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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I've not been on here much. After 25 years inside legacy news, my decision to step away probably looked confusing. Why would a mid-career DC correspondent leave content to think about platforms, creators, and how people find news? It felt like it was time to chase the problem.

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The US overpowered a weak country with oil reserves. Conquering it wasn't hard. What came of running Iraq? -Iraqis experienced as humiliation, raids, checkpoints, and civilian casualties. -Well-intentioned reconstruction projects often came with corruption, waste.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The Epstein Files, everybody!

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Learn more about us here, where we are also posting some of our content: www.getrealnews.org Our problem in the U.S.: lack of access and trust. Our solution: free base content and trusted local voices. Reporting WITH the people.

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The US information ecosystem is the underlying condition. What do we do? It starts by getting back into the lives of those who deserve better information—not an agenda. We're going state by state. If you agree, please give us a follow on TikTok or Insta (for now): www.tiktok.com/@pennsylvani...

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Welcome to Pennsylvania Reals. A newsroom by Pennsylvanians, for Pennsylvanians #pennsylvania #philadelphia #templeuniversity #phillytiktok #news

TikTok video by Pennsylvania Reals

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

🎤America's polarization isn't just political—it's informational. 🎟 Please join us on Tuesday at 7:00 pm to learn more about how we can move forward, collectively: bigtentusa.org/event/pressu...

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Rising Signal: Powering Media for the People - BigTentUSA

Join BigTentUSA on Tuesday, October 14 at 7pm ET as we examine how media paywalls, profit models, and political timidity have left the public misinformed and disengaged—and what we can […]

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

After living in the US for 30 years, she was arrested during her work break at Target. 👇Who's being locked up in for-profit prisons?

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Politico & Punchbowl report House Republican leadership is shutting down the Rules Committee - which is essential for moving party-line bills on the floor - for the week rather than vote on Democratic amendments on the Epstein files. Dems have effectively halted Republican legislation in the House:

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Grant Hermes @granthermes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

How much are the tariffs REALLY costing you? Another great collab with Get Real News and @heidireports.bsky.social

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Rather than simply talking about horrible responses to the flooding in Texas, let's share some vetted and trusted avenues for support, and donate if we can. Hands Off Central TX is raising funds and resources for mutual aid including housing, food, transportation (gas), and medical needs.

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Hands Off Central TX

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Hey everybody, I'm really excited to share that we are now partnering with other independent journalists to start bringing the most authentic and insightful content about what's happening across the states and nationally! #getreal #getrealnews

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The targeting of Harvard seems to have originated within Peter Thiel’s network. JD Vance—whose US Senate campaign was bankrolled by Thiel—is Exhibit A. 1/

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Democracy is hard to recover after the free press is silenced. The Paramount settlement is a disgrace to journalism. It's also why we're doing this: creating America's first grassroots newsroom — accountable to the people, not the powerful. Please consider supporting us: www.getrealnews.org

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News for and by the People

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

🤔Their premise here is that Medicaid is a "welfare program." So let's dive in:

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

There's a big NEW "Beautiful Bill!" Let's break it down: - $4.5 TRILLION in tax cuts (mostly to the wealthy) - Cutting $2 TRILLION from safety net programs - Goal: pass before July 4th, Independence Day

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty." (James Madison, Federalist #41)

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I’m hoping that showing what’s happening in middle America — how we got here — will help us all come up with solutions. I’m working on my own, and soon I’ll start talking more about it! First, diagnosing the problem. 👇🏻 sign up: www.heidireports.com

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Opus Dei has a nerve center in DC, including blocks from the White House. "The organization has been increasingly active in Washington since at least the early 1990s when it set up shop at 15th and K — the heart of the capital lobbying industry."

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Hearing Republican politicians saying Medicaid cuts won't hurt pregnant women?

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Why is this happening? It's a question many are asking. 👉If I do one thing, I hope it's getting across how news deserts underlie the decline in our democracy. They are where: pubic officials have no checks, there's a lack of civic engagement, more risk of corruption at the local level.

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This decision could have -- and was expected to -- go very differently. 👇See my earlier exclusive revealing how *one of Barrett's best friends* helped seed this case. (This piece preceded her recusal and the case officially coming before the court.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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Divided Supreme Court Rejects Bid for Religious Charter School in Oklahoma

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Even Saturday Night Live is making jokes about the chaos at Newark Airport. So what’s going on? ✈️Three big issues:

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I deleted my prior post given the lack of clarity around using quotes instead of bold or ** 🤷‍♀️

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🎤 Shining a light on the importance to our democracy of supporting local news. With @public.news.service

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

👇This may sound like school choice or freedom of religion, but it’s about much more. The Supreme Court could soon decide whether the first public religious charter school in Oklahoma is approved—meaning taxpayer money could fully fund religious schools.

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Celebrating the independent media at a parallel party to the White House Correspondents Association dinner. 🙌🏻 Thank you @substack #media #journalism #freedomthinkers

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The U.S. treats good information like a commodity. 👉Healthier democracies have funded it like a right.

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

POLITICO should not be threatening a journalist. I'll stand behind him, and so will others. Many of us have left recently. www.telos.news/p/politico-a...

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Politico and Free Speech

The foreign-owned media company is demanding that I delete an 1,800-word article criticizing press coverage of Trump.

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The "freight train" coming for the separation of church and state is receiving scant coverage. Before I left my job at POLITICO, I was heavily researching the case at the center of it all -- started in Oklahoma. Justice Barrett's good friend helped seed it, which I reported. I have more to share 👇

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Leonard Leo, the architect of the ultraconservative Supreme Court, says in this interview that IVF should be illegal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yH5...

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The Man Who Stacked the Supreme Court | Leonard Leo Meets Bari Weiss

YouTube video by The Free Press

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Leonard Leo, the architect of the ultraconservative Supreme Court, says in this interview that IVF should be illegal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yH5...

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The Man Who Stacked the Supreme Court | Leonard Leo Meets Bari Weiss

YouTube video by The Free Press

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Keep sharing this because it is vital to understanding this moment. The timing of his entry into politics after this trip, the one position he’s held firm on (at odds with past presidents of both political parties) and the unraveling of the post-WW II world order. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

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The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow

In 1987, a young real estate developer traveled to the Soviet Union. The KGB almost certainly made the trip happen.

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This case could upend the separation of church and state. Apart from the role of Justice Barrett's good friend, reported here, there's another potential big issue. 👇The director of the clinic behind the case was clerking for Gorsuch as it was being seeded. www.yahoo.com/news/justice...

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Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Recusal from an Upcoming Oklahoma Charter Case Could

This story was co-published with The Guardian. In 2020, when Amy Coney Barrett came before the Senate for confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, one of her closest friends told a story on TV about th...

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Does anyone else have friends or family in Ukraine? I don't know what to say anymore. "Sorry" is pathetically insufficient.

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