Ray Collins
@eraycollins
The future has arrived - it's just not evenly distributed yet. William Gibson Do you boogie-woogie?
Foundation Communities Tax Season Report open.substack.com/pub/raycolli...
Screwworm detection by Texas county. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/joy-is-con...
Or what percentage of vehicle burglaries in big Texas cities in 2025 featured a firearm being stolen. jasher.substack.com/p/laz-diaz-i...
Thanks to widely available NIBRS data and a huge uptick in NIBRS participation, we can realistically ask why, for example, more than 1 in 5 rapes in Delaware and 1 in 6 in Pennsylvania were cleared by exception in 2025 compared to 6.8 percent nationally. jasher.substack.com/p/laz-diaz-i...
Her suit came close to being the first such case to go to trial under the act in Texas, a hotbed of human trafficking. But settlements allowed some of the nation’s biggest hospitality brands to avoid a costly and potentially embarrassing trial.
Non-MAGA Republicans are much more similar in their views to independents, and even to Democrats, than they are to MAGA. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/whos-deran...
Donald Trump has refiled a $US10 billion ($14 billion) lawsuit against News Corporation's Wall Street Journal, claiming that Rupert Murdoch told him he would "handle" a story about Mr Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
Can anyone confirm for me that I am a human and not a bot? I'm beginning to wonder about myself never having once passed this apparently simple test.
In Travis Co. the attached warning comes with your BBM. Ours was mailed at the 78704 USPO with an official pickup time of 5pm Tuesday April 28th. It appeared in the Secretary of State's database as accepted on May 6th. There is no indication of when it was actually postmarked so do mail early.
America, then, is on track to experience a large rise in unnecessary deaths. But at least we’ll have mango-flavored vapes. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-will-...
Indefinite Postponement on Billboards This is a twofer since surveillance tech regulation appeared on the same council agenda by chance and is related to earlier modifications of Austin's sign ordinance. open.substack.com/pub/raycolli...
Trump is unpopular almost everywhere people actually live [See text for how this map actually works.] www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-24...
Justice Department spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre said, without offering evidence, that buyouts last year allowed the agency to shed people who “did not want to aggressively and faithfully tackle crime to protect the American people.” www.reuters.com/world/trumps...
FYI, the content of this post, perhaps just the graphic chosen, is being discussed either internally or externally to the Austin American-Statesman since I first posted it to social media. Screenshot is my original post in case it disappears. www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
Jahara Matisek, a command pilot in the US Air Force and senior fellow at the Payne Institute, said only about 100 THAAD missiles were made a year. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
The U.S. economy has tripled in size, but oil consumption now is about the same as it was in the late 1970s. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/war-oil-an...
The liability reserve fund must have money to burn. open.substack.com/pub/raycolli...
And because there was no crisis when he regained the presidency, Trump — his bombastic lies in the State of the Union notwithstanding — hasn’t been able to preside over a clear economic improvement. Indeed, his approval on economic issues has plummeted: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-econom...
Trump’s desire for external validation is, frankly, pathetic. And the truth is that we are despised like never before. You can see this in surveys: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-sotu-lik...
This is a betrayal of everything America used to stand for. We’re witnessing a war between freedom and tyranny, between an imperfect but decent government and a monstrous mass murderer — and the U.S. government is de facto backing the tyrannical monster. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/day-1461-o...
Elon Musk hasn’t turned X, the former Twitter, into a platform promoting white supremacy and a safe space for Nazis as part of a strategy to enlarge his fortune. He has done it because it serves his personal agenda and reflects his values. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/billionair...
MAGA types constantly bash Joe Biden while deifying Trump. Yet it took only a year for Americans outside the Republican base to decide that Biden was actually a better president. Here are results from the latest YouGov poll: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-maga-b...
...John Burn-Murdoch of the Financial Times has risen to the occasion, producing an index of democratic backsliding that lets us compare the trajectory of the United States under Trump with those of other nations we used to view as cautionary tales. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/american-d...
We ate there regularly with a large group and came in the evenings to listen to the music of Bill and Bonnie Hearne or Threadgill himself. I've always loved a yodeler. One of my aunts was good at it.
This a gift from the USA's First Felon to China's President Xi Jinping. What is known in baseball as an unforced error. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
The quote from Seneca in the subtitle and the last entry in the Notes section foreshadows a post I will write later about the repetitiveness of some public testimony. My own council rep & the mayor have addressed this from the dais. open.substack.com/pub/raycolli... open.substack.com/pub/raycolli...
The truth is that the spread between credit card interest rates and other lending rates, such as the prime lending rate, has soared since 2019, and is now extremely high by historical standards: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
But the broadest measure is U-6, which includes underemployed workers stuck in part-time employment and discouraged workers who have temporarily given up job search. And U-6 has risen sharply since January, when Trump took office: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-a-econo...
Considering the challenges, Union Migranted and Ojos are shockingly effective. Every day they blast out multiple sightings, photos, and videos, all verified and confirmed.