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C.E. Peterson

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We're not going gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of truth's light.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A foreman oversees his crew in Mettler CA. The workers are weeding a carrot field. It is intense, repetitive work that is very necessary as weeds compete for water, nutrients, and light. Thanks to these workers the carrots will grow straighter, healthier, and larger. #WeFeedYou
Workers weeding carrots
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
reality is slip-sliding away: Anthropic's Claude AI submits a false tip on a Philadelphia unsolved homicide case apnews.com/article/arti...
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Anthropic's Claude AI submits a false tip on a Philadelphia unsolved homicide case
An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to Philadelphia police about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said.
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“The poorest and most vulnerable patients are now most at risk of losing mental health care coverage as United targets them for cost savings.” www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The complications behind Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike aren’t uncommon — and show how easily another botched execution could occur, even as others are planned soon in Texas and Florida. by @keribla.bsky.social
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Why Tennessee’s Botched Death Row Execution Could Happen Anywhere
The complications behind Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike aren’t uncommon — and show how easily another botched execution could occur, even as others are planned soon in Texas and Florida.
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
what a burn: Mark Carney's stand against Trump leads to Nobel Peace Prize and Time Person of the Year buzz apnews.com/article/carn...
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Mark Carney's stand against Trump leads to Nobel Peace Prize and Time Person of the Year buzz
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has built a global profile by standing up to U.S. President Donald Trump.
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Anthropic and OpenAI sound the alarm on AI safety — and seek to shape how it's controlled apnews.com/article/ai-s...
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Anthropic and OpenAI sound the alarm on AI safety — and seek to shape how it's controlled
As tech titans warned an AI-weary world that their own advanced systems could endanger humanity, the question emerged: What do they have to gain?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In case you missed it:
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)
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Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Climate disasters are growing. So are cuts to programs that prepare for them apnews.com/article/nepa...
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Climate disasters are growing. So are cuts to programs that prepare for them
Millions of people face deadly climate-related disasters as international aid programs are slashed. Floods in Nepal on Aug. 26 killed over 1,400 people and left thousands missing.
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Global heat is stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured apnews.com/article/heat...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/09/2026
Major League Baseball built a pipeline in the Dominican Republic to scout superstars like David “Big Papi” Ortiz. But there’s an open secret: It enables an industry that financially exploits scores of kids and their families each year. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: propub.li/3SFfAWo
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
our philosopher laureate
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
In November 2025, a nurse at Camp East Montana called 911 to get help for a detained woman with COVID-19. “We don’t have any oxygen for her,” the nurse said as the woman’s oxygen saturation dropped. “She just doesn’t look good.”
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
M-V-Pete
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on mail voting restrictions ahead of midterms apnews.com/article/trum...
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Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on mail voting restrictions ahead of midterms
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority didn’t decide the legality of Trump’s order, instead ruling that states who sued did not have the legal right to challenge it.
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.ap.org/news-highlig... this is how real journalism is done.
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AP reports on ICE's plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks  | The Associated Press
Immigration reporter Ryan Foley reported exclusively that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to equip officers with gloves that can
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/08/2026
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. This is what experts say you need to know:
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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 21/08/2026
“He who would be a man must be a nonconformist.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
BREAKING: In unusual 9PM Friday Federal Register filing, Postal Service finalizes regulation to deny delivery of mail-in ballots not matching addresses in database BUT says won't implement 'til court orders are lifted. #SCOTUS still quiet. Doc: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-17238.pdf
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A looming rock collapse threatens a Swiss village as thawing permafrost destabilizes the Alps apnews.com/article/swit...
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A looming rock collapse threatens a Swiss village as thawing permafrost destabilizes the Alps
Residents of the Swiss village of Kandersteg face a looming threat from an unstable mountain rock formation called Spitze Stei.
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Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
PCA REACHES THE 30/30 MARK IN WALK-OFF FASHION.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The company that killed bookstores is now killing books, literally.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/08/2026
The cut would impact both disabled adults who live with low-income family members and older SSI recipients who live with their adult children on tight budgets. As many as 400,000 people could have their support cut or eliminated, per SSA estimates. (Published April)
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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
FACT FOCUS: Trump makes false claims as he signs order urging revisions around childhood vaccines apnews.com/article/fact...
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FACT FOCUS: Trump makes false claims as he signs order urging revisions around childhood vaccines
While issuing an executive order urging states to revise childhood vaccine recommendations, President Donald Trump and others in his administration repeated several false claims about those vaccines, ...
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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#aphighlights | The Associated Press
The FDA has approved the first flu vaccine made with mRNA technology, marking a new application for a vaccine platform that became widely known during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moderna's mFlusiva is int...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/08/2026
The strongest available evidence supports a zoonotic origin for COVID-19. - The virus is genetically diverse in ways typical of natural viruses and atypical of gain-of-function (GoF) viruses. 🧵
The graphic contains a photo of RFK Jr., the black Stand Up for Science logo, and an arrow pointing towards the thread of info. The graphic reads: "RFK Jr. spreads blatant pandemic disinformation on CNN. RFK Jr: "Clearly the COVID-19 pandemic and many other global pandemics that we have had have come from gain-of-function research." Here are the facts...".
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nyc118.bsky.social @nyc118.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
What do you think would happen if "Democratic Socialist" was replaced with "FDR Democrat"?
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents apnews.com/article/mili...
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AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Trump accounts were closed in 2021 due to concerns over possible money laundering, Capital One says apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump accounts were closed in 2021 due to concerns over possible money laundering, Capital One says
Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering.
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Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
conforto and dansby playing long toss!
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Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
this base running from breggy. 🔥
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The 6 largest oil companies will collectively rake in $45B in profits in the second quarter of 2026 — nearly double what they made in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Canada, France, and Spain are battling record-breaking wildfires spurred by the climate crisis. Big Oil profits while the world burns.
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Zelenskyy claims Russia is sharing satellite imagery of U.S. military bases with Iran. Trump's response when asked about this? "I'll ask Putin." That's an embarrassing answer from the president of the United States.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you’re wasting your time on this Earth.” ~Roberto Clemente. Image: MLB via Getty Images.
This color photo shows a man in a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball uniform—Roberto Clemente—standing in a batting stance and holding a baseball bat.
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 02/07/2026
Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.
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Trump discloses 327 unreported stock trades made a day before his first tariff pause
Their disclosure, more than 14 months after they occurred, is the latest revelation to fuel calls for greater scrutiny of the president’s financial assets.
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
guess who’s going to take all credit for any success the americans earn the rest of the #worldcup.
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President Donald Trump said Monday he called FIFA President Gianni Infantino to review the red card given to U.S. men's soccer striker Folarin Balogun, calling it a "horrible" call. | Th...
President Donald Trump said Monday he called FIFA President Gianni Infantino to review the red card given to U.S. men's soccer striker Folarin Balogun, calling it a "horrible" call.
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As the Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a US strike that killed over 100 Iranian children apnews.com/article/iran...
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As the Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a US strike that killed over 100 Iranian children
The Feb. 28 attack on a primary school in southeastern Iran was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Most of the victims were children.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/06/2026
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 22/06/2026
The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/06/2026
A leading vaccine skeptic with millions of social media followers, Dr. Joseph Mercola repeatedly said that vitamin K shots were unnecessary for newborns. But in a break from his past warnings, Mercola says he no longer believes that.
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A Popular Doctor Had Long Warned That Vitamin K Shots Are Risky for Newborns. Now He’s Changed His Tune.
After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The da...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/06/2026
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/06/2026
Outrageous.   Dr. Justin Ryder, a pediatric surgeon and expert at Northwestern, was booted from a conference for sharing an article on federal cuts to biomedical research.   This is the impact of Trump's administration.
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Medical group leader apologizes to Northwestern researcher, others booted from conference over Trump critique
The researchers were distributing an editorial from an American Diabetes Association journal during the group’s annual meeting when they were escorted out by local police and security.
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Pentagon reviews are blocking wind farms, putting jobs at risk, lawsuit says apnews.com/article/wind...
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Pentagon reviews are blocking wind farms, putting jobs at risk, lawsuit says
A coalition of renewable energy groups is suing Pentagon officials over their failure to complete national security reviews for new onshore wind farms on private lands.
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C.E. Peterson @gamechanger95.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article... news story reads like a ready-made film script.
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Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/06/2026
Importantly: this comes with all the user watch data because Roku tracks everything you watch
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