WillM

Environmentalist, Lawyer, Web3.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

They are attempting to merge the IDF and the U.S. military because they know that the U.S. military isn’t going to want to open fire on American citizens

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Water is not a commodity. It is a birthright. It belongs to the earth, to other species, and to future generations. No corporation has the right to control it.

[Paul Cobler @PaulCobler]

Nearly half of the planned data centers in Texas are set to be built in unincorporated areas, free of city regulations, according to an analysis by the Tribune. Read @alereports deep dive into Hood County & how 8 planned projects are changing life there. https://t.co/T0TbCeSCZ4

[WillM @wmflies]

Good times on the Frio, Comal & Guadalupe 🤠

[WillM @wmflies]

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[Dylan Baddour @DylanBaddour]

Nueces River Authority suggests cutting trees to save water

Nueces River supplies Corpus Christi

“Among the biggest water consumers along the river is the Bald Cypress”

“Not everyone is ready to support large-scale tree removal near the river”

https://t.co/tuQa2nf7D5

[Ian McMillan, CMT @the_chart_life]

Listen, I’m a big “the index is the index” guy, but they are openly looting the coffers.

This is 100% fraud.

[litigation_god @GodLitigation]

Davis Polk billing out legal assistants at $790 per hour and I'm over here worried my rates are too high. Apparently I've been running Legal Aid.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The worker paying $1 in taxes subsidized a billion-dollar company that moved Pizza Hut’s intellectual property to Malta and called it “simplifying the organizational footprint.” Honeywell, PayPal, same story. 88 profitable corporations, zero federal income tax. The bill went somewhere. Check your W-2.

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

It’s so funny hearing bigoted Anglos talk knowingly about corruption in Mexico. Like you can’t buy off the entire Texas government for a few hundred thousand dollars

[WillM @wmflies]

2008 Yukon Denali, 180k miles, runs great, good tires & beloved.
Cont'd safe operation needs new shocks & suspension, brake pads, the oil cooling line, power steering line, exhaust gasket etc.

$8k! More than it's worth, but less than reliable replacement.

Should I fix it!?

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Dear small percentage of Boomers who can actually be told things:

Here are some facts, to help you understand what Millennials are trying to tell you.

Here is what the middle-class experience is right now. Not for losers, but for your average hardworking, but unexceptional, dude born in 1992.

- No company pensions. Ever. No job offers this.
- Laid off every 2 to 3 years.
- No vacations. Ever. If you are lucky, you have 10 to 15 days of annual "PTO" (paid time off). But this is not vacation. This is your sick days. You can take a break with whatever's left over.
- If you are not lucky, you have "unlimited" PTO. Which sounds nice, but in practice it means you get sick days and nothing else.
- They pay social security taxes, but they know they will never receive those benefits, because the system will crash first.
- Not promoted. Ever.
- No annual raises. Instead, these are effectively pay cuts, because they don't match inflation.
- Because of this, can only get a raise by changing jobs. Some judicious prevarication about salary history is recommended.
- Good chance you'll have to change careers at least once, possibly more, as industries get rugpulled by offshoring or work visas.
- Total mortgage cost on a median house in 2026 is 104,600 minimum-age-hours. This is 50+ years of full-time work.
- For comparison, a 1972 purchase would be 23,750 minimum-wage-hours, about 11 years of full time work.

What this all adds up to is that Millennials can't buy homes until they are past their child-bearing years.

And, no, scrimping and saving doesn't change that equation. This is with scrimping and saving.

I am not a Millennial. I am GenX, the child of Boomers. I do not need to be told how much Boomers forwent luxuries to save, and how hard they worked. I know exactly how much they did of each. I was there. I saw.

They worked hard at the beginning of their careers, and lived frugally for about 5 years to save up a down payment. After that, things gradually eased up, bit by bit. Until, by retirement, a lot of them had nice fat stock portfolios and multiple rental property investments, and Caribbean cruise holidays.

And this seems, to them, like a fair and natural progression.

But as America has been hollowed out and by a corrupt political machine, those doing the robbing have left the Boomers whole, and placed the burden of that corruption squarely on the backs of younger generations.

For Millennials, there's no light at the end of that tunnel.

Just another tunnel.

And another after that.

They have been standing between Boomers and the reality of the modern economy for 20 years.

At some point, they are going to break.

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

you cannot will-power and bootstraps your way out of having ADHD btw

[WillM @wmflies]

We're starting a Learning Journey, to Rehydrate the High Plains. It's mostly prepped, we've a cool slate of speakers & should be fun

First session is Tuesday, 6/2 at 11am cst. No cost

Register at https://t.co/lw5xGRsYVJ

@OgallalaLife @ogallalacommons
#lfgrow

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Asher Lehrer-Small @small_asher]

After Uvalde, Texas undertook an ambitious effort to station a police officer at every school.

Since then, students have been tackled, pepper sprayed and Tasered. Many episodes began over minor infractions like breaking dress code or vaping.

Our report: https://t.co/kSJ6lFudqo

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

No system that does not have transparent, independent methods of accountability can survive. It is a basic prerequisite to the democratic and lawful functioning of any system. Most people have no clue how unaccountable and lawless the legal system is every day.

[WillM @wmflies]

Natural science for the education team @DHDCamarillo 🤠

[Davy Crockett @Davy1836]

Stop the Data Center Invasion.

We've been working on something. The #1836Project is a statewide effort proposing nine bills to the 90th Texas Legislature.

One principle: Texans decide what gets built in their counties. Not Austin. Not corporations.

Three things:

I — A county-wide popular vote before any hyperscale data center breaks ground. Paid for by the developer. The only mechanism no lobbyist can buy.

II — Protection for Texans when data centers arrive: water rights, grid priority, noise and light standards, and property value guarantees. Developers bear the risk — not your neighbors.

III — Fix the legislation from previous sessions that opened the door to data centers moving in without a single local vote. What was taken by legislation can be restored by legislation.

Sign the open letter: https://t.co/7eKj2972lY

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The toxic chemical leak that poisoned Garden Grove, CA was emitted from a GKN Aerospace plant which produces parts for the F-35’s provided to Israel to commit genocide in Gaza

[WillM @wmflies]

@Sarah4Texas @BobbyBizScout @MattMackowiak Lots of government backed bullshit debt out there