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A man in a maroon shirt and baseball cap stands in front of a drilling rig under a clear Texas sky, symbolizing the state's desperate search for resources.
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Texas Water Board Asks for ‘Public Input’ on Our Impending $174 Billion Dust Bowl 2.0

The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) just dropped the draft for its 2027 State Water…

April 19, 2026
ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas and PUCT Chair Thomas Gleeson looking confused at a weather map while discussing power grid forecasts they admit are wrong.
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ERCOT Predicts We’ll Need 400% More Power by 2032, Then Immediately Admits They’re Basically Just Guessing

In a move that surprises absolutely no one who has ever tried to turn on…

April 18, 2026
Diana Padilla standing in her farm office in Harlingen, Texas, surrounded by educational posters about Moringa and agriculture.
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Trump Kills $7M Grant Because Apparently Learning to Farm is “Too Woke” Now

Meet Diana Padilla, a woman from Harlingen who had the audacity to think that teaching…

April 16, 2026
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