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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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💙💙~Patty~💙💙 @pattyger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Dav Raye @davraye.bsky.social · 21h
The Trump administration is a criminal conspiracy. Of course they did this. Then screamed it was George Soros.
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democra.... #USpol #USA In Australia we can eat and drink whilst in line on election day. In fact because our elections are compulsory and held on a Saturday, School halls are used as polling Stations. Schools fundraise by selling food and drink. We celebrate our Democracy.
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Democracy sausage - Wikipedia
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Taint @taint9.bsky.social · 22h
Sure is
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months. Read More👉 ebx.sh/FFZdl8
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Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Instead of throwing away empty oyster shells, local restaurants across Galveston, Clear Lake and Houston are helping Galveston Bay Foundation put the shells back in the water to serve as a new home for baby oysters.
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Local restaurants help Galveston Bay Foundation rebuild oyster habitat through shell recycling
Instead of throwing away empty oyster shells, local restaurants across Galveston, Clear Lake and Houston are helping Galveston Bay Foundation put the shells back in the water to serve as a new home for baby oysters. The effort comes amid a growing need for oyster restoration across the Texas Coast. 
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
He tried really, really hard in 2020. With his souring presidency on the line, he’s intensifying his efforts again. You know what we’re talking about: Trump’s election meddling.
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"Cheat like hell": can Trump actually rig the 2026 midterms?
Trump is 0-25 in court on voter rolls. But the real danger may still be ahead. Ari Berman joins the debut episode of "Stress Test" to explain why.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 02/10/2026
Out today: “I am a Texas woman and a former Republican. I know the language of party loyalty. I know the fear of handing power to 'the other side.' But no democracy survives if voters are told that the office matters more than the person entrusted to hold it.”
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Angela Paxton's Message: Elect the Elephant at All Costs
Her appeal to put party loyalty above character and accountability ignores the price women will pay if Ken Paxton becomes a U.S. senator.
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Texas passed the Life of the Mother Act in 2025, aiming to clarify the narrow medical exception to the state's abortion ban. Advocates are still working to spread the word. Read More👉 ebx.sh/CO9Krc
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
On this week’s More To The Story from our friends at Reveal, host Al Letson talks with Florida State Rep. and Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon about whether her progressive message can win in deep-red Florida. Listen now:
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Can a Democratic Socialist win in deep-red Florida?
Angie Nixon’s outspoken and progressive campaign for US Senate tries for an upset in the November midterms.
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Companies have changed the way they price their products — and shoppers are getting deliberately overcharged. Here are steps you can take to ensure you are getting the best deal.
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How to hide your spending habits from retailers (so you don't get ripped off)
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
Patel, month after month, has been mostly failing at his original mission to weaponize the FBI against Trump’s political enemies, but he is certainly succeeding at turning the FBI into a laughingstock, which in some ways will likely prove even more damaging to our country over the long term.
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The disgrace and danger of Kash Patel
Here's the latest on the FBI director's raft of scandals—including, of course, the bestiality.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
Immigration law is infamous for its impossible hours and laughable salaries, but since early 2025, the sense of purpose that animates so many immigration attorneys has been tested by the federal government’s efforts to target them—and their budgets. The ensuing chaos nearly broke them.
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First Trump came for immigrants. Then he came for their lawyers.
How legal aid groups survived the administration’s attacks—barely.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 30/09/2026
Previously: At least 3 people have died at Camp East Montana in the past year, including one incident, ruled a homicide, where a 55-year-old died after a beating by security guards. One report found dozens of violations of national detention standards.
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ICE Contractor for Controversial Camp East Montana Is Trailed by Fraud Allegations
To continue running the deadly El Paso detention center, the feds turn to a company that’s faced numerous lawsuits from labor unions and former employees and is actively fighting a whistleblower in…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
@davidcorn.bsky.social just published a book that exposes Russian disinformation operations. Now he—that is, a fake version of him—has become part of a Russian disinformation operation.
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How I got dragged into a Putin disinformation op
This just confirms the warning in my new book.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
The second Trump administration has tested legal aid groups more than ever before. Here's how they're surviving.
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First Trump came for immigrants. Then he came for their lawyers.
How legal aid groups survived the administration’s attacks—barely.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
The Department of Homeland Security has already promised that it will flout any law attempting to ban the gloves.
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California bans ICE’s favorite shock gloves
A DHS spokesperson has said the agency “will not abide” by any state ban.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026
Incredible reporting by @tinavasquez.bsky.social here. A story about how the people who put food on American tables are denied water or even the ability to carry it with them or meaningfully ask for it to be provided, lest they lose their jobs working in oppressive heat.
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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Political Cartoonists are the best. deAdder rocks it every time he sits down and draws his next masterpiece.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible. When he fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge for a profit. When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power. When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 21/09/2026
Featured story: Last week, Bo French's racist viral tweet brought national attention to the often overlooked race for Texas Railroad Commissioner. Here's how some key Texas GOP politicians and pundits reacted.
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Not All Texas Republicans Are Condemning Bo French
While many top Texas GOP leaders rushed to denounce the Railroad Commissioner nominee's latest racist screed, another assortment of Lone Star conservatives has stood behind him.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom has blocked Democratic efforts to enshrine one of the most important protections for blue-state abortion providers—a ban on extraditions.
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Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 27/09/2026
“Rural voters are a huge part of the electoral firewall that the GOP maintains in Texas.” Last week, from @edenshamy.bsky.social: With the midterms approaching, Dems in the land of red dirt and even redder politics are determined to make their own blue wave.
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‘Up Against a 500-Pound Gorilla’: Can Dems Make Inroads in Deep-Red West Texas?
With a candidate on the ballot in every state and federal race, the minority party is trying hard to gain some ground in the GOP’s electoral firewall.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 27/09/2026
“We already spent $50 million and basically have nothing to show for it. We’re gonna have all these additional costs associated with canceling the project.” From @dylanbaddour.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: What is the future of Corpus Christi's costly desalination project?
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Corpus Christi Could Owe Texas $235M for Failed Desalination Plant
City leaders hope to revive the twice-rejected project to avoid returning money loaned by the state.
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The next morning, I decided to do a fruit-and-vegetable cleanse for the next 24 hours, so the fiber could brush the red dye 40 out of my system," writes Dan Solomon. www.texasmonthly.com/food/texas-dai…
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What It’s Like to Judge the Food Competition at the State Fair of Texas
I've always been curious how the State Fair of Texas ranks its food creations. This year (after a slice of Flamin' Hot pizza and a chocolate corny dog) I got to join in the judging myself.
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Do all Texans want us to have springs that last forever along with creeks, along with healthy rivers? Yeah, of course, everybody wants that,” said Ben Masters, director of “Deep in the Heart 2.”
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Texas nature doc celebrates waterways and issues a challenge for sustaining them
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
“Most LLMs (including those from OpenAI) are built on millions of scraped webpages and other large text datasets, and almost none of this content has been obtained with its owners’ knowledge or consent.” This is how tech executives talk when no one thinks they’re listening.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
Bookseller Brandon Thomas DiSabatino started receiving strange emails from a company requesting large and odd orders. DiSabatino quickly became concerned that the company might be trying to buy his books for an ulterior—and to him, sinister—purpose: to ship rare books to an AI training facility.
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A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today on Gold Star Mother’s and Family’s Day, we honor the mothers and families who have suffered an unimaginable loss in service to our country. We owe them our gratitude, our respect, and a commitment to always remember the sacrifice their families have made.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
More on ERIC, an election verification system Republicans demanded, and then abandoned when it wasn’t generating the evidence of fraud they wanted via @michaelmechanic.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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States already have a good way to ensure election integrity—and MAGA hates it
The rejection of ERIC by GOP officials has, ironically, undermined their own voting systems.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
By gutting the Voting Rights Act, John Roberts has opened the door for Louisiana, a state whose population is nearly a third Black, to have exactly zero majority-Black voting districts.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
Netanyahu's UN speech was a full-on defense of Israel's settlements
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Netanyahu's UN speech was a full-on defense of Israel's settlements
“Peaceful settlers, honorable people” are being smeared, Israel's prime minister said.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fort Worth ISD implemented the gold standard for overhauling its struggling schools. It wasn't enough to stop a takeover of the entire district. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Repukes are the party of death. 😡
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
“In a hallway, indoors, or a crowded classroom, the 870 is brutal,” ChatGPT told the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter about the shotgun. “Close quarters is its playground.” From our new investigation:
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A key Texas Republican lawmaker says state officials must be held accountable for an error that led to a backlog of at least 178,000 voter registration applications from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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Key GOP lawmaker says state should have caught error that delayed at least 178,000 Texas voter registrations
Meanwhile, Gov. Greg Abbott, who appoints the state’s top election official and is locked in a tight race in November, hasn’t commented on the error.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 25/09/2026
“That’s going to be a painful experience if the State of Texas calls our notes due.” New from @dylanbaddour.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: A proposed desalination plant in this drought-stricken city has turned into a costly boondoggle, and one that could leave taxpayers with a hefty bill.
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Corpus Christi Could Owe Texas $235M for Failed Desalination Plant
City leaders hope to revive the twice-rejected project to avoid returning money loaned by the state.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chinese media allowed at WH. American media banned in defiance of a court order.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can’t believe our tax dollars are being used for political ads. The White House is now airing a taxpayer-funded ad during commercial breaks on Fox News. The 30-second spot has all the markings of a campaign ad, except the disclaimer at the bottom says: “Paid for by the U.S. Government.”
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Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Deep in the giant underground salt caverns of Louisiana and Texas, the U.S. government stores hundreds of millions of barrels of crude oil.
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The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is low. Here’s why you should care
The U.S. has tapped into its strategic oil reserve to help drive down rising gasoline prices in the wake of the war with Iran. Can oil from Venezuela help fill it back up?
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 25/09/2026
“All of the documents said that sludge they were putting on the land could come back and hurt people.” North Texas residents are still fighting to be heard after a test showing their homes, built atop drilling waste, are "safe."
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Did These North Texas Developers Have a Duty to Disclose Oil and Gas Waste History?
A housing development and school was built atop an old drilling waste site in Johnson County. New test results came back safe, but it’s unclear what the homebuyers had a legal right to know.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was told by a guy on Truth Social who wears orange makeup that leaking to the press was treason and people should be prosecuted for it.
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Democracy USA @oilgaschemicals.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So now if someone asks a question to A GOP member of Congress and they don't like the question they call it harassment and threaten to call police? WTF AMERICA
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