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imagine your highest aspiration in life is to be jd vance's stand-in for four years AND you fuck it up on national television

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 7h

The latest from YMRP: the State of American Men report is out! Combining many research streams we find that... most of the Discourse around young men is wrong or exaggerated, these are adults with lives and responsibilities, they are not a "political problem." equimundo.substack.com/p/belief-in-...

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 6h

“Every time Tim O’Hare cuts our polling locations, or every time Bo French says something awful on Twitter, I get more volunteers.” New from @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social: The people of Tarrant County are frustrated, but Democrats need to turn that frustration into votes.

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Inside Downballot Dems' Effort to Flip Texas' Key County Battleground

Amid voter suppression and rampant ideological warfare, Tarrant County Democratic candidates try to capitalize on this surge of local anger.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 7h

"Across racial, religious, educational, and even political lines, majorities of young men support ambitious policies aimed at restoring upward mobility and rooting out corruption"

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Iowa GOP governor candidate Zach Lahn is facing fresh questions about whether he actually lives in the state after a reporter found a Strava account showing frequent bike rides around his Kansas estate.

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Exposed by Strava? Iowa candidate’s Kansas bike rides fuel carpetbagging claims

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 8h

"sir we checked the FEC and we could find no records of this mysterious 'Jern Cornout'"

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 8h

in terms of coming up with closing messages this month the GOP has been operating at Midwestern Thanksgiving after football-levels of repeatedly saying goodbye to people

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 9h

From both a "motivating others" and a "surviving mentally" perspective, it is better to spend the next month confident the central limit theorem still exists, the vibe is correct, and we are about to enjoy some big wins. There is robust evidence winning teams are more attractive than losing teams.

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 9h

2028 if Republicans alienate men with an ideological attachment to their height

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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 19h

NEW Economist/YouGov: The economy % of U.S. adult citizens saying they think that overall, the economy is getting better | worse... At the start of Donald Trump's second term 19% | 37% Now 13% | 63% yougov.com/en-us/articl...

A line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Is the U.S. economy getting better or worse?."

The chart has the sub-headline: "Overall, do you think the economy is getting better or worse? (% of U.S. adult citizens)."

The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "don't know" are not shown. Data for Sept. 26 - Nov. 14, 2020 is among registered voters only."

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 20h

This drunk, coked out idiot throwing other countries into chaos:

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 21h

as always it is unfortunate that there is no Hell, but many of our worst politicians do seem to be spending their final years realizing the world will immediately celebrate, eventually recover from, and ultimately improve in the wake of their miserable, worthless lives

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 21h

Federal charges against the man shot by an ICE officer here in Austin. The level of ICE brutality has gotten so bad and so craven that even the Texas GOP has basically stopped trying to defend it www.texastribune.org/2026/09/29/i...

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Austin man shot by ICE agent faces assault, resisting charge

In a federal criminal complaint, DHS says Wilber Rafael Garces Perez knew he was fleeing federal agents and his car’s sideview mirror struck an officer.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 21h

Reminder that Schmitt was responsible for rehabilitating Nate Hochman’s career after he got fired for posting a Neo-Nazi video for the DeSantis campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery

Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 22h

watching all the pre-written GOP tweets get posted, land with a dead thud, then be hastily deleted like Victor Carune confusedly inspecting another lab rat that went through The Jaunt without knowing how it worked

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 23h

i feel like ive seen a thousand posts confidently asserting these would never get deleted, that's how propaganda works, they control the zone and they'll just lie and lie until they win and... whoops, everyone forgot these guys live and die trying not to look dumb on Twitter

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Texas, the voter registration deadline is coming up next week. If you live in Texas and want to vote, be sure to check that you are registered properly — even if you you think you did what you had to. A statewide database to check: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i feel like for democrats its "our candidate is blowing an easy race, he's not bothering to go out and shake hands and looks mildly uncomfortable on cable" and for republicans its "our candidate is blowing an easy race, he's a coke-addled Nazi who just hurled an empty whip-it at a crying child"

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the entire Service Providers section for the America.gov privacy policy america.gov/privacy-policy

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

_extremely political consultant voice_ unfortunately donald trump's cuts to NOAA makes it harder to access information about weather systems in real life, which makes them take longer to replicate in video games in many ways you could say republicans are pre-emptively delaying GTA VII

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is true that a Dem Congress will not be able to do any effective legislating under the Trump regime. But that’s a given. What Congress can do is investigations that drive stories into the media. Every day should have headlines about Trump stealing from us, about Trump harming us.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As night follows day

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have been authorized to enter into negotiations for the movie rights to Parties On The Ground for any offer in the modest 70 to 85 million dollar range

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SJSCentralTX @sjscentraltx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@evilmopacatx.bsky.social interviewed Democratic candidate for TX Railroad Commission, Jon Rosenthal. Evil wrote about it in his substack, here (FYI - TXRRC is about oil and gas, nor railroads):

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Get to Know Texas Railroad Commissioner Candidate, Rep. Jon Rosenthal

No, Bo French won’t be joining us for this one

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is serious stuff, and a serious problem for Paxton, Abbott and all Rs in Texas.....

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head...

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fully 75 House incumbents aren't returning to office next year - the highest share in generations. Open-seat primaries are the most impactful races in the country. In Parties on the Ground, we explain how small, low-$ groups can use them to change the parties themselves. partiesontheground.com

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Parties on the Ground

A close-up examination of the roots of congressional politics in nominations for the House of Representatives.With most House seats all but guaranteed for one party in general elections, primary elect...

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you read ProPublica about Susan Collins and Scott Reed, this @zeteo.com article from June might be of interest too. And Collins made it clear families are fair game: Susan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PAC open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

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Susan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PAC

The Maine senator's husband apparently consulted last year for the lobbyist leading Pine Tree Results PAC, documents show.

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 6.5k): 6 percent of you are in my HOA yougov.com/en-us/daily-...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At an all-ages Hot Water Music show and there's a kid here in JNCOs. I'm finally old enough that my generation can be done as a bit

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Even if the bots were sentient OpenAI should be understood to be liable, as agents of the company. If human employees (and whose sentience is not in serious question) did the same the company would be liable

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Every time I see numbers like this I am just... staggered by how much more influential these oligarchs could be in politics if they actually understood federalism. If you wanted AI jammed into classrooms, $9 billion could make you influential in like... every school board race in the country?

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"We're told some of the attendees were shocked the former Republican governor would host Raman, a democratic socialist. But after hearing her pitch for tackling L.A.'s problems, some who came in skeptical walked away impressed." www.tmz.com/2026/09/25/a...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Introduces L.A. Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman to Power Players

Arnold Schwarzenegger is opening doors for Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman ... bringing her face-to-face with some of the city's biggest power players, TMZ has learned.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

to succeed in republican politics you have to be a terrible human being but it is still remarkable just how low some of these assholes will go sending the cops to arrest a pregnant woman in front of her two year old over a fifty dollar medical bill is just unconscionable

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

perusing a half-dozen airport newsstands over the past few weeks confirms: Leuchtturm has finally won the war against Moleskine

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 25/09/2026

I got together with TavisSmiley to debunk Ken Paxton's popularity, among many, many other topics! jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig...

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

James Talarico: One of the Republican candidates went after students at the University of Texas for celebrating a big win — the most Texan of celebrations – and decided to launch a racist attack against our students. I want us to get back to a place where we celebrate our diversity.

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So far none of y'all have topped an actual focus group participant I once spoke to who was adamantly against baby bonds unless they found a way to do it that wouldn't discriminate against people who don't want to have kids

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You better believe Maine is a close race, because it is. Happily, you can help organizers and the campaign get the resources they need today! secure.actblue.com/donate/jrsli...

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Help Democrats organize and win!

Help Democrats organize and win in Maine!

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KXAN News @kxan.com · 24/09/2026

P. Terry’s Burger Stand will donate 100% of its profits this Saturday to three nonprofits across Texas. www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/p-te…

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These applications were not sent to when they should have been but they have been sent, election administrators in blue counties are not trying to suppress the blue vote, nonpartisan civil servants are not your enemy and no, 100k delayed ballots in 2026 are not why Trump won by 1.5m votes in 2024

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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Official Congressional E-newsletters mentioning "Trump" over time, by party in the 119th Congress:

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Reed now helms Pine Tree Results PAC, which has booked more than $28 million in ads in Collins’ reelection bid against Democrat Troy Jackson, according to AdImpact data.....Reed’s lobbying firm, Chesapeake Enterprises, paid the senator’s husband, Tom Daffron, as a consultant last year"

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