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MSSQL/PGSQL he/him; beer geek, soccer fanatic (#FCD/#ARS/#TSG), board/#KeyForge gamer, Big D born and raised, classical liberal, chaos butterfly and cynical analyst.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 5h
Few things say "Jesus loves you" quite like spending your free time imagining various ways to kill someone
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Txnewsprincess @txnewsprincess.bsky.social · 5h
Amber Guyger got parole Thursday, having served 7 years of a 10 year sentence for murdering Botham Jean in his apartment while he ate ice cream, just because she mistakenly walked in thinking it was her apartment. www.dmagazine.com/micropost/fo...
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Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger granted parole
Amber Guyger, convicted of murdering Botham Jean in 2018, has been granted parole after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence.
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Recrudescence of the Kakistocrats @reddtrain.bsky.social · 4h
It's not my goal to contradict you, but I'm pretty sure that I could try to get a drivers' license and register to vote without needing to get a handgun permit...
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 6h
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Recrudescence of the Kakistocrats @reddtrain.bsky.social · 6h
I stupidly purchased a ceiling fan for my office that would not be adaptable if there were an issue. Now I can't do anything with it except try to figure out what I should replace it with.
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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 7h
My mom just said the other race she’s following besides Texas where were fun is Abdul El-Sayed, of whom she is a big fan.
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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 6h
my biggest career regret is the number of times i wrote about man city like a normal football club. i deeply regret writing about guardiola's tactics in a way that had a man city fan podcast asking if i wanted to talk to them.
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Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 12h
It's always important to read what the graph axes say
Nicely plotted release dates of model numbers
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9h
The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 9h
Crime rates in the US are lower than they have ever been in my lifetime. It's amazing, and nobody really knows exactly why, and we do not talk about this enough.
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RepJackKimble @repjackkimble.bsky.social · 9h
We've got a great new product in the shop that allows you to show your support for me and for the right of due process.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10h
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 8h
Sophie Cunningham is -13 in 12 minutes. Please remember that when she is released at the end of the year and claims it was for her political views.
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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 9h
If your reaction to Wemby saying this is a hearty “hell yeah”, it behooves me to let you know that @theguardian.com does not take business from betting companies, we have a great sports section, no paywall, and a great app. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/o...
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‘It’s sad seeing players promote it’: Wembanyama says he will never endorse gambling companies
Spurs star says it is ‘very sad’ to see NBA players promote gambling companies and insists money no longer drives his sponsorship decisions
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Greg @gwiss.bsky.social · 13h
Dying at these NBA Reddit comments about Duren.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 16h
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15h
An adopted St. Louis man discovered his father is five-time Grammy award winner Michael McDonald
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Adopted St. Louis man discovers his biological father is a Grammy-winning artist
A St. Louis man who spent decades wondering about his biological roots was recently reunited with his birth parents—and discovered his father is a five-time Grammy Award winner
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16h
Finally a president who solved our age old problem of being a country where people wanted to be
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h
Signs you might really have crossed a line: The torture guy is suggesting a firing squad as a more humane alternative
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 16h
oh its FINDING OUT TIME
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Recrudescence of the Kakistocrats @reddtrain.bsky.social · 16h
All of this, on top of all of the other stuff he's done, and it's STILL no sure thing my fellow Texans aren't going to allow him to fail upward into the Senate.
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Johnny “Euro Hoser” Renton @johnnyrenton.bsky.social · 20h
When I see US visitor numbers all I can think about is the small business owner from a border town in New York who said “why are they(Canadians) punishing regular people when it was the president that caused this”. He also voted for, & still approves of, Trump These numbers can never be low enough
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 16h
Appropriate pricing.
A picture of diesel pump with price at $6.669 per gallon
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🎉🎉🎉
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Recrudescence of the Kakistocrats @reddtrain.bsky.social · 16h
So this was fun and thoroughly unsurprising...
My result on the 12 Axes quiz from https://12axes.vercel.app/. Screenshot shows that I am a libertarian/classical liberal.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 16h
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 16h
www.texasobserver.org/tarrant-coun...
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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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Recrudescence of the Kakistocrats @reddtrain.bsky.social · 16h
62 — Ordinary Primate. The Correspondent. cadence 56 · vigil 70 · lexicon 12 · polish 100 · drift 81 · chorus 6 Six lines read off all 4,616 of my posts. A percentile among 77 accounts, not an AI detector. b.mino.mobi/palm/?u=reddtrain.bsky.…
A six-spoke radar chart of stylometric readings for @reddtrain.bsky.social. Cadence (how metronomic you are) 56th percentile; Vigil (how little you sleep) 70th percentile; Lexicon (how narrow your words) 12th percentile; Polish (how immaculate you are) 100th percentile; Drift (how unchanging you are) 81th percentile; Chorus (how much you broadcast) 6th percentile. Composite 62 of 100, "Ordinary Primate", archetype "The Correspondent" — You write beautifully, and always to someone. (Polish 100 over Chorus 6). The scale runs from Pan (least machine-like) to the Loom (most). These are percentiles among 77 real accounts, not a probability that anything was machine-written.
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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 17h
Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18h
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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Chris Tomlinson @cltomlinson.bsky.social · 18h
A GOP candidate running away from her MAGA past begs the question: Are voters leaving the Republican Party, or is President Donald Trump’s Republican Party leaving them? One Democrat says it's the latter. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columni...
houstonchronicle.com
Texas’ most right-wing county is shifting left. Republicans are fighting back.
The last GOP-controlled urban county in Texas is diversifying — while some on the right fight the demographic and cultural changes reshaping it.
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Recrudescence of the Kakistocrats @reddtrain.bsky.social · 18h
I'm right there with ya.
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 20h
"Mind boggling that foreigners don't want to come to the 'we'll arrest the shit out of you if you're foreign' getaway. Our prisons are so NICE"
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ETX Gov @etxgov.myatproto.social · 20h
I'm in the wrong business.
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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I was a daily print reporter for 25 years. Im shocked at what has become of my former profession. Nor sure it can be fixed. medium.com/@thcarter123...
medium.com
A decade of failing to persuade the New York Times to pay attention to Leonard Leo
By Tom Carter
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 20h
I’d been really fucked up by the reporting process the Washington Post put us through before they cut my allegation out of their piece, so I was extremely apprehensive about speaking for this. Ultimately, I’m very glad I did. But it was awful. www.cjr.org/feature/wesl...
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Journalists attest to experiences of sexual misconduct with Wesley Lowery.
Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 22h
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 20h
Viral reports this week suggested new Google satellite imagery showed unseen destruction in Gaza. But the imagery actually depicts the scene in February 2026. Bellingcat has obtained satellite images from September that show how the destruction has continued. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...
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Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcat
Earlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. But the images weren't entirely new.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This Supreme Court allowed Alabama to keep killing people in 2022 after the state repeatedly botched its executions and left inmates on gurneys, cut up by needles. Of all the Roberts Court’s sins, its death penalty rulings have been especially nihilistic.
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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 20h
what does the department of state think their job is exactly
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23h
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Public anger comes for John Roberts The chief justice’s summer retreat in Maine used to be one of boating, potluck dinners, touch football and easy friendships. Locals called him “John.” Now a swirl of anger has been rising at him, transforming his getaways. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/09/2026
Chicagoland friends, I have a favor to ask. I have a pro bono client, a Black woman, who is currently facing charges for allegedly pointing a gun at her abusive ex - who admitted to raping her. I would love if there could be a show of support for her at her next few court dates.
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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 01/10/2026
1,000% this. Humans are *fallible* even when we don't mean to be. And we mean to be *a lot*. This is why I can never, will never advocate, encourage, or even wish for the death of another. It's not for any of us to decide that for someone. We do not have the skill to wield the ultimate weapon.
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Recrudescence of the Kakistocrats @reddtrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I mean, can you really criticize anyone who's channeling Earl Weaver in this day and age?!
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Recrudescence of the Kakistocrats @reddtrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From your lips to $Deity's ears... (Spoken as someone who is a Rangers' fan while refusing to consume baseball in any way because of the Manfred Man...)
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
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