Craig Wilson @CraigSW59

This map of Tarrant County, on the left is the 2024 PresidentialElection & on the right is the same map from the January 2026 special state senate election is why they’re closing 92 polling locations in Tarrant County. They see the writing on the wall. They don’t want us to vote.

Jen Rice @jen_rice_

20 hours ago

Tarrant County voters aren't buying GOP claims that they're cutting polls to save money. “I’d love to know what you all think our tax dollars are for. They are to serve us and I can’t think of a better use of taxpayer money than to encourage and support the democratic process.”

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Are you sure you're registered to vote? 100% sure? Registrations can lapse or change without notice, and you don't want to find out on Election Day. Protect your vote & make sure your voice is heard.

Ted. Look at our deficit. Look at how much we pay in interest every minute of every day. Look what that is doing to interest rates. It’s Econ 101, you either have to raise revenue significantly, cut spending, significantly. Or both. Talarico committed to support the Break Up Big Medicine Bill. That was a pre requisite for my doing the event with him this week. If this Hawley/ Warren bill passes, we would reduce the deficit. We would cut costs for patients. Drug pricing would drop like a rock. Yet not a word from you in support Ted. Why ? A true capitalist would understand how these economics work. They wouldn’t ignore the fact that our debt levels pull money away from business. And consumers. If you truly want to do what is best for business, and the economy, we are going to have to raise taxes and cut spending. The best place to cut spending is by removing the HealthCare middlemen that are Too Big To Care, which is exactly what the Break Up Big Medicine Bill does You ready to whip up support among republicans ? Or do you prefer people dying because they can’t afford care , and the economy continuing to slow down because we are having to print money to financial engineer our debt obligations. What say you Ted ?

Ted Cruz @tedcruz

22 hours ago

Mark, your second paragraph refutes your first, and your support for James Talarico makes the contradiction even stranger. You’re right: taxes change behavior. That’s why President Trump cut them. After years of Obama-era stagnation, we rewarded work and investment. Before

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The debate over Fed hikes in an energy shock is a perfect example of technocrats mistaking the (wrong) map for the territory. And think about this: while I personally believe a Fed hike will be short-term meaningless and longer term inflationary via the interest channel, the Fed *believes* a hike will hit demand, which would mean more economic hardship for those on the bottom, who are already the ones being most squeezed by high energy prices, because the Trump admin lost a completely avoidable war in a global energy hotspot. All to briefly appease a bond market, which will look through the hikes to the inevitable fiscal calamity anyway. They’re playing a game so abstracted from reality, that it only plays out in the minds of a few sociopathic, and deluded, academics.

Earlier this year, I proudly nominated David Garcia to the U.S. Naval Academy because of his academic excellence and commitment to service. He began as a midshipman this summer. Right now, his mother, Maria, is locked away at the Dilley Trailer Prison. ICE took her when she showed up for her green card interview. She was doing everything the right way. The Trump Administration is targeting military families and leaving a dark stain on our nation. I am calling for ICE to release David’s mom Maria immediately.

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"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents

Plato believed that ideas are real, that they exist outside of our heads, and a lot of the past 2,500 years of philosophy has been trying to prove him wrong. Today I think we have the AI tools to prove him right, and our world will never be the same. What if Plato’s Allegory of the Cave wasn’t an allegory at all, but an actual, real phenomenon where we understood its physics and its math? What if we could use LLMs to measure the shadows for their unique shape or ‘signature’ so that we could identify the puppets (and the puppeteers!) projecting the shadows in the first place? What if we could explore the light itself? I really think we can. A semantic signature is a ‘primitive’ – a fundamental building block of information and communication. What tokens are to words and sentences, semantic signatures are to arcs and stories. They live in the same dimensional math. They are equally amenable to induction and inference. They just exist at different scales. This is the next frontier of information science – the semantic dimension – and there’s an entire world of ideas to discover here. panoptica.com/the-semantic-m…

When beef prices spike, suddenly everyone has an opinion about cattle, ranchers, beef imports and the American food supply. Then the news cycle moves on. Politicians find another talking point. X finds another outrage. Meanwhile, some of us are still out here. Raising cattle. Raising kids. Producing food. Teaching the next generation where their food actually comes from. The things that actually matter rarely trend for long. They still have to get done. 🇺🇸🐂 @RepThomasMassie #AmericanRancher #Beef #Agriculture #FarmToTable #SupportLocalFarmers

No cow-calf producer in America is asking for increased imports. Undercutting American farmers and ranchers with inferior product from foreign competitors does nothing to create market confidence or encourage rebuilding the herd.

This is pristine land. This is God’s country. And what’s happening at Big Bend is devastating. Once this landscape is destroyed, we can’t simply get it back. Big Bend is part of our natural heritage, and we have a responsibility to protect it for the people who call this region home and for generations to come.

I remain extremely sad about this fruitless waste of money and exercise of raw power.

Travis Bubenik @travisbubenik

2 weeks ago

Here’s part of a statement that J.P. Bryan, owner of Marathon’s Gage Hotel and a wealthy Texas businessman, released today on Big Bend area border barrier plans: facebook.com/share/p/18xkYJ…

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@tomowenmorgan Amen

Since CBP is carving away at Mariscal Mountain in total secrecy, with no analysis or public process, lets set the record straight on exactly what they are doing to Mariscal Mountain in Big Bend National Park. This excerpt is from a report Glenn Smith put together analyzing CBP's current standards for V.5 patrol roads —and what those standards will mean on the ground as they ramp up their permanent destruction of Mariscal Mountain: If CBP persists with plans to build a road up and over Mariscal Mountain, the road has to climb 1,546 feet. The standards cap the grade at 20 percent. Anything over 15 percent must be concrete, poured on site. That would mean a batch plant and water hauled into the desert. If the terrain won’t allow 20 percent grade, the standards let CBP reclassify the segment as a “maintenance road” with up to a 70 percent grade, roughly the pitch of a standard staircase. Such a maintenance road would be permanently closed to the public. But the grade isn’t the hard part. To build a road across a mountainside you dig into the slope. That leaves a wall of rock standing above the roadway. It has to lean back or it comes down on the road. CBP’s standards cap that lean at one foot back for every two feet of height, a fifty percent face. I measured the east flank of Mariscal against USGS elevation data. It reaches sixty percent. When the mountain rises faster than the wall leans back, the wall never reaches the surface. The digging has no end point. It just goes further into the mountain. To hold any of those grades the road needs switchbacks and, in the standards’ own words, “extensive cut-and-fill operations.” That means tons after tons after tons of rock removed. On steep ground the cheapest way to move rock is to push it over the downhill edge, and the further the road climbs the cheaper that gets. Below Mariscal’s rim there is no bench and no catchment. It’s straight down to the Rio Grande. Which leaves two ways to build it. They could line the road with concrete walls on the mountain side, which their own standards call for and which would mean miles of concrete they have never mentioned. Or they could cut the rock nearly vertical where it rises above the road, which exceeds what the standards allow and requires a filed exception. In that limestone the usual way you do it is with explosives, and CBP says it isn't going to blast the mountain. The patrol roads require a permanent, industrial operation within the park. This is something Big Bend National Park has never suffered. And it is an unnecessary because as the park’s rugged country of high canyon walls, dangerous deserts and well-known law enforcement presence have made it the least likely place in the region for suspect border crossings. No, this isn’t about border security. It is a U.S. president trying to turn the Rio Grande into another reflecting pool for his ego. CBP has refused to make its actual plans and specifications public. But the above gives a picture of what its standards could mean for Big Bend National Park.

Public lands are among America’s grandest and greatest ideas. And support for public lands is immensely bipartisan. What’s happening right now at Big Bend from the Trump Administration is completely out of touch.

State Rep. Eddie Morales, Jr. @moralesfortexas

3 weeks ago

Protecting Big Bend and the surrounding region is bipartisan. Today, my office, in conjunction with a bipartisan coalition of Texas House members, wrote to Governor Abbott once again urging his administration use any available avenue to request that DHS halt Big Bend National

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You don’t loosen regs and disclosure requirements on securities if the issuers feel they can raise the funds with proper disclosure. If government has decided this is a strategic priority, since a credit bubble needs accelerating issuance of new credit to sustain (and will immolate without it), I don’t understand why they don’t just guarantee the debt or guarantee to buy the compute later at economic terms. It’s so bizarre how America can’t just admit it’s a socialist country, where the recipients of largesse are capital owners. As my daughter would say, “It’s not that deep.” Just own it.

Tracy Shuchart (𝒞𝒽𝒾 ) @chigrl

3 weeks ago

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People struggle to understand the remote nature of Big Bend. In 2015 I flew a plane around the entire border of Texas and photographed it from the air. It took 6 days to complete the trip. Big Bend alone was one full day of flying and photographing. Both sides of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo, are hundreds of miles of the most inhospitable, yet beautiful desert landscape. The Chihuahuan Desert is unforgiving country. A place with massive rock cliffs and very little terrain you can traverse by foot safely. The visitor rate in the park is on the lower end compared to more accessible parks like Yosemite and The Great Smoky Mountains, but its popularity among those who have actually visited is astounding. In fact, this summer I was camped in the Smoky Mountains next to an older couple who travels the country in their RV. Being from North Carolina they had spent a lot of time there as well as many of the parks in the West. They saw my ¡Viva Terlingua! sticker and asked if I’d been. I told them that I’d spent about a week in Big Bend for the last 19 years and got out there any time I could. They said they took the desolate drive along State Highway 90 through Sanderson on their way out. It was on the husband’s bucket list to visit and it was by far his favorite park now that he had. The untouched, rugged, austere nature of that area is the feature that draws people in and leaves a lasting impression. If you’re at a loss to understand why there’s such an uproar over construction of a road barrier through Big Bend Ranch State Park and BBNP, then it’s my belief that you’ve likely never been. Because if you had, you’d understand.

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heads you lose tails they win corporate socialism yay

God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains. We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors. We don't need to desecrate this sacred land. We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.

Did not realize Trump was ceding American territory to Mexico as part of the wall project.

The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline

4 weeks ago

"We're giving 280,000 acres of land and the most important water source in West Texas to Mexico." @Ike_Saul tells @Timodc how Trump’s border wall plans could fence Americans off from their own land.

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Innovation is a random lottery. The funding model is mostly irrelevant, though generating many diverse, step-function inventions at scale typically requires absurdly patient capital, with high uncertainty about the ability to privatize gains. You can stack the odds by a) educating as many people as possible in STEM fields and b) sustainably backing diverse, multi-decade, increasingly complex, hyper-ambitious national missions in frontier fields. Roll many, diverse, high variance dice over decades with bounded downside and infinite upside, and keep bootstrapping.

Jostein Hauge @haugejostein

4 weeks ago

Turns out socialism doesn't stifle innovation after all.

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