The Austin Daily Drop

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY that Chris' new podcast for Progress Texas will appear on this feed! If you've enjoyed it, please find its permanent home on the Progress Texas Podcasts feed on the platform of your choice. Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The "Death Star" law, designed for state pre-emption of a wide range of local ordinances in Texas cities and s...

We continue hosting Chris' new podcast for Progress Texas for a couple more days! As of Friday, it will be available only on the main Progress Texas Podcasts feed - if you haven't yet, please take a moment now to find that feed and subscribe! A whistleblower report accuses intelligence officers with Operation Lone Star of conducting illegal spying operations: https://www.businessinsider.co...

We continue hosting Chris' new podcast for Progress Texas, but for just a few more days! As of Friday, it can be found on the Progress Texas Podcasts feed - please take a moment to locate and subscribe there. Governor Greg Abbott makes highly arguable statements about Texas' "sovereignty" in a national op-ed:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/28/texas-gov-abbott-we-will-take-biden-to-s...

We continue hosting Chris' new podcast for Progress Texas - which will only be posted to the Austin Daily Drop feed for a few more days, wrapping up on Thursday 8/31. If you're enjoying it, and haven't yet subscribed to the main Progress Texas feed - now's the time to do that! Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: A new law will provide very narrow exceptions...

We continue hosting Chris' new podcast for Progress Texas for the rest of the month! Please head to the Progress Texas Podcasts feed on your chosen pod platform, and subscribe - that will be the Daily Dispatch's permanent home as of September. ERCOT and the Texas power grid narrowly avoided rolling blackouts last night - what's in store for this hot weekend? ⁠https://www.tpr.org/enviro...

We continue hosting Chris' new podcast for Progress Texas for the rest of August - beyond that, the Progress Texas Podcasts feed will be its permanent home. Please go there and subscribe! Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: A Trump-appointed judge in Victoria will hear arguments over the Biden administration's humanitarian parole program, starting today: ⁠https://ww...

We continue through August hosting Chris' new podcast for Progress Texas! The Progress Texas Podcasts feed will be its permanent home, so if you're enjoying, take a moment and subscribe there. Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas journalists seeking access to an encrypted e-mail account owned by Attorney General Ken Paxton are denied by his office, claiming &qu...

We're continuing to host Chris' new podcast for Progress Texas through the month of August! If you're enjoying it, please subscribe to the Progress Texas Podcasts feed on the platform of your choice - that will be its permanent home. Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The Biden administration and the government of Mexico face off against Texas in federal court...

We continue hosting Chris' new podcast for Progress Texas through the month of August! If you're liking it, please subscribe to the Progress Texas Podcasts feed on your favorite platform, which will be its permanent home. Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: A Second Amendment group is waging a legal battle to allow the sale of a gun modification device that enables...

Through August, we're hosting Chris' new podcast for Progress Texas! If you like it, please find the Progress Texas podcast feed on the platform of your choice, and subscribe there. Stories we're following this Friday morning at Progress Texas: Parts of SB-1, the 2021 GOP voter suppression bill, have been struck down by a federal judge: ⁠https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/fede...

We continue hosting Chris' new podcast for Progress Texas through the rest of August! If you're liking it, please subscribe to the Progress Texas podcast feed, which will be its permanent home. Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas House impeachment managers respond to Paxton attempts to dismiss with more tawdry details: ⁠https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/16/...

We're hosting Chris' new daily podcast for Progress Texas for the rest of August! If you're liking it and would like to keep getting it beyond September 1, please take a moment and A closer look at the Planned Parenthood lawsuit shows that an anonymous whistleblower working with Ken Paxton stands to take home 20% of any judgement: ⁠https://www.forbes.com/sites/darreonnadavis/2023/08/15...

We're continuing to host Chris' new podcast for Progress Texas! If you like it, please take a moment and subscribe to the Progress Texas podcast feed on this platform, which will be its permanent home. Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas launches a lawsuit designed to destroy Planned Parenthood: ⁠https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-planned-parenthood-rep...

We continue hosting Chris' new pod project for Progress Texas, for awhile longer - if you like it, please take a moment and subscribe to the Progress Texas podcast feed on your favorite platform. Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: As a migrant child dies on a Greg Abbott bus to Chicago, California Governor Gavin Newsom calls our Governor's care for human life &quot...

We continue hosting Chris Mosser's new pod project for Progress Texas! If you like it, please take a moment and subscribe on the Progress Texas podcast feed on the platform of your choice. Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Operation Lone Star claims Noah's Ark as their excuse to place deadly barriers in the Rio Grande:  https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/te...

We're hosting Chris' new podcast for Progress Texas on the Austin Daily Drop feed for the first few weeks. If you like it, please seek out the Progress Texas podcast feed on the provider of your choice and subscribe. Have a great Thursday! Stories we're following today at Progress Texas: The McCombs Business School at UT Austin has been hosting a radical white supremacist scholar: ⁠htt...

Chris has a new podcast for Progress Texas, which is being published here as an introduction for the first few weeks. If you like it, please take a moment and subscribe on the main Progress Texas podcast feed on the platform of your choice. Hope you like it! Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Orange river buoys deployed by Governor Abbott and Operation Lone Star are modifi...

Chris has a new podcast, and we think fans of the Austin Daily Drop will like it! We will be publishing the new Progress Texas Daily Dispatch on the Austin Daily Drop feed for the first few weeks. If you like it, please look for the Progress Texas podcast feed on your favorite platform and subscribe! Stories we covered on our FIRST Progress Texas Daily Dispatch: Gerrymandering trial starts in pack...

Program Update! Stick around for a NEW podcast from Chris Mosser, the creator of the Austin Daily Drop, produced in partnership with Progress Texas, our state's leading progressive media non-profit organization. The new Progress Texas Daily Dispatch will be a daily podcast summary of the major news stories from across the Lone Star State that Texans of progressive political leanings will find...

The Austin Daily Drop is suspending operations for now - but, please REMAIN SUBSCRIBED for a new podcast centered on Austin, and the ample awesomeness thereof. THANK YOU for your support in launching the Austin Daily Drop into the top 10% most-listened-to podcasts on the planet! We'll see you soon.

PROGRAM NOTE - The podcast will be inactive for about two weeks as the podcast host takes care of some family business and R&R. Next episode will be published on Tuesday, August 24. Austin health and government authorities have declared the spread of monkeypox locally to be an official health emergency . The CHIPS And Science Act , signed into law by President Joe Biden yesterday, could be hug...

The body found at Mount Bonnell on Saturday while a fallen pedestrian was being rescued has been identified as 21 year old Prabin Gharti. A dog left behind in a car after its owner was arrested by Round Rock police on Sunday died of heat exhaustion before animal control could arrive to take custody of it. Barton Springs Pool has been declared safe for swimming, following the identification of toxi...

Wildfires in the Austin area remain a threat: the Hermosa fire near Wimberley is 35% contained, and the much larger Big Sky fire near Dripping Springs has reached 60% containment. Meanwhile data from the Texas A&M Forest Service shows that 90% of wildfires are caused by human activity , not natural causes. LoneStar, the operator of ABIA's South Terminal , has sued the city over its move to rec...

Wildfires near Austin continue burning: the Big Sky fire near Fredericksburg has burned nearly 1,500 acres and is 60% contained, the Smoke Rider fire near Dripping Springs burns on as well, now having consumed 1,200 acres and several homes with 70% containment, and a third wildfire has forced evacuations near Wimberley . Austin Fire is pleading with local smokers to keep their lit butts inside the...

Several significant wildfires are burning near Austin now, including the Blue Bluff fire near Walter E. Long Park is 85% contained, while the much larger Smoke Rider fire , east of Dripping Springs on the Hays/Blanco County line , is only 30% contained - see the InciWeb map for real-time tracking of wildfires and their progress. All are amidst another pass of potentially record-setting heat today...