Danny

HTX based | Growth @semafor | prev. @thedailyupside | opinions are my own |

[Ben Rowen @ben_c_rowen]

"Since January, I’ve filed more than a hundred records requests across nearly thirty state agencies. I was repeatedly denied, priced out, or strung along and often given records that were wholly redacted." @NicoGutteridge reports on the death of the TPIA:
https://t.co/dnSOEUI7kC

[Danny @HoeftJDaniel]

Houston media folks — is there any collective/organization/group that offers a networking arm for meeting people who work in and around media?

[Emily Eby French @emilyebytx]

“Texas Sun Krugbhagin”

[PCA Hater @PCHate_]

🚨 PCA DOES IT IN SEATTLE 🚨

PETE CROW ARMSTRONG ROBS YET ANOTHER HOMERUN 🤯🤯 THIS ONE IS TO END THE GAME FOR THE C*BBIES 😳 I AM LOST FOR WORDS.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Blueberry recall upgraded to FDA's highest risk level, 'reasonable probability of death,' per the DailyMail

[Danny @HoeftJDaniel]

Dancing in broken shackles

[J.D. Capelouto @jdcapelouto]

Scoop: Bilibili, AKA Chinese YouTube, wants to go global

- revamped international app with no ID check
- big push to get non-Chinese creators to post
- English-language website "coming soon"
- staffing up in LA, London, São Paulo, Tokyo, Istanbul

Deets: https://t.co/WwLUhap4Nx

[MLB Scorigami @MLBgami]

FINAL: Brewers 22, Mariners 0

That's Franchisigami!
It's the first time either franchise has played a game with this score.

It's happened only 2 times in MLB history, most recently on August 31, 2004 (CLE vs. NYY).

[Steven Hyden @Steven_Hyden]

For my latest "Ask A Music Critic" column I reviewed the new Pat McAfee album and in the process also wrote about the epidemic of rich malignant doofuses and the decline of old media.
https://t.co/8CvYYBbjW4

[Julia Black @mjnblack]

no one is doing it like @404mediaco

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

Exclusive: A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3:

https://t.co/WXSo0zB6JF

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

A fun online story of this primary was @kenklippenstein convincing the left that Crowley loves data centers and will bulldoze the House on the Rock on Mark Zuckerberg's orders.

https://t.co/cL4V8AEN7l

[Danny @HoeftJDaniel]

And it seems like markets again were way off on how close this would be.

[Kalshi Politics @KalshiPolitics]

MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC SENATE NOMINEE ODDS:

🟦 Abdul El-Sayed: 98.2%
🟦 Haley Stevens: 1.7%
🟦 Mallory McMorrow: 0.1%

[Danny @HoeftJDaniel]

Okay found my answer.

[Kalshi Politics @KalshiPolitics]

TODAY: WISCONSIN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR NOMINEE ODDS:

🟦 Francesca Hong: 95%
🟦 David Crowley: 5%

[Danny @HoeftJDaniel]

Does anyone know how far off betting markets were on the Michigan and Wisconsin gubernatorial race? It seems like sentiment leaned progressive, and in the past markets steered further towards the “non-establishment” candidates.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

I'm seeing some "Hong showed that field is overrated" but she's going to end up with around 300,000 votes, enough to have won any previous Wisconsin Dem gov primary this century - more votes than were cast some years!

Normie Dem primary turnout is just reaching Biblical levels

[Dylan Baddour @DylanBaddour]

Corpus Christi city council agreed to call a special election in November

Residents will vote on a citizen-led petition that would steeply increase industrial water rates during drought

Companies like Exxon, Oxy, Valero and Citgo could face millions in additional water fees

[Danny @HoeftJDaniel]

@Jack_Raines This looks way longer than 272 pages?? Is this the extended cut?

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: James Bond producer Amy Pascal reveals the next 007 actor will offer a “really different” take on the character.

[Danny @HoeftJDaniel]

@RealSamRogers This seems like a rather specific time