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Boy Mom, currently stuck in Texas, fan of PNW, music, and tv soaps

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 07/10/2026
In the last 24 hours, Elon added $5,423,645.66. New totals include: $13,131,789.48 vs @jamestalarico.bsky.social $6,308,848.86 vs @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social $5,117,111.82 vs @abdulelsayed.bsky.social $1,991,872.98 vs @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social $1,176,301.42 vs @troyjackson207.bsky.social
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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One of the first features I ever wrote was for the Mizzou football game program. It was a big deal as a student worker in sports info to get to write it. Who is being robbed of this opportunity by this nonsense?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The most Republican thing ever is to claim you suddenly care about affordability by giving a speech at a yacht club.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
By the way this is all happening amid this crazy lawsuit, if you haven’t read about it. Extraordinary work by @burness.bsky.social reporting all this, be sure to follow him. boltsmag.org/readmission-...
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A Voting Rights Promise, Betrayed for 156 Years - Bolts
After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they quickly ignored the restriction. It has finally caught up with one state, w...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Despite having zero experience, ProPublica founded two private schools this year. You probably could, too! Take our quiz to find out just how easy it can be, then share your results with us by tagging @propublica.org.
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Quiz: Where Could You Open a Private School? — ProPublica
Private school requirements vary wildly across states. Take our quiz to find out just how easy starting one can be.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When was the last time the press ran a story about republicans making intemperate remarks about democrats? Fretting about whether republicans are doing enough to be bipartisan, to reach out to the forgotten voters who favor the democrats?
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BarrySummers™🌊🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 🇵🇸🌊 @newsforachange.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants | Houston Public Media
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.
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San Antonio Express-News @expressnews.com · 03/10/2026
The 1989 Texas Supreme Court case that found the state’s school funding system unconstitutional centered on Alamo Heights and Edgewood ISDs. But new disparities have emerged outside that system — in the education foundations that nearly every S.A. school district partners with. bit.ly/46YSOw1
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE just kidnapped a woman at LAX airport Saturday Oct 3, 12:50AM. A community member was able to record when several ICE goons who refused to identify themselves grabbed the woman, put her into a van and then drove off.
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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
... what www.al.com/news/2026/10...
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A poll meant to question PBS found Trump underwater in Alabama, instead
Trump's support in Alabama doesn't mirror the intensity of disapproval.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: It's that time of year: time to launch my annual guide to November's elections! I guide you through over *650* interesting elections, & why they matter. Judges, AGs, govs, mayors, lawmakers, AGs, county & school boards—plus many (many) ballot measures. Oh, & Congress. Explore & bookmark!
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
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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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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...
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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect
Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
".. Groceries are just like kind of out of control," said Bethany Lnenicka, 41, who operates a small farm in Fairfax, Iowa. "It's just one thing and the next week it's another thing. It's just insane. And of course your income doesn't go up." @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...
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Most Americans blame Trump for high prices as midterms approach, a new AP-NORC poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans blame President Donald Trump for persistently high prices, while only about 2 in 10 approve of his handling of the cost of living.
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Bill McBride @calculatedrisk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
30-year fixed at 7.60% www.mortgagenewsdaily.com
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 30/09/2026
Attorney General Ken Paxton said the Trump-led GOP convention in Dallas “dropped our numbers,” according to a recent audio recording published by The New York Times.
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Ken Paxton privately said Trump’s convention hurt his Senate bid
The attorney general said the Trump-led GOP gathering in Dallas “dropped our numbers,” according to a recent audio recording published by The New York Times.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.
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Cardboard Art @cardboard-art.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
HOW TO BECOME THE LEAST POPULAR GOVERNOR IN AMERICA Jim Pillen and the great Nebraska bankruptcy It took grit & hard work for a GOP governor endorsed by Trump in a +20 MAGA state to become the least popular governor in America, but Jim pulled it off. medium.com/thought-thin...
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Caught in the Mar-a-Lago Vortex
Jim Pillen and the great Nebraska bankruptcy
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 28/09/2026
5 suicides in 5 weeks. What’s going on at Cyber Command at Fort Meade?
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5 suicides in 5 weeks. What’s going on at Cyber Command at Fort Meade?
Five people whose work supported missions at U.S Cyber Command and the National Security Agency at Fort George G. Meade died by suicide within a month of each other this summer. Lawmakers are asking questions...
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 27/09/2026
I'm still thinking about how Don Jr.'s wedding weekend was funded by the Russian oligarch who's working with Vladimir Putin to fund the anti-trans sports movement. Discussed @propublica.org's reporting with @katienolan.bsky.social + @cruzkayne.bsky.social on the new PTFO: youtu.be/E5F9NuLxZfw?...
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Reacting to Don Jr.'s Wedding, Kardashian's "Team Moms" + Anti-Trans Panic | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkR
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 27/09/2026
Tim Tebow announced he is “pausing” his relationship with Life Surge following our investigation with @kieraevebutler.bsky.social @motherjones.com. More to come:
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seconded and posted. Everyone else get aboard and let it fly.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For those of us who've been following PRECISELY this issue for decades, it's like the regularity of bird migrations. Obviously bogus claims (migrating north), fully & categorically debunked (migrating south) a month later. In the old days it was John Fund at WSJ oped page. Now it's DHS/DOJ.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
7.37% mortgage rates
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San Antonio Express-News @expressnews.com · 24/09/2026
Hinojosa never directly voted to “make your property taxes go even higher.” The state legislature does not levy property taxes – counties and school districts do.
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Fact check: Abbott ad says Gina Hinojosa voted 40 times to raise property taxes
Hinojosa never directly voted to “make your property taxes go even higher.” The state legislature does not levy property taxes – counties and school districts do.
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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Read this.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 23/09/2026
“This is pretty simple physics. This would be the single largest, single-site energy source — heat source — on the planet and that includes volcanoes. And it’s in the middle of this ecosystem that’s already in a pretty advanced state of collapse.” www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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AI Data Centers Release Heat, Posing New Problem for Cities
As facilities to power AI grow larger and are built in clusters, they are spreading hot air beyond their property lines
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some background on Bennett, his funding of the TASB alternative known as Texans for Excellence in Education, and the consultants that have helped politicize nonpartisan school board elections www.texasobserver.org/school-board...
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Partisans Are Politicizing Our Schools
A network of PACs, and political consultants and lobbyists has quietly infiltrated school board elections. From Steven Monacelli.
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San Antonio Express-News @expressnews.com · 23/09/2026
The mother of a South Texas teenager whose detention by immigration agents was captured in a viral video has been deported, days after publicly criticizing authorities over her son's arrest. bit.ly/4AqN0ZF
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 23/09/2026
lots of interesting stuff in the crosstabs here but let’s start by highlighting trump’s eighty (80) percent disapproval among voters under 30
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NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 23/09/2026
A ground stop is in effect at Reagan National Airport as of 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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Ground stop issued for DCA
A runway was closed earlier Tuesday night, but it is unclear if that is related to the ground stop.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump's July financial disclosure is live. While serving as president he had time to trade nearly 1200 times in the market during July. extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When his ex-wife abducted his sons and fled to Russia, David Barnes did what any father might do—he tried to save them. Now he’s the one who needs saving. Inside the Texas child-custody dispute that spiraled into an international diplomatic standoff:
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Republican Governor Jim Pillen has been a champion of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. But at least 20 of his family farms employed undocumented immigrants, according to a new investigation by the Flatwater Free Press and The New York Times. youtu.be/5RZgrR1_7Dc?...
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This GOP governor said ‘illegal aliens’ have ‘invaded.’ His family farms EMPLOYED them, report finds
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FLEX IT TO SNF ROG
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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 20/09/2026
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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San Antonio Express-News @expressnews.com · 20/09/2026
A major K-pop festival set to take place in San Antonio has been postponed until next year because of visa delays, organizers said. Scheduled for Oct. 28-31 at the Alamodome, KPOPWORLD Festival & Worldwide Dance Competition is now on hold until 2027. bit.ly/4hCJBzv
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So in addition to being a former clerk to SCOTUS Justice Neil Gorsuch, Mike Davis’ lobbying clients include Hewlett Packard and Walmart. Have the CEOs of those companies been asked to “disavow” and “sever their relationships” with Mike Davis?? He is a grotesque racist.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Statement from the Radio Television Digital News Association:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
here's footage of Mamdani alongside city workers filling the 200,000th NYC pothole since the start of his term This is part of his push to spotlight city workers and inform New Yorkers that all the fixes they ask for "should be directed to the real heroes, City Workers, who can be reached via 311"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/09/2026
ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax. Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes. (Published Dec. 2024)
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How Billionaires Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the Rich
Wall Street financiers were a clear target of the tax, but some, on questionable legal grounds, have claimed their outsized profits were exempt, sometimes avoiding hundreds of millions in taxes.
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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rep. Andy Harris R-MD, the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, wants to temporarily suspend the federal gasoline tax to help with higher prices. But when Democrats proposed that same thing in 2022, Harris blasted the idea.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While wage and salary growth has slowed to roughly pre-pandemic levels, health insurance costs have surged. Sage Eco @soberlook Carl Quintanilla
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Jesus Christ they killed this kid
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