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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3h

🚨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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Mike Hoinski @hoinski.bsky.social · 12h

Cryptids, dark tourism, and close encounters. Take a wild ride with @asherelbein.bsky.social and @rachelmonroe.bsky.social over at @texashighways.bsky.social.

texashighways.com/travel/do-yo...

Go On a Haunted Texas Road Trip

Travel through the spookier side of the state on cursed ships, in haunted hotels, and at sites of alleged paranormal activity

texashighways.com

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 2h

Canada should get it this year. America doesn't deserve the big baseball trophy

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 3h

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

youtu.be

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rexvrex @rexvrex.bsky.social · 3h

This sucks

Alan Fossler @alanfossler.bsky.social · 4h

Metro to remove pride crosswalk after Abbott threatens to withhold funding from Texas cities www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Metro to remove pride crosswalk after Abbott threatens to withhold funding

He threatened to withhold road funding from cities and counties if they do not remove “political ideologies” from their streets.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 3h

Two stills from the television show Archer. The first showing a blood covered archer from behind speaking to Mallory with text that reads
"-grill me a cheese.
-I'm not grilling you a cheese."
The second panel shows archer with hands to his face indicating he is crying with text that reads
"[Sobbing]"

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rexvrex @rexvrex.bsky.social · 4h

I also think about my wife’s grandfather, who enlisted underage, and fought at Guadalcanal. Never said a word about it after. He also would have hated this shit so much

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rexvrex @rexvrex.bsky.social · 4h

Times like these I think about my great grandfather. Served in the pacific, survived a direct kamikaze hit to his ship, giant Poseidon tat on his back. The real deal. He would have hated this shit so much

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 4h

Curious to learn whether other cabinet level officials have Truth Social inboxes they’re getting semi-official directives in

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Jarnathan: Mr. Husband @johnross.black · 4h

Texas or NYC you can tell a tourist with one word:

Houston

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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rexvrex @rexvrex.bsky.social · 5h

Dear Trump Admin: I will give you the names and locations of antifa’s leaders but first I need you to put 100 racks in a Cava to-go bag and do a covert drop at a location of my choosing. Money first or no names/addys. I promise to report it on my taxes tho ;)

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rexvrex @rexvrex.bsky.social · 5h

They aren’t gonna quit. Get the fuck outta here. What other job pays you $250K+ to play candy crush on your phone all day and break the law with impunity? Even ICE can’t match that

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7h

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 7h

quick question, who were the antifascists in 1930s Germany against

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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rexvrex @rexvrex.bsky.social · 8h

NYPD threatening NYC residents with a very good time

Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 8h

lmao

NYPD Cops: ‘I Will Quit If Zohran Is Elected’

Morale among New York City police is sagging, the number of officers has shrunk, and leading mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani now wants to slash their overtime, writes Olivia Reingold.

www.thefp.com

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rexvrex @rexvrex.bsky.social · 8h

There was an old social media post that was like "antifa is organized in the same way that people who hate Dave Matthews Band are organized" and yeah that's about as fair a statement as you can make on it tbh

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rexvrex @rexvrex.bsky.social · 8h

People will get on TV and just say anything. "Antifa is an official organization with a real structure and funding to pay professional protesters and agitators." No they aren't, that's not true

Do you think any of them realize how fucking stupid and detached from objective reality they sound?

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 8h

Ideologically incoherent Utahan shoots Charlie Kirk

Republican from an entirely different state: “we should disenfranchise non-republicans.”

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 8h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 11h

Prisons never beating the slavery torture death camp allegations

Source: Texas prison officials refused to let inmate out of burning cell

Two former TDCJ employees are charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide following an inmate's death in the Bill Clements unit near Amarillo, Texas

www.newschannel10.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 9h

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9h

Quentin Tarantino about to break his only 10 movies rule and write one for Drew

HuffPost @huffpost.com · 9h

Barrymore put her best foot forward quite literally on Tuesday.

Drew Barrymore Takes A Big Whiff — Of Her Own Feet — On Live TV

Barrymore put her best foot forward quite literally on Tuesday.

www.huffpost.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9h

I know I know but good god imagine what the GOP would do with a Biden or Obama "we took the freedom of speech away" sound bite

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 9h

📢 📢 📢 THERE ARE MULTIPLE PATHS TO UNGOVERNABILITY

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 9h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 9h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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