Austin City Council to weigh in on new ordinance to tackle graffiti cleanup #KXAN #Austin

Joining the City of Austin Pedestrian Advisory Council (PAC) or the Bicycle Advisory Council (BAC) is a great way to help guide active transportation policy. Applications are open for the 2025-26 term through Sunday, 9/14: PAC Application: bit.ly/PACAPP2025 BAC Application: bit.ly/BACAPP2025

Ah yes the heart of tech intellectualism, rural texas

Do you know how many acres Cards Against Humanity purchased in Cameron County TX? The $15M lawsuit against SpaceX describes a “plot” of land costing $2,250,000. It’s egregious for SpaceX to trespass and dump massive amounts of gravel on their land, on purpose. Shows abusive character of Elon Musk.

Did you know the heart of #ElonMusk’s business empire is in rural Texas? We used records to map how much land he and his lieutenants have in Bastrop County. It’s more than 600 acres. Have a tip about Musk? Email me! www.kut.org/austin/2025-... #musk #spacex #boring #xcorp #txlege #texas

NEW from me: Austin is set to change how it regulates short-term rentals (aka Airbnbs), after court cases have gutted the city's rules. The city's now focused on getting more owners licensed and less on limiting the number of these controversial rentals: www.kut.org/housing/2025... :

Last year Austin's water utility lost 9.3 billion gallons of water because of a leaky distribution system. That's enough to fill Lady Bird Lake about four times over and 31 percent rise from the previous year. Why the big jump? Some of it might be improved monitoring. www.kut.org/energy-envir...

Keep it weird, Austin!

rich people after moving to Austin:

PBS gave me Monty Python, Siskel and Ebert, Nicholas Nickleby, and Austin City Limits No biggie just some shows that introduced me to nearly everything that would matter to me in life. Good job everyone and I hope you enjoy fucking yourselves! 👍

Join transit fans and advocates to hear from CapMetro about Transit Plan 2035! Also, since AURA board elections are ongoing, we're encouraging AURA board candidates to come and give a short candidate pitch. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/aura-...

Austin City Council votes 10-1 to legalize 5-story single-stair apartments, making Austin the largest US city outside of NYC to legalize single-stair! 🎉🎉🎉 Many thanks to all the supporters and to CM Chito Vela for leading this exciting reform! We did it y'all! 🙌

Austin DSA congratulates Zohran Mamdani and @socialists.nyc for their monumental win in the NYC mayoral primary election. This victory shows that working-class politics can triumph over establishment politics for city leadership. Let’s keep up the momentum, join DSA: dsausa.org/join

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Casar began as a labor and immigrant rights organizer in Texas.
At 25, he was elected to Austin City Council.
By 32, he was in Congress.
Now he leads one of the most populous Democratic caucuses in the House, with over 100 members.
His roots aren’t in D.C., they’re in the streets.

Same story played out in Austin. Older homeowners sued the city against a rezoning plan. They “won” but since then almost the entire city council has turned YIMBY and they’ve passed tons of good stuff.

Four more WaPo departures: Hank Stuever, Ann Hornaday, Craig Timberg, Joel Achenbach. Source says it feels like the Hunger Games: “My inbox has literally dozens of announcements of departures or newsroom wide goodbye notes.” —via @benmullin.bsky.social on X

Before the Austin City Council passed a resolution offered by Mayor Pro Tem Fuentes to urge FAA to provide more air traffic controllers for our airport, I spoke about efforts to keep our skies safe. With less than half of the recommended certified controllers at our tower, we need immediate action.

As Texans recover from the recent floods, we have compiled a list of resources for affected counties, available to both union members and the general public.

64.5% of $1.5B general fund is police (36.7%), fire (17.8%), & EMS (10%). Predominately paid for by property taxes, but also sales taxes, utility transfers from Austin Energy, & miscellaneous revenue. Remainder of total budget of $6.3B is $4.8B paid for by fees, etc., & is self-supporting. /2

Public Safety Commission meets 4pm 8/4 Boards & Commission Room at city hall or ATXN live. Agenda item 3: Discussion of the City of Austin Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Budget and impact on public safety departments. /1

Austin finally has a real, big-city style arts office at City Hall - just in time for an apocalyptic age for artists and musicians. A deep dive into ACME (yes, that's what it's called). www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2025-04...

This! Austin passed major housing reforms because we elected a #atxcouncil that wanted to do the hard work. If you don’t have the right people at city hall, your city can’t change.

the electorate has basically always wanted racist peronism, that hasn’t changed. in 2024 they also wanted somebody who was not joe biden

This would mean, in essence, that consumers would be getting paid by manufacturers or retailers to receive medications—in fact, getting paid up to 11, 12, 13, or 14 times what the consumers were previously paying to the sellers for prescriptions. What an utter moron Donald Trump is.

I sincerely hope that a half dozen billionaires send PBS and NPR about $100 million a piece.

lol @ the number of times people have proposed that white liberals are being manipulated by Fox News into being racist Y’all the thing only works on you if there’s racism to work with

I HAVE NO SIDEWALK AND I MUST WALK

Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.

People who think it’s mysterious how Epstein could be so connected almost certainly weren’t raised on the East Coast, where everyone is one or at most two degrees of separation removed from absolutely everyone else.

Innumerate

And from the administration that promised lower costs… a new tax hike on countless everyday essentials. This was completely avoidable. We never needed these tariffs. And now you’re footing the bill.

Having someone without a medical degree run the CDC is really fucking stupid

are we going to talk about how trump's spending bill adds eleventy trillion to the debt and the BOND MARKET didn't care

MAGA hypocrisy, as always.

This sold for 425 ETH. $1.59M

You should read the Marie Claire article from Justine, his first wife. www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a53...

The New York Times Briefly Published Elon Musk’s Home Address theintercept.com/2025/05/06/n... archive.today/3bohl 109 Stratford Reserve Pl West Lake Hills, TX archive.today/j0wpH maps.app.goo.gl/PuUEjMDTjmJ3...

109 Stratford Reserve Place, West Lake Hills, Texas 78746.

(Musk can thank his interest in carrying out Jeffrey Epstein's aborted eugenics program for his home address becoming public.)

It's not like Musk's home address, 109 Stratford Reserve Pl, West Lake Hills, TX 78746, is a secret anymore—despite the attempt to hide it through LLC ownership of the house. In fact, there should be (obviously peaceful) protests there.

Elon Musk has a house at 109 Stratford Reserve Pl, West Lake Hills, TX 78746 If anyone would like to send him some glitter, I'm sure he'd love it.

Elon lives here, if anyone would like a word. 109 Stratford Reserve Pl West Lake Hills, Texas

lmfao

#TeslaTakedown #Austin 6/21/2025 - Another week in South Austin. At the end, we sent birthday cards to Elon at his Austin "residence," where traffic and masses of Teslas parking has ruined a quiet street. 109 Stratford Reserve Place, Austin 78746, if you are feeling the love. @teslatakedown.com

Doctors have debated for decades about whether chronic Lyme disease is real, what causes it and how to treat it. Now, it's becoming more mainstream in medicine, after Covid-19 showcased how an infection can leave people with lingering symptoms. 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/46oi1kv

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