Talking Feds: Kamala for the Prosecution Podcast panelists: Ellen Rosenblum, Attorney General of Oregon, visits with attendees after the podcast “Talking Feds”. Also pictured are these panelists: Katie Phang of MSNBC’s “The Katie Phang Show”; Keith Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota; and Harry Litman, host of the “Talking Feds” podcast and Senior Legal Columnist for… Read More Texas Tribune Festival: Talking Feds Podcast
Sarah Longwell and David Simis: Who the Voters Really Are Sarah Longwell, Bulwark pubisher. tells #Tribfest24 who are currently the big influencers pushing Trump with 2024 voters: “Fox News? C’mon! Fox News is doing Gods Work compared to these online rightwing influencers!” Her remark was said to make a comparison to the damage being caused by so-called… Read More Texas Tribune Festival: More panels and events
Panelists The Guardian Presents: Donald Trump vs. the DOJ. Panelists: Katie Phang, Host of “The Katie Phang Show,” MSNBC; Katie Benner, Reporter, The New York Times; Joyce Vance, Distinguished Professor at University of Alabama School of Law and Former U.S. Attorney; Hugo Lowell, Senior Political Correspondent, The Guardian; and Frank Figliuzzi, Retired Assistant Director, FBI… Read More Texas Tribune Festival: Donald Trump vs. the DOJ
George Conways explains it all (to Sarah Longwell) podcast This panel, which was recorded and is part of their podcast, was packed with energetic attendees who showed enthusiasm for this event with shouts, woots, cheers, and much applause. George Conway is a contributor to The Atlantic and is also President and Executive Director of @PsychoPAC24,… Read More Texas Tribune Festival: George Conway and Sarah Longwell
John Arnold and Arnold Ventures John Arnold describes Arnold Ventures’ giving process as having less layers and bureaucracy. He advises “giving while living” versus setting up legacy gifts. Arnold is also negative on Donor Advised Funds (DAF) methods of philanthropy. He further states that philanthropists should consider “giving without regard to political affiliation.” As for… Read More Texas Tribune Festival 2024: Evan Smith interviews philanthropist John Arnold
Panelist discuss U.S., China, and Taiwan There is consensus among policy makers and analysts that the threat of China to the U.S. is the number one concern: not Ukraine; not Gaza. The U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. State Department share this belief and this has become a bipartisan concern (not Dem vs GOP).… Read More Texas Tribune Festival: The China Conundrum
Recordings of live events for Tribest 2023 Most Texas Tribune Festival panel events are recorded but only a few are posted on YouTube. Here’s a handy collection from the Tribune’s channel.
Darden Smith at the Austin Forum on Austin Music: Music and Tech — the Perfect Storm. (Texas State Theatre). The perfect storm: high costs and low revenue Darden Smith kicked off the Austin Forum playing some righteous tunes, strumming his beat-up guitar, embracing us in his Sweet Lovin’ Arms. Austin at its finest. Smith said… Read More Darden Smith at Austin Forum, where music and tech flood the Austin zone with…
Michael Burgess Garnet Coleman Sarah Davis Kyle Janek Charles Schwertner Charles Ornstein (mod.) (Update: This panel was packed and during the open questions section, the audience was extremely energized over the issues, going from laud applause to outright boos to panelists who were opposed to the Affordable Care Act. One audience member added that he was surprised that even… Read More Healthcare: broken promises, broken state, broken healthcare system
Meme of “We’ve GOT to get OFF this PLANET” by Captain Kirk. Bit of Bowies “The Next Day” song “Dancing Out In Space.”Lyrics:Cutting through the water, hand upon the ghostto the city of solid iron to the kingdom of the mostsend your friend away now, let him sail back home tonightsomething like dandingsomething like a… Read More Getting off: Spacemen with stars in their eyes
Images from last year’s Center for Transportation Research Center’s Annual Symposium.
“Craigslist” Craig Newmark, Poynter Kelly McBride on responsible journalism, at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive 2013 in Austin Texas “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh – or they may kill you – Oscar Wilde. (Quoted by Craig Newmark at SxSW interactive 2013) New standards of journalism in a new… Read More It’s alive! (responsible journalism). But newspapers are history.
Dr. Kevin Nowka at the AT&T Center at the Austin Forum. Dr. Kevin Nowka is cute. He’s a little nervous to leave his laptop in the AT&T conference room just to go out for a photo shoot. But when he stands in front of those pretty red flowers and start smiling into the sun for… Read More IBM researcher Kevin Nowka talks about the big, big data
whurley (William Hurley), co-founder, Chaotic Moon; Kevin Leahy, founder, Knowledge Advocate, LLC; and Russell Poldrack, PhD, director of the Imaging Research Center, UT Austin, discuss brain-altering software and human evolution at the Austin Forum in the fall of 2013. “Our brains: the organ pipes of the infinite” — William James, “The Knowing of Things Together” Three concepts; past.… Read More Brain hacking with the smartest guys in the room
Chicxulub rocked the world Austin Forum hosted Dr. Sean Gulick who has been studying the region of the Chicxulub crater, which was created when a gigantic meteor rocketed down from the sky and plummeted into the ocean near the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico 65.5 million years ago. After contemplating the damage done by this massive space rock, you don’t… Read More Rock star: Chicxulub, the 65 million year old crater that rocked the world
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