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Massive wall of orange flames and thick black smoke billowing from a pallet yard in Lubbock, Texas.
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The Annual Sacrifice: Lubbock Celebrates Spring with Yet Another Massive Pallet Fire

Welcome to another beautiful day in the Hub City, where the wind is blowing at…

April 16, 2026
A map of Texas with three eastern New Mexico counties shaded in a lighter blue, making the state's western border look like it's protruding into New Mexico.
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Expansionist Delusions: Lubbock Lawmakers Want to Manifest Destiny into New Mexico’s Dust

Because apparently, 268,000 square miles of tumbleweeds and orange traffic cones isn’t enough to satisfy…

April 14, 2026
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller wearing a cowboy hat and glasses while sitting in a car, looking sternly into a camera during a video call.
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Screwed: Sid Miller Warns of Flesh-Eating Larvae Creeping Toward the Border

Our favorite cowboy-cosplaying Agriculture Commissioner, Sid Miller, has officially entered “The Sky is Falling” mode,…

April 13, 2026
An aerial view of a massive, dusty construction site in the Texas desert where a sprawling yellow foundation is being laid for a data center that will eventually house more servers than the state has stable power lines.
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Texas Flushes $3.2 Billion Down the Data Center Toilet While We Pray Our AC Stays On

In a move that surprises absolutely no one who has ever dealt with Texas “economic…

April 8, 2026
A weathered brown leather firefighter captain's helmet with a "West Carlisle Fire Dept 106" shield sits on a bright red metal shelf next to a container of Clorox wipes and firefighting gear.
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Lubbock Opts for the ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Approach to Fire Prevention

In a move that surprises absolutely no one who has ever seen a Lubbock driver…

March 26, 2026
Construction workers in neon vests stand around a "Road Closed" sign and orange barricades at the intersection of 18th and Toledo in Lubbock, Texas. A trailer overflowing with more cones sits in the foreground, while the sky in the background is a hazy, dusty shade of "West Texas Brown" thanks to 50 mph wind gusts that are currently mocking our city’s fragile infrastructure.
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Lubbock: Where the Wind Blows and Everything Else Just Blows Up

Welcome to another Wednesday in the Hub City, where “infrastructure” is more of a theoretical…

March 11, 2026
Lubbock, Texas skyline featuring mid-rise buildings, a prominent hotel, and surrounding residential areas during twilight with a highway and traffic in the foreground.
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Lubbock: Where Your Paycheck is Fat, but Your Soul is Flat

Oh, joy. Another “study” has come out to tell us what we already feel every…

March 11, 2026
An interior view of a data center facility featuring rows of black server racks, a digital power monitoring screen, and three men standing in a narrow aisle observing the equipment.
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Abernathy’s New Best Friends: Data Center Developers Promise Not to Suck the Town Dry (Literally)

In the latest installment of “Developers Say the Darndest Things,” Aligned Data Centers descended upon…

March 2, 2026
A Lesser Prairie Chicken with its signature orange neck sacs inflated, standing in the dry brush of a West Texas landscape.
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Sorry, Birds: The Lesser Prairie Chicken Is Now Just a Lesser Priority

In a move that surprised absolutely no one who has ever seen a “Drill, Baby,…

February 26, 2026