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A brother's keeper in my heart and profession. Pursuer of joy and escapes into the wilderness. OrgCode.com

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Kennedy Center judge is officially informed about the photo: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Juan Proaño on the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo: There were three others with him in that vehicle. Those individuals are now being pressured to sign self-deportation orders. They’re trying to get rid of them as witnesses as well.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering
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NPR @npr.org · 04/06/2026
A coastal development project linked to Jared Kushner is facing resistance in Albania. The government says the project will transform the nation, but environmental campaigners and critics oppose it. n.pr/4uZY9gX
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Plans for a Trump family-linked resort spark protests in Albania
A coastal development project linked to Jared Kushner is facing resistance in Albania. The government says the project will transform the nation, but environmental campaigners and critics oppose it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Trump wants to use millions in national park entry fees to fund his vanity projects — including a $1.6M fireworks show and a $5M White House helipad. This comes after he made huge cuts to the NPS budget. We should be preserving our national treasures for future generations, not neglecting them.
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Trump Is Plundering National Parks to Pay for His Vanity Projects
Funds are going to an enormous July 4 fireworks display and the Reflecting Pool renovation.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/04/2026
Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. (Published May 2025)
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The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 02/04/2026
WATCH: The White House took down this video, but we still have it. Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/02/2026
EXCLUSIVE: A draft executive order that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over federal elections is reportedly being circulated with the White House. Democracy Docket obtained a copy. Read the full, 17-page order below👇
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Exclusive: Read the draft executive emergency order for Trump to take control of elections
Lawyers and legal experts explicitly said that such an order is blatantly unconstitutional.
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NPR @npr.org · 08/02/2026
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account. n.pr/4bHoZDU
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Immigrant whose skull was broken in 8 places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA: lataco.com/captive-loti...
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I feel very strongly that now is the time for NIMBY’s to shine. Every regulatory and procedural lever should be tested. Slow them down.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/01/2026
Mother Jones and other outlets fought to unseal documents that show that the Trump administration targeted students for Pro-Palestinian speech. We won.
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Documents prove the Trump administration arrested students for criticizing Israel
Newly unsealed court records illustrate how the US government specifically targeted students for pro-Palestine speech.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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HHS Gave a $1.6 Million Grant to a Controversial Vaccine Study. These Emails Show How That Happened
Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a “funding priority.”
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 17/01/2026
If you weaponize the DOJ to intimidate elected officials, that’s not “politics.” It’s a federal crime. Retaliatory investigations violate civil‑rights and obstruction laws. Anyone turning law enforcement into a threat is advertising their own liability.
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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
In Minneapolis
A Baptist church sign reads Blessed Are the Whistle Blowers for They Play the Music of Salvation
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/01/2026
They refused to probe a murder. The people with consciences walked out. 🚨 NEW: At least four leaders of the DOJ Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
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abel @abelwithatable.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I wouldn’t doubt it if, somewhere in the US, there’s a young Hispanic girl writing in a diary about how her and her family are hiding from ICE.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/01/2026
Avelo Airlines will stop flying deportation charters for the Department of Homeland Security after facing protests, boycotts and backlash from travelers, flight attendant unions, local politicians and immigration activists.
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Avelo Airlines to stop deportation flights after months of backlash
Houston-based Avelo is shutting down its base in Arizona after facing protests and boycotts for flying deportation charters for Homeland Security.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page: Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Reup of this public resource we created Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025) with links to all the publicly available documents
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Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025)
A comprehensive timeline of the failure of federal law enforcement to address Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 14/12/2025
Gun violence is the number-one cause of death for children. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Distracting the public’: group of health professionals call for RFK Jr to be removed
Ahead of the second Maha report, grassroots Defend Public Health warns that everything HHS is doing is ‘horrifying’
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 17/12/2025
Rep Chip Roy is a republican fyi and hes absolutely laying into his own party 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
NEW: Public records show Florida licenses capture of thousands of wild sharks and rays to major aquarium corporations around the world. >2/3 of animals permitted for capture were IUCN-redlisted. 95% of licenses list one contractor — remember this name — Dynasty Marine 🧵
Sharks and rays permitted by Florida for capture into aquarium exhibition
(FWC, 2015-2025)

total: 15549
top facilities (not in order):
Marineland Dolphin Adventure
SeaWorld Orlando
Florida Keys Aquarium Encounters
Georgia Aquarium
Frost Museum of Science
Clearwater Marine Aquarium
Miami Seaquarium
St. Augustine Aquarium
Gumbo Limbo
Walt Disney - The Seas
Volusia County
Daytona Aquarium
Zoo Tampa / Lowry Park
Florida Aquarium (Tampa)
Mote Aquarium
Florida Oceanographic Society
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
For decades, we've been fed the same lie: homelessness is the fault of the homeless. And that lie is what lets pundits and politicians openly push for camps, crackdowns, and even killing unhoused people, instead of facing the reality of why millions can't afford a home. I spoke with Second Thought:
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The Homelessness Crisis
YouTube video by Second Thought
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 03/12/2025
Last month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced plans to shift $3.9 billion in long-term housing to transitional housing requiring work and addiction treatment. More than 7,500 Illinoisans could be at risk of losing housing.
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As cold weather settles over Chicago, advocates call out Trump's new homelessness policies
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/11/2025
The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May)
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Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...
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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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Dan Casey @dancasey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
ICE detains mother dropping off child at elementary school—refuses to even look at her U.S. legal papers. "What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder. "The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back. Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.
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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…” Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
#WarRavagedPortland
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 06/10/2025
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/09/2025
People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
ICE brutally detains U.S. citizen just for filming—knocking her unconscious. "Agents took her to a side alley, beat her up, then called an ambulance," witness said. "Then they kidnapped her from the hospital—without a formal discharge—and took her to Downtown LA Detention Center."
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Mad Houser/AltHUD @madhouser.altgov.info · 26/09/2025
I woke up to discover that the morons in charge are dead set to ensure the housing sector crashes sooner rather than later. 1. Most of HUD will be fired since our programs are subject to appropriations and closes during shutdowns. But also the government would owe $ if to those they RIF so…
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2025
NEW: Reuters asked the Michigan Tax Authority whether Lisa Cook violated any mortgage tax rules for her home in Ann Arbor. They said no. That's in addition to Reuters earlier reporting that nothing was wrong with the documents for her home in Atlanta. www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...
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Exclusive: No evidence of primary residence violation by Fed Gov Lisa Cook, says Michigan official
The property tax authority in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook hasn’t broken rules for tax breaks on a home there that Cook declared her primary residence.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2025
The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. (Published April)
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White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2025
NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
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The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
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Convicted Murderer Released by Trump From Venezuelan Prison Is Free in U.S.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The summary is that they are trying to criminalize every aspect of homelessness so they can arrest & forcibly commit unhoused people. Currently(/before), there are not enough mental health & substance use treatment beds/facilities, and this does not add anything, which only leaves imprisoning people
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms.  But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately. Remember this.
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Tom Di Liberto @tdiliberto.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The list of past NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows is a who's who in terms of leading scientists. This is such a shortsighted decision.
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Susan Collins voted for every Senate confirmable person responsible for this disaster #mepolitics
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