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Fraud is the issue of our age.
Ya'll, this is nuts.
Hundreds - that's right, HUNDREDS - of armed robberies between 2022 and 2024 weren't real.
They were staged by the "victims" as part of a massive immigration fraud scheme to secure U-visas for themselves and their families.
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The author of Austin’s Proposition I Outside Audit has been suspended from @Nextdoor for “disrespecting neighbors.”
I’m reading the offending comments and not seeing the disrespect. I call BS.
This is incredible. Must Watch. If you’re not impressed by the competency, you aren’t watching.
WATCH WHAT @60Minutes DIDN’T SHOW YOU.
Here’s the FULL, uncut interview with @DHSGenCounsel James Percival.
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This is really sad … that they wouldn’t just go back to Mali with him.
“It feels really empty without him,” says 16-year-old Corey Diawara, whose father was deported in July.
His father had lived in the U.S. for 25 years and had no criminal record. Moussa Diawara says he was deported without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge. He was eventually sent to Mali, a country a U.S. immigration judge ruled he could not be deported to.
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security told 60 Minutes that Ghana had provided the U.S. with “diplomatic assurances for his safety.” DHS also questioned the credibility of Diawara’s arguments for fearing persecution in Mali. cbsn.ws/4etdVdW
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I really enjoyed You Can See Everything and I love Nathan Fielder. Even so, there's really no getting around what an unethical travesty his Elizabeth Holmes documentary is. reason.com/2026/10/26/nathan…
You Can See Everything plays like a 3-hour Nathan For You episode where Fielder poses as a "documentary filmmaker."
Terrific, but it easily could have been cut down to 90 minutes.
Stephen Garrett, quite possibly the smartest film critic out there, gave You Can See Everything a ho-hum 3/5 stars for @BookPlusFilm.
“An absurdist documentary for our absurdist time.”
bookandfilmglobe.com/film/yo…
ATTN: @Nextdoor — we've got a problem.
Former Travis County Judge @AleshireLaw drafted a proposition to amend the Austin City Charter to require an independent efficiency audit. A bi-partisan coalition of 20,000 local voters put it on this NOV ballot. It's purely local politics.
Can we really not discuss LOCAL politics on Nextdoor?
Check out this post on Nextdoor: nextdoor.com/p/DxF-XygBL_pJ?…
Elon said it: the AI bubble popped
As someone who made a little scratch in the Ai-training space, I could feel it weeks ago. Lots of mass off-boarding and shuttered projects.
Pretty much.
As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers.
SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we’re investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue.
That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.
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Is discussion of Prop i banned from NextDoor? The ND controllers closed the discussion i started about Props A, B, and i that had over 180 responses and 4,000 hits because it “violated community standards.” Really?
So, let’s discuss ELECTION FRAUD—the kind where political tricksters lie and misdirect attention from the merits of the proposal for a mandated and more comprehensive Performance Audit with a Pay-For provision like no one else (including the City) is doing—a nonpartisan issue—and paint it with partisan excrement.
In a healthy political environment, a nonpartisan idea like this will be judged on its content without voters deciding whether to support or oppose it solely based on who supports or opposes it. But that’s what’s going on the campaign against Prop i. Such an unhealthy political environment is just exactly how people—like the overtaxed, cheated taxpayers of unaffordable City of Austin—end up voting against their own best interest.
In major metros, there are “Airbnb turnaround” providers, much like you’d get in a hotel.
Expecting guests to turnaround the rental themselves was a stupid trend among bad hosts.
Good on Airbnb for squashing that and protecting their guest experience.
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Austin council member Zo Qadri wants to study why Red River businesses keep closing.
Easy fix: ask his political buddy DA José Garza. He's had a front-row seat to every crime he didn't prosecute and every repeated criminal released to roam and terrorize this area.
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Ukraine hacked Starlink terminals to ignore the speed limits, violated the terms, and then cried when SpaceX patched it.
So it turns out that Ukraine's issues with Starlink were caused by Ukraine.
Starlink terminals disconnected at speeds above 160 KPH, as determined by the Starlink terminals internal GPS.
To get around this, Ukraine hacked the Starlink terminals to think they were stationary regardless of speed.
SpaceX figured this out, and updated the system software to detect excessive speed by seeing how rapidly the terminal switched from on satellite to another. This broke Ukraine's hack, and Starlink would no longer work at high speeds.
Ukraine was using Starlink in a way that violated the terms of service.
Starlink figured it out and stopped it.
I’m in the Great Hills, and I did not hear this warning. I am thusly not aware “the fascists are coming.” Modern-day Paul Revere failed.
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Fewer than 4% of metal theft cases have any arrests at all. But the occasional times when police to make an arrest... well you can see what happens.
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AUSTIN MAN charged with threatening to hurt two people, resisting arrest, and causing thousands of dollars in damage -- his sixth arrest in 15 months, while he was already out on bond for a felony.
After that Valentine's Day arrest, a judge ordered Casey Pittman to stay away from a 7-Eleven on East 290 and get a mental health evaluation. Police also found hard drugs on him. DA Jose Garza's office declined to file the drug charge.
It wasn't the first time. A few months earlier, Pittman was arrested for credit card abuse. He bonded out and skipped court. When police picked him up on the warrant that Dec, he had meth on him. Garza's office declined that charge too.
On the credit card case, he pleaded guilty to a felony punished as a misdemeanor and got 240 days in county jail. Five days after he was sentenced, he was arrested again, this time for stealing metal. He was indicted, bonded out, and the case sat through seven pretrial hearings without being resolved.
While it sat, state troopers arrested him for interfering with public duties. Then he was arrested for trespassing at a Hilton. Then came the 7-Eleven. County Attorney Delia Garza's office accepted the misdemeanor charges.
He got out of jail in June. Three weeks later, he skipped a mental health diversion hearing and disappeared. A judge forfeited his bonds on all seven open cases and police didn't catch him until October 6. He will be back out soon.
Austin spends >$100 million/year on homeless and anti-poverty initiatives — and it appears to do almost nothing!
Austin has spent $790,052 of this year's federal anti-poverty grant, all of it on salaries and benefits for 13 city employees.
The city's proof that it's working is that 36 people "transitioned out of poverty."
What counts as a transition is if a household earns more than about $40,000 a year for a family of four, for 90 days.
But nobody checks back after those 90 days to see.
The goal is 41 people. Last year the city reported 49, and it kept the goal at 41 for some reason.
That’s nearly $800,000 in pay and benefits to hit an easy target that only measures three months of income.