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Kassie Navarro @kassien.bsky.social · 22h
Susan Collins claims that @propublica.org’s reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. 📽️ Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyi...
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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The arguments you've heard against California's billionaire tax are utter BS. Here to debunk them — and explain why you should vote YES on Prop 40 — is renowned economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tell your members of Congress to vote to protect the Kennedy Center. It’s up for debate.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2026
Donald Trump’s rush to deport as many immigrants as possible is creating a new family-separation crisis, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social writes. She reports on the babies left behind in America:
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨New: With data added from more states, we now estimate that about 2 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP in the wake of deep cuts enacted in last year’s Republican reconciliation law. Overall, more than 5 million people have lost SNAP since July 2025. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is Implemented
SNAP participation nationwide fell by roughly 5 million people (12 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and May 2026, based on the latest month of data.
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helenb61.bsky.social @helenb61.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our Forests Are Demanding a Sacrifice www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
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Opinion | Our Forests Are Demanding a Sacrifice
Wildfire converted me from a tree-hugger to a tree-worshipper.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 22/09/2026
“The world is busy with crises, and some policy leaders have tried to downplay or ignore climate change,” write David Wallace-Wells and Zeke Hausfather. “But this is not the time for complacency.”
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Opinion | Climate Catastrophe Is Still on the Table
Harrowing temperature increases remain unnervingly possible.
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helenb61.bsky.social @helenb61.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 20/09/2026
If A.I. companies are losing their ability to evaluate the models they have now, “maybe don’t let them build models you’ll be even less capable of controlling in the future,” our columnist Ezra Klein writes.
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Opinion | We’re Not Losing Control of A.I. We’re Giving It Away.
Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026
Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
THIS IS THE WAY!!! LET’S GO!!!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/09/2026
Insurers sometimes deny coverage citing lack of progress, labeling patients’ conditions as chronic. Yet if they do make progress, insurers have also used that to argue patients no longer need treatment. Doctors are left to walk a tightrope. (Published Dec. 2024)
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Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.
Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
THREAD Not only does the Census Bureau give folks access to sensitive info about...well...us, but the design of the census affects things like the number of representatives each state is allotted in the House & how money is allotted to states. The census--& the bureau--aren't just number counting.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Susan, you can’t vote with Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies 96% of the time, then show up every six years and pretend you give a damn about working families. Mainers see through your BS. Hope you had a great Labor Day weekend, wherever you were.
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Sunny Ella @sunnywillow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What a great idea. Free fostering for dog parents who want to go into rehab for substance abuse. youtube.com/watch?v=cbpS...
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Getting Sober Without Losing Your Best Friend
YouTube video by WeRateDogs
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Jon @jonks949.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It seems to be a bug in their software. Probably should report it
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
That *Rep. Jim Clyburn* is announcing his support for SCOTUS expansion is huge.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 04/08/2026
We only rate dogs. This is a baby kangaroo, as you can tell by the kickstart button on her foot. Please only send dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (TT: supernoodlegirls)
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💙🏳️‍🌈 Kh’ymm (aka Goldie) 🏳️‍🌈💙 @thegoldfishmind.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social turned decades of studying democracy into a nightly act of devotion, writing alone past midnight, no sponsors, no noise, just truth and care. She’s given millions a place to breathe, to understand, to feel less alone. Grateful for her light in the dark. TYSM HCR! #Pinks
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/07/2026
This is Kennedy. She arrived at the rescue suffering from a life-threatening intestinal infection that requires emergency hospitalization. She needs supportive care to survive, including IV fluids, antibiotics and a feeding tube. You can help her below ❤️‍🩹 1510.fan/kennedy-bsd
kennedy, a small black, white, and tan spaniel, stands on a padded exam table in a veterinary hospital wearing a medical cone. an iv is taped to her front leg while a vet prepares medication through her iv line. medical equipment and monitors are in the background.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/07/2026
Atul Gawande, the former assistant administrator for global health at U.S.A.I.D., on the devastating effects of cuts to international aid by DOGE and Elon Musk. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
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How an Estimated Seven Hundred Thousand People Have Died from DOGE’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts
Atul Gawande, the former assistant administrator for global health at U.S.A.I.D., on the devastating effects of cuts to international aid by DOGE and Elon Musk.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 26/06/2026
Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
ducks dying at reflecting pool. wapo.st/4eBZWBL
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A dead duck was seen in the Reflecting Pool. Then two more were found nearby.
The two ducks that were recovered from Constitution Gardens will undergo necropsies to determine their cause of death.
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sylviseb 💙🌈☮️🌊💙💛Maga➡️blocked💛💙🌎🌻✌️🦋 @sylviseb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Reading about the Obama Center opening, seeing photos, videos, hearing speeches, reading commentaries confirmed a STARK contrast between two presidents. DJT's is consumed with hate, anger, delusions of grandeur and getting retribution. He is evil. He's NOT presidential. He needs to be removed.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Science is amazing
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Katherine @wordwatcher.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
There is no word in the English language to adequately describe the anger and frustration and disbelief that Americans are feeling….
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/05/2026
Agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter in a massive show of force. Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. But after the cameras were gone, federal prosecutors did not charge anyone. (Published Nov. 2025)
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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026
On fashion’s big night out, we turned the lens onto the garment, retail, warehouse, and delivery workers who make the fashion industry possible. Read the full piece: bsky.app/profile/mayo...
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We're headed toward a Congress where like 40 states send a single-party delegation, indistinguishable from just electing everyone at large and a population-based replica of the Senate. Thank you, John Roberts, for ushering in this nonsense era.
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 29/04/2026
Over at @lawfaremedia.org, we are launching a 5-week effort to sustain our independent, nonpartisan, expert analysis. Keeping our work accessible to anyone who wants it requires support from our readers and listeners. If Lawfare matters to you, reshare this and donate today!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/04/2026
There’s a virus in our tax system. A stealth virus, it was embedded in America’s economic DNA for a century, biding its time. And then we created those conditions, unleashing it to infect our institutions of culture and democracy, replicate, and burst forth to infect anew. An oligarchy virus.
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The American experiment has been infected by oligarchs
How our tax system guarantees extreme wealth concentration.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
For over 8 million Americans, Trump wants to collect: "Medical and pharmaceutical claims, diagnoses, treatments, visit length, provider information, doctor’s notes or after-visit summaries..." All "with identifying information, such as names and birth dates" kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/04/2026
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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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 03/04/2026
It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Someone sent me this.
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I will be using @bookshop.org to be petty.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
If even half of this is descriptively accurate ...
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𝒮𝒽ℯ-ℛ𝒶 @riptodeesse.blacksky.app · 23/03/2026
So it has begun
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
NEW: More than 11,000. That’s how many US citizen children have a parent who has been detained under Trump, our new data analysis shows. When Doris Flores was separated from her four-month-old who was still breastfeeding, she turned to her pastor for help. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
💬 “All of this attempt to serve affordability…” What does that actually look like in NYC? Paul Krugman and Lina M. Khan unpack the real impact on workers and businesses. @pkrugman.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social 🎥 Watch the full conversation on YouTube. youtu.be/Kv6ACS3a5_0?...
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Wow this investigation identifies 5 federal agents who "engaged in a pattern of force and questionable detention, aggressive tactics that courts have said likely violated the constitution, as they moved from Bakersfield to Los Angeles, and then Chicago and Minneapolis" calmatters.org/investigatio...
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Agents of Chaos: Border Patrol’s year of unchecked force
A visual investigation shows how five agents moved from city to city, with their tactics becoming more brazen at each stop.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/03/2026
Body-camera footage, F.B.I. reports, interview summaries, dozens of text messages, and other evidence in the shooting of Marimar Martinez “gives us the most complete picture yet of a D.H.S. shooting and its aftermath,” Ruby Cramer reports. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ZhftIF
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The Preschool Teaching Assistant Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist”
When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, with it, a sense of reality.
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MJ @marciej.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Quiet part out loud dept.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/03/2026
Read other letters from kids detained at the Dilley detention center:
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no…
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/03/2026
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent. Her lawyer believes that her case should be studied as a “playbook” for D.H.S. violence. “She’s one of the few people who has survived the bullets and can speak out,” he said. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/j0manC
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The Preschool Teaching Assistant Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist”
When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, with it, a sense of reality.
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David Becker @beckerdavidj.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Read this piece! As @annabower.bsky.social and @mollyroberts.bsky.social point out: "The greatest obstacle facing a president seeking to exercise authority over elections is obvious: The president has no [constitutional] authority over elections."
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