Matthew Marchant

Former Mayor. 5th Generation North Texan.

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

Almost all of the media we consume contains some truth, but is not accurate.

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

You can tell a lot about a person by how they acted during covid.

[David Zweig @davidzweig]

TRAILER:
New documentary from @WSJ on Great Barrington Declaration, Twitter Files, and Covid dissent!

Full doc dropping next week.

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

No, no and no. The arrival of the New World Screwworm to the US has nothing to do with President Trump slashing foreign aid programs.

It was a when, rather than if, question its arrival to Texas since the screwworm jumped north the biological barrier of the Darién Gap in 2022.

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

Humans have deep-rooted desires for status.

These are best accommodated in diversified small human communities, where everyone can be the expert at their thing.

Social media makes us unhappy, because our community becomes the world, and to a first approximation, we are all peasants.

We are uglier than the people on Instagram, our families are doing worse than the families on Facebook, on Twitter we are nobody.

So we use the weapons of the weak, we ridicule those with power and try to tear down their reputations, we participate in cathartic expressions of moral superiority. But it is a weak balm for the psychological pain of being low status in a human community.

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

@DallasXCEO @fakenewsdetect3 10-4-1 would be a good step:
https://t.co/vQM1MoaW3F

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

@DallasAptGP Would love to see this charter amendment on the ballot: https://t.co/T2dFhju9m5

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

@asymmetricinfo @jbarro Why do existing neighborhoods need to be cannibalized when 45% of the land in Massachusetts is undeveloped? https://t.co/rUSvx2bFgd

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

@LoewyLawFirm With ya. Still enjoy @dustyslay and @AcquiredFM though. And this Dallas pod is pretty good, especially this episode with Ray Washburne https://t.co/ua9cD7qOrh

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

Always weird to read these about your own city. NYT does 36 Hours in Dallas...: https://t.co/sgEhE2GtC0

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

@caraathome I wrote out a plan that would greatly improve governance: 10-4-1: https://t.co/vQM1MobtTd

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

@caraathome I wrote out a plan that would greatly improve governance: 10-4-1: https://t.co/vQM1MobtTd

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

@LoewyLawFirm Texas GOP has three groups: Trump First (60%), Trump Last (30%), Never Trump (10%). The first two are all voting for Paxton and I would guess half of Never Trump vote for Paxton.

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

@LoewyLawFirm But Adam they came to SXSW in 2019 and got tacos at a food truck one time.

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

The last thing we need to do is spend more money on the NGO industrial complex. Homeless problem can be solved within the existing dollars being spent: https://t.co/dMtvXxMHvn

[Elizabeth @Elizabeth_TX1]

Dallas: Housing Forward is proposing a $5 PER MONTH TAX on every Dallas County resident to address the homeless issue.

This proposal was to be presented TODAY by Housing Forwards CEO @ City of Dallas Housing & Homeless Solutions Committee…. tabled due to “scheduling conflict”

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Smartphones are not good for children. Banning them in the classroom was the right thing to do, which we did years ago when it was much more controversial to do so.

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

No one in Dallas wants it to be Las Vegas. Gross

[Bloomberg @business]

NBA owner Patrick Dumont has ambitions to turn Dallas into the next Las Vegas and is taking a page from his father-in-law, Sheldon Adelson, to make it happen https://t.co/riafqEDRjh

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

My read of this is Scripps is most responsible. BUT - happy ending here is go FIFA and DDI to pay Wyland to do another whale mural after the World Cup. Great opportunity for @DallasMayor to turn lemons into lemonade.

[Dallas Morning News @dallasnews]

Opinion | Wilonsky: All the mistakes that led to the extinction of Wyland's Dallas whales https://t.co/hRjEmfoVRO

[Matthew Marchant @MatthewMarchant]

The issue with downtown is safety, crime and disrepair, not city hall maintenance. Until downtown is known as exceedingly safe and welcoming, it will continue to go downhill.

[Dallas Morning News @dallasnews]

Dallas City Hall overhaul could take decade if building stays occupied, consultants say https://t.co/we0oG76sx6

[Charlotte W. Nazarian @CWNazarian]

“favorable conditions never come”

c.s. lewis