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Wells Dunbar

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Audience and engagement editor for Texas Standard, comin' dine with The Talk of Texas each week. Here for the news, politics, movies, music and esoterica. El Paso born Austin native. Reskeets are not ratification lol

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Texas Standard @texasstandard.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Tell us about a natural moment you'll never forget.⁠ ⁠ Maybe it was an unforgettable thunderstorm, a wildlife encounter, a hidden swimming hole, a sunset or a view so beautiful you had to pull over.⁠ Record us a voice message at texasstandard.org/talk to hear yourself on the Texas Standard.⁠
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
TBH honestly this is a good place to pitch their ongoing fundraiser for restoration for the paramount and the state theaters www.austintheatre.org/shineon/
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Shine On - Paramount Theatre
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
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Texas Standard @texasstandard.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Got a screwworm question? Our Michael Marks is answering them in an AMA on r/texas. Get your questions in here: www.reddit.com/r/texas/comm...
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From the texas community on Reddit: I’m a Texas agriculture reporter that’s been covering the New World Screwworm for over a year. AMA about screwworms.
Explore this post and more from the texas community
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
none of this is true and the place where this is going is potentially very awful
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 15/06/2026
Breaking: University of Texas at Austin leaders fired KUT General Manager Debbie Hiott on Monday, a little more than a month after she publicly challenged safety as the reason why much of the public radio station’s inaugural festival was forced off campus.
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KUT General Manager Debbie Hiott fired after festival dispute
KUT’s Debbie Hiott believes University of Texas officials terminated her because she publicly pushed back against administration claims that the station’s security plans for an inaugural festival were...
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Wells Dunbar @wellsdunbar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin has fired KUT Public Media General Manager Debbie Hiott, following a back-and-forth fight with UT over the station's inaugural festival last month.
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UT Austin leadership fires KUT General Manager Debbie Hiott
An email to staff at Austin's NPR station, addressed from Anita L. Vangelisti, the interim dean of the Moody College of Communication, said the decision was effective immediately.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The video, via NYT reporter Lauren McGaughy.
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Wells Dunbar @wellsdunbar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
BOC albums by bleakness: 1. Tomorrow’s Harvest 2. Geogaddi 3. Inferno 4. Music Has the Right to Children 5. Campfire Headphase Bull market in Inferno bleakness way oversold
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/06/2026
This is fantastic news.
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Wells Dunbar @wellsdunbar.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Back when Cornyn was AG and I was deep in alcoholism and temp jobs I had a Kelly Services gig at his office. It was around Christmas so they invited us all up a few flights for breakfast tacos. I was desperately hungover and had crammed a whole bacon egg and cheese soon as he walked up to say hi 👋
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Great read, highly recommend.
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Lauren Sánchez Bezos Won't Apologize for Getting Conjunctivitis from Touching a Dog's Anus
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13/04/2026
a computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer cannot make management decisions, though, given that zuckerberg can never be held accountable, either, i suppose this counts as a wash
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
And she has since been deported. Link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
hell of a week to remember you still haven’t done your taxes
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Just one month after Camp East Montana opened, inspectors found 60 violations of detention standards. So watch the admin spin this as somehow an improvement. It's a nightmare. Camp East Montana is a disaster. And the "mega" warehouses would be 3x larger.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
When the czar starts spending a suspicious amount of time micromanaging his palace you know he’s in charge and there are definitely no boyars scheming around
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 01/04/2026
www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this
Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I will never get over how effectively this administration convinced people in bad faith that they were fighting antisemitism on campuses just to turn around and do exactly this
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 31/03/2026
“At least 37 states offer some sort of financial incentives to businesses building data centers. … Public opposition is on the rise, however, and some states such as Virginia and Ohio are reconsidering whether to keep offering the financial breaks.” Communities across the country are fighting back.
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Data center dilemma: Why money isn’t winning over communities • Ohio Capital Journal
At least 37 states offer some sort of financial incentives to businesses building data centers. Public opposition is on the rise, however, and some states such as Virginia and Ohio are reconsidering w...
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Wells Dunbar @wellsdunbar.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Some jammin' tunes for this Trans Day of Visibility, courtesy of Dallas' own BALLISTA ballistacotc.bandcamp.com/album/trans-...
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TRANS DAY OF VIOLENCE, by BALLISTA
5 track album
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
whoever wrote that should go back to J-school
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Slideshare Gems @goodslides.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young representative named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Not that Dems need to be more hawkish or anything but they should absolutely run on “they wasted billions of dollars, munitions, and lives to produce one of the greatest strategic failures in American history”
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
FROM: sales@nike.real-account .com TO: kashmoneymillionaire@gmail .com SUBJECT: EXCLUSIVE OFFER!!!!! Dear Mr. Patel, Nike is excited to offer you a new line of Air Jordans!! These EPIC shoes feature the FBI logo along with the text "FEMALE BODY INSPECTOR". Click the link below to claim your shoes
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Trump is reportedly considering sending ... lemme rub my eyes here ... 10,000 (!) more U.S. troops to the Middle East because of the war he started with Iran www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
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Trump Admin Contemplates Sending Additional 10,000 U.S. Troops To The Middle East: Report
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Wells Dunbar @wellsdunbar.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Austin's anarchist bookstore (Monkeywrench Books) says former Red Guard members – self-styled Maoist revolutionaries – are trying to organize again. They've been described as abusers and cultists. This 2023 Daily Beast article runs down the allegations: web.archive.org/web/20231030...
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Ex-Members of the Red Guards Maoist Clique Say It Was a ‘Cult’
Red Guards made a name for itself with provocative protests that targeted other groups on the left. A year after its implosion, ex-members say they were part of a coercive gang.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Tech press spent 20 years telling you this guy was a genius and now we're here lmao
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Wells Dunbar @wellsdunbar.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
youtu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA
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Mr. Show - Blow Up the Moon
YouTube video by Laser Time
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 25/03/2026
Another day, another violation of academic freedom in Texas. This time a university is firing a philosophy professor owing to complaints about an off-campus talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestine conflict...
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Texas State Fires Philosophy Professor Over Off-Campus Talk on the Israeli-Palestine Conflict - Daily Nous
Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for violating his constitutional rights after they told him he would h...
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Wells Dunbar @wellsdunbar.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The BBC gathered several Epstein survivors to have them talk and commiserate. Two of them describe the 'dark' and 'eerie' feelings at his New Mexico ranch, now owned by TX GOP comptroller candidate Don Huffines: www.bbc.com/news/article...
HED: Epstein's 'eerie' New Mexico ranch 

BODY: Earlier this year, allegations surfaced in justice department files about Epstein that prompted the US state of New Mexico to re-open a criminal probe into his Zorro Ranch.

The state previously shelved its initial investigation into the ranch in 2019 following a request from federal prosecutors in New York.

"That's where the majority of the assaults happened. I have my darkest memories from Zorro Ranch," Davies said.

When she recalled what it felt like to be there, she told BBC Newsnight she had felt "trapped".

"It had a cold, dark, eerie feeling in there," Davies said.

Lisa Phillips, another survivor who spoke to BBC Newsnight, echoed that sentiment about the ranch. "I remember being like 'this place is really creepy', it just had that feel to it," she said.

Davies said she believes there is a lot more to uncover about what happened at Zorro Ranch.
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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Again in things you could not waterboard out of me:
“I called the general. I said, ‘General, what’s with the Abraham Lincoln, it looks like it’s burning down?’” Trump said at a lunch for Kennedy Center board members. He said the general told him: “‘No, it’s not burning down. Not a bullet was ever fired at it, sir. They know better.’”

One of the U.S. officials said that the USS Abraham Lincoln has been targeted multiple times since the war began but that the strikes have either failed to reach the ship or have been intercepted.

Trump also said he had seen fabricated video of “buildings in Tel Aviv burning to the ground,” as well as in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. “And they weren’t burning,” he said. “They weren’t hit. It was all AI.”
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
oh shit oh fuck I don't have nearly enough Robux to bribe these ICE agents.
ICE agents in tac vests who look like they should be in after school detention for masturbating in the library
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers. (video shared directly with me)
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
ICE agents are here at Houston Hobby airport (HOU).
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Wells Dunbar @wellsdunbar.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Houston's Hobby airport (not GWB International) the only Texas airport with ICE at TSA, per CNN reporting
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement
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Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center
When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The Iran war has caused the gravest energy shock of all time, the head of the International Energy Agency warned, adding that it could take six months or longer to fully restore oil and gas flows from the Gulf. www.ft.com/content/0952...
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Iran war is the greatest threat to global energy ‘in history’, warns IEA
Agency’s head Fatih Birol says recovery of oil and gasfields in Gulf region could take more than six months
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Jay Lender @jaylender.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Faux-old poster with fold marks. Postal Mascot Mr. Zip holds up a letter. Text reads: The Post Office is a SERVICE not a business! (Just like the police and fire departments!) When they say it NEEDS to turn a profit... Tell them to GO FUCK THEMSELVES!
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The “check engine” light on your dashboard @aklingus.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I have said this before and will say it here: if, for God knows whatever reason, you have not seen this clip before, you may think you are ready for what occurs but you are not youtu.be/K2_SvX4PEbU?...
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walker told me I have aids
YouTube video by bill billings
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
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Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Let us know if you see more.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Here's Harold Meyerson on the Cesar Chavez legacy that was already tarnished and is now obliterated: prospect.org/2026/03/19/c...
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Cesar Falls - The American Prospect
With the horror of the revelations of his sexual predations, an already tarnished icon collapses.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 18/03/2026
defector.com/lets-catch-u...
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Let's Catch Up On The Hilarious Afroman Defamation Trial | Defector
Afroman, once world famous for his song about being high (though I always preferred “Crazy Rap” myself), has emerged as a new kind of internet folk hero in the aftermath of an incident in 2022 with Ci...
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