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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 7d

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 1d

did you ever watch Halt and Catch Fire

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 1d

Like a lot of rural, poor and agrarian parts of the country San Angelo should be an easy win for Dems if they could just get their shit together. Maybe Talarico has figured it out, I dunno.

Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure this guy is just another terrible Democrat but drawing that kinda crowd in West Central Texas is something.

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 1d

I….okay.

For reference, if you’ve heard of the Abeline data center project, San Angelo is just south of Abeline.

Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 1d

Huge crowd for James Talarico in deep red San Angelo, TX!

This county hasn’t voted for a Democrat since LBJ, but they showed up for Talarico.

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 1d

That’s an insanely huge crowd.

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 1d

There are a number of GOP candidates, elected and not, who became famous b/c of viral videos: eg, Ben Carson (who confronted Obama at a prayer breakfast), Lauren Boebert, etc.

Is Talerico the first Dem to follow this path?

Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 1d

Huge crowd for James Talarico in deep red San Angelo, TX!

This county hasn’t voted for a Democrat since LBJ, but they showed up for Talarico.

Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 1d

My boomer mom, who “just thought they would behave themselves better” on J6, thinks that the Portland frogs are “neat.”

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 1d

Attending a "No Kings" protest Saturday? The Xylom's @alexip718.com and Strength in Numbers' @gelliottmorris.com are joining forces to conduct a nationwide, unofficial, crowdsourced attendance estimate.

We need your help to be our eyes and ears across 2,100+ locations and on the Internet.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

A few hours before troopers started dragging protesters away, another reporter asked if we've seen a lot of feds kneeling on people "like George Floyd."

Told him on any given day in this country, a cop is doing that. That's policing. Of course the feds are, too. This is mundane for them.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Extremely funny that people think this is now a Pritzker hate account when all we've been doing is documenting the same police violence we've been documenting well before this ICE surge

Sorry for disrupting your worldview. Welcome to what cops are!!!

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 4d

Well thank god APD’s helicopter is on the case of the shoplifter at Target. tt-cdn-prod.trunktrio.com/mp3/19727-17...

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 4d

Airport fire dept. reported that the smell was due to sewer fumes. Yummy.

Ground stop is now clear.

FAA Airport Updates @faabot.paxex.aero · 4d

Ground stop program in effect at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) since 2025-10-10 17:14 EDT affecting flights from ZAU/ZTL/ZDC/ZNY/ZHU/ZJX/ZFW/ZOB/ZMA/ZKC/ZME/ZID until 2025-10-10 18:15 EDT due to fire. Additional details here.✈️🛑 #AvGeek

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 4d

I can't stress enough that if this is what Border Patrol does to a middle-aged Midwestern white woman producer on camera, imagine what they are doing to people who are *not* middle-aged Midwestern white women off-camera

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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George Chidi, Evil Reporter @neonflag.bsky.social · 4d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians

Agencies like Ice are way ahead of Donald Trump, who wants the military to treat cities like ‘training grounds’

www.theguardian.com

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 4d

And get a full timeline of events from @pressfreedom.bsky.social here: cpj.org/2025/07/time...

Timeline: Reporter Mario Guevara’s arrest and ICE detention - Committee to Protect Journalists

Spanish-language reporter Mario Guevara, who has covered immigrant issues in the Atlanta metro area for the past 20 years, was detained by local law enforcement while livestreaming a local “No Kings” ...

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 4d

You can learn more about Mario's work here: 285south.com/detention-of...

Detention of reporter Mario Guevara hits Hispanic community

After two months in immigration detention, his newsroom feels “empty” and many of his followers say they feel less secure

285south.com

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 4d

GCSO claimed Mario's work is dangerous & against "societal norms", esp. his filming of local law enforcement & federal agents. ICE wholesale used those claims keep Mario detained prior to deportation. That's not editorializing: it's literally what happened. georgiarecorder.com/2025/08/21/i...

ICE relied on sheriff’s office to fight releasing Spanish-language reporter in Georgia, records show • Georgia Recorder

The federal immigration case against a jailed, Spanish-language journalist has been bolstered by the help of a metro Atlanta sheriff’s office, public records show. Mario Guevara’s two-month confinemen...

georgiarecorder.com

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 4d

ty to @jamesstout.bsky.social for mentioning the deportation of Mario Guevara on this week's episode of Executive Disorder (which you should be listening to anyway). Gwinnett Co. Sheriff's Office & ICE explicitly targeted Mario bc of his work as a journalist.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #37

Podcast Episode · It Could Happen Here · 10/10/2025 · 1h 3m

podcasts.apple.com

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 5d

I have so many questions

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah that’ll do it

A picture of a power pole snapped completely in half after a car accident. Half of the pole is still being held in the air by the power lines, the other half of the pole is sticking out of the ground at a low angle.

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 5d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

So this is a pretty wild part of the TRO: mandating agents wear visible identification. Taking bets on how long before they violate it, lol

It is further ORDERED that all Federal Agents, excepting those who do not wear a uniform or other distinguishing clothing or equipment in the regular performance of their official

duties or are engaged in undercover operations in the regular performance of their official duties, must have visible identification (for which a unique recognizable alphanumeric identifier sequence will suffice) affixed to their uniforms or helmets and prominently displayed, including when wearing riot gear.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 6d

New from 404 Media: cocaine in private jets. Drug traffickers entering sailing races to move drugs. And mountains of meth hidden in sex toys. These are some of the things the FBI saw on its secretly backdoored encrypted chat app according to newly leaked documents
www.404media.co/cocaine-in-p...

Cocaine in Private Jets and Sex Toys: What the FBI Found on its Secretly Backdoored Chat App

New leaked documents show how the FBI convinced a judge to let its partners collect a mass of encrypted messages from thousands of phones around the world.

www.404media.co

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6d

Three SCOTUS cases saw movement this week targeting LGBTQ+ people: A conversation therapy case, a shadow-docket case on trans passports, and a sports ban that will determine equal protection for trans people.

Writer S. Baum details all of them in our latest.

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Three Supreme Court Cases Targeting LGBTQ+ People See Movement This Week

From sports to passports, these cases may determine the vitality of trans rights in the U.S. for generations to come.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 7d

was putting off some healthcare stuff until next year bc I was planning on buying better insurance but now I’m like welp I’ll be lucky to be able to afford my current plan (already bottom tier Obamacare) next year

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