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Caroline Thew She/They

@emeraldaspects.bsky.social
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Disabled writer, artist, photographer living in the wilds of western MD. I sometimes stream video games or fiber art. www.linktr.ee/EmeraldAspects

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 5h
An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 3h
Maryland just closed my family's SNAP case for not returning a form they never gave me. September 25: the state emails me that a review form is waiting in my benefits portal. I log in. Nothing. I check again. Nothing. I check for ten days. Nothing. 🧵
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h
The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19h
NEW: Following our investigation with @readfrontier.bsky.social, an Oklahoma oil company has plugged a well that was potentially leaking toxic waste. We revealed that state regulators had approved the well in violation of rules meant to protect public drinking water.
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Oklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City’s Drinking Water
The Frontier and ProPublica revealed that state regulators had approved the well in Enid, Oklahoma, in violation of rules meant to protect municipal groundwater. Now the well is permanently shut down.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
UPDATED: The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has now resulted in more than 83,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal. We are continuing to track the increase in these cases:
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Tracking the Historic Rise of Habeas Cases Filed by Detained Immigrants
ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
50 years from Goldwater, Scott, & Rhodes to this guy & this position, & yet somehow we've spent the last decade talking about "polarization" as the problem & how it is <checks notes> the Democrats who have moved further from the political center than the now-far right authoritarian party.
Hugh Scott, Barry Goldwater, John Rhodes, 1973
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
Reporter @maxblau.bsky.social spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is there any way to find out whether the produce he buys at the grocery store comes from farms with a record of mistreating workers?
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Do My Grocery Store Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed?
Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is the produce he buys at the grocery store part of the problem?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
It has been 118 years since the Supreme Court ruled the federal government owes tribes water, but Native American communities in northern Arizona are still fighting for their rights to the Colorado River. (Published June)
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Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely the growing towns around Phoenix.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
A tiny bit of gentle advice for the men: before you try to explain or pontificate anything about the Cornell 7 to a woman, please remember chances are she’s already an expert 🙏🏻
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
NEW: The Tompkins County DA refused to consider additional evidence in the Cornell case. It's the whole damn system. I'm glad Letitia James is on it now. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 03/10/2026
I don’t know. I don’t fucking know. Right now I just think it’s more important to keep things focused on how systemically fucked it is that someone can admit to sexual abuse and deal with only a semester suspension versus whether a guy should still be able to make online content without pushback
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026
If data centres have an easier time connecting to the grid rather than using off-grid gas, that doesn't make their climate impacts immediately zero or even beneficial somehow? Increasing grid demand still predominantly leads to worse climate impacts in the US.... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Rob Gramlich, president of the consulting firm Grid Strategies LLC, said that although the package is technology neutral — meaning it doesn’t favor specific types of energy generation — it “enables a clean energy future” that’s “just going to be very hard to get” otherwise.

Consider data centers. One way to power them quickly is to build gas infrastructure on site. “This bill would open up a lot more options,” Gramlich said, adding that there are many states, utilities and technology companies looking to clean up their power supply.
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Christopher Street Project @christopherstreet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy LGBTQ+ History Month! Trans people have always existed across cultures, across countries, across time. We’re not going anywhere. We’re celebrating our ancestors who came before us, and working on being good ancestors for future generations.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
Republicans are pulling money out of North Carolina to defend KANSAS. That’s bleak af for them and I Iove it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
As the Republicans try to hold their majority, the Senate Leadership Fund is diverting resources to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Turnabout is fair play... grab 'em by the paycheck.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
NEW: The Times has obtained the Cornell Title IX investigative documents. :: CONTENT WARNING :: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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How a Cornell Student Went From Shame to Action (Gift Article)
The woman known as “Jane Doe” was initially embarrassed about what happened at a fraternity party in 2024, but soon concluded: “I was assaulted.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
For the Tompkins County DA to go from "I recognize the reality that it can take years of therapy & healing for victims of sexual assaults to fully process & understand what happened to them" to "the evidence did not support the filing of criminal charges was legally correct" makes my blood boil. 1/
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
Unelected Republicans in Georgia are asking Todd Blanche to declare their voting machines illegal. DOJ has no authority to interfere with state-run elections, but I doubt that will stop them from trying. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal
The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
Days after a loss of hundreds microbetting at a Yankees game, DraftKings sent a notice to our reporter: “Took a loss? Now take a beat.” Then came a promotion: A 20% profit BOOST on bets of up to $250 for an unlimited number of live bets on baseball plate appearances. Full story: propub.li/4xUdksA
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
Records obtained by ProPublica show Georgia is spending far more on lethal injections than it was in the past. “You wouldn’t have to pay this much money if the lethal injection process was an acceptable one,” a legal expert said.
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This State Is Spending More on Lethal Injections. A Law Tries to Keep the Details Secret.
As Georgia plans for its first execution in two years, a trove of records provides us with new information — and raises new questions — about the state’s lethal injection process.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026
“I kept begging for a divorce, and he’d threaten to kill my children.” “I was in a very abusive, sick relationship.” These women were imprisoned for crimes that stemmed from their abuse. A new law offered them a second chance. (Published Feb. w/ @nytimes.com)
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They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom.
An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.social
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He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
MS NOW asked me if Trump is the bottom for American politics. He isn't. If we win in 2026 and 2028 and don't use that power to make working people's lives better, we're setting the table for President Nick Fuentes or worse.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That expression you have while witnessing spectacular incompetence.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/09/2026
Well it hadn't occurred to me until just now, but "Arctic Frost" is a variety of orange. Marsha Blackburn is suing Jack Smith over her toll record subpoena and is accusing Smith of mocking Trump by calling the probe "Arctic Frost." I kind of hope that's true. agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2015/06/10/a...
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Arctic Frost satsuma mandarin hybrid named new Texas Superstar - AgriLife Today
Satsuma Arctic Frost is the most cold-hardy satsuma hybrid tested so far, having survived temperatures as low as 9 degrees.
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Caroline Thew She/They @emeraldaspects.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oofda. @muellershewrote.com ma’am why are you dating us like this on the main feed?
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You don’t own your career. They rent you. You don’t own your car. They let you drive. You don’t own your water, energy & coms. You are a slave. And now your home will be rental cage with 24/7 surveillance. WE told everyone. WE were mocked. IF you want the gloves off in ‘28, I’m the guy - Hart🇺🇸💙
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Senator Josh Hawley, widely expected to run for president in 2028, just called on Congress to go even further in banning abortion nationwide.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEWS: A federal judge just ruled that Trump's Justice Department illegally withheld Violence Against Women Act grants from more than two dozen domestic violence and sexual assault groups to force them into political loyalty tests.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The VERY conservative 11th Circuit unanimously refused to block the lower court's sanctions order against the DOJ in the Trump v IRS (that resulted in the slush fund) case.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Redundancy only works if you keep it. WSSC took one of its largest plant's two power feeds down and kept running with no fallback. The other feed failed today, and Pepco says WSSC's own equipment caused it. That wasn't bad luck. It was a decision, and whoever made it should lose their job.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The only group in America doing socialism, is the American government under Donald Trump.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Caroline Thew She/They @emeraldaspects.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
Tread on me, daddy.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No amount of spin will save Ken Paxton from offering a child rapist one day in jail. The judge forced it to 60, and the guy still walked out in 29. He's unfit to serve in the Senate.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
8 Trump prosecutors just quit this case lulz
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: The Tompkins County DA is re-opening the criminal investigation into the Cornell 7. abcnews.com/US/district-...
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
At least 79 kids have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s immigration crackdown. In most cases, they were going about their days when officers shot chemical munitions near their homes and schools and into their cars. (Published May)
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Kids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences.
In several cities, judges have chastised federal immigration officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026
CORRECTION: wrong group of rapists. The essayists are the Cornell rapists. These are the hockey player rapists. Sorry for the confusion 🥴
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Caroline Thew She/They @emeraldaspects.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ll believe it when I see it. Hakeem “AIPAC Shakur” Jeffries is a fascist collaborator as is Chuckles Schumer.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026
Punxsutawney Jill is sticking her head out a little early this cycle.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
On September 9 or 10, someone staged this protest at the Dallas Fort Worth airport ahead of the GOP midterm convention. Does anyone know which organization was behind it? We would love to speak with them. Please share widely!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
It was a rare federal dataset that captured human emotions. Consumers could have their complaints about American businesses published for all to see. For years, corporations have critiqued the system. Now the narratives are no longer being published.
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The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly Move
Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped pu...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Advocates say the delays mean people are left waiting in prisonlike detention facilities that are riddled with allegations about spoiled food, beatings and medical neglect. “People are left hungry,” said the wife of a detainee in Mississippi.
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These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What the Cornell administration decided to do here is unconscionable — and I say that as someone with deep, personal ties to both Cornell and Ithaca. There must be justice and accountability.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Having served on Student Conduct and Honor Court adjudicating organizational misconduct while in college, I know what standard disciplinary accountability looks like. We routinely handed down far stiffer penalties for significantly minor infractions. 🧵
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/09/2026
Happy Birthday to the guy who wishes all of us a happy birthday! @markhamillofficial.bsky.social 🎂
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