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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 8h

Okay I finally had a chance to watch #RHOP. Stacey is perfect. So wacky, so delusional, just top tier. I love this possible extraterrestrial so much.

Stacey from the Real Housewives of Potomac, a perfect person/alien

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 9h

It is tough out there for a lot of establishment media properties so I tend to give some leeway for this stuff. But it is funny that Adrienne warranted her own story!

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe Pritzker can offer to send in the IL National Guard

Chron.com @chron.com · 9h

Details surrounding the bloody string of shootings remain murky, police said.

4 dead in Houston-area shooting rampage starting in Sugar Land

Details surrounding the bloody string of shootings remain murky, police said.

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 10h

At least once a day I think about Yolanda Hadid's Texas honey bar

www.architecturaldigest.com/video/watch/...

Inside Yolanda Hadid’s Modern Texas Ranch

www.architecturaldigest.com

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 10h

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 11h

And here's some more details about Odyssey, which will have $50 million to administer the voucher process ahead of next year

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/06/t...

Financial shenanigans about the company that will oversee vouchers in Texas

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 11h

At Signal we took a look at the massive donations that flowed to Greg Abbott from voucher advocates, especially billionaire Jeff Yass

Abbott Receives Big Bucks From Voucher Advocates

In June, Greg Abbott released a semi-annual campaign finance report that showed eye-popping figures from two school voucher advocates: Jeff Yass and Jim Walton. The donations, totaling $4.2 million, a...

texassignal.com

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 11h

"The company in 2023 was awarded $500,000 in a contest founded by Janine and Jeff Yass, the Pennsylvania billionaire who donated a state record $6 million to Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign last year"

Texas selects company that will help develop its school voucher program

Finance and technology company Odyssey will help design the application process, manage payments and review complaints for the state’s education savings accounts.

www.texastribune.org

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 11h

He goes from talking about potentially stopping Austin's "No Kings" protest to rambling about the rigged elections. If somebody in my life was speaking this incoherently, I'd be deeply concerned.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

"I'd love to do something about that" -- Trump floats the idea of stopping a planned protest in Austin

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the abrupt end of the Texas Dream Act -- signed into law by Rick Perry in 2001 -- was another sign this party is abiding by different principles

After Lawsuit, In-State Tuition For Texas Dreamers Ends

District Court Judge Reed O’Connor determined that the Texas law is unconstitutional, and Texas agreed to a consent judgment

texassignal.com

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 1d

Being all-in for immigration was actually a thing that defined Texas Republicans for a long time. Obviously, that is not the case any more.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is so dark

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 1d

I watched the new "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and hoo boy I thought that was a misfire. Had no idea on how to strike the right tone; clunky dialogue; and just... boring. Now, I did think Jennifer Love Hewitt was great, so that's something. Our Texas scream queen always delivers.

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 1d

The first set of briefs were filed with Judge Hanen last week, and that will continue until the end of October. A ruling could come any time after that. National Immigration Law Center has a helpful overview:

What is Actually Happening with DACA?

There’s a lot of chatter going around about what is happening with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). In particular, there is some misinformation regarding initial applications.The short o...

www.nilc.org

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 1d

Working on a story about DACA for Signal and I really need folks to understand how profoundly messed up it would be for new applications to be processed in every state except Texas

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 2d

Houston, Dallas, Austin

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 2d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 2d

That was honestly my biggest jump scare reading the Wikipedia

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 2d

The Governor who sounded alarms ten years ago over a U.S. military exercise in Central Texas now has a different opinion about federalizing troops

Greg Abbott's bad place post about Texas National Guard troops mobilizing to other states

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 2d

Judge Perry (who is a Biden appointee) "declined to immediately issue a restraining order, as requested by the state and city, but scheduled a full hearing on Thursday"

Lawyers for the Trump administration said guard members from Texas could arrive to Chicago by tomorrow.

Judge Declines to Immediately Block National Guard From Illinois Deployment After Pritzker, Johnson File Suit

The lawsuit filed by Illinois and Chicago officials calls the looming deployment of both Texas and Illinois National Guard troops a politically motivated and unconstitutional federal overreach.

news.wttw.com

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 2d

Taking questions, Pritzker reiterates that he thinks Abbott should rescind his approval of deploying Texas National Guard members to Illinois.

"Governor Abbott should stay the hell out of Illinois's business."

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 2d

Raoul said last night they became aware of a memo from Hegseth about deploying 400 Texas National Guard members to Illinois. His office and other entities got to filing their lawsuit.

Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 2d

According to AG Raoul, there is no need for any military response to what is going on in Chicago. He also pointed to recent comments from Trump about using cities as military training zones as proof of this not being an emergency.

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 2d

Starting a new thread because the Illinois Attorney General is now speaking, and discussing the recent lawsuit filed against federal deployment (including to stop Texas national guard members from being deployed to Illinois)

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 2d

After reading and showing more examples of blatant authoritarianism, Pritzker vows that the state of Illinois will use "every lever at our disposal" to resist this power grab and "get Kristi Noem's thugs" out of Chicago

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Jessica Montoya Coggins @jmcoggins.bsky.social · 2d

They are now showing a propaganda video Kristi Noem recently posted on her Twitter about a raid on a South Shore apartment complex. Pritzker now asking to imagine yourself as a child being subjected to this excessive use of force.

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