Jessica Montoya Coggins
@jessicamcoggins.bsky.social
Writer & Journalist; Executive Director of The Texas Signal; Occasional runner; Cheese aficionado; Dillydallier
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5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
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If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
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This is a 19-paragraph article to which 7 journalists contributed; it contains not a single hint that there is any impropriety in the President of the United States directing the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries.
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is a 19-paragraph article to which 7 journalists contributed; it contains not a single hint that there is any impropriety in the President of the United States directing the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries.
The Vice President of the United States went on a big television thingy and said he was a big Grok guy and I just want to note this thing's stupidpedia says Jennifer Aniston met Vince Vaughn on "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The Vice President of the United States went on a big television thingy and said he was a big Grok guy and I just want to note this thing's stupidpedia says Jennifer Aniston met Vince Vaughn on "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"
For reasons I don't want to get into but might have to do with me having had two glasses of wine, I have ventured into Grokipedia. This is the third paragraph for Jennifer Aniston:
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
For reasons I don't want to get into but might have to do with me having had two glasses of wine, I have ventured into Grokipedia. This is the third paragraph for Jennifer Aniston:
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“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.
Huh going through some Epstein emails:
"He seems like a wife that has been divorced for a younger girl."
"He seems like a wife that has been divorced for a younger girl."
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Huh going through some Epstein emails:
"He seems like a wife that has been divorced for a younger girl."
"He seems like a wife that has been divorced for a younger girl."
I have also been thinking about all the major media figures who knew about all this, and/or didn't feel it was important to uncover or tell the public. How many of them frankly admired or were jealous of someone with this proximity to Epstein.
What really comes through in the birthday book and the emails is how many of these rich and powerful guys were amazed and jealous of how Epstein devoted his entire life to the rape and abuse of children while they could only dabble in it
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I have also been thinking about all the major media figures who knew about all this, and/or didn't feel it was important to uncover or tell the public. How many of them frankly admired or were jealous of someone with this proximity to Epstein.
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Fact checking by pure vibes.
I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Fact checking by pure vibes.
Searching through all the times Ken Starr was mentioned in the Epstein documents, and this e-mail from 2011 is just a wtf
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Searching through all the times Ken Starr was mentioned in the Epstein documents, and this e-mail from 2011 is just a wtf
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Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is
NYT: but her emails
NYT: but her emails
Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is
NYT: but her emails
NYT: but her emails
"For immigrant rights advocates, the arrests and detention of immigrants with valid DACA protection is proof that the administration is trying to create something of a loophole: undermining the program’s core protections piecemeal without formally—and publicly—terminating it through regulation."
Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago spent nearly two months in ICE detention—despite having protection under DACA—until a federal judge ruled that the government had no reason to keep her in custody and ordered her release.
DHS is still vowing to "explore every available option to remove" her. My latest:
DHS is still vowing to "explore every available option to remove" her. My latest:
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"For immigrant rights advocates, the arrests and detention of immigrants with valid DACA protection is proof that the administration is trying to create something of a loophole: undermining the program’s core protections piecemeal without formally—and publicly—terminating it through regulation."
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What Ken Paxton is doing here is deranged -- suing organizations that provide legal assistance to immigrants (especially immigrant children) -- and also we should see it as the test case for what the GOP wants to do.
There is nothing illegal—or unconstitutional—about funding legal support to ensure fairness in the courts. This lawsuit is a political stunt, wasting taxpayer dollars at a time when our communities need integrity, not spectacle.
Full article: www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
Full article: www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
Texas sues Harris County over $1.35M deportation defense fund - UPI.com
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Harris County for allocating $1.35 million to oppose federal deportation efforts.
www.upi.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What Ken Paxton is doing here is deranged -- suing organizations that provide legal assistance to immigrants (especially immigrant children) -- and also we should see it as the test case for what the GOP wants to do.
Reading this story and remembering that one of the goals of Project 2025 was to end Head Start
Head Start program closures add to Texas child care crisis
Hundreds of families lost child care when certain programs weren’t funded earlier this month, and scores more may be affected if Congress doesn’t fund the government by Dec. 1.
www.texastribune.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reading this story and remembering that one of the goals of Project 2025 was to end Head Start
Well, I am insanely jealous of all the aurora pictures and videos. We didn’t have that in Dallas, but I did see the International Space Station pass overhead tonight!
November 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Well, I am insanely jealous of all the aurora pictures and videos. We didn’t have that in Dallas, but I did see the International Space Station pass overhead tonight!
A good portion of the cartoons I watched as a child dealt with magnet plots wtf is he talking about lol
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
A good portion of the cartoons I watched as a child dealt with magnet plots wtf is he talking about lol
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#BREAKING: Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS denies Kim Davis's petition asking the justices to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges (which recognized federal constitutional protections for same-sex marriage):
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
#BREAKING: Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS denies Kim Davis's petition asking the justices to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges (which recognized federal constitutional protections for same-sex marriage):
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Watching Democrats once again on the cusp of unnecessary capitulation, I’m reminded that the January 6th Senate impeachment trial was truncated because members had Valentine’s Day plans
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Watching Democrats once again on the cusp of unnecessary capitulation, I’m reminded that the January 6th Senate impeachment trial was truncated because members had Valentine’s Day plans
A very neat thing about the Texas Book Festival is the amount of good boys and girls serving as therapy dogs that are always around: here’s Lucy
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A very neat thing about the Texas Book Festival is the amount of good boys and girls serving as therapy dogs that are always around: here’s Lucy
Just curious if we are also going to get a story on the white supremacist accounts the Vice President of the United States follows.
James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, escorts and OnlyFans models on Instagram, according to an Axios review.
Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts online
James Talarico has become a sensation in Texas politics by talking about how his Christianity is the basis for his progressive politics.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Just curious if we are also going to get a story on the white supremacist accounts the Vice President of the United States follows.
And a reminder that the Texas Railroad Commission has nothing to do with trains, but is extremely important in regulating the oil and gas industry
INBOX: On the first day for candidate filing in the midterm elections, State Rep. @jon-rosenthaltx.bsky.social officially files to run for Texas Railroad Commissioner
November 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
And a reminder that the Texas Railroad Commission has nothing to do with trains, but is extremely important in regulating the oil and gas industry
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UPDATE: Justice Jackson temporarily blocks SNAP benefits order to allow appeals court to rule.
DOJ asked SCOTUS for a stay as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments. Jackson's order came a little past 9 p.m.
Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
DOJ asked SCOTUS for a stay as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments. Jackson's order came a little past 9 p.m.
Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
Justice Jackson temporarily blocks SNAP benefits order to allow appeals court to rule
DOJ asked SCOTUS for a stay as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments. Update: Jackson's order came a little past 9 p.m.
www.lawdork.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
UPDATE: Justice Jackson temporarily blocks SNAP benefits order to allow appeals court to rule.
DOJ asked SCOTUS for a stay as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments. Jackson's order came a little past 9 p.m.
Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
DOJ asked SCOTUS for a stay as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments. Jackson's order came a little past 9 p.m.
Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
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So to cap their horrible week, Senate Republicans refused a deal to reopen the government in exchange for just helping people with health insurance and now the president wants the Supreme Court to say he doesn’t have to obey the law and feed the hungry.
Amazing.
Amazing.
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
So to cap their horrible week, Senate Republicans refused a deal to reopen the government in exchange for just helping people with health insurance and now the president wants the Supreme Court to say he doesn’t have to obey the law and feed the hungry.
Amazing.
Amazing.
I am at the Texas Book Festival and there are at least twenty authors who won’t be here this weekend because of the flight cancellations
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I am at the Texas Book Festival and there are at least twenty authors who won’t be here this weekend because of the flight cancellations
I have always been pretty up on pop culture, but I guess with everything happening *gestures broadly everywhere* that's fallen by the wayside. Kim Kardashian is on a show with... Glenn Close? Glenn Close!
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I have always been pretty up on pop culture, but I guess with everything happening *gestures broadly everywhere* that's fallen by the wayside. Kim Kardashian is on a show with... Glenn Close? Glenn Close!