Ray Collins
@eraycollins.bsky.social
The future has arrived - it's just not evenly distributed yet.
- William Gibson
Do you boogie-woogie? https://youtu.be/-y_YM1ikva0?feature=shared
- William Gibson
Do you boogie-woogie? https://youtu.be/-y_YM1ikva0?feature=shared
Calls to 211 are up 97% compared to the rest of the year, according to researchers at WashU. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/daylight-s...
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Calls to 211 are up 97% compared to the rest of the year, according to researchers at WashU. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/daylight-s...
We’ll just have to see how all this plays politically. But it’s clear that Republicans messed up badly on the implementation of Project 2025. Immense cruelty was always part of the plan, but policy wasn’t supposed to get this cruel, this soon. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/too-cruel-...
October 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We’ll just have to see how all this plays politically. But it’s clear that Republicans messed up badly on the implementation of Project 2025. Immense cruelty was always part of the plan, but policy wasn’t supposed to get this cruel, this soon. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/too-cruel-...
Vietnam Veterans Against the War were a powerful presence. Ron Kovic, Collins Ave., Miami, Republican convention.
October 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Vietnam Veterans Against the War were a powerful presence. Ron Kovic, Collins Ave., Miami, Republican convention.
...Black workers still tend to be “last hired, first fired.” And while the overall unemployment rate (dashed green line) hasn’t risen much so far, the Black unemployment rate (blue line) has soared....
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October 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
...Black workers still tend to be “last hired, first fired.” And while the overall unemployment rate (dashed green line) hasn’t risen much so far, the Black unemployment rate (blue line) has soared....
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-us-eco...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-us-eco...
[Maybe this is why Harvard got on the First Felon's shit list?]
In theory, we should note that the correlation of prices rising does not prove that the tariffs are a cause of that rise. But, come on. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-ebbs-and...
In theory, we should note that the correlation of prices rising does not prove that the tariffs are a cause of that rise. But, come on. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-ebbs-and...
October 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
[Maybe this is why Harvard got on the First Felon's shit list?]
In theory, we should note that the correlation of prices rising does not prove that the tariffs are a cause of that rise. But, come on. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-ebbs-and...
In theory, we should note that the correlation of prices rising does not prove that the tariffs are a cause of that rise. But, come on. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-ebbs-and...
You'll be happy to know @aneelee.bsky.social that the WNBA is much more popular than golf and Trump. The lagniappe is that the First Felon's birthday entertainment is even more unpopular than he is. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-glorious...
October 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
You'll be happy to know @aneelee.bsky.social that the WNBA is much more popular than golf and Trump. The lagniappe is that the First Felon's birthday entertainment is even more unpopular than he is. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-glorious...
I also doubt that Trump is reading ancient retracted papers in The Lancet.... Kennedy isn’t just reading the paper in question, he’s besties with the guy who wrote it, disgraced and disbarred physician Andrew Wakefield. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-monova...
October 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I also doubt that Trump is reading ancient retracted papers in The Lancet.... Kennedy isn’t just reading the paper in question, he’s besties with the guy who wrote it, disgraced and disbarred physician Andrew Wakefield. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-monova...
What is true is that right-wing terrorism is way down this year, possibly because potential terrorists...who might have engaged in terrorist assaults may well be working for ICE instead. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/state-terr...
October 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
What is true is that right-wing terrorism is way down this year, possibly because potential terrorists...who might have engaged in terrorist assaults may well be working for ICE instead. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/state-terr...
The political puzzle is why Republicans didn’t see this coming. The One Big Beautiful Bill carefully and cynically delays big cuts to Medicaid until after the midterms. Why didn’t it include a similarly cynical delay to the looming premium apocalypse? /1
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October 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The political puzzle is why Republicans didn’t see this coming. The One Big Beautiful Bill carefully and cynically delays big cuts to Medicaid until after the midterms. Why didn’t it include a similarly cynical delay to the looming premium apocalypse? /1
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Being a native Texan living in Austin/Travis county what will happen here is my interest. acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
September 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Being a native Texan living in Austin/Travis county what will happen here is my interest. acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
Our longtime friend Walter Moreau, Executive Director of Foundation Communities, speaks at their Laurel Creek Community, the launch site of the "Love Austin" campaign. www.kxan.com/news/local/a...
September 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Our longtime friend Walter Moreau, Executive Director of Foundation Communities, speaks at their Laurel Creek Community, the launch site of the "Love Austin" campaign. www.kxan.com/news/local/a...
These are the current CDC exceptions. May change in September at ACIP meeting.
August 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
These are the current CDC exceptions. May change in September at ACIP meeting.
August 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The electricity outlook is sufficiently scary that Texas — Texas! — has passed a new law giving the grid operator the right to cut off data centers during periods of power shortage.
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August 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The electricity outlook is sufficiently scary that Texas — Texas! — has passed a new law giving the grid operator the right to cut off data centers during periods of power shortage.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/kilowatt-m...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/kilowatt-m...
The data showed visits to grocery stores grew by 1.3% year-on-year in June, while they fell 0.4% in the same months for restaurants.
www.reuters.com/business/ret...
www.reuters.com/business/ret...
August 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The data showed visits to grocery stores grew by 1.3% year-on-year in June, while they fell 0.4% in the same months for restaurants.
www.reuters.com/business/ret...
www.reuters.com/business/ret...
The greatest softness...can be found in pockets of the Mountain West, Southwest, and Southeast. In particular, housing markets like Tampa, Austin, San Antonio, Nashville, Dallas, Cape Coral, and Punta Gorda. www.resiclubanalytics.com/p/housing-ma...
August 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The greatest softness...can be found in pockets of the Mountain West, Southwest, and Southeast. In particular, housing markets like Tampa, Austin, San Antonio, Nashville, Dallas, Cape Coral, and Punta Gorda. www.resiclubanalytics.com/p/housing-ma...
Who do you suppose that the First Felon might be concerned about? Who might be hurt? Who might be treated unfairly?
August 7, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Who do you suppose that the First Felon might be concerned about? Who might be hurt? Who might be treated unfairly?
What is public safety?
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August 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
What is public safety?
open.substack.com/pub/raycolli...
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We need a better historian than I am, @hcrichardson.bsky.social.
After the hearing ends Texas legislators flee to Illinois where Governor Pritzker can be expected to be of help in whatever way he can. /1
After the hearing ends Texas legislators flee to Illinois where Governor Pritzker can be expected to be of help in whatever way he can. /1
August 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
We need a better historian than I am, @hcrichardson.bsky.social.
After the hearing ends Texas legislators flee to Illinois where Governor Pritzker can be expected to be of help in whatever way he can. /1
After the hearing ends Texas legislators flee to Illinois where Governor Pritzker can be expected to be of help in whatever way he can. /1
FC’s Executive Director Walter Moreau writes, “Now more than ever we really depend on over 2,500 volunteers each year to help all of our residents with taxes, food, health insurance, tutoring and more. We need more help from the community.”
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raycollins.substack.com/p/volunteer-...
August 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
FC’s Executive Director Walter Moreau writes, “Now more than ever we really depend on over 2,500 volunteers each year to help all of our residents with taxes, food, health insurance, tutoring and more. We need more help from the community.”
raycollins.substack.com/p/volunteer-...
raycollins.substack.com/p/volunteer-...
64.5% of $1.5B general fund is police (36.7%), fire (17.8%), & EMS (10%). Predominately paid for by property taxes, but also sales taxes, utility transfers from Austin Energy, & miscellaneous revenue. Remainder of total budget of $6.3B is $4.8B paid for by fees, etc., & is self-supporting. /2
August 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
64.5% of $1.5B general fund is police (36.7%), fire (17.8%), & EMS (10%). Predominately paid for by property taxes, but also sales taxes, utility transfers from Austin Energy, & miscellaneous revenue. Remainder of total budget of $6.3B is $4.8B paid for by fees, etc., & is self-supporting. /2
Who do you represent?
Council Member Harper-Madison opines about representation.
raycollins.substack.com/p/who-do-you...
Council Member Harper-Madison opines about representation.
raycollins.substack.com/p/who-do-you...
July 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Who do you represent?
Council Member Harper-Madison opines about representation.
raycollins.substack.com/p/who-do-you...
Council Member Harper-Madison opines about representation.
raycollins.substack.com/p/who-do-you...
I would never in a million years have associated you with NIN. Their cover of Hurt is all I know of them being a fan of Cash's baritone since forever. Here he is outside near San Antonio in I think 1959.
July 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I would never in a million years have associated you with NIN. Their cover of Hurt is all I know of them being a fan of Cash's baritone since forever. Here he is outside near San Antonio in I think 1959.
The thing is, the tech bros haven’t just turned right. Many of them are filled with rage — that special kind of rage exhibited by men who enjoy vast privilege and can’t abide any suggestion that their privilege is unjustified. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/enshittifi...
July 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The thing is, the tech bros haven’t just turned right. Many of them are filled with rage — that special kind of rage exhibited by men who enjoy vast privilege and can’t abide any suggestion that their privilege is unjustified. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/enshittifi...