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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
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The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
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Andrew Ba Tran @abtran.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Tracking the spread of bird flu using genetic markers, satellite imagery, property records, and more reminds me of John Snow’s Cholera investigation/map. Howe’s Hens is the modern day Broad Street Pump. Amazing work from @natlash.bsky.social & @chrisalcantara.com. www.propublica.org/article/meth...
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ICIJ @icij.org · 18/11/2025
ICIJ's #CoinLaundry investigation explored the murky world of crypto-to-cash services, which have surged in major cities and allow people to cash out huge sums of cryptocurrency without touching the mainstream banking system or its safeguards.
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From Dubai to Toronto, inside the crypto-to-cash storefronts fueling money laundering’s new frontier
These shadowy operations have made it easier than ever to move dirty money around the world. One man is on a mission to expose them.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I wrote this piece about 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi's murder. On the costs of speaking the truth in today's world. And how Jamal's memory still stalks Saudi Arabia--- and the Washington Post. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out
As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.
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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 14/05/2025
💫 NEW! Passports can help unlock secret ownership of offshore companies, but finding them is often challenging. At @icij.org, they decided to build a new detection tool to speed up this process: twp.ai/9PSqrP
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Passports Are Key to Uncovering Offshore Secrecy — We Use Machine Learning to Find Them Efficiently
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2025
this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service!
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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 13/05/2025
The projects submitted to the Sigma Awards help us compile the best data journalism from around the world, so we’d like to thank all participants for taking part! ⬇️ Below is the Sigma Awards 2025 shortlist, separated into two submission categories: twp.ai/9PSiiI
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Announcing the Sigma Awards 2025 Shortlist
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
They’re geniuses, I tell you.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/05/2025
in addition to him repeating insane racist conspiracy theories, it occurs to me that the reason he has time to hold long press conferences everyday is that he doesn’t actually do anything
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/05/2025
Avelo Airlines has agreed to run deportation flights for the Trump administration. Commercial carriers typically avoid such work to keep away from politics, but the company's CEO said the money from ICE flights is too good to pass up.
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Avelo Airlines Faces Backlash for Aiding Trump’s Deportation Campaign
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12/05/2025
The IRS has a long history of keeping tax information confidential. But a new data-sharing agreement with ICE breaks that precedence and betrays the trust of immigrant communities in ways that could bear consequences for decades.
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IRS-ICE Immigrant Data Sharing Agreement Betrays Data Privacy and Taxpayers’ Trust
Weaponizing government data vital to the functioning and funding of public goods and services by repurposing it for law enforcement and surveillance is an affront to a democratic society. In addition ...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Why are there more restrictions on accessing Medicaid than there are on inheriting a billion dollars
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 12/05/2025
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
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About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"This is a major victory for farm workers in NY. The workers who make A&J Kirby Farms possible have waited a long time for this moment. We urge A&J Kirby to respect their workers’ wishes and NY State law & implement this contract as swiftly as possible." ufw.org/kirby_contra...
A photo of an A&J Kirby Farms truck in the field with a text overlay saying ufw wins contract at A&J Kirby farms in NY state
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This is bonkers: Scammers have been stealing the identities of Texas death row inmates, sometimes starting businesses or renting apartments. In 2023, someone started a landscaping biz in the name of Ronald Haskell, who was sentenced to death for killing 6 people. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
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A ripe target for identity thieves: Prisoners on death row
Death Row inmates are unlikely to receive communications that would alert them to identity theft.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
If Christians in America were truly honest with ourselves, we would admit that far too many churches have become places where people are made to be disciples of the Religious Right rather than followers of Jesus and then we would collectively repent from this harmful allegiance.
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RIO LINDA MEX 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇨🇦🦍aka Gus Gallegos @riolindamex.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
PREDICTION: The jet from Qatar thing won’t happen and is a distraction from the China “deal,” which will turn out to be not a deal.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/05/2025
as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Mom & minor daughters are citizens who just moved from MD to Oklahoma. This statement from the Mom should be read, absorbed & circulated. ICE cannot be allowed to terrorize vulnerable families. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social kfor.com/news/local/w...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
“The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has quietly begun cooperating with federal immigration officials to locate people suspected of being in the country illegally”
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USPS law enforcement assists Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort, sources and records show
The Postal Inspection Service recently joined a federal task force to locate undocumented immigrants using data from mail and packages, according to people familiar with the effort and records obtaine...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Shit. The UK -Rwanda trafficking arrangement has come to America.
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🦋 ~Bindi~ 🦋 @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
In a world full of Target and Walmart, be a Marriott and a Costco.
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Marriott’s CEO spoke out about DEI
The next day, he had 40,000 emails from his associates.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23/04/2025
A little over 100 high school students rallied at Portland City Hall, calling attention more aggressive climate policy on federal, state and local level
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Earth Day inspires youth rally at Portland City Hall: ‘We are the ones’ to lead, organizer says
A little over 100 high school students rallied at Portland City Hall, calling attention more aggressive climate policy on federal, state and local level
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
i wrote about losing my words, and how reading (and reading) about polar exploration helped me get them back, for @flaminghydra.com: flaminghydra.com/issue-304/#a...
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Cold and empty
Talia Lavin on finding the words; Carrie Frye talks The Awl: The Book
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: "The United States government quite literally disappeared these people. It won't say where they are. We don't know. Their families do not know where they are. And they have essentially no recourse in U.S. courts because there are no records of their whereabouts."
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 23/04/2025
The Trump admin’s proposed State Department reorg is a realignment of diplomatic priorities that seems set to constrain U.S. soft power & reduce institutional capacity in key areas. Dani Shulkin, @tessbridgeman.bsky.social & @andrewpmiller.bsky.social unpack the proposal & its likely consequences:
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What Just Happened: Trump Admin’s State Dept Reorganization
If implemented, Rubio's State Department reorganization will reflect a significant shift in how the United States engages with the world.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
So basically our core biomedical agenda has gone from cancer and heart disease research with major investments in alzheimers/dementia research to jacking up the sperm count of teenage males and a new wild goose for the 'hidden causes' of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Artist Ruth Asawa was among the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. Critic Sharon Mizota visits the artist's retrospective at SFMOMA with her mother, who was also incarcerated during the war. Read her review in KCRW's Art Insider: email.kcrw.com/ruth-asawas-...
A sculpture made of tied wire evokes the pattern of a snowflake.
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 23/04/2025
I would be willing to bet that some of these defaults are for people who attended one of Betsy DeVos’ for-profit colleges
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This book is outstanding. I can’t recommend it enough.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Seasonal reminder: thousands of college students are currently selling very gently used items on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace and it's a great time to pick up stuff like a TV, office chair, desk, and other home goods
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
wonder if we're going to see axes of inequality widen considerably in the short and medium term between people who can afford food, medicine, cosmetics, etc that employ private third party quality control vs. people who have to take their chances with what's affordable
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22/04/2025
Me googling where fairlife is produced because state inspections are really going to matter here .
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Larry David trolls Bill Maher with an epic NY Times guest essay. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
See this is what I mean. Mississippi is a state with a 40% Black population. African American candidate Mike Espy garnered nearly 45% of the vote in the 2020 General Election for the U.S. Senate. Why isn’t there a 10 yr Dem plan for organizing Mississippi? Why concede the state w/a 40% Black pop?
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
From @reuters.com: Three more federal prosecutors who worked on the now-torpedoed corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams have quit "after they said the Justice Department wrongfully pressured them to admit to wrongdoing." www.reuters.com/world/us/thr...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Wow. The responses have been overwhelming. Now up to almost 650 signups in less than 24 hours. Looking for an operations/logistics manager to help me prepare for this Resistance summer course pilot. DM me or email me at karen@karenattiah.com! open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/04/2025
love this for us
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Aaron Cosbey @aaroncosbey.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
@economist.com: Spanish businesses booming, standing out from rest of EU. Why? First big factor: cheap electricity. Massive build out of renewables in the grid, now @ 65% of generation = a 20% drop in prices. So: Renewables at high levels are feasible, and are an economic enabler. bit.ly/3GiaUPw
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Spanish business thrives while bigger European economies stall
Cheap energy and high immigration are the motors of success
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 22/04/2025
Wrongfully convicted people in Wisconsin are released to society with very little support, Andrew Kennard reports in Part 2 of his series wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/04/22/e...
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Exonerees experience gap in support in Wisconsin  • Wisconsin Examiner
In one lawyer's view, Wisconsin’s compensation plan for exonerees “puts a very high burden” on innocent people to prove their innocence.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/04/2025
they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 21/04/2025
Subscribe to The Verge for more of American War, a special series that confronts the legacy and mythmaking of the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon.
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American War
A special series from The Verge that confronts the legacy and mythmaking of the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/04/2025
people are going to get excited that the Trump administration has perpetuated the cases against big tech, but when we get to the remedy phase it's going to be solutions like "be more racist" and "give right wing propagandists search result priority"
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Google is in more danger than ever of being broken up
It’s facing a two-front war against its dominance.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 21/04/2025
"Reducing gun violence requires multiple strategies. Prevention initiatives that build community connection, provide trauma recovery and mental health care, and address root causes of violence have been shown to be most effective," says Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba.
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Questionnaire: Jackson Mayor Lumumba, Candidate for Reelection
Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba answered the Mississippi Free Press’ questions as he runs for a third term.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Rex Huppke admits that he has worn a Bulls hat. Which means, according to the MAGA mindset, that he's in MS-13. "I’m a middle-aged, non-Hispanic suburban man who’s whiter than ceiling primer, so I’m not sure how or when I became active in Hispanic gang culture." Sharp column by my friend Rex.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
🚨Stop Everything🚨….not sure if this is making the rounds here yet but this is University of Cincinnati music theater student Erin Morton and she’s blowing up over on TikTok for her stunning rendition of Radiohead’s "Creep"🔥….full tears going 🥹
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