Could have a Texas Monthly thread really. Not long but great read. These kids are fucking awesome. Presidio Independent School District’s student body is one of the poorest in Texas. Ninety-three percent of its students are economically disadvantaged and qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, and more than half are English-language learners. Yet over the past decade, the high school’s rocketry club has repeatedly outperformed prestigious magnet schools and science academies with twice its budget—and easy access to big-box craft and hardware stores. https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/presidio-best-rocketry-club-in-country/
I'm always fascinated by people who lead insanely different lives from my own. Nothing that dude did for the last 40 years would even occur to me as an option
That was great. “Without being presumptuous, I think I am one of the top money launderers who ever worked for the government,” Vega says. “But I have something that is called integrity.” It would be a dream to have a category of expenses of model-related. But Vega says that the total was much less and that he blew it all on wine, jets, and other model-related expenses.
You know there is someone in the government doing something similar somewhere in the world, right now as well.
Article on the CPA that is in charge of trying to turn Warren Jeff's community into a real tax paying city. https://www.entrepreneur.com/amphtml/194192?__twitter_impression=true
Me too. although the one kid was pretending to be remorseful while shifting blame onto the school still. “They didn’t teach us enough detail about the holocaust.” What more did you need, dude
https://www.rollingstone.com/cultur...e-story-of-a-texas-gun-smuggling-ring-866836/ this was really good
I've had this story saved into Pocket for years but have never started it. Need to change that if it's getting re-posted years later.
didnt even realize it was old. read it yesterday when it was posted to longform.org it is really good
A perfect summation of Tampa. https://www.tampabay.com/news/flori...once-ruled-florida-streets-where-did-they-go/
It is about St. Pete. And one living in Orlando has only a short list of cities they can talk shit to (applies to Tampa as well).
This story is fascinating to me. Really want to hear a podcast on it -- now I just need to find a Pensacola based podcaster to do it. The story contains everything -- corporate corruption, mob-like activity, fraud, deaths/murder and still shrouded in mystery. It's an old story -- from 1989, but I bet some people would talk now... https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/18/us/florida-mystery-is-fueled-by-intrigues-and-4-deaths.html
Good one with stories on ticket scalping around the world... https://www.sbnation.com/platform/a...olympics-final-four?__twitter_impression=true
Interesting dude. Not entirely sure I can go with the PTSD made him hijack a plane so its ok idea but hope they help him. I actually get his 2nd planned attack way more. Glad he didn't do it though.
Good one on how an American federal agent was able to trace the fentanyl that killed a kid in North Dakota to the Chinese guy that got it sent to America. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/...-drug-ring.html#click=https://t.co/jMBZuGKId7
Posted in the Airbnb thread, but should probably post here as well. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb