2017: Austin spent $35 million on homelessness. 2,036 homeless counted. 2025: $118 million. 3,238 homeless. Spending more than tripled and homelessness went up 59%. If you service the homeless lifestyle, you will get more of it. The NGOs that run this system get paid by the problem of homelessness, so they have no reason to end it -- in fact, their only incentive is to make sure the problem grows.

If you want to lay water pipes for Austin Energy, the city forces you to engage in racism. Austin Energy is contracting someone to lay $10 million of water pipe under city streets, and wants the subcontractors sorted by race and sex to the hundredth of a percent. Black-owned subcontractors are supposed to get 2.04% of the work. Hispanic-owned, 5.86%. Women-owned, 2.30%. If a contractor misses those numbers then they have to prove they contacted all 270 minority- and women-owned firms on the City's list. If they get the paperwork wrong their bid gets thrown out. Federal civil rights law (and the US Constitution) bar governments from treating people differently by race or sex, so the bid packet includes the standard legal language: contractors "shall not discriminate on the basis of race or gender." Then it hands them the mandatory race and gender requirements? Austin's justification is its 2022 study that (checks notes) found Black, Hispanic, Asian, and women-owned firms were already getting more city contract money than expected. A federal judge shut down Houston's version of this program on July 28, and Austin nevertheless posted this job a month later.

"Cops should be able to buy a camera that reads the plate the government already makes you display in public, so they can find the guy who shot a kid and drove off." "Wow. So you want a Chinese social credit score and a GPS chip in every American's brainstem. Got it, shill."

A man tried to kidnap third-grader at a school park in Houston on Sunday. He drove off and police still don't know who he is. Three license plate cameras sit near that park. All three could have easily found him within minutes. But all three had been cut down. Officers knocked on doors but neighbors with security cameras wouldn't share their footage either. So a child abuser is still out there because some people are getting their education about Flock and the Fourth Amendment from TikTok reels.