Kay4BlueTexas
@kay4bluetexas.bsky.social
Retired financial systems consultant, Researcher @SkeletonAttic
Democratic leaders are vulnerable to the same voter frustration as Donald Trump, Reihan Salam tells @davidfrum.bsky.social. “I actually don't believe that it is Donald Trump who is the only political figure who will have been discredited by this moment,” he says.
The way in which California Democrats have fallen in line behind Newsom on the billionaire wealth tax has been sadly predictable but pretty darn cowardly. prospect.org/2026/10/06/c...
California Democrats—but Not Their Elected Representatives—Back the Billionaire Wealth Tax - The American Prospect
Polls show overwhelming rank-and-file support, but Gavin Newsom’s opposition has trickled down to nearly every elected official.
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Convinced my dentist and staff to go vote!
"Pressured by US, Brussels (+ Lithuania & Canada) pulls out of Disinfo 2026 conference in Vilnius" www.intelligenceonline.com/europe-russi...
European Union/Lithuania/United States • Pressured by US, Brussels pulls out of Disinfo 2026 conference in Vilnius
An investigation by an influential MAGA blogger and social media attacks on this year's Disinfo conference has led to three key partners, including the EU, dropping out at the last minute. The French
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Trump DOJ hauled into court over 'historic' election operation President Donald Trump’s Justice Department plan to use a “a historic number” of election-monitoring initiatives is facing a challenge in court from civil rights lawyers.
Trump DOJ hauled into court over 'historic' election operation
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department plan to use a “a historic number” of election-monitoring initiatives is facing a challenge in court from civil rights lawyers.
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What could possibly go wrong...?🙄 www.denver7.com/news/local-n...
Boulder police, fire dispatch center launches AI assistant for non-emergency calls
The City of Boulder announced Tuesday that the Boulder Police and Fire Communications Center will begin using AI technology this month during limited hours and days of the week to answer non-emergency...
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When the NY Times runs a piece lamenting that "Americans can't talk to each other anymore," it doesn't ask who's being asked to give up what? I wrote about the problem of #polarization #bothsides www.cultureofbelonging.net/how-both-sid...
How "Both Sides" Journalism Protects One Side*
Every election cycle, the same headline reappears across the New York Times and other newspapers: America is more polarized than ever, and both parties are to blame. It sounds responsible and neutral,...
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We need answers and accountability from United Airlines. No woman should have to put up with this — I don’t care if it’s on a plane, train, in the workplace, or anywhere else. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
Sexual Act on United Flight Prompts Democratic Women’s Probe
United Airlines must explain how it trains flight crews to handle sexual misconduct midair after a recent incident in which the airline refused to find another seat for a woman who complained a man se...
news.bgov.com
The Trump administration has quietly announced that its own lawyers will represent unaccompanied migrant children in immigration court, facing off against other administration lawyers who are trying to deport the kids.
Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids
Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.
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Join me and YDG for phonebanking TONIGHT, 6–8 PM! Help us reach folks across Northwest Georgia and make sure they have a plan to vote. We can win this, but it’s going to take all of us! Sign up: https://bit.ly/3U3V81S Leadership Matters!
Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w agoHoly shit.
The United States Explained in Three Simple Words: "Follow the money."
I’m not sure how you ended up believing this is what faith looks like, what good you believe you’re accomplishing, or exactly what your endgame is, but I hope you hear me because I am telling you, without malice or anger: you’re getting it horribly wrong. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-evang...
Dear Evangelicals, From A Pastor: Your Refusal to Love Your Queer Neighbors is a Sin
Dear Evangelicals,
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X and Substack aren’t doing anything to stop users from harassing women they believe are connected to the rape case — and the women who aren’t. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social:
The vigilante doxxing campaign against Cornell’s Jane Doe happened in plain sight
X and Substack aren’t doing anything to stop users from harassing women they believe are connected to the rape case — and the women who aren’t.
theverge.com
The Chinese are also deeply involved in Myanmar, and notice how carefully the Thais have chosen to respond to this news. They understand that the emperor closer to home is the one they need to worry about.
Looks like the so-called pivot to Asia came too late. The situation on the ground has changed; the Chinese are now physically present in Laos, Cambodia, and throughout the South China Sea.
The Chinese military is expanding its footprint ... "Satellite images show attack jets at Chinese military facility in Laos." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
Satellite images show attack jets at Chinese military facility in Laos
New ‘support and training centre’ prompts concern in region but China says it is ‘not directed at any third party’
theguardian.com
Note: Texas is planning on killing Jamaal Howard later today. Requests for stays of execution are pending at the Supreme Court.
Here was Law Dork's earlier coverage about the Christa Pike case: www.lawdork.com/p/the-big-pr...
After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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Yes folks, she literally barred about getting the tariff on rock salt removed. Troy had to remind the dingbat that we can’t eat rock salt.
Paul Leigh -Some Rascal on the Internet@pleightx.bsky.social · last wk.
Hugo Chavez-linked PR flack Michael Shellenberger — a random guy with a Substack who rakes in donations to fight a “censorship complex” that he created — would like you to know that journalists reporting on his attempts to smear people are propagandists.
OK - now in Polymarket insider trading on Maduro capture case of US v Van Dyke - Inner City Press is covering it (midnight filing: www.patreon.com/MatthewRusse...) and will live skeet, thread below
11th hour swap letter: On Soldier Indicted for Polymarket Trade on Maduro Capture US Puts In NDIL Decision on Swaps - 11 pm letter here | Matthew Russell Lee: Inner City Press
by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack SDNY COURTHOUSE, Oct 6– The US Army soldier indicted for making $400,000 on Polymarket with i
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