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Dan Bloom

@danbl00m.bsky.social
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Audio producer, journalist, bon vivant.

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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
AOC endorsed El-Sayed in Michigan. ✒️ @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social 📰 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...
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Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Abdul El-Sayed in Crucial Michigan Senate Race
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The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
‘Crisis-level’: How Montgomery County schools are responding to the immigration crackdown www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
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How Montgomery County schools are responding to the immigration crackdown
County school leaders say they are trying to give children from immigrant families the help they need, but lack the resources to meet demand.
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
📺 Is it actually possible to control kids’ screen time? | Terms of Service #podcast with @claresduffy.bsky.social from @cnn.com
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
"Foreign-born workers are the lifeblood of paid caregiving in the United States."
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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Backlash Presidency Why Trump followed Obama & got impeached, in historical perspective with comparisons to Nixon after LBJ & Johnson after Lincoln New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with @juliaazari.bsky.social www.niskanencenter.org/the-backlash...
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The backlash presidency - Niskanen Center
Julia Azari finds that backlash presidents like Trump tend to follow transformative presidents like Barack Obama who represent changes to the American racial order.
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Axios @axios.com · 09/11/2025
BREAKING: Deal to end government shutdown in reach
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Deal to end government shutdown in reach
At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.
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Adam Cancryn @adamcancryn.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay. Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
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Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members 🖊️ @adamcancryn.bsky.social 🖥️ @cnn.com: www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
😱Open Enrollment is scary, but 💡Knowledge is power! 💪The ins & outs of your health insurance options with Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal of @kffhealthnews.org and @cnn.com’s @drsanjaygupta.bsky.social: megaphone.link/WMHY6026503042
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What You Need to Know for Open Enrollment by Chasing Life
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
‘They often mention their parents at the dinner table and then become sad and quiet. “They’re not the same,” Yurithsi said. As the days without their parents pass, their worries grow.’ 🖥️ @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/u...
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A Sunday morning in America: A family ripped apart by ICE before a birthday celebration | CNN
The Sunday morning dawned clear and blue, a perfect day for a birthday celebration. The Enciso family split up in their Chicago suburb – the parents and the eldest son were stopping at a store and the...
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“It’s an open door to a form of corruption, at the highest level, that Americans have never had to confront. But we must confront the dark possibilities it presents.” 🖊️ @jacobsilverman.com 📰 @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o...
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Opinion | Teapot Dome. Watergate. They’re Nothing Compared to This.
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🤒American healthcare is sick. With premiums rising, cuts loom, and millions risk losing coverage. And just in time for open enrollment, the government is shut down. 🙃 🗒 Elisabeth Rosenthal, author of 'An American Sickness' joins 🥼 @drsanjaygupta.bsky.social: megaphone.link/WMHY6862461350
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Why It Costs So Much to Get Sick by Chasing Life
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This was such a smart listener question to answer... 🥤Even if we're drinking from metal or glass, are the PLASTIC STRAWS in reusable water bottles safe? 🥼Paging @drsanjaygupta.bsky.social: megaphone.link/WMHY7195632231
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Are the Plastic Straws in Water Bottles Safe? by Chasing Life
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This smart @meredithshiner.com piece explains the zoomed out perspective Democrats are using to justify their shutdown fight despite lacking a clear off-ramp.
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🗣️ @janemayer.bsky.social: It's not just Russell Vought. There's a group of conservative thinkers and legal thinkers that rejected Watergate. @eosnos.bsky.social: Meaning what? JM: They felt that Nixon was unfairly brought down. 🎧 @newyorker.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... I remember one:
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
“We are in a time that demands political creativity and a willingness to take risks…pick fights.” 🗣️ @jamellebouie.net 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 📰 @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
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‘If You Don’t Want This Consequence, Don’t Vote for Republicans’
Podcast Episode · The Opinions · 10/04/2025 · 38m
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Episodes I wish I'd made: "How Rupert Murdoch remade the world" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... 🎧 Today, Explained @voxdotcom.bsky.social
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How Rupert Murdoch remade the world
Podcast Episode · Today, Explained · 09/29/2025 · 27m
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Suzan DelBene @suzandelbene.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Thanks to David Chalian for having me on to talk about how Democrats are fighting to protect affordable health care - despite GOP refusals to come to the table and get a deal done. www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...
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The Democrats' Plan to Win the Shutdown - CNN Political Briefing - Podcast on CNN Podcasts
With Washington bracing for a government shutdown, Democrats and Republicans are already trying to pin the blame on each other. As Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,…
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
As Chair of the DCCC (@electdemocrats.bsky.social) it's Rep. @suzandelbene.bsky.social's job to win back the House for Democrats. She tells @davidchalian.bsky.social her plan for the impending shutdown. Full pod: megaphone.link/WMHY7335667391
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
had a ton of fun working on this poll with @today.yougov.com about the songs that everybody knows the lyrics to, the generational anthems are super neat www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
New Jersey may have the sleeper political race of 2025. Sunday, David @wildstein.bsky.social of @newjerseyglobe.bsky.social co-hosts the first gubernatorial debate b/w @mikiesherrill.bsky.social & Jack Cittarelli. @davidchalian.bsky.social hosts him on @cnn.com Political Briefing 🎧 apple.co/4gA225V
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/09/2025
Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
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Israel killed 31 journalists in Yemen strike, press freedom group says
Last week’s attack was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East” ever documented by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded by CPJ, following the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines. Read more: cpj.org?p=522184
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Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists marks deadliest global attack in 16 years - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., September 19, 2025—Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers on September 10, signal that it...
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
U.S. Senate candidate from Michigan 🏈 @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social keeps popping up in creative ways. Hear her strategy on the @cnn.com Political Briefing podcast with 🎙️ @davidchalian.bsky.social: apple.co/3HYq8dQ
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Episodes I wish I’d made: The US is Southern Now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... @jonquilynhill.bsky.social @amandamull.bsky.social @voxdotcom.bsky.social
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The United States is Southern now
Podcast Episode · Explain It to Me · 09/07/2025 · 30m
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Reveal @revealnews.org · 06/09/2025
Along with his brother, Josue Trejo-Lopez was deported two weeks before his high school graduation. He’d been in the US since he was 10 years old, had no criminal record, and left behind his mom and little brother. 🎧 Hear his story on this week's episode of Reveal:
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As aggressive ICE raids rise, we look at the people being targeted and the families they’re leaving behind.
As the Trump administration aims to deport millions of people over the next four years, “Reveal” tells the human stories of those caught up in ICE raids.
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
📺 @cnn.com breaks down Israel's 'double-tap' attack on Gaza hospital, killing 20, including five journalists. www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/w... 🎤 @orencnn.bsky.social
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CNN breaks down Israel’s ‘double-tap’ attack on Gaza hospital, killing 20, including five journalists | CNN
Israel is facing fierce condemnation after carrying out back-to-back strikes on Gaza’s Nasser hospital, which killed five journalists as well as medical workers and others on August 25. CNN’s Oren Lie...
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
📺 @cnn.com breaks down Israel's 'double-tap' attack on Gaza hospital, killing 20, including five journalists. www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/w... 🎤 @orencnn.bsky.social
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CNN breaks down Israel’s ‘double-tap’ attack on Gaza hospital, killing 20, including five journalists | CNN
Israel is facing fierce condemnation after carrying out back-to-back strikes on Gaza’s Nasser hospital, which killed five journalists as well as medical workers and others on August 25. CNN’s Oren Lie...
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Is the president’s top “attack dog” MTG, Laura Loomer, or the grandson of Pulte Homes? 🖥️ @slate.com 🎙️ @maryharris.bsky.social 🎧 apple.co/465OSKa
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CNN @cnn.com · 25/08/2025
More than a dozen Palestinians, including journalists from multiple outlets, killed in Israeli strikes on a southern Gaza hospital, officials say cnn.it/3UMA8tl
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Listening, @ethanbrooks.bsky.social @theatlantic.com
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/08/2025
"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."
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A photographer’s view of ICE’s relentless courthouse arrests
The shattering of faith in America's goodness is the hardest part to watch.
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
💕 #Dating apps were supposed to make the process easier, so why do they feel more and more like work? 🤔 @faith-hill.bsky.social (@theatlantic.com) brings her personal experience and romance reporting to @audiecornish.bsky.social (@cnn.com) on The Assignment #podcast:
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CNN @cnn.com · 22/08/2025
Parts of Gaza are experiencing famine, according to a Friday report by a United Nations-backed initiative, which added it is expected to expand. During nearly two years of war, Israel has at times restricted or cut off the entry of aid to the ravaged enclave. cnn.it/469l0f1
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Alex Sujong Laughlin @alexlaughs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry. [gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...
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The Future Of Podcasting Is Here, And It Sucks | Defector
This week, Left Of Dial published its Essential Listening Poll, a compilation of the 100 best podcasts of all time, according to industry creators, writers, and scholars (Disclosure: I was invited to ...
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
“Oklahoma & Utah- two states w/very little homelessness. The story there is not that we're not forcing enough mentally ill people into treatment. The story is that there's a lot of cheap housing.” 🏠 NYU Prof Alex Barnard on Today, Explained @vox.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Trump evicts homeless people
Podcast Episode · Today, Explained · 08/21/2025 · 27m
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
With Moves on West Bank and Gaza City, Israel Defies Global Outcry 📰 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I wrote about Israel’s assassination of Anas al-Sharif, a brave journalist in Gaza, and the work of local journalists everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
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Opinion | He Was the Face and Voice of Gaza. Israel Assassinated Him.
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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 24/03/2025
going to have to expand this map pretty far north pretty soon so reposting now to get some more juice out of it lol. the MBT:
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
“I started considering leaving Gaza after it was clear to me, it was either I get to keep my story or my life.” From The @newyorker.com Radio Hour: A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza @mohamhawish.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza
Podcast Episode · The New Yorker Radio Hour · 08/18/2025 · 27m
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Robert Putnam (🎳 Alone) and Richard V. Reeves (Of Boys and Men) write that groups like Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Scouts, and 4-H were crucial to solving the “boy problem” at the turn of the last century and could be again. 📰 @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
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Opinion | Boy Crisis of 2025, Meet the ‘Boy Problem’ of the 1900s
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Got a story out today about something I’ve been fascinated by for years: From Atlanta hip hop to Bama RushTok, here’s how and why the South has taken such a firm grip on modern American culture. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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The United States Is Southern Now
From booming metros to culture-defining exports, the South has quietly become a demographic powerhouse and a battleground for the country’s identity.
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CNN @cnn.com · 16/08/2025
Long trusted by parents to safeguard children and trained to navigate sensitive topics, pediatricians are quietly initiating some of the hardest conversations of their careers: If you’re detained, who will care for your child?
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How pediatricians are quietly preparing immigrant families for the unthinkable: leaving their children behind | CNN
On a warm June day in Nashville, Briana cradled her one-year-old son in the pediatrician’s waiting room. She was there for his routine checkup, expecting to talk about vaccines and growth charts.
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
📰@nytimes.com: The Trauma of Childhood in Gaza | Over the past two years, tens of thousands of children in the territory have been killed, wounded or orphaned. Childhood as they once knew it has ceased to exist: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/w...
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The Trauma of Childhood in Gaza
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
(NBC News) - President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news. @ryanjreilly.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/08/2025
Israel must facilitate immediate and permanent access for the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to bring “a flood of aid into Gaza,” the foreign ministers of 27 nations said in a joint statement. wapo.st/4fLf28j
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Dan Bloom @danbl00m.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Loved this profile of an unsung community pillar:
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