as ⁦UT Austin⁩ faculty i get campus safety alerts. just received this email. no recipient specified #txlege

Not everyone on the right has been on board with Greg Abbott’s approach to Israel/Hamas-related activity on college campuses.

(Rufo’s tweet refers to Abbott’s order for schools to discipline “the sharp rise in antisemitic speech and acts on university campuses.”) #txlege

Happy birthday The Texanist!

📺 Charlie Sykes and I talk about the most momentous election of our lifetimes — and “the banality of crazy” — on a new episode of Overheard with Evan Smith pbs.org/video/charlie-… #txlege Austin PBS

⁦.masha gessen⁩ ⁦Graciela Mochkofsky⁩ at journalism festival⁩

NEW: @jakesherman annapalmer of @punchbowlnews are special guests at Franklin Barbecue kickoff of 2024's @texastribune Festival — in convo w/me about hot mess Congress. So much brisket + beer you'll need a motion to vacate. Get tix now! …klinbarbecuedinner2024.splashthat.com #txlege #TribFest24

scenes from journalism festival so far: Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro on funding news orgs, nixonron tracyweber on the future of investigative reporting, @joelsimonsays Maria Salazar Ferro on risk assessment for journalists, S. Mitra Kalita on communication as culture #txlege

congressional hearing or panel on unlocking private capital to fund independent media? #ijf #perugia Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro National Trust for Local News

📺 Kara Swisher and I talk about the state of tech, good vs. evil, her extraordinary memoir and — inevitably — what happened to Elon Musk on a new episode of Overheard with Evan Smith pbs.org/video/kara-swi… #burnbook #txlege Austin PBS

Two great and very different Overheard with Evan Smith tapings on back-to-back days: Judy Woodruff and Margaret Cho. Interviews will air soon on @pbs stations from coast to coast #txlege

.Richard Tofel and I went deep on paying for news — earned income, philanthropy, events revenue and the like. We did not talk about Juan José Soto Pacheco open.substack.com/pub/dicktofel/… #txlege

JUST ADDED: I’ll tape the last episode of the 11th season of Overheard with Evan Smith with Bradley Whitford on Saturday 4/27 at 3:15pm. RSVP: overheardwithevansmith.org/overheard-tape… #txlege

NEW + must read from Pooja Salhotra Yuriko Schumacher @texastribune: Despite a law requiring voter registration in high schools, most 18-year-old Texans aren’t signed up to vote texastribune.org/2024/04/10/tex… #txlege #tx2024

.Axios: Texas is the top producer of solar power and wind energy in the country axios.com/local/austin/2… #txlege