Brian is founding member of The Barbed Wire team. A longtime Texas journalist, he has written for the Austin American-Statesman, the Waco Tribune-Herald, Texas Monthly, and more. He was also a writer and producer at Rooster Teeth.
If you’re someone who enjoys quality meats, we have a devastating story for you. Authorities confiscated more than 700 pounds of bologna at the Texas-Mexico border on Monday, when Border Patrol agents busted a woman who apparently had an uncontrollable addiction to cold cuts. In addition to seizing
Turns out that kicking millions of people off Medicaid is really bad! The Texas Tribune and ProPublica investigated how Texas behaved in the aftermath of COVID-19, and — surprise!! — we were extremely shitty toward poor people who needed healthcare. To briefly sum up, we kicked more than two million people
Great news! Alex Jones’ shitty media empire could be dead soon! The former Austin public access TV host may finally be suffering some consequences for his disgusting lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting being fake, which led to grieving parents being harassed for years by Jones’ followers. (One
The fall is a magical time of year for Texans. It brings all the best stuff, like football, frigid 89-degree temperatures, and election season. It also brings lots of disgusting crickets that get everywhere, stink to high heaven, and make us wonder which vengeful god we’ve pissed off
Most of the “Trump Train” supporters have officially beaten voter intimidation allegations in a civil trial after a federal jury decided that they weren’t financially liable for swarming a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris campaign bus on Interstate 35 in 2020. Well, all except one. A lone Trump supporter, however,
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton bravely came to the defense of the oil and gas industry Monday, suing the Biden administration for daring to try and protect a rare lizard. The tiny reptile in question is the dunes sagebrush lizard, which lives in sand dunes about 30 miles west of
We’ve got another story about a Waco-area religious group accused of being culty (no, not that one). The Independent, a U.K.-based online newspaper, interviewed six former Homestead Heritage members who were born into the insular religious community but left the church as adults. They called it
If you’re going to the State Fair of Texas next week, you’ll have to keep your assault rifles at home. Dallas County District Judge Emily Tobolowsky denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request to stop a gun ban from taking effect when the fair opens next week,
Should we be able to pack pistols at the State Fair of Texas? A judge heard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against the City of Dallas, which banned firearms at the event. Paxton has sued the city and the beloved State Fair of
Texas is wonderful, but it’s also home to some of the most disgusting creatures on God’s green earth. For every beautiful vista, every awesome live band, every plate of barbecue or Tex-Mex, there’s a creepy-crawly critter lurking in the shadows waiting to ruin your day.
Famed author John Grisham and a bipartisan group of 86 lawmakers think Texas is about to make a big mistake: executing an innocent man. The man in question is Robert Roberson, 57, who has been on death row for allegedly shaking to death his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki, for
A massive pipeline explosion in the Houston area was still burning Tuesday morning. Nearly 1,000 homes were evacuated early Monday in Deer Park after a vehicle drove through a fence and struck an above-ground valve connected to the natural gas pipeline, the Associated Press reported. Witnesses said it