
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 movements, and global political theater with deadpan clarity, dry wit, and just enough patience to reach the sign-off.
Episodes
Aug 24, 2026
Aug 24, 2026
16 min
Texas faces strict deadlines for psychiatric hospital beds, Tesla recalls millions of cars over hidden interior door handles, and a senior Fauci adviser pleads guilty to concealing coronavirus records.
Aug 23, 2026
Aug 23, 2026
15 min
Texas regulators admit no state agency tracks water use by data centers, Washington freezes tariffs on foreign ground beef to lower grocery prices, and Canada prepares retaliatory tariffs against American imports.
Aug 22, 2026
Aug 22, 2026
14 min
Leander stalls a resort lagoon over collapsing neighborhood wells, California tests tire makers with friction rules, and Washington hits Canada with fifty-percent tariffs as trade talks collapse.
Aug 21, 2026
Aug 21, 2026
15 min
Texas engineers price a high-dollar passenger rail line around freight tracks, California AI hardware absorbs massive venture capital, and Washington reroutes foreign deportees on charter flights to Liberia.
Aug 20, 2026
Aug 20, 2026
15 min
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.
Aug 19, 2026
Aug 19, 2026
17 min
Minnesota sues Texas over a stalled ICE agent extradition as a Chinese robot maker tests public markets and ABC blocks FCC station license reviews.
Aug 18, 2026
Aug 18, 2026
18 min
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.
Aug 17, 2026
Aug 17, 2026
15 min
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.
