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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 1h

The 27 percent not mentioned here are anti-semantic-ites.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 2h

begun the chocolate wars have

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 4h

Confirmed, ducks are now in the files.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 14h

This is a perfect demonstration of why Marsha Blackburn won't debate Jerri Green in Tennessee.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 15h

Maine is one of those states that I've never been to, never lived close to, and is just phenomenally quirky, so I hesitate to speculate what is going on there. But if this were a state I nominally understand -- like say, Texas or Virginia -- I would say it's incredibly Joever for Susan Collins.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 15h

Joe Biden is still saltier than Susan Collins's road salt.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I just hope the Commonwealth's attorneys are competent.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

likes and clicks means never having to say you're sorry

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The 2024 election was now 23 months ago. What exactly are they hoping to accomplish here, besides sow FUD about the election process, and attract attention to themselves? It's getting downright Trumpian at this point.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

mark collins, age 45, gave himself up to authorities after the incident. he is now serving a life sentence.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The whole discourse around birthright citizenship is indicative. The anti- argument almost always boils down to "we don't want those people getting our free stuff," with a dash of arglebargle about "culture." Citizenship these days seems to be about entitlement, not about obligation or belonging.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Me, a very smart center-left millennial: "Liberalism is good because it doesn't tell you what the meaning of life is, instead it lets you find your own meaning of life." Kids today: "Sounds hard."

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Marianna Bacallao @mariannabac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“This is a job interview. I’m just the only one showing up for it:” Democrat Jerri Green is hosting a series of empty podium town halls across Tennessee as U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn refuses to debate other candidates for governor. wpln.org/post/as-blac...

wpln.org

As Blackburn refuses to debate, Tennessee Democrat Jerri Green holds empty podium forum

It was standing-room only in the ballroom of a Brentwood hotel as hundreds of people packed in to see Democratic Memphis City Council member Jerri Green

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am amazed by how pro-Palestinian activists have one of the most sympathetic causes in the world and yet regularly manage to make their cause and themselves seem completely unlikable.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

About every other ad for me is Talarico begging for money. I'm in Tennessee. I like the guy. But this is a tad overwhelming.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Because there's still decent Mexican food in most small towns.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not in Texas but this comes across to me as cult stuff. At the very least forgetting that what plays in a county Republican Party meeting doesn't play with the general public. Not even in a red state.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was a year out of law school, 26...💀

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was just thinking last night that this year has some really strong 2008 vibes. The GOP has screwed up really badly and lost really hugely. They were basically doomed after 11/2008 until they invented the Tea Party out of pure copium. It's possible 2026-28 is going to spiritually break them.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have a strong feeling that, in addition to having a FOX News-level bias, Newsweek also pays its journalists by the word. Because I swear I see articles that look just the same as other articles from a week before. Not to mention every breathless report on a presidential approval poll.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I always liked him, but yeah he is def fully capable of going from based to cringe in 5 seconds.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 02/10/2026

texans: you still have three days to register to vote

TPR
Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants
By Andrew Schneider | Houston Public Media

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I should say I am not practicing law in Tennessee, so rarely see our judges in court. But I am chair of the county Democratic Party, and I really hate having to deal with judicial elections, because I think it's kinda bad that they are even being voted on.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Appellate courts are inherently more political, I think, but Tennessee decided to make them the most shielded from ordinary politics (only one Tennessee supreme court justice has ever lost a retention election in living memory). Whereas trial courts are mostly apolitical, but are partisan in TN.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I briefly practiced law in Galveston County. Moved to Tennessee. The trial judges here are elected on a partisan basis and the appellate judges here are appointed and then up for retention elections, which are nominally non-partisan. Not sure which system I prefer.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And they will find it... In like Hayseed County, Arkansas, or somewhere like that.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A conservative who has read one book

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If only they had AI to explain to them how dumb they were.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

K7UGA being a real one... got up to see the sunset on Election Day 1964, couldn't find anyone in the Arizona desert to talk to, so he got on his ham radio to talk to folks about the weather, then went to vote.

youtube.com

Election Year '64: NBC News's Coverage of the Presidential Elections (November 3-4, 1964)

YouTube video by Cristopher Miles

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My opinion on capital punishment, in the abstract, is, shall we say, nuanced. But I'm 100 percent against incompetence and needless suffering. People in TDOC need to be fired over the second botched execution.

tennessean.com

Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Pathway to citizenship" is broadly popular nationally, so I am not saying Texas is exceptionally pro-immigration, but I do think Texas is squarely in the mainstream of national, public opinion.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Was Texas ever really anti-immigration though? May lean MAGA on other stuff (economics), but most Texans personally know immigrants. There's a fair bit of evidence that the most anti-immigrant voters are the ones who don't know any. Anyway, I think public opinion in Texas is nuanced.

spectrumlocalnews.com

Study finds Texans vary on issues of border security and immigration

A new study found that Texans have a variety of viewpoints when it comes to the complex issues surrounding immigration.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dear IRS, I've never been 44 before.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Production on the streets, test in the (balance) sheets.

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How does reducing the number of eligible professors contribute toward having the greatest military on earth?

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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They have subpoena power, I assume.

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