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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/10/2025
Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say
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Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say
Crash that hit apps and websites around world demonstrates ‘urgent need for diversification in cloud computing’ * Business live – latest updates Experts have warned of the perils of relying on a small number of companies for operating the global internet after a glitch at Amazon’s cloud computing service brought down apps and websites around the world. The affected platforms included Snapchat, Roblox, Signal and Duolingo as well as a host of Amazon-owned operations including its main retail site and the Ring doorbell company. Continue reading...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/08/2025
Most adults are allergic to poison ivy and its relatives. Here’s how to prevent or minimize the rash.
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So You Touched Poison Ivy. Now What?
Most adults are allergic to this plant and its relatives. Here’s how to prevent or minimize the rash.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
President Convicted Felon's administration revokes $156M grant to help #Florida homeowners afford solar panels. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...
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Trump administration revokes $156M grant to help Floridians afford solar panels
The organizations had delayed approving applications until they received clarity on the future of the program.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
A 5th person in #Florida has died from flesh-eating bacteria www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2...
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'Flesh-eating' bacteria Florida update: Vibrio vulnificus deaths up to 5. Here's where
Another person in Bay County has died from Vibrio vulnificus infection, the Florida Department of Health said, bringing the 2025 state total to five.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Lawmakers decline to make taxpayers pay for Gov. Ron DeSastrous' scandal-plagued Hope #Florida hotline www.tampabay.com/news/florida... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social
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Lawmakers agree not to fund DeSantis’ Hope Florida call line
The program came under legislative scrutiny this year.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
When you normalize political violence by pardoning Jan 6 attackers, can we be surprised when people target public officials? This is not how we resolve our disputes in America. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp-vid...
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Minnesota lawmaker killed and another injured in 'politically motivated' shootings
A Minnesota state lawmaker was killed and another lawmaker was injured in what Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called "targeted political violence." Officials say a manhunt is underway for the suspect in the…
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Realities 🌐 @insuret.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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CNN @cnn.com · 13/06/2025
Following a salmonella outbreak linked to eggs, CNN wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen explains how to keep safe as foodborne illnesses increase in the summer. cnn.it/4kGCIfT
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The White House has already previewed their legal argument in the military deployment at the border context; they argue it's not a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act because the troops are not arresting the person, merely temporarily detaining them for local law enforcement to arrive.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/06/2025
From The Archives: God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule theonion.com/god-ang...
From The Archives: God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/06/2025
“Les Misérables” was Victor Hugo’s response to a menacing, authoritarian regime—an irony that seems lost on Donald Trump, who apparently counts the musical among his favorites.
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What Trump Missed at the Kennedy Center Production of “Les Mis”
What appalled and obsessed Victor Hugo most was the seemingly “normal nature” of the French regime, even as it committed acts of unprecedented authoritarian menace and cruelty.
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KFF @kff.org · 11/06/2025
If the “Big, Beautiful Bill” passes the Senate, how many more people will be uninsured in your state? Nationwide, 10.9 million people would be uninsured with the bill’s changes to Medicaid and the ACA Marketplaces. Our analysis based on new CBO numbers: on.kff.org/4jIcF6E
KFF map titled “An Additional 10.9M People Nationwide Could be Uninsured if the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is Passed.” The map shows the percentage point increase in the uninsured population if the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is finalized based on national CBO estimates, by state, 2034.
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This executive order is a warning shot. Trump will continue to dismantle our research institutions and attempt to redefine “the gold standard” of science to fit whatever definition works best for him. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...
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The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.
Thousands of scientists, academics, physicians and researchers have responded to the administration’s executive order about “restoring a gold standard for science.”
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Floridas’s child-welfare agency — in a reversal of a 30-year policy — is now willing to turn minors over to ICE. This 17-year-old was taken from his foster home in handcuffs and shackles. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Florida child welfare agency calls ICE on teen migrant in foster care, sparking criticism
‘If this is a policy decision, it is a huge deal.’
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S.V. Dáte @svdate.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
NEW -- SecDef Hegseth is asked in Congress what authority, precisely, Trump is using to put troops on the ground in Los Angeles. Hegseth says he doesn't know but is certain Trump has it. www.huffpost.com/entry/hegset...
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Hegseth Testifies That He Doesn’t Know What Legal Authority Trump Is Using To Deploy Troops
But the former Fox News weekend host and current defense secretary told lawmakers he's sure his boss has the right to deploy troops wherever he wants.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/06/2025
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Guy Richards Smit. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter to never miss the Daily Cartoon: nyer.cm/WvDzHl3
Police on horseback, accompanied by officers in riot gear, watch a large crowd of people. One says, “The protesters seem to be doing some sort of joyful synchronized dance. Is it time to call in the Marines?”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The First Amendment specifically prohibits the government from using heavy force on citizens who protest the government. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
BREAKING: EPA Drops Legal Case Against the GEO Group, a Major Trump Donor, Over Its Misuse of Harmful Chemicals in ICE Facilities @fastlerner.bsky.social @lisalsong.bsky.social
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EPA Drops Legal Case Against the GEO Group, a Major Trump Donor, Over Its Misuse of Harmful Chemicals in ICE Facilities
A complaint filed under the Biden administration alleged that on more than 1,000 occasions in 2022 and 2023, the GEO Group had its employees use the disinfectant, which causes irreversible eye damage ...
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
[gift link] The Legal Issues Surrounding Trump’s Plan to Use Troops to Suppress Protests President Trump has long mused about using troops to crush violent protests or riots in blue-state cities. He is now moving to do so in Los Angeles. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...
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The Legal Issues Surrounding Trump’s Plan to Use Troops to Suppress Protests
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/06/2025
ABC News suspended the network correspondent Terry Moran on Sunday after he wrote on social media that Stephen Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, was “a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred” and called him “a world-class hater.”
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ABC Suspends Terry Moran for Calling Stephen Miller a ‘World-Class Hater’
Mr. Moran made the comment in a late-night social media post that also derided President Trump. It drew a rebuke from Vice President JD Vance.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
When you understand this, you understand that in the view of history it doesn't matter if the Guard Trump has illegally deployed this weekend commits a Kent State in Los Angeles. America is on a clock that's ticking down toward martial law, and this is an explicit, discreet moment on that timeline.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/05/2025
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
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Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"During a Senate hearing, Kennedy told Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester that Matthew Buzzelli is the CDC's acting director. Kennedy called Buzzelli a public health expert. Buzzelli's biography on the CDC website lists no public health experience..." www.axios.com/2025/06/05/c...
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Questions swirl over who's running the CDC
Almost six months into Trump's administration, the agency has no public health official or designated point person at the helm.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 06/06/2025
Republican data-privacy advocates in Congress are pushing back on the Trump administration’s effort to merge agency data with help from tech firm Palantir.
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‘Destroy the Ring’: Trump’s Palantir deal alarms Hill Republicans
Data-privacy advocates in the president’s party are warning that his administration’s deal with the tech giant is ripe for abuse.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1962...
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The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier than You Think
Strip away the ego contest, and what you really see here is a competition about how screw over poor and working people more effectively.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/06/2025
The public break between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, his biggest financial benefactor, has taken its inevitable personal turn. In this week’s column, @sbg1.bsky.social takes stock of the spoiled bromance.
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The Musk-Trump Divorce Is as Messy as You Thought It Would Be
The world’s richest man and its most powerful leader channel their inner middle schooler in a breakup for the ages.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is cutting back its collection of data on consumer prices, raising questions about the reliability of federal economic statistics under President Trump. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...
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U.S. Is Trimming Back Its Collection of Consumer Price Data
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/06/2025
Pharmacy benefit managers’ business practices have operated with little regulation, transparency, and accountability for far too long. Illinois is putting an end to that and leading the nation in bringing transparency to PBM drug pricing.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
President Convicted Felon looks to axe many NASA space missions that launched from #Florida. www.tallahassee.com/story/tech/s...
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Trump looks to axe many NASA space missions that launched from Florida: Here's a look at 6
Dozens of NASA's spaceflight missions that launched from Florida could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Phang: And listen, he’s got a beefy lawsuit here. You can imagine what discovery is going to be like once this case moves forward—because it will. It will not be dismissed…
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
NEW: The Trump administration's fiscal year 2026 budget request's appendix says with no details: "The President's Budget proposes to reorganize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce" www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026
The President's Budget proposes to reorganize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/06/2025
Some of the most powerful AI models today have exhibited behaviors that mimic a will to survive by sabotaging shutdown commands, blackmailing engineers or copying themselves to external servers without permission.
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How far will AI go to defend its own survival?
Recent safety tests show some AI models are capable of sabotaging commands or even resorting to blackmail to avoid being turned off or replaced.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/06/2025
More than 20 years ago, North Carolina legislators passed a law requiring that landslide hazards be mapped across 19 mountain counties. But after only four of those countries were mapped, lawmakers gave in to developers who said it could harm property values.
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Prescient Warnings About Helene Didn’t Reach People in Harm’s Way. Here Are 5 Lessons for the Next Hurricane.
After four months of reporting, ProPublica found that the warnings about Helene were eerily accurate. Yet, local residents remained largely unaware of the enormity of danger approaching as the storm…
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 05/06/2025
“It’s one thing for me to talk about oligarchy as an abstraction,” Bernie Sanders told Evan Osnos. “Trump has made it clear. He has said it loudly and clearly: we are a government of billionaires.”
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Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder
The greed of the new Administration has galvanized America’s aspiring oligarchs—and their opponents.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🚨 CBS reports that Trump has signed a new travel ban, with its most harsh bans on entry targeting 12 countries, and lesser restrictions targeting 7 more. Unlike the first ban, this one is also targeted at Haiti, Cuba, and Venezuela. We’ll need to see text to know what the restrictions are.
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The proclamation fully restricts and limits the entry of nationals from 12 countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. It partially restricts entry of people from seven countries: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Every place you see steel and aluminum is something that will go up in price from Trump’s new tariffs. Like soup cans.
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WBUR @wbur.org · 03/06/2025
Commentary: For those who oppose the Trump regime, the strategy should also be obvious: fight language with language, writes Steve Almond.
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Trump weaponizes words. His opponents should, too
In an era of agitated distraction, Americans latch on to simple catchphrases as a way of grasping complex realities, writes Steve Almond. Trump and Republicans use this to their advantage. Democratic ...
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NPR @npr.org · 03/06/2025
The House version of the tax bill would revoke credits for EVs starting at the end of this year. If the plan survives, it would dramatically shape automaker investments and EV sales.
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The fate of the EV tax credits depends on the GOP's megabill
The House version of the tax bill would revoke credits for EVs starting at the end of this year. If the plan survives, it would dramatically shape automaker investments and EV sales.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 03/06/2025
FEMA Scraps New Hurricane Plan and Reverts to Last Year’s - The Wall Street Journal apple.news/A7KdnOyTJQFi...
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FEMA Scraps New Hurricane Plan and Reverts to Last Year’s — The Wall Street Journal
Agency’s leader suggested he recently learned there was an annual hurricane season
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/06/2025
your regular reminder that authoritarian populism will make your country corrupt and poor. look at Hungary
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
1. Trump and his Republican allies say their budget cuts are targeted at waste, fraud, and abuse But Trump's new 1,223-page budget proposal, quietly released on Friday afternoon, reveals the real target: Poor children
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The war on poor kids
Late Friday afternoon, the Trump administration released the details of its 2026 budget request. The 1,223-page document proposes slashing around $163 billion in non-defense spending. That isn't nearl...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/05/2025
Report finds US children would have extra 25.4m cavities in five years if plan backed by RFK Jr were implemented.
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Study shows rise in children’s cavities if US removed fluoride from water
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
A federal program sent #Florida farmers’ fresh produce to food banks. It’s being cut by President Convicted Felon. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a... via @miamiherald.com
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A federal program sent local farmers’ fresh produce to food banks. It’s being cut
The Local Food Purchase Assistance Program provided $20 million to Florida food banks last year. Then, Trump cut it.
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NPR @npr.org · 31/05/2025
Food aid is moldering in warehouses in Jordan, the main hub for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Other foods and medicines are loaded on trucks that have waited for months at Israeli border crossings.
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Food for Gaza decays in Jordan warehouses as Israel restricts aid
Food aid is moldering in warehouses in Jordan, the main hub for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Other foods and medicines are loaded on trucks that have waited for months at Israeli border crossings.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
More than 100 people were detained Thursday morning following an immigration raid at a construction site in #Florida's state capital. Workers were from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia, Nicaragua and Honduras. www.wctv.tv/2025/05/29/h...
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HSI Tampa: ‘More than 100′ detained following immigration raid at Tallahassee construction site
A WCTV crew on scene said investigators were speaking with every construction worker to confirm who’s a legal citizen and who’s not. Some of those workers were also seen being cuffed in zip ties or ha...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/05/2025
And you can watch the full interview with @nicollewallace.bsky.social here: www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
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Nicolle Wallace on Musk's 128 days in the White House: 'They were not boring. They were destructive'
ProPublica Reporter Brett Murphy, Princeton University Professor Eddie Glaude, and New York Times White House Correspondent Tyler Pager join Nicolle Wallace to unpack Elon Musk's D.C. exit and the cha...
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
One of the Tallahassee Museum's #Florida panthers, Buddha, has died at age 14. news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-n...
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The Tallahassee Museum's Florida panther, Buddha, has died
Buddha arrived at the museum as a 20-month-old cub 14 years ago after an injury to his right leg and elbow. That injury made him unable to survive in the wild.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Saving lives = woke
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