Tony Cardone
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Been to a few Austin FC matches. | Pro-transit, pro-bike, pro-Austin, pro-soccer, pro-Ukraine | 210➡️512 via Raiderland
Has hell frozen over?
Or has there been a coup inside TxDOT?
Or has there been a coup inside TxDOT?
TxDOT: Car-dominant Texas needs more public transit
As the state’s population grows, more travel options are needed in rural and smaller urban areas and between major cities, according to a draft of the first-of-its-kind plan.
www.texastribune.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Has hell frozen over?
Or has there been a coup inside TxDOT?
Or has there been a coup inside TxDOT?
I am equal parts annoyed at how awful that call was in favor of Miami that would have pulled back a goal in a critical game and amused that it happened to Nashville after watching them get away with nearly everything they wanted in the USOC final.
tl;dr: PRO is bad at their jobs.
tl;dr: PRO is bad at their jobs.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I am equal parts annoyed at how awful that call was in favor of Miami that would have pulled back a goal in a critical game and amused that it happened to Nashville after watching them get away with nearly everything they wanted in the USOC final.
tl;dr: PRO is bad at their jobs.
tl;dr: PRO is bad at their jobs.
LOONS RISING
DOWN GOES SEATTLE
DOWN GOES SEATTLE
November 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
LOONS RISING
DOWN GOES SEATTLE
DOWN GOES SEATTLE
If this is the King, this will be a generational run for the athletic department.
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
If this is the King, this will be a generational run for the athletic department.
To me, why #ATX Prop Q failed is pretty simple:
Tax policy is complicated, and it’s easier to openly lie about it than explain why a certain proposition exists.
In this case (as with Project Connect), the tax increase would have been 20% of the *city’s portion* of your property tax.
Tax policy is complicated, and it’s easier to openly lie about it than explain why a certain proposition exists.
In this case (as with Project Connect), the tax increase would have been 20% of the *city’s portion* of your property tax.
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
To me, why #ATX Prop Q failed is pretty simple:
Tax policy is complicated, and it’s easier to openly lie about it than explain why a certain proposition exists.
In this case (as with Project Connect), the tax increase would have been 20% of the *city’s portion* of your property tax.
Tax policy is complicated, and it’s easier to openly lie about it than explain why a certain proposition exists.
In this case (as with Project Connect), the tax increase would have been 20% of the *city’s portion* of your property tax.
It will remain one of life’s great pains: electing Republicans in a general election, then three straight elections of realizing that was a bad idea and slowly removing them from power.
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
It will remain one of life’s great pains: electing Republicans in a general election, then three straight elections of realizing that was a bad idea and slowly removing them from power.
I am once again begging the Austin American-Statesman to stop interviewing Bill Aleshire.
Or, at the very least, stop labeling him simply as a “former county judge”, ignoring he hasn’t spent the last decade running extraordinarily disruptive legal interference for NIMBY groups.
Or, at the very least, stop labeling him simply as a “former county judge”, ignoring he hasn’t spent the last decade running extraordinarily disruptive legal interference for NIMBY groups.
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I am once again begging the Austin American-Statesman to stop interviewing Bill Aleshire.
Or, at the very least, stop labeling him simply as a “former county judge”, ignoring he hasn’t spent the last decade running extraordinarily disruptive legal interference for NIMBY groups.
Or, at the very least, stop labeling him simply as a “former county judge”, ignoring he hasn’t spent the last decade running extraordinarily disruptive legal interference for NIMBY groups.
North America: your next opportunity to root against a Los Angeles playoff team is Sunday night at 7:45pm Central, when scrappy underdog Austin FC takes on the literal black and gold of LAFC.
Vamos ATX!
Vamos ATX!
November 2, 2025 at 4:47 AM
North America: your next opportunity to root against a Los Angeles playoff team is Sunday night at 7:45pm Central, when scrappy underdog Austin FC takes on the literal black and gold of LAFC.
Vamos ATX!
Vamos ATX!
At some point, someone is going to have to summarize this World Series for the history books.
I wish them luck. It’s complete absurdity.
I wish them luck. It’s complete absurdity.
November 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
At some point, someone is going to have to summarize this World Series for the history books.
I wish them luck. It’s complete absurdity.
I wish them luck. It’s complete absurdity.
Baseball is such a soap opera. It’s unbelievable, really.
November 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Baseball is such a soap opera. It’s unbelievable, really.
A *very* beatable LAFC side comes to Austin on Sunday. Let’s do everything we can at Q2 this Sunday to send it back to Exposition Park on October 8th.
October 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A *very* beatable LAFC side comes to Austin on Sunday. Let’s do everything we can at Q2 this Sunday to send it back to Exposition Park on October 8th.
Freddie Freeman is the Shohei Ohtani of World Series baseball.
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Freddie Freeman is the Shohei Ohtani of World Series baseball.
This might equal the 2018 game in innings played, but with the arbitrary tariffs on Canadian goods, it’s actually 80% more expensive.
October 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
This might equal the 2018 game in innings played, but with the arbitrary tariffs on Canadian goods, it’s actually 80% more expensive.
After all…
You’re my WonderPOST
You’re my WonderPOST
October 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM
After all…
You’re my WonderPOST
You’re my WonderPOST
I don’t want to “well actually” anyone but someone should tell the edgelord running the DHS Twitter that Halo’s primary plot in the first games is humanity teaming up with the Covenant to stop a fanatical religious cult from destroying the universe as a way to halt the Flood.
Halo is the weapon.
Halo is the weapon.
October 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I don’t want to “well actually” anyone but someone should tell the edgelord running the DHS Twitter that Halo’s primary plot in the first games is humanity teaming up with the Covenant to stop a fanatical religious cult from destroying the universe as a way to halt the Flood.
Halo is the weapon.
Halo is the weapon.
Interesting piece from the Statesman on why we are faced with Prop Q.
The short: Austin can choose to invest in the future at a cost, or follow Houston’s path down the road of austerity and loss of public services.
Don’t Houston My Austin
The short: Austin can choose to invest in the future at a cost, or follow Houston’s path down the road of austerity and loss of public services.
Don’t Houston My Austin
How Austin and Houston are addressing budget woes in radically different ways
Austin’s proposed 20% property tax increase contrasts sharply with Houston's austerity approach. Why are two blue cities taking such different approaches?
www.statesman.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Interesting piece from the Statesman on why we are faced with Prop Q.
The short: Austin can choose to invest in the future at a cost, or follow Houston’s path down the road of austerity and loss of public services.
Don’t Houston My Austin
The short: Austin can choose to invest in the future at a cost, or follow Houston’s path down the road of austerity and loss of public services.
Don’t Houston My Austin
While Brian Kelly is out of a job, whoever came up with the Best-of-3 format for the first round of the MLS Cup Playoffs probably got promoted.
Unfair suffering in North American soccer must continue, apparently.
Unfair suffering in North American soccer must continue, apparently.
October 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
While Brian Kelly is out of a job, whoever came up with the Best-of-3 format for the first round of the MLS Cup Playoffs probably got promoted.
Unfair suffering in North American soccer must continue, apparently.
Unfair suffering in North American soccer must continue, apparently.
The Big 12 Conference has issued the Portland Timbers a $100,000 fine and a 15-yard penalty for this dangerous act.
We’re doing streamers tomorrow after the anthem! So grab yourself some green, yellow, or white streamers.
*also, please try and keep the celebration in the north end and off the pitch 😜*
#RCTID
*also, please try and keep the celebration in the north end and off the pitch 😜*
#RCTID
October 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The Big 12 Conference has issued the Portland Timbers a $100,000 fine and a 15-yard penalty for this dangerous act.
Getting a election text message from the anti-Prop Q PAC was expected.
That text message leading with former Councilmember Ora Houston’s endorsement, however, may not have been the smartest idea.
She was one of the biggest roadblocks to Austin’s evolution on nearly every issue.
That text message leading with former Councilmember Ora Houston’s endorsement, however, may not have been the smartest idea.
She was one of the biggest roadblocks to Austin’s evolution on nearly every issue.
October 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Getting a election text message from the anti-Prop Q PAC was expected.
That text message leading with former Councilmember Ora Houston’s endorsement, however, may not have been the smartest idea.
She was one of the biggest roadblocks to Austin’s evolution on nearly every issue.
That text message leading with former Councilmember Ora Houston’s endorsement, however, may not have been the smartest idea.
She was one of the biggest roadblocks to Austin’s evolution on nearly every issue.
AD Kirby Hocutt telling Texas Tech fans to not throw tortillas because the Big XII is a bunch of babies is almost certainly gonna turn out exactly like we all think it is going to turn out.
Sports should be fun! It’s why we do them!
Sports should be fun! It’s why we do them!
October 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
AD Kirby Hocutt telling Texas Tech fans to not throw tortillas because the Big XII is a bunch of babies is almost certainly gonna turn out exactly like we all think it is going to turn out.
Sports should be fun! It’s why we do them!
Sports should be fun! It’s why we do them!
“Sonniksen said Austin United believes the city's convention center needs would be met by a new 1,000-room hotel and convention center at Circuit of the Americas that the City Council approved in July.”
It used to be harder to spot the grifters. COTA is 15.5 miles from downtown with nothing near it
It used to be harder to spot the grifters. COTA is 15.5 miles from downtown with nothing near it
Could Austin’s $1.6 billion convention center expansion go to a vote?
A local group says it’s gathered enough signatures to force a May vote on whether Austin should move forward with its $1.6 billion downtown convention center expansion.
www.statesman.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“Sonniksen said Austin United believes the city's convention center needs would be met by a new 1,000-room hotel and convention center at Circuit of the Americas that the City Council approved in July.”
It used to be harder to spot the grifters. COTA is 15.5 miles from downtown with nothing near it
It used to be harder to spot the grifters. COTA is 15.5 miles from downtown with nothing near it
Austin finishes 4-0-0 against Los Angeles this year in MLS regular season play.
With one game left, 6-0-1 against California.
Never beating the allegations.
With one game left, 6-0-1 against California.
Never beating the allegations.
October 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Austin finishes 4-0-0 against Los Angeles this year in MLS regular season play.
With one game left, 6-0-1 against California.
Never beating the allegations.
With one game left, 6-0-1 against California.
Never beating the allegations.
