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Emily Flitter

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Bloomberg News reporter writing about inequality in finance, housing and corporate America. Author: THE WHITE WALL, ‘22. Bird-noticer, Floridian, Rangers hockey fan forever.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Casey Seiler @caseyseiler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Chris Churchill looks at the legacy of the corruption indictments that rocked the Cuomo administration a decade ago. The continued wobbliness of federal anti-corruption statutes, he notes, remains a feature and not a bug of the system for the elected officials who could fix it.
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Churchill: Indictments that rocked Cuomo and Albany aged poorly
The Supreme Court made Preet Bharara look less like a crusader for justice and more like an overzealous prosecutor.
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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SO much going on here about parenting and living in America: medical insurance, employment, grief, depression, online mobs, baseball.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/09/2026
A Post analysis found that immigration judges have ordered more than 440,000 asylum seekers removed during President Trump’s first 19 months back in office — more than during the previous eight years combined. wapo.st/4yZlKjy
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the second time this week I’ll be on @kcbsradio.bsky.social at 12:30PT/3:30ET — this afternoon it’s to talk about the surprising jump in middle-income people missing rent payments. Please tune in!
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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Breaking: CNN, MS Now, Politico have moved for an emergency hearing before Judge Kelly, noting reporters for their orgs were turned away from WH this morning
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Politico says one of its reporters was barred from the White House after a court ruling restored access www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
> @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SCOOP: Justifying its ban of Politico, the White House said the news outlet used anonymous quotes from a "senior administration official." But those quotes were provided to Politico and other outlets by the White House during a background briefing. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The White House cited anonymous quotes in Politico ban. It was the source.
In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026
A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of not receiving proper care for his diabetes is the third detainee in less than six months to die at a U.S.
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Costa Rican man complained of lack of care for diabetes before his death in ICE custody, family says
A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of not receiving proper care for his diabetes is the third detainee in less than six months to die at a U.S.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2006 sex crime in New York.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
".. The 30-year mortgage rate was last above 7% in late January 2025, days into Trump's second term." @reuters.com $XHB www.reuters.com/business/us-...
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US 30-year mortgage rate tops 7%, hits 2-year high
The rate on the most popular US home loan rose last week to its highest in more ‌than two years and pierced the 7% level for the first time since the first week of President Donald Trump's term, after...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad
Stanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement.
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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WAPO EXCLUSIVE -- Sources: Architect McCrery "withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures." @Blaskey_S @jocwapo www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was led to believe that this administration was concerned about debanking?
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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As per usual, I'm jealous of a story Emily wrote.
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: The Trump administration has been trying to squeeze undocumented people out of the banking system. There are signs that it’s working (gift link) ⬇️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Changing How Undocumented People Bank
In the months since the Trump administration embarked on America’s most sweeping immigration crackdown in decades, the connections between immigrant families and lenders are coming loose, according to...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
WaPo statement: @washingtonpost.com
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.” www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21/09/2026
As many of the articles on this point out, there's a reverse precedent here. Back in 2009, when the Obama White House sought to exclude Fox from a group of interviews with then-TARP administrator, the TV networks revolted in solidarity. This is that solidarity coming full circle.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Empty pews, growing needs: Haitian pastors in Miami face fallout after end of TPs www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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Empty pews, growing needs: Haitian pastors in Miami face fallout after end of TPS
As TPS crisis continues, Haitian pastors see falling membership, loss of morale among congregants
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#Florida man goes back to work at 93. Like a lot of seniors, he's facing financial fragility in retirement amid soaring housing, food, utility and medical costs. www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/l...
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At 93, this Sarasota man went back to work. Here's why. | Exclusive
Stewart Ogilby, 93, of Sarasota is like millions of seniors across the country who are facing financial fragility in retirement amid raging inflation.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21/09/2026
Fascinating explainer from the NYTimes today — and not just because it cites RNS (thanks!). Tucked in here is one of the most succinct assessments* of mainline Protestantism's historic US political role I've seen this cycle — an important this for folks to grasp. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/m...
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Can Democrats Reclaim the Christian Moral High Ground?
A surprising number of pastors are running as Democrats this year, challenging Americans’ assumptions about politics and faith.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Full statement now out by EPD "Officers are conducting a video canvass, preserving available body-worn-camera and in-car video, and collecting photographs and video from witnesses and community members." content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ILE...
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
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Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: MS NOW, CNN and Politico are suing Trump and top administration officials over White House journalist ban
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MS NOW, CNN and Politico sue Trump and senior officials over White House press ban
The lawsuit alleges the president violated the First Amendment by blocking reporters’ access to the White House.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 21/09/2026
Our reporters spent the past year and some months investigating deaths along the "virtual wall" of the southern border. Their investigation reveals that a humanitarian crisis at the border has unfolded in view of the government’s own cameras: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1...
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The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It feels like every 20-something has a vape, well, because — www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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People Hooked on Vapes Try a New Way to Quit: Cigarettes
Vaping was supposed to help people ease nicotine addiction. That hasn’t worked out.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fascinating piece about the conversion of Manhattan’s Flatiron Building into residential units (average price $19 million) — with this bit I’d never heard before. Gift link below
Designed by Daniel Burnham and built in 1902 as a construction company’s headquarters at the triangle where Fifth Avenue intersects Broadway, the Flatiron captured the popular imagination almost from the start. Alfred Stieglitz photographed the prow in the fog. Childe Hassam painted it in winter. Postcards from the first decades of the 20th century show women’s skirts lifting in the wind tunnel at the building’s base, an accident of air pressure that popularized one of the era’s more durable scraps of slang: “23 skidoo.” (That’s what police told the men loitering at the corner of 23rd Street for the view, or so it goes.) Andrew Dolkart, who teaches historic preservation at Columbia University and once worked at the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, calls the steel-framed Beaux Arts tower the first building to become a symbol of New York: “It became famous in both high culture and low.”
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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The Next Life of an Iconic New York Skyscraper Is 37 Luxury Homes
The office-to-residential conversion of the Flatiron Building restored a symbol cherished by the public even as it changed its use.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Incredible reporting.
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Penelope Wang @pennywriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NPR dug into the upside-down world of FEMA flood insurance in coastal areas, and found many homeowners have no financial choice but to let their homes collapse. www.npr.org/2026/09/17/n...
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People's houses are collapsing into the ocean. FEMA gives them no other option
Waterfront homes are collapsing along the coast. Homeowners generally have plenty of warning before their house buckles. So why aren't most houses removed, or at least emptied, before they fall?
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Arizona Star is doing stand-out reporting on the plight of Ahmed Soliman, who grew up in Phoenix (since he was 4). ICE paid $7.5 million to Equatorial Guinea, a repressive dictatorship with a history of torture, to send him and others there. Now he's been tortured. 1/2 tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Six key points on the ‘retaliatory’ arrest of a Phoenix man deported to Africa
The Arizona Daily Star has been reporting on the plight of dozens of people imprisoned at a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, including one man who grew up in Phoenix,
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On the transparency front, as I noted in my first post, HHS didn't provide access to nomination/application materials. A Federal Register notice said those materials would be available, but they weren't when I sought them. I filed FOIA requests that haven't been fulfilled. NYT and I sued last month.
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Complaint – #1 in The New York Times Company v. Department of Health and Human Services (S.D.N.Y., 1:26-cv-07304) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against Department of Health and Human Services. (Filing Fee $ 405.00, Receipt Number ANYSDC-33348625)Document filed by The New York Times Company, Maggie Astor..(McCraw, David) (Entered: 08...
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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 17/09/2026
Just saying, there's a) no agreement filed with the SEC yet, b) as this story points out, it is currently just an MoU, and c) Lucid's own press release says Bolt "aims to" deploy 25k. No $$ has changed hands here yet, no actual order placed, no autonomy partner(s) named.
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Overheard in the East Village this week: Monday night, a young woman telling friends “he actually looked at me as I was getting into his bed and said ‘it just occurred to me that I might not be attracted to you…’” This morning, a guy saying to his nodding buddy “We get the society we deserve…’
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026
NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16/09/2026
NEW: Trump claims he's “done more for religion than any other president." But 81 religious plaintiffs (including clergy and entire denominations) have filed 21 lawsuits challenging his immigration policies since Jan 2025, most alleging religious freedom violations. religionnews.com/2026/09/16/r...
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RNS tracked the religious lawsuits against Trump’s immigration policies. Here’s what we found.
(RNS) — Eighty religious plaintiffs from 11 major faith traditions have joined lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s immigration policies, according a tracker developed by RNS with the Law, ...
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Liam Denning @liamdenning.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
California’s utilities are becoming uninvestable. Drastic change is needed @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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California’s Electric Utilities Are Becoming Uninvestable
Climate change has lengthened California’s wildfire season by several months. The state’s wildfire politics season, meanwhile, has become perpetual. Sacramento just botched another opportunity to brin...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 16/09/2026
There’s a “toxic stew” driving up US bond yields, and inflation is just one ingredient.
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What’s Inside the Bond Market’s ‘Toxic Stew’
Inflation, war, AI and the national debt are all ingredients driving up yields.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 15/09/2026
Workers handed “death sentences” while grinding kitchen countertops are seeking billions in legal damages. Congress is taking steps to immunize the slab manufacturers.
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‘Death Sentences’: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers
Hundreds of workers who’ve contracted silicosis are suing the artificial stone industry for billions. While California weighs a ban on fabricating the product, the manufacturers’ defenders in Congress are trying to ban the lawsuits.
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This news story became a nightmare for me last night. My brain combined it with the 9/11 anniversary to create a scene in which a MiG appeared over NYC & a guy near me on the street explained that he’d programmed it to drop a bomb and that we’d all need to jump into the East River in a few seconds
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10/09/2026
A prosecutor brought in to lead a DOJ investigation of President Trump's foes tells the AP he has resigned.
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Prosecutor brought in to lead investigation of Trump foes tells AP that he has resigned his position
An ally of President Donald Trump says he has resigned from his post leading a Justice Department investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against the Republican president.
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Tibetans in the worst affected areas were relocated to "tightly controlled holding areas." "Their communications with the outside world have been extremely limited and curtailed," Fioresi said, adding that it hampers local rescue efforts….”
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