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Eric Umansky

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Editor-at-Large @ProPublica. I ❤️ journalism and good trouble. Tips/ideas: eric.umansky@propublica.org and securely on Signal EricUmansky.04. More about me: www.propublica.org/people/eric-uman…

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h
GATES: “.. I almost can’t believe you’re asking that.” @ezraklein.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 6h
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18h
You know that scene in The Godfather where Michael goes to the trattoria bathroom, retrieves a pistol, and shoots those 2 guys in the head? This is 100X better. Maybe more.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 17h
And there is Jack Smith. At game in Maryland. PULITZER.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
July 31: Susan Collins "says that by the end of August, body-worn cameras will be deployed nationwide and worn by all ICE agents in the field."
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What we already know about the latest ICE shooting: Agents drove into Wilber Rafael Garces Perez’s car An agent fired at Garces Perez 4 times--while he was still in the car The agents didn't give Garces Perez immediate medical attention They didn't have body-cams www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
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Videos Reveal New Details About ICE Shooting in Austin
A video analysis finds that a federal immigration officer was standing to the side of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez’s car when the officer apparently fired through the rear passenger window. But the even...
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Exclusive: In late 2024, FBI agents were looking at Sen. Susan Collins’ role in a massive illegal bribery scheme alleged by a former federal contractor. Then Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, leaving no one to carry on the investigation – it’s dead. 🧵
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Last year, we detailed how immigration agents profiled and grabbed one citizen not once but twice. Then, they did it *again.* Now, a federal court has ordered agents to back the eff up. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 21/09/2026
Don Jr. took hundreds of thousands of dollars from Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to Putin, for his extravagant wedding in the Bahamas. Now, we're told he paid it back.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Updated 5:18 PM EDT, September 20, 2026 @apnews.com: "The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rammed the man’s car then got out of his federal vehicle and opened fire at least five times, said Mike Siegel, who represents Austin’s District 7."
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ICE agent shoots and wounds man in Austin, Texas, officials say
A local official says a federal immigration agent has shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas. City Councilmember Mike Siegel says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rammed the man’s car ...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So the man shot by ICE says agents shot him because he didn't stop his car. Officers can't shoot someone simply b/c they're not stopping -- per the SUPREME COURT. supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The US did large scale operations against the Houthis all of 2024 and March-May 2025. Two administrations. So many strikes. Houthis not only stayed in power they have been able to make major gains
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
From the official Dept of Education account on X, an endorsement of Bo French's racist tweet about Indian students at a University of Texas football game. Just awful.
A photo of a Texas football game with a largely white audience shown and the caption "Make college football great again."
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“At a court hearing in June, government lawyers left open the possibility that parents could be prosecuted for their role in their children’s medical care.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/n...
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NYU Langone Ends Care for Trans Youth in Deal With Justice Department (Gift Article)
The major Manhattan hospital system agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a federal inquiry into gender-transition treatments for adolescents.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The holdout juror hired a lawyer who "specializes in defamation litigation and has represented President Trump in lawsuits against CBS News and The New York Times." Also, the lawyer wrote that his client "supports our amazing leader, President Donald J. Trump" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...
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Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Case Says He Didn’t Doubt Her Guilt
The juror, Michael P. Desronvil, defended his decision not to join other jurors in voting for Ms. Clancy’s acquittal.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You know what still matters: Facts, and the journalists who bring 'em. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump says son has paid back Russian for wedding party
The president defended Donald Trump Jr.’s decision to take a large gift from Umar Kremlev, saying that such presents are “common.”
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Missed this. 🤯 www.washingtonsun.com/health-scien...
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HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED
Officials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Don Jr & his wife Bettina tried to knock down our story by being all: “The Putin 💙ing Russian dude didn’t pay for our wedding party. He paid for our *afterparty*” Which, i’m pretty sure there‘s no afterparty exception Also: Bettina wrote “Night 2. One love!” www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How you can go from small-town cop to federal agent, without training or a job interview. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The man said he and Moore were not required to attend basic training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers in Georgia because they had policing experience. Instead, the two sat in a room together and took an online ICE training program to learn about processing paperwork for people who were arrested.

A second former ICE deportation officer in Philadelphia said he was also hired without a job interview. The government sent him an email with a job title and location. He had 48 hours to accept and negotiated the start date via email.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
to celebrate Don Jr’s engagement here he is proposing to his first wife Vanessa in a mall jewelry store in exchange for a comped ring nypost.com/2004/11/12/t...
two donald trump jrs stuffed in a trench coat performatively propose to his now ex-wife vanessa in a mall jewelry storetwo donald trump jrs stuffed in a trench coat performatively propose to his now ex-wife vanessa in a mall jewelry storetwo donald trump jrs stuffed in a trench coat performatively propose to his now ex-wife vanessa in a mall jewelry storetwo donald trump jrs stuffed in a trench coat performatively propose to his now ex-wife vanessa in a mall jewelry store
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Newspaper owned by one of world's richest men goes after SNAP...which gives families of four $996/month *in order to eat.* www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
Medicare, Medicaid, the Earned Income Tax Credit and SNAP were the four government programs with the highest amount of improper payments in 2025. The GAO warns about improper payments in a report every year and makes recommendations for how to better safeguard programs, but these are generally ignored. An estimated 87 percent of able-bodied adults without dependents on SNAP in 2023 were not meeting the program’s work requirements. During the Biden administration, lax enforcement of standards for ACA premium subsidies turned them into magnets for fraudsters, with potentially 6 million people improperly signed up.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Generosity doesn’t automatically come with an agenda. And sometimes a wedding gift is simply a wedding gift.” -Bettina Anderson, Don Jr’s wife. This is the guy who was simply generous 👇🏻 www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Left, “calming area“ at so-called Alligator Alcatraz. Right, North Vietnamese “tiger cage.”
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A good chronicle of things we already know but this little tidbit was new to me. Ht @rparloff.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 12/09/2026
Balbir Singh Sodhi, a 52-year-old Sikh from India who “radiated love everywhere he went,” was planting flowers for 9/11 victims at his Chevron station when he was killed. Sodhi was one of at least 13 people shot in the aftermath of 9/11 by people seeking revenge for the attacks.
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The Forgotten Hate-Fueled Shootings in the Wake of 9/11
Several shootings driven by Islamophobia were obscured in the aftermath of that day. In a new analysis by The Trace, we revisit what happened.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
God bless France. Where running a marathon involves drinking wine, eating oysters, and doing this. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/w...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This headline-pair says so much. 25 years later.
25 Years After Towers Fell, 2,983 Names Still Echoing

In Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan, Al Qaeda Is Finding a Refuge
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If he “re-does“ this deal, that’s it I’m done. www.nytimes.com/athletic/758...
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Trump calls Luka Dončić trade one of the worst in sports history, suggests Mavericks ‘redo’ deal (Gift Article)
Trump criticized the Mavericks' decision to swap Dončić for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a first-round pick.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Saudis gotta be loving the president rn www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/b...
Chart of bad news for Saudis
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Eh, Iran just captured a fancy U.S. submarine drone... www.twz.com/sea/everythi...
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Everything We Know About The U.S. Navy's Submersible Drone Iran Just Captured
Anduril's Dive-LD uncrewed underwater vehicle falling into Iranian hands is significant, but the system was designed to be risked in contested waters.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Eh, Iran just captured a fancy U.S. submarine drone... www.twz.com/sea/everythi...
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Everything We Know About The U.S. Navy's Submersible Drone Iran Just Captured
Anduril's Dive-LD uncrewed underwater vehicle falling into Iranian hands is significant, but the system was designed to be risked in contested waters.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A young man with a red bandana --Welles Crowther -- saved an estimated 18 people on 9/11. To which Trump said Tuesday: “The man in the red bandanna has become more famous than me. I don’t like it." wapo.st/4xJM94r
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
'One [low-income patient arrested for her OB-GYN debt to the now senator], whom Mr. Marshall sued in 2004 for $1,200, asked that she not be held liable for care she received “for me and my twins (who I lost).” She was still found responsible for the bill.'
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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I knew someone who worked at a Kansas jail. He used to complain about the number of people in the jail at any given time because they got sued for medical debt. Nothing says you want to get paid like having someone thrown in jail so they lose their job.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump has removed a sign that told the truth about a Confederate memorial at Arlington. The memorial shows an enslaved woman carrying a child of a white officer an man following his owner to war. "It is a pro-slavery, anti-United States monument” -expert. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump officials strip military language criticizing Confederate memorial
A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An OB-GYN sued (often low-income, uninsured) patients for owing as little as $114. He charged them 18% interest. And oh, he had many of them *arrested* if they didn't follow through. That OB-GYN? Republican Senator Roger Marshall www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u... Insane story by Sarah Kliff
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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump has removed a sign that told the truth about a Confederate memorial at Arlington. The memorial shows an enslaved woman carrying a child of a white officer an man following his owner to war. "It is a pro-slavery, anti-United States monument” -expert. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump officials strip military language criticizing Confederate memorial
A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 08/09/2026
OpenAI’s top scientist, in a blog post on Sunday, warns that artificial intelligence is evolving so rapidly that it is becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control it. Here is the post: openai.com/index/an-ali... And a couple of small excerpts--clear warnings.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One of the beanie babies in our Battery Park City apartment was found to be contaminated with mercury, lead and asbestos.
On July 13, 2002, with New Yorkers still reeling from the attacks on the World Trade Center that blanketed Lower Manhattan in debris, inspectors were busy collecting dust samples from the building.
Each report echoed the last: Asbestos present on the facade ledge. Asbestos present on the west side roof. Asbestos present on the top electrical cable.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“More people are believed to have died from illnesses related to the attacks in the years afterward than on Sept. 11 itself.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...
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After 9/11, Documents Suggest New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality (Gift Article)
New York City officials are making public more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This general served in the Army for 40+ years. He fought in the Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He was the Army's chief of staff .... **Then Hegseth fired him in a call that lasted 15 seconds.** www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Is that Cousin Greg. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...
Definitely cousin Greg in Kiev.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Jared wore sneakers to Moscow. x.com/kadmitriev/s...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“This is being directed by the Main Justice” wrote the federal prosector in Minnesota. “I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could. It wasn’t enough.” www.propublica.org/article/doj-...
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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Love this. www.pulitzer.org/news/winning...
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Nearly one-third of Americans vote by a method — mail — that Trump is trying to kneecap. statesunited.org/resources/am...
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Nearly 1 in 3 Americans Voted by Mail in 2024 - States United Democracy Center
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"What the settlers are doing is the real threat to Israel” - rmr Israeli general “This is ethnic cleansing, to put it simply” - another frmr Israeli general "Once a society behaves this way, that society is doomed” - another frmr Israeli general. "I am ashamed." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/w...
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These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat.
A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society b...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
70+ ships used to cross Hormuz every day. It’s been a month since even 10 crossed in a day. 👇🏻
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