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Projects Editor at @KUT , Austin's @NPR Station. Fact enthusiast. @SaltInstitute alum. Mainer. Usually wearing headphones. Not subscribed to Twitter Blue.
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@BetoORourke
just interrupted Abbott's press conference, telling Abbott that "this is on you."
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ahhh yes, Disneyland, where I famously go on a very specific day on my lunch break to exercise my constitutional right to ride Space Mountain.
Ben Shapiro: "Voter suppression doesn't involve long lines, any more than long lines at Disneyland are ride suppression"
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BREAKING: ERCOT is now asking people to conserve electricity through Friday, saying there are a significant number of power plants offline and expecting possible record use for June.
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‘I’ve never missed a vote’: 95-year-old World War II Veteran says his mail-in ballot application has been denied twice due to new requirements
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🚨 BREAKING: After 6 power plants go offline,
@ERCOT_ISO
is asking Texans to conserve power.
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If demanding elected leaders do something to stop kids from getting shot at school is politicizing something, well, I dunno, guess I'm gonna politicize it.
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Abbott is upset that no one wants to ask him the questions he wants.
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Austin has granted a request to block part of
@GovAbbott
's order that halted virtually all abortions in the state.
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Texas was 4 minutes and 37 seconds from a collapse of the power grid.
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Which childhood cancer?
"We will be ending the AIDS epidemic shortly in America and curing childhood cancer very shortly," Trump says, in what might be charitably called an optimistic statement.
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BREAKING: Texas
@GovAbbott
is putting any further reopening of the state's economy on hold.
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Don't put it off — the application for student loan forgiveness is remarkably simple.
This is basically it:
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It’s a bit strange that Texas’ governor continues to declares a disaster in every county due to COVID — and retain emergency powers! — despite not taking any measures to fight the pandemic in quite some time. 🤔
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This is Barton Springs on a sunny Tuesday anytime in the last hundred years, bud
2pm on a Tuesday in Austin
Work from home culture here is STRONG ☀️
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One more thing: It's pretty wild that ERCOT waited until 5:06pm to do this.
I've been watching this unfold all afternoon — and you could tell by 2:30 that there was a problem.
🚨 BREAKING: After 6 power plants go offline,
@ERCOT_ISO
is asking Texans to conserve power.
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🚨 NEW: Texas will open vaccine eligibility to ALL adults starting March 29. 🚨
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BREAKING: Texas
@GovAbbott
issues executive order requiring people to wear face masks in public.
Also gives local officials authority to limit gatherings of more than 10 people.
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Puzzled why Austin has not declared a disaster. If someone is more familiar with the criteria, please enlighten.
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NEW:
@OversightBoard
upholds Facebook's decision to suspend the former president, but leaves the door open...
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BREAKING:
@GregAbbott_TX
's latest executive order outlaws vaccine requirements from governments or entities receiving state funds.
ALSO it seems to remove local officials' ability to impose restrictions if hospitalizations go above 15% of capacity.
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Former House Speaker John Boehner in his new book talking about Texas’ junior senator, via
@politico
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NEW: Texas
@GovAbbott
is extending early voting for the November election by nearly a week.
It will now begin on Oct. 13.
#txlege
#tx2020
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After ~120 hours, my power was restored this morning.
There are still 27K
@austinenergy
customers that are still out as of now.
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Abbott: "No one can guarantee that there won't be a quote 'load shed' event."
He has previously offered such a guarantee.
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Folks, basically everything is closed tomorrow.
Just stay home if at all possible.
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Fun fact: Jimmy Buffett’s best known song was mostly written in Austin and was inspired by a drink he had on Anderson Lane.
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12+ hours into a third of the city having no power, I'm mystified why
@austintexasgov
and
@austinenergy
haven't done a press conference.
If nothing else to reassure people that things are being handled.
Really bizarre leadership move here.
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By tomorrow, Texas will have doubled the number of people hospitalized for COVID in less than 3 weeks.
We're back at levels not seen since late April.
Positivity rate now above 10%, which hasn't happened since Feb. 24th.
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Do people in other states feel like this?
Seems like Texas is being buried in an absolute avalanche of largely self-inflicted garbage this week/month/year.
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@GregAbbott_TX
this basically outlaws responding to this deadly pandemic in any way whatsoever.
we're on our own, folks
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@ERCOT_ISO
Wholesale electricity prices have been super high most of the afternoon, as power has become increasingly scarce.
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Can't stop thinking about how bad that press conference was.
Every aspect of the official response to this is problematic.
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Austin Water finally has a map of outages.
Guess what? Most of the city has no water.
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This feels weird because it seems like no one is ever held accountable for things in Texas government.
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Everything is a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works.
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tfw your reporters are on strike
This is how you can score free Wendy’s and McDonald’s treats over the holidays.
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fwiw, Save Austin Now, the PAC behind reinstating the city's public camping ban last year, went 0 for 4 in its endorsements for city council last night.
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There comes a point — a feeling in the air, really — when a government agency runs out of whatever stored goodwill it has from the public.
You could feel it with ERCOT in Feb. 2021 (deserved or not).
As the sun sets tonight, I think Austin Energy is approaching that point.
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When not having blackouts is considered a victory.
Texas power grid was slated to hit a record high demand w/the heat on Tuesday.
It didn’t happen!
Why?
New strategies & tools used at ERCOT & PUC are increasing capacity & reducing demand.
Result: ERCOT easily met demand as the chart below shows—with 8,000 Megawatts to spare.
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NEW: Patients are being evacuated from St. David’s South Austin Medical Center after the facility lost water and heat.
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I’m told Dell Children’s has also lost water.
NEW: Patients are being evacuated from St. David’s South Austin Medical Center after the facility lost water and heat.
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It’s worth noting that Austin’s police budget is at a record high.
Our officers are working several major violent crimes & serious injuries today with over 65% of the patrol shifts below minimum staffing. Defunding, cutting positions, & canceling cadet classes is definitely impacting the community's safety. Homicides are ⬆️⬆️
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Lyft has now emailed, I assume, all its Austin-area customers looking for the cat that a driver took off with.
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It's interesting that ERCOT is expecting near-record demand on Friday morning, but has not (yet) asked consumers to conserve electricity during that time.
I guess that means either supreme confidence or worry about the optics of asking for conservation.
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FYI: cuts to Austin Police hadn't even happened yet in the time period this report is referencing.
Property crime was rising in Austin BEFORE the police budget was reallocated.
Property crime rising in Austin.
This is the kind of thing that happens when cities defund and deemphasize police.
Residents are left to fend for themselves.
My plan puts an end to this by requiring cities to fund law enforcement.
#BackTheBlue
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NEW: With early voting results in, it looks like Austin's Prop A will pass by a wide margin.
Prop B will be defeated by a wide margin.
Here's background on both:
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This is pretty bonkers.
ERCOT was off on their power demand forecast tonight by ~10k MW.
We're approaching the kind of demand we would have seen in Feb. 2021 had power not been cut to millions.
The grid still has plenty of reserves tho, with abundant wind.
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BREAKING:
@UTAustin
President
@gregfenves
says he is removing four remaining confederate statues on campus:
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No Texas Republican voted for the infrastructure bill, which includes money for electric grid modernization among other things.
Late Friday night, 13 U.S. Republicans joined Democrats to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure package.
From the Democrats' progressive caucus, 6 voted against the bill.
See how every House member voted:
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Once you start thinking of the world like this, it’s really hard to un-see it.
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Austin says it will be able to house
#HurricaneLaura
evacuees at the convention center by the morning.
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We'll be updating this post:
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Met these ladies pulling an all-nighter to be first in line to vote at Southpark Meadows in Austin in the morning.
They say more folks will be joining soon.
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NEW: Travis County Judge
@AndyBrownATX
says two trucks full of bottled water will be on their way to Austin from a FEMA site in Fort Worth tomorrow morning.
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the party is also nearly broke.
I don't know if the two things are connected.
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👋 Power outages thus far are not because the grid is failing.
Until we bury all the power lines underground, there will be outages during storms.
Thanks for listening. 👋
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Did they finish again without doing anything in Spanish?!
What the fuck?
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I get that some politicians believe they’re speaking to the dumbest people on Earth, but reflexively equating an anti-war protest with anti-semitism seems like a stretch. And still…
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Publication of these quotes really leaves
@UTAustin
in a position where people are going to ask why they're accepting money from people with such views. Much less, allowing them to influence policy.
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Remember how funny the Texas blackout was if you weren’t living through it?
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NEW: Just spoke with
@austinenergy
VP of field operations Elton Richards who told me the 6pm Friday expectation for restoring power to everyone is doubtful.
He’s not comfortable giving a time frame.
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My PR for no power is 70 hours (Feb. 2021). Amateur, I know.
I'm at 66 hours now.
Will I beat my record?
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At 104 hours with no power, this little section of my neighborhood doesn't have power.
I doubt we are a priority.
Down to about 40K customers out city-wide tho. Progress might slow as they get down to the itty-bitty outages.
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Seriously tho, can the state now just legalize vigilantism to block any constitutional rights it doesn’t like?
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Went to
@HEB
to get ground ginger (don’t ask).
Chicken, eggs, bread and water pretty much sold out.
Plenty of ground ginger tho.
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Travis County vaccine providers lookin' a little west side, huh?
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My poor 100 year old oak is really going through some shit right now.
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NEW:
@ERCOT_ISO
is now saying it expects tight grid conditions overnight and into Friday.
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Last year, state lawmakers voted to create a system of public alerts for power grid emergencies.
Seems like this would have been a good time to use such a system.
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Austin is blocking enforcement of the state's ban on virtually all abortions.
In his order, he prohibits state courts from accepting any lawsuits aimed at enforcing the law, which allows private citizens to sue anyone involved in most abortions.
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On June 27, Texas hit a one-year low for COVID hospitalizations.
The trend has reversed — hard.
By tomorrow, we'll have tripled the number of people in the hospital in less than a month.
Positivity rate nearing 14%.
It really fucking sucks that
people's choices led to this.
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Wind power sure is over-performing in Texas today — keeping prices low and the grid stable on a day with potentially record-setting electricity demand.
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SXSW: What if we solved this problem in the most complicated way possible instead of making rational policy choices?
What if the solution to ramping up housing supply and getting more people into homes wasn't to do it on land, but on water?
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It’s worth noting that just because he was acquitted by Senators, it doesn’t mean he didn’t do any of this stuff — and in fact could face (more) criminal charges related to some of it.
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NEW: Austin is going to Stage 2 water restrictions starting Aug. 15
Lake levels are projected to drop below the threshold within days.
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People in replies saying the DA is the one dropping charges.
Pro tip: the DA doesn't handle misdemeanor cases. That's the County Attorney.
DEVELOPING— Protestors from yesterday’s pro_Palestinian demonstration at UT are being released from Travis County jail. The ones I’ve spoken with say their charges were dropped or rejected and will not be prosecuted.
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What kind of state could Texas be without this kind of garbage?
Sure, keep taxes and regulations low — but who is asking for this?
Greg Abbot has officially directed Family and Protective Services to begin investigating all trans children in Texas and prosecuting their parents as child abusers.
He has also instructed all teachers, doctors, and caregivers to begin reporting any trans students they see.
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Apparently some crazy stuff happening at Lake Travis right now.
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BREAKING: the only member of the
@PUCTX
has resigned.
This comes after a
@TexasMonthly
story revealing he promised to protect
@BankofAmerica
investors from repricing, which could reduce profits from the winter storm and resulting blackouts.
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My neighbor to one side has power back.
I have no power, but many extension cords.
🤝
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At what point does Austin earn the right to not specify what state it’s in, like these other big American cities?
Is there another well-known Austin in the US?
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NEW: Austin's Prop A is passing overwhelming with early voting reporting.
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Out of 44.1M votes from 2015 to 2020 in Texas, there have been 197 complaints of fraud to the state.
That’s 0.0000045% of all votes.
And that’s just complaints — only a handful of which have been proven.
Voter fraud is vanishingly rare.
How much voter fraud is acceptable?
We must make sure Texas elections are accessible and secure.
#txlege
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