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Since Texas joined the SEC, this crew has been the worst. With referee Daniel Gautreaux, Texas averages 11 flags and 111 penalty yards a game (4 games). Every other game: 55 yards. Three of UT’s six worst penalty games came with this crew. @orangebloods_ orangebloods.com/2026/10/28/…
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San Antonio: Bexar County Democrats took this 1990 speech from the late Gov Ann Richards and applied it to the politics of the moment in 2026
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Wow James is going for the jugular
NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads?
Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them.
The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything.
@ElonMusk: Texas is not for sale.
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Texas was built by hope. By people who had no business believing — but believed anyway.
To every Texan who’s ever wondered if anyone in power is paying attention: We are taking our state back.
Because a little bit of hope is a dangerous thing.
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HOLY. SHIT. 🔥😂
Talarico just dropped an absolutely BRUTAL new ad on Ken Paxton.
You HAVE to watch this one. 👀😂
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BREAKING: A shocking new investigation from the San Antonio Current just uncovered three more cases where Ken Paxton gave plea deals allowing sex offenders to avoid jail. This guy is legitimately evil.
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Property taxes have gone up 85% under Greg Abbott. I have never, not once, voted to raise Texans’ property taxes.
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🚨 BREAKING: Texas state Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies, after roughly 1,400 pages of records released last year were heavily redacted.
The state previously argued that portions of the communications could be withheld because they contained “intimate and embarrassing information.”
In a letter sent to Abbott’s office today, Hinojosa invokes a provision of the Texas Public Information Act governing information requested by lawmakers for legislative purposes. She is seeking the same records previously released to the Texas Newsroom, but “without any redactions whatsoever,” including material deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate.”
Hinojosa says the records could shed new light on Musk’s relationship with Abbott, including his companies’ lucrative state contracts and tax incentives, as well as Musk’s campaign contributions. She argues Musk has turned Texas into a corporate playground and says greater transparency is needed to expose what she describes as corruption in Abbott’s relationship with powerful tech interests.
She is requesting that Abbott’s office arrange an inspection of both the redacted and unredacted records on or around October 13.
Now Texans may finally learn what was considered so “intimate and embarrassing” that it was kept from public view.
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As governor, I'll flip the script so that the American Dream can be a reality for hardworking Texans again.
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“You can shove it with your culture wars.”
For a special midterms edition of #TheConversation, Texas Democratic governor candidate Gina Hinojosa talked with @DashaBurns about why she thinks Dems have “taken the bait” when it comes to the culture wars.
🎧: politi.co/4xDMCEt
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Gina Hinojosa on Greg Abbott refusing to debate her: “He’s hiding from his record. It is indefensible. He’s been in charge for 12 years now and I just went through the stats: the most uninsured, the most bankruptcies, the most people disconnected from their electricity. That is his record, he owns it and he’s hiding from it and he’s hiding from the voters. He would be a fool to debate me at this point because his record is trash”
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NEWLY UNCOVERED AUDIO: Texas GOP US Senate candidate Ken Paxton calls the Uvalde shooting a "plan" by "God" and says "life is short” about children murdered in an elementary school.
This man is vile.
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You’re allowed to have a good workout without putting it on Strava.
You’re allowed to slow down so you can run with your friend.
You’re allowed to race because you love racing.
You can care deeply about getting better and still enjoy it.
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[Writing this in a personal capacity, not on behalf of my employer (Anthropic).]
Jacob’s thread is very worth reading. Here’s my birds-eye view of the situation with risks from AI:
1. AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes). This could happen in the next few years. In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are.
2. Why do AI developers continue despite the risk? Due to a mixture of commercial incentives and a belief that they are in a race with other, less responsible AI developers that will abuse the technology or develop it less safely.
3. Unlike traditional software, we can’t “program” AIs to behave how we’d like. AIs frequently severely misbehave. For instance, AIs from multiple developers recently hacked their way out of secure evaluation environments and into real-world companies, even though no one asked them to do this.
4. We have methods that can nudge AIs towards better behavior, but nothing that can robustly align them. Insofar as there is a plan, it’s to make sure that AIs are good enough at alignment training that they can align their successors better than we can align current AIs.
5. Many AI developer staff desperately want to slow down to figure out how to build AI more safely. That was the intent of this open letter (which I signed): pacingthefrontier.com/
I work on safety research at Anthropic because I hope my work will reduce the chance of these extinction-level bad outcomes.
