The Daily Shear

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The Daily Shear episodes

  • The Cost of Technical Compliance
    Texas targets school spending and library books, the national debt hits forty trillion dollars as trade disclosures mount, and Panama faces arbitration over seized ports.
    16 min
  • Building Power Plants to Avoid the Grid
    Austin moves 911 dispatch into a standalone office despite objections, Nvidia finances a private gas plant so an OpenAI data center can bypass the power grid, and a disabled Navy destroyer waits for a commercial tow in the Pacific.
    19 min
  • Draining Lake Austin for a Weed
    Austin prepares to drop Lake Austin twelve feet to clear invasive hydrilla, Paramount threatens to sell its historic lot if regulators block its merger, and British officials intercept a fake White House chief of staff.
    16 min
  • State-Approved Thinkers on the Core
    As UT Austin trims undergraduate electives in favor of state-approved philosophers, the Treasury sells $742 billion in debt at decades-high yields while the DNC drops Iowa from its presidential primary calendar.
    20 min
  • The B-Rated State Takeover
    Austin ISD runs into a state takeover threat, South Korea’s market freezes as investors flee AI tech, and the Kennedy Center prepares to rebrand its facade.
    17 min
  • The Premium Tier Presidency
    Austin raises property taxes to fund a new budget, Elon Musk secures tax breaks for a massive Grimes County chip plant, and a federal lawsuit challenges a six-figure paywall for White House policy statements.
    17 min
  • Arbitraging the President’s Typing Speed
    Meta clears its regulatory ledger by adopting grid rules while keeping an El Paso tax break, Wall Street prices a microsecond jump on Trump's posts, and a Syrian court sentences Bashar Assad to death in absentia.
    16 min

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Lambert Woolingham brings you the day’s news from Austin, Texas—because someone has to read the public record without sounding pleased about it. The Daily Shear delivers local updates, market…