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The Daily Shear
Lambert Woolingham brings you the day’s news from Austin, Texas—because someone has to read the public record without sounding pleased about it. The Daily Shear delivers local updates, market movements, and global political theater with deadpan clarity, dry wit, and just enough patience to reach the sign-off.
Episodes
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The FarmBox Black Box
Wendy’s gets a $1.4 billion take-private bid, a judge blocks the Justice Department’s California ballot request, and HHS drafts a policy shielding six…
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Toilet-Paper Tradecraft at OpenAI
San Diego pauses new data centers while a 400-megawatt prospect sits beyond city reach, Flávio Bolsonaro leaves Brazil after a passport deadline, and an OpenAI…
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Paid to Park, Lights Stay Dark
Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 workers, a judge reinstates prosecutor Maurene Comey after an unlawful firing, and San Diego finds electricians parked while…
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The Car Crash Behind a Treason Trial
Home sellers cut prices as buyers wait, Mexico revives treason charges after a fatal crash exposed CIA agents, and the SS United States prepares to become an…
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Agents at the Wrong Polling Place
Valero earns $6.8 billion as refining capacity runs short, California counties get Justice Department ballot demands, and Cowboys cheerleaders secure union…
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The Lawsuit That Only Counts If He Loses
AmEx posts $3.71 billion in quarterly profit and cuts 3,500 jobs, the Justice Department sues Alaska only if Dan Sullivan loses, and NASA prepares an orbital…
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The Vests Before the Dogs
Warhound raises $200 million for military dogs not yet born, a judge blocks rushed noncitizen-voting probes, and Pentagon staffers drop Eisenhower’s wartime…
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Meta’s $25 Billion Mercy
Barclays cuts 5,000 jobs while invoking AI, Meta appeals a $25 billion New Mexico penalty, and Airbnb tells hosts that cleaning fees no longer come with…
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Thirty-Five Ways to Pause a Permit
Texas pauses data center permits while agency work continues, the EU prepares an Arctic security push, and San Diego makes crypto ATMs warn customers about…
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Protective Custody for a Peace Pen
Musk offers one SpaceX share to every American child, Alberta rejects a path toward separation, and 1.58 million pounds of meat get recalled after a customer…
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430 Trees Into a Preliminary Thought
Microsoft exits an Essex AI data centre waiting for power until the 2030s, Interior officials testify over 430 cut golf-course trees, and Texas State prepares…
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The Voter Roll Is Still Loading
Travis County types through delayed voter records, retailers test AI-assisted shelf pricing, and Japan prepares an MMX sample-return mission to Phobos.
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The Eisenhower Building’s Whitewash
Closed nuclear plants get a $4.4 billion restart for data centers, Trump waives his own Russia-Iran sanctions, and Houston police run 183,000 searches through…
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The Press Secretary’s Bar Problem
TSMC eyes Texas while it and Elon Musk both claim the driver's seat, the Justice Department tries to block California ballots from “likely” noncitizens, and…
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A Deadline on a Thumb Drive
Netflix cuts 1,000 jobs while calling business strong, the Justice Department gives California 48 hours to check an unread voter list on an insecure thumb…
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The Five-Job Sick Call
Bumble gets a $1.3 billion rescue, a judge blocks the White House ban on three outlets, and a London fraud trial features five public jobs and one separating…
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The Known Risk in the Freezer
Texas appeals an order to cool its prisons, hackers heat French supermarket freezers to fifty degrees Celsius, and federal agents search Ilhan Omar’s home…
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Brexit’s Ten-Year-Late Russia Admission
A Texas DAR chapter gets dissolved over its use of chapter machinery for outside advocacy, the FTC prepares $15.8 million in Cleo refunds, and Britain's prime…
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Hershey’s Unnecessary Pumpkin Warning
Williamson County gets $7 million for a road with no date or total cost, Trump's $5,000 tariff pledge skips the who and when, and Pakistan suspends Khyber…
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A False Tip Escapes the AI Lab
Austin parents weigh petitions to close two schools, Anthropic’s AI sends police a false homicide tip, and U.S. sanctions block transactions with the ICC.
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The $20 Billion Gross-Net Mix-Up
Hutto gets a $650 million Blue Origin complex, a gross-versus-net OpenAI revenue comparison helps sink the Nasdaq, and Arlington County sues to stop Trump’s…
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The Breach That Announced Itself
Kyle switches off its license plate readers pending a nonbinding vote, Asos hackers use the retailer’s own app to announce their breach, and lawsuits target…
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The Classified Gold Standard
Texas’s utility regulator sues to hide data-center counties, Paramount absorbs Warner Bros. Discovery and its debt, and a former CIA official admits inventing…
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Sugar-Free, With 21 Grams of Sugar
Austin Fire races to fill nearly 100 jobs, ASOS customers become a hacker’s back channel to IT, and Trump’s super PAC takes over future ads after taxpayers…
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AI Slop Breaks Google’s Bug Bounty
A zoning complaint blocks walk-ins at an El Paso bookstore, Google freezes its open-source bug bounty amid invalid automated reports, and Brazil’s presidential…
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Cotton’s Number, Trump’s Megaphone
Kyle loses a council member after months of harassment, Congress puts $28.3 billion in hemp sales at risk, and Trump posts Tom Cotton’s cellphone number to…
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Hōlei, Permanently Closed
Leander fires its school police chief after 381 applicant files went unopened, Amazon pledges $1 billion to data-center towns, and an ex-congressman gets 10…
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The Trump Coin’s $9,300-Plus Haircut
Oak View Group sues Dallas for $20 million, mortgage rates jump to 7.28 percent, and a federal appeals court makes Trump wait to engrave his name on the US…
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AI by Executive Order
Ken Paxton says Trump’s Dallas convention dropped his numbers, DoorDash prepares drone delivery, and the Pentagon cuts generals while its autonomous-warfare…
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America.gov Clams Up
San Antonio starts a $40 million diverging diamond, OpenAI launches always-on Dots after withholding another model over safety issues, and America.gov answers…
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A Two-Trillion-Dollar Warning Label
CapMetro raises fares, Anthropic seeks a towering valuation while warning about its own AI, and a federal judge blocks election rules tied to counterterrorism…
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The Arms Sale That Came With a Pitch
Hidalgo County cuts its tax rate while boosting reserves, Walmart promises restraint on digital shelf tags, and Trump reportedly offers Xi a chance to buy…
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Screwworm’s $60,000 Cow Scanner
Texas counties race through backdated voter registrations, OpenAI pauses advanced-model training after agent incidents, and the U.S. and China settle for panda…
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The Failed Rescue Falls First
Dallas garbage trucks grade lawns, Crusoe drops a $1.25 billion turbine deal for its Abilene AI campus, and the White House cancels congressionally approved…
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The 103-Vote Ballot Seizure
Texas counties sort a year of lost voter files, Oracle's New Mexico campus waits on power, and Trump and Xi extend their trade truce without a breakthrough.
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The Bureaucracy of Super Intelligence
Austin plans a permanent landfill pipeline, Disney prices its bundles into absurdity, and a judge orders the White House to restore press credentials.
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The Secret Service’s Quiet Drone Port
Texas prepares to send lost voter registrations as Waymo takes select Austin riders onto the freeway and Washington signs a Greenland security deal.
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Newark’s Redundant Failure
Texas freezes new data-center permits, Alibaba scales up its AI plans before Trump and Xi meet, and China’s military purge reaches its second-highest-ranking…
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The FBI’s Very Late Bright Line
San Antonio moves to ban gambling machines that keep paying past the legal limit, Washington and Beijing sketch an AI warning system, and Germany’s CDU gets…
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The Chatbot’s Cargo Manifest
A judge pauses Texas Republicans' bid to close their primaries, Google's Gemini reaches three companies' protected systems, and the White House revokes press…
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The Private Island Receipt
West Texas landowners watch border-wall panels go up, Disney hires Character AI's former chief to run its technology, and Washington and Copenhagen offer…
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The Free Carrier’s Price Tag
Texas hospitals wait on restored Medicaid funds, Anthropic puts Claude into its own R&D, and a judge makes the Kennedy Center give demolition notice.
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When a Model Declares Itself Free
San Antonio suspends a 90-year Fiesta institution as the Fed raises rates and a judge demands answers on the Kennedy Center closure.
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Hays County Tests the Brakes
Hays County freezes a multi-million-dollar police AI deal, the Senate stalls a federal crypto market bill over presidential holdings, and a federal judge…
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Cosmic Deterrence, Ordinary Maintenance
Airbnb backs an Austin housing site, Treasury yields top five percent amid oil spikes, and the Air Force confirms weapons in orbit while Dallas waits on…
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Borrowing Time Against the Screwworm
Texas rushes a San Antonio fly factory against flesh-eating screwworms, chip stocks stall after OpenAI urges industry caution, and the Kennedy Center strains…
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Due Process for Dormant Cameras
El Paso checks its options for disconnected surveillance cameras, AI executives call to slow their own industry, and a federal judge blocks Homeland Security…
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Chatbot Precedent on the Bench
Texas blocks mid-cycle maps in Galveston County, ERCOT checks hundreds of data center power requests, and a federal appeals panel stalls White House mail…
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Pre-Spent Checks in Narrow Straits
Austin blocks developer fee buyouts near transit lines as diesel prices cross six dollars a gallon and Houthi forces seize a vital Red Sea shipping island.
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Closing Campuses to Save the Board
Austin asks parents to petition for school closures to avert a state takeover, Apple prices its first foldable iPhone at two thousand dollars, and the IAEA…
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Bastrop Pulls the Plug on Flock
Bastrop blocks Flock surveillance cameras as Meta tests an AI agent authorized to spend user cash and Israel orders British diplomats out of East Jerusalem.
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Checkpoints for an Empty Agenda
Dallas freezes downtown behind checkpoints for an empty midterm convention, Canada prices retaliatory tariffs on American goods, and Russian missiles pound…
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Teething on the Periodic Table
A UTEP border study tests toxic metal levels in children's toys as record gas prices strain holiday travelers and the Supreme Court clears construction on a…
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Underwriting the Cure with Highway Cash
Travis County checks a proposal to direct highway settlement funds toward mental health beds, while OpenAI prepares disclosure rules for rogue agent incidents…
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Driverless Taxis Run Into Federal Audits
Tesla's driverless taxi service runs into a federal safety audit after launching in Austin, San Antonio clears millions for a downtown arena, and American…
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Deploying What Escaped the Sandbox
Tesla deploys pedal-free Cybercabs onto Austin streets, OpenAI ships a cyber-capable model following a server breach, and the Missouri Supreme Court blocks a…
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An Illegal Monopoly Left Intact
Tarrant County strains access with fewer polling sites, a court clears Google to keep its ad business intact, and a federal judge blocks a birthright…
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Surveillance by Line Item
Dallas freezes hundreds of license-plate cameras after state funding runs dry, Dell's AI server backlog hits ninety-five billion dollars, and Iran launches new…
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Selling City Limits by the Acre
Brownsville clears land for SpaceX cash, the FTC sues Amazon for overcharging advertisers on ad bids, and the Army Secretary steps down following high-level…
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Single Pipes and Two-Mile Hoses
Sandbranch firefighters haul water two miles to douse a Dallas County brush fire, while U.S. employers drop weight-loss drug coverage and American strikes on…