Recrudescence of the Kakistocrats

Why the City of Austin Wants Voters to Hike Their Property Taxes And what Prop Q could mean for the future of local governments in Texas

"Maybe you figured high taxes were a fair price to pay for the tremendous increase in the value of your home over the years. But in the past couple years home prices have actually plummeted, and yet your taxes are still increasing."

By the time we get to 2028 "Abolish ICE" is gonna be the moderate position. These thugs deserve to spend the rest of their lives under the fucking prison.

To the craven "comedians" who are STILL not speaking up: The manager at the Chicago Laugh Factory was arrested by ICE. They filed no charges, he's a US citizen, and his family doesn't know where he is.

They are coming for all of us. Grow a fucking spine and say something while you still can.

map of chicago population by race, showing extreme segregation with Black and Latino people largely in clusters on the South and West Sides and White people clustered along the central-northern lakefront, with only a few diverse/mixed-race areas in between

Closeup of neighborhoods on the West and Southwest side showing extremely stark racial clusters, some continuing for miles, of Black vs Latino vs Asian vs White vs small mixed-race housing areas

Most ppl know that Chicago (home of modern urban segregation) is a very segregated place but I don't think most outside Chicago (+many Chicagoans!) understand how the *distances* involved and *depth* of segregation mean most white ppl have ZERO visibility into many Black and Latine neighborhoods

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It's a crying shame that Kyrie tore his ACL right before the season started and Luka has gone MIA...

Reports just in that Kyrie tore his ACL in March, and Luka dropped 49 for the Lake Show tonight...

Failure to plan on the Mavs' part constitutes a fan sadness emergency on our part.

Donald J. Trump + @realDonald Trump Just in: Documents show conclusively that Christopher Wray, Deranged Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, and other crooked lowlifes from the failed Biden Administration, signed off on Operation Arctic Frost. They spied on Senators and Congressmen/women, and even taped their calls. They cheated and rigged the 2020 Presidential Election. These Radical Left Lunatics should be prosecuted for their illegal and highly unethical behavior! 2.73k ReTruths 7.67k Likes 10/24/25, 22:11

Just for the record, in 2020:
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA

There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.

He crazy.

He's making NBA players look like NBLers playing against George Mikan.

He's still healthy.

I can't "like" this on principle, but Nico should have been fired by 5pm February 2, so it's not like we Mavs fans don't know it.

Trading Luka for 2017 Anthony Davis MIGHT be somewhat defensible.

spurs - mavs score update:

i hope nico harrison gets audited by the irs and they seize everything and leave him just $238.71

s/draft perfectly/have the basketball gods smile on them.

It didn't take any skill to draft Duncan or Wemby. It took some foresight to draft David Robinson with his Navy commitment in front of him, but...

Wemby just authored one of the grossest minutes of basketball, on both ends, I have ever seen, and we're like half a game into the season.

Mike hasn’t clocked into work in 3-plus weeks, and hasn’t spent a full week at the office since July.

“Been a little busy”: with what? Keeping cucumbers over his eyes so he can pretend not to see anything?

Wemby is in Madden NFW mode right now.

Stop parsing this as if any of it isn't murderous horror. We have courts of law. And even if these cases were brought into those courts, our penalties for the trafficking of drugs are not summary execution.

Fuck what is "popular."

Mr. Fugelsang NAILS IT.

Old video today reminded me that NASA used to pronounce Gemini like Jiminy and I decided that’s how I’m going to refer to the Google AI product too.

OMG I am here for this. Derek Guy, Fashion Assassin.

I can tell you this as fact. No one who's regularly in Montrose was upset by the crosswalk. The only people in Houston who had a problem with it are only ever found in Montrose when they've ditched the wife.

A group of US Marine snipers posing with a Nazi SS flag and an American flag

Article text on the reaction to the photo: The inspector general found there was no intent on the part of the Marines to identify themselves with the SS. An investigation found the symbol was meant to identify the Marines as scout snipers, but that it was still unacceptable, the Associated Press reported. "Certainly, the use of the 'SS runes' is not acceptable and Scout Snipers have been addressed concerning this issue," Marine Corps spokesman Capt Gregory Wolf told the BBC. The Marine Corps said that it explained to those involved that the symbol could be misinterpreted, and that use or display of the flag in future could result in punishment.

I thought the photo on the left was fake. It’s real, and the military later claimed that the unit— of “scout snipers”— simply didn’t realize what they were associating with by posing with a Nazi SS flag.

Jawdropping.

@nytimes.com expands its antitruth campaign

Michael Rapaport tweets: "How’s a so-called “working class” mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani eating at OMEN SUSHI tonight — one of the priciest joints in NYC? 🍣💰 This clown lives in a rent-stabilized apartment in Queens but dines like a diplomat on a Qatar-funded per diem. Who’s paying for that toro, “Zoron the Moron”?" There are two photos of Zohran Mamdani and his wife eating at a restaurant.

Michael Rapaport eating outside of a restaurant. There are some white canopy umbrellas around him and a tree in the background. Also the ocean and some fence.

Two photos. The first shows the outside of Nobu in Malibu. The second shows the area where Michael sat. There is the same tree, ocean, white canopy umbrellas, and fence.

The menu for Nobu in Malibu shows prices around $60. The menu for Omen Sushi in NYC shows prices around $35.

i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

"AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat" is something from a Final Destination pre-production brainstorming session www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

When the shutdown ever ends they should release the backlogged economic data World Cup/Euros group stage style — an 8:30am, 11:30am, 2:30pm batch every day until we’re all caught up.

DHS is at it again. They’re mad that I correctly pointed out that their claim of 515,000 “illegal migrants deported” was wrong so called me a “chronically online troll,” which is particularly ironic coming from an account which actively trolls people all the time.

State Fair of Texas sees 400,000 drop in attendance compared to 2024, with cost cited as key factor by families The 2025 State Fair of Texas drew about 2 million visitors, roughly 400,000 fewer than last year, as many families cited affordability concerns.

Texans can no longer afford the state fair in Donald Trump's economy. Or they fear the secret police. Or both. Either way, this represents nearly a 20% DROP in attendance over last year.

Republicans have managed to kill a huge revenue source for the state and hundreds of businesses.