If by some calamity this woman ends up in Congress, House Democrats should immediately expel her

An under-examined trend is underway in which the American press is finally, albeit exceptionally belatedly, covering some of the most basic facts about Israel's self-radicalizing political culture.

Your city should build housing for trans refugees. Now, not decades from now. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Every single blue city that's not building more housing is making it harder for queer people to flee hostile states. Quite frankly, I feel like that simple reality should take far more space in progressive/left housing discourse than it currently does.

sorry to keep harping this but seriously i did not expect this story to blow up the way it did. whenever you read or share one of my queer news stories it tells my editors that news about lgbt texans matters, so genuinely really thank you.

The Barstow International Gateway project is a prime opportunity to electrify SoCal freight and build the nation's first all-electric railyard. But instead, BNSF is doubling down on dirty diesel, increasing pollution throughout the region. Speak up for electric rail this Saturday at 1 in Barstow!

would anyone be interested in either something written or podcast about the great transgender migration that's going on right now that no one is really talking about. i feel like no one outside of the trans community knows about this at all

Two of these things aren't like the other two things

it is still controversial to other lawyers to say this but lawyers and the courts have far too much power over American society, and the legislatures and the people far too little

it is democratically rotten for a court to be overturning a direct public referendum on a technicality

Some more film photos! Got my latest scans back from the lab today Yashica Mat-124 / Ilford HP4 Plus 125.

Watch Austin — not because of all the splashy, big stuff we’ve done in recent years. Watch Austin because the advocacy is now shifting to handle the fixes, the tweaks, the technical bits. This is the really meaningful stuff that good legislative bodies take seriously. Watch Austin.

Scrolling through the letters of support in the revised Union Pacific/Norfolk Southern merger filing. Lots of #txlege Republicans as expected, but also three Dems: • Eddie Morales (HD74) • Josey Garcia (HD124) • Barbara Gervin-Hawkins (HD120)

It's such a breath of fresh air to see @aoc.bsky.social stand against gutting our tax base.

We need to re-legalize the very cheap, bare bones housing that keeps people off the street. More broadly, we need policymakers to be ok with letting people build types of housing that they would not particularly want to live in.

Let it be known that the students at West Texas A&M who sued the TAMU system to challenge a ban on drag are braver than every tenured professor in a blue state tweeting that it’s unethical to work at a university in the second most populous US state. www.texastribune.org/2026/01/20/w...

I’m ok. What happened is nothing like what happens to journalists in Ukraine, Russia, Gaza, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia

Cashing my Polymarket bet that insiders would be arrested for Polymarket bets about Polymarket bets.

descend upon them: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings... you are a gremlin in the comments now go be a paladin in the public comments

came upon the derailment cleanup while running some errands this afternoon downtown, totally crazy to see

I do try to let drivers know it's a bad idea to park in the bike lane. With a polite, but pretty firm, "It's not a great idea to park there, it's really dangerous for me." Not once have I gotten a "Oh, I'm sorry, I'll move." Always some sort of hostile growl.

got my first scans back!

ok, so, instead of doing the responsible thing and getting ready to move, i've decided to check something off of my bucket list: recreate The Photo

I'm BEGGING for a conversation with any folks who can think of how we get the Smithsonian to open a national transport museum with cool trains, buses, and shit to actually teach and inspire the next generation of transit engineers and planners 😫

I've been harping on this, but the Texas grid continues to have days where renewables make up the overwhelming majority of the fuel mix. This is the famously deregulated Texas grid, with some of the cheapest natural gas in the country, with zero state subsidies for renewables.

Myself and a few others are organizing a potluck on Austin's new Wishbone Bridge on Saturday 4/25. Join us! Info & RSVP: partiful.com/e/PS0CtATFC0...

It turns out there is a way JD Vance can singlehandedly advance peace in the Middle East: Start campaigning for Netanyahu.

I think a lot of people here are way underestimating how difficult it is to break a sexual abuse story *even when everybody kind of knows it* unless you can get victims on record. it is very, very hard.

A modern-day warrior Mean, mean stride Today's Tom Steyer Mean, mean pride

Some MUNI foaming from this week

The 3 US transit agencies with the MOST ridership growth are also the 3 agencies facing the BIGGEST service cuts due to a lack of state funding. Public transit is a great investment. Sustainable funding = better service for a growing number of riders!

The self-censoring nature of many of the most important facts about Trump's presidencies is a load-bearing necessity for his career. The median voter cannot and will not believe that he is as bad as he actually is. They invent a less bad version of him that they can then be persuaded to support.

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

Hard to fathom, but after biking around San Francisco this afternoon... I think Austin is beating SF on bike lane quality and coverage by a wide margin.

riding in the vestibule on a nice day is one of life's great joys

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Fuel prices this morning in Eagle Lake, TX, a little over an hour west of downtown Houston. Like most of southeast Texas, it lies well within one driver shift from the refineries (i.e. prices are usually dirt cheap) That diesel price in particular is 👀🚨

New video. It’s like when I upload a YouTube short, except this one’s long. I think you’ll be pretty shocked at just how absurd this truly law is 👀

asking @judahfromtexas.bsky.social what all the wild amt of square steel tubing being shipped out of Burnet on bulkhead flats is for and getting "you don't want to know" "...it's for the border wall"

These folks hitched their horse to one of the 50 useless white guy wagons who did jack shit then died instead of being brave for ten seconds, but forget the name and see they’re trying. I know people give them shit because the name sucks, but you could argue they’ve helped more than Mueller himself.

< @donoteat.bsky.social voice> it's not supposed to look like that

When you're at the Leander Red Line station, the TVMs don't work and the payment app is confusing so you @judahfromtexas.bsky.social

listen man when the nerds tried to talk about this stuff you said you want to shove our heads down the toilet because something something austerity

American firefighters will go to the mat to oppose a four-story, eight-unit apartment building with one stair because the sprinklers could fail, and then tell you with a straight face that this is safer if that happens

Today Council approved Item 40, which I brought forward to expand “missing middle” housing in Austin. This builds on Site Plan Lite and begins the process of updating our land development code to allow for a broader mix of housing options across the city.

BIG urbanist wins !!! Today, Austin City Council voted for resolutions to: - Unbundle the cost of parking from rent - Explore parking maximums near transit - Create new "missing middle" zoning districts to allow more density in neighborhoods - Legalize small-scale neighborhood commercial uses

Look at all of these shadows ruining downtown! Think of all the surface parking lots we could’ve put here!

This is my grandfather at work back in the 80s. He was a test pilot at Grumman starting from the LEM and continuing all the way up until the late 90s. You may know him from his work as the Apollo suit test dummy, or helping launch the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island.