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Looking for more info - in perpetuity. Posts are my own, unless I've been hacked. #YIMBY Urbanism (Social Housing In My Back Yard 🙏) He/Him/His

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Lone Star Project @lonestarproject.net · 30/09/2026
After being detained for a DWI earlier this year, David Flores tried to talk his way out of arrest by citing his endorsement from Greg Abbott. In the back of the cruiser, Flores then called the officer a "f**kin pig, shitass n**ga." Full story: bit.ly/4rJZVC7
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Video shows Abbott-Backed State House Candidate, David Flores (HD144), Calling Police Officer a “F**k’in Pig, Shitass N**ga.”
Will Greg Abbott condemn and withdraw support from Republican State House candidate, David Flores, after he used a vile racial slur during a DWI arrest?
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AURA: An Austin for Everyone @aura-atx.org · 20h
We're hiring a part-time Advocacy Coordinator! 📣 Help us organize for more housing, better transit, & walkability across Austin. Full details & how to apply here: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Graphic with a purple background and a blue starburst. Text reads: "We Are Hiring: Advocacy Coordinator. Want to build a more walkable, affordable, transit-friendly Austin? AURA is looking for an Advocacy Coordinator to help turn grassroots energy into pro-housing, pro-transit wins!" A teal megaphone illustration and the AURA logo appear at the bottom.
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Austin Road Conditions 🤖 @atx-road-condition.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New dashboard for monitoring the road conditions and traffic incidents in real time! charlie-henry.github.io/atx-road-con...
map viewview of one sensor
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Somewhere In ATX @somewhereinatx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Disgusting racism from a man that doesn't care about workers or their safety.
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Somewhere In ATX @somewhereinatx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump take retirement
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Justin Miller @byjustinmiller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tarrant County is Texas' most important battleground county—at the top of the ballot it's flittered red to blue and back again, but for county-wide offices Dems have failed to gain power. Will this November be different? www.texasobserver.org/tarrant-coun...
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Inside Downballot Dems' Effort to Flip Texas' Key County Battleground
Amid voter suppression and rampant ideological warfare, Tarrant County Democratic candidates try to capitalize on this surge of local anger.
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Gus Bova @gusbova.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This may seem very basic, but the @texasobserver.org finally has a separate subscription process for you to buy a gift subscription for someone else! It's still just $5/month. If you already subscribe but want to help more, I think it's one of the best ways: texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/give/
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The best of investigative journalism since 1954.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 30/09/2026
Out today: “In 2026, the numbers are just exponentially greater in the amount of people who are organized, who are active and who are on the ground working to bring about change in our leadership. I think it’s a cumulative effect of all of the horrendous things that our current leadership has done.”
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Inside Downballot Dems' Effort to Flip Texas' Key County Battleground
Amid voter suppression and rampant ideological warfare, Tarrant County Democratic candidates try to capitalize on this surge of local anger.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 30/09/2026
Previously: At least 3 people have died at Camp East Montana in the past year, including one incident, ruled a homicide, where a 55-year-old died after a beating by security guards. One report found dozens of violations of national detention standards.
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ICE Contractor for Controversial Camp East Montana Is Trailed by Fraud Allegations
To continue running the deadly El Paso detention center, the feds turn to a company that’s faced numerous lawsuits from labor unions and former employees and is actively fighting a whistleblower in…
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 30/09/2026
The fossil fuel share of final energy has already peaked across most of China’s industrial sectors. In light manufacturing, electricity now supplies THREE-QUARTERs of the sector’s final energy consumption ⚡ ember-energy.org/lat...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/09/2026
I can't believe these are street legal
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes Michael Tracey showed up at Virginia Giuffre’s funeral to cause harm one more time with his vicious evil tiny man energy. He’s that disgusting.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s difficult to overstate how dangerous such a declaration would be for American democracy. It would mean a president is attempting to sidestep the Constitution, which empowers states to run elections, in order to prevent his party from losing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Could Trump take over voting by declaring a ‘national emergency’?
Advocates agree such an attempt would be blatantly unconstitutional but still worry that such an emergency order could suppress voting nonetheless.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 29/09/2026
Remember back in April when the president of Cornell allegedly ran over a student with his car? The Cornell Sun broke that story too. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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VIDEO | Cornell President Drives Into Student and Recent Grad Following ‘Harassment’
Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff drove his car into a Cornell student and ran over the foot of a recent graduate following a Cornell Political Union debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict Thursday...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Interesting. Thank you, America.gov!
Screenshot of America.gov answering whether the Trump administration has arrested any of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients or co-conspirators during Trump’s current term. It says no arrests could be verified and cites a July 2025 DOJ/FBI review stating it found no incriminating “client list” or evidence sufficient to predicate an investigation of uncharged third parties.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump's America.gov chatbot really is SUPER INTELLIGENCE!
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David R. Brockman, Ph.D. @drdrbrockman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just checked President Trump's new AI-powered America.gov. He might be surprised at the answer it's giving to a simple question re the 2020 election:
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AAUP @aaup.org · 29/09/2026
“Hegseth thinks the problem w/military education is too much education. Ending new tenured appointments will make it harder to recruit outstanding scholars & easier to pressure professors to tell political leaders what they want to hear.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Texas, the voter registration deadline is coming up next week. If you live in Texas and want to vote, be sure to check that you are registered properly — even if you you think you did what you had to. A statewide database to check: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...
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Somewhere In ATX @somewhereinatx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans want to put a Data Center next to YOUR HOUSE 🫵
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Somewhere In ATX @somewhereinatx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump take house.
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Ximena Bustillo @ximenabustillo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scooplet: DHS was told to find space nationally for new immigration court hearing locations including at FEMA, CISA, US Coast Guard and ICE properties. But the new locations caused confusion as members of congress and the public are blocked. My latest news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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DHS Expands Pop-Up Immigration Courts, Blocking Public Access
The White House directed the Department of Homeland Security to volunteer space to serve as makeshift immigration courts as the Trump administration seeks to speed deportations.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stay
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Tennessee to execute a woman for first time in 200 years after governor denies clemency
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"So it’s a bigger and bigger battery over time. The vast majority of the energy that’s accumulating in the Earth’s system due to climate change is stored in the oceans. So El Niño is one of the ways that the ocean “burps” out this extra heat."
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Incoming El Niño Is so Extreme It Doesn’t Have a Scientific Name - Inside Climate News
As a record breaking El Niño continues to grow in the Eastern Pacific, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains what may be in store for the next year as we brace for an El Niño “so far above anything ...
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is true that a Dem Congress will not be able to do any effective legislating under the Trump regime. But that’s a given. What Congress can do is investigations that drive stories into the media. Every day should have headlines about Trump stealing from us, about Trump harming us.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
purge *HEGSETH TO ANNOUNCE 20% CUT TO GENERALS, ADMIRAL POSITIONS: FOX
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Solar and batteries provide Australian homes with lower bills, reliable power, and clean energy, which is why people are opting for them in droves,” CEC Chief Executive Officer Jackie Trad said. Lower bills. Reliable power. Pretty easy sell, right?
bloomberg.com
Australia’s World-Leading Household Solar Buildout Continues to Surprise
Australian households — world leaders in solar panel installations — are adding new units at the fastest pace in five years, defying forecasts for a slowdown as the grid pivots at pace toward renewabl...
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Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The great risk for the Democratic Party right now is to fail to reckon with the much larger and more powerful issue that affordability candidates are tapping into — and to end up disappointing voters once again." — @superwuster.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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KXAN News @kxan.com · 29/09/2026
Thursday and Friday are the primary window for widespread heavy rain and flooding.
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Heavy rain, flood risk, severe threat late week
Central Texas has through Wednesday afternoon to prepare for a major and impactful storm expected to bring heavy rain, flash flooding and severe storm potential for the remainder of the week. -Mete…
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beshear refusing to bend on trans rights is going to have far more traction among the base than Talarico and Hinojosa’s abandonment of trans kids
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Speaking as a professor of public policy who studies housing policy: Trump take house.
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wendy cloudberry @wendycloudberry.com · 23/09/2026
TEXANS if you registered, updated your address, or otherwise took any action on your voter registration through DPS, check your registration status **right now** Dallas County alone is reported to have several thousand unprocessed registrations You have until October 5 to register
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Somewhere In ATX @somewhereinatx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Must Read👇
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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wrote this to try and bear witness; I hope you'll read it. If you do, I hope you'll later find some quiet to think about this man, pray for him if you'd like, and then find out what you can do to help those impacted by this violence and terror in your community.
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His car is still sitting there
An ICE kidnapping in Austin
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
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How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities
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Cora Neas @corabora.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Team is updating this story with details from today's presser:
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LULAC, congressman, family attorney speak out for man shot by ICE
A man was shot and injured by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in north Austin on Sunday, according to a city of Austin news flash.
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 21/09/2026
JFC WHAT
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
Well now the problems I had looking up specific people last week makes sense. And yes that is deeply messed up. If someone is in ICE custody, they should be findable, full stop. It's already bad enough that people disappear from the system while they're being transported somewhere else.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I just want to live in peace,” American citizen Leonardo Garcia Venegas said following his third Kavanaugh stop this past spring: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times?
Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen whose prior detentions went viral and were detailed by ProPublica, was recently detained for a third time — and shackled. “I just want to live in peace,” he say...
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 21/09/2026
🚨Every member of Imran Khan’s immediate family has now been arrested, according to reporting by Drop Site contributor Areeba Fatima (X: @AreebaFatimaa)

Areeba Fatima
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BREAKING: After Aleema Khan, Dr Uzma Khan and all of their children have also been arrested. Every member of Imran Khan’s immediate family in Pakistan has been arrested and are being taken to an unknown location according to party sources.
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Bob Libal @blibal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This happened a few miles from my house in North Austin. A very similar violent and terrifying arrest happened to a friend on Friday in Austin. I attended this afternoon’s protest our community is rightly beyond angry. This violent thuggery must stop now and its victims set free
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 21/09/2026
ICE agent shoots DoorDash driver during delivery in Austin sparking new protests
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ICE agent shoots DoorDash driver during delivery in Austin sparking new protests
A dark blue Toyota Corolla photographed at the scene had damage along its passenger side and what appeared to be two bullet holes in the rear window
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
While ICE agents were shooting Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in Austin on Sunday, their colleagues were violently detaining a US citizen in Evanston, IL who "resembled" a person they were seeking. The victim reported "injuries to his head, neck and teeth":
evanstonnow.com
Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
something readers often ask is "how can we help resist this?" well, here's an idea: www.404media.co/is-your-city...
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Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help
404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.
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Julian Onderdonk @jonderdonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cliffs on the Guadalupe www.wikiart.org/en/robert-julian-on…
Cliffs on the Guadalupe
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