social in @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
I met Evie, now ten years old, and her mother at a park in Kerrville overlooking the Guadalupe River on a warm afternoon in late February. Though we were a hundred yards away from the water, the lanky girl with sandy blond hair admitted that she was feeling “a little fidgety” about being this close to the same river that had tormented her last summer. I asked Evie if she could explain why she wanted to return to Camp Mystic, a place where she’d lost so many friends. She pondered my question for some time before answering. “Because that’s where they passed on and that’s where they went up to heaven,” she said, explaining her thoughts carefully. “If I stand where they stood when they passed on, I feel like I’m connecting with heaven.”
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
By my math, Texas-based pubs account for 28 percent of the finalists in the City and Regional Magazine Awards this year—this is the best state to be a magazine journalist! 🤠 Congrats to @texashighways.bsky.social @dmagazine.bsky.social + D CEO + Fort Worth Mag citymag.org/wp-content/u...
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"Again I analyzed whether any of my outsider observations would be worth relating. Hadn’t they all been tried out, romanticized, reflected at every angle? I could see the last line of my report—some revelatory cliché of, oh, I’d been a Texan at heart all along." www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
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How a New Yorker Found God at the Houston Rodeo
He was told to go to his first rodeo and just have fun. But he had to make it weird.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
An anti-Furry pastor. A gun-toting Youtuber. An Islamophobic Twitter troll. The guy who secretly bought Jeffrey Epstein's New Mexico ranch. Ken Paxton. A quick look at the Texas primary, in which the once-fringe far right further proved that they are the new GOP mainstream:
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The Texas GOP Now Has a Place for Candidates Once Too Far Right to Get Elected
John Cornyn forced a runoff against Ken Paxton, but the Tim Dunn wing of the party had an otherwise stellar night.
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
In some ways, we’ve been here before. In others, this is uncharted territory. Here’s what last night’s primary results could mean for November: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
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We're Also Sick of the Question “Will Texas Turn Blue?” Yet Here We Go Again.
In some ways, we've been here before. In others, this is uncharted territory. Here's what last night's primary results could mean for November.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“I have instructed a large language model trained on sixty years of the most florid and overwrought Texas political writing (which is to say, my brain) to produce a guide to the man and his times.” This is peak @hooks.bsky.social in the best way possible www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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The Ballad of Briscoe Cain, the MAGA Legislator Whose Dreams Were Squashed by Trump
Briscoe Cain could only exist in the Texas Legislature. He was tragically tempted to run for U.S. Congress.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"At competitions, higher-ranked belts sometimes refused to compete with her, not wishing to be upstaged by someone so young. But they couldn’t avoid her forever: Helena compressed the often five-year journey from purple to black belt into nine months." www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...
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This Texas Teenager Is One of the World's Most Feared Fighters. Don’t Expect Her to Talk About It.
Not yet twenty, Helena Crevar is one of the most feared fighters in martial arts. What’s her secret?
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
@texasmonthly.bsky.social is a finalist for four National Magazine Awards, all of which feel so meaningful to be recognized for. Truly could not be prouder to be a member of this team. asme.memberclicks.net/national-mag...
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The Cut for “The Forever-35 Face,” by Bridget Read, Fall
Food & Wine for “Out of the Wild,” by Kim Cross, July, “How Wild Salmon Gets From Sea to Plate,” August 19 on instagram.com/foodandwine, and “I Tracked a Wild Salmon From Sea to Plate—What I Learned Surprised Me,” by Kim Cross, August 20 at foodandwine.com
New York Magazine for “Your Parents' Money,” with an introductory essay by Madeline Leung Coleman, February 10-23
Philadelphia Magazine for “Cheesesteak 2.0,” by Bradford Pearson, Kae Lani Palmisano, Adam Erace, Victor Fiorillo, Emily Goulet, Jason Sheehan and Regan Fletcher Stephens, April
Texas Monthly for “The 50 Best BBQ Joints in Texas,” by Daniel Vaughn, June13. Reporting
The Atavist for “‘There Will Be No Mercy,’” by Drew Philp, January 31
Bloomberg Businessweek for “Erasing the Verdict: The Ongoing Shock of Trump’s Cocaine Kingpin Pardon,” by Monte Reel, December 26 at bloomberg.com
The Guardian for “Influencers Made Millions Pushing ‘Wild’ Births—Now the Free Birth Society Is Linked to Baby Deaths Around the World,” by Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne, November 22
MIT Technology Review for “We Did the Math on AI’s Energy Footprint. Here’s the Story You Haven’t Heard,” by James O’Donnell and Casey Crownhart, May 20 at technologyreview.com
The New York Times Magazine for “‘You’ve Blown a Hole in the Family’: Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama,” by Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg, February 13 at nytimes.com/magazine
ProPublica for three articles by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera,” December 15, “Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis,” December 17, and “The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive,” December 17
Texas Monthly with Food & Environment Reporting Network for two articles by Elliott Woods: “A Deadly Passage,” February 26, and “‘Stay Strong, My Brother,’” December 3, at texasmonthly.com14. Feature Writing
The Atlantic for “Is Ian Still in There?,” by Sarah Zhang, June
Harper's Magazine for “The Goon Squad,” by Daniel Kolitz, November
Mountain Gazette with Epic Magazine for “The Bear Suit,” by Owen Long, Issue No. 203
New York Magazine for “There Is No Safe Word,” by Lila Shapiro, January 13-26
The New Yorker for “Second Life,” by Rachel Aviv, July 28
STAT for “Sterilization, Mysterious Pain, and Dismissive Doctors: Why Women Turn to Reversal Surgery—and Sometimes to RFK Jr.,” by Eric Boodman, September 8
Texas Monthly for “Where the River Took Us,” by Aaron Parsley, August
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
a little Valentine’s Day programming for you: this delightful piece on gondoliers in the middle of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and what they’ve learned about love www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
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These Suburban Gondoliers Have Seen 10,000 Proposals. Here’s What They’ve Learned About Love.
Often privy to multiple marriage proposals a day, the gondola king of Irving has learned a thing or two about the affairs of the heart.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
They laid off Marty?! 😭 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
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He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 www.thebanner.com/culture/food...
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The Brewer’s Art, a Mount Vernon mainstay, abruptly closes after 30 years
Owner Volker Stewart informed employees by text message Monday that he was closing effective immediately due to financial problems, according to screenshots shared with The Banner.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
the newsroom where I started my journalism career is no more 😢 www.abc27.com/local-news/y...
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York Dispatch publishes final issue as newsroom merges with, website redirects to York Daily Record
YORK, Pa. (WHTM) — Another Midstate newspaper has published its last issue. The York Dispatch hit newsstands for the final time Friday and, by Friday evening, its website redirected to that o…
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Jack Herrera @jherrerx.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The southern frontier is quiet enough that Border Patrol agents have time to go brutalize Minnesotans. But people are still crossing. Who are they? I found out in a peculiar way—by getting briefly confused for a smuggler and stopped on the Rio Grande: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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Is Anyone Still Crossing the Border? Yes, Actually.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has boasted that border crossings have dropped to zero. That’s not true.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
a hell of a story by Chris
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas and happy holidays from us (and Willie) to you. 🎄 In our December 2012 issue, writer Michael Hall weighs the question: What if Willie Nelson is Santa Claus? 🤔 www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertain…
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
An absolute delight by @lonlozzin.bsky.social, @texasmonthly.bsky.social’s chief Christmas correspondent www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
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Ice Companies Used to Suffer All Winter. Then Texans Started Paying Thousands for Snow Parties.
Pricey snowscapes are delighting winter-starved Texans and also keep ice distributors in business.
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Will Bostwick @willbostwick.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
All y'all should read the great Mike Hall on the great Joe Ely
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