Hal

Hal

@txhal.bsky.social

Blue Guy in a red part of a red state, Texas wine country. Retired software guy, did a stint as a NASA contractor a few decades ago. Serial adopter of rescued cats and dogs (mostly Greyhounds).

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FLASHBACK — Republican Paul Weyrich (co-founder of the Heritage Foundation & ALEC): “I don’t want everybody to vote… our leverage in elections goes up as the voting populace goes down.” They’ve been saying it out loud for years. Please vote. 🗳️ 🇺🇸

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🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

And, in a page from our own Felon's book, Bolsonaro has already said the election is a fraud and he won't abide by the results.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

🚨 BREAKING: Lula is projected to WIN reelection as president of Brazil, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro and an ally of Donald Trump. The projection comes just ONE DAY after Reuters exposed a Trump administration effort to help return the Bolsonaro family to power.

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In August 2026, the U.S. Forest Service proposed to end the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Overturning this policy would open these protected public lands to commercial logging, new road construction, and industrial mining. *The regime says it's for routine maintenance 🙄

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Until this moment, Vivek, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness… Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

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A social media video purporting to show a former student accusing Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico of sexual misconduct is the latest example of how Russian groups are generating false information to influence U.S. elections, researchers say. politifact.com/factchecks/2...

politifact.comRussian group targets Talarico with fake AI-generated videoA Russian disinformation group targeted Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico with an AI-generated video making a baseless claim.