I was so impressed with this story about measles in the Atlantic -- the depth of reporting it would take to weave in all these details so fluidly. Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

Saying a 26-yo woman has "limited value" is some incel pedo shit

Bo French, who is currently running for Texas Railroad Commission on a vow to fight radical Islam, has on the “advice of his security team” just pulled out of a candidate forum tonight after realizing it was being held at a Muslim community center.

Austin nerds, geeks, bricks, dolls, dykes, fags, hags, and scallywags: I'll be playing commander at Game Kastle tonight. Pod up or say hi if you see me!

Come for an alleged lawsuit over umbilical cord blood, stay for a 1.1 megaton explosion -- my latest for @kxan.com: www.kxan.com/news/texas/t...

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

My Latest: Internal revolt within the American Society of Plastic Surgeons as surgeons oppose bans on trans surgeries for minors | theneedle.news/oaz_GsTep

STOP USING PASSIVE VOICE IN YOUR COPY

the pricemaster and his absurdist agenda lives on in the hearts of dentonites 25 years later. I got the story of how a one-off garage sale became a beloved piece of anti-capitalist art. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

The decision was made over urgent objections from the administration’s own health and child welfare officials, who say both the facility and the region lack the specialized care the girls need. txst.us/nkokif

This is the sad part about Aldaco's case. She actually had a case for medical negligence against her surgical team for how they handled her aftercare, but instead her attorneys chose to sue everyone to make the case GAC itself was the malpractice. They stated as much in todays SCOTX oral arguments:

First time I've seen an attorney say something is "hogwash," but I'm in Texas so I doubt it'll be my last. My latest for KXAN: www.kxan.com/news/texas/t...

NEW: In addition to corresponding with Jeffery Epstein during the interview process to become Baylor president, DOJ emails reveal that Ken Starr hosted Epstein and his girlfriend Karyna Shuliak in Waco, on Baylor's campus in 2012 during Starr's presidency. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

"audit logs from six Texas school districts show campus camera feeds are captured in a national database that police agencies across the country can access."

The legal question before the Texas Supreme Court is whether or not the case was brought within Texas' two year statute of limitation on medical liability cases.

Soren Aldaco in 2023 sued every medical professional involved in her transition. Judges threw out all of her other cases, which could mean this is her last shot. TX House Republicans say they'll push legislation in 2027 to make a carve out if SCOTX doesn't make an exception.

First time I've seen an attorney say something is "hogwash," but I'm in Texas so I doubt it'll be my last. My latest for KXAN: www.kxan.com/news/texas/t...

OutYouth, which provides services and support for LGBTQ+ kids, announced Monday morning it had selected Jaryn Holbrook Janeway to be the new executive director effective Feb. 12.

"Um, I'm literally neurodivergent and a minor" typically doesn't hold up if you're an adult plaintiff

Similar to how the Odyessy was understood by its contemporaries as real, the Muppets exist for us in modern times

Super Bowl kick off is the ideal time to hit the grocery imo

"the attacks on trans lives and communities have been driven by a cadre of billionaire child rapists who bankroll creepy 'anti-woke' influencers to push bigotry with propaganda that covers up their wretched abuse." 🔥🔥🔥

I owe you an apology, Amber Glenn. I wasn't really familiar with your Magic: The Gathering Game.

For those wondering about where the org is at: Scouts let me change the name on my Eagle rank a few years ago. But it's a far cry from where things were when I was a scout

Lawsuit calls Camp Mystic’s culture a ‘death sentence': “These children were trained, incentivized, and conditioned to follow rules. When [they] ordered the youngest campers to remain inside their cabins, they knew that command would be obeyed.” My story for @kxan.com: www.kxan.com/independence...

A former pastor in Round Rock, Texas would download CSAM at his church, collecting 100k+ pictures and 5k+ videos. He pled guilty in 2023. Fourteen of the kids in these, all of whom are now adults, sued him on Tuesday for damages. Here's my story for @kxan.com: www.kxan.com/news/crime/1...

I don't know how to speak with others about about the psychic damage that this, and an unrelated CSAM arrest affidavit I read last month, have dealt me. Story coming on this lawsuit later.

i'm different. when i care about discourse and annoying people on twitter it's important and worthy of my time. when someone else does it they're a buffoon.

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

For my newsletter, I wrote about Dr. Ting's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the trans talk in the Epstein files, and how hard it is for trans people to talk about abuse. (Dr. Ting is not implicated in any malfeasance or criminal activity) www.burnsnotice.com/we-have-to-t...

One thing about the enormous pressure journalists are under to make videos and TikToks and do streams that kills me is that, like… some of us are meant to be read and not seen. Commenters get SO MAD about the way I look whenever my face breaches containment! Just let me write!

random Yale law professor: jeffrey you naughty dog.... will i be seeing you at this year's Skull Size Forum or will you be busy with your hobbies ;) JE: we must invent trans phobia,,

"“If you don’t include trans people, then we never get to seriously interrogate who gets protected in our society and who doesn’t," @trevellanderson.bsky.social, executive director of @transjournalists.org told @transitics.substack.com.

"At one point, D’Avignon ... asks whether she will be investigated as a faculty member or as a student. [UNT Compliance Officer] Simmons answers faculty, but the details on what actual penalties look like are slim."

It's not a crime to party with the crime party guy

This is the Occam's Razor take. They do it because they can. A world with a power structure that even slightly tilts away from them is simply intolerable to them.

I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly

Today I published my last story for The Texas Newsroom @KUTNews. We analyzed years of data from Texas prisons w/o AC and found — more often than not — temps would violate standards for county jails. Jails must keep temps between 65-85°. State prisons don’t. www.kut.org/crime-justic... #txlege

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

O cool The hypothesis that the elite were trying to segrigate trans people from society purely to keep us as sex slaves was real, but only for trans women since they see trans men as undesirable for sex and want them eliminated which is EXACTLY THE POLICIES AND RHETORIC WE'RE SEEING HAPPEN RIGHT NOW

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...

Huge crowd at anti-ICE rally in East Austin. This is a very random angle from the playground area -- but basically Pan Am is packed to the gills.

Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100

NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite -- Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge futurism.com/future-socie...

Frankly, he was never going to bring prices down and didn't ever have a plan to do so! 50-year mortgages and mass deportations were as far as he got with it

I'm looking to talk with Texans who lost a job or otherwise suffered a material loss after being arrested at a protest, esp. if your charges got dropped. Please DM me if this happened to you!

Today, I spoke with the Austin Film Critics Association president about Alamo Drafthouse's upcoming mobile ordering plans. He called it "a gross self-inflicted wound." We also talked about distracted audiences and why paying attention while watching matters. Read: www.kxan.com/news/local/a...

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com