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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 12h

Texas is worth protecting, and I'm ready to fight for it. Wall Street and the Corrupt bigshots want our water, our farmland, and our resources, while working Texans are left paying the price. Only organized people can beat organized money, and together, we can take back Texas.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 5h

James Talarico: False claims got millions of views — and this is an example of what I call the ‘rage economy.’ Billionaires who own these platforms get rich, we get angry, and nobody’s life gets better. Conspiracy theories don’t put food on the table, put gas in the tank, or improve our communities.

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James Henson @jhenson.bsky.social · 18h

Dig into TX results in new UT/Texas Politics Project Poll: US Senate: Talarico 50%, Paxton 47%, Brown 1%, other 2% Ds: JT 90%/KP 1% Rs: KP 92%/JT 4% Ind: JT 69%/KP 11% Tx GOV: Hinojosa 49%/Abbott 48%/Dixon 1% 861 LV, MOE +/-3.34, 9/25-10/5 👉🏽 texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/latest-... #tx2026 #txlege

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 5h

James Talarico: The richest man in the world is dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into this state to try to defame me, so I'm doing everything I can to stand up against those lies. I am tired of us being divided into teams because the truth is we're all on the same team.

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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 9h

Instead of focusing on the bread, butter, and beef issues affecting everyday families, my opponent focuses on... hats in my family?

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Capitol Whip @capitolwhip.bsky.social · 6h

.@SarahEckhardtTX is out with this ad knocking data center tax breaks in her bid for comptroller. #txlege

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Matthew @sosayweall7.bsky.social · 11h

"There are some people who would say you shouldn't mix music and politics, sport and politics, or whatever. But, I think that's kinda bullshit." -Adam Clayton

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U2 - Rattle and Hum, Adam Clayton Interview - 1988

YouTube video by N64 da depressão

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 6h

Attention: prem’s first installment in our four part Four Horsemen of the Trump-ocalypse @zeteo.com series publishes soon tonight. See who his first MAGA Horseman is

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 6h

This is illegal and (a) it’s not even close to defensible and (b) shouldn’t be tolerated.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Elon Musk is one of the most dangerous people in the world. Twitter is a right wing propaganda tool. There are far too many folks out there pretending otherwise.

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Joe Rogan is using his show to peddle misinformation about voter fraud and accuse Democrats of stealing elections — and his episodes that contain election misinformation have greater viewership than those that don't.

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What is Joe Rogan saying about elections ahead of the midterms?

Heading into the midterm elections, podcaster Joe Rogan has used his podcast to peddle misinformation, baseless claims, and conspiracy theories about elections, claiming Democrats “want to cheat,” tha...

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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 12/10/2026

While my opponent doesn’t have the cajones to debate me, he apparently has found his “courage” to harass my elderly parents. You can’t say you’re running to protect Texas families while also harassing families. That ain’t family values.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Here are the details: literally any time, any place, any network.

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Matt Leeds @mleeds2048.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Elon F.CKED UP! He Plans To Interfere In The Texas Senate Race. He’s Invested In Texas. Elon is an idiot & a fool. Besides Being Ugly, Disgusting & Fat, He’s clearly a drug addict He’s a sick & deranged individual. He’s not smart & never was. He’s not successful. He’s a failure,fraud & a con man.

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 11/10/2026

A Trump endorsement used to win over voters. Now some in South Texas say it’s enough to lose their vote. In the Rio Grande Valley, ICE arrests are hitting close to home, and people are speaking out. #SheShed #VoteBlue 🗳️

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026

Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A lot of Latino Texans voted in 2024 hoping for cheaper groceries, fewer wars, accountability, and the Epstein files. They got tariffs that raise prices, another forever war, and more secrecy. James Talarico’s message matters: meet disappointment with an open hand, not contempt. #momsky#sheshed

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/10/2026

Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan. with @texastribune.org

propublica.org

Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.

Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...

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Ryan Ritter @ndtex.gamin4aven.org · 11/10/2026

“Wow, your QB fucked up. Let’s throw a flag on the defender that is trying to stay in phase”

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump is helping Russia who is helping Iran attack and kill Americans. So that means Trump is knowingly taking steps to weaken the US and bolster Russia and its close ally, Iran. Does that make him a traitor? Let's have the debate.... www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

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Iran able to replenish its missiles and drones, getting arms from Russia, officials tell Bloomberg

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026

"If you look at what the data itself is showing us, it sure looks like we’re in the process of seeing a fairly major repudiation of Trump and the deeper ideologies that he represents"

publicnotice.co

Trump’s collapse with indy voters, explained by Greg Sargent

“This is the center of the electorate completely turning on Trump.”

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Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We @txfreedomread.bsky.social had the opportunity to tell the Texas Senate’s Ed Committee, where book-banning bills SB12 & SB13 originated, what their laws have done to students in the state. Here’s what we told them: franklinstrong.substack.com/p/what-we-to...

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What We Told the Senate Education Committee

Our big report on Texas school book bans in 2025-2026 just dropped. You need to read it.

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Gina Hinojosa @ginafortexas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

8 time Texas HS football state champion coach knows what’s at stake this November.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Grandfather knot clock” by Australian woodworker George Andrew, who handcrafted this piece using Radiata pine and plywood, shaping the dramatic curves using a bandsaw, an angle grinder, and lots of hand sanding. www.woodreview.com.au/photocompent...

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Mary @mfbrodie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fellow Texans - our property taxes increased 85% under Greg Abbott. 85%! Sure, we don't have income tax, so you have to get money from somewhere. But we have a $27B surplus. That's our money! @ginafortexas.bsky.social wants to make Texas affordable again and stop increasing property tax.

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Texans work hard for what they earn. That’s why our constitution bans an income tax.

YouTube video by Gina Hinojosa

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Televising the execution of Nidal Hasan is about more than voyeuristic violence Authoritarianism requires rituals of death that seek to transform secular oppression into religious orthodoxy while communicating the need to murderously purge “the other.” jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/descent-in...

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Descent Into Madness: The Ritualization of Death and Fascism

The public execution of Nidal Hasan is a potent milestone

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Evan @evan7257.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We’re no longer free people living in the free state of Texas. We live in Dan Patrick’s world, ruled by Patrick’s laws. What we actually want doesn’t matter. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/endo...

houstonchronicle.com

Dan Patrick is out of touch with Texans. Vote for Vikki Goodwin. | Endorsement

We’re no longer free people living in the free state of Texas. We live in Dan Patrick’s world, ruled by Patrick’s laws. What we actually want doesn’t matter.

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News 📰 @some-news.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ken Paxton, US Senate nominee in Texas, advocates for cutting programs such as Social Security and Medicare in leaked recording. Texas Democrats call him "evil."

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'He Thinks Working People Are a Joke': Ken Paxton Floats Social Security Cuts in Leaked Audio | Common Dreams

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Gina Hinojosa @ginafortexas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Governor Abbott, I'll meet you at the Governor's Mansion next Thursday at 10 AM. If you're not man enough to debate me, you don't deserve to be the governor of Texas.

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Capitol Whip @capitolwhip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NEW: Greg Abbott told his donors this week he’s losing sleep over the state of his re-election campaign. Abbot’s campaign has spent $146M this year, and he’s still facing the toughest challenge of his political career because Texans are sick and tired of his failed leadership.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize.” — Pope Leo XIV

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Psychotic bloodthirst” is the most on-point description of Hegseth’s worldview ever.

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kth @ktheintz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If Ossoff is still around when the Democratic primary comes to Texas, I'll vote for him. I'm not super-picky about issues, I just want someone on our side who will kick ass.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 08/10/2026

Ken Paxton wants to cut Social Security benefits for 1.3 million Texans. His opponent, Democratic candidate James Talarico, is committed to protecting and expanding your hard-earned benefits. The choice is clear for working-class families. @jamestalarico.bsky.social

A graphic with Ken Paxton's head superimposed someone giving two thumbs up. The text says, "WHO HAS 15 HOMES, TWO THUMBS AND WANTS TO CUT YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS?"

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Graig Mellon @mellongraig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And speaking of... the DGA and others are starting to spend money investing on her campaign, as they feel confident about #TXGov. All I can say is this - about time... bsky.app/profile/trum...

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isaac @sevier.io · 07/10/2026

Tonight in the world's coziest bookstore with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @gilduran.com

Amy and Gil in a bookstore with wood shelving surrounding them and stacked high with books, the room is dim except for where they're sitting

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines

The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

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ETX Gov @etxgov.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

Quorum Report talking about how unusual it is that the Dem Gov and Lt Gov candidates having strong TXLege experience makes me hopeful they'd be able to govern somewhat effectively in a split government.

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