Everything posted by swraith
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Hey Oil Barons.......
I would welcome a severance package with those terms.
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Humble: What the Fuck is wrong with you, Amazon?
makes for a good laugh
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Downtown Projects
I agree. I think Dallas was correct to get Klyde Warren Park built. The Austin proposals are for caps that are at least 2x the size of the park in Dallas. I hope we get some caps built, even if the final cost for all the caps can't be digested. I hope UT also drops some $$ to permanently do caps by campus to transform the 40 acres in a way that hasn't been imagined for decades.
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Downtown Projects
From the KUT article I wonder if caps 3,4,5 get approved and the 6,7,8 caps get discarded.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Is there any forecasting, of what real estate activity would look like for all of 2025, if rates stayed around 7?
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Jasmine Crockett (Texas Representative)
House Democrats reject a rising star's insurgent leadership bid Crockett pitched herself as a master of new media who could help modernize the party following its 2024 election loss.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
This talk of pushing the GSEs out of conservatorship showed up multiple times in my news feeds this morning. What's Ahead for the GSEs Under the New Administration? - Multi-Housing News
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Report: 14 billion dollar deal for Bullet train from Houston to Dallas is done
In which case, I would prefer the state to do nothing.
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17 year-olds, Dude.
I think Trump expects these appointments to succeed and I think the Senate will rollover and accept them. Trump has already said he will just do recess appointments. So, what is the upside for a Senator to oppose somebody like Gaetz? There isn't any upside.
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17 year-olds, Dude.
I think this will be repeated many times over the next 4 years. It is what we should expect.
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Report: 14 billion dollar deal for Bullet train from Houston to Dallas is done
I see minimal to no broad public or political support for an infrastructure project focused on a rail system in Texas. Rural Texans will oppose the land usage. Most Texans won't support any taxes for an infrastructure project. Texans like using their cars to move around inside the state. If Texas does anything infrastructure wise, I hope the state dramatically increases water reliability/availability.
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Alex Jones
That letter brings the lulz.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
this popped up on my YouTube algorithm. Lots of talk about bond market expectations along with other markets. No CR intended.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Home prices only beginning to feel the bite of climate change, J.P. Morgan analysts warn | Morningstar ‘There is now a clear negative relationship between climate risk and house-price appreciation,’ analysts say But climate risk is finally beginning to be reflected in home-price growth. Rising home-insurance costs, for example, have been pushing property values down. "It has been recently documented that property-insurance expenditures have risen sharply in riskier areas since 2020," the analysts said, "even after adjusting for inflation."
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Markets still falling like whoa
Nat gas decided spike almost 10% this morning.
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Texas Democratic Party - what would make it successful statewide?
I think TDP is going to have to do lot of hard work to figure out a new platform and message. Hoping 2024 was an anomaly sounds like “head in the sand” type approach.
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Texas Democratic Party - what would make it successful statewide?
Going back to the thread title, I’m at a loss at how the TDP even begins to chart a new path forward. They made zero progress in this election cycle.
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Fitlump fucking won a Austin City Council seat, Now on to Congress 2026!
This may explain some of it. Laine appears to edge out Kelly in race for D6 Council seat - Austin MonitorAustin Monitor A Laine victory would mark a progressive turn for the district, which was redrawn in 2021 and saw some of its more reliably conservative areas moved into the redrawn map for the District 10 seat, which was also up for election on Tuesday.
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Fitlump fucking won a Austin City Council seat, Now on to Congress 2026!
Her not winning reelection seems a bit of a shocker.
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Early Voting Tracker- Elections Lab
Just another example of why people should early vote and not wait until election day.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Hopium for everybody with that poll dropping.
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Early Voting Tracker- Elections Lab
El Paso county lagging at the back of the pack in terms of %RV 2024 through 2024. Maybe that isn't unusual for that county but it stands out in that excel screenshot.
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why do we keep making pennies?
- 2024 Election "I voted" thread.
Voted at Shriner location in Austin. Took about 30 minutes with the line.- Early Voting Tracker- Elections Lab
The graph posted by Huckleberry shows it has the highest number of early voters. - 2024 Election "I voted" thread.
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