Molly Tuttle and me recording w OCMS!

4th #SaturdaySong, 3/21/2026: "Isn't It Strange?" (2003) Happy 75th Birthday - five days late - to Asleep At The Wheel founder Ray Benson! @bismeaux.bsky.social

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social

Sharon Ely me and The Real STUBBS on the set of Wild Texas Wind

Juke box

That’s how ya end a song Lyle!🎸🎤🤣

Still swinging: Asleep at the Wheel turns 55 with Texas pride www.statesman.com/austin360/mu...

Still swinging: Asleep at the Wheel turns 55 with Texas pride www.statesman.com/austin360/mu...

What is Lyle doin in my studio

Asleep at the Wheel 2025

Mural at Cains

Cain’s ballroom. Been playin here since 1971

The Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo is the only touring African American rodeo in the United States. Gabriela Hasbun’s sensitive portraits of attendees with their horses, regalia, and equipment capture the event’s special atmosphere of care and pride.

Researchers at Tarleton State University in Texas have found that natural extracts from okra, fenugreek, tamarind, and cactus can remove up to 90% of microplastics from water. These plants contain mucilage—a sticky, plant-based substance—that binds microplastics for easy removal.

Carol Hui, from jail in Missouri in today's episode of The Daily Blast: "I just want to stay here with my children. I have a poor English. I just want to [be with] my family with my children, stay here in the U.S. for freedom and have [a] better life." https://trib.al/E1u0EtN

Trump did what???

Great night performing Red Headed Stranger in Garland Tx where Willie recorded it 50 years ago

Napa! What a great night and beautiful hall

Giddy up

Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson

Great night w Willie

A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against Trump’s EPA, stopping head Lee Zeldin from eliminating 3 nonprofit grant agreements as part of his attack on Biden’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

The Republican Party is trying to take America away from YOU. A VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN IS A VOTE FOR FASCISM. DON'T BE A SUCKER!!! youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4?...

The decision by U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes blocks the Department of Defense from carrying through with a policy directive designed to remove transgender service members from the military.

Breaking News: The Trump administration said it would suspend $175 million in funding to the University of Pennsylvania over its transgender athlete policy.

Trump's State Department terminated a contract with a humanitarian group tracking the fate of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. The revelation—which we first reported last week—suggests the U.S. may now be helping Russia bury a potential war crime.

Heading to Calif after Bend Oregon tonite

Austin night life

A great bday party in Austin

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

As DOGE continues to report "savings" without pointing to specifics (buff.ly/TJDO86s), a U.S. District Judge has ordered several federal agencies to reinstate all the probationary employees DOGE previously fired (buff.ly/jGow990).

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US 'destroying' international rules-based order by trying to meet Russia 'halfway', Ukraine's UK ambassador warns

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding that many scientists say will endanger patients and cost jobs.

Guitar world

Terry Allen and me at Texas Medal of Arts

Meet the acting DOGE administrator: a former USDSer named Amy Gleason — who happens to be on vacation this week and didn't know in advance the White House was releasing her name. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

DOGE has deleted the top five highest savings claims on its “wall of receipts” leaderboard after various news outlets pointed out multiple errors in its calculations.

Breaking News: The House narrowly passed a Republican budget resolution that calls for slashing federal spending to pay for President Trump’s tax cuts.

A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday blocked an executive order that President Trump signed shortly after he was sworn in that suspended a decades-old program admitting thousands of refugees into the U.S. each year.

Twenty-one members of the United States DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.

Elon Musk’s team posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.

A group of men who would not identify themselves, and who were working for the local Republican party have dragged someone out of a political meeting -- What’s next? And who will stand in their way?

If the president defies the courts and Congress does not impeach him for it, the Constitution simply ceases to exist.

Mitch McConnell probably didn't imagine he'd pave the road for Donald Trump, but that's where his methodical, ruthless pursuit of party power took him.

While the Trump administration doesn’t seem to care much for the gravity of the Constitution, the First Amendment does state that there shall be “no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”

Twenty-one technologists at the U.S. Digital Service—now rebranded the U.S. DOGE Service—resigned rather than aid in Musk’s effort to destroy the federal government.

The number of measles cases in Texas has grown to 124, with an outbreak continuing to spread as far as the northwestern tip of the Panhandle.

Anyone who receives or helps someone receive abortion care, even if they access it outside of Montana, would face up to five years in prison. A similar effort to track women is underway in Missouri.