I'd want my $50k deposit back, plus interest. The opportunity cost going back to 2018 is quite the figure... These folks seemingly loaned one of the world's most valuable companies their capital at 0%. Wild. wsj.com/business/autos/they-…

Distance from Texas, measured in Texases

We've been working hard in the affordability department. More to come.

Stellar choice by @TXManufacturers. Can't think of a better person to next lead this critical statewide association. No doubt that @WroeJackson will continue to carry the torch as Tony Bennet has done. Cheers to a great retirement, Tony, look forward to seeing you around town.

The White House is "monitoring" reports of a suspected plague outbreak in the Russian city of Irkutsk after a worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died Friday -Axios Multiple hospitals in the area have been quarantined, with local censorship reported.

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Joined @JeremyWallace on the Texas Take to talk about the motor voter backlog. Bottom line: counties are processing the records now, and if you're registered by Oct. 5, you can vote. What gets measured gets fixed. We also got into the frothiest election climate I've seen in my lifetime. We'll see what happens in November! Jeremy did open by calling my Trump impression "really bad." Many people are saying it's the best impression ever. Tremendous, really. Thanks! -Tio Pablo youtube.com/watch?v=jdqhJ7oS…

DPS, FBI & ATF: Thank you for doing an incredible job stopping this threat; and, making sure the bad guy was re-arrested after he was almost immediately released. . . Most of which occurred while the Gov.’t Oversight Cmte. was asking very probative questions about certain DA’s soft on crime policies that put the public in danger.

Zilker Park. Site of ACL Fest and so many other events. Might be nice to keep our visitors safe, if not our residents. Just a thought.

Lubbock is the center of the South Plains. The Hub City. It is not the Permian Basin.

I love to tell my students that trade policy is secretly connected to everything. This is such a great example. Here you have a person with a bizarre, toxic resentment of professional young women and he has convinced himself that economic autarky will 'put these women in their place' even though 1) that's weird as hell, 2) **that's not how ANY of this works and, 3) these women are in Australia.

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The swag here is off the charts 😎🏌️

🚨 WE DIDN'T JUST PASS ONE HOUSING BILL LAST SESSION ON AFFORDABILITY. THE SENATE PASSED FOURTEEN. And this was 2025, ahead of the national affordability crisis of 2026! No other state passed the same amount of affordability legislation as Texas, and we did it BEFORE the crisis! This includes Vice Chair Senator @BryanHughesTX’s SB 840, and my own SB 2477, which cuts municipal red tape for converting commercial buildings to residential multifamily by right — no traffic studies, no extra parking mandates, no design requirements that jack up construction costs. Britawallace with @TXReasSolutions said that Senate Bill 840 has already added 9,200 housing units, and Trey Lary said that another one of my bills, 88R SB 2038, in the near term will 10X stronger. A major issue surfaced, and every attorney on OUR dais HEARD it: SOME CITIES ARE NOT FULLY COMPLYING WITH THE LAW. So @SenRoyceWest, @PhilKingTX, and Senator Hughes volunteered on the dais to ask Grand Prairie, Frisco, and Arlington what exactly their issue is with compliance. So I drafted them as Chair and Co-Chairs of the work group. TEXAS PASSED these laws. Now the cities can COMPLY, or come explain themselves before the committee. I just want to commend a great group of Senators, as appointed by Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who have tremendous knowledge of Local Government issues in #TxLege. @TXAptAssoc @TPPF @EveryTxn

Thousands of new homes are being added to the market as a result of one of my housing reform bills (SB 840). Today in Local Gov Committee we’re examining the implementation of this bill, along with others, to make sure government gets out of the way so more people can live the American dream of home ownership.

💬 @blockchain_dad, host of @LoneStartupATX, and I discussed why we at @phantom_neuro focus on muscle electrical activity for reliable, natural human-machine interaction—and where it could lead. 👉 Listen here: bit.ly/49jiq9s

🚨 CAUGHT ON CAMERA! Rep. @EllenTroxclair just proved that if you come to a #txlege hearing to testify, don't try and turn it into a debate of "What is IS!" Sadly, Barbers Hill ISD Superintendent Greg Poole did exactly that when asked if a family member was working for a closely held ISD Foundation investing school monies. His deceptive Clinton-esque wordplay in the Texas House Government Oversight Committee was unacceptable! Rep. Troxclair questioned Poole repeatedly on whether his daughter was working for the firm managing the Barbers Hill Education Foundation's money, and his answer went from "No ma'am" until he clarified she had been an employee, as opposed to if she had worked there previously. REALLY! 👀SEE for yourself in this clip, and when Rep. Troxclair brings up his daughter's position at the foundation he continued arguing verb tenses and claiming that he "couldn't remember." UGH... 🔍Here are the FACTS: $97.1 million redirected from BHISD taxpayer monies to that foundation since 2012. Barely $6.5 million ever came back apparently. The fund now sits on roughly $250 MILLION... Texans demand transparency, not nepotism, and NO Use of Semantics dodging oversight questions of what's going on with 100's of millions of dollars of ISD public funds! The members of this committee, appointed by @Burrows4TX, are: @cvasut, Chair; @RepWalle, Vice Chair; @BrooksLandgraf @moralesfortexas; Ellen Troxclair, @LouderbackAj @Christian4Texas @ShelbySlawson @CarlTepper @RepRaymondTX @realmitchlittle @ErinForYall; Richard Hayes @hollyshansen @tccri @comptroller

Bob Parsons with another winner.

Our drivers play nice with everyone. ⚡ #SheGolfs

Once again disappointed in @statesman for blatantly getting the homestead impact math wrong in this tax rate election piece. It's just multiplication, division, and subtraction y'all. No algebra required here. statesman.com/news/education…