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Megin

@lesliem.bsky.social
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Lawyer, dog lover, cat lover, San Antonio Spurs fan, LSU Tigers fan, barre devotee, wife.

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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 14h
One of the many things I miss about my late father is my husband and I playing 42 with my parents.
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 15h
The photo editor must hate her.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22h
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a candidate for U.S. Senate, received campaign contributions from the staff or political arms of five organizations with interests in legal matters on which his office weighed in.
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Ken Paxton took campaign funds from donors with interests before his office
The Texas attorney general and GOP Senate nominee received contributions from parties in cases he was involved in, some predating his current competitive race.
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Dan Patrick calls the separation of church and state a lie and has worked to infuse Christianity into Texas institutions. Trump is helping him take that strategy nationwide. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
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Traces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Guards patrol the Crystal City Internment Camp in Crystal City, Texas, sometime during World War II. The camp housed non-combatants of Italian, German, Japanese and Hispanic descent. Eventually, the camp came to hold 3,374 detainees on December 29, 1944, the most it ever held.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13/10/2026
More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d
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More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife
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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
plaintiffs assert that NPS removed 529 trees on Saturday, including healthy, mature maples and oaks. the government was supposed to refrain from doing anything irreversible without providing enough notice for the court to act, but Judge Reyes hadn't entered a formal order until this morning
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
REAL Cracker Jack popcorn, Eddie?
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton 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 state business. with @texastribune.org
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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 Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sure, but are they as corrupt as Paxton? That’s what makes it so tough. I don’t care for Gov. Abbott but he’s not nearly so offensive.
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Imagine how much worse it feels when you’re a Texan :/. Really demonstrates the sheer power here of just having an R by your name.
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was waiting for you to weigh in!
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The audio was initially leaked to and confirmed by The New York Times. A senior advisor to Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Paxton calls the audio “manipulated nonsense” but does not deny Paxton was the speaker.
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Paxton worries about drop in polling numbers after midterm GOP convention in leaked audio
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is Ken Paxton using AI to re-create things James Talarico really said on camera? www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
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Political Ads Were Already Slop. Now They’re AI Slop.
Why is Ken Paxton using AI to re-create things James Talarico really said on camera?
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This was a perfect ad. Nice to see it again.
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was telling my husband I don’t understand what advantage Muse would give me over just Googling stuff I want/need. Maybe there’s something but I can’t see whatever it is justifying me giving Meta all my everything.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Last year, just 21% of students from an Austin charter school using an AI learning platform passed state-mandated tests. Texas education leaders helped get the technology in front of public school leaders.
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How Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School Classrooms
Just three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch...
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Using a fake name, the son of a man who was pardoned by Trump for federal tax crimes gave $250K to Ken Paxton, as well as to other Republicans. Paxton has previously called Ben Pogue's father, who owns a construction business in his home town, a "family friend."
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Who was behind a $250K mystery donation to super PAC backing Ken Paxton?
The Texas Senate hopeful has ties to the donor’s family going back decades.
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mine too! “Like what, Blanche? The PLO?”
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Heavy rain is expected to move east this week, raising the risk of flash flooding in West, North and Central Texas. Read More👉 ebx.sh/zbl3o0
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 28/09/2026
Grocery profit margins are razor thin. This policy will lead to an increase in grocery prices. Maybe people are okay with that to keep a particular kind of job around, but we should be clear that this is asking customers to pay more for their family's food to subsidize one small labor sector.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What it means in practice is you can pay a premium for human checkout, which very few people will want to do, or pay the “discounted” price, which is now in practice the real default price. And there’s maybe one human-attended lane left for people who need assistance and will pay extra for it.
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Jonathan Everitt @jonathaneveritt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The survey found broad swaths of people who acknowledge they: - Cut the sizes of their children’s meals, due to the cost of the food - Have children who didn’t eat for an entire day - Skipped meals, to save money
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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For those not following, there’s a city in Russia occupied Ukraine near the frontline cut off from everywhere by mines and torn up roads, the people who haven’t been able to evacuate have only food they can grow themselves or have been rationing for a year, and Russia does not care.
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
McDonald's Tripple Ripple (1971-1974): A blend of real, premium, chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice creams, packed into a sugar cone--"the ice cream goes all the way to the bottom!", per a press release--that came frozen and pre-packed. But the story (and lawsuit) behind it is a wild ride! A 🧵
A pink, white, and brown swirl of ice cream in a sugar cone next to the McDonald's logo and the words "Tripple Ripple Ice Cream Cone"
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Inhumane civil confinement violates Due Process if officials manifest “deliberate indifference” or the conditions are “punitive.” Judge Kaplan found both. Evidence suggested that “harsh conditions” were “a deliberate feature” to incentivize self-deportation. 5/5
Asthis Court explained when it issued the PI, the administration's actions with respect
to noncitizens illegally present in the country and the conduct by ICE staff and contractors at 26 Fed
"suggest that harsh conditions of confinement are a deliberate feature" of the administration's massdeportation program 49 That conclusion has been reinforced by passage of time and the full development of the record. Since this Court issued the PI, the administration has continued to
attempt to detain and deport as many noncitizens illegally present in the country as possible, as fast
as possible, and with as little procedure as possible. Part of that program has been its self-deportation
project, which, as the administration has described it, "offers illegal aliens a choice: leave voluntarily with [flederal support and financial assistance or face strict enforcement and penalties. '500 That the
harsh conditions of confinement at 26 Fed are one aspect of this "strict enforcement and penalties" is supported by the fact that ICE has papered walls and windows on the fifth, ninth, and tenth floors with flyers asking detainees, "Do You want to Return Home?" and incentivizing them with money to "[a]sk[] to return home now." These flyers serve as an ever-present visual reminder of the
Hobbesian choice posed to detainees and described by an ICE officer at 26 Fed: self-deport or
"remain detained" for years.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Remember when they said the noncompliance at the Kennedy center was “inadvertent“? Nothing inadvertent about the noncompliance here. According to the notice, Reporters from each of the three outlets were turned away, and Betsy Klein’s pass was again taken from her. They are totally up to something.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/09/2026
The owners of Camp Mystic, the Texas camp where 28 people died in catastrophic flooding last year, face a state homicide investigation, according to court documents released this week.
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Camp Mystic owners face homicide investigation over flooding deaths
State investigators are pursuing potential evidence of manslaughter and negligent homicide in the disaster that killed 28, search warrants show.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/09/2026
The owner of a top BBQ joint in Texas decided to cut brisket, the top-selling item, from the menu rather than institute a $10 markup for customers. The decision was fueled not just by the skyrocketing price of brisket but by inflation.
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A top Texas smokehouse is cutting brisket from its menu amid soaring beef prices
Butter’s BBQ in Sinton, Texas, says brisket is eating up 70 percent of its total grocery costs.
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The anti-Talarico ads here seem to be the exact same anti-trans playbook from 2024.
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There is nothing I don’t love about this movie (special fondness for Sharon Stone’s wardrobe).
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Getting on the list can happen for a number of reasons, but it's not hard to update your registration. Read More👉 ebx.sh/iQVfDF
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The U.S. military swung into action to intercept a Chinese ship after an “entirely false” AI-generated intelligence report inaccurately identified what the vessel was carrying It also “almost started a war,” a source told CNN.
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
$25? That dog won’t hunt, even if I for some reason wanted a hat with a baked beans print.
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And to think there’s no room on this murderer’s row for RFK Jr.
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yes, the stations all seem to get an alert. The QTs always go up first, but others follow right away.
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Had the exact same experience today in San Antonio. $3.59 going in to work, $3.99 going home.
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I love the 40 cent coupon. They wanted to be more generous than 25 cents, but 50 cents was a bridge too far.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026
Ken Paxton’s financial disclosures appear to omit rental income on multiple properties. Receiving income and not reporting it is a violation of federal ethics law, three experts said. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
The Republican U.S. Senate nominee from Texas appears to have omitted rental income and multiple mortgages from his recent financial disclosures, making it difficult for voters to get the full picture...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/09/2026
Older dogs can develop a strikingly similar condition to Alzheimer’s called canine cognitive dysfunction syndrome. Up to 60 percent of dogs older than 8 develop it. Here are the signs to watch: wapo.st/4diyhGa
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Megin @lesliem.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Happy birthday! Enjoy the pretty nails and the sensibly early dinner reservation! (My husband gets up at a sickeningly early hour for work so I’m v. familiar with early dinners.)
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wild stuff happening in the Clancy case. The jury foreperson sent a note to the judge yesterday. According to defense counsel, the note was sent on behalf of 11 jurors. It stated that a holdout juror “has made statements acknowledging doubt, but refuses to apply it to the verdict as the law states.”
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wow. Jury just sent a note saying that “with a heavy heart” it cannot come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fetterman text to aide: “Why do I have to keep having to meet with [Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia]?” Aide: “Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.” Fetterman: “Well I’m not.” @wsj.com #PAsen www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"As the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln pulled into port in Thailand on Wednesday, observers were shocked by its appearance. The almost 1,100-foot-long warship was covered in rust from bow to stern." www.cnn.com/2026/09/03/a...
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Rusty state of USS Abraham Lincoln after marathon deployment shocks observers | CNN
As the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln pulled into port in Thailand on Wednesday, observers were shocked by its appearance. The almost 1,100-foot-long warship was covered in rust from bow to ster...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/09/2026
The world will zoom well past its target for global temperature rise in the next few years, a new United Nations report warned, exposing people and ecosystems to profound climate impacts that nations had pledged to avoid.
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The world is certain to overshoot a critical climate threshold, U.N. warns
In a first-of-its-kind report, leading scientists describe a narrowing path for coming back from catastrophic warming.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 01/09/2026
⚡️ BREAKING: Russian airspace will de facto be closed, Zelenskyy says. «Today we want to warn every airline that uses Russian airspace, every insurer, everyone who still uses key Russian airports: Russian skies are becoming completely unsafe.» 1/2
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.
A picture of a young black man, dressed in a light blue suit with a smart black bow tie, smiling as he is handed a diploma from a school official, a white man in his 40s-50s who is also smiling. Underneath is the caption “Pierre Damas Bel receives his high school diploma. (Family Photo/Instagram)”Bel arrived in the United States in 2024 in order to reunite with his parents, who had fled Haiti three years before. The family was granted temporary protected status, purchased a home in Springfield and settled into life in the U.S. Bel dreamed of studying medicine and graduated high school last May with honors and as a proud member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), his father said. He was the eldest of three siblings and his family described him as smart and responsible.
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