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Aaron E Sanchez @1stworldchicano.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Cursing in Spanish while fixing things is the most Mexican thing about me. Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

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David Lovejoy @philadlj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WE HAVE THE MEATS

Sen Kennedy defiantly holding an Arby's Menu over an Sen Schmitt, who is looking like everyone should be impressed

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El Pochcast @elpochcast.pocho.online · 23/09/2026

New episode out with @randradefranco.bsky.social who talks about his latest for @texashighways.bsky.social and also about the experience of being a guest editor on the El Paso issue. Live from the Hyatt Place podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The Wind Breathes Heavy with Roberto José Andrade Franco

Podcast Episode · El Pochcast · September 23 · 31m

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Aaron E Sanchez @1stworldchicano.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The ads and the awful code switching in the ads make it nearly impossible to listen to any of them.

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El Pochcast @elpochcast.pocho.online · 02/09/2026

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A cool thing about NAFTA is it wrecked America's middle class union jobs in the 90s and now we have trade wars to wreck more middle class jobs anyway.

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Aaron E Sanchez @1stworldchicano.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I was in my second year at college and I asked my professor, an expert n US-Latinx literatures, what I should read. Without hesitation he said Benjamin Alire Saenz. I’ve been thinking about Carry Me Like Water since then. Benjamin Alire Saenz ¡PRESENTE!

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

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Maggie Elmore @mjelmore.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Houston is one of the nation’s most diverse cities. The usurpation of the democratic process is on full display. HISD’s democratically elected school board was replaced with political appointees. The result is a curriculum that will marginalize many of HISD’a families.

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Aaron E Sanchez @1stworldchicano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Nothing makes me feel more like a pocho than not caring about the World Cup but being excited about Western States, Hard Rock, and UTMB coming up.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"The party’s 2024 convention was defined by Christian nationalism. If that meeting was an assertion of their God-ordained dominion over American society, then the 2026 convention was a window into how they might wield such power—a preview of who will be excluded in their idealized nation."

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

They hate gender studies for the same reason they hate legitimate journalism: They don’t like people pointing out what they’re doing.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

NEW: I spent last week with Muslim Republicans - including the founder of CAIR Texas - as they tried to confront hate at the Texas GOP convention. It was a constant stream of anti-Muslim bigotry, a preview of what America will look like should Christian nationalists get their way.

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Being a Muslim Republican at the Texas GOP Convention

Muslim delegates at the party’s convention faced multiple attempts to eject them from the premises—at one point, they were told to leave the country.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

elon musk, the world’s first trillionaire, personally guaranteed a level of death and misery of an estimated 22 million people, a scale of horror utterly unthinkable even when weighed next to history’s all-time greatest monsters.

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Aid cuts could cause 22m avoidable deaths by 2030, study finds

Modelling suggests 5.4m children under five among those who could die if budgets of donor countries such as UK and US continue to be slashed

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The guiding principle of MAHA is neo-malthusianism and they quite literally believe that one of the most significant problems with our society is that not enough people are getting culled from the herd in childhood anymore.

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Sandi Villarreal @sandivillarreal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Learned a new Catholicism-related thing reading this, ty @dansolomon.com.

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Aaron E Sanchez @1stworldchicano.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

God has a preferential option for Los Spurs with all the señoras saying prayers for them. #GoSpursGo

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Aaron E Sanchez @1stworldchicano.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I watched the 2005 Finals with my grandma, tuning in a bit late when the games conflicted with her novela. But she prayed “en el nombre de Jesus” for every crucial free throw. Ginobli was her fav. I don’t know much about miracles but the Spurs won that year with God’s favor.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride y’all 🌈

a photo shows a bunch of tortillas made with different colors of corn to resemble a delicious rainbow

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Fidel Martinez @fidel.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Her final line: “La lucha sigue.” The fight continues.

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Center for Sports Communication & Media @ut-cscm.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The stories cited as Jenkins Medal Best Sportswriting finalists are powerful, hilarious and enlightening. All are reported and written by tremendously talented professionals. Profiles, features and deep dives. See all the nominated work at jenkinsmedal.com.

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Aaron E Sanchez @1stworldchicano.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The only thing tempering my schadenfreude over Cornyn’s embarrassing primary loss is the fact that Texans might be crazy enough to elect Paxton, a petty, corrupt, immoral philanderer with no interest in governing, let alone good government.

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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The DNC could have commissioned someone more competent once it became clear this was a wash, but giving up and then publishing it anyway just emphasizes their inability to hire and manage decent vendors

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Aaron E Sanchez @1stworldchicano.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This has been the story of so many “serious” Republicans—Sasse, Rubio, Cornyn. So many furrowed brows, so little solutions.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

"i spent all of high school on cqll of duty and pornhub instead of studying and now any random piece of information has the potential to warp my tiny brain"

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

JUST IN: After months of anticipation, Trump endorses Ken Paxton over John Cornyn.

The Highly Respected Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, an America First Patriot, and someone who has always been extremely loyal to me and our AMAZING MAGA MOVEMENT, is running for the United States Senate, to represent a place I love and WON, BIG, three times, with 6.4 Million Votes in 2024 (The Most Votes in the History of the State, BY FAR)!

I know Ken well, have seen him tested at the highest and most difficult levels, and he is a WINNER! Ken is a Strong Supporter of TERMINATING THE FILIBUSTER and, very importantly, THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, something which polls at 87%, including Dumocrats, and yet can’t seem to get approved. Perhaps Ken can help move these important elements of Government forward because with the Filibuster, as an example, the Democrats will terminate it on their First Day in Office, giving us two extra States, D.C. and Puerto Rico, and a greatly enlarged Supreme Court of the United States, probably going with their Dream Number of 21 Justices from the 9 that we currently have — And these new Justices will be Radical Left Lunatics! Two years ago, our Country was DEAD — Now we have the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World — And I want to keep it that way. Ken Paxton will help me do that, MAKING AMERICA BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!

Ken is a true MAGA Warrior who has ALWAYS delivered for Texas, and will continue to do so in the United States Senate. He will tirelessly fight to continue the Great Growth of our Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations (I just delivered the Largest Tax and Regulation Cuts in American History!), and Advance MADE IN THE U.S.A., Unleash American Energy DOMINANCE, Champion Texas Oil & Gas, Advocate for our Amazing Farmers and Ranchers, Promote School Choice, Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Support our Incredible Military/Veterans, Safeguard our Elections, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment.

John Cornyn is a good man, and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough and, despite having the Most Successful Economy in the History of our Country during my First Term and, with all of the many other things that I accomplished (Secure Border, Military Dominance, Space Force, All Time High Stock Markets and 401(k)s, Record Job and Economic Growth, and so many other things that would be impossible to readily list!), which are considered by many to be legendary, John was very late in backing me in what turned out to be a Historic Run for the Republican Nomination, and then, the Presidency, itself, both of which were Landslide Victories and, more importantly, gave us the Country that we have today — THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA (and when we finish up with Iran, which will not be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon, you will see numbers that have never been generated by our Country before!), as opposed to the DISASTER of the previous Administration.

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Gus Bova @gusbova.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

23 years in the U.S. Senate and it ends* like this, and you didn't even stand up to the guy anyway. *probably

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Anyway, reiterating that point that it is impossible for the US to "win" this situation or do anything to bring it to a resolution one way or another because this country can no longer make *credible* commitments of any kind, full stop.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Am I wrong though?

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 02/05/2026

Frederick Douglass in 1883, after the Civil Rights Cases were handed down, cut to the chase: "O for a Supreme Court of the United States which shall be as true to the claims of humanity as the Supreme Court formerly was to the demands of slavery! omeka.coloredconventions.org/files/origin...

Excerpt of Frederick Douglass speech:

O for a Supreme Court of the United States which shall be as true to the claims of humanity as the Supreme Court formerly was to the demands of slavery! When that day comes, as come it will, a Civil Rights Bill will not be declared unconstitutional and void, in utter and flagrant disregard of the objects and intentions of the National legislature by which it was enacted, and of the rights plainly secured by the Constitution.

This decision of the Supreme Court admits that the Fourteenth Amendment is a prohibition on the States. It admits that a State shall not abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, but commits the seeming absurdity of allowing the people of a State to do what it prohibits the State itself from doing.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 02/05/2026

Watching all these GOP-controlled states race each other to gerrymander their districts before the 2026 midterms, it is hard for me to look at the timing of Callais and not conclude that the conservative justices decided the case on the earlier side to do their fellow Republicans a favor

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The Republican Justices Want to Help Republican Politicians Win Elections

The Supreme Court just issued a decision making it easier for lawmakers to racially gerrymander their states. Republicans are already racing to take advantage.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/05/2026

clear goal of republicans in these states is to, in the words of carter glass, “eliminate every Negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

What we can expect in the aftermath of this ruling is for more Republican-controlled states to implement discriminatory maps and call them partisan so they can pass legal muster. In practical terms, this will likely mean fewer nonwhite representatives in Congress. Diminishing the power of minority voters may also allow the Republican Party to continue on its path from reactionary color-blindness to more overt racism, safe in the assumption that it will not have to answer to constituents who oppose such racism because they are its targets. There is little risk in attacking people who lack the power to remove you from office.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

8. So while I don't think Callais is *apocalyptic* for Democrats, it's still a hideous perversion of the Constitution that will undermine democracy and racial equality for years. The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead. The 15th Amendment has been repurposed to greenlight racism. It's a dark day.

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Aaron E Sanchez @1stworldchicano.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Can’t wait to read Salt Lakes by @cetracey.bsky.social! Listen to this interview and go order a copy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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Caroline Tracey,

Podcast Episode · New Books Network · April 3 · 46m

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 29/04/2026

With very ominous language, Justice Elena Kagan says that today’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais ends the Supreme Court’s “now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.” 6-to-3 vote in favor of white voters who challenged a Black-majority district in La. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 29/04/2026

NEW: Now that the Supreme Court has rendered the last remaining pillar of the VRA toothless, Republicans in eight states are free to gerrymander more than a dozen congressional districts that had been designed to remedy discrimination against Black and Latino voters. We catalog them all here -->

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With the VRA gutted, the GOP could target over a dozen Black and Latino House districts

The assault would be devastating for minority voting rights—and for Democrats

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.'

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It is worth, I think, emphasizing that in trampling congressional attempts to protect the rights of Black people, the Court is basically doing what it has always done, with the exception of a couple decades in the mid-20th century when it often worked with Congress to protect the rights of Black ppl

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Aaron E Sanchez @1stworldchicano.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Need this think piece fully written out.

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 28/04/2026

ICE's detention capability in four slides. 1. All existing immigration detention centers in operation today 2. Plus all purchased warehouses (minus paused/halted ones) 3. Plus all facilities proposed to be reopened or acquired 4. Plus all hold rooms and check-in sites used for detainee 'staging'

A map of the US containing numerous white circles of various sizes, indicating the location and capacity of existing ICE detention centers.

A map of the US containing numerous white and red circles of various sizes, indicating the location and capacity of existing ICE detention centers and warehouses purchased for the purpose of immigrant detention.

A map of the US containing numerous white, red, purple, and yellow circles of various sizes, indicating the location and capacity of existing ICE detention centers, warehouses purchased for the purpose of immigrant detention, and planned sites for contract or acquisition.

A map of the US containing numerous white, red, purple, yellow, and pink circles of various sizes, indicating the location and capacity of existing ICE detention centers, warehouses purchased for the purpose of immigrant detention, planned sites for contract or acquisition, and hold rooms and sub offices used for detainee staging.

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