The first rule of economics: Unhappy people, they spend more.
September 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The first rule of economics: Unhappy people, they spend more.
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June 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
One of the best jobs in journalism today—staff writer for @TexasMonthly— is available now. Details here: www.texasmonthly.com/about/jobs-a...
Boy, sure do wish the U.S. had more than one branch of government right now. apnews.com/article/stoc...
Dow drops 1,500 as US stock market leads a worldwide sell-off following Trump's tariff shock
Financial markets around the world are reeling following President Donald Trump’s latest and most severe volley of tariffs, and the U.S. stock market may be taking the worst of it.
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April 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Boy, sure do wish the U.S. had more than one branch of government right now. apnews.com/article/stoc...
I don’t have the existential bandwidth for this.
As we transition into an unseasonably hot and dry spring, let's look at the state of Texas' water supply—a looming calamity told in charts. Reservoirs on three of the state's major river basins (Nueces, Guadalupe, and Rio Grande) are at or near all-time lows.
March 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I don’t have the existential bandwidth for this.
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This is absolutely harrowing to watch. If you've seen the Brazilian film I'm Still Here, it's exactly that: armed men from an unnamed agency coming to a couple's door to take the man away, with no charges, no due process, no response to the wife's pleading questions. Completely unconscionable.
NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
March 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is absolutely harrowing to watch. If you've seen the Brazilian film I'm Still Here, it's exactly that: armed men from an unnamed agency coming to a couple's door to take the man away, with no charges, no due process, no response to the wife's pleading questions. Completely unconscionable.
If we want Trump to rein in or fire Elon, all media should begin referring to Acting President Musk on first reference in all stories.
February 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If we want Trump to rein in or fire Elon, all media should begin referring to Acting President Musk on first reference in all stories.
Mike and Maci Berkeley could be comfortably retired in Aspen. Instead they've chosen this life: "the area's poverty and attendant medical problems have created an atmosphere of hopelessness. And then there is the constant danger of the menacing and omnipresent Sinaloa drug cartel."
In Mexico’s Mountains, a Houston-Based Nonprofit Offers Health Care to an Isolated People
Mike and Maci Berkeley have spent more than twenty years bringing medical and spiritual attention to the impoverished Tarahumara.
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November 19, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Mike and Maci Berkeley could be comfortably retired in Aspen. Instead they've chosen this life: "the area's poverty and attendant medical problems have created an atmosphere of hopelessness. And then there is the constant danger of the menacing and omnipresent Sinaloa drug cartel."
You know what's great? Books. What's better than books? Nothing. So join me at @texasbookfest tomorrow at 1:15, when I'll talk to @jessicagoudeau.bsky.social and @tzhernandez.bsky.social about their latest books, which uncover hidden histories and the ghosts of our collective past.
November 15, 2024 at 7:16 PM
You know what's great? Books. What's better than books? Nothing. So join me at @texasbookfest tomorrow at 1:15, when I'll talk to @jessicagoudeau.bsky.social and @tzhernandez.bsky.social about their latest books, which uncover hidden histories and the ghosts of our collective past.
Yet another reminder to the media: the tech giants are not in the business of helping us.
Google tests removing news articles from search in EU, but it’s already backfiring
Google tests removing news articles from search in EU, but it’s already backfiring
Under EU law, digital platforms have to pay for news reuse. But how much should Google pay for article previews? That’s what Google is trying to find out with an experiment in nine EU countries. During the test, 1% of users won’t see articles from…
tcrn.ch
November 15, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Yet another reminder to the media: the tech giants are not in the business of helping us.
Consulting with Dr. Hologram once or twice would be kinda fun, but isn't the fact that we often can't easily get doctors in the same room as their patients a sign that we need much bigger, systemic fixes to health care?
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The Country’s First-Ever Holographic Doctors Are In
A small medical center south of Dallas is the nation’s first to offer 3D telehealth visits, and its CEO believes the technology is a “game changer.”
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November 14, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Consulting with Dr. Hologram once or twice would be kinda fun, but isn't the fact that we often can't easily get doctors in the same room as their patients a sign that we need much bigger, systemic fixes to health care?
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Russell reported this from the community of Notrees, Texas. Which prompted me to look it up and learn that the place originally had one native tree—until a Shell gas plant removed it: www.tshaonline.org/handbook/ent...
November 14, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Russell reported this from the community of Notrees, Texas. Which prompted me to look it up and learn that the place originally had one native tree—until a Shell gas plant removed it: www.tshaonline.org/handbook/ent...
Is this where we’ve all decided to flee?
November 13, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Is this where we’ve all decided to flee?