anna walsh
@annamccachren.bsky.social
director of editorial operations at Texas Monthly // often found walking the streets of Austin, looking for a cat to pet
It’s hard to judge such things but the firing of the Stars and Stripes EIC is a huge scandal, or should be.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d agoLast month, the Pentagon fired the publisher and editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes. Two opposite headlines this morning show the results were swift.
JB Sauceda interviews his 10-year-old daughter Evie about Ella Langley, the "the one musician my daughter and I both agree on at this stage of her life." It's as delightful as you would imagine it to be @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/culture/texa...
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We're just hurtling toward immense destruction & suffering & the entire US political class has agreed it's better not to talk about it. "Insanity" barely covers it.
U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate Target
Carbon removal combined with emissions reduction is the only remaining pathway to avert catastrophic levels of warming, a new report warns.
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"The Rio Grande is one of the most threatened rivers in the country—more imperiled than the Colorado, which tends to generate all the headlines. The crisis is worse—significantly worse—than most realize." Urgent, propulsive reporting by @jherrerx.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/interactive/...
Millions Depend on the Rio Grande for Water. Some Could Run Out as Early as Next Year.
The Colorado River crisis has been in the headlines this year, but our diminishing border river is in an even more severe state of collapse. This is the story of a water crisis without precedent in Am...
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Michael Hardy’s rigorous review of a “breezy hagiography” www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Ted Cruz Wrote a Book About Clarence Thomas. It’s Remarkably Similar to Clarence Thomas’s Book About Clarence Thomas.
Texas’s junior senator didn’t work up much of a sweat researching this life of a conservative icon.
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Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 3w agoOne more reason that you should subscribe to @texasmonthly.bsky.social even if you don’t live in Texas. We have some of the best journalists in the nation. That’s a fact.
Texas was once considered a leader on government transparency. But now it's getting harder and harder to access public information. A great and timely explainer on an oft-overlooked issue:
Texas Was Once a Leader in Government Transparency. No More.
Our state once wanted residents to know what politicians were saying and doing behind closed doors. Now leaders are redacting most everything.
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fantastic storytelling here about what happens when once-in-a-lifetime flooding happens two years in a row. i expected to be devastated by it; instead, it reads like people discovering in real time a path to the resiliency we are all going to need in the years ahead
Sandi Villarreal@sandivillarreal.bsky.social · 4w agoA gorgeous story (and photos) of the cycle of tragedy, making beauty out of ruin, faith, and on. All year, David Carpenter used his sawmill to create new life from the cypress trees that once lined the Guadalupe River. This year, destruction hit again. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Step 4: “Decide there is a grace period wherein, if the cockroach disappears quickly enough, you will be able to persuade yourself you did not see it at all. Leave the room, resolved that if the roach is gone when you return it never existed to begin with.” by the inimitable @lonlozzin.bsky.social
Texas Monthly@texasmonthly.bsky.social · 4w ago*Abridged from seventy steps. https://www.texasmonthly.com/culture/how-to-kill-a-cockroach/
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"It’s a historic landscape, an archaeological site, and a sacred place for the descendents of the massacre, and it has taken decades for us to get the public to understand what happened there.”
Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · last mo.Trump's border wall is set to bulldoze the site of the 1918 Porvenir Massacre, in which 15 unarmed Mexican-American boys and men were killed by the Texas Rangers. The land is considered sacred ground by descendants of the victims.
“It’s like two eras colliding. We used to be known for the tallest dinosaur. Now we’ll be known for the tallest power lines.” Took a break from the clergy abuse and Christian nationalism beat to write about the fight against powerlines and data centers in the Dinosaur Capital of Texas. (Gift link):
“It’s Like Two Eras Colliding”: The Fight Against Power Lines in the Dinosaur Capital of Texas
Visitors come from across the country to see prehistoric prints at Dinosaur Valley State Park. Locals are fighting to preserve the view.
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theyre not “predictors” theyre gamblers, hes trying to get 18-34 year olds addicted to gambling
rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 3mo agomore news: Mark Zuckerberg is telling lieutenants to pursue partnerships with Polymarket and Kalshi with Meta's new prediction market app called Arena, per sources Meta is targeting 18-34 year old users with a goal of 100 million regular "predictors" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/t...
"But expertise only gets you so far in ballooning. Everyone, from the freshest- faced rookie to the most experienced veteran, is at the mercy of the elements." —Katy Vine and Meher Yeda for @texasmonthly.bsky.social
The Rise and Rise of Balloon Racing’s First Family
Joe Heartsill and his sons Rhett and Lucas are international eminences in the obscure corner sport of balloon racing. Will this San Angelo clan get a chance to ride the currents on the world stage…
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After months of being noncommittal, President Donald Trump finally announced he’s endorsing Ken Paxton. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/trump-endorsement-texas-senate-paxton/
John Cornyn Bowed to Trump. The President Overlooked Him.
After months of being noncommittal, President Donald Trump finally announced he’s endorsing Ken Paxton.
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the texas gop senate primary runoff between ken paxton and john cornyn requires you to be deeply, wildly invested in the minutiae of ken paxton’s life to make the slightest bit of sense of cornyn’s campaign against him. i tried to explain it a lil bit here www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
John Cornyn’s Inexplicably Deep-Lore Campaign Against Ken Paxton
Are there enough persuadable Texas-politics junkies for the U.S. senator’s obscure posts to matter?
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On Monday @freshparsley.bsky.social won the Pulitzer Prize for his feature last year about his family and the flood last year. Coincidentally, this week was our last week of print production for the June issue, featuring this follow-up story by Aaron, on the months since the flood.
Texas Monthly@texasmonthly.bsky.social · 4mo agoLast July, senior editor Aaron Parsley wrote about his family getting swept into the violent waters of the Guadalupe. But crawling out of the river was only the beginning of the story. This is what came next.
"Cinco de Mayo. . . reminds us that Texas remains a former Mexican province called Tejas, that braided histories of our state and Mexico, of Texans and Mexicans, cannot be undone," writes @tacotrail.bsky.social. Read more on the history of the holiday here:
The Hero of Cinco de Mayo Was Born in Texas
Ignacio Zaragoza led ragtag Mexican troops to victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla.
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Unreal stuff, here. One of the best and most harrowing magazine stories I've read. Strongest possible recommendation with all the obvious caveats re: you wanting to read something like this.
Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 5mo agoMy colleague Aaron Parsley just won a Pulitzer for this story, written days after he survived the July 4 floods that killed his nephew. It's one of the most gutwrenching and memorable things you'll ever read. Please do.
I'm so unbelievably proud of Aaron, and so, so grateful to him and his family for trusting Texas Monthly with their story. And so proud of the Texas Monthly whole team who rallied around Aaron to get his story out into the world.
Texas Monthly@texasmonthly.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis is the first time that the Pulitzers have honored work from Texas Monthly. Read his story in full here: txmnth.ly/4tPVDcx
Texas Monthly senior editor Aaron Parsley has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, for his heartrending, first-person account of his family’s fight for survival during last year’s devastating Central Texas floods.
Texas Monthly Senior Editor Aaron Parsley Wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
His first-person account of his family’s experience in last year’s devastating Central Texas floods was honored in the most prestigious awards in American journalism, a first for the magazine.
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You can spend your whole life in Southern Baptist churches and not know how the faith group got here. @robertdownen.bsky.social spent nearly a decade uncovering just that. Set aside some time to read this. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
How an Alleged Child Predator Remade the Nation’s Second-Largest Faith Group in His Image
Paul Pressler helped ordain the marriage between white evangelicals and the GOP, all while accusations of sexual abuse piled up. Right-wing groups are still using his political playbook
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Also: You could already have gotten this story in your mailbox if you paid the mere $25 A YEAR for a print + digital subscription to Texas Monthly. We are, IMO, the best bargain in journalism. subscription.texasmonthly.com/pubs/TZ/TXP/...
Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.
saying farewell to the large red man who helped ruin society www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Goodbye to Alex Jones’s Infowars, the Darkest Product of Austin’s Weirdness
Jones was once a local oddball, shouting his black-helicopter conspiracy theories on the city's public access cable network. Now we're all living in the post-truth world he helped create.
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