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ProPublica is hiring a reporter to join our amazing investigative unit with The Texas Tribune. APPLY HERE ➡️ propub.li/4qvyjzw

Texas is one of the queerest states in America — 1.8 million of us, more than double the number of queer New Yorkers. Welcome to Big & Bright 🌈⭐👏 , The Barbed Wire’s new space for queer life in Texas! Subscribe here: thebarbedwire.com/subscribe-bi...

Stop scrolling and go to bed! But first look at the comedy wildlife photo finalists from this year www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...

Thrilled for my first Food & Wine byline! I talked to nine Best New Chef alumni about where they like to eat in Austin. www.foodandwine.com/best-new-che...

I miss the good old days of reading endless spooky stories every Halloween, so we interviewed Texas historians and ghost tour guides — and combed the internet — to round up the scariest ghost stories from across the state. Thanks to those of you who contributed! thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/10/t...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The administration and its deep-pocketed allies sent up a trial balloon: Mourn, or else,” Tressie McMillan Cottom writes on the response to Charlie Kirk’s death. “Trump is known for saying a lot of things that he can’t or won’t back up. This time, the threats are real.”

It is every American's patriotic duty to read this entire thing: www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

"I knew that someday, years or perhaps decades down the line, when half of Gaza was still rubble and the other half Israeli skyscrapers, the magazine would offer a mea culpa. Maybe someone involved would end up considering it the biggest mistake of their career."

Texas folks! This Sunday, I'll be joining author David Hillis at the Austin Central Library for a conversation about writing, deep time, hill country ecosystems, and the Lone Star State's splendid natural history. Come through!

In this tumultuous moment, Texas is still unique in its mind-boggling extremes. Texas loves to pick on queer kids. Yet, Texas is one of the queerest states in the country. Nearly 20% of our residents were born in another country, but we’ve vilified those neighbors. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/10/t...

"Our president says..." fuck all the way off. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

So from my read, the subject of this article obviously torpedoed herself (like how most of her "evidence" comes from a psychic). But in Trump's America, I'm not sure. Even my college-educated group text angrily said it was irresponsible to publish such misinformation.

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Lee Van Dyke — one-time leader of the Proud Boys, sender of racist tweets, and attorney for white supremacists — is making taxpayer money to represent people of color. County officials say there’s no rule against it. via @stevanzetti.bsky.social thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/22/c...

A woman in my SMBC chat group was so pumped about Trump's promise to make IVF free so here's a reminder that he has still done jack shit about this and is probably going to backpedal to "restorative reproductive medicine" aka it's your fault you're infertile. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

This is so fucking insane.

The Trump administrations wants to give your children diseases that we had already completely managed via inoculation so its friends can sell you treatment. Next up, new and improved smallpox!

you can sum up half of legacy media’s issues like this:

I cannot believe Jim Bankoff is still the CEO of Vox Media when he is so bad at his job. Solidarity with my friends at the shell that's left of Eater.

At any moment on this planet there are people dying horrible deaths due solely to the natural lottery of where they were born, but this one is happening directly because our government is facilitating it.

Thanks to climate change, harsher flood events will require more rescue operations, resources, and rebuilding. But the current system “offloads everything to the volunteer,” says Chris Boyer, the executive director at the National Association for Search and Rescue.

“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart." During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:

Killing in the Name of is the correct answer but also: I Don't Get Tired - Kevin Gates Cover Girl - BIA Formation - Beyonce Heaven is Calling - Jai Wolf Aquí Yo Mando - Kali Uchis and Rico Nasty

Catching up on @19thnews.org & what a doozy. “There are literally mothers and children who have been murdered because of this law, and they are telling me they have more important things that they have to work on in Congress,” Monasky said. 19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu...

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Thank you all SO MUCH for your support. Our incredible Bargaining Committee worked into the night for us and reached a Tentative Agreement at around 5am! 🙏💪🥳🎉 As of now there will be NO STRIKE! Please continue enjoying all our work, knowing you all helped us get here! #unionstrong #voxunion #1u

The way nobody can drive well anymore because of GPS — not just atrophied turn-by-turn navigation, but the way ppl no longer know the layouts of their town or the names of roads or what to do when the map doesn’t match the terrain — that’s what genAI is doing to communication skills and literacy

Wesley Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in journalism say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault. www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

I know this is not even the worst problem going on these days, but, we live in hell. www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...

Why is omakase so popular now? Well, it's the modern-day dinner and a show. austin.eater.com/2025/5/14/24...

Hello if you would like to hear my voice for some reason (??) talking about my journey to being a single mother by choice and also dating as a single mom, I spoke to a podcast. Here's a generic link: www.singlegreatestchoice.com/podcast-feed... Here's Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4NT0...

TLDR: the administration wants to remove habitat loss from the definition of "harm" for endangered species, which will effectively gut the ESA. I just commented. If you're in any way interested in ecology, nature, and the protection of endangered species, you should, too. Free daily action!

Small thing to do for your visa/green-card grads rn. Make sure they collect the numbers of several *trusted* senior faculty and family/friends. Then teach them how to set up an action button that texts everyone at once with one button/Siri. Share location enabled. www.google.com/search?clien...

My latest for The Barbed Wire!

Democracy dies in letters from owners directing coverage.

🧵 US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023. ja.ma/4aVchPn #MedSky

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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

The New Year's Eve countdown except for when I can take my toddler back to day care.

I think about this post that quantifies Jeff Bezos's wealth probably weekly. mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

What it means to be “Texan” doesn’t just have to look like far-right nonsense. Some women here are happily choosing single motherhood: “I’m not saying it’s not challenging, but I’m laughing more than I’ve ever laughed. I’m having more fun, and I’m more at peace.” thebarbedwire.com/2024/09/18/i...

In 2024, over 123 working days since @thebarbedwire.bsky.social launched, our small team of three full-time editors published approximately 252 stories under 29 bylines — short and long; silly and serious; essays, features, and exclusives. thebarbedwire.com/2024/12/30/b...