Caleb Pritchardo

Texas Dems to flee state amid national redistricting battle They will head to Illinois, where Gov. JB Pritzker has expressed sympathy for their plight.

BIG NEWS: Texas Dems plan to flee to Chicago today in order to disrupt redistricting attempts, according to Politico.

Seven. Whatever.

Eight long years of being unable to demonstrate how nine holes of pitch n' putt can fit comfortably inside the footprint of one par-4 at Hancock.

Holy shit, Mapfrappe is back.

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Just 36 years from initial proposal to shovels in the dirt. We're cookin', baby.

Back when being young, unapologetically progressive, and willing to to call out Infowars-pilled NIMBYs cost him the Statesman's endorsement.

Elon Musk with a straight face: Tesla Robotaxi will cover half of US population by end of the year Elon Musk claims that Tesla Robotaxi will cover half of the US population by the end of the year and...

Three beers to @fredlambert.bsky.social for properly contextualizing Elon's latest misdirection.

Grifter says he's gonna go full Maximum Overdrive in more than 45 *metros* in roughly 365 days. He's currently operating with safety drivers in, generously, 1.5 ZIP codes.

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RIP

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Grok coming to Tesla vehicles 'next week at the latest,' Musk says Elon Musk announces that Grok, an AI chatbot, is coming to Tesla vehicles "next week at the latest."

Excited to see how MechaHitler negotiates the Trolley Problem.

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3 percent of your fleet dead-heading at one stoplight is gonna look a lot different when you scale up to, say, 10,000 vehicles.

All three are suburbs of Dallas.

Crazy how three of the 10 largest cities in Texas are suburbs.

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Mad lib from hell.

It's one of those things like "the velvet underground only sold 6,000 records but everyone who bought it started their own band" but for everyone who answered "yes" to this being given a national newspaper column

My new whip.

Ah, yes. That one singular time in all of history when that happened.

Incredible piece of Austin lore.

Who would ever want to know more about this

Playing with fire by not putting this nb4 in the first post, Bill.

Three years ago, CapMetro said it would be open two years ago.

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Oh, hey, the fencing that’s been blocking the ped/train crossing at 4th and Sabine *for six entire years* has finally come down.

250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

This is upsetting.

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Thanks to NPR for explaining that due to the ancient, mysterious culture of Persia, Iranians "don't like to be attacked" npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

Bet all those people who said Suetonius was making shit up "because emperors didn't really act that way" are feeling pretty fucking stupid tonight

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Speaking of boneheaded predictions...

Uh oh, spaghettios!