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Chryl Laird

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NPR @npr.org · 19/04/2026
The average refund so far is $350 more than last year at this time, despite projections that it would be closer to $1,000 due to Republican-led tax changes as part of the Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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Tax season was supposed to bring big refunds. So far they're less than expected
The average refund so far is $350 more than last year at this time, despite projections that it would be closer to $1,000 due to Republican-led tax changes as part of the Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19/04/2026
Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports. More than two dozen people she spoke with described his management failures and conduct that could harm national security.
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Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job
The FBI director has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18/04/2026
Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.Children hug Mayor Mamdani.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/12/2025
Twenty months ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to more than two decades in prison after being found guilty of a multibillion-dollar fraud. Since then, he has become a prolific jailhouse lawyer, dispensing advice to his fellow prisoners, including the former president of Honduras and Sean Combs.
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Crypto Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried Has New Pursuit: Jailhouse Lawyer
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Chryl Laird @chryllaird.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
A Growing Warning From Black Veterans: The Military Isn’t Safe for Us capitalbnews.org/black-vetera...
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A Growing Warning From Black Veterans: The Military Isn’t Safe for Us
Some say prospective service members should find another path. Others think that it could be dangerous to cede the military to the current administration.
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Chryl Laird @chryllaird.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Trump defends Mohammed bin Salman over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi: "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman... Things happen... He knew nothing about it." A US intelligence report concluded that bin Salman personally "approved an operation" to "kill or capture" Khashoggi.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/11/2025
reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/11/2025
i find every story about costco's brand strategy and overall approach completely fascinating.
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Why Costco Went All in on Kirkland — and How It Paid Off | WSJ Case Study
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Chryl Laird @chryllaird.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Tell Congress to use every available mechanism to keep SNAP funded in November, right as Thanksgiving approaches. action.momsrising.org/sign/fund-sn...
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Tell Congress: Act Quickly to Keep SNAP Funded in November!
Tell Congress to use every available mechanism to keep SNAP funded in November, right as Thanksgiving approaches.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/10/2025
once again, i think electoral college maps shape people's sense of political reality in incredibly destructive ways
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The clips and conversations I’m hearing about the SNAP (food stamp) cuts should be above the fold everywhere. It’s a scary time for a lot of people.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.
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NPR @npr.org · 21/10/2025
While AI is increasingly used to write code, every line is still reviewed by humans. Some engineers complain about having to clean up AI-generated code. n.pr/4qmYRCS
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Tech CEOs say the era of 'code by AI' is here. Some software engineers are skeptical
While AI is increasingly used to write code, every line is still reviewed by humans. Some engineers complain about having to clean up AI-generated code.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/10/2025
one of the consistently interesting things about ACA criticism since it was signed into law is how critics discount or ignore the medicaid expansion
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 26/09/2025
A new 19th News/@surveymonkey.com poll found that women — especially women of color — were more worried about covering the cost of groceries, housing, medical bills, child care and rent.
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When it comes to rising costs, women are more worried than men — about everything
A new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll found that women — especially women of color — were more worried about covering the cost of groceries, housing, medical bills, child care and rent.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/09/2025
Ten years after countries promised to cut climate pollution in the Paris Agreement, countries plan to produce more than twice the amount of fossil fuels that would be consistent with that deal. n.pr/46sDnvh
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Leaders promised to cut climate pollution, then doubled down on fossil fuels
Ten years after countries promised to cut climate pollution in the Paris Agreement, countries plan to produce more than twice the amount of fossil fuels that would be consistent with that deal.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/09/2025
The U.S. has implemented additional scrutiny for Palestinian asylum seekers, requiring their applications to undergo a secondary review. This policy, unprecedented for an entire identity group, affects Palestinians with various travel documents.
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Under Trump, Palestinians seeking U.S. asylum face new hurdle, documents show
Palestinian asylum applicants must pass a secondary review that lawyers say has not been used before as a blanket requirement for an ethnonational group.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19/09/2025
I feel like part of the problem is that in the modern era, especially in the United States, people think that in order to count, they have to post about their activism or what they're doing. But here's the thing: you don't. 99% of what I do is stuff I never mention on social media.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 28/08/2025
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares
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University of Maryland Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement @umd-cdce.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We’re thrilled to uplift @chryllaird.bsky.social for our first CDCE Faculty Fellow Spotlight! Dr. Laird is an Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the @UofMaryland and Faculty Fellow for the CDCE.
CDCE Faculty Fellow Spotlight
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samnovey.bsky.social @samnovey.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Love working with @chryllaird.bsky.social !!!
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It is bizarre the way people with guns, bulletproof vests, riot shields, tanks, and other military gear act like rocks are an equal threat. It’s madness! If you are scared of rocks and think the punishment for having them thrown at you should be death, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement!
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness." Thousands of scientists disagreed. We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇 projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
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Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
So ICE is now more powerful than a sitting US senator? I hope every democrat congressperson stands up for their colleague and demands accountability for what happened to Alex Padilla. They won’t but I wish they would.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/06/2025
i am not being pollyannish when i insist that the people who sign up do not sign up to advance a president’s domestic political agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’
Several service members told advocacy groups they felt like pawns in a political game and assignment was not necessary
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/06/2025
Moskowitz: "Nothing has been made more efficient. Here are the wins for congressional Rs. You ready? They're gonna do a $9b recession bill. They're gonna get rid of Elmo, which the American people were clamoring for, but they're gonna add $2.4t for the debt. And then they want us to cheer for them."
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/06/2025
A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials rescinded recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.
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Top CDC covid vaccine adviser quits after RFK Jr. ended recommendations
Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials removed recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
#booksky
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
BREAKING: Linda McMahon just embarrassed the entire Department of Education. She told Congress we ranked “very low” in reading and math in 1979. Senator Markwayne Mullin had to stop her and say: “We were number one.” You can’t fix education when you don’t even know its history.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/06/2025
As hurricane season begins, FEMA is in disarray, @dgraham.bsky.social writes. Who manages the disaster if the disaster managers are the disaster? theatln.tc/2gCMkVXx
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/05/2025
NEW: A three-year investigation found that Phoenix police routinely violated the rights of homeless people. This week, DOJ officials announced that they had abandoned efforts to ensure the city and its police department addressed those issues. By @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social
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DOJ Abandons Effort to Address Phoenix’s Treatment of Homeless People
The Justice Department retracted findings of constitutional violations in Phoenix and five other jurisdictions. Advocates say the move could further embolden cities and police departments to marginali...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/05/2025
my "trump is a literal totem representing wealth and prosperity" theory keeps winning
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
'If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.' www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Tyre Nichols and the End of Police Reform
If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/05/2025
Paula Kerger, the longest-serving chief executive of PBS, is used to fights over the public broadcaster’s funding. But to her, the latest threats feel like “all-out effort to take us out.” Read our full interview.
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Can She Keep PBS on the Air?
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The Department of Education Forced Idaho to Stop Denying Disabled Students an Education. Then Trump Gutted Its Staff. by @beccasavransky.bsky.social @idahostatesman.com
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The Department of Education Forced Idaho to Stop Denying Disabled Students an Education. Then Trump Gutted Its Staff.
For years, the Education Department was the only agency that could ensure states would improve conditions for disabled children. Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Read the whole thing. You won’t be surprised, but you should be outraged.
Last week, as the Board held its 494th meeting, I listened to NSF staff say that DOGE had by fiat the authority to give thumbs up or down to grant applications which had been systematically vetted by layers of subject matter experts.

Our closed-to-the-public deliberations were observed by Zachary Terrell from the DOGE team. Through his Zoom screen, Terrell showed more interest in his water bottle and his cuticles than in the discussion. According to Nature Terrell, listed as a "consultant" in the NSF directory, had accessed the NSF awards system to block the dispersal of approved grants. The message I received was that the National Science Board had a role to play in name only
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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NPR @npr.org · 12/05/2025
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
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Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I am shocked but not shocked Cardinal Prevost is an excellent choice multi lingual dual citizen ...and he will be Leo XIV
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, will take the name Leo XIV.
Photo of the new Pope waving
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2025
vandalism www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
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Department of Education Eliminates Grant for PBS Children’s Shows
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/05/2025
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…
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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵
Black and white etching-style triptych showing 8 hours for work on the left, 8 hours for rest in the middle, and 8 hours for “what we will” on the right
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 05/05/2025
Missouri is now on the frontlines of the anti-abortion movement’s growing effort to reverse abortion rights state by state, trying to undo the ballot measures voters approved to enshrine abortion rights.
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Missouri's voters restored abortion rights. Their leaders are trying to overrule them.
Clinics are rebuilding services, patients are returning and Republicans in the state are moving quickly to take protections away — again.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This seems to be the correct answer. The dads idolize men like Trump and the sons follow their dads. We are looking for a “crisis” among young men but i think its actually middle aged men who have gone insane because many of us never really grew up bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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