Mike Clark-Madison
@mclarkmadison.bsky.social
Working for good in ATX since 1988. Moving to CLE in 2025.
New at my 'Stack: Point of no return, plus some more Brownsdoggle bidness, GF recipe, and a saint. open.substack.com/pub/mclarkma...
Tuesday Tidbits: My House Is For Sale
Also: Back to work (when?), the Brownsdoggle, a GF flatbread recipe, and a saint.
open.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
New at my 'Stack: Point of no return, plus some more Brownsdoggle bidness, GF recipe, and a saint. open.substack.com/pub/mclarkma...
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Texas AG Paxton has asked for privacy from colleagues, politicians, the media, and interns named Christy
July 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Texas AG Paxton has asked for privacy from colleagues, politicians, the media, and interns named Christy
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#BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋 #BluePetPatrol💙🐾 #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #trumpLiesMatter #ClimateJustice #Texas #Flood #Mexico
July 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
the resemblance, it is striking
July 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
the resemblance, it is striking
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Wife of Ken Paxton files for divorce, citing recent discovery that she was married to Ken Paxton.
July 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Wife of Ken Paxton files for divorce, citing recent discovery that she was married to Ken Paxton.
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Ken Paxton New chapter is called “The tribulations of being a freaky frog”
July 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Ken Paxton New chapter is called “The tribulations of being a freaky frog”
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ken paxton spilled his seed on the ground, didn't he
July 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ken paxton spilled his seed on the ground, didn't he
New content on my 'Stack: "The Art of Lying Well", about the floods, and mass shootings, and the first animated series on TV. open.substack.com/pub/mclarkma...
July 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
New content on my 'Stack: "The Art of Lying Well", about the floods, and mass shootings, and the first animated series on TV. open.substack.com/pub/mclarkma...
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recommended reading: "The Past and Present of Prison Labor," where an expert on that history answered questions from bolts readers on this. boltsmag.org/the-past-and...
very weird headline when we have had labor camps (prisons) forever newrepublic.com/article/1976...
Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.
newrepublic.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
recommended reading: "The Past and Present of Prison Labor," where an expert on that history answered questions from bolts readers on this. boltsmag.org/the-past-and...
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The pattern of Trump 1 was that Trump would say insane stuff and then we’d get a somewhat standard GOP version of the insane thing he wanted. The pattern of Trump 2 is that he says insane stuff and then the insane stuff happens, and maybe some of it gets ratcheted back in court after months
If you listen to what Trump says, he definitely wants to create forced labor camps. newrepublic.com/article/1976...
Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.
newrepublic.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The pattern of Trump 1 was that Trump would say insane stuff and then we’d get a somewhat standard GOP version of the insane thing he wanted. The pattern of Trump 2 is that he says insane stuff and then the insane stuff happens, and maybe some of it gets ratcheted back in court after months
New post on my 'Stack. The robotaxi launch in Austin begins tomorrow: open.substack.com/pub/mclarkma...
RoboTeslas in Austin: Pray for us
Road-testing Elon Musk's decade of dissembling bullsh*t about AVs
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June 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
New post on my 'Stack. The robotaxi launch in Austin begins tomorrow: open.substack.com/pub/mclarkma...
New at my 'Stack! Subscribe today before I raise the paywall. Exciting content to come: deep diving into the Brownsdoggle's fantasy visions, the wild origin story of the little train that stops at my Cleveland doorstep, *and* dispatches from the first AUS-to-CLE roadtrip. mclarkmadison.substack.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
New at my 'Stack! Subscribe today before I raise the paywall. Exciting content to come: deep diving into the Brownsdoggle's fantasy visions, the wild origin story of the little train that stops at my Cleveland doorstep, *and* dispatches from the first AUS-to-CLE roadtrip. mclarkmadison.substack.com
New post at my sidehustle: How the densest, most urban neighborhoods in Austin came to be open.substack.com/pub/mclarkma...
Little Bits of Big City
The densest neighborhoods in Austin, and how they got that way
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May 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New post at my sidehustle: How the densest, most urban neighborhoods in Austin came to be open.substack.com/pub/mclarkma...
new post at my new place: open.substack.com/pub/mclarkma...
Catching up with the news
Also: My favorite April Fools story
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April 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
new post at my new place: open.substack.com/pub/mclarkma...
New post at my new side hustle boom!scrolling: It's Cleveland's turn in the barrel for a stadium shakedown.
March 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
New post at my new side hustle boom!scrolling: It's Cleveland's turn in the barrel for a stadium shakedown.
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Have to share this theory from a red-check account on Truth Social: the Jacksonville shooting may have been a Deep State operation in response to the surge in Black support for Trump that resulted from his gangsta-cool mugshot.
August 27, 2023 at 3:17 PM
Have to share this theory from a red-check account on Truth Social: the Jacksonville shooting may have been a Deep State operation in response to the surge in Black support for Trump that resulted from his gangsta-cool mugshot.
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Nothing like working outside until you're soaked through with sweat before 11 a.m. to remind you that we need water break protection via Federal action.
https://www.texasobserver.org/water-break-thirst-strike-osha-biden/
https://www.texasobserver.org/water-break-thirst-strike-osha-biden/
Fighting for Breaks on Multiple Fronts
Workers and activists implore Governor Greg Abbott to consider the dire need for protections in the record-breaking heat.
www.texasobserver.org
August 20, 2023 at 3:56 PM
Nothing like working outside until you're soaked through with sweat before 11 a.m. to remind you that we need water break protection via Federal action.
https://www.texasobserver.org/water-break-thirst-strike-osha-biden/
https://www.texasobserver.org/water-break-thirst-strike-osha-biden/
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the paper didn’t even publish the info it obtained, and the fucking cops still illegally took all their shit!
August 12, 2023 at 1:17 AM
the paper didn’t even publish the info it obtained, and the fucking cops still illegally took all their shit!
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This seems absolutely horrible on the surface. But when you get in and look at the real details — nope… it gets even worse.
Horrifying: Kansas police raided a newspaper office after the paper published a critical article -- https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/
August 12, 2023 at 1:13 AM
This seems absolutely horrible on the surface. But when you get in and look at the real details — nope… it gets even worse.
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“Let’s try something new.”
August 12, 2023 at 1:23 AM
“Let’s try something new.”
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“The city’s entire five-officer police force and two sheriff’s deputies took ‘everything we have,’ Meyer said, and it wasn’t clear how the newspaper staff would take the weekly publication to press Tuesday night.”
Horrifying: Kansas police raided a newspaper office after the paper published a critical article -- https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/
August 12, 2023 at 12:54 AM
“The city’s entire five-officer police force and two sheriff’s deputies took ‘everything we have,’ Meyer said, and it wasn’t clear how the newspaper staff would take the weekly publication to press Tuesday night.”
It’ll be like Boys State
people who actually want to be politicians are not the kind of people who should be politicians
we should choose our leaders the same way we choose people for jury duty where you get a letter in the mail and open it and are like “ah dammit, i have to be a senator”
we should choose our leaders the same way we choose people for jury duty where you get a letter in the mail and open it and are like “ah dammit, i have to be a senator”
August 5, 2023 at 8:46 PM
It’ll be like Boys State