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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
KARL: The president has announced this deal. He says to buy diesel fuel from Russia. You've called it a birthday gift to Putin. Explain why. ZELENSKYY: Because it gives Putin money and he spends money only on this war. Kill us. Kill our children. abcnews.com/video/137173...
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Video 1-on-1 with Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy
ABC News’ Jonathan Karl interviews Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy on “This Week.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
Map of tanker’s route
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today is the day! The deadline to register to vote is October 5 in AZ, AR, FL, GA, IN, KY, MS, MT, OH, TN, & TX. Check out all these resources & get prepared. #VotingIsPunk #VoteEarly
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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wanna get excited about a candidate running in a red state? This entire interview will do it. His discussion of abortion access is important and personal. Plus you get my recipe for smoked brisket! www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_st...
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KS Democratic Candidate for Senate on how to get the Democratic Party to “a better place.”
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/10/2026
The Wayback Machine lets you travel through more than a trillion saved web pages. 🏛️ ‣ Find an old website. ‣ See how a familiar site changed. ‣ Recover something that's disappeared. ‣ Check what a page looked like years ago. The web has a history. Go explore it. web.archive.org #ToolsYouCanUse
Four "Tools You Can Use" Wayback Machine campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and blue tile with a folder icon reading "Wayback Machine" and "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over time." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over 30 years." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage, with its search field circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "See how the web has changed over time," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please keep staying loud! Join me for my next town hall this Saturday, Oct. 3, at 3:30 p.m. at the Grant High School Auditorium, 2245 NE 36th Ave., Portland. See you there!
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff.
figure shows dramatic cut in research staff
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It just never ends.
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 15/09/2026
HUGE NEWS: the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s plan to restrict vote by mail. Vote by mail is a safe, secure system—and I’ll keep fighting to protect it!
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Supreme Court says Trump can’t enforce new mail-in ballot regulation
The decision means a Postal Service measure that could lead to ballots’ not being sent to voters won’t be in effect for this November’s midterm elections.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Horrific though unsurprising report from @propublica.org: Ectopic pregnancy deaths have basically doubled since the end of Roe
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026
After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote. (Published June)
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A Popular Doctor Had Long Warned That Vitamin K Shots Are Risky for Newborns. Now He’s Changed His Tune.
After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The da...
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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Over four weeks this summer, at least three men murdered their families. Together, the three men killed 17 people, 12 of them children. And within a day or two, each story had vanished from the national news. 1/2
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Over four weeks this summer, at least three men murdered their families, killing 12 children among them. 

On July 24, in Michigan, Kristopher Karolkiewicz shot his wife and their six children and set the house on fire. 

On July 31, in Wisconsin, Jeffrey Manke killed his two daughters, 11 and 16. 

On August 23, in Montana, Alan Smith gunned down eight of his relatives -- his parents, his grandmother, his sister, and four children -- at a Sunday dinner. 

Together, the three men killed 17 people, 12 of them children. And within a day or two, each story had vanished from the national news.

Compare this to the coverage of the Lindsay Clancy case. For weeks, the trial of the Massachusetts mother, who killed her three children in 2023, has been a media fixation. 

Cable networks have carried it live. CNN, NBC, the Boston Globe, and others have run day-by-day live blogs. Reporters have packed the courthouse by the dozen, some sitting on the floor for lack of room. And the trial is only the latest chapter: the case has been dissected in the national press and on true-crime podcasts for years.

A mother killing her children becomes a national obsession; a father doing the same quickly becomes yesterday's news.The obvious explanation for the discrepancy is timing: Clancy is on trial, while these three men killed themselves and left no one to prosecute. 

But it doesn't hold up. Men who murder their families do stand trial -- and their cases almost never command this kind of sustained, wall-to-wall attention. 

The true-crime sagas that grip the nation for years overwhelmingly feature women who kill. The gender of the killer, it turns out, matters more than the crime.

The numbers tell a different story than the headlines. Family annihilation in America is neither rare nor evenly distributed. 

According to a 2023 investigation by the Indianapolis Star, drawing on data from the Gun Violence Archive, someone in this country murders their own family roughly once every five days. 

And the people who do it are almost always men -- by expert estimates, some 91 percent of the time. A gun is used in about nine of ten cases. The victims, disproportionately, are children.

The silence has a dangerous cost. Violence by men has become so normalized that even its most extreme form -- a man murdering his own family -- barely registers. And that silence compounds itself: because these killings rarely break through the noise, most people have no idea how common they are, or how overwhelmingly they are committed by men. The pattern disappears into the background, one fleeting headline at a time.None of this diminishes the horror of a mother who kills. It only raises the question: why does that horror seize our full attention, while the far more common version -- committed by fathers, husbands, sons -- slips past us in a day?

--> If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 at 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788.

--> The Danger Assessment, developed by Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell, is a free tool that helps a woman gauge her risk of being killed by an abusive partner -- 

https://www.dangerassessment.org/DA.aspx

For a potentially life-saving book for older teens and adults about the early warning signs of abusive relationships, myths about abusive personalities, and how to get help, we highly recommend "Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men" at

https://www.amightygirl.com/why-does-he-do-that
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
No one in Michigan thinks a tariff wall with Ohio would make anyone richer. The same logic applies with the US and Canada. This is a lose-lose. More on that in my convo with @sykescharlie.bsky.social newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Why Don’t We Put a Tariff on Ohio?
Nobody in America is mad at Canada. So how did we end up in a trade war with them — and why can’t Mark Carney end it?
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
US budget deficit this year: ~6% of GDP. Outside of wars or recessions, that's the highest in the postwar era.⁣ ⁣ We're borrowing at emergency-level scale with no emergency and no political will to change course. Bond markets have noticed. Voters haven't yet. youtu.be/HprbhEwxuT0
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bboydflynn.bsky.social @bboydflynn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
guess those first 18 years left their mark.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
20% growth isn't optimistic, it's fiction. Growth in 2025 was slower than 2024. So far in 2026, slower still. At some point you have to just call it what it is: a lie. Let's stop debating the number and talk about the actual economy. Full video: youtu.be/GWMlhf2eSRQ
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 03/09/2026
Donald Trump is making it more expensive to raise a family. Back-to-school prices are up 11% compared to last year: Notebooks: +23% Index cards: +22% Lunchboxes: +27% Sandwich bread: +22% Apple juice: +20% Animal crackers: +16%
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kimberly grace @grace8ming.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"...key enforcement agencies were redirected towards dubious ideological projects. In many cases, this meant lining them up against the very communities that had until recently counted on them... The [DOJ], for example, abandoned plaintiffs in voting rights cases and then filed briefs against them."
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I reported this for Quartz in 2020: qz.com/1909779/is-a...
Subhead: It crashes educations

Not being able to have an abortion can derail the career of a teen girl by severely interrupting her education, which can limit her career choices and bring down her income potential for the rest of her life. Teen girls who give birth before the age of 19 significantly reduce their chances of completing high school, from nearly 90% down to slightly more than 50%, according to a 2010 report by Child Trends, a non-partisan research organization that looked at a national sample of nearly 9,000 youth over a 10-year period. 

Because educational attainment is so closely tied to income earnings in the US, girls who can’t have an abortion are more likely to end up in a low-skilled job and contribute less to the economy in general. They will pay less income taxes, spend and save less, and likely need more social assistance.

From: https://qz.com/1909779/is-amy-coney-barretts-stance-on-abortion-bad-for-the-economy
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Meanwhile, let’s not forget about Donald Trump’s Medicaid cuts, which could knock millions off of coverage." AND!!!! 7 rural hospitals in South Carolina are at risk of closing, with 2 at immediate risk directly due to Trump's signature bill. EVERY DEM SHOULD BE RUNNING ON THIS
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720 hospitals at risk of closure, by state
720 hospitals risk closure nationwide, with 294 at immediate risk due to financial issues, impacting rural healthcare across multiple states.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Most headlines refer to this as "misspent" or "misappropriated". Whether by a legal definition it's "stole" those other words GREATLY understate what happened. They took $10M of public money for childrens health care and laundered it thru a string of orgs to get it into a political campaign account.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
That feeling of discovering that in the few hours you were offline, it all somehow got stupider and more embarrassing.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We’ve entered the “degenerate art” phase of American fascism.
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Trump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley (Gift Article)
The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Trump is promising to boost the U.S. economy by making it harder for Americans to trade with the rest of the world. He is also promising to destroy Iran's economy by making it harder for Iranians to trade with the rest of the world.
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bboydflynn.bsky.social @bboydflynn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
President Trump administration's pledged to crack down on sex trafficking. Instead, investigations have stalled and prosecutions declined because of staffing shortages, funding cuts, immigration enforcement and growing distrust of the government among victims. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13/08/2026
The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million.   That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 11/08/2026
An anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit in Utah whose founder resigned after multiple women accused him of trafficking and sexual abuse has won a federal contract to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children in government custody. prospect.org?p=142613
Immigrant children sit on the floor outside of an immigration courtroom
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The science is clear: Vaccines save lives. abcnews.com/Politics/tru...
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Doctors push back on Trump executive order to change childhood vaccine schedule
Trump order makes recommendations about the childhood vaccine schedule and recommens that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine be split into three separate shots.
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Politicians need to stay out of medical decision-making. Full stop. This Administration is putting lives at risk & spreading misinformation as it tries to change childhood vaccine schedules. Parents & their clinicians must be able to make informed medical decisions without political interference.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The childhood vaccine distortions today by executive order will further add to the marked increase in US measles cases, currently the highest in 35 years.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Vaccine benefit in children "Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The most striking benefit was for vaccination vs measles (Figure)
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/08/2026
Important: Trump’s executive order is NOT legislation. Though the executive order promotes more misinformation about vaccines, nothing has changed about the availability of childhood vaccines. For evidence-based guidance, please follow and share American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations.
AAP Recommended Immunization Schedule
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Astrid @dastardlyastrid.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is a very important read and should not be buried by election news.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026
Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are."
We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Yup this one thanks!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
one of the supposedly damning docs the White House released tonight says Russia tried to undermine BIDEN. Also says China "prefers that President Trump be defeated" but actually "Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election" (!)
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Cat Alyst 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them) @catalystmeow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
19 Epstein survivors. One PSA. One message to the Senate: vote no on Blanche. When trafficking survivors tell you the man running DOJ has failed them — believe them. #BlockBlanche #USDemocracy #MomSky
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C.R. Denis @crdenis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Cyclospora and screwworm aren’t related pathogens. They’re related decisions. Strip the monitoring, strip the funding, then point at the last guy when the thing you stopped tracking finds you anyway.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/07/2026
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects,” said David McCraw, The Times’s top newsroom lawyer. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...
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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Ioannis Ziogas @ziogas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.
NYT headline (July 2, 2026): U.S. Hiring Continues at a Steady PaceNYT headline (July 2, 2024): US Job Growth Extends Streak, but Signs of Concern Emerge.
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