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Texas Acted to Make Ketamine Therapy for Depression Safer. Some Say That Could Cost Lives. Many providers of the psychedelic mental-health treatment expect to close if a newly clarified state regulation is enforced.

Viola lost count of the friends he’s lost to suicide—many of them veterans. He credits ketamine with bringing him back from the edge. Not everybody gets to grow old, and we do," he said. “So that’s a blessing.” www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic... @texasmonthly.bsky.social

In the Permian Basin, This Ketamine Therapist Is a Lifesaver Tammy Vaught treats patients who have nowhere else to turn.

"A lot of men who come to me want to manage their depression with something more aggressive; they’re worried that antidepressants will lower their sex drive or prevent them from owning firearms. Others worry that ketamine therapy is against their religion." www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

How a Local New York Official Became Ken Paxton’s Most Wanted The Ulster County clerk has been pulled into a legal battle that will test whether Texas can enforce its abortion laws in other states.

Taylor Bruck thought his toughest job as Ulster County clerk would be fixing the DMV. Then Ken Paxton sued him. My latest for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

The IRS Says Churches Can Endorse Political Candidates. In Texas, Many Already Were. A decades-old rule prohibited politicking from the pulpit. Without it, some worry churches could become “linchpins to sway elections.”

The IRS says churches can endorse politicians. The result will be an intensification of American religious polarization — and some $8 billion in political donations to be routed through churches, which are already tax-exempt and have almost no financial disclosure requirements. My latest:

A West Texas Cloud Seeder Debunks Those Conspiracy Theories Why there’s no scientific basis for blaming the longtime drought-fighting practice for the tragic Central Texas flooding.

Cloud seeding isn’t new. It dates back to the Dust Bowl era, when Texans desperate for rain took to the skies with silver iodide.
Today, it’s still used to "nudge" clouds, but decades later, it’s caught in a storm of conspiracy theories. @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Riding Along with the Volunteers Rescuing Pets from the Guadalupe Flood Kerrville and Austin Pets Alive have rescued many dogs and cats whose owners and homes have been lost.

“'One of the hard parts is that almost every one of these animals that I’m working on, their people are all missing or deceased,' said O’Gan." For @texasmonthly.bsky.social I rode along with the volunteers rescuing pets from the Texas floods www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

An Iranian Father Spent 15 Years Trying to Immigrate the Legal Way. Then Trump’s Travel Ban Kicked In. A Dallas-area architect has waited nearly fifty years to be reunited with her brother, who remained in their home country while the rest of the family settled in Texas.

June 9 was supposed to be a turning point. After 15 years, Iranian-born Alireza Zolghadri had his U.S. visa interview, only to find it landed on day one of Trump's new travel ban. @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

My Father Has a Second Family in His Bedroom (Published 2019)

Happy Father's Day! Here's a story I wrote about my father's family of mannequins www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/s...

Tell Me, What Is it You Plan to Do with Your Technologically Elongated Life? Our medical system is broken. Could the answer lie in depriving our bodies of oxygen and exposure to subfreezing temperatures?

Trust in the medical establishment is at an all-time low. Alternative health movements (raw milk, MAHA) are culturally ascendant. I tried to make sense of it all at the place with all the answers: Dave Asprey's biohacking conference @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

A Texas Health Director’s View from Inside the “Very Preventable” Measles Crisis Katherine Wells’s view from inside the West Texas medical crisis.

I spoke with Lubbock's top health official about the challenges of controlling a measles outbreak amid government upheaval. TLDR, it ain't easy. @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Meet the Guy Behind the Company That Flew the “Save Tesla, Fire Musk” Sign Someone decided to taunt Elon Musk ahead of the release of Tesla’s Q1 earnings report. But Justin Jaye is just doing his job.

Yesterday a small plane circled over Austin with a message in tow: "Save Tesla, Fire Musk." We tracked down the guy who flew it @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Wanna see the human cost of DOGE’s reckless cuts of people who work for the federal govt? @sashavonawesome.bsky.social interviewed 2 of the 5 employees slashed from Big Bend Nat’l Park—people who made the park a safe place to visit. @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Texas Conservationists Have Gone to Extremes to Save the Desert Bighorn Sheep. Now They’re Facing Their Biggest Obstacle Yet. A heroic effort by scientists and hunters has revived the Texas bighorn sheep population, even as new threats loom.

Texas's effort to restore the bighorn sheep to its historic range had been hailed as one of the greatest success stories in North American wildlife conservation. That is until a deadly outbreak of disease showed up @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/travel/bigho...

Shiner Beer Says Its Bock Is the GOAT. So Why Does Its New Ad (and Iconic Logo) Feature a Sheep? To solve this malty mystery, we spoke to a German linguist and took a deep dive into beer history.

That's not a goat. That's a sheep. www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

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An Ode to High Beams: The Lights That Unite Us on the Road All over Texas, but especially in border towns, the practice of alerting drivers to upcoming speed traps has a special meaning.

I wrote about my passion for flashing people in the road. My latest for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

An Ode to High Beams: The Lights That Unite Us on the Road All over Texas, but especially in border towns, the practice of alerting drivers to upcoming speed traps has a special meaning.

Colleague @sashavonawesome.bsky.social is at it again, y'all! www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

i want a you've got mail sequel where tom hanks is having an affair with an amazon exec while fox books files for bankruptcy, meanwhile meg ryan reopens her mother's bookshop bc the indie bookstore is back babyyy