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Mud Day in Albuquerque: Leaving the road in the dirt.
The rig is parked by the Bosque. No sterile media talking heads today—just raw, family-friendly chaos at the Open Space Visitor Center.
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Y'all Street Just Went Live
Dallas now has more JPMorgan employees than Manhattan. Read that again.
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Microsoft Just Axed 4,800 Workers — I Watched the Smoke From a Truck Stop in Redmond
Big Tech is swapping headcount for heat sinks — and the ripple effects are headed your way.
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Sun Belt Office Towers, Shrinking Beer Cans, and the Real Inflation Nobody's Tracking
I tracked diesel, diner eggs, and brewery closures across 400 miles of Texas this week.
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Postcards from Austin: 21 counties of gridlock, Willie’s picnic, and how to find the real Texas sky this weekend.
The rig is parked. No macro data, no institutional noise—just the unvarnished blueprint to Central Texas’s July 4th circuit.
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Screwworm Is Eating Texas Alive — And Your Grocery Bill Is Next
26 screwworm cases across Texas. The herd was already the smallest since 1951.
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Bankrupt Chicken, Dead Bourbon, and Physical Gold
A strange Kentucky roadside detour and your weekly asset plan.
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