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Samra Jones Bufkins

@samjb.bsky.social
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Alzheimer's widow, Roman Catholic, Texas Master Naturalist, Kentucky hoops fan, Dallas Cowboys victim, childless cat lady, writer, gardener, ISTJ. I don't follow everybody back.

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Samra Jones Bufkins @samjb.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
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Federal Court Blocks Texas’ Republican-Friendly Congressional Map
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Samra Jones Bufkins @samjb.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Anoosh, organizer @anoosh100.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
It’s conspicuous to me that we know nothing about the people that Jahn shot, all three of them detainees, one of them dead.
Four FBI agents standing on the roof of the Dallas ICE facility, a square, concrete structure with the word “inmigración” in raised blue letters.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2025
Breaking News: Three people were shot at an ICE detention facility in Dallas, officials said. Follow updates.
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3 People Shot at Dallas ICE Facility: Live Updates
The circumstances of the shooting were not yet clear. Federal authorities said there were “multiple injuries and fatalities.”
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Samra Jones Bufkins @samjb.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Freedom of speech" is officially dead. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 18/09/2025
The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515
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Samra Jones Bufkins @samjb.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I'm getting over COVID and feel awful. I need cuddly cat pics. Here's my Gonzo and his brother Garfield.
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Samra Jones Bufkins @samjb.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Trump should demand they release all the Epstein files and associated documents. We all know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. He won't be prosecuted, and he will pardon any of his pals who are prosecuted. MAGAts will still vote for whomever he tells them to, and congress will do nothing.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/07/2025
ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/07/2025
Kristi Noem must resign now.
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Grumpy-TG @grumpy-tg.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
This is your sign to kill your lawn and plant native wildflower seeds!
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jon5cents @jon5cents.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🪶 Painted bunting makes for a colorful #FeatheredFriday friend. From a couple of weeks ago in Hagerman Wildlife Refuge, Sherman, TX. #birds #photography #nature
A small bird on a dead lichen-covered branch. It is very colorful, with a blue head, red eyering and breast, and yellow and green on its back.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
You know what other regime asked how much money they could save if other races were eliminated?
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Samra Jones Bufkins @samjb.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Yep..What else can you expect from Cancun Cruz?
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Democrat House Committees (mirror) @demhousecomms.govpeeps.us · 11/07/2025
House Veterans' Affairs Democrats tweeted: After serving our country, far too many veterans return home to doctors who say, "I don't know how to help you." This is due to DoDs refusal to share critical exposure data with VA. Veterans deserve healthcare providers who understand (cont in image...)
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Samra Jones Bufkins @samjb.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Turns out Kerr County DID have a county-wide alert system. It wasn't activated. some texas flood alerts were delayed as officials waited for authorization, former kerr county official says www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-f...
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Some Texas flood alerts were delayed as officials waited for authorization, former Kerr County official says
Recordings provided to CBS News showed first responders asking for an emergency alert to be sent, but dispatchers delayed because they needed special authorization.
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Mr Targeted Harassment @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.
A "blue alert" from the state of Texas for an injury to a cop 250 miles away from where I live.
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Wow. Hey you fake ass Christians, A person has been detained at the concentration camp in Florida and his Bible was taken away from him and he was told that he didn't have a right to religion. WTF? Isn't that written in the first amendment?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The US is experiencing its worst measles outbreak in over 30 years, with 1,288 cases reported just six months into the year. The vaccine-preventable disease has led to three deaths, two children in Texas and an adult in New Mexico, and dozens of hospitalizations.
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LR @trychick.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This is brilliant. Let’s get it to go viral!
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Jim Sichko @jimsichko.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
OH MY ….. Texas 4th of July Flood 106 confirmed deaths Tragically the missing number has grown to 161.
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Danny Satterfield @wildweatherdan.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I’m surprised at how many think that they had no warning in Texas. People really believe it and it’s just plain false. NWS gave excellent watches and warnings. That’s a fact that will not change. I have them all and they are time stamped.
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We don't have a NWS app thanks to the lobbying of Accuweather.
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Samra Jones Bufkins @samjb.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Kerr County, Texas isn't far (by Texas standards) from Austin, where Elon Musk lives. Think of the resources he could pour into this disaster relief, and into a dependable warning system for flash floods. Just Imagine what good he could do. #TexasFlood
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I agree with Ted Cruz that now isn’t the time to politicize any deaths. I just wish Ted Cruz would agree with Ted Cruz the next time something happens in a blue state and he decides to be a partisan fuckwit.
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Samra Jones Bufkins @samjb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Not Ted Cruz is talking about how people online make up crazy theories. He should know....
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The flash flooding in Central Texas is absolutely heartbreaking. Michelle and I are praying for everyone who has lost a loved one or is waiting for news — especially the parents. And we’re grateful to the first responders and rescue teams working around the clock to help.
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Small acts of #kindness are needed now more than ever. Start with something small, watch it grow. #Alzheimers #dementia #mentalhealth
 Infographic from Sonia Sparkles with examples of small acts of kindness.
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Samra Jones Bufkins @samjb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
No, Ted Cruz, HEB is feeding people.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/07/2025
When catastrophic floodwaters surged through Kerr County in Texas last week, there were no sirens or early flooding monitors. Officials had considered installing a flood warning system in 2017, but it was rejected as too expensive. trib.al/Wmybccf
Rescuers sit in a small boat on a river surrounded by destroyed trees.
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Samra Jones Bufkins @samjb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Elected officials who have nothing directly to do with the rescue & recovery operations in a natural disaster don't need to waste everybody's time talking at a press conference. #texasflood
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NPR @npr.org · 05/07/2025
Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.
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Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data
Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.
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CK14 @palazzo214.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
How many churches, cathedrals, chapels, synagogues, Buddhist temples, and mosques are there in America? Yet they’re all silent and absent when Trump continues to feed hate, cruelty and division throughout the country and beyond. Who truly possesses America’s soul? Wyd America?
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It’s easy to pose as officers who doesn’t have to show their faces or badges. No masks for ICE!
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Last year Bill Moyers reported and narrated the decades-spanning Frontline documentary "Two American Families" on PBS. Tonight, just a few hours after Moyers died, the project won Outstanding Social Issue Documentary at the News Emmys.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The passing of a legend: Bill Moyers, a former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson who turned into a longtime broadcast journalist and champion of public media, has died at age 91. His son tells me Moyers died of complications from a long illness.
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Bill Moyers, former press secretary turned acclaimed journalist, dead at 91 | CNN Business
The former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson and longtime broadcast journalist has died, his family confirmed to CNN.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/06/2025
America’s nuclear weapons are under the sole authority of the president, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. Does that system still make sense?
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The President’s Weapon
Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/06/2025
The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
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AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/06/2025
Operation Stormy Daniels. Haha
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Narrator: he didn’t
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Nick @npc82.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
!Calling all #naturalists, #birders, #hikers, #cyclists, #mountainbikers etc. ! If you or someone you know is located in Utah or other "red state" (etc.), PLEASE PLEASE sign/share to prevent the permanent selloff of three million acres of public land. TY action.outdooralliance.org/a/reconcilia...
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Tell the Senate NO to Public Land Sell Offs
🚨 BREAKING: The Senate wants to sell off 3.3 million acres of public land. That’s 4x the size of Rhode Island. The outdoor community stopped land sales before. We need your voice again.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Our nation and planet cannot survive four years of this. It is not sustainable.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/06/2025
Schiff: "The failure to brief Dem lawmakers, the making this just another partisan exercise by the administration when it comes to something as serious as the decision to potentially engage in warfare, it means that you're not gonna have the whole country bought into this, which is a real problem"
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Take note.
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Libby Whittemore @libbage55.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A SHORT NOTE TO GOD: Dear God, If only you had given him a bigger pen!s, none of this would be happening. Sincerely, The sane citizens of the USA
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 22/06/2025
The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences. The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences. The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
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