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DFW Sam @dfwsam.bsky.social · 2h

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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · 2h

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WIRED @wired.com · 3h

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

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DFW Sam @dfwsam.bsky.social · 3h

That should be played on a mobile screen, wide as a semi, right outside his house.

TriciaE @triciae80.bsky.social · 1d

My new best friend I just love her!!😂😂😂

DFW Sam @dfwsam.bsky.social · 4h

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

DFW Sam @dfwsam.bsky.social · 4h

From the Felon in Chief? 🤣🤣🤣

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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DFW Sam @dfwsam.bsky.social · 5h

Oh, HELL no!

Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 6h

"The undertaking aims to install allies of President Trump at the IRS criminal-investigative division...to exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations.... The proposed changes could open the door to politically motivated probes..."

Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups

The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

www.wsj.com

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Lone Star Nana @lonestarnana.bsky.social · 6h

Christian Nationalism is anti-Christian. Pass it on.

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DFW Sam @dfwsam.bsky.social · 6h

“I was one of many who struggled to imagine Kamala Harris in that role.”

I stopped reading right there.

Fuck those who had that mindset, you’re the reason we’re in this budding hellscape, as you will likely find out, the hard way.

DFW Sam @dfwsam.bsky.social · 23h

Is it the SC, or is it the conservatives sitting on that bench?

I’d argue it’s the latter.

DFW Sam @dfwsam.bsky.social · 23h

That and sexual predation, leap to mind.

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DFW Sam @dfwsam.bsky.social · 1d

I just bought a working Brother portable, electric typewriter because I am tired of Big Tech making decisions for me, as well as looking over my shoulder at everything I do, all while trying to sell me sh*t I don’t want. Retro for the win.

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DFW Sam @dfwsam.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yuck, let the algo set your kinks, or think up new ones? This really is an episode of Black Mirror.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 1d

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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DFW Sam @dfwsam.bsky.social · 1d

“Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely - where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders”

TL;DR? Apples don’t fall far from the tree.

DFW Sam @dfwsam.bsky.social · 1d

OFFS. 😞

Am hoping an incoming bolide strikes Roberts square in the kisser.