For those wondering who will pick up the mess on UT Austin’s main quad: Students are cleaning it up. As soon as the police line was pushed back, students immediately got to work cleaning up their campus.

One of the most shocking things from today’s student protest at UT Austin today was seeing state troopers brandishing automatic weapons on campus. Were handguns and batons not enough for a crowd of angry 19-year-olds???

More scenes from today’s protest at UT Austin

Student protesters are celebrating after pushing police off campus UT Austin following 4 hours of heated confrontation

More pepper spray at UT Austin

Student protesters at UT Austin are being hit with pepper spray as they attempt to push police and state troopers off campus.

Troopers are surrounding protesters, who have barricaded themselves behind tables, in the middle of the sunlight. Troopers have been confiscating their umbrellas as they pass out water bottles to their colleagues. One student was just removed for heat exhaustion.

JUST NOW: State troopers have reappeared at UT Austin and students are furiously screaming at them to leave. Crowd appears to be growing as tensions rise.

The big pandemic hype cycle about Austin replacing Palo Alto is dead—Tesla's shedding jobs, Oracle HQ is moving to Nashville, VC funding is way down, Austin housing market is cooling (thankfully)
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STATEMENT FROM CONCERNED UT AUSTIN FACULTY. #NotOurTexas

This is how Texas Department of Public Safety troopers dealt with a member of the local media in Austin today. The cameraman works for Fox 7 Austin.

This is how amped up troopers were, in a crowd of students.

I helped organize an unpermitted walkout and rally in front of the Tower in 2003 to protest the Iraq War. The police were never this heavy-handed.

Happening at the University of Texas Austin:

Today’s Trump trial testimony reminds us of how mainstream media – including the New York Times, Washington Post and Politico – were badly played by Trump in 2016. An example: The National Enquirer’s Trump-inspired hoax linking Ted Cruz’s dad to the JFK assassination.🧵1/7

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NEW from me: The 'ghost wolves' of Galveston Island—coyotes with high levels of endangered red wolf DNA—have enchanted folks on the island, but the animals face threats from development, including a Jimmy Buffet-themed Margaritaville resort.

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My latest for Texas Monthly

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This, from an NBC News correspondent, is correct. If Columbia made it easier for press to get on campus, this would be reported more often.

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