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Aggie Mom, Wife, Retired 8th grade Science Teacher, Blue dot in an insanely red state

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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 21/09/2026
The White House's website now touts a livestream called "TRUMP TV: The Essentials Station."
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It Looks Like Trump, Leader Of The Free World, Is Proposing State-Run Media
It Looks Like Trump, Leader Of The Free World, Is Proposing State-Run Media
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
New interview! On the Israel-US war on Iran, Jeffrey Epstein, and the forces behind both: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zobD...
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Sarah Kendzior Sounds Alarm on Trump’s Calculated Iran Move
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone
A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”
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208. The Fifth Circuit Jumps the Immigration Detention Shark
Late Friday, two of the nation's most right-wing circuit judges adopted an odious legal claim that district court judges from across the country (and ideological spectrum) have overwhelmingly rejected
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026
Duckworth on Senate Republicans: "I gotta be honest with you. When I talk to a few of my colleagues, they had not even seen the videos. It's almost like they put blinders on. They're uneasy."
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Starting //// going
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Trump Omits Key Words From Law He Implied Democrats Violated Trump scrubs statute in late night attack meidasnews.com/news/trump-o...
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Trump Omits Key Words From Law He Implied Senators Violated
Trump scrubs statute in late night attack
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The AP didn’t used to be known for saucy headlines, but that whole Gulf of Mexico thing must have unleashed their AhFuckIt gene. apnews.com/article/dona...
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Republicans want to starve children to pressure Democrats into gutting healthcare. How do we know? Mike Johnson just admitted it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
FACTS about SNAP: -35% to white people (largest share) -90% to people born in 🇺🇸 -86% to households with kids -70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
FELON GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS. 💯🎯
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The White House says it’s going to use procurement dollars to illegally pay the troops for rather than do it the legal way of enacting a military pay bill. You cannot w/ a straight face tell me using procurement dollars to pay the military adheres to the purpose statute and the Antideficiency Act.
Zoom in: Earlier in the week it was unclear whether the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) could find roughly $5.3 billion to make the military's payroll by Friday, but two White House officials tell Axios the money was found at the last minute. The OMB found:
$2.5 billion from a military housing fund specified in Trump's "big beautiful bill" to continue paying housing allowances for military personnel.
• $1.4 billion from the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation fund, which largely will cover U.S. Army and Air Force payroll. The account normally funds military research and was heavily relied upon two weeks ago to cover military paychecks.
• $1.4 billion from a Defense Department procurement account for building U.S. Navy ships, largely to fund the Navy and Marines.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/10/2025
Glad ICE is getting called out for plate swapping in Illinois, but this has been happening in California from the jump.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/10/2025
The Indiana legislature lacks the votes to pass a congressional redistricting plan ahead of the 2026 midterms, marking a setback in President Trump’s unprecedented push for GOP-led states to change their maps. wapo.st/4ocmwVu
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Indiana Republicans don't have votes for new congressional map Trump wants
“The votes aren't there for redistricting,” said a spokesman for the state's Senate GOP, the president's first major setback in his redistricting push ahead of next year's elections.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Trump keeps admitting in public that he's directly running all DOJ operations—which would include deciding to keep the Epstein Files hidden to protect himself—and media keeps pretending not to hear him. Here, he states unambiguously that he *personally decides* on all DOJ payouts to alleged victims:
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Trump says he ‘could be’ seeking $230 million from his own Justice Department | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he “could be” seeking $230 million from his own Justice Department as compensation for past investigations into him, though he professed to have little knowled...
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
From the Daily Texan, the UT student newspaper: Academic freedom should not be for sale. thedailytexan.com/2025/10/16/a...
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Academic freedom should not be for sale
The Editorial Board argues the University should join the league of universities rejecting Trump’s compact in favor of in institutional independence.
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Last year, it was CrowdStrike. This week, AWS. We are engineering critical social systems that are completely contingent on single points of failure. It’s designed fragility and it produces catastrophic risk—all because it’s marginally more efficient. We are foolishly careening toward disaster:
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The CrowdStrike Debacle is a Warning
We have engineered social systems that are hyper-optimized, super efficient, but incredibly fragile. It's a mistake—and unless we fix it, we will careen toward much worse, utterly avoidable disasters.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Page One in Miami: “.. taking a wrecking ball to the approval process in an echo of the strategies that he deployed in Palm Beach and New York ..” @miamiherald.com
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 20/10/2025
“The ousting comes amid a critical dispute within academia about how to rebuild confidence in higher education in a politically polarized moment.” This is such a tortured story frame it is functionally a lie. Greg Abbott is not trying to rebuild confidence, he is proudly conducting a purge.
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Texas professor ousted from admin role over "ideological differences"
Art Markman had served as a senior vice provost for academic affairs since 2021.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
An immigration agent to a protester who was filming their vehicle’s license plate: “You can record all you want. We change the plates out every day.”
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Penny P @mstmompj.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
No Kings protest in The Woodlands, Texas (north suburban Houston). This is the first such protest to occur in the community. I overheard a number of folks telling others that they had never attended such an event before but had gotten to the point of feeling they needed to do something.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
And Congress (captured by the far right authoritarian party) continues to do nothing while a runaway SCOTUS (also captured by the far right authoritarian party) does nothing in the face of this brazen, unprecedented theft of its constitutional powers. <all together now>
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“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/09/2025
There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
President Trump announces he’ll send troops to Portland, Oregon. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Oregon, in latest deployment to US cities
President Donald Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Oregon, “authorizing Full Force, if necessary” to handle what he is calling “domestic terrorists.”
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Kelaoshi @kelaoshi.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Could it be that the CEO of Disney/ ABC, and the CEO of CBS are both in the Epstein files, and being blackmailed by this administration?
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ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling with the word maybe below him
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
"Twenty years before MAGA, Eco captured it perfectly. He was able to do so because he had a deep understanding of fascism. Eco warned in the 1990s of the ghost of fascism re-emerging to stalk the world. That ghost has become a clear and present danger today." www.thebulwark.com/p/yeah-its-f...
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Yeah. It’s Fascism.
Earmuffs, JD.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
As Pinocchiogles grandstands and calls for investigations into everyone else — it was always projection t.co/3eKM3UKsX9
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/08/2025
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: I Have Ghislaine Maxwell's Security Score, Custody Level, Transfer Code, and Sex Offender Waiver
I have reviewed an electronic file that includes some of the information Senator Whitehouse is demanding from the Bureau of Prisons.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Why wasn't it Speaker Mike Johnson who called up the National Guard in DC? Because after Jan 6, we were all told by Republicans that that was the duty of Speaker Pelosi, not President Trump. 🤷‍♀️
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/07/2025
July 18: If we have a smart president, you're never going to let the dollar slide. If you have a dummy, that could happen. July 25: A weak dollar makes you a hell of a lot more money. It doesn't sound good, but you make a hell of a lot more money with a weaker dollar than with a strong dollar
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/07/2025
NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
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His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/07/2025
This is what you voted for⁉️ Detainees treated like violent criminals. Moved from cage to cage at 3 a.m. and sleep-deprived. Only 3 minutes to eat. Bathrooms three times a week. No towel to dry off after a shower and growing fungus on their bodies. Listen to this once. Then listen to it again.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The Paramount-Skydance saga "reeks of Orbanism." That's the assessment of @gscheiring.bsky.social, who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament. 🧵
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Another sure sign that the fix is in. Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus on X: "We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case." And says they're already in discussions with the administration.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Kristi Noem lied about this multiple times in press conferences & TV appearances. This confirms the 3 day delay was solely caused by her. It’s an absurdity that the person who leaves govt is this man & not her stupid, incompetent cosplaying ass traveling with her (alleged) lover.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Look at how Republicans are planning to gerrymander deep blue Houston—and my congressional district specifically:
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Down in Houston #TX7, currently held by Democrat @RepFletcher, would no longer represent southwest Harris CO, but swing East into rural TX.
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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The first time I think I've seen reported that U.S. marshals are among DOJ purges: "In total, 20 people were fired...incl 2prosecutors who worked under former special counsel Jack Smith...The rest of the dismissed employees were support staff and U.S. marshals who assisted those prosecutors."
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Bondi fires 20 Justice Dept. employees involved in Trump prosecutions
Those fired from the department include two prosecutors who worked under former special counsel Jack Smith.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Missouri just doesn't care what its voters want. Eight months after voters approved it, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the repeal of a law Thursday that had guaranteed paid sick leave to workers and inflationary adjustments to the minimum wage. apnews.com/article/paid...
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Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has signed a repeal of a law guaranteeing paid sick leave for workers and inflationary adjustments to the minimum wage.
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Rebecca E ❌👑 @spoutiblegirl.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
it's hard to watch this but we mustn't turn away. I struggle to understand how one human can be so cruel and heartless towards another. And, please don't tell me "they are just following orders". That doesn't explain their cruelty. They have reached the dark side. abcnews.go.com/US/californi...
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California farmworker dies from injuries sustained during ICE raid, union says
California farmworker dies from injuries sustained during ICE raid, union says.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Brownie 2025: FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work. She orders the agencies to stop. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 12/07/2025
They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/07/2025
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 09/07/2025
In court documents filed last week, the DOJ disclosed that its Office for Civil Rights dismissed 3,424 complaints between March 11 and June 27. That pace of dismissals is unheard of.
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Education Department dismisses thousands of civil rights complaints at an ‘unheard of’ pace
The department has focused its civil rights efforts on stamping out campus antisemitism since Donald Trump returned to the White House.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/07/2025
ICE is going to get someone killed. This was outside 100 Montgomery in SF’s Financial District. If you needed proof these rookie hires aren’t trained, here it is. Real feds de-escalate. They call for backup. They don’t drag people down the street w/a car. Hope everyone’s OK. (Multi-angle footage)
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money. "If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”
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FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge
Staffers sound the alarm.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
ICYMI: The Marine Corps is deploying 200 troops to Florida to support federal immigration agents, while another 500 troops will deploy to locations in Texas and Louisiana. All 700 will provide administrative and logistical support at locations directed by ICE.
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700 additional troops approved to support ICE operations, 200 Marines deploying to Florida in first wave
The Marine Corps is deploying 200 troops from North Carolina to support federal immigration agents in Florida, while another 500 troops are slated to move to other locations.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Patrick Healy is the guy who drove the great @pkrugman.bsky.social away from the NYT by killing his newsletter and trying to rewrite crucial passages: www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Patrick Healey, the guy behind the NYT's "but her emails" coverage and the Opinion section's inane, right-leaning citizen panels is now a "masthead editor" in charge of "standards and trust" for the NYT newsroom. This is not good. This does not build trust. www.nytco.com/press/patric...
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Patrick Healy Joins the Newsroom Masthead | The New York Times Company
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