
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 26, 2026
Aug 26, 2026
16 min
Pflugerville terminates its license plate camera contract after millions of unexpected data searches, property managers settle nationwide rent-fixing claims, and Alaska prepares for a ballot featuring two candidates named Dan Sullivan.
Aug 25, 2026
Aug 25, 2026
19 min
Austin Council Member Paige Ellis stalls on the municipal ballot after missing a signature threshold, DHS prices new H-1B visa petitions at over $100,000, and Australia blocks fully AI-generated tracks from its music charts.
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.
