Sara
@sarainatx.bsky.social
Gen X progressive left Texan, here for news, politics, civil rights & public schools. I help local nonprofits & downballot candidates build community and help tech companies that don't suck do cool marketing stuff.
Leander, Texas voters could vote 8 times between November 2025 & 2026. Even engaged voters are unlikely to know of this many opportunities & the general public will have no idea. It's time to build awareness about what election dates are coming & who's on the ballot! aimforimpact.com/election-dat...
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Leander, Texas voters could vote 8 times between November 2025 & 2026. Even engaged voters are unlikely to know of this many opportunities & the general public will have no idea. It's time to build awareness about what election dates are coming & who's on the ballot! aimforimpact.com/election-dat...
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Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
Challenge: how many elections of any kind will voters have an opportunity to vote on in your area between now & November 2026?
If you don't know, check city, county, school district websites & ballotpedia.org
Start a list & start educating people around you!
Can anyone top 7 possible elections?
If you don't know, check city, county, school district websites & ballotpedia.org
Start a list & start educating people around you!
Can anyone top 7 possible elections?
ballotpedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Challenge: how many elections of any kind will voters have an opportunity to vote on in your area between now & November 2026?
If you don't know, check city, county, school district websites & ballotpedia.org
Start a list & start educating people around you!
Can anyone top 7 possible elections?
If you don't know, check city, county, school district websites & ballotpedia.org
Start a list & start educating people around you!
Can anyone top 7 possible elections?
Travis County Texas voters: Polls are open Tuesday from 7 AM to 7 PM & you can find voting locations and wait times for Tuesday here: votetravis.gov/current-elec...
Check your city website for any other local races and see info on the propositions below. Do your part and be a voter! 🗳️🙌
Check your city website for any other local races and see info on the propositions below. Do your part and be a voter! 🗳️🙌
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Travis County Texas voters: Polls are open Tuesday from 7 AM to 7 PM & you can find voting locations and wait times for Tuesday here: votetravis.gov/current-elec...
Check your city website for any other local races and see info on the propositions below. Do your part and be a voter! 🗳️🙌
Check your city website for any other local races and see info on the propositions below. Do your part and be a voter! 🗳️🙌
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🌈✊ Let’s outnumber the drag protesters TOMORROW at North Lake Travis Pride’s first festival on October 26! Book a free ticket at bio.site/NorthLakeTravisPride. #dragisnotacrime #celebratepride #queerjoyisresistance #leandertx #jonestowntx #atx
October 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🌈✊ Let’s outnumber the drag protesters TOMORROW at North Lake Travis Pride’s first festival on October 26! Book a free ticket at bio.site/NorthLakeTravisPride. #dragisnotacrime #celebratepride #queerjoyisresistance #leandertx #jonestowntx #atx
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Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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A Portland mother was violently pushed to the ground and has since been transported across state lines. Her husband has no idea when they’ll hear from her again. trib.al/89dsyj8
Woman Arrested While Playing “Ghostbusters” on Clarinet at ICE Protest
Oriana Korol has since been transported across state lines, and her husband has no idea when they’ll hear from her again.
trib.al
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A Portland mother was violently pushed to the ground and has since been transported across state lines. Her husband has no idea when they’ll hear from her again. trib.al/89dsyj8
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Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.
ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.
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Your right to read is being infringed upon, and librarians have become the first responders in the fight for democracy and First Amendment rights. Texas has become ground zero as sweeping book bans are adopted at an unprecedented rate.
Read More👉 ebx.sh/hwlQaW
Read More👉 ebx.sh/hwlQaW
October 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Your right to read is being infringed upon, and librarians have become the first responders in the fight for democracy and First Amendment rights. Texas has become ground zero as sweeping book bans are adopted at an unprecedented rate.
Read More👉 ebx.sh/hwlQaW
Read More👉 ebx.sh/hwlQaW
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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
August 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
LOL. Talarico is amazing.
Talarico owns Will Cain so hard that he has to tap out of their interview based on "time"
August 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
LOL. Talarico is amazing.
Candidates in other states need to replicate this.
Zohran didn't win by relying on standard turnout patterns. We had to fundamentally transform the Democratic electorate.
I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the “universe” of voters to talk to. Here's how we won 🧵
I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the “universe” of voters to talk to. Here's how we won 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Candidates in other states need to replicate this.
I have only curse words
UPDATED: The woman at the center of my reporting speaks out. For the first time, she shares what it felt like to be denied prenatal care simply for being unmarried.
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#reprorights #reproductivehealth #tnleg
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#reprorights #reproductivehealth #tnleg
Exclusive: Pregnant Woman in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried (Updated)
The 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act allows physicians to deny care to patients whose "lifestyles" they disagree with
wellsrachelm.substack.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I have only curse words
What recent thing made you feel old?
I'm on vacation with my kids and had to explain both the dial tone on a land line and the existence of phone books. ☎️😂
I'm on vacation with my kids and had to explain both the dial tone on a land line and the existence of phone books. ☎️😂
July 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
What recent thing made you feel old?
I'm on vacation with my kids and had to explain both the dial tone on a land line and the existence of phone books. ☎️😂
I'm on vacation with my kids and had to explain both the dial tone on a land line and the existence of phone books. ☎️😂
This is so, so shady and it happens anytime there are election results that career politicians don't like.
Look at how Republicans are planning to gerrymander deep blue Houston—and my congressional district specifically:
![Joel Montfort
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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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July 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is so, so shady and it happens anytime there are election results that career politicians don't like.
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If it's produced, streamed, or owned by Paramount, I'm not watching it. They don't get a view from me. They don't get a dime from me. Call it a boycott. Call it whatever you want. Colbert is the only Paramount property I'll watch until May, and after that, I'm done with them.
July 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
If it's produced, streamed, or owned by Paramount, I'm not watching it. They don't get a view from me. They don't get a dime from me. Call it a boycott. Call it whatever you want. Colbert is the only Paramount property I'll watch until May, and after that, I'm done with them.
CBS: We're cancelling the #1 latenight show "purely for financial reasons."
Everyone: Right, it's called a bribe.
Everyone: Right, it's called a bribe.
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
July 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
CBS: We're cancelling the #1 latenight show "purely for financial reasons."
Everyone: Right, it's called a bribe.
Everyone: Right, it's called a bribe.
Blatant racism from every direction about the NY primary is a thing to behold.
June 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Blatant racism from every direction about the NY primary is a thing to behold.
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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
NYC Comptroller and mayoral candidate?! ⬇️
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
June 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NYC Comptroller and mayoral candidate?! ⬇️
Thank you for speaking up @bucyfortexas.bsky.social 👏
Rep. John Bucy (D-TX) speaking at the Austin protest.
June 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Thank you for speaking up @bucyfortexas.bsky.social 👏
Well done, y'all! 🙌
Banners at 32:52 on the game clock at the Austin FC game last night. Supporters from Los Verdes, Austin Anthem, and La Murga de Austin worked to get these painted by game time!
Photo credit: @lamurgadeaustin.bsky.social
Photo credit: @lamurgadeaustin.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Well done, y'all! 🙌
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My god.
"Service Employees International Union California President David Huerta was injured and detained while documenting an immigration enforcement raid in downtown Los Angeles Friday, labor union officials said — prompting protests and calls for his release."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
"Service Employees International Union California President David Huerta was injured and detained while documenting an immigration enforcement raid in downtown Los Angeles Friday, labor union officials said — prompting protests and calls for his release."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
David Huerta, president of SEIU California, detained during L.A. ICE raids
David Huerta was detained while documenting an immigration enforcement raid in downtown Los Angeles. Federal authorities said he was arrested on suspicion of interfering with federal officers.
www.latimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
My god.
"Service Employees International Union California President David Huerta was injured and detained while documenting an immigration enforcement raid in downtown Los Angeles Friday, labor union officials said — prompting protests and calls for his release."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
"Service Employees International Union California President David Huerta was injured and detained while documenting an immigration enforcement raid in downtown Los Angeles Friday, labor union officials said — prompting protests and calls for his release."
www.latimes.com/california/s...