tejanarusa
@tejanarusa.bsky.social
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Goldman moves to rename a bill targeting immigrants who attack dogs “The Kristi Noem Canine Relief Act”
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Goldman moves to rename a bill targeting immigrants who attack dogs “The Kristi Noem Canine Relief Act”
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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My @brookings.edu colleagues’ latest piece dives into the benefits of mail voting for millions of Americans
& finds that mail voting fraud is extremely rare
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
& finds that mail voting fraud is extremely rare
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
Mail voting fraud: Data points to low risk and high benefits for voters | Brookings
Analysis finds mail voting fraud in the U.S. is exceedingly rare and shows universal vote-by-mail boosts access, turnout, and cost efficiency.
www.brookings.edu
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
My @brookings.edu colleagues’ latest piece dives into the benefits of mail voting for millions of Americans
& finds that mail voting fraud is extremely rare
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
& finds that mail voting fraud is extremely rare
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
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NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
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Your regular reminder that mainstream pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform, & it was a mistake for us, as a society, to continue tolerating this stuff in any way, shape, or form, even long before the GOP went full authoritarian.
If this ballot measure passes in 9 days in Maine, it will upend the rules of elections in that state in the future — starting, you know it, with next year’s Senate race.
It was pushed by a conservative organization that is aiming to shift the state to a GOP majority.
boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
It was pushed by a conservative organization that is aiming to shift the state to a GOP majority.
boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts
Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.
boltsmag.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Your regular reminder that mainstream pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform, & it was a mistake for us, as a society, to continue tolerating this stuff in any way, shape, or form, even long before the GOP went full authoritarian.
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Virginia cat people, these sweethearts have their adoption fees already covered!
Long time supporters of ours had to say goodbye to their sweet Missy who lost her fight w/cancer at just 11. She had a strong internet presence & brought love & light to many.
Missy's family has generously sponsored LC3 adoption fees during the rest of Sept.
loudouncommunitycats.org/adoptions
Missy's family has generously sponsored LC3 adoption fees during the rest of Sept.
loudouncommunitycats.org/adoptions
September 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Virginia cat people, these sweethearts have their adoption fees already covered!
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“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”
September 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”
If only the rest of the country had listened to New Yorkers in 2016.
Yaaaaassss. #PedophileEnabler, Economy Destroying, Decomposing Dictator cannot stop The People from expressing their displeasure. 🖕🏻
Holy shit! During the national anthem at the US Open men's final, the moment Trump is shown on the jumbotron the entire stadium erupted in boos. To say the pedophile president is loathed in his own hometown would be an understatement. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
September 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
If only the rest of the country had listened to New Yorkers in 2016.
Intended consequences?
Besides tariffs absolutely screwing Americans and their businesses it appears that Trump is going to destroy the US Postal Service and run it out of business…
Watch this space #Alaska
Watch this space #Alaska
It's the economy, stupid < It's Stupid's Economy
Postal traffic into US plunges by more than 80% after Trump ends exemption
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Postal traffic into US plunges by more than 80% after Trump ends exemption
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
September 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Intended consequences?
Call your Congress critters. Daily, until he's gone.
Caroline Kennedy warned us about her cousin #RFKJr, "a predator" presiding over "perverse scenes" of "despair and violence." His youth was the origin story of a new American Psycho. Now he is the position to inflict pain and suffering on millions. He has to go now. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
RFK Jr., American Psycho
He needs to go. Now.
www.thenation.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Call your Congress critters. Daily, until he's gone.
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Protect America’s next generation NOW! Join over 1000 current & former HHS employees, including representation from all the HHS agencies, in the call for RFK Jr’s immediate removal. Stop RFK Jr’s destruction of our public health system & programs.
saveHHS.org
#USAnotRFK
Follow us for more.
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#USAnotRFK
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Unite w/ over 1000 current & former HHS employees (includes CDC) in the call for RFK Jr’s immediate removal as HHS Secretary. saveHHS.org
RFK Jr’s attacks on CDC affect health & safety of the nation. Public health is based on evidence & science not personal or political agendas.
#USAnotRFK #SaveHHS
RFK Jr’s attacks on CDC affect health & safety of the nation. Public health is based on evidence & science not personal or political agendas.
#USAnotRFK #SaveHHS
September 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Protect America’s next generation NOW! Join over 1000 current & former HHS employees, including representation from all the HHS agencies, in the call for RFK Jr’s immediate removal. Stop RFK Jr’s destruction of our public health system & programs.
saveHHS.org
#USAnotRFK
Follow us for more.
saveHHS.org
#USAnotRFK
Follow us for more.
Heads up, everyone
7/ Thread. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
This seems ominous. Trump just appointed Josh Craddock—who recently signed a letter urging the DOJ to use the Comstock Act to curtail the distribution of abortion pills—to serve as Deputy Assistant AG in the OLC at the DOJ. 1/
September 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Heads up, everyone
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Posting this story on Dem Mayors' effort to form a united front against Trump's invasions, bc it's the kind of story people will miss and then claim Dems never attempted to form a united front.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
After Threats, Mayors of Blue Cities Seek United Front Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Posting this story on Dem Mayors' effort to form a united front against Trump's invasions, bc it's the kind of story people will miss and then claim Dems never attempted to form a united front.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
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Dear journalists:
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Dear journalists:
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
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When the history of this fascist period is written, special attention will be paid to some of our epoch’s most grotesque figures: leaders of liberal nonprofits and think tanks. It’s incredible to see someone, at this moment, put their name on this quote:
August 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
When the history of this fascist period is written, special attention will be paid to some of our epoch’s most grotesque figures: leaders of liberal nonprofits and think tanks. It’s incredible to see someone, at this moment, put their name on this quote:
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RE: John Bolton
"The primary way that authoritarians are able to claim control isn't through a lot of repression. It's through occasional repression that scares people, so they 'know what to do in this administration,' and therefore they cede power right away.
Power you don't use, you lose."
"The primary way that authoritarians are able to claim control isn't through a lot of repression. It's through occasional repression that scares people, so they 'know what to do in this administration,' and therefore they cede power right away.
Power you don't use, you lose."
August 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
RE: John Bolton
"The primary way that authoritarians are able to claim control isn't through a lot of repression. It's through occasional repression that scares people, so they 'know what to do in this administration,' and therefore they cede power right away.
Power you don't use, you lose."
"The primary way that authoritarians are able to claim control isn't through a lot of repression. It's through occasional repression that scares people, so they 'know what to do in this administration,' and therefore they cede power right away.
Power you don't use, you lose."
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What was released today was not the Epstein files; it was spin to try and clear Trump’s name.
Release the REAL Epstein files !
Release the REAL Epstein files !
August 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
What was released today was not the Epstein files; it was spin to try and clear Trump’s name.
Release the REAL Epstein files !
Release the REAL Epstein files !
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I’m going to say this one more time with feeling: to the public, Trump’s agenda sounds less like policy and more like theft.
August 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I’m going to say this one more time with feeling: to the public, Trump’s agenda sounds less like policy and more like theft.
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The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities
August 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities
Bately seven months.
A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody
Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...
www.wired.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Bately seven months.
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Highly skeptical of all "in running for Nobel Peace Prize" discussion.
But if anything should, miraculously, come of today's emergency intervention, there's an eight-person slate that would be strong contention for the award. Here they are together.
But if anything should, miraculously, come of today's emergency intervention, there's an eight-person slate that would be strong contention for the award. Here they are together.
August 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Highly skeptical of all "in running for Nobel Peace Prize" discussion.
But if anything should, miraculously, come of today's emergency intervention, there's an eight-person slate that would be strong contention for the award. Here they are together.
But if anything should, miraculously, come of today's emergency intervention, there's an eight-person slate that would be strong contention for the award. Here they are together.
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Newsmax reaches $67M settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in defamation case.
Newsmax reaches $67M settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in defamation case
The voting system manufacturer claimed the news channel made false statements about the company.
www.politico.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Newsmax reaches $67M settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in defamation case.