The bank is the capitalist in this scenario, not you. It gets to keep your money for three days and create friction to you getting it sooner.

Texas oil regulator Wayne Christian backs oil-backed crypto coin Government watchdogs raised conflict-of-interests concerns, but Christian said his involvement in the venture is “separate” from his elected position on the Railroad Commission.

Texas Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian is peddling a new crypto token tied to the value of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude oil, raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest given his position as an official to the state agency that oversees Texas' oil and gas industry.

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

So, a bribe

look it’s me, and of course I’m talking shit about media executives

It's infrastructure week again?

Trump files emergency appeal to keep building White House ballroom “Time is of the essence!” Justice Department lawyers wrote, saying a ruling to pause construction puts the president at risk.

Incredible sentence: “The tone of the administration’s 27-page filing — particularly its first five pages — departs from the usual style for federal appellate briefs, which typically focus on legal arguments.”

"Almost always" is doing a lot of work here.

Giving big "60% of the time it works every time" vibes.

Abortion "abolitionists" want everyone who has an abortion to be prosecuted for murder.

There was a time when mainline "pro-life" groups wouldn't even ACKNOWLEDGE these folks because they at least knew how awful it looks to the public. Now it's a ~ big tent ~.

UT’s First (and Only) March Madness Title Didn’t Come Easily The Longhorn women are chasing a feat first accomplished forty years ago.

Want to read about the 1st UT women's ball team to make it to the Final Four?

I wrote all about the incredible 1986 Texas team. They went 34-0 and won the whole thing, still the only UT bball team to do so.

Can this 2026 team be the second, 40 years later? www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

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Is there a worse hell than watching your team but being forced to listen to the opponent's broadcast?

(This skeet brought to you by the clown show happening in the Rangers booth)

y'all, when you go to your protest today, take photos, post one or a few across your social media platforms, and create a descriptive norm of protest participation! It works! #science

A Texas pregnancy center told her everything was fine. Three days later, she was in the ER A crisis pregnancy center told a Texas woman that her pregnancy was intrauterine. Three days later, she had emergency surgery for an ectopic, or out-of-uterus, ...

After her ectopic pregnancy was missed, she wants to know if anything will be done about it.

I was unable to even accurately describe the 'services' that are provided, “What she really needed was to get health care and instead what she got was... whatever this was at the CPC.”

a cat is laying on a bed with a sign that says soon . ALT: a cat is laying on a bed with a sign that says soon .

WHAT'S UP PARTY PEOPLE

R U READY 2

DO

SXSW

LIKE A LOCAL????

Big 'Mission Accomplished' vibes with that banner

Y'all ... some sad news today. The great Augie Meyers --- longtime compadre of Doug Sahm and a member of the great Texas Tornadoes --- has died. Here's a photo of Augie I took in 2018. I spoke with him at length afterward and he was really just a nice, genuine, sweetheart of a man. RIP Augie!!

Medical experts say that if you contract pneumonia you should visit a doctor. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says you should just bathe in raw sewage instead. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

The top half is an image of students walking towards a school building in front of a yellow school bus. Below the image is the headline "breaking news" in all caps on a red background. Below the headline is the text: "new voucher application data highlights strong support for Texas public schools." At the bottom is the TXCVT logo.

Breaking: 76% of TX voucher applications come from families whose children are not currently enrolled in public schools.

Meanwhile, <1% of TX public and charter school families have applied for vouchers.

Read our full press release: osod.org/early-vouche...

#txed #txlege

Or more broadly stated, "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

"An Originalist Critique of Fetal Personhood" w Chip Carter is officially online (& forthcoming in U. Penn. L. Rev.)! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... We scour 19th cen. dictionaries & the context in which the 14A was ratified to discover the original public & legal meaning of "person" in 1868.

This is not a thing that happens in large numbers, particularly when there is a high profile contested primary.

And what of 'hard earned', was the pun only mildly intended?

Texas’s Best New Restaurants in 2026 These ten spots have one thing in common: audacity.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN may i present the best new restaurants in texas

Kgan dissent Substantive due process has not been of late in the good graces of this Court—and especially of the Members of today’s majority. The Due Process Clause, needless to say, does not expressly grant parental rights of any kind. The relevant text bars a State only from depriving a person of “liberty” “without due process of law.” Members of the majority often have expressed skepticism—sometimes outright hostility—to understanding the “capacious” term “liberty” to enshrine specific rights. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization...(2022). Substantive due process, one has stated, is a “particularly dangerous” “legal fiction” because it “invites judges” to “roa[m] at large in the constitutional field guided only by their personal views.” McDonald v. Chicago...(2010) (THOMAS , J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment); Obergefell v. Hodges, ...(2015) (THOMAS , J., dissenting). [see footnote 2] Another has pointed to the “judicial misuse of the so-called ‘substantive component’ of due process to dictate policy on matters that belonged to the people to decide.” Sessions v. Dimaya, ...(2018) (GORSUCH , J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment). And yet a third, when defending the Court’s elimination of a 50-year-old right grounded in substantive due process, explained that the “Constitution does not grant the nine unelected Members of this Court the unilateral authority to rewrite the Constitution.” Dobbs, 597 U. S., at 340 (KAVANAUGH , J., concur- ring). There are many such statements to choose from in this Court’s recent substantive due process caselaw. Especially given the Court’s last venture into the field, today’s.. —————— Footnote 2 For that reason, JUSTICE THOMAS has called for overruling “all” of this Court’s “substantive due process precedents.” Dobbs...(concurring opinion). That invitation presumably extends to the precedents supporting both the District Court’s decision and today’s per curiam.

Elena Kagan from the top rope: "The Due Process Clause, needless to say, does not expressly grant parental rights of any kind..."
Then she throws the words of Thomas and Kavanaugh from Dobbs, and Gorsuch from another case, back in their faces www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I feel quite confident that there are positions to the "left" of the democratic party that are in fact very popular which he would not consider mainstream. Mainstream is both a dog whistle and a stand in for his own personal policy preferences.

Christian Right tips to fight transgender rights: separate the T from the LGB Last week, from Thursday, October 13 through Saturday, October 15 the anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council put on its annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC., A prime networking event fo...

Meanwhile what drives me absolutely fucking insane is that I have been described as a "conspiracy theorist" for stating that the entire anti-trans moral panic was a psyop, when they had a public summit in which the principal actors explicitly said "we're going to start an anti-trans moral panic."

How Texas Turned a Grid Failure into a Public Bailout Texans continue to bear the costs of 2021 winter storm blackouts

While "natural gas sellers and pipeline companies made roughly $11 billion" during Winter Storm Uri in 2021, consumers were left to foot the bill "through non-bypassable bill charges for 20 to 30 years." #txlege

How Texas Turned a Grid Failure into a Public Bailout
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Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate | Houston Public Media Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.

Horrific injustice upon horrific injustice compounds in Texas. These young girls — some as young as 13 — deserve freedom, access to care, and control over their own bodies. Half of these CHILDREN are pregnant as a result of SA. Again, abortion bans are a weapon for authoritarian rule.