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1 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The immediate aftermath of the communist parade in downtown Austin blocking an intersection. They were ordered off Congress Ave but are now back marching down 4th St.
Now on Brazos.
They’re now in a parking lot chanting things.

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29 Apr
Up now on the House floor is @CraigGoldman's bill that would give the state the ability to punish localities that have "defunded their police."

#HB1900 was part of a marathon State Affairs Committee hearing back in March. #txlege
thetexan.news/austin-police-…
Here's a summary on what reprimanding tools the bill would give the state: Image
We have our first POO on the police defunding bill. @ronereynolds raises a challenge based on the bill analysis missing required info.
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24 Feb
"Our job is to provide explanations, not excuses. And to find ways to prevent this from happening in the future." -- @ERCOT_ISO president Bill Magness
The slides on the @ERCOT_ISO presentation detailing what the organization does and does not do.
Here's a good breakdown of the different stages of Texas' electricity delivery.
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22 Feb
There's been a lot of criticism of the Biden admin for the Dept. of @ENERGY's order responding to @ERCOT_ISO's request to A) allow generating units to operate at maximum capacity & B) temporarily waive emissions caps.

But the DOE approved ERCOT's request.
energy.gov/sites/prod/fil…
There are generation caps past a certain total of emissions produced. Once triggered, a generator must cease operations for a given period of time.

Obviously, that is not conducive to an emergency situation like last week's -- hence the @ERCOT_ISO request.
The Dept. of @ENERGY's order granted such allowances under three conditions:
1. The state was under either an Energy Emergency Alert level 2 or 3
2. The electricity generated under this emergency order be sold for >$1,500/MW
3. All other options have been exhausted
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19 May 20
The City of Austin/Travis County 2020 homeless population survey is out: austinecho.org/wp-content/upl…

For context, this comes after the 2019 decisions by city council to rescind its camping/lying ban in July, then reinstated some restrictions in October. #ATX
thetexan.news/austin-city-co…
The new survey shows an 11% increase in 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.

Additionally, there was a 45% increase in 𝑢𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 homeless individuals and a 20% decrease in the 𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 count. #ATX
The total homeless & unsheltered populations have each increased of late -- total, since 2017 and unsheltered, since 2014.

Meanwhile, the sheltered population has almost continuously declined since 2016. #ATX
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