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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
NEW: Oregon’s top housing official failed to report her husband’s involvement with projects that her agency funds. She disclosed this only after we asked. “In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need ProPublica for this kind of thing,” a former official said.
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Oregon Housing Director Failed to Report Husband’s Related Business Interests
Andrea Bell, executive director of Oregon Housing and Community Services, filed amended state ethics paperwork after ProPublica asked about her husband’s work at a firm that’s consulted on projects re...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.
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Librarian Capital @librariancapital.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
OMG. "F-35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin $LMT manages the program’s overall supply chain and uses commercial shipping providers to transport parts"
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Hill investigates after F-35 parts diverted to Hong Kong
The incident raises the possibility that top secret weapons technology may have been exposed to a foreign adversary — including China.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
its odd that the political media hounds dems to constantly comment on every random statement hasan piker makes but don't do the same for Republicans of the top GOP megadonor two cycles in a row
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
bookmark for your next fight newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Key...
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 09/09/2026
Google Maps Shrugs, Renames Lake Union to Lake Confederacy: tinyurl.com/54sx3nm
Google Map of Seattle showing Lake Union renamed to Lake Confederacy
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Sarah’s book is jaw-dropping, and Meta has been pulling this clown shit for over a year. As the article points out, it’s clearly a personal vendetta rather than good crisis comms. Too bad the Streisand Effect exists!
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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My brother, if we win the Democratic Party primaries then we ARE the Democratic Party
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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 23/08/2026
I am very curious how The New York Times, our paper of record, arrived at the claim, in a reported piece, that “many “ leading activists in DSA do not pay rent. If you can believe it, Jeremy Peters’ article offers no further details on this. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/n...
When The New York Times this month profiled Mr. Gordillo, who studied fine arts at Yale, the reporter, as is standard practice, asked the subject where he lived.

The question was relevant, in part, because many of the high-profile activists are the offspring of affluent parents who have not experienced working class life and basic financial pressures, like paying rent.
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Tracey Tully @traceytully.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We Tried to Cover a Tom Kean Campaign Event. Someone Called the Police. Yes, I’m the “nice, little reporter.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/n...
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We Tried to Cover a Tom Kean Campaign Event. Someone Called the Police. (Gift Article)
Representative Thomas Kean Jr. was joined Friday on the campaign trail by House Speaker Mike Johnson. An aide to Mr. Kean blocked a reporter’s entry. Then the police were called.
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Kathleen Geier @kathygee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jamelle Bouie's recent YT video is an excellent takedown of exactly this genre of bullshit. youtu.be/46tpqFxfomI?... I highly, highly recommend following Jamelle on his YT channel, Takes. Along with his NYT column, it's one of the essential guides to understanding these awful times.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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crabbycamper.bsky.social @crabbycamper.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says i...
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Turn up the sound to get a sense of how substantial that falling piece is.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
When your toddler does this on the drive home, you gently pull your car into the garage, turn off the ignition and wait as long as you have to
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
i feel like the "story" of "Tilly Norwood", in terms of the newsworthy thing that's happening, would be a behind-the-scenes report on the company's PR team that keeps getting these articles placed in major news outlets and keeps getting them written with the company's preferred framing.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
It has been overcast since he arrived
Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is a really interesting idea. And we should 100% think big going forward.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/05/2026
Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. (Published 2021)
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Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank
Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Stuff like this is so depressing. Someone sacrificing their enjoyment of life, time, and money to do activism but the activism is for something bad (preventing housing)
Jennifer Godfrey sat in the audience at Benaroya Hall watching two young women she had coached play classical bass. While the strains of Copland, Mozart and Haydn filled the hall that day in February 2025, she was distracted and troubled.

On her phone, she furiously checked incoming environmental appeals contesting the biggest proposed reshaping of Seattle in the city’s modern history.

A musician with the Seattle Symphony, Godfrey is a self-described science nerd. And what she read in the hundreds of documents prepared for the One Seattle Comprehensive Plan left her worried about the future of trees, streams, salmon and orca.

And so, at the last minute — on her phone — she appealed the Final Environmental Impact Statement to the city hearing examiner last year. With her phone dying, she then called the Hearing Examiner’s Office to make sure she properly paid the required $85 fee.
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thealexholden.bsky.social @thealexholden.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
This paragraph gives away the whole bit. “The council COULD take the position” it’s not a position! It’s science! These are facts! “Save the whales” is such smoke and mirrors bullshit and as usual the Times is being taken for a ride.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/05/2026
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Eligible to file a claim based on the stated criteria by Todd Blanche, to be paid out of Trump’s theft of $1.8 billion of your money.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Hegemon behavior is apparently crying to the mods when people don't do what you tell them
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It really is inexcusable that the NYT maintains a "free speech on campus" reporter who DOESN'T COVER OFFICIAL, POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED CENSORSHIP OF SPEECH ON CAMPUS. At some point you're actively deceiving the public, no?
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I know I'm always harping on about this but it really is corrosive to public life that our major media institutions are run by people who do not know how evidence works and cannot distinguish between a real social trend and something their algorithm feeds them on tiktok.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 10/04/2026
how much money does the marine corps lose
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 03/04/2026
Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.
Sasha Issenberg @sissenberg.4h
Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for?
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Attack on Iran
THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2026
NEWS ANALYSIS
By STEVEN ERLANGER
A North American Treaty Organization Without America?
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chickentendielife.bsky.social @chickentendielife.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Not great the amount of news organizations that appear to do basically no confirmation on their own before sharing out a story based on a tweet from the Nazi site!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Grift all the way down
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crabbycamper.bsky.social @crabbycamper.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Lebanon condemns ‘blatant war crime’ after Israel kills three journalists
Israeli military says primary target, killed in a missile strike far from the frontlines, was a Hezbollah ‘terrorist’
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 20/03/2026
As Americans face a housing crisis, this development shows how communal living can bring homeownership within reach – and foster connection
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Meet the Seattle families living communally to bring down costs – in pictures
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crabbycamper.bsky.social @crabbycamper.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating
Exclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2026
How segregated are your local private schools? With our database, look up the demographics of private schools across the country and see how they compare to the public schools nearby.
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Private School Demographics — ProPublica
Look up the demographics of private schools across the country and see how they compare to the public schools nearby.
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crabbycamper.bsky.social @crabbycamper.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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crabbycamper.bsky.social @crabbycamper.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Another ‘millionaires tax’ finds Seattle is far richer than anyone knew
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson last week described the city as “filthy rich.” Impolitic as that may be, returns from a new tax on high pay packages show she’s not wrong.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I have been trying to explain what a journalist is, what they do, and why, and why they are different from talking heads, pundits, influencers, commentators, activists and politicians. This is a journalist.
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K.H.I. @sheridesabike.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
One of the fuller portraits of Katie Wilson’s experience and campaign. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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How an ‘unknown’ organizer became Seattle’s next mayor: ‘People want to see themselves reflected in office’
Katie Wilson’s rise from transit campaigner to city hall shows how trust, volunteers and years of organizing overcame big-money politics
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