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Corey Hutchins

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Run: Colorado College Journalism Institute Write: ‘Inside the News in Colorado’ newsletter coloradomedia.substack.com Advise: Colorado Media Project Serve: Board of state SPJ chapter Consult: Center for Community News

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 36m
Wow. Steph Vigil, a Democratic candidate for the the legislature in Colorado, called out the publication interviewing her for a lack of disclosure in a candidate Q-and-A: www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/10/05/f... The outlet obviously should be disclosing, but that's one way to get it in the outlet 🤣
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Medicinal Colorado @medicolorado.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
coloradosun.com/2026/10/06/f...
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Denver woman sues police, Flock Safety after being falsely accused of stealing package from porch
Chrisanna Elser was accused of stealing a $25 package after a Columbine Valley police sergeant cited Flock surveillance of her car as proof
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 21h
"In the Press Freedom War, Your Eyes Should Be on Student Journalism" thecatalystnews.com/2026/10/02/i...
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In the Press Freedom War, Your Eyes Should Be on Student Journalism
Last week, a former Cornell student filed a lawsuit against seven fraternity members who allegedly gang-raped her in October 2024. The outlet that broke the story? Cornell’s student newspaper, The …
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 06/10/2026
“I’m 25 and just bought my local paper.”! 🦋 www.cjr.org/business_of_...
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“I’m 25 and just bought my local paper.”
A former intern bought Georgia’s Monticello News. Weeks later, he grew subscriptions by 30 percent.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Cornell's student journalists show how vital campus newsrooms are" www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/arti...
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Cornell's student journalists show how vital campus newsrooms are | Opinion
In a blistering editorial published Sept. 21 as part of The Cornell Daily Sun's coverage of an alleged 2024 gang rape on campus, the paper's editorial board wrote, "We ask the questions the University...
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Colorado's elections are so great
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 05/10/2026
New at Media Nation: How Rob Curley's plan to take The Spokesman-Review nonprofit ended in a newsroom revolt. By InvestigateWest and RANGE. dankennedy.net/2026/10/05/h...
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How Rob Curley’s plan to take The Spokesman-Review nonprofit ended in a newsroom revolt
By Wilson Criscione and Daisy Zavala Magaña This report was produced in a collaboration between InvestigateWest and RANGE and republished by permission. When The Spokesman-Review announced plans to…
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Will the Colorado Springs congressional district flip to Dems this year?
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 01/10/2026
Special Wednesday newsletter: On Gov. Gavin Newsom signing a big local news funding bill and when change creeps up on you unexpectedly. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/california...
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California roadmap
On Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing of the Community NEWS Act and the roads unexpectedly traveled.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 03/10/2026
Jake Hutzler spends his workdays directing planes from an airport tower.
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Meet the air traffic controller who flies himself to work
Jake Hutzler spends his workdays directing planes from an airport tower. Once a week, he gets there by strapping a propeller to his back and taking to the skies of Colorado.
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you live in one of 12 specific states and started getting something called The Flyover in your inbox in recent years, you might have wondered what it is. I examined the Colorado version for this week’s media newsletter: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/whats-the-...
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What’s ‘The Colorado Flyover’ in your inbox? A local news aggregator with 200k subscribers
The news behind the news in Colorado
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If Mailchimp can resend an email newsletter to non-openers after a few days, why can’t Substack?
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Marcus @pralitemonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I remember applying to be some sort of aggregator for the national version of this thing before I knew what it was. It always struck me as right wing but I couldn't figure out why.
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here's what to know about it from today's Colorado media newsletter: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/whats-the-...
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What’s ‘The Colorado Flyover’ in your inbox? A local news aggregator with 200k subscribers
The news behind the news in Colorado
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“When you have a principal coming in who doesn’t have a lick of journalism experience claiming that they’re there to guide young journalists, that’s where I have problems. Every principal and every superintendent ... seems to think that they are qualified editors” www.404media.co/how-schools-...
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How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists
As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Newspaper serving Colorado Springs, the 40th or so largest U.S. city: 10,000 print circulation, 20,000 digital subscribers unless I’m reading this wrong?
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n... "The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case."
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What do folks think of Colorado Flyover is you get it? thecoloradoflyover.com/tuesday-sept...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2026 - The Colorado Flyover
Good Morning! On this day in 1879, a group of Ute warriors killed Nathan Meeker, Indian Agent of the White River Ute Reservation, and seven other members of
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Latest edition of Community Newswire for the Center for Community News at UVM is out, tracking developments in news-academic partnerships around the country and exploring how colleges and universities are supporting their students and local news ecosystems: mailchi.mp/communitynew...
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"A student journalist at the University of Texas at Dallas is suing university officials, arguing they violated his free speech rights by disciplining him over a disclaimer he attached to a student’s guest column." www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...
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UT Dallas sued by student journalist over alleged free speech violation
Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez argues UTD officials violated his free speech rights by disciplining him over a disclaimer he attached to a student's guest column about the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OpenAI has committed $10 million to fund the next cohort of the @lenfestinstitute.org's AI fellowship. So far, the program has embedded AI engineers in big metro newspapers across the U.S. Now, Lenfest is eyeing local TV news and newsrooms covering statehouses. www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/open...
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OpenAI doubles support for Lenfest’s AI and local news fellowships
With an additional $10 million in program funding, the Lenfest Institute will consider new applicants in local TV news and statewide public service journalism.
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“After a year of ‘pure hell,’ charges against a prominent journalist accused of starting a Utah wildfire have been dropped” www.sltrib.com/news/2026/09... “Scott Carrier denied starting the blaze, but he faced potential jail time based on a state investigation one expert said was deeply flawed.”
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After a year of ‘pure hell,’ charges against a prominent journalist accused of starting a Utah wildfire have been dropped
Prosecutors in San Juan County charged journalist Scott Carrier with starting a 2025 fire that burned nearly 18,000 acres. After he raised questions about the investigation, the charges have been drop...
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"I miss being a journalism major, but, for me, the newsroom experience I get in student media makes up for it." dailygamecock.com/article/colu...
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Column: Print journalism students aren't getting real experience anymore
Print journalism students are no longer getting "real world" newsroom experience in their senior semester.
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The group of 12 state prosecutors includes Colorado Democrat Phil Weiser who opted out of a key provision in the dropped antitrust lawsuit settlement involving a controversial editorial oversight board for the merged company: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-i...
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Colorado involved in media conglomeration settlement with Paramount, opts out of provision
The news behind the news in Colorado
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The @nytimes.com has made some mistakes over its 175-year history. Says who? Says the @nytimes.com. The great @adamnagourney.bsky.social recounts some of the paper's most bruising screwups -- and its commitment to correcting the record when we do get it wrong. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/b...
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Mistakes? We’ve Made a Few
For most of its life, The New York Times has tried to correct its errors. These efforts have not always been perfect.
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today at noon
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 24/09/2026
Interesting report by Linda Carpio Shapley, who's in our book, "What Works in Community News," and was on our @whatworks-nu.bsky.social podcast. "Students suggest solutions for declining media literacy and diminished trust in news." www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/stud...
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Students suggest solutions for declining media literacy and diminished trust in news - Editor and Publisher
What happens when high school students are asked to tackle declining media literacy and trust in news? They come up with solutions. In this month’s “Shoptalk” op-ed, journalist Linda Carpio Shapley re...
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Medicinal Colorado @medicolorado.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
what about "A coalition of business and city leaders" is grassroots? www.denvergazette.com/2026/09/24/g...
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Grassroots campaign fights negativity about Denver's economy
A group of business leaders push to change the narrative about Denver’s economy, stressing how it still has great fundamentals and plenty of opportunities.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Student papers have been doing phenomenal work in these fucked up times.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Does anyone else think it's odd that the local newspaper did two stories about an alleged case of voter fraud in a Mesa County, Colorado primary election (the home of Tina Peters), but the paper, along with multiple TV stations and CPR News, all don't say in which party's primary it occured?
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 21/09/2026
Good news: Half consume local news daily. Bad news: Only 14% will pay for it. "E&P Reports" chews over the latest from the @localnewsini.bsky.social. www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/good...
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Good news: Half consume local news daily. Bad news: Only 14% will pay for it. - Editor and Publisher
For the third consecutive year, Northwestern University's Medill School has tracked how Americans' local news habits are changing. The latest survey confirms that audience demand for local journalism ...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Holy moly this looks good. Setting my alarm for 12:01 am on September 27
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Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well this is very weird: Phil Anschutz's Gazette appears to have published a pro-Amendment 87 piece by sponsor Chris Kennedy earlier today, but the link now 404s and there's no trace of it on either the Denver or Colorado Springs Gazette websites.
Google results page showing cached version of "GUEST OPINION: Graduated tax pushes back on growing inequality" in the Colorado Springs Gazette404 page on Denvergazette.com
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 17/09/2026
A Microsoft exec believes AI systems built on the work of others will be seen as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and possibly the “largest theft of labor in human history," according to unredacted documents in a lawsuit by The Denver Post, The New York Times and other newspapers
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New docs in AI copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
“[M]illions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science w...
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They had one job with this news story. What is literally the question everyone will have? www.kkco11news.com/2026/09/17/g...
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Grand Junction man charged with voter fraud after allegedly forging father’s ballot signature
A 42-year-old local man could be charged with voter fraud after investigators say he submitted his father's mail-in ballot with his own signature during the primary election.
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 16/09/2026
In ‘Deserted,’ Nick Mathews explains how the local news crisis is devastating rural communities. I reviewed Mathews' book for @theartsfuse.bsky.social. artsfuse.org/334126/book-...
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Book Review: "Deserted" — How the Local News Crisis Is Devastating Rural Communities - The Arts Fuse
By Dan Kennedy
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 16/09/2026
Report for America opens applications for 2027–2028 host newsrooms. www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/repo...
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Report for America opens applications for 2027–2028 host newsrooms - Editor and Publisher
Report for America is now accepting applications from local news organizations interested in hosting a corps member beginning in July 2027. Applications are due Oct. 19.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A shaky anonymous source; a jab about a “hillbilly ambulance chaser” lawyer; a flub that allowed a skeptical editor’s email to become public; an internal text exchange raising doubts about the story: I looked into how the NYT lost its first US libel case in >50 years. www.cjr.org/news/how-the...
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How the New York Times lost a defamation trial.
An anonymous source, a “hillbilly ambulance chaser” text message, and the newsroom’s first defamation defeat in this country in more than fifty years.
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Eamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a subhed for the ages in the WSJ this morning: “Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others”
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred DHS from threatening to prosecute a man who harshly criticized ICE’s acting director following the fatal shootings in Minnesota. It violates his free speech, Judge Contreras ruled. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Victor Marx declined to answer my question on the topic and other reporters who have interviewed him have decided not to ask about it.
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"John Simpson spent 15 years reporting on crime in Britain before leaving journalism for a profession that requires a different relationship with disaster: clowning." www.npr.org/2026/09/07/n... According to NPR, "clowning is having a moment"
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From crime reporter to clown: Why clowning is having a moment
A crime reporter became a clown, leading us into a strange world of flops, reinvention and a scene that may or may not actually be booming.
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Americans Value Press Freedom but Differ on Its Limits" www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2... "Many Americans say some restrictions are OK when weighed against concerns about false information or national security"
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Americans Value Press Freedom but Differ on Its Limits
Many people in the U.S. say some press freedom restrictions are OK when weighed against concerns about false information or national security.
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A student journalist's email to the campus spokesperson made the school administrator feel it is was harmful to her safety: capitolfax.com/2026/09/14/s...
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
To what extent has he been spending the weekend at the home of the independent U.S. senator from Vermont?
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