Just finished Antony Beevor's "The Battle for Spain". Great book, incredibly detailed, but also heartbreaking. Incredible passages on infighting and political machinations within Republic forces/military. Guess I'm on a SCW kick, as a Paul Preston book is on tap next

Happy 101st birthday to my amazing mom, Mary Morello! I asked her, Mom what are your talents? She replied, “To recognize people have needs and to help them.” Bless you, mom!

I don't think that politics of fear are compatible with constitutional democracy/republicanism nytimes.com/2024/10/01/us/…

City government is not a business and should not be treated as such. Keep tenure caps. If people want the CM to be paid more, increase the salary of the lowest-paid City of San Antonio employee. expressnews.com/opinion/editor… via San Antonio Express-News

All this for Double-A minor league baseball... expressnews.com/news/article/s… via San Antonio Express-News

Headed downtown this weekend? Take the bus expressnews.com/news/article/s… via San Antonio Express-News

There is a common view in politics that progressive policies are unpopular and radical, and that to be electable you have to run to the center. This belief is empirically false.

That is so wild, I was just saying I hope Jersey Mike's gets more expensive and shittier in a thousand big and small ways.

texasmonthly.com/news-politics/… Thoroughly enjoyed this article. As someone not from SA, provided good background on political players & power brokers. If you want an example of someone who sells out people to business interests, look at D1

McKee-Rodriguez: “I wish that when the Frost Bank Center was dropped into the East Side that this same thoughtful planning went into it.” #ProjectMarvel

How many more game-changer sports stadiums will it take for San Antonio to realize that they are not the final answer for a revitalized downtown?

Started a new political data project about a month ago, looking at campaign finance data in San Antonio after hearing about how much $$ RenewSA was putting into the Nov election around the ballot measures. You can check out the dashboard here: cosa-campaign-finance.data210.com

If you're interested in City of San Antonio elections, follow this election map dashboard I created. Older election data and new features will be added semi-regularly, so stay tuned. jturek.shinyapps.io/san-antonio-el…

Things my brilliant sister said recently: - TRT is gender affirming care for men - This DEI bullsh*t cancel veteran preference programs (me, her, and my brother are all vets) - Won't declaring Mexican drug cartels as terror orgs give millions of people viable asylum claims? ♥️

Would someone please tell the Feds to get their act together and put the census shapefiles back online? This is getting ridiculous.

The removal of US Census Bureau files is clear government censorship and overreach. Everything must be checked for fidelity to a certain ideology feels like a harbinger of things to come across the board

Updated the crash map with January data: aj-vision-zero.uc.r.appspot.com Have some other features in the works that I hope to get out over the next month or so. If anyone has any ideas for something they'd like to see in the dashboard, let me know!