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They're likely also taking clicks away from the Austin Chronicle. I wrote for the AusChron for years way back when.

Times are tough for independent media. They deserve all of the clicks they can get, so here's a link. Please visit.

www.austinchronicle.com

If they emerge. I skeptical that they'll ever see the light of day.

Any day now Trump's MAGA DOJ will announce they can't be released, because of ongoing investigations. Totally bogus investigations of the folks on Trump's enemy list.

It's a long list. They'll make it last another 3 years easy.

This is Texas' No. 1 city to run your business, new report shows It's being called "a coworking powerhouse in the South."

The San Antonio News has been aggressively going after the Austin American-Statesman with stories like this with click-bait headlines. And they're winning.

Every day they run stories like this. And with no paywall, you know they're taking clicks from the AAS.

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"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst."

Everything this administration tells us is a lie.

This isn't blasphemy. It's too fucking stupid to be blasphemy.

Files or no, he's done so much illegal shit it's a certainty he'll try to pardon himself. And his bought-and-paid-for Supreme Court will back him up.

He'll also issue blanket pardons for all of the criminals in his criminal administration.

The only thing that can stop this is Trump dying.🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

The files will never be released. That's where the political value lies, not in demanding the release.

That can be ignored, as it's being ignored right now. Directly and continually saying *he* will never release the files is a direct challenge to Trump that can't be ignored, especially by Trump.

Supreme Court allows Texas to use Trump-backed congressional map in midterms | CNN Politics The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Texas to use a congressional map that will boost President Donald Trump’s effort to keep Republicans in control of Congress, blocking a lower court decision that ...

Who could have possibly predicted!?

It was an unsigned ruling, which is also totally a surprise.

To no one.

Unsigned as it may be, the vote was obviously 6 to 3.

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Watching BBC America news. Half the ads are tourism ads for Dubai and Turkey. Pretty damn good ads, too.

One thing they have in common is the ads are aimed at the uber rich. Prices at Burj Khalifa hotels start at $800/night. Suites run a cool 5 grand.

I'd definitely go, if I had a few billion bux.

Told one of my riders about the time I played golf with Willie Nelson and Alice Cooper. She was fairly new to Austin, and couldn't get enough of it.

A story I can tell in 5 minutes lasted the entire 30 minute trip.

Yeah, it was an odd 3-some, but in the ATX of yore, this kind of thing wasn't rare.

I had a Sears all-in-one stereo that had an 8-track recorder. It was one of the only 8-track recorders on the market. Sears because my dad worked at Allstate.

I'd make mix tapes and give them to friends. They ended up getting passed around, which I loved, because 8-track was the shit when I was 13.

My fave of the Sean Connery Bond films.

Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed Federal officials failed to secure the new indictment against James, whom Trump has targeted, after a judge said the previous one was secured by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor.

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Tesla is the new tulips.

The attack of the pornbots!

Over the past week or so I've been followed by more pornbots that I ever saw on that other app.

Any pornbot follow gets an instant block, period. Y'all can fuck right the fuck off.

Got to work with Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Bob Weir, War, and a lots of other really cool artists.

The late 70s was a great time to line in LA. We were in the right place at the right time. Lots of Hollywood parties, which were really, um, interesting at the time.

I worked for a company that invented the first in-ear wireless monitors. We provided the monitor for Willie at the first Blues Brothers concert. Century City.

Got to meet Belushi and Akroyd, as well as Buck Henry. Lots of fun getting to hang with those guys.

One Battle was a very good film, but I gotta go with Sinners.

Could also be the Russian troll farm, paid to sow outrage while sitting should to shoulder in a dank basement of the Internet Research Agency is St. Petersburg that reeks of stale cigarettes, sweat, and borscht have ramped up.

The combination of failed peace talks and US war crimes is irresistible.

You'd think. But it seems pretty difficult for far too many here.

I get it. We think of this as our platform. We forget that it's actually not.

You ever heard that saying about FACTS?

Anyone defending the CFPB, or any other Musk/Trump admin agency, and attacking those who know better, is a goddam fool.

Are you a goddam fool?

Hint: That's rhetorical. We already know the answer.

Now, piss off, fool.

The Russian Troll Farm is now all over BlueSky. Those fucks sitting shoulder-to-shoulder in a basement at the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, which reeks of stale cigarettes, sweat, and borscht, have been busy.

Sadly, too many here are taking them at face value. Don't. Just don't

Don't forget Duck Dunn, the anchor of the Stax sound.

We've lost the Colonel and Duck, but Booker T is still with us.

I Met Steve and Duck when they were rehearsing for the 1st Blues Brother concert. Met Booker T at SXSW some years later.

I'd bronze my hand that shook theirs if I could.

Corvette Summer is currently running on TCM, starring a guy close to all of our hearts, @markhamillofficial.bsky.social.

Little bit of trivia: An accident during filming left Mark with a few scars. This added a scene to Empire Strikes Back, the attack of the Wampa, to explain the scars on his face.

YouTube video by 60s70sVintageRock Booker T. & The MG's - Time Is Tight (Live, 1970)

RIP Steve Cropper 🎸

Again, it's all about jurisdiction. I agree 100% with the sentiment. Fuck all of those fascist fucks. But it's not about feelings.

Duck Dunn and Steve Cropper were the heartbeat of the Stax sound.

Booker T is still with us, but retired from performing and recording.

We had our chance in 2016, and again in 2024, but too many of our supposed allies couldn't bring themselves to vote for the highly qualified women.

We fucked up, and only now do we begin to see how profoundly fucked our fuck up has left this nation.

The problem you're glossing over is jurisdiction. When feds claim federal jurisdiction, for for example on immigration, there is little local authorities can do.

Federal jurisdiction has been weaponized by this criminal administration, and the answer has to be on the federal level.

This is only the beginning. He'll pardon all of the criminals in his criminal administration before he's done.

Unless he dies first. I have never said anything like this in my entire life, but I hope the nasty fascist prick falls over dead before he can do more harm.