Carl Hiaasen, weeping, just threw his laptop through a window because his fiction can't possibly keep up with this crap.
Every new revelation about UT firing @dhiott.bsky.social suggests an incompetent scramble to find any pretext to shut down an event that somehow seemed to offend somebody with power and then to lie about it and slander Debbie Hiott. I hope she sues, and look forward to discovery in her case.
Straightforward editorial and tough hed from @nytimes.com: "President Trump Lost This War." Before you answer, "Finally!" I'll remind you that the NYT, which endorsed Harris, has been increasingly clear in criticizing Trump and questioning his age and capabilities.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...
John Schwartz
BREAKING: Judge Angel Kelly blocks Interior Sec. Doug Burgum's “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” Order as "a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization" and orders DOI to "restore and reinstall" removed materials "forthwith."
ORDER: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
John Schwartz
Emails obtained through public records show senior UT leaders were involved in KUT festival changes before Debbie Hiott was fired.
One problem with trying to disabuse people of silly conspiracy theories is that there really is a cabal of wealthy and powerful people trying to secretly rule the world.
www.wired.com/story/leak-e...
New lawsuit just filed challenging Tommy Tuberville’s eligibility to run for Governor in Alabama because he’s a … Florida man.
Chris Geidner
Bunny hop
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
He was right then. Still is. “It really is insane that we are continuing to use the sky as an open sewer and we're trapping so much heat every day it's equal to the amount that would be released by 800,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every day on the earth.” abcnews.com/amp/US/scien...
Dear journalists: extreme weather event attribution is good science.“If you treat the misinformers’ frame as a legitimate, good-faith scientific critique, you are helping them produce doubt. Don’t do it. Don’t be a Merchant of Doubt.” open.substack.com/pub/theclima...
Gerald is fantastic—he saved the Daily Texan from financial ruin, and is no right-wing stooge. But that doesn’t change the fact that this is a terrible situation. www.kut.org/austin/2026-...
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Joyce White Vance
The scientists have been right about climate change all along, says former Vice President Al Gore on the 20th anniversary of the release of "An Inconvenient Truth."
