Taylor Bruck thought his toughest job as Ulster County clerk would be fixing the DMV. Then Ken Paxton sued him. My latest for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

The IRS says churches can endorse politicians. The result will be an intensification of American religious polarization — and some $8 billion in political donations to be routed through churches, which are already tax-exempt and have almost no financial disclosure requirements. My latest:

Cloud seeding isn’t new. It dates back to the Dust Bowl era, when Texans desperate for rain took to the skies with silver iodide.
Today, it’s still used to "nudge" clouds, but decades later, it’s caught in a storm of conspiracy theories. @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

“'One of the hard parts is that almost every one of these animals that I’m working on, their people are all missing or deceased,' said O’Gan." For @texasmonthly.bsky.social I rode along with the volunteers rescuing pets from the Texas floods www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

June 9 was supposed to be a turning point. After 15 years, Iranian-born Alireza Zolghadri had his U.S. visa interview, only to find it landed on day one of Trump's new travel ban. @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Happy Father's Day! Here's a story I wrote about my father's family of mannequins www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/s...

Trust in the medical establishment is at an all-time low. Alternative health movements (raw milk, MAHA) are culturally ascendant. I tried to make sense of it all at the place with all the answers: Dave Asprey's biohacking conference @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

I spoke with Lubbock's top health official about the challenges of controlling a measles outbreak amid government upheaval. TLDR, it ain't easy. @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Yesterday a small plane circled over Austin with a message in tow: "Save Tesla, Fire Musk." We tracked down the guy who flew it @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Wanna see the human cost of DOGE’s reckless cuts of people who work for the federal govt? @sashavonawesome.bsky.social interviewed 2 of the 5 employees slashed from Big Bend Nat’l Park—people who made the park a safe place to visit. @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Texas's effort to restore the bighorn sheep to its historic range had been hailed as one of the greatest success stories in North American wildlife conservation. That is until a deadly outbreak of disease showed up @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/travel/bigho...

That's not a goat. That's a sheep. www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

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I wrote about my passion for flashing people in the road. My latest for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Colleague @sashavonawesome.bsky.social is at it again, y'all! www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

i want a you've got mail sequel where tom hanks is having an affair with an amazon exec while fox books files for bankruptcy, meanwhile meg ryan reopens her mother's bookshop bc the indie bookstore is back babyyy