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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 06/10/2026

“We’ve seen a sea change, in just two years: a sea change in Latino voting from what we saw in ’24, where we saw a substantial number of Latinos vote for Trump, vote for Republicans. And now, if you look at polling, consistently now you’re seeing a complete flip in the other direction toward Dems.”

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South Texas Is Moving On from Trump

The region looks poised to return to its centrist-Democrat roots, as the president fails to bring down costs and the reality of mass deportations takes hold. But 2028 could be another test.

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Traces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The face of hardship: a migrant agricultural worker and his wife outside their tent in San Sebastian, Texas, 1939.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Geologist & astronaut Dr. Kathryn Sullivan: the "most vertical human" in history. + From space: 1st American woman to walk in space, 11 Oct 1984 + To the deepest point of Earth's seabed: 1st woman to dive to the Challenger Deep (🔽 35,853 ft), 7 June 2020 She was born #OTD in 1951. #WomenInSTEM

A candid photograph of pioneering American astronaut and oceanographer Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan (born 1951) celebrating her historic June 2020 return from the Challenger Deep—the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans. This moment solidified her legacy as the first person to both walk in space and reach the ocean floor. The outdoor shot frames Sullivan off-center against a deep blue, slightly undulating ocean that stretches out to a hazy, light-clouded horizon line under bright sunlight. Sullivan stands leaning slightly out from a white oceanic vessel hatch or submersible entry point. She smiles broadly with triumphant energy, looking off-camera to the left. Her left arm is fully extended outward, flashing an enthusiastic thumbs-up sign. On the far left edge of the frame, another crew member's hand wearing a black textured glove mirrors her thumbs-up gesture. She wears a cobalt blue utility flight suit featuring a golden rectangular patch over her right chest. Her light brown hair is short and windblown, and she wears rectangular tortoiseshell sunglasses. Thick, bright yellow heavy-duty rigging straps slice vertically through the left foreground, framing her body, while a curved metallic silver handrail sits to her left. The overall mood is joyful, victorious, and adventurous.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army.”

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Suli Qyre @suliqyre.com · 02/10/2026

“When you do something out of duty is there any love in it? In duty there is no love. The structure of duty in which the human being is caught is destroying him. So long as you are compelled to do something because it is your duty you don’t love what you are doing.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Schools have been passively complicit in bullying and abuse for as long as I've been alive, because institutionally speaking they'd prefer victims take it and be quiet to having to engage with problems. Dad to kid me: "If someone puts their hands on you, keep hitting them until they can't anymore."

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MWhite @pjmatt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can't "defund" the police, that's dumb. But you could change a lot: 1 end the death penalty, completely. It makes us the Saudis. 2 end sherriffs 3 No more camo, anywhere. Real uniforms, nametags, and 'street' uniforms with reflective/hi-vis yellow or orange. You're here to HELP, look like it

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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WHY WOULD THE LEFTISTS RUIN THIS BEAUTIFUL STATE?!

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't forget your real power peeps✌🏼💙

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/

A woman scientist - me! - standing over the boreal forest in interior Alaska.

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“In the epic contest between democracy and autocracy, Trump…punishes news outlets for being too “negative” about him while embracing Xi and President Vladimir Putin of Russia, two of the world’s leading authoritarians whose governments brutally suppress free speech.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...

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In Trump’s White House, China’s Dictator Is Welcome. American Media, Less So.

The showdown over President Trump’s partial media ban played out as he welcomed President Xi Jinping, whose government is ranked among the most repressive in the world.

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We send Israel $3.4 billion a year. They have free healthcare. You don't. They have free college. You don't. Any questions?

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For #PhantomPhriday, VMFA-314 BLACK KNIGHTS is in the spotlight. “In 1961, the squadron became the first Marine squadron to transition to the new F-4B Phantom II and was designated VMFA-314. Between 1961 and 1964, the squadron deployed eight times.”

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Serious Tom @serioustom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm doing pretty good for an old man that wants to live on fast food tacos and cheeseburgers.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this was done *in the house* *by the minority* *on a bill that had to become law*, which is basically playing legislator on legendary mode and house judiciary was far from the only committee doing this, in both chambers

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.

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U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low

Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.

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Serious Tom @serioustom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This, my friends, is a breakfast burrito. 4 eggs! Hot sauce not in the picture.

Breakfast burrito with 4 eggs, ham, potatoes, frijoles and cheese next to a bottle of water

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H. L. Mencken, born on this day in 1880

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 11/09/2026

President Obama killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Donald Trump invited the Taliban to hang out at Camp David on 9/11, freed 5,000 of their elite fighters from prison, and tried to kill Mike Pence. We should never forget that.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.” – Montaigne #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Bob @definitelyjustbob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey. From someone who knows about those intrusive thoughts and how loud they can be, the world is better with you in it. I promise you that.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ken Paxton’s former top cop who was fired after exposing Paxton’s corruption: After Paxton fired me, they started trying to hire somebody to take my place. The determining question was: ‘Are you willing to be loyal to Ken Paxton?’

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Sarah E. Minnis, PhD 🏔️ @saraheminnisphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today is Suicide Prevention Day. Please let someone help you. You Matter. ♥️

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Serious Tom @serioustom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The hourly employees either hate me being the adult in the room, or they don't. Either way, they put me on their t-shirt. That's me, blue jeans, untucked button down with cuffed sleeves and glasses.

One old man wearing blue jeans with an untucked button down shirt with the sleeves cuffed and glasses, watching kids at work and play on and around an F35

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fox News says James Talarico is counterprogramming the GOP convention with Texas food drives focused on affordability. Good. While Republicans gather in Dallas, more than 20,000 pounds of groceries went to Texans who need them. That’s a message people can feel #momsky#sheshed

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Hoosier Homer is reading The Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Joint Force at Kabul remains one of the most salient examples of clear cut heroism in our recent military history and yet, they are mostly forgotten. I think this is a clear failing. We should be holding them up as an example of what America is capable of when the cards are on the table.

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Txnewsprincess @txnewsprincess.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I took a break from writing about fighting Methodists and other people who are mad at each other to write this heartwarming story about a retired pro baseball player who made good on a promise. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

A Year Ago, He Wrote to a Baseball Hero. Then the Hero Showed Up.

After Joe Spear sent the two-time Cy Young winner what Bret Saberhagen called the “sweetest fan mail ever,” the former MLB pitcher promised to watch him play someday. Over the weekend, he surprised the 12-year-old at his game.

Photo of two families posing outside a baseball field, including a smiling young g baseball player in a uniform that says Panthers and a young girl holding a scooter.

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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 24/08/2026

Trying to kidnap a bunch of introverted millennials with bad knees

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🧘 Insight from Montaigne: “There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“Silence is a lesson learned through life’s many sufferings.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🔥 Enduring wisdom from Epictetus: “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Governor Abbott's new claim in the Minnesota/ICE extradition case is that his office is looking into whether Castro "is a fugitive." One problem: #SCOTUS has held—over and over again—that governors in the "asylum" state don't have *any* discretion to make that kind of determination for themselves:

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Bonus 244: Minnesota v. Abbott

Governor Abbott is ignoring his duty to extradite an ICE officer indicted in Minnesota. He has no viable legal claim, but may be trying to run out the clock.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🧭 Guidance by Horace: “With such short lives, why do we pull in so many directions?”

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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ken Paxton’s own party impeached him, his staff alerted the FBI, and his own attorney endorsed Talarico. Those who know Paxton best agree he is unfit for office. Support James Talarico to deliver for ALL Texans. app.sosha.ai/s/qF3z1jLE

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 19/08/2026

Minnesota's attorney general sued the governor of Texas on Tuesday, seeking to compel the extradition of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent charged with wounding a man and then lying to justify the shooting during the agency's crackdown in Minneapolis. to.pbs.org/4xOWoEo

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Minnesota AG sues Texas governor to extradite ICE agent for trial

Attorney General Keith Ellison says Texas Governor Greg Abbott has not signed papers to extradite Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro since his arrest in Texas in May.

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Get Shit Done Girl 🐕🐕🐕🐕 @tmfloressb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Keep making that noise about protecting our national parks.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 11/08/2026

Sideburns of the Merchant Adventurers: a not so short back and sides story. Edward Rooke, Governor in 1895. Excellent sideburns although slightly spoilt by the dead eye expression.

We are looking at a black and white photo of a middle aged man with curly grey hair and a pair of epic matching mutton chops. He is wearing a three piece suit with bow tie over which is a robe. He is holding a bicorn hat in one side which is decorated with gold brocade.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

BREAKING: Independent Mayor of Arlington TX, Jim Ross, endorses James Talarico for US Senate: “I’m tired of criminals running for office. Talarico is what is right for this state.”

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MJ @texson6886.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Ah yes, the abusers definition of abuse, 'Well it's not so bad and besides it's her word against his so...' Ladies, I understand your choice of the bear more and more. I apologize for any time that I was part of the problem and not the solution.

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Rob is reading The Air Campaign (Mets)🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

People should read more classics.

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