@dubcoast.bsky.social
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Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.
Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."
September 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.
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A Tarrant County, TX resident who has worked as an election judge criticized the county’s move to cut more than 100 polling sites.
“You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.”
With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
“You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.”
With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally
The decision by commissioners in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
www.propublica.org
September 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
A Tarrant County, TX resident who has worked as an election judge criticized the county’s move to cut more than 100 polling sites.
“You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.”
With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
“You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.”
With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
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De Niro: "I gotta go. A couple cases of Tylenol fell off a truck and now I gotta figure out how to put autism in them."
September 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
De Niro: "I gotta go. A couple cases of Tylenol fell off a truck and now I gotta figure out how to put autism in them."
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good job chat we successfully bullied a major corporation to the point that the late night host they canned is making jokes about it in his return monologue
american fascism versus the cancel subscription button: who will win
american fascism versus the cancel subscription button: who will win
Kimmel: "Disney has asked me to read the following statement and I agreed to do it. 'To reactivate your Disney+ and Hulu account ... '"
September 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
good job chat we successfully bullied a major corporation to the point that the late night host they canned is making jokes about it in his return monologue
american fascism versus the cancel subscription button: who will win
american fascism versus the cancel subscription button: who will win
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bingo 🎯
Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"
September 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
bingo 🎯
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HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants to find the causes of #autism by September.
Erin McCanlies has spent the past 20yrs studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals at work affects the chance that they will have a child with the condition.
RFK Jr. cut her entire lab.
My latest video for @propublica.org
Erin McCanlies has spent the past 20yrs studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals at work affects the chance that they will have a child with the condition.
RFK Jr. cut her entire lab.
My latest video for @propublica.org
September 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants to find the causes of #autism by September.
Erin McCanlies has spent the past 20yrs studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals at work affects the chance that they will have a child with the condition.
RFK Jr. cut her entire lab.
My latest video for @propublica.org
Erin McCanlies has spent the past 20yrs studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals at work affects the chance that they will have a child with the condition.
RFK Jr. cut her entire lab.
My latest video for @propublica.org
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Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
September 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
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This is SO fucked up. A sarcastic "Some of our friends" yeah man those people who hate the idea we can't just assault women are terrible
RFK Jr: "Some of our friends like to say that we should believe all women. But some of these people have been silencing and demonizing these mothers for three decades."
September 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is SO fucked up. A sarcastic "Some of our friends" yeah man those people who hate the idea we can't just assault women are terrible
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Oh nothing to see here…just Trump’s Chairman of the FCC using gifs to confirm that everything he’s doing was in Project 2025 that he co-wrote
September 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Oh nothing to see here…just Trump’s Chairman of the FCC using gifs to confirm that everything he’s doing was in Project 2025 that he co-wrote
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holy shit -- GOP Rep. Mike Turner tries to "help out" Hegseth by getting him to confirm that the Pentagon does not in fact have plans to take Greenland by force, but Hegseth instead more or less testifies that yep, they have devised plans for that
June 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
holy shit -- GOP Rep. Mike Turner tries to "help out" Hegseth by getting him to confirm that the Pentagon does not in fact have plans to take Greenland by force, but Hegseth instead more or less testifies that yep, they have devised plans for that
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Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange.
This comes just weeks after the Trump family's crypto venture (World Liberty Financial) helped broker a $2B deal between Binance and a UAE state-backed firm.
It's all out in the open.
This comes just weeks after the Trump family's crypto venture (World Liberty Financial) helped broker a $2B deal between Binance and a UAE state-backed firm.
It's all out in the open.
May 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange.
This comes just weeks after the Trump family's crypto venture (World Liberty Financial) helped broker a $2B deal between Binance and a UAE state-backed firm.
It's all out in the open.
This comes just weeks after the Trump family's crypto venture (World Liberty Financial) helped broker a $2B deal between Binance and a UAE state-backed firm.
It's all out in the open.
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NEW: The chapters, one board member argued, were inappropriate for students because they discussed “vaccines and polio,” touched on “topics of depopulation,” had “an agenda out of the United Nations” and included “a perspective that humans are bad.”
With @texastribune.org
With @texastribune.org
A Texas School Board Cut State-Approved Textbook Chapters About Diversity. A Board Member Says Material Violated the Law
The decision to strip chapters from books that had already won the approval of the state’s Republican-controlled board of education represents an escalation in how local school boards run by…
propub.li
April 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEW: The chapters, one board member argued, were inappropriate for students because they discussed “vaccines and polio,” touched on “topics of depopulation,” had “an agenda out of the United Nations” and included “a perspective that humans are bad.”
With @texastribune.org
With @texastribune.org
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Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn’t a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements.
March 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn’t a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements.
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1/ This is wildly illegal. That is not a question on which reasonable legally informed folks can disagree.
It doesn't fucking matter that he ran on doing illegal things. They are still illegal.
And striking at Congress's power of the purse is worse than illegal. It's anti-constitutional.
It doesn't fucking matter that he ran on doing illegal things. They are still illegal.
And striking at Congress's power of the purse is worse than illegal. It's anti-constitutional.
March 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
1/ This is wildly illegal. That is not a question on which reasonable legally informed folks can disagree.
It doesn't fucking matter that he ran on doing illegal things. They are still illegal.
And striking at Congress's power of the purse is worse than illegal. It's anti-constitutional.
It doesn't fucking matter that he ran on doing illegal things. They are still illegal.
And striking at Congress's power of the purse is worse than illegal. It's anti-constitutional.
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Twitter is down on one of the biggest days of the year in the NFL. Bluesky…
March 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Twitter is down on one of the biggest days of the year in the NFL. Bluesky…
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The winner for best post of the day 😂
Twitter Jerry Jones
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Not planning to be active during free agency
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Not planning to be active during free agency
March 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The winner for best post of the day 😂
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I want to see Rodgers yell at DK & Pickens and get hit with a dudley death drop
Aaron Rodgers "getting close" to signing a deal with the Steelers, per Gerry Dulac.
March 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I want to see Rodgers yell at DK & Pickens and get hit with a dudley death drop
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NEW: On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.
This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.
propub.li
March 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.
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25 years ago measles was declared eliminated in the United States due to the success of vaccination. In 2024, there were outbreaks in 33 states, 90% of which were in the unvaccinated.
At least 22 children and two adults infected in Texas measles outbreak
Nine of those infected were hospitalized and more cases are likely, health authorities said. U.S. vaccination rates for measles are falling, according to the CDC.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
25 years ago measles was declared eliminated in the United States due to the success of vaccination. In 2024, there were outbreaks in 33 states, 90% of which were in the unvaccinated.
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When Trump took office, the NLRB had 24 separate investigations into Musk’s corporations for violating workers’ rights.
But presto...Trump fired three officials at that agency, effectively stalling the board's ability to rule on cases.
See how this works?
But presto...Trump fired three officials at that agency, effectively stalling the board's ability to rule on cases.
See how this works?
Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up
Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
When Trump took office, the NLRB had 24 separate investigations into Musk’s corporations for violating workers’ rights.
But presto...Trump fired three officials at that agency, effectively stalling the board's ability to rule on cases.
See how this works?
But presto...Trump fired three officials at that agency, effectively stalling the board's ability to rule on cases.
See how this works?
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It was always apparent but now it's increasingly undeniable that all these 20-something DOGE employees were chosen not *in spite* of inadequate vetting but *because* they would not pass vetting. Trump & Musk chose the people who seemed the most willing to commit illegal acts on their behalf.
🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
www.bloomberg.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It was always apparent but now it's increasingly undeniable that all these 20-something DOGE employees were chosen not *in spite* of inadequate vetting but *because* they would not pass vetting. Trump & Musk chose the people who seemed the most willing to commit illegal acts on their behalf.
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If the oligarchs are using henchmen to block elected officials out of government buildings, then our system is finally shedding its disguise and openly revealing itself as authoritarian.
ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.
February 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If the oligarchs are using henchmen to block elected officials out of government buildings, then our system is finally shedding its disguise and openly revealing itself as authoritarian.
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1. Twitter bans overt racists.
2. Musk buys Twitter.
3. Musk polls his followers about reinstating the overt racists.
4. Musk buys access to a presidential candidate.
5. A guy who posted overt racism is fired from government.
6. Musk polls his followers about reinstating the guy to the government.
2. Musk buys Twitter.
3. Musk polls his followers about reinstating the overt racists.
4. Musk buys access to a presidential candidate.
5. A guy who posted overt racism is fired from government.
6. Musk polls his followers about reinstating the guy to the government.
February 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
1. Twitter bans overt racists.
2. Musk buys Twitter.
3. Musk polls his followers about reinstating the overt racists.
4. Musk buys access to a presidential candidate.
5. A guy who posted overt racism is fired from government.
6. Musk polls his followers about reinstating the guy to the government.
2. Musk buys Twitter.
3. Musk polls his followers about reinstating the overt racists.
4. Musk buys access to a presidential candidate.
5. A guy who posted overt racism is fired from government.
6. Musk polls his followers about reinstating the guy to the government.
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Between Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden and Elon Musk the last three US Presidents have been terrible.
February 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Between Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden and Elon Musk the last three US Presidents have been terrible.