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//John

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Software engineer, vegan, begrudgingly Austin based, 🍊

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auntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know what? I have absolutely no problem posting this. I hope it follows them for years.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 16/09/2026
Featured story: Since 2020, at least 220 TDCJ employees have been arrested on contraband-related charges, including drug possession, having a prohibited substance in a correctional facility, engaging in organized criminal activity, and bribery.
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Texas Is Trying to Punish Its Way Out of a Prison Overdose Crisis
While quality treatment options remain scarce—even in the hardest-hit lockups
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Arial = ⌨️ aerial = 🦜 Ariel = 🧜‍♀️
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The "school security industry" is a way to bankrupt school districts by redirecting funding away from teachers and giving it to various kinds of cop-adjacent chuds instead. The Plot To Enslave America
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
i think one of the hidden keys to politics right now is "how can our side make sure that the 'trump is gonna kill a bunch of beautiful wild horses' story gets in front of the millions of otherwise apolitical consumers of social media horse-related content"
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/08/2026
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.
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Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships
Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
a fun mirror of the Biden-era phenomenon where we had the fastest growing economy in the world (but it was instead reported as a painful recession)
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23/07/2026
New: State health officials say parsley and cilantro appear to be linked to surging cyclospora cases in North Carolina The disclosure comes as the FDA says it’s investigating a new outbreak linked to an unidentified source. Unclear if the two are related www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
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Parsley and Cilantro Identified as Potential Sources of Cyclospora Outbreak in North Carolina - Consumer Reports
State officials said parsley and cilantro may be linked to rising cases in North Carolina. The FDA is also investigating a new outbreak with an unknown source.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
📌It's amazing how little attention is being paid to how expensive everything is right now. That's all we heard about from 2020-2024.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/07/2026
Nation Wakes Up From Strange Dream Where They Were Watching Soccer theonion.com/nation-wakes-up-from-s…
Nation Wakes Up From Strange Dream Where They Were Watching Soccer
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Jeff Timmer: Fun Fact: The President of the goddam United States paid nearly $6 million in damages today to a woman he raped. Once upon a time, this would have been the only news you heard.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 08/07/2026
Reminder: ❌Veteran Brothers Roofing & Restoration ❌Grand Pine Developments ❌Charvold Homes ❌Blue Collar Tree and Junk Removal
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Revealed: Four Businesses with Ties to Patriot Front Operating in North Texas
The neo-Nazi group is engaged in a strategy to establish an independent economic ecosystem. Through publicly available information, interviews, and in-person observation, the Observer has identified…
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb
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John Birch Society
@The_JBS • Jun 30
Your taxes are paying for an Illegal Alien with an Anchor
Baby to live in the starter home your American kids can't
afford.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...
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Trump wants to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists. This Texas trial will test his power.
A July 4 shooting at an ICE detention center could change the way the federal government prosecutes activists.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
this is what you get for the sandwich
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/06/2026
One thing the whole Platner situation reveals is that a whole lot of supposedly progressive pundits and politicians would have been much better served if they actually WERE ensconced in the supposed Bluesky bubble, 'cause everyone I know on here had this clown figured out from the get-go.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, per WaPo
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 25/05/2026
BREAKING: Adam Hoffman has been released from jail for "good behavior." Hoffman is the Waco, TX attorney who faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy, until Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Harden has 5 fouls. Knicks have to be very careful to make sure he doesn’t foul out
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 05/05/2026
This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
JPMORGAN: “.. While the Trump 2.0 DoJ increased prosecution of immigration cases, it also terminated pending investigations involving organized crime, white collar crime, corruption, labor racketeering, violent crime, healthcare fraud and national security at a record pace.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
There it is. Any questions?
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1
We have, therefore, reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself….We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution and not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men. 
I want—as all Americans want—an independent judiciary as proposed by the framers of the Constitution. That means a Supreme Court that will enforce the Constitution as writtten, that will refuse to amend the Constitution by the artibrary exercise of judicial power—in other words by judicial say-so. It does not mean a judiciary so independent that it can deny the existence of which which are universally recognized.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is not an exaggeration. Alex Jones is allegedly bankrupt but has an infinite well of dark money to pay lawyers, sell pills, and harangue judges and the parents of dead kids. This stay must be lifted so we can take over, and I hope journalists look into where he's getting and stowing his money.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Comic panel of Donald Duck and a wide-eyed young Mickey Mouse. Donald's speech bubble: "Democrats should do a huge middle class tax cut to address affordability." Mickey's speech bubble: "Fool that you are, for you treat taxation as a burden rather than the means by which our burdens are eased. Behold a civilization rich in private wealth yet starved of public provision, where every man owns what his grandfathers could not imagine and yet trembles at the thought of how he will weather an illness or loss of livelihood. Will you fight for an affirmative vision of broad contribution and universal benefit? Or will you perish like a dog?"
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?
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//John @palchez.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is terrible game. I have zero idea why it is so popular.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
“The Justice Department has not released dozens of Jeffrey Epstein files linked to allegations that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a child decades ago, according to a report.” www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-file...
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Files About 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser Kept Secret
The Justice Department has yet to release dozens of Epstein files detailing allegations about the president from the mid-1980s.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 31/03/2026
the corruption is staggering
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 22/03/2026
A birth certificate AND your marriage license. If you changed your name after you got married, like the First Lady, the 'SAVE America Act' will demand you provide BOTH documents in order to prove your identity and vote in the next election if you don’t have a passport.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Dr. Catharine Young: We are now at 1136 new measles cases - in just the first 8 weeks of this year alone. A preventable disease resurging. This is an abject policy failure.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/01/2026
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
If Trump is really stealing spending power from Congress then it would be insanity for Democrats to vote to fund the government later this month. Shut it down until the president stops wiping his ass with the Constitution.
I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States! I have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan, immediately. It will be taken by storage ships, and brought directly to unloading docks in the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
 
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Jeremy Duffy @thegeekprofessor.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Former NSA employee (16 years) with a pro tip for you. Released controlled document on the left, Epstein on the right. See the difference? In real redactions, some words, headers, and bits will almost always still be visible, but especially classification headers. These documents are UNCLASSIFIED
Left image source: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/foia/2019-04-18/redactions-declassified-file. Shows a fully page of redaction, but some headers and individual words are still visible. Also, a page header showing the classification is visible.
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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 15/12/2025
still appreciate any boosting of this greatly, it's rough out there
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//John @palchez.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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two men are standing next to each other in an elevator with a sign that says accessible elevator core .
Alt: A gif of the movie the Nice Guys
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//John @palchez.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
On Bluesky this is not a popular topic, but: Notre Dame needs to play in conference championships if it wants to be taken seriously.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 15/11/2025
ICE vs the clergy
Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim VondruskaA masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. 

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Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 14/11/2025
This is Benjamin. He was found as a stray with torn CCLs and a significant bone infection, making walking very painful. He needs multiple surgeries to feel better and ongoing care to ensure the infection doesn't spread. You can help him below ❤️‍🩹 15outof10.org/benjamin/
a gray and white scruffy terrier mix lays on an x-ray table. he looks at the camera with warm brown eyes and a pitiful expression.Benjamin stands on the floor with two vet techs on either side of him. one of them is listening to his heart with a stethoscope, and both vet techs seem to be smiling and having a great time, while Benjamin pouts.Benjamin stands on an x-ray table while a vet tech supports his body. his head is pointed down slightly, and he looks up with his eyes, giving us a sad expression and pitiful puppy eyes.
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie] SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.
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