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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead. - 25,000 people deported - $410 million spent. - UN aid used to sweeten the deals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING NYT: Investigators may have broken state laws under the direction of top Trump Homeland Security leaders by posing as voters as part of an expansive effort to find noncitizens on the nation's voter rolls, according to a federal whistleblower's account just released.
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Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud
Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's Monday, so a deeply compromised Kirsten Gillibrand is trying to enable Trump fraud www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Gillibrand privately urges Dems to advance crypto bill
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's posture on the legislation puts her at odds with progressives in her party.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Immigrants’ Lawyers Say U.S. Is Redacting Documents Proving Legal Status (Gift Article)
Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
Rather than rely on tried and true methods, General Dynamics proposed a new production line to build artillery shells for Ukraine. The Army signed up to buy three without knowing if the machinery would even work.
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
In internal meetings, top USPS officials expressed concerns about new mail voting rules. One repeated concern regarded how to avoid invalidating an entire batch of ballots if one voter among thousands couldn’t be confirmed as eligible.
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New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
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Ironbound @ironbound.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Man this guy sucks
Last September, when an aide told Fetterman that officials with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, known as CHOP, wanted to meet because they were worried about Medicaid cuts, he was dismissive.
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Why do I have to keep having to meet with chop
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Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.
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Well I'm not
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I'm convinced they just want free trips to DC
Source: messages reviewed by WSJ
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/08/2026
Broken swing sets? Missing basketball nets? Have no fear, Renew Crew is here. Neighborhood parks are meant for recreation — not frustration. If it’s broken, this crew will fix it. If it’s run-down, they’ll renew it. Renew Crew: Coming soon to a park near you.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/08/2026
Citing ProPublica’s reporting, eight senators wrote a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio questioning the Trump administration’s approach to foreign health data. They said it could set an “alarming precedent.”
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Senators Criticize Trump Administration’s Demands to Access Health Data as a Condition for Lifesaving Aid
Citing ProPublica’s reporting, eight senators wrote a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio questioning the administration’s approach to foreign health data. They said it could set an “alarming pre...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/08/2026
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. This is what experts say you need to know:
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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/08/2026
Autopsies show how hard doctors tried to save babies who died after not getting a vitamin K shot: tubes inserted in their airways, blood transfusions. They’re excruciating to read because they underscore how preventable these deaths could have been. (Published May)
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What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot
Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.
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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
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Homeland Security Made a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting. Now It Can’t Prove It. (Gift Article)
The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 20/08/2026
Hundreds of people attended the first public airing of a developer’s plans to build a data center in the Minnesota Star Tribune’s shuttered printing print on Wednesday, revealing tensions over the future of one of downtown Minneapolis’ last remaining large industrial sites.
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North Loop residents blast developer’s data center plans for former Star Tribune printing plant
Legacy Investing envisions a mixed-use development on the prime downtown Minneapolis property.
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Target reported $1.88B in net income, pumped up by $1B in tariff refunds that WE paid for. Will customers see a dime back? No. Will workers get real raises? No. Target sure found $518M for cash dividends and still has $8.3B in authorized buybacks on the table though.
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Dennis Goris | Cartoons @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What’s for dinner?
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 20/08/2026
Newly released documents show firearms retailer Fleet Farm ignored employee warnings about suspected straw purchases, including sales tied to a gun later used in a fatal St. Paul shooting.
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Firearms seller Fleet Farm ignored employee alerts for straw purchases, documents show
The Attorney General’s office is releasing 694 documents related to ongoing litigation, which Fleet Farm had to turn over as part of the settlement.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Walmart just received a $2.9 billion tariff refund, massively boosting the company's profits. Regular people paid the costs of tariffs by and large across America. But now corporations are getting huge checks from the government, while working people get nothing.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Perhaps Darth Vader can send a thank you card to Andreessen Horowitz — a VC that is one of the major investors in Flock. Andreessen Horowitz is also now one of the biggest political spenders in the 2026 midterms — pumping millions into super PACs for crypto, AI, and Trump. Always follow the money.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 21/08/2026
At least 23 Minnesotans have suffered foodborne infections and two have been hospitalized in an outbreak traced back to locally produced alfalfa sprouts.
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Health officials trace E. coli and salmonella outbreak to Minnesota alfalfa grower
Twenty-three E. coli and salmonella illnesses in Minnesota were linked to produce grown by Everything Sprouts and sold under the Calco and Everything Sprouts brands.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
As we have documented on Third Country Deportation Watch — where we also have some numbers— this has been happening for months. Essentially since Mullin became Secretary and relations cooled between Sheinbaum and Trump admin. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
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U.S. quietly deporting Mexican migrants to Guatemala and Honduras, angering Mexico
The Trump administration has been quietly deporting migrants from Mexico to Central America, despite the Mexican government's willingness to accept the return of all its citizens.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/08/2026
NEW: Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs. In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
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Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Your food or your family. That's the choice facing immigrants now under the new "public charge" rule that will deny green cards to those deemed a burden to America, in a manner that makes it easier to deny all green cards. Patrick Dimasin reports. prospect.org/2026/08/18/t...
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Trump’s Latest Catch-22 for Immigrants - The American Prospect
USCIS’s new rule encourages immigrant families to forgo public benefits to which they are entitled or lose their green card eligibility.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 15/08/2026
An undercover federal agent infiltrated a Minneapolis church despite a court order barring immigration enforcement at churches in its network. Newly released documents also show federal agents surveilled the church several times this spring.
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Feds spying in Minneapolis church may have violated court order
Homeland Security spied on a Minneapolis church in May as part of an investigation into alleged anti-ICE activities, potentially violating a court order barring federal agents from enforcing civil imm...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
from job listing:

As the Director of Anti-Extremism, a typical day might include…

Assembling and updating a database of the DSA’s most extreme ideas and statements and a repository of voting records, affiliations, and issue positions to make available to allies and partners;
Leading public opinion research to identify and test the contrasts that move base voters away from these extreme candidates;
Overseeing the development of memos, talking points, rapid response materials, and other products that make the case against these extreme forces in American politics;
Promoting and marketing our research and materials to ensure they reach decisionmakers quickly, repeatedly, and at scale through a coordinated distribution infrastructure;
Recruiting and arming a group of young, diverse spokespeople to fight the DSA from a center-left perspective and assembling a broad coalition of organizational partners to make the case against extremism;
Running an earned media program to create a drumbeat of our message in op-eds, television appearances, podcasts, and traditional and digital media engagement.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The justice department on Wednesday arrested a leading expert on far-right extremism, charging her with financial crimes as part of the government’s ongoing case against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump’s justice department arrests expert on far right as part of SPLC crackdown
Prosecutors charge Heidi Beirich with financial crimes as part of case against the Southern Poverty Law Center
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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“It got to the point where I was not surprised by anything that happened there.” New banger from @jessecoburn.bsky.social: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing www.propublica.org/article/gene...
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Private equity is price gouging firefighters now. Yes, you read that right. Firefighters. Is this the most evil thing they've done yet?
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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Picking flowers
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 10/08/2026
Will have more on this tomorrow, but as noted in the thread below ⤵️, we may finally have a location for ICE's long-planned 287(g) National Coordination Center: the small town of Adams, TN. Here's the contract summary for the contract awarded to Koniag Services: www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
Map of the midwest/Appalachia/mid-Atlantic states, with a marker showing the small town of Adams, TN to the northwest of Nashville, TN, near the Kentucky border.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/08/2026
Louisiana’s AG has pushed back against almost all compensation claims brought by the wrongfully convicted, even in cases where men were exonerated by DNA evidence. “She knows people are innocent but she doesn’t care,” one man said.
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He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The most powerful rising force in American politics today is anti-establishment fury at a rigged economic system. Corporate Democrats refuse to see how big money has corrupted America. They — and their billionaire donors — are some of the biggest enablers of Trump's neo-fascism.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 07/08/2026
"The immense surveillance powers of license plate readers became clear to me 14 years ago, when I published police data about my own vehicle to show the devices were logging the habits of law-abiding citizens," writes columnist Eric Roper.
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Roper: License plate readers mapped my routine. But Flock makes the surveillance more troubling.
Recent vandalism of Flock license plate cameras illustrates a growing backlash against the technology, which began as a more localized police tool.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/08/2026
I get that the Trump White House has decided that Congress is a vestigial organ, but I think there should be more coverage of the fact that Brendan Carr just up and said "yes, Congress put a 39% cap on media ownership, but I think I can ignore it for reasons."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Under Trump & RFK Jr.: -22,000 cyclospora cases and 2 deaths -Multiple ongoing salmonella outbreaks -Measles cases at 35-year high -New "forever chemical" pesticides in our food supply How the hell is any of this Making America Healthy Again?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/08/2026
Billions of gallons of toxic oil field wastewater are injected below Oklahoma each year. Some of it is spreading uncontrollably and blasting out of old wells. Our documentary with @readfrontier.bsky.social exposes what regulators knew — and how they did little about the risks.
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Why Oil Field Wastewater Is Bubbling Up All Over This State | ProPublica Docs
YouTube video by ProPublica
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/08/2026
In the first six months of Trump’s second term, the DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases. (Published March)
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/08/2026
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris. (Published January)
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“We're Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Musk's Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
NYT stating this like it’s normal when it’s absolutely berserk.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/08/2026
@flatwaterfreep.bsky.social and ProPublica’s recent investigation revealed that toxic lead contamination lingers in Omaha — even at sites the EPA previously remediated. Here’s how we uncovered the truth.
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The EPA Doesn’t Typically Retest Homes in the Country’s Largest Residential Lead Superfund Site. So We Did.
The Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica independently tested hundreds of homes in eastern Omaha, Nebraska, and found toxic levels of lead in soil throughout — including in yards that the EPA remediate...
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 05/08/2026
Seniors are having a harder time today affording everyday expenses than when President Trump took office, between soaring inflation and the president's failed economic agenda. Social Security benefits aren't going as far as they used to. - @hassan.senate.gov
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
An immigration enforcement system that punishes people for the government’s own delay is a system which destroys its own legitimacy. People are being thrown in handcuffs and put in ICE detention despite having done every single thing the U.S. government asked them to do.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/08/2026
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. This is what they wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)
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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Trump Wants To Steal the Midterms – But the Dems Actually Have A Plan To Fight Back" Democrats, election officials, and activist groups talk with Zeteo about how they’re planning to defend the midterms from ICE agents, GOP ballot seizures, and more. Part 3 of Zeteo's 'Start the Steal' series:
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Trump Wants To Steal the Midterms – But the Dems Actually Have A Plan To Fight Back
'Start the Steal,' Part 3: Democrats, election officials, and activist groups talk with Zeteo about how they’re planning to defend the midterms from ICE agents at the polls, ballot seizures, and more.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/08/2026
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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