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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h
Hegseth's appointment is designed to give Musk an unfair advantage over other merchants of death in securing arms contracts, and a slot as preferred vendor for the construction of Trump's new Skynet system. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces
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Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 14h
State lawmakers passed generous homestead exemptions that have allowed some 60% of Texas homeowners age 65 and up to pay $0 in school property taxes.
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Texas seniors are getting a huge property tax break. Everyone else is picking up the tab
State lawmakers passed generous homestead exemptions that have allowed some 60% of Texas homeowners age 65 and up to pay $0 in school property taxes.
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Jaypay @jaypay.bsky.social · 23h
houstonchronicle.com
They voted for Trump. Now his immigration crackdown could separate their family.
A Honduran woman’s potential departure is forcing her conservative Bellaire family to confront the hard truth about President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please give these journalists their flowers.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have one house.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Jack Smith testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans still turn a blind eye to the Jan 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol” @anntelnaes.bsky.social On SUBSTACK anntelnaes.substack.com
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/09/2026
The student got excellent writing instruction--they went to an IB school, one of their parents is a professor, and they got through high school without ever using AI tools. But now, they feel they have to abandon all they learned about good writing, to avoid being accused of cheating with AI.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/09/2026
So-called AI detection tools might be an even bigger scurge than AI. I was talking today with a student (a senior), who shared that they now have to spend time "dumbing down" their papers--shortening sentences, removing advanced vocab and punctuation--because otherwise they get flagged as "AI."
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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 30/09/2026
Between Republican Senators (and influencers) beclowning themselves for not knowing how to do research and the White House misspelling the name of the goddamn country on their AI agreement, it certainly has been a banner day for their vision of meritocracy
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not you.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
youtu.be/rmhVw6q-KOA?...
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Bobby Ponders About Quasimodo - The Sopranos HD
YouTube video by TonySoprano
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: Seems as though the full DC Circuit Court is poised to green-light Judge Boasberg's contempt investigation into the government for failing to turn the planes bound for CECOT around. Trump will then likely seek an emergency stay from SCOTUS. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Appeals court weighs fate of judge's contempt probe over Trump administration deportation flights
An appeals court is weighing whether a judge can continue investigating whether the Trump administration illegally flouted an order blocking the deportation of planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to El ...
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lots being said about this, but another important dynamic here is that a generation of GOP staffers has been raised with such contempt for journalism and factfinding that they've never stopped to think how basic journalistic factfinding practices could save them undue embarrassment
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattle
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Texas Democratic Party @texasdemocrats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ICYMI: “Abbott has made Chinese land ownership a central issue of his campaign, but Abbott himself has accepted $55,000 from executives and employees of a Houston developer that partners with companies marketing Texas homes to Chinese investors.” bit.ly/4jACRU6
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Abbott took money from execs tied to Chinese investment
Gov. Greg Abbott attacks Gina Hinojosa's record on China. But executives at a developer working with firms that court Chinese investors have given him tens of thousands.
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Jaypay @jaypay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Darlene is up...🙄
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29/09/2026
“Can you work for justice in an unjust department?” Government lawyers weigh whether or not to flee Trump’s D.O.J. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice are facing a quandary: Should they stay or should they go?
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/09/2026
In Texas, the State is removing climate change courses from the core curriculum. They have decided that climate change is just too dangerous to teach the students. This is indoctrination. I wrote an oped about it in the SA Express-News. Gift link: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...
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Texas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about it
Texas has removed climate change courses from core curriculum at public universities. Ignoring climate change will not serve the state.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The 4-year-olds don’t know where they are and what’s going on" “I have no one. I have nothing.” This is beyond grotesque. Shame, Shame, Shame on Trump and everyone involved in this horror.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That’s a way.. 😅
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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My account always talk about Ms. Scott. She does the work and not enough people talk about her. She put her money were her mouth is. So far, her work is on the scale of Dolly's work. Both white women that I have love for.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co
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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Advocates say the delays mean people are left waiting in prisonlike detention facilities that are riddled with allegations about spoiled food, beatings and medical neglect. “People are left hungry,” said the wife of a detainee in Mississippi.
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These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...
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Jaypay @jaypay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Seepy beavers...
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Fuzzy Beavers Get Cozy In Their Lodge
YouTube video by Oregon Zoo
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wrapping up Sea Otter Awareness Week with Moea and one of her favorite activities: mealtime! 🦦🐟 Southern sea otters can eat about 20–25% of their body weight in food every day! That’s why our otters get fresh, restaurant-quality, sustainably sourced seafood multiple times a day. 💙
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
On September 9 or 10, someone staged this protest at the Dallas Fort Worth airport ahead of the GOP midterm convention. Does anyone know which organization was behind it? We would love to speak with them. Please share widely!
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Allen AC @allenac009.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“The state has delivered property tax relief by buying down local school taxes. Last session, lawmakers raised the homestead exemption to $140,000 for most households, which Hinojosa supported.”
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Rudy @rudygardea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Saturday Morning #houston
Houston skyline with buffalo bayou in the foreground
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social did the country 2 big favors this week His talk with the Nvidia CEO revealed a shallow, glib, defensive man (and thus a technology) nowhere near safe maturity His talk with Abdul El-Sayed revealed a humane, responsive, and morally rich man ready for leadership
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Jaypay @jaypay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yep, even in Texas...
houstonchronicle.com
Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 26/09/2026
I will wager most Americans don’t know about illegal renditions in our name bc @gillianbrockell.com and @jjindc.bsky.social can’t be everywhere, but also for simple reason MSM is in the tank for the deportation regime. bsky.app/profile/gill...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9/26/2026- SCOTUS www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/09/2026
Happy 9 to 5 day, Sister Dolly. We miss you ❤️
Photo of Dolly Parton in the movie "9 to 5."
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:
A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rubio's campaign against the ICC appears designed to turn loose the world's top war criminals... many of whom seem to be Trump's secret friends.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 25/09/2026
The Tribune reported how counties lack the power to regulate data centers as companies increasingly build in unincorporated areas. www.texastribune.org/2026/06/08/t... Accountability starts with knowing what’s happening. Become a member and help keep Texans informed. trib.it/help
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A data center boom is coming to Texas. See where they’re going.
A Texas Tribune analysis identified at least 248 planned data center projects. Opponents fear the projects will spike Texans’ electric bills and make the grid less reliable. But industry representativ...
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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Great design.....
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/09/2026
A novel legal strategy represents a new front for the climate-change movement—if it holds up in court, @rossandersen.bsky.social reports:
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An Existential Threat to the Oil Industry
Can the energy giants be held responsible for extreme weather?
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
. . . like we have the word chutzpah as well as an entire culture of extremely, extremely colorful and vivid curses . . . but I don't think there's an appropriately strong Yiddish word that covers this
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