In days of yore when men were men there came upon the world stage a great adventurer whose courage and classical good looks became the essence of legend.
Austin, TX
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2017: Austin spent $35 million on homelessness. 2,036 homeless counted.
2025: $118 million. 3,238 homeless.
Spending more than tripled and homelessness went up 59%.
If you service the homeless lifestyle, you will get more of it.
The NGOs that run this system get paid by the problem of homelessness, so they have no reason to end it -- in fact, their only incentive is to make sure the problem grows.
The NGOs end up increasing the number of homeless people they manage, because that’s the only way to increase their revenue! Incentives drive outcomes.
“Homeless” is a propaganda word used to describe people on the street who are mentally ill or severely addicted to drugs. The word implies that this is someone who fell a little behind on their mortgage payment and they’re one job offer away from getting back on their feet, which is obviously false if you’ve ever tried talking to a “homeless” person in SF, LA, NY, Austin or anywhere else.
The honest reality is that we need to bring back asylums for extreme mental illness or drug addiction for those who are a serious danger to themselves or others.
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TannerStarStone 🇺🇸 retweeted
Talarico has missed 842 votes in the Texas House. He couldn't be bothered to show up to vote on Jocelyn's Law, the bail law named for Jocelyn Nungaray, 12, sexually assaulted and murdered in Houston, Texas by two Venezuelan nationals.
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TannerStarStone 🇺🇸 retweeted
We're actively running this experiment in L.A. and Seattle in case you want to follow along in real time.
Obama: "If you put women in charge of every government for two years... I have a strong belief that things would be better. I'm confident about that."
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I believe in some circles this is called “cooking the books”
NEW: The College Football Playoff committee will now consider a strength-of-conference metric in its selection process, @CFBHeather reports.
The new metric will help determine the strength of each conference based on the schedule strength of each team in its league.
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TannerStarStone 🇺🇸 retweeted
"This is the autopen... it's Biden." 🤣
President Trump shows off the legendary Presidential Walk of Fame to President Xi.
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TannerStarStone 🇺🇸 retweeted
15 highway signs installed today!
More tomorrow.
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TannerStarStone 🇺🇸 retweeted
This is why you vote Republican.
Not because they are so amazing they deserve your vote.
Because the other side is insane and they will torch this country and smile while doing it.
Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez while speaking in Spanish: “We are going to abolish the Department of Homeland Security so our people will no longer have to live in fear.”
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TannerStarStone 🇺🇸 retweeted
The problem with Meta releasing cool products is that they’re Meta. I never want to be in their ecosystem. Many people feel the same.
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Can we all, as a community, agree that whichever game - no matter what game - is the first to introduce ads during gameplay, we will all boycott so it NEVER happens again?
Microsoft has filed a patent for ads that could interrupt games after boss fights, cutscenes, quests and multiplayer rounds
Players would receive credits granting temporary game access, while watching an ad would award another credit to let them resume
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TannerStarStone 🇺🇸 retweeted
Other cities and states send unhoused people here because our services are easier to reach and more generous to use. The result is not only that homelessness is rising; it is being imported.
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On Thursday, the Austin City Council is expected to approve another $854,872 in city money for lawyers to fight deportations.
In immigration court, defendants have to pay for lawyers themselves. But Austin is just bankrolling anti-deportation lawyers through Austin taxpayers.
In March, a city advisory commission voted 8-0 to expand "deportation defense," and another asked the city to guarantee $750,000 a year.
Only one council member (Mackenzie Kelly) has ever voted against funding deportation defense, but she lost the vote 10-1.
Thursday's vote is buried in the consent agenda, which means it will likely get no debate or news coverage.
While everyone is focused on the ICE shooting in Austin, the City Council is quietly spending an insane amount of taxpayer money on lawyers to fight deportations.
It's tucked into Thursday's consent agenda so it can pass without a word of debate or controversy.
The money goes to two nonprofits, American Gateways and Catholic Charities, to provide what the City's own documents call "deportation defense."
It pays for:
1. Lawyers representing "detained and non-detained immigrants," including people ICE is actively trying to remove.
2. Coaching immigrants representing themselves in immigration court, helping them file motions and meet deadlines to stay in the country.
3. Legal work that helps immigrants obtain work permits.
4. Federal immigration filing fees.
Total bill to be approved: $854,872
City staff list one of the program's goals as helping clients "obtain and maintain public benefits."
Austin has already paid American Gateways $3.4 million since 2019, and after Thursday the four contracts will be authorized for up to $6.7 million.
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Obama, Yesterday: "I'm trying to think what would've happened if I had said, Fox News, you're out of here. It's unimaginable!"
Obama Admin 2009: Attempts to boot Fox News from pool coverage.
Obama: "If media (Fox News) is operating basically as a talk radio format, then that's one thing. And if it's operating as a news outlet, then that's another."
"David Axelrod argued Fox News is not a real news organization..."
Axelrod to Stephanopoulos: "And the bigger thing is that other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way."
"And today, the White House took its first concrete step in that direction...the administration specified that all members of the pool were welcome, except Fox News..."
He knows he will avoid any serious media pushback on flat-out revisionist history like this, because the Democrat allied media doesn't like to question or criticize Barack Obama.
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TannerStarStone 🇺🇸 retweeted
Were you this angry when a homeless person died in your city operated shelter this year?
Were you this angry when fentanyl kills people on 6th street?
Were you this angry when the streets of downtown are over run by zombie meth users?
Were you this angry when a homeless person murdered another homeless person last year in the 5th street alley?
Were you this angry when business owners are beat up by violent criminals that roam your city streets downtown?
Were you this angry when your downtown library is full of criminals assaulting the public?
Were you this angry when your own police officers are assaulted and injured regularly on 6th street?
Were you this angry when the innocent man was stabbed to death on capital metro bus last year?
Please…
Quit being performative @KirkPWatson
I am very angry and extremely disappointed that a person was shot on the streets of Austin by ICE.
While I’m angry and disappointed, I’m not surprised. This has happened in other cities. With the rogue nature of ICE and the chaos we’re seeing fomented by ICE, there’s no reason to be surprised.
Austinites have a right to know what happened and they have a right to feel safe in their community.
Though APD was not involved in the shooting, I believe that there needs to be an investigation that APD assures is clear-eyed, as complete as possible, and independent. I’ve discussed this with Chief Davis. Chief Davis deployed APD’s Special Investigation Unit and the Unit has been on scene this afternoon. This is the same unit that investigates Austin’s officer involved shootings.
Chief Davis has also been in contact with the Texas Rangers and has asked the Rangers to assist in an investigation. This participation with the Texas Rangers will be important due to the access the Texas Department of Public Safety had early in the incident.
As the city continues to receive more information, we will make sure to keep the community aware.
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TannerStarStone 🇺🇸 retweeted
Been watching some clips of Forrest Gump and it strikes me...you know the movie is from 30 years ago because back then a disabled white person could sit at a bus station and talk to strangers for 2 hours without being set on fire or decapitated by a migrant with 58 prior arrests
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The City of Austin is preparing to extend contracts with Catholic Charities of Central Texas - another $315,592 - totaling over $2.6M for legal and counseling services for immigrants from the Public Health budget.
See items 51 and 59 on the Sept 24th agenda austintexas.legistar.com/Mee…
Current contracts can be viewed on Austin Finance Online - Vendor CAT8320745 financeonline.austintexas.go…
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🚨BREAKING: Jensen Huang just EXPOSED Dario and Altman’s "Rogue AI" grift to avoid getting sued into oblivion under EXISTING law
“Don't let this doomsday narrative cause somebody to relieve them of the laws that currently exist.
Go and read between the lines. They're actually not asking for more laws; they're asking to be relieved of the laws we do have.”
ABSOLUTE TRUTH NUKE
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Can we PLEASE bring back cotton, colorful, comfortable clothes? Please. I’m so tired of the polyester, neutral, cropped shit. I want clothes that actually feel good and look like clothes. Bring back real clothes.
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Plastic recycling was an advertising campaign, and the man who ran the industry's own trade body has said so on the record.
1971. A television advert shows a Native American paddling through rubbish with one tear rolling down his cheek. People start pollution, it says, and people can stop it. It was paid for by Keep America Beautiful, a group founded by the companies making the cans and bottles. The actor was an Italian-American from Louisiana called Espera de Corti. Even the Indian was packaging.
1974. An industry insider tells his colleagues, in a speech, that there is serious doubt plastic recycling will ever pay for itself.
1988. The Society of the Plastics Industry launches the chasing arrows symbol and lobbies to have it stamped on the bottom of everything, including plastics nobody on Earth had any plan to recycle.
Larry Thomas was president of that society. In 2020 he explained the thinking to NPR: if the public believes recycling is working, the public stops worrying about plastic. Selling recycling sold plastic.
And it did. Production went from 2 million tonnes in 1950 to over 400 million. Of all the plastic ever made, 9% has been recycled. The rest is in the ground, the sea, the rain and, according to the surgeons, you.
You have rinsed yoghurt pots for 30 years. You sorted, you flattened, you put the right bin out on the right Thursday, in the dark, in your dressing gown. You were the only part of the system that ever functioned.
The little triangle of arrows on the bottom of the tub is the longest-running advert in history, and you have been washing it up.
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The difference between firecrackers and bombs
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Grok says it would save one Jew over a million others because it was taught Jewish lives matter more.
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