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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/11/2025
It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th. Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
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Rev. Decatúr @dstarwriter59.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
My aunt died last night. Only humor can save me now. New on the ‘Stack: ‘Damn, No Invite: On Losing Family During the Holidays’ More: alishagordon.substack.com/p/damn-no-in...
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Damn, No Invite?
On Losing Family During the Holidays
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Politico @politico.com · 25/11/2025
20 states sue the Trump administration over cuts to homeless permanent housing funding
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20 states sue the Trump administration over cuts to homeless permanent housing funding
A coalition of attorneys general and governors filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration's new conditions and cuts to a Department of Housing and Urban Development permanent housing program.
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Rev. Decatúr @dstarwriter59.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
My aunt died last night. Only humor can save me now. New on the ‘Stack: ‘Damn, No Invite: On Losing Family During the Holidays’ More: alishagordon.substack.com/p/damn-no-in...
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On Losing Family During the Holidays
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/11/2025
When Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old from Texas, asked doctors about terminating her high-risk pregnancy to save her life, they assured her she had nothing to worry about. Then she died of preeclampsia.
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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/11/2025
Many parenting books and articles advise “It takes a village” and “Don’t be afraid to ask for help.” The problem is, @olgakhazan.bsky.social writes, “I didn’t have a village,” and many other moms don’t either:
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The Most Useless Piece of Parenting Advice
The problem with telling moms “It takes a village”
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
40 billion to Argentina. 40 billion.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/11/2025
If the Trump administration wants more babies, it shouldn’t let poor families go hungry
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If the Trump administration wants more babies, it shouldn’t let poor families go hungry
Denying food and health benefits to single moms doesn't exactly scream: "pro-natalism."
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
In a shocking reversal, Trump said federal food benefits won’t be distributed during the shutdown, despite a court order
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Trump Says He’ll Defy Court Order And Won’t Give Out SNAP Benefits
The president appears to want to ignore a court order to pay the benefits.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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The Not Chaotic Cherub 😇 @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 02/11/2025
Me seeing Adams in the club vs me seeing Mamdani in the club
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
In this election, the people have two separate but equally important choices: a city they can afford or the billionaire-backed politics of the past. Our new ad just aired during Law & Order.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
“If you can’t get a vote on your record, don’t play us against each other.” I’m grateful for the Rev. Sharpton’s powerful words of unity this morning and against the cynical politics of fear and division.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/11/2025
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to continue paying for food stamps during the government shutdown. But it is unclear if or when food stamps will soon reach those who rely on them to purchase groceries. Here’s what we know. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...
A headline reads: "What Is Happening With SNAP Benefits During The Shutdown?" In the foreground, several yellow and green apples are stacked. In the blurred background, grocery shelves with canned goods are visible. Photo by Marco Postigo Storel for The New York Times.
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Politico @politico.com · 01/11/2025
Mamdani targets Cuomo’s Black base in final days of campaign
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Mamdani targets Cuomo’s Black base in final days of campaign
The frontrunner made appearances with Al Sharpton and Letitia James, and spoke with Barack Obama, on Saturday.
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Rev. Decatúr @dstarwriter59.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...
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Two federal judges require Trump administration tap into emergency funds to partially cover food stamp benefits | CNN Politics
Two federal judges said Friday that the Trump administration must tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to at least partially cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in N...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Nobel peace prize winner: give war a chance
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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Says Maduro’s Time Is Up in Venezuela
María Corina Machado, the latest Nobel Peace Prize recipient, said the Venezuelan opposition has exhausted all of its efforts over the last 26 years. In her view, the country’s authoritarian leader, N...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/10/2025
Due to the ongoing government shutdown, SNAP is set to run out of money for the first time in its history. “It’s not that the administration can’t pay up” to fill the gap—“it’s that it has chosen not to,” @willgottsegen.com argues in The Atlantic Daily.
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The Deadline for a Major Shutdown Casualty
Roughly 42 million Americans may not get their SNAP benefits on Saturday.
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Rev. Decatúr @dstarwriter59.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New on Substack: "I Don't Be Knowing" and Other Declarations
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'I Don't Be Knowing' and Other Declarations
What the inner self has to say in her own words.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 28/10/2025
More on - How connected Americans feel to their neighbors: www.pewresearch.org/... - Americans’ trust in one another: www.pewresearch.org/... - Americans’ most common source of local news:
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How connected do Americans feel to their neighbors?
When it comes to trust, 44% of adults say they trust all or most of the people in their neighborhood.
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Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
It isn’t just illegal. It’s straight up unconstitutional for Trump to threaten a third term. Threatening the rights of citizens to vote, demolishing the East wing of the White House like he owns it… These aren’t Trump’s decisions to make. They aren’t the decisions of any POTUS!
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 20/10/2025
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works (15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.
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Rev. Decatúr @dstarwriter59.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
It took 3-4 different police departments being contacted before airport police knew ol’ boy was up there planning to shoot up the place. That’s 3-4 too damn many.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21/10/2025
Using an AI-generated video of himself, Donald Trump sought “to mock and smear millions of Americans, literally depicting them covered in excrement, precisely so that none of his own supporters would want to join them,” @anneapplebaum argues:
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Why Trump Turned to the Sewer
The president’s disturbing, excremental propaganda campaign.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Billy Joe Cagle, of Cartersville, Georgia, had described his plan to shoot up the world’s busiest airport on a social media livestream, authorities said
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Man who planned to shoot up Atlanta's airport is arrested in a terminal following a tip, police say
Police have arrested a man accused of threatening to open fire at the world’s busiest airport in Atlanta and say an assault rifle was found in his car.
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Colby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
New w/ @bencasselman.bsky.social: Wealthy Americans, buoyed by a booming stock market, are spending freely. Lower-income households, stung by inflation and a slowing labor market, are pulling back www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b... @nytimes.com
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Congresswoman Lisa McClain’s appearance on CNN's The Situation Room was a bit of a car crash.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 07/10/2025
“If you are an expansionist Israeli government, you don't want peace with the Palestinians… You don't want peace in the region.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social joins ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored’ to explain how Netanyahu supports the idea of a ‘Greater Israel,’ occupying more territory illegally.
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Rev. Decatúr @dstarwriter59.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Girl, stressing us TF out!! Don't do this again!
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Rev. Decatúr @dstarwriter59.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This is my seminary classmate. He's always been about that life. This some bullshit.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.
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Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 07/10/2025
Yeah, no. The law is clear: federal workers must receive back pay. AND I have a bill to ensure federal contractors get it as well.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
In Their Own Words: Asian Immigrants’ Experiences Navigating Language Barriers in the United States www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnic…
Chart showing that roughly half of recently arrived Asian immigrants in the U.S. speak English proficiently
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
A shameful fact which tells its own story.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
A few years ago, my team looked at household sizes around the world. The household size experienced by the average person ranged from 2.7 people (in Germany) to 13.8 people (in Gambia). www.pewresearch.org/religion/201...
Map shows variation in the average household size experienced by people in 130 countries around the world.
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Big Weight Connichameleon @connichameleon.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Cardi did good. Start at 3:46:54. www.youtube.com/live/5qSBZBz...
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Global Citizen Festival 2025
YouTube video by Global Citizen
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2025
The Comey indictment "is an indication of how thoroughly Trump has been able to corrupt" the Justice Department, Quinta Jurecic writes. "In any other political moment, this would be obviously impeachable conduct": theatln.tc/dlP4mhCt
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2025
Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found. More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022. (Published Jan. 2024)
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How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet
Scammers have duped consumers out of more than $1 billion by exploiting Walmart’s lax security. The company has resisted taking responsibility while breaking promises to regulators and skimping on tra...
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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
somebody's granddaddy came back 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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RevTitiKym @revtitikym.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
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Why Rich People Don’t Cover Their Windows
An unexpected status symbol has become a fixture of high-end homes.
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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 27/09/2025
"Historians hurriedly photograph national park signs at risk of removal" www.sfgate.com/national-par...
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Historians hurriedly photograph national park signs at risk of removal
The project has garnered more than 10,000 submissions from concerned visitors.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 26/09/2025
Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department. Violent crime is at a 50-year low. This is amazing. www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...
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Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.
As of Monday, the city has seen a 43% decrease in homicides compared to this time last year. And violent crime has reached a 50-year low.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.
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Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Lindsay Lee Wallace @lindsayleewallace.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
For @motherjones.com, I wrote about the political pressure & coercion faced by teachers & staff at Success Academy. "They explicitly started with naming Mamdani and how he is the villain in our story," one teacher told me. "It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate."
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The charter school pressuring teachers to get involved in politics
“It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate," one Success Academy educator said.
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NPR @npr.org · 26/09/2025
Federal regulators say Amazon has agreed to pay a historic sum to resolve their allegations that its web designs manipulated millions of people into paying for Prime subscriptions, which were also purposefully hard to cancel. Affected shoppers are slated to receive payouts.
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Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle U.S. lawsuit that it 'tricked' people into Prime
Federal regulators say Amazon has agreed to pay a historic sum to resolve their allegations that its web designs manipulated millions of people into paying for Prime subscriptions, which were also purposefully hard to cancel. Affected shoppers are slated to receive payouts.
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