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Andrew Pantazi

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@apantazi everywhere | Jacksonville native | former union organizer | Calvin's & Ari’s dad | @caitmcglade.bsky.social’s nerd king | Axios associate breaking news editor

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 17h
Sad update here: I heard from a family member that Elmer Williams died on Sunday. I've been haunted by what he told me three years ago. "Slowly, slowly, slowly, they just let me fall apart."
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 13/10/2026
NEW in Bolts: The midterms will usher in a new cast of characters to oversee the next presidential race. They’ll decide how to answer Trump’s orders and how to shape mail voting and registration. Explore our state breakdown:
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These 35 States Are Deciding Who’ll Run Their Elections - Bolts
The midterms will usher in a new cast of characters to oversee the next presidential race. They’ll decide how to answer Trump’s orders and how to shape mail voting and registration.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
New working paper w/ @hannafolsz.bsky.social In 2025, Trump targeted US law firms for their political opposition Some firms resisted by suing Trump. Others folded by agreeing to support the administration w/ pro bono work Resisting firms took a short term financial hit but improved reputations
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We went to a police union convention and all we got was this disquieting sense that solidarity can only be stretched so far before it breaks. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-infiltr...
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We Infiltrated a Police Union Convention in Las Vegas
At the far edge of solidarity, ICE is more popular than the AFL-CIO.
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is WILD. The BOP has apparently RE-terminated the union contract
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daniel a. smith @electionsmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Florida’s Immigrant Electorate has Drifting GOP, but Only Two Groups Have Flipped from D to R electionsmith.substack.com/p/floridas-i...
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Florida’s Immigrant Electorate has Drifting GOP, but Only Two Groups Have Flipped from D to R
Cuban and Venezuelan-born registered voters in Florida have the
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56. Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Laura Morel @lauracmorel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alligator Alcatraz is closed. But in northern FL, another state-run immigrant detention center, nicknamed Deportation Depot, is still open. Here's what life is like inside. For @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Out of Sight in North Florida: Life inside Deportation Depot
Advocates say conditions at the former state prison mirror Alligator Alcatraz's worst.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Interesting defector.com/jaguars-junc...
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Jaguars Junction: Week 4 | Defector
Are you grasping for an explanation of the Jacksonville Jaguars’ typically excellent performance? Look no further than the Microsoft Surface. Microsoft Surface tablets are in the hands of all the Jagu...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Rebuild Local News @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Historic development for local news! 🚨 @governor.ca.gov has signed the Community NEWS Act (AB 2222) into law, creating the nation’s largest state investment in local news by total dollars. Learn more: www.rebuildlocalnews.org/gov-newsom-s...
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Gov. Newsom Signs Nation's Most Ambitious Law to Strengthen Community News
The Community NEWS Act (AB 2222), sponsored by Rebuild Local News, creates refundable tax credits to help California news outlets retain and hire local journalists
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 01/10/2026
Special Wednesday newsletter: On Gov. Gavin Newsom signing a big local news funding bill and when change creeps up on you unexpectedly. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/california...
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California roadmap
On Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing of the Community NEWS Act and the roads unexpectedly traveled.
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Nate Monroe @natemonroe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New @thefloridatrib.bsky.social | How AI-powered bungling by Florida cops cost a father his freedom and $45,000 floridatrib.org/2026/09/28/h...
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How AI-powered bungling by Florida cops cost a father his freedom and $45,000
The Florida Trib’s investigation shows how a justice system meant to promote public safety instead failed an innocent person at nearly every step of the process.
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The Florida Trib @thefloridatrib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is plowing ahead with officially designating a leading Muslim civil rights nonprofit and more than 100 other groups as “domestic terrorist organizations,” in a move critics say is unprecedented and unconstitutional. floridatrib.org/2026/09/29/d...
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DeSantis exercises ‘unprecedented’ power to label groups ‘domestic terrorists’
Gov. DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet voted to advance the terrorist designations Tuesday, approving the proposal in just over 30 seconds and with no discussion.
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A few dozen candidates for the House and Senate this year have backgrounds in the labor movement www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Revenge of the labor movement: Democrats with union backgrounds aim to retake Congress
Meet the candidates with labor ties vying for Senate and House seats in midterm races. Most of the nominees are Democrats as the party looks to rebuild support among working-class voters
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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 18/09/2026
Durham NC holds itself up as a pro-immigrant jurisdiction. But its magistrates and judges repeatedly refer people facing low-level criminal charges to ICE when they're not required to—even for offenses as minor as a single trespassing charge. @twitterlessabe.bsky.social @indyweek.bsky.social #ncpol
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Durham Judicial Officials Are Unnecessarily Putting People on ICE's Radar for Low-Level Crimes
Durham judicial officials flagged people for citizenship checks when they didn’t need to, landing some in ICE custody, INDY found.
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Andrew Pantazi @apantazi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Papers that were once thriving, vibrant civic institutions are now, in many markets, shriveled husks, shuffling zombies, if they still exist at all.” davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle?r...
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Michelle
A tribute.
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Janelle O’Dea @jayohday.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On June 13, Robin Hamilton’s 38-year-old son Reginald Pittman Jr. passed away nearly two decades after a suicide attempt at the Madison County Jail left him permanently disabled. Read Reggie and Robin's story here illinoisanswers.org/2026/09/15/s... for @illinoisanswers.bsky.social
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State standards designed to prevent jail suicides don’t always work
Dozens of people have died by suicide in Illinois jails in recent years. Advocates say a multipronged approach could prevent such deaths.
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Aaron Leibowitz @aaronleibowitz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm the Boston Globe’s new sports investigative reporter. Seeking untold stories of money, power, misconduct at all levels of sports in Boston & beyond. Tips: aaron.leibowitz@globe.com or Signal at aaron_leibowitz.01. I take confidentiality seriously. www.bostonglobemedia.com/aaron-leibow...
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Aaron Leibowitz joins Globe Sports as investigative reporter
Aaron Leibowitz joins the Boston Globe sports department as an investigative reporter, arriving from the Miami Herald.
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have been working on this story in one way shape or form since the Guardian investigations team got a leak of deportation manifests in the first months of the Trump admin In the data were records of kids as young as a few weeks old loaded onto flights.
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Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo
44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the US
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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AI cannot make coffee mugs. It can’t do journalism either, but you can’t tell the hedge fund (Chatham Asset Management) that own McClatchy newspapers that, so here we are ✨
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sgreenberger.bsky.social @sgreenberger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
More conservatives have turned to no-fault divorce as a “family values” talking point, with some pushing to make it harder for couples to divorce. They've relaunched a conversation that would have been nearly unthinkable just a few years ago. stateline.org/2026/09/11/d...
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Divorce becomes next battleground as states debate family values • Stateline
Cerina Fairfax, a Virginia dentist and mother of two, spent nearly two years living in the same house as her husband while she was trying to divorce him. Virginia state law required couples with child...
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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Please consider helping us out a little if you're able. Thank you so much for your support. www.gofundme.com/f/help-charl...
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Donate to Help Charlotte Observer Journalists Through Job Loss, organized by Caitlin McGlade
Nearly 10 talented Charlotte Observer journalists committed to br… Caitlin McGlade needs your support for Help Charlotte Observer Journalists Through Job Loss
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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
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A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain
In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My giant cover story for the latest issue of Reason is online! My goal was to write a readable history of US prisons. I visited the Angola prison rodeo, interviewed a guy whose life sentence was overturned, and talked to historians about our shifting attitudes about crime reason.com/2026/09/08/t...
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The American prison experiment: A 250-year history of good intentions and bad results
A strange trip through the U.S. prison system's never-ending cycle of failure and reform
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
So I know I mostly use this space to post about birds and quilting, but I'm also a data viz professional. Well, I was until yesterday. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Danielle Alberti | Danielle Alberti | 32 comments
Yesterday I learned that Axios was eliminating the data visualization team I’ve built and led for nearly seven years. So, for the first time in a long time, I’m looking for what's next. I’m so proud...
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Jacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com · 25/08/2026
Some sad news: Axios has eliminated their #dataviz team, which means I have a few former colleagues who are going to be looking for work. @daniellealberti.bsky.social was one of the best managers I’ve ever had and her eye for hiring the right people to round out a team is second to none.
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Danielle Alberti | Danielle Alberti | 29 comments
Yesterday I learned that Axios was eliminating the data visualization team I’ve built and led for nearly seven years. So, for the first time in a long time, I’m looking for what's next. I’m so proud...
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Andrew Pantazi @apantazi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Nixon is both a movement progressive and a Democrat's Democrat who believes in a big-tent leftism. In 2016, she was Bernie’s Black outreach deputy field director. Four years later, she unseated an anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ Dem with a record of defeating challengers. www.axios.com/2026/08/21/f...
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Florida's Angie Nixon isn't the socialist you've heard about
"I don't campaign as a member of any organization," she told Axios.
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Andrew Pantazi @apantazi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Angie Nixon has been underestimated before, but her organizing prowess propelled her. She first won office by defeating a conservative, anti-abortion Democratic incumbent, then became one of the Florida House's most visible antagonists of Gov. Ron DeSantis. www.axios.com/2026/08/19/d...
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Angie Nixon scores socialist breakthrough in Trump's Florida
Nixon, a Jacksonville state representative and former union organizer joined DSA during the campaign.
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Andrew Pantazi @apantazi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
For the first time ever, a DSA member won a major-party nomination for statewide office. Nixon had less money, but she had something fundraising couldn't buy: an organizing base and years of relationships inside Florida. w/ @marcacaputo.bsky.social & Holly Otterbein www.axios.com/2026/08/19/d...
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Angie Nixon scores socialist breakthrough in Trump's Florida
Nixon, a Jacksonville state representative and former union organizer joined DSA during the campaign.
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 12/08/2026
Aaron Rodgers is obsessed with his own privacy. His neighbors? Not so much. After moving to a new town, Rodgers used a cutout to secretly fund the local police department’s Flock-style surveillance program. www.foiaball.com/p/aaron-rodg...
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Aaron Rodgers secretly funded his town's Flock-style cameras
The QB used an LLC to shield his identity.
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Jim Brunner @jimbrunner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Last week, the Spokesman-Review benched its top editor. Now, its union has voted no confidence www.rangemedia.co/after-a-news...
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Last week, the Spokesman-Review benched its top editor. Now, its union has voted no confidence
For a decade, Rob Curley has told Spokane he knows how to save journalism. After last Friday, it’s unclear if he can save his job.
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Axios @axios.com · 02/08/2026
Rep. Max Miller says he'll remain in his re-election race, denying abuse allegations. Sen. Bernie Moreno called Miller — his former son-in-law — a "danger" to his daughter and unfit for office. The public clash between 2 Trump allies comes days before Ohio's ballot replacement deadline.
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Rep. Max Miller not dropping out after domestic abuse allegations
Miller's former father-in-law, Sen. Bernie Moreno, blasted him as a "danger."
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The NewsGuild of New York @nyguild.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
From President Susan DeCarava: “This contract is life-changing for many of our members and will allow them to continue to produce the journalism that’s making a real difference at a time when readers need it the most.” More details here nyguild.org/post/propubl...
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ProPublica Guild wins first contract on third anniversary of its union recognition
NEW YORK – NewsGuild of New York-represented staff at ProPublica have won a first contract with the nonprofit investigative newsroom in a deal that gives staff …
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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A 16-year-old Black girl was found hanging in a Charlotte churchyard. Authorities said she died by suicide in three days. Police have said nothing about this until we investigated. Read everything we know here: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
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A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions linger
In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.
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Axios @axios.com · 19/07/2026
The Justice Department is asking a never-before-used federal court to remove an unnamed noncitizen — the first use of a 30-year-old process that could give President Trump a new tool for his deportation agenda.
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Trump's DOJ turns to a never-used court for its next deportation fight
Its first case could expand Trump's deportation toolkit.
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Michael Kruse @michaelkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Grateful to be a part of this team.
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‘A Slow-Rolling Disaster’: Inside the Implosion of the Platner Campaign
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Tragic news: Kelly Davis, a wonderful journalist who published a lot of important reporting on San Diego and on the horrid jail conditions there, has passed away. I was really lucky to briefly be Kelly's colleague at @theappeal.org many years ago, and to work with her on a story at @boltsmag.org.
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Kelly Davis, intrepid reporter who exposed death and despair in San Diego County jails and gave voice to the downtrodden, dies at 53
The 2023 San Diego journalist of the year beat cancer for more than a decade before being diagnosed with a new tumor earlier this year; she leaves a lasting legacy in her adopted hometown.
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Night Of The Living Biffs @b1ffy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It’s been a hard and yet triumphant year for Minnesota. Ordinary people have been targeted by their fellow countrymen, and made heroic sacrifices for their neighbors. So, appropriate to remember that 163 years ago today, 262 average Minnesotans sacrificed themselves at the Battle of Gettysburg.
The 1st Minnesota Regiment monument at Gettysburg
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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Minnesota's legacy in the Civil War is mixed b/c of the terrible cruelty during the Dakota War, but 163 years ago today at Gettysburg the 1st Minnesota took 215 casualties out of 262 men in just 5 minutes as they charged the traitor's line. No US unit has ever suffered a higher casualty rate.
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Andrew Pantazi @apantazi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The Supreme Court sidelined Congress and banked power for the ascendant branches: the presidency and itself. It overturned precedents, second-guessed Congress, brushed aside lower-court findings and stretched textualism in ways even its adherents questioned. www.axios.com/2026/07/02/s...
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The Supreme Court's favorite branch of government is itself
Congress keeps losing power to presidents and justices.
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Michael Kruse @michaelkruse.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Some days the court is originalist, and other days it's not," @stevevladeck.bsky.social tells @axios.com. The justices, he says, use history and text "the way a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not for illumination."
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The Supreme Court's favorite branch of government is itself
Congress keeps losing power to presidents and justices.
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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Two years after Darializa Avila Chevalier took part in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University, she is now set to represent the district in which the university is located in Congress.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
RESULT: New York Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar, who was known as an ally of former Mayor Eric Adams, has beenousted by David Orkin, a DSA-endorsed attorney who works at the immigrants' rights group Make the Road New York.
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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 17/06/2026
One issue featured a Black man in the center of a bullseye to illustrate a story opposing UNC's Black cultural center. Another featured a Jewish student running for student body president with horns and a pitchfork. One cover featured a Rebel flag with the headline "Southern Heritage." By Eric Katz.
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Andrew Pantazi @apantazi.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The new maps are worth nearly 2 extra points to Republicans in the national margin. Now, House Democrats need to outperform Kamala Harris' 2024 national results by nearly 5 percentage points. www.axios.com/2026/06/07/r...
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GOP redistricting means Democrats need nearly 2 more points to win the House
Axios' analysis shows how the 2026 map math changed.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Incredibly disturbing story broken by @medpagetoday.com team. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
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Andrew Pantazi @apantazi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Florida's redistricting plaintiffs who challenged the state's gerrymander asked the state Supreme Court to intervene. The lower appellate court refused to send the case to the high court even though the FL Supreme Court chastised it for not doing so previously. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Florida Redistricting Petition to state Supreme Court - 249665169 Petition For All Writs
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Alex DeLuca @alexldeluca21.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
BREAKING: Ex-Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine has been referred for criminal prosecution by the House Oversight Committee after a former Epstein assistant accused him of abuse. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/former-...
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Former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine referred for charges after Epstein hearing
Epstein's assistant Sarah Kellen (who worked for Epstein for 15 years) told the committee Thursday about the assaults by Levine.
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