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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
- The Daily Shear
The Fourteenth Amendment Survives the Pencil
Austin bus drivers prepare for a strike while federal export controls on AI models stall, and the Supreme Court strikes down executive attempts to limit…
- The Daily Shear
The Price of Comfortable Infrastructure
San Marcos bans data centers to preserve utility capacity, a director faces prison for defrauding Netflix, and the Supreme Court reshapes the limits of…
- The Daily Shear
The Highway Eats the Landmark
Austin's roadside landmarks fall to infrastructure expansion as General Motors replaces human labor with robotics and the U.S. Supreme Court considers seizing…
- The Daily Shear
The Administrative Glue Loses Its Grip
Austin City Council hides decades of utility votes in the shadows while the state spends millions fixing textbook typos and global transit networks melt under…
- The Daily Shear
The Administrative Exception Industry
Apple lobbies for blacklisted Chinese microchips as the state manages agricultural pests and Saharan dust, while federal trade threats and military escalations…
- The Daily Shear
Data Center Water Use and Supreme Court Rulings
Texas lawmakers face silence from data centers on water usage, while hardware costs climb alongside rising inflation and the Supreme Court narrows corporate…
- The Daily Shear
Camp Mystic Bankruptcy and Micron Revenue Growth
Camp Mystic stalls flood lawsuits via bankruptcy, Micron secures multi-billion dollar chip deals, and Venezuelan earthquakes strain regional emergency systems.
- The Daily Shear
Hays County Data Limits and Global Oil Flows
Hays County pauses data center applications over water usage, tech firms trim payrolls for artificial intelligence pivots, and the U.S. Senate moves to check…
- The Daily Shear
Austin Ballot Measures and Tech Market Declines
Austin voters prepare to decide on independent city audits as global tech markets stall due to memory chip shifts and federal courts block new voter database…
- The Daily Shear
Barton Creek Bridge and Global Energy Markets
Austin debates the future of a historic bridge as Qatari industrial explosions impact energy prices and the British government collapses under political…
- The Daily Shear
Texas Water Woes and the Global Labor Crunch
Central Texas grapples with a structural water deficit as the technology sector stalls against a lack of skilled trade labor and London prepares for a change…