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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. (Published May 2025)
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The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
No. Instead we get 42 segments on some inconsequential social media influencer named Piker (whom Loomer also tried to have deported).
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Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here's is my quote for the blurb sticker on the Pat McAfee vinyl. tinyurl.com/38asnt5e
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Shannon7218 @winniefloof.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This should be a something’s Dems push hard for.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It is not just protestors who are being frustrated here. All the military presence is also there to block elected officials who seeking entry to a private prison where a hunger strike is occurring. bsky.app/profile/heyl...
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 24/05/2026
The most extraordinary thing about this is that *not one* major media source mentions that Trump sexually assaulted the mother of the son whose wedding it is. Can one fathom any other circumstance where that fact would be omitted?
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
No it the fuck was not.
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Reign of Terror by Spencer Ackerman: 9781984879790 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021   "An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Folks, Saturday is a PERFECT time to learn about some of the most important but under-radar elections happening this year. West Virginia is Tuesday; Georgia is in two weeks; and a lot else coming up. Explore and share!
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"Asking voters two simple questions can help win seats...what have Trump’s wars done for your family’s budget? What have they done for your freedom?" Interesting framing here, especially since voters who drive greater distances are probably concentrated in vulnerable GOP districts:
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
To be clear as day, this is, of course, absolutely intentional. It has happened with every Republican president of my lifetime (with the notable exception of HW Bush). It's what the GOP does. www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...
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U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP
Federal debt exceeding the size of the economy is a potent symbol of the gathering fiscal stresses on the U.S.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New from @pamherd.bsky.social and I: Trump has added work requirements to Medicaid, expanded them in SNAP. Now he is going after public housing. You can do something about it: take 5 mins to write a public comment opposing this change. Instructions enclosed.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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The Trump plan to add work requirements to public housing
Here is something you can do about it
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/04/2026
flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
THIS SUMS IT UP AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN:
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Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Hello my name is Alex Goldman and I used to host the Reply All podcast. A lot of people liked that show. Now I make @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social which if you liked reply all you’d probably like well. The thing is that a lot of people who liked Reply All don’t know my new show exists.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
CNN ran a poll asking people who still describe themselves as MAGA if they still liked the leader of the MAGA, and not surprisingly, the cult members liked the cult leader. There was no reason for CNN to go through the motions and now they've succeeded in egging Trump on to send in ground troops.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Are you in Wisconsin, and do you want to vote in the upcoming state supreme court race in 3 weeks? Your deadline to register to vote *online* is TODAY! Don't miss out. And learn about why the election matters: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
My colleague @burness.bsky.social went on @mollyjongfast.bsky.social’s wonderful pod to discuss… … the Wisconsin Supreme Court race! (Which everyone seems to have mostly forgotten about.)
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 15/03/2026
A crypto PAC smeared one progressive backed by Bernie Sanders as a “corporate pawn” and spent millions calling another a tax cheat.
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Crypto Spends Big in Illinois House Races to Say Consumer Rights Supporters Are Corrupt
A crypto PAC smeared one Bernie Sanders-backed Illinois progressive as a “corporate pawn” and spent millions calling another a tax cheat.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Trump never had a plan for the more than 1 million Americans in the Middle East, but if you’re a MAGA minion, his White House swoops in to save you.
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
TLDR: Don't use TikTok DMs www.bbc.com/news/article...
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TikTok says it won't encrypt DMs claiming it puts users at risk
TikTok tells the BBC it won't join rival platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger in using end-to-end encryption.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Donald Trump’s administration has quietly been deleting 47,000 Epstein files? A massive “coverup,” you say? Hillary Clinton was right. Again.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
What are the differences between George W Bush and Donald J Trump? As it turns out, remarkably little. But Dubya did go to Congress for an okay before launching his Neocon war of choice.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 01/03/2026
Sorry, @peterbakernyt.bsky.social, I’ve run completely out of fucks. You’re incompetent! Give me your job. I wrote this in 2024. theracket.news/p/donald-the...
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Except for one problem: We already know what Donald Trump would do with war and the military-industrial complex if given the chance. You may have forgotten this but: He was actually president before.
Not only did Trump do a lot of killing in that time, but through his unique blend of belligerence and incompetence, he helped set the stage for most of the major crises roiling the world today.
Trump's supporters like to say there were
"no wars" when he was president. (Trump himself started promoting that line in the primaries.) This is such an obvious lie I don't even know where to start. He
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Sara Montour Lewis @saramontourlewis.com · 28/02/2026
Today seems like a great time for a reminder that we don't need to screenshot and post everything from those other awful hellsites. There's a reason that we're all here and it's not to regurgitate more unnecessary rage bait. We can have thoughtful + nuanced discussions outside of that mindlessness.
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Politico @politico.com · 25/02/2026
Ordinary Americans are still on the hook for funding the U.S. data center boom despite Trump’s promises at the State of the Union.
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Here’s a reality check on Trump’s AI pledge
Trump’s promise to protect power customers’ wallets from data centers covers only part of the costs of expanding AI.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free: Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy," www.propublica.org/article/insi...
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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
If it’s a tax on them, elites make it sound like a tax on you. If it’s a tax on you, they make you wonder if it’s a tax at all. When you understand that, you can see how the news media actually created conditions in which some middle-class Americans unknowingly voted for their own immiseration.
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Ditched my account today, just like Spotify and Disney before it. Fascism has enough of my money and enough money in general; I want to reduce the pile as much as possible.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
runforwhat.net
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I was really troubled by this Atlantic piece. It was presented as reporting, but it seems more accurate to describe it as speculative fiction based on reporting. It seems like a bizarre choice for a journalistic institution to make. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
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The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig on her “hypothetical,” heavily reported measles essay
"We were attracted to the idea of providing a play-by-play of the progression of measles in granular detail."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We will probably count in the thousands the number of people who will likely die as a result of this decision, which flows directly from RFKJr's anti vaxxer hysteria. www.wsj.com/health/pharm...
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FDA Refuses to Consider Approving Use of Moderna’s New Flu Vaccine
The company said the agency wouldn’t review its application on the grounds that the study testing the shot wasn’t sufficient.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"State and local election officials need to be ready to go to federal court to seek injunctions barring the government from seizing voting machines or otherwise interfering with the process of tabulating ballots."
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The AI-chat-enabled stuffed toy Bondu invites little kids to have intimate conversations with it, like an LLM imaginary friend. It also exposed virtually all their chats on a web interface with no security. Anyone with a Gmail account could log in and read transcripts. www.wired.com/story/an-ai-...
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An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account
AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had had with the company's stuffed animals.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 22/01/2026
Harrowing NY Times expose of the FBI, with some operational details of Minneapolis investigations & comments from ex-agents on the current federal occupation. The FBI is more fucked than you expect, which makes them less effective AND more dangerous. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... (gift link)
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Kash Patel’s FBI Is Making America Less Safe, Current and Former Employees Say (Gift Article)
Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Flashbangs burn hotter then lava. They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed. *That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids. Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com: www.propublica.org/article/flas...
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Hotter Than Lava
Every day, police toss dangerous flashbang grenades during raids, with little oversight and horrifying results
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. According to The Atlantic, they receive 47 days of training — in honor of Trump, the 47th president, naturally. Many of them, also, can barely read or write, apparently. The ones I spent the weekend following around didn’t even have proper uniforms, with some wearing sneakers. In Minnesota. In January. These dipshits are also wearing camo in the snow. They clearly do not have any training when it comes to their own weapons either. Multiple times over the last few days, I watched officers fire pepper spray balls at the feet of protestors barely a few inches away from them. These weapons are basically paintball guns full of concentrated pepper spray. So when they hit a target, they explode into the air. Which meant ICE agents regularly ended up poisoning themselves with their own weapons. I also watched two agents ask each other if a canister they were about to fire at the crowd was tear gas or a stun grenade. (It ended up being a stun grenade that then ignited the tear gas they had already shot at us, which started a fire in the street that a protestor had to help them put out.)
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I have a long-running list of surprising eponyms, and in this dark time I wish to share my amusement with you. To clarify, an eponym is something named for a person. “Newton’s Laws” are called that for Isaac Newton. A surprising eponym is just that. So, let’s begin. Eponyms/0
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Wildest shit that Ive ever seen!
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 10/12/2025
This is now out in front of @theverge.com paywall for 24 hours (cool experiment!). Please do give it a read: it’s the story of how the White House is leading a global crackdown on news outlets and disinfo research.
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Rachel Roubein @rachelroubein.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
More from our story on FDA: —Officials have held meetings at the WH this week to discuss turmoil at agency —Prasad’s vaccine email wasn’t cleared with HHS or RFK Jr. with @ddiamond.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ddia...
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The Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Allison Orris @aorris.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
New interactive map from @CenterOnBudget showing out-of-pocket premium increases in every congressional district due to premium tax credit enhancements expiring. Explore it here: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
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Marketplace Enrollees Across the Country Face Steep Premium Increases Unless Tax Credit Enhancements Are Extended
Annual premium increase, 60-year-old couple with income of $85,000 (401% FPL), by congressional district, 119th Congress Note: FPL = federal poverty level. Examples are based on 2026 average...
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Gideon Lukens @gidlukens.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
HSAs are tax shelters masquerading as health policy. They don't help people who are struggling to afford health coverage. Read more from @nicolerapfogel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/fh5rabhx
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Expanding Health Savings Accounts Would Do Little to Improve Access to Affordable Health Care
Amid the urgent debate over whether Congress will act to prevent cost increases for millions of people in 2026 marketplace plans, some Republicans are promoting expansions of health savings accounts.....
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
A bunch of folks have asked me what this looks like in local currency terms. Here's the chart. It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~
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