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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7h

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 6h

New flavors! @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social

Some of Ben & Jerry’s new flavors are awfully suspicious! #Kimmel

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 5h

The coverup continues @whitehouse.senate.gov

The Epstein coverup continues.

YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 6h

I'm so glad OPB did his story. I also think Oregon Republicans need to be asked if they would be so keen to do "everything possible to support their mission and ensure our community’s safety," if Guard were deployed by a Democratic, rather than Republican, president.
www.opb.org/article/2025...

Many Oregon GOP lawmakers silent as Trump seeks National Guard deployment to Portland

OPB emailed every Republican state lawmaker in Oregon on Monday to ask whether they support the deployment of National Guard members to the Rose City. Two responded.

www.opb.org

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Aroostook County Democrats @aroostookdemocrats.bsky.social · 2d

Ask yourself WHY is the ultra right wing zealot, Leonard Leo, spending so much money trying to kill Absentee Voting in Maine??

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Tim Edwards @timzero4.bsky.social · 14h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 12h

Hakeem Jeffries came to play today as Lawler tries to confront him: "You’re not going to talk over me because you don’t want to hear what I have to say so why don’t you just keep your mouth shut."

More 👏🏼Of👏🏼This👏🏼

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

Temporary Restraining Order to be granted tomorrow in the Chicago case filed by journalists, pastors, and others hit with riot control munitions by ICE!

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 13h

Ellis rules that the plaintiffs have standing for their case. She cites the "ongoing and sustained record of conduct" by federal agents gathered over the last month.

She further finds the plaintiffs have plausibly shown feds have "frustrated" efforts to "protect journalist safety."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

TAPPER: I don't understand why you're not calling the House back in session

MIKE JOHNSON: Members are doing important work in their districts right now

TAPPER: But the work legislating is also important work

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10h

Marjorie Taylor Greene just said the Republican Party is “getting destroyed” during this government shutdown as they refuse to protect health care.

“Everyone’s just getting destroyed... Republicans, you have no solutions... It is hurting so many people.”

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10h

Miller is lying in order to get you (and “low-info voters”) to give up. Without surrender, Miller and the rest of the regime got nothing. They believe you will believe their lies and conquer yourself. But they can’t conquer you if you don’t believe them.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10h

www.editorialboard.com/stephen-mill...

Stephen Miller will conquer you if you believe his lies

The lies start with the ones he tells himself, about himself.

www.editorialboard.com

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AMPTsuper @amptsuper.bsky.social · 5h

@texasobserver.org @texastribune.org @jamestalarico.bsky.social @crockett.house.gov @colinallredtx.bsky.social

ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

www.propublica.org

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 7h

October 8, 2025

Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 11h

Trump is moving us closer to authoritarianism with each deployment of troops into states.

From Illinois to Oregon to California—

None of our states asked for this, nor need this.

I and every U.S. Senator from these states are demanding Trump to end these deployments ASAP.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7h

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 7h

WATCH: Newly surfaced video shows federal agents shooting a pastor in the head with what appears to be a pepper-spray projectile while speaking outside an ICE detention facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview. Chris Hayes reacts.

SHOCKING video shows ICE shoot Chicago pastor in head with pepper ball

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 10h

"I've been buying out of Canada
& getting prescription thru UK
& India. Same drugs, except

Cost Plus is rock bottom lower!!!

Saved over $10,000 dollars for
six months prescription
Wow! again

@costplusdrugs proving again, we are cheaper than other countries. Right here in the USA

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 15h

This is good news. It would be even better if Trump wasn't torpedoing the U.S. solar and wind industry and ceding the energy future to China. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Guardian: Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Ari Melber @arimelber.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration has taken more overt actions to censor, criticize and legally harass journalists than any administration in the modern era.

New: deadline.com/2025/10/ari-...

Ari Melber Talks About MSNBC Live ’25, Covering Trump 2.0 And A Benefit Of The Pending Comcast Spinoff: “More Independent As A Company” – Q&A

As anxieties run high throughout the media business, MSNBC's Ari Melber sees the positives in the channel's pending spinoff from Comcast.

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AMPTsuper @amptsuper.bsky.social · 7h

Is it a "norm," "rule," or "law" that a specific person does the swearing in? Seems like this iteration of the Republican party has no problem stomping all over norms so perhaps the Democrats can do the same? Just a thought. Bet @raskin.house.gov @judgeluttig.bsky.social can answer that.

All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 8h

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social explains precisely why Mike Johnson is stalling the new Dem rep's swear-in over the Epstein vote: "Right now, Johnson can pressure the four Republican signers to change their minds. He has time to do it—as long as he keeps Adelita Grijalva out of Congress."

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