For Texas Architect, I unloaded on Texas cities for using deferred maintenance as a precedent for demolishing and abandoning civic structures, including I.M. Pei's Dallas City Hall. Fort Worth and San Antonio aren't spared either. magazine.texasarchitects.org/2026/07/28/d...

"Deferred Maintenance" Endangers Civic Heritage - Texas Architect Magazine

If “deferred maintenance” is the government’s version of the excuse “the dog ate my homework,” then some Texas cities may…

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For Texas Architect, I unloaded on Texas cities for using deferred maintenance as a precedent for demolishing and abandoning civic structures, including I.M. Pei's Dallas City Hall. Fort Worth and San Antonio aren't spared either. magazine.texasarchitects.org/2026/07/28/d...

"Deferred Maintenance" Endangers Civic Heritage - Texas Architect Magazine

If “deferred maintenance” is the government’s version of the excuse “the dog ate my homework,” then some Texas cities may…

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ok bsky we're back.

“What power each of us holds” As Sanho says, this is the perfect bookend to Douglass’s “What to the slave is your 4th of July?” speech. #NoFascistUSA

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s worth watching Mamdani’s full 13-minute address. THIS is the 4 of July speech the country deserves. If you teach, consider adding it to your curriculum. If you’re a parent, watch it with your kids. This is a weekend to reflect. This speech was pitch-perfect. This speech should be remembered.

It took prayers, patience and pro bono work, but debartolo architects and Kristian Kelley Landscape Architecture were anle to complete to complete Oasis, a community center in Chandler, AZ, for ministry Live Love. www.archpaper.com/2026/07/deba...

Something I’ve glimpsed during the NBA finals and the World Cup are how much we need—and how much cities thrive on—experiences of shared joy. The understanding of how important this is (which might simply be the state of not being a sociopath) should be a big priority in 2028.

No Big Bend Wall continues fight against border wall, citing environmental and archaeological threats www.archpaper.com/2026/06/no-b...

I first saw Rosemary Meza-DesPlas's textured, hair-laced work in 2004. I've wanted to write about her since. I did! For Arts and Culture Texas. I previewed Aquí, Escuchar (Here, Hear), at the Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University through November 27. artsandculturetx.com/the-stories-...

The Stories that Hair Can Tell: Rosemary Meza-DesPlas at the Martin Museum of Art

Rosemary Meza-DesPlas is among the godmothers of her craft. Since the early 2000s, the Garland, Texas native has set the standard for how to integrate human specimens in art. All she’s using is hair.

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The Texas data center boom has exposed a growing intra-GOP tension over local control, between hamstrung and wary county officials and pro-state supremacy, pro-uninhibited growth state leaders. www.texasobserver.org/data-center-...

Data Center Boom Exposes GOP Faultlines over Local Control

In rural areas like Caldwell County, local Republican officials and citizens are scrambling to find ways to empower counties and slow AI-fueled development.

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Data centers, failing farms, screwworm concerns, and more have set rural Texas "on fire" politically. The latest on that and more on this must-listen episode podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

"Where The Hell is The Money?"

Podcast Episode · Quorum Report Radio · June 5 · 1h 17m

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"Brad Alberts, president and CEO of the Stars, told The News months ago that, barring unforeseen, wholesale renovations that would cost in excess of a half-billion dollars, the Stars needed to build anew or be left behind." lol www.dallasnews.com/business/art...

Why the Mavericks and Stars say American Airlines Center is obsolete

The Dallas Mavericks and Dallas Stars haven't agreed on much in recent months, but they agree on this: American Airlines Center is outdated. How can an arena become obsolete in 25 years?

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The next Opportunity Zone map could shape investment for the next decade. This article explains why local leaders need to stay engaged. 📖 bit.ly/43BA049 #CommunityDevelopment #OpportunityZones

Amazing premise for a mid-tier X-Files episode: “The archbishop of Washington, D.C., on Wednesday removed a longtime archdiocesan exorcist, saying his recent comments about UFOs being demons ‘gravely undermine’ church teachings.”

Archbishop removes D.C. priest as exorcist for saying UFOs are demons

Monsignor Stephen Rossetti had been an archdiocesan exorcist in Washington for nearly two decades.

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they could always call it the american airlines center. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/f...

Fort Worth’s premier concert venue, Dickies Arena, may be getting a new name

The company that owns Dickies doesn’t want to be a part of the arena anymore, according to arena officials.

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6 deadlines made, 2 to go.

Happy Pride Month from the New York Times!🙄

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

love reading about this like it's a degree at a technical college www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...

Are going to pick them up after Markwayne Mullin diverts their flights to Indianapolis?

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo ago

Uber announced Friday that it will offer shared shuttle service in 50-seat vans after matches at venues near Boston, Dallas, Miami and New York City.

Only been up an hour and got more done than I did all this week. 🥊🥊🥊

From @liseolsen.bsky.social, in our magazine: With support from Ft. Bend county leaders, the new Black Cowboy Museum’s building, 10 times larger than the existing location, will soon rise in Bates Allen Park, a park that originally was a Freedmen’s town called Kendleton.

A Black Cowboy Museum, Rebooted

With diversity and history under attack in Texas, Fort Bend County leaders are bucking trends to back the expansion of a museum featuring Black cowboy culture.

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Burns Notice

Trans rights, politics internet culture, gaming, and the occasional sports thing. A newsletter by independent journalist Katelyn Burns.

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There's *always* something else that comes out about Attorney General Paxton. On CNN, I talked about Republicans freaking out about him being their likely nominee for US Senate in Texas youtu.be/FFcavgkuSHw?...

Braddock on CNN: There is always something else that comes out about AG Paxton

YouTube video by Scott Braddock

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315 am and life comes at you fast

In the runoff to replace Bobby Guerra in House District 41 in Hidalgo County, it's a progressive insurgent versus an establishment-backed local banker www.texasobserver.org/texas-house-...

In South Texas House Runoff, It’s a Progressive Insurgent Versus the Establishment

In Hidalgo County's open House District 41, Bernie-backed Julio Salinas is up against McAllen City Commissioner Seby Haddad, who’s backed by most of the local politicos.

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This is me in Congress explaining how some of our most longstanding problems (like the drug war) have counterintuitive solutions and why it traps more dim-witted politicians. The harder you pull, the stucker you get. That’s why prohibition doesn’t work.

Pat Bagley@bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 3mo ago

2017–Trump’s first China meeting

I know there are also people out there that don’t read criticism because “I don’t need anyone to tell me what to like!” But that’s not what good criticism is. A good critic uses their education and experience in film to provide context and explain why certain techniques in a film move you.

Should this be needed? No. But is this also good to offer? Yes, because it increases the odds that a child will not suffer from having their education disrupted.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

As family homelessness hits record highs, school districts are offering parking lots as safe sites for students and their families to sleep at night

Among the groundbreaking innovations unveiled at U.S.-hosted exhibitions were the telephone, Ferris wheel and electric lighting. on.wsj.com/4dM20YF

In their heyday, World’s Fairs gave Americans a glimpse of technologies, products and ideas that were poised to change daily life

Among the groundbreaking innovations unveiled at U.S.-hosted exhibitions were the telephone, Ferris wheel and electric lighting.

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"I have cryogenically frozen my penis and filed it down to a fleshy icicle to replace any feminine roundness on my body with a masculine point."

At Long Last, I Have Maxximized My Looks

“At long last, I am a stone-cold seven, the kind of guy who could win a Jacob Elordi lookalike contest in a farm town with a population of 200.”

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lol. Texas made more complaints about Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show to the FCC than any other state. Ft. Worth, San Antonio and Austin residents submitted the most. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

Texas made more complaints about Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show to the FCC than any other state

Texas was No. 1 in complaints to the FCC after Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance

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In an op-ed I co-authored I warn that unless local cities act to shield intentional football fans from abuse by ICE when the World Cup comes to the Dallas area this summer, the games could become a financial disaster and a human rights tragedy. www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-...

Dallas-Fort Worth must support World Cup fans worried about Trump, ICE | Opinion

International visits to America have dipped amid concerns over immigration enforcement, and that could include soccer fans. | Opinion

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