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Vladimir Putin · TexasTwo days before the waters of the Guadalupe River swelled into a deadly and devastating Fourth of July flood in Kerr County, Texas, engineers with a California-based company called Rainmaker took off in an airplane about 100 miles away and…See the Story
How a California Cloud-Seeding Company Became the Center of a Texas Flood Conspiracy
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Climate Change · AustinI’ve had it with hearing the same story over and over again—another 100-year-plus rainfall event, another tragic result from people occupying the floodplain without an adequate warning system. More pain. More loss. The bottom line is—we Texans keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. We are not going to change this narrative until we change our view of climate change and of living and developing in the floodplain…Read Article
Floodplains Belong to the Rivers
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Austin, Texas · AustinOne poem in Jorge Renaud’s new collection, The Restlessness of Bound Wrists, makes the reader question whether the book in their hands would be allowed into Texas prisons—or whether it would be culled by administrators, left “to burn with other / slashed seditionary / lies, all lies, unfit for our rehabilitation.” Lamentation for Literature (excerpt) We will not read this book.It will not whisper its historiesto us. We will notlisten to its secr…Read Article
Penned Poetry: A Formerly Incarcerated Activist’s Turn to Verse
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