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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 10h
Donald Trump realllllly likes Les Misérables — you know, the musical about justice, redemption, and revolution against an oppressive social, political, and economic system… Maybe he just sees a little of himself in the innkeeper. 🤷‍♂️ @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses her decision to send her daughter, Najya, to predominantly Black, under-resourced public schools and the controversy that followed. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yesterday in Texas I introduced @maddow.bsky.social ahead of a surprise interview with @lbarronlopez.bsky.social about Trump's latest attacks on the free press. we'll bring you their whole conversation *for the first time* this morning on @connectwithjacob.bsky.social. 10AM ET.
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MS NOW’s @lbarronlopez.bsky.social—whose White House press pass was revoked, then restored by a federal judge after President Trump criticized our coverage—explains to Rachel Maddow at Together in Texas why reporters need to keep covering him instead of “deny[ing] him the attention he needs."
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“My child was not sacrificed,” @nhannahjones.bsky.social says in response to criticism over sending her daughter to predominantly Black under-resourced schools. “I deeply reject that framing. Did my child bear some sacrifices? Absolutely.”
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‘We need to feel an obligation to each other:’ Nikole Hannah-Jones responds to criticism over new essay
Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses why choosing to send her daughter, Najya, to predominantly Black, under-resourced public schools has sparked so much cont...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yee-haw! It’s a road trip! “I just feel like it’s time, I feel like he’s the right person,” Texas Dems tell Jacob Soboroff they’re optimistic about James Talarico’s chances in November.
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Could Dems take the TX Senate for the first time in DECADES?
Jacob Soboroff headed to Texas this week for MS NOW’s Together in Texas festivities. While he was there, they let him loose with the mic so he could get voters’ predictions on the Texas Senate race an...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kansas hasn't elected a Democrat in nearly 100 years. Now, polls show the Senate race between Democrat Rev. Adam Hamilton and Sen. Roger Marshall is tightening. Lifelong Republicans tell Hamilton they're backing him: “people are frustrated and fed up,” says @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social.
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GOP Candidates Break with Trump as Kansas Senate Race Becomes a Race to Watch
Republicans across the country are increasingly putting distance between themselves and the president, breaking with him on issues ranging from the war with Iran to immigration. Kansas, a state that h...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Organized labor is on the rise as more workers recognize labor = leverage. But more elected officials need to take a cue from NYC’s Mamdani, says Teamsters’ Randy Korgan: “We need to protect [the right to organize] like anything else under the Constitution.”
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‘LABOR IS LEVERAGE’: The return of organized labor
The labor movement is experiencing a renaissance as more American workers flex their collective power. Randy Korgan, who leads the Teamsters' Amazon campaign, says workers' greatest leverage against c...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Could President Trump declare a national emergency ahead of the midterms? It is one of the scenarios @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov is preparing for ahead of November. ‘If you can imagine it, we have thought of it and we have a plan.’
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‘LIMITLESS’: AG Bonta preps for Trump-induced midterms chaos
The Atlantic is reporting that President Donald Trump has a group of election-denying allies advising him to take extraordinary measures to seize control of the elections in November. Election officia...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Could some Republicans be … breaking up with Trump? 🤔 With the midterms just 37 days away, more Republican candidates are distancing themselves from President Trump, whose approval rating has sunk into the low 30s as he leads an unpopular war and the country faces an affordability crisis.
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please join me on MS NOW 10a-1p w/ @repcasar.bsky.social // @gregcasar.bsky.social Randy Korgan @eileenguo.bsky.social @jamesodonnell.bsky.social @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov @nhannahjones.bsky.social @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch Dr. Reza Aslan Mala Muñoz
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump claims to love the musical ‘Les Misérables’, but has he seen it? 🧐 Seems like he’s ‘missing Les Point’ according to @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social.
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Missing Les Point: Trump’s strange and ironic love of Les Misérables.
At this week’s state dinner Trump cued up one of his favorite songs for Chinese President Xi Jinping; a military band and soloist performed ‘One Day More’ from the musical ‘Les Misérables’. A musical ...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On 9/11, firefighter Stephen Siller strapped 60 lbs. of gear to his back and ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel toward the Towers. Today, his courage lives on through the Tunnel to Towers 5K. Tunnel to Towers' Brad Blakeman says his story is “a lesson of what a hero can do."
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The Legacy of Stephen Siller: The Firefighter Who Ran Toward Danger on 9/11
On September 11, 2001, FDNY firefighter Stephen Siller was on his way home when he heard that a plane had hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. He turned around, grabbed 60 pounds of gear, an...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was reportedly not wearing a body camera. TX Rep. Lloyd Doggett is demanding answers. “The only way we get accountability is to throw the rascals out and put in some people who will stand up to Donald Trump."
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'THROW THE RASCALS OUT': Austin, TX Congressman on ICE shooting
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was in the middle of a Doordash delivery when an ICE traffic stop left him with a bullet lodged in his back. Details on why the encounter ended with gunfire remain unclear a...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This week, Trump seated a room full of billionaires at his US-China state dinner. “The one group that wasn’t there was the voice of the workers,” says Machinists Union president @iamunion.bsky.social. And it didn't go unnoticed.
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'Workers vs. Billionaires': Meet the latest union to take on the oligarchy
America’s labor movement continues to mount a strong response to the open alliance between the White House and billionaire class. The latest: the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace ...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bothered by journalists? Claim national security. Dreaming of a golden ballroom? It’s definitely for national security. Want to crack down on protestors? National security, duh! It’s Donald Trump’s go-to justification for just about everything. 👀
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The President who cries ‘NATIONAL SECURITY’
Donald Trump is turning once again to his favorite excuse: national security. It’s helped him build a ballroom, restrict protestors and rollback environmental protections. And now, the latest target i...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please join me on MS NOW 10a-1p w/ @davidrohde.bsky.social James Sample Zachary Mueller @alsobrooks.senate.gov @iamunion.bsky.social Taylor Rehmet @doggett.house.gov Anna Louie Sussman @aprildryan.bsky.social Geoffrey Cowan @jayapal.house.gov @aclu.org Brad Blakeman
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When is a gift just a gift? Why did a Russian oligarch who’s friends with Vladimir Putin pay for Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding after-party?  @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social unpacks this “bizarro” story 🤨
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In the spirit of being banned from the White House, here are 10 things Donald Trump ~probably~ doesn't want us talking about ... 🫢 Are we missing anything?! @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is A.I. going to kill us all? Jacob Soboroff headed to City Hall Greenmarket to get New Yorkers’ predictions on that and a whole lot more.
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Midterm Motivations | Will A.I. Kill Us All?
Jacob Soboroff hits up City Hall’s Greenmarket in New York City to get voters’ predictions on what’s driving them to the polls, whether AI will kill us all, and if the Yankees will win the World Serie...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“The Federalist Society is an indoctrinating clearinghouse.” Alex Wagner on the origins of the movement that “changed the course of American history”-- and her new book, ‘The Steal’, which traces how conservatives reshaped America’s courts.
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‘A HEIST’: how 4 men created the Federalist Society and 'changed the course of American history
In 1982, a law conference at Yale launched the conservative powerhouse the Federalist Society, and with it, a decades-long campaign to remake America's courts. Journalist Alex Wagner talks about her n...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The dangers of AI are real. But we don’t have to imagine a Terminator-like scenario. Its harms have already materialized. AI sucks up water, powers the surveillance state and is being used in lethal military decision-making abroad.
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AI doomerism has taken over, but what about the harms we already know exist?
The conversations surrounding the risk of artificial intelligence aren’t new, but this latest wave of AI panic has thrust the issue into the mainstream. While President Trump calls the concerns a “hoa...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump just implemented a 19th century immigration rule that Stephen Miller is reportedly obsessed with. It’s been a “tool of eugenicists and white nationalists across time who have tried to filter who is allowed to enter the country,” says author & historian Kelly Lytle Hernández.
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Stephen Miller is reportedly OBSESSED with this 19th century immigration rule. Trump implemented it.
The Trump administration just overhauled and implemented the “public charge” rule, which dates back to 1882. It empowers DHS officers to reject green cards for lawful immigrants if they suspect that t...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The president is trying to stifle one of the biggest checks on his power: the media. Since we are members of the media and we have no intention of being stifled, let's discuss the top 10 headlines Trump probably doesn't want us to talk about today. ⬇️
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The top 10 things the President probably DOESN'T want us to talk about
President Donald Trump has spent his second term putting people in powerful positions who will advance his agenda and stifling checks on his power. This week, he denied certain members of the media co...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Please join me on MS NOW 10a-1p w/ @congressmanraja.bsky.social Kelly Lytle Hernandez Latanya Walker Molly Duane @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @barbmcquade.bsky.social @repyassansari.bsky.social Maya Eaglin Alex Wagner @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social @daveholmes.bsky.social Sabrina Jalees #Connect
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Salman Rushdie, the award-winning author who went into hiding for almost a decade after Iran’s supreme leader called for his killing over his novel “The Satanic Verses,” reflects on censorship and the state of free expression in America. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"If you have the story to tell, tell the damn story." “Anything that prevents journalists and artists from doing their work is a real blow to the soul of a society," says Salman Rushdie. Free expression is “under threat in a way that I never believed" in the United States.
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‘Tell the damn story’: Salman Rushdie on free speech & new doc on recovery from 2022 knife attack
A new documentary follows renowned author Salman Rushdie’s recovery from the 2022 attack that nearly took his life and left him without sight in one eye. Rushdie connects this attempted murder to the ...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@eugenedaniels2.bsky.social, who served as president of the White House Correspondents' Association for 2024-25, reacts to the Trump administration denying MS NOW, CNN, and POLITICO journalists access to the White House on Saturday. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump has played the WH press access card before -- and lost. In 2018, @jimacosta.bsky.social had his press badge revoked by Trump (and then restored) "It's the most un-American thing," says Acosta of the new bans, and "very dangerous." “We're all gonna have to fasten our seat belts."
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‘THE KING OF FAKE NEWS’: Fmr. CNN Chief WH Correspondent on Trump’s attack on the press
Jim Acosta, CNN’s former Chief White House Correspondent, had his press credentials revoked by Trump in 2018 before a court order restored them. He says Trump’s new ban on MS NOW, CNN, and Politico ma...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The hypocrisy is astounding. Gov. Jim Pillen fully backed Trump’s ICE crackdown, while his family farms relied on undocumented workers – according to a new investigation. The current and former workers she spoke with “wanted the truth to be out there,” said reporter Yanqi Xu.
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This GOP governor said ‘illegal aliens’ have ‘invaded.’ His family farms EMPLOYED them, report finds
Republican Governor Jim Pillen has been a champion of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. But at least 20 of his family farms employed undocumented immigrants, according to a new investigation by th...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Between January and October of 2025, DHS data shows that 18 women were reported to have miscarried while detained by ICE. After that? Nothing. A new report from @us.theguardian.com shows that women have continued to experience miscarriages, ICE just stopped counting.
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REPORT: ICE LOST COUNT of miscarriages in detention
According to a new report from The Guardian, ICE has been detaining a record number of pregnant women since Donald Trump’s return to office. According to records obtained by the paper, the agency also...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Veteran journalist Jim Acosta reacts to the news that journalists from MS NOW, CNN and Politico were denied entry to the White House on Saturday. Acosta had his press pass revoked during the first Trump administration. He later had it restored in court. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
MS NOW, CNN, & Politico have ALL been denied access to the White House grounds. The People’s House. Their “office” as reporters. Where they report the stories out for the American people of what goes on behind those gates. MS NOW’s Akayla Gardner shares what happened when she tried to get inside.
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reads statements from MS NOW, CNN, and POLITICO after the three outlets were denied entry to the White House on Saturday—one day after President Trump said in a Truth Social post that he was banning the outlets from the White House.
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
MS NOW, CNN, and POLITICO have been denied access to the White House grounds, one day after Trump said he was banning the outlets from the White House. On Friday, Trump called the targeted outlets "fake news" and said they "never write a good story." @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports.
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Please join me on MS NOW 10a-1p w/ @eugenedaniels2.bsky.social Akayla Gardner @joeneguse.bsky.social @drannieandrews.com Yanqi Xu @jimacosta.bsky.social Dr. Seema Shah @jamessample.bsky.social @morelle.house.gov @maanvisingh.bsky.social Salman Rushdie Rachel Eliza Griffiths #Connect
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
President Trump shared an AI-generated mockup for Space Force uniforms inspired by "Starship Troopers"—a 1997 sci-fi satire steeped in Nazi imagery. Director Paul Verhoeven previously called it a film “about fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism.” You can’t make this stuff up.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
this might be my highest honor. send us your selfies at Rick’s and we’ll put them on @connectwithjacob.bsky.social.
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
and this is why we love ya, @tonyamosley.bsky.social 🩵 @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
‘Drunk History’ is back after a 7 year hiatus! “If you make someone laugh you can also make them listen", says co-creator Derek Waters. “If Trump drank, maybe we’d get more truth." 🫠
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‘Drunk History’ is BACK: ‘If you make someone laugh, you can also make them listen’
Comedy Central’s beloved ‘Drunk History’ is back after a 7-year hiatus. Co-creators Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner join Jacob Soboroff to talk about how the show’s goal isn’t just to make audiences la...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
From mosques to data center protests – the post-9/11 surveillance machine now reaches anyone the Trump administration doesn’t like. The lesson: once we accept fewer rights for one group, it’s only a matter of time before they come for ours.
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From mosques to data center protests: How the post-9/11 surveillance machine came for us all
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, law enforcement authorities conducted mass surveillance of Muslim communities based on little to no suspicion. That surveillance apparatus has only expanded since...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Donald Trump’s promises are “as unpredictable as his hair”. Jacob headed to Mercado La Paloma in LA to get voters’ predictions on the president’s vow to get gas prices under 2 dollars a gallon, and more.
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Newsom for Prez? | Trump for the moon?
Jacob Soboroff heads to Mercado La Paloma with Memo Torres of LA Taco to get voters’ predictions on Gavin Newsom’s potential presidential run, if Donald Trump really wants to take over the moon, wheth...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“It was a true gut punch.” Eve Van Dyke never thought that being a woman was what made her car crash so dangerous. Now that she knows, she’s working to change that for good.
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‘Gut-punch’: Why cars still aren’t safe for women
Women are 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a car accident. Research says it’s because the crash dummies used are designed around the average build of a man. Eve Van Dyke had a firsthand expe...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump says the economy is great! But Americans disagree. “Most people look at life through their kitchen window," says @repmcgovern.bsky.social. "The only people that are making off okay ...are people like Donald Trump and his cabinet, and the lifestyles of the rich and famous."
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‘They don’t give a DAMN’: Congressman SLAMS Trump admin ‘rich and famous’
With the midterms around the corner, the affordability crisis could have major consequences for Republicans at the ballot box. Gas prices are surging and inflation is rising, but Trump says the econom...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Irish broadcaster Ryan Tubridy reacts to Donald Trump's comments calling for a united Ireland on Saturday. "I'd love to see it unified," he said while meeting with the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin.
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Please join me on MS NOW 10a-1p w/ @adamsmith.house.gov Ryan Tubridy @maxbrooks.bsky.social Sonja Warfield #Connect 2/2
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Please join me on MS NOW 10a-1p w/ @repmcgovern.bsky.social @alicemiranda.bsky.social Derek Waters Jeremy Konner @faizapatel.bsky.social Eve Van Dyke @geoffhing.bsky.social @themarshallproject.org Lauren Villagran #Connect 1/2
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says President Trump still hasn’t released all of the FEMA disaster relief funds he “promised” for recovery from the Eaton and Palisades fires, which devastated the Los Angeles area nearly 20 months ago. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Under Trump, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is killing a vital tracking tool for workplace discrimination. “They'd really rather just not have that report," says fmr Commissioner Chai Feldblum.
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If there’s no data, then there’s no red flags: How to gut civil rights enforcement in the workplace
Trump's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is moving to end the decades-old collection of workforce data on gender, race and ethnicity– a vital tool for exposing systemic discrimination in the wo...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Is California Governor Gavin Newsom going to run for President? And if he does – would the Mayor of the state’s BIGGEST city back him? @mayor.lacity.gov is holding off on endorsing him for now.
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LA Mayor Karen Bass HOLDS OFF on Newsom Endorsement for 2028
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass might not have the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America, but she does have the backing of Gavin Newsom for her re-election bid. The California Governor coul...
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