Jason McDaniel

Editor @bulktransporter, @rtmag; associate editor @trailerbb; freelance sports writer covering college, prep & even rodeo (Texas y'all)

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@RocketsNationCP No thanks

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@rolandsmartin You might be the real racist.

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@MrEncouragement @bradluttrell The impatient idiots are the real assholes in this situation.

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@jamestalarico Sure buddy

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@cwebbonline He's not wrong

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@DevinOlsenn I think most people are impressed by the price difference more than anything else.

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@jjabbott What? Top shelf gaslighting.

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@Variety Who?

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Here’s Mayor Pete announcing the Biden administration’s decision to fight the Jet Blue and Spirit merger so they could protect consumers and ensure low fares. Now the airline doesn’t exist and passengers are stranded across the country.

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@ClayTravis Hell no

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@fandompulse I definitely never had those thoughts while playing with my He-Man toys as a kid lol.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Houston is what happens when the physical world starts mattering again.

That chart is a regime signal.

A metro that large adding that much real GDP that fast means capital is flowing toward throughput, energy, logistics, engineering, fabrication, and movement of actual molecules. Houston is not winning because it has better vibes. Houston is winning because the economy still runs on power, pipes, ports, chemicals, steel, freight, and scale.

That is the part a lot of people still do not get. The last cycle trained everyone to worship abstraction. Apps, media, software, branding, financial engineering, digital prestige. Then the world got more constrained, more fragmented, more inflationary, more physical. Suddenly the winners look different. Power matters. Land matters. shipping matters. Industrial competence matters. Houston lives there.

The deeper truth is that Houston is one of the clearest expressions of American hard power inside a city. Energy complex. Port complex. petrochemicals. aerospace adjacency. medical scale. construction. immigration. Business formation. It is one of the few places in America where the old industrial world and the new compute world can actually shake hands. AI can talk all day about transforming civilization. Civilization still needs electricity, cooling, concrete, gas, transport, and buildable land. Houston sits closer to those choke points than most of the prestige cities that dominate the cultural conversation.

That is why this growth matters at size. Small boomtowns can rip for a while on one narrow driver. Houston doing this means the underlying machine is broad. It has enough depth to convert population, capital, infrastructure, and commodity advantage into real output. That is a very different thing from a tourism bounce or a housing sugar high.

The highest coherence read is simple.

America is rotating back toward cities that can do hard things.

Not talk about them.
Not regulate them.
Not aestheticize them.

Do them.

Houston is ugly, functional, rich in substrate, and built for scale. In a serious era, those traits start compounding.

That is what this chart is really saying.

The future is getting more physical again.

Houston was already there.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

KBJ: 'How Can A Law Be Unconstitutional If I Like It?' https://t.co/4GyylvlaMy

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@TheTrekCentral Didn't watch it.

[Dr. Banda Khalifa MD, MPH, MBA @dr_bandak]

Humans spent centuries writing books, essays, articles, and research papers.

Then we used all that human writing to train AI systems to write like humans.

Then we built another AI system to inspect the writing and say, “This looks AI suspiciously.”

So now we have one machine trained on humans to sound human, and another machine trained on humans to figure out whether the first machine sounds a little too human.

And after all that, a stressed human still has to make the final call.

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@Zigmanfreud What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

Remember when the national media tried to impeach Justice Alito because his wife hung up George Washington’s flag on their porch?

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@RedNinetyFour Remember, it's just basketball.

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@Less_HumbleTeej This is a little too glass half empty for me. Someone check on MusChampion.

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@HarrisCoJudge I wouldn't be surprised if she started the fire as a distraction from her obnoxious behavior.