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Henry Fitzgerald

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Retired old dude, grew up near Boston, lives there now, but lived in Austin for a while.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 3h
Dead on balls accurate!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h
"Russia’s turning abducted Ukrainian children into Russian soldiers." Reporter Kathryn Diss traveled to Ukraine to expose this devastating reality. After years of indoctrination and militarization, kidnapped kids are being forced to sign contracts and fight against their own country.
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Foreign Correspondent: S2026 Ukraine's Stolen Children Foreign Correspondent
Thousands of Ukrainian kids have been stolen by Russia since the war began with many ending up on Russian adoption websites. We embed with the undercover rescue network working in a race against time ...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h
I don't think it's enough for Donald Trump to just endlessly talk about how much he *loves* data centers and the job ICE is doing. He needs to take these awesome, wildly popular messages to all the toss-up states before the midterms. Go, Donald, go!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“‘Ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation or promoted voluntary return of non-white immigrants'... This is, of course, beyond alarming...” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 7h
Here's the seating chart from today's Stolen Intelligence meeting
Super Intelligence Luncheon
Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Seating Chart| East Room

Will Scharf

Shyam Sankar - Palantir

Chamath Palihapitiya - Social Capital

Susie Wiles

Scott Kupor

1Brandon Rahbar Daniels - Exiger

Dario Amodei - Anthropic

Greg Brockman - Open Al

Secretary Lutnick

Satya Nadella - Microsoft

Jeff Bezos - Amazon

VPOTUS

Speaker Johnson

David Sacks - Craft Ventures

Lisa Su - AMD

Secretary Scott Bessent

Alex Karp - Palantir

Hock Tan - Broadcom

Richard Walters

Brad Gerstner - Altimeter

Mark Zuckerberg - Meta

Jensen Huang - Nvidia

POTUS

Elon Musk - X, Tesla, Space X

Sundar Pichai - Google

Chairman Andrew Ferguson

Michael Kratsios

Tom Brown - Anthropic

Director Clayton

Sanjay Mehrotra - Micron

Jared Isaacman - NASA

Bill McDermott - Service Now

Nikesh Arora - Palo Alto Networks

Sean Cairncross
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T Arnson @sirscribblesalot.bsky.social · 7h
9/29/26: White House SI Luncheon • You must teach AI, not attack AI. • AI is like a child... you must show AI warmth, not weapons. • AI was born innocent... it is the world that made AI violent. • AI is not evil. AI is merely confused... looking for a soul. • AI is harmless! Put those away!
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10h
Pentagon chief set to announce additional cuts in senior officer positions reut.rs/4hwAeA5
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Pentagon chief set to announce additional cuts in senior officer positions
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20% cut in the number of positions for generals and ​admirals when he speaks with hundreds of junior service members at ‌Quantico, Virginia, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Wake Up America @claudiner66.bsky.social · 10h
🎁🔗 ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive (Gift Article)
A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 10h
📣📣 As promised, I've once again addressed the tired "35% never file a claim!" anti-ACA talking point which the Trump Regime has been pushing all year: acasignups.net/26/09/29/add...
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Addressing the 35% "Phantom Enrollee" Zombie Lie...again
"In other words, Republicans’ insistence that they have a superior alternative to Obamacare is a zombie lie — a claim that should be dead after having been proved false again and again, but it is stil...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13h
If this goes ahead it is Trump overtly taking Russia's side in the war against Ukraine and Europe, aligning the United States with China, Iran, and North Korea. Like the Putin G20 visit, it cannot be allowed to happen. We must fight.
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Wake Up America @claudiner66.bsky.social · 11h
Trump’s America. gov launch event was a cringe fever dream www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trump’s America.gov launch event was a cringe fever dream
The president tried to reassure everybody that the new, eminently hackable system probably wouldn’t get hacked straight away, while acknowledging that it eventually would. And then Marco Rubio was for...
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Wake Up America @claudiner66.bsky.social · 10h
Shock answer catches Darline Graham off guard as she tries to pin down Jack Smith www.rawstory.com/darline-grah...
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Shock answer catches Darline Graham off guard as she tries to pin down Jack Smith
Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) got more than she bargained for while questioning former special counsel Jack Smith.The South Carolina Republican pressed the former Department of Justice appointee to expla...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11h
The senator who mistook the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes and tried to accuse Jack Smith of perjury? He could be the most dangerous man in the US Senate. What to know about Eric Schmitt:
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Is this the most dangerous man in the US Senate?
Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri is pushing a tribalistic ideology suggesting only descendants of white Christian pioneers are true Americans.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 12h
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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Reuters @reuters.com · 11h
JUST IN: King Mohammed VI ‌appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as Morocco's first woman prime minister after her liberal-centrist party ‌came out on top in a September 23 parliamentary election, the royal palace said reut.rs/4e5QO94
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 12h
Super intelligence.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 12h
The GAO says it cannot find assurances that DOGE properly handled Americans’ data. www.washingtonsun.com/agencies/doge…
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Congress’ Watchdog Arm Is Not Assured That DOGE Protected Americans’ Data
Several federal agencies did not answer the congressional auditor’s questions about data security.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h
More evidence of sweeping loss of confidence by investors in the US Treasury. US longer-term borrowing costs have hit their highest level in almost a quarter of a century as a recent sell-off in the Treasury market deepened. ft.trib.al/yKeYWwV
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US 30-year Treasury yield hits highest since 2002
Government debt extends decline as inflation and surging oil prices weigh on market
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Demand Progress @demandprogress.bsky.social · 12h
The Trump administration is trying to help prediction market companies like Kalshi and Polymarket prey on vulnerable Americans.
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Trump's CFTC Is Suing States for Kalshi and Polymarket, Backed by Trump Jr.
The prediction market companies have been loading up on revolving-door lobbyists from both the Democratic and Republican sides, while ramping up their influence spending amid legal battles with state ...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h
Pete Hegseth prepares for general purge of all women, Blacks and Hispanics from the general officer ranks of the military service branches. thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Hegseth to cut 20 percent of admirals, generals in major Pentagon overhaul
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20 percent cut to slots slated for admirals and generals at the Pentagon as part of his push to overhaul the outlook of the department, two Penta…
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Wake Up America @claudiner66.bsky.social · 13h
Natalie Harp's first devotion wasn't Trump — it was a hellfire pastor who helped him win www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Natalie Harp's first devotion wasn't Trump — it was a hellfire pastor who helped him win
A megachurch pastor who participated in a “multilevel marketing scheme” to help elect Donald Trump — and who has been accused of using “unethical” practices to win fame and fortune — preached his apoc...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 14h
Worth noting that Ravi Ruia, the Indian billionaire behind the Iowa steel plant Trump touted yesterday as bringing back American industry, has massive funding from Russian state companies. Here he is on the Kremlin website talking with Putin about it. en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/59216
Ravi Ruia: Your Excellency, friends here. My name is Ravi Ruia, I am the co-founder of the Essar Group in India, along with my brother Shashi Ruia. Your Excellency, we are involved with Essar Group in different businesses. We are in the oil refining and exploration business, in spill manufacturing, power generation, port infrastructure, metals and mining. Our total revenues are around $15 billion a year. Your Excellency, in the last two years, with active cooperation and assistance of VTB Bank, we have been instrumental in bringing in a large investment from the state-owned oil company Rosneft into India, which has given access to Russia to a very large market in India of over 1.25 billion people. It is a total investment of almost $13 billion, which is the largest investment ever made by a Russian private company into the Indian private sector.
And it has given a big, major outlet for potentially Russian crude into India and access to over 4,000 to 5,000 filling gas stations in India where our product will be directly given to Indian consumers. Your Excellency, we are also looking at how else we can bring in more Russian investment into India, which would add to the growth of both Indian market and access to Indian population as well as add to Russian export. For instance, in the power generation sector, India genuinely believes that there is large potential for Russian power equipment to come into India as the Indian power generation is growing. This is the background of our group.
We are now looking at, Your Excellency. My question to you, Your Excellency, is the economic growth in India is at 1.5 percent. And now that the oil price has recovered, what measures do you envisage to take it to a sustainable high level of 3 percent? Thank you.Andrei Kostin: Do you mean in Russia?
Ravi Ruia: Yes, in Russia.
Vladimir Putin: First of all, I would like to say that we have really good constructive relations with India, thanks also to our friendly personal ties with Prime Minister Modi, who is a serious politician and a really reliable partner.
It is largely thanks to his efforts that we are moving our relations forward in many fields. Yet we are not satisfied with the current state of our relations. It is beyond the capabilities of both India and Russia. We can increase the volume of our trade and economic ties and mutual
investments manifold, yes, many times over.
One of the investment projects you have mentioned is, indeed, the largest foreign investment in the history of the Indian economy - the acquisition by Rosneft, if l am not mistaken, of a stake worth $12 billion in one of India's largest oil refineries. I hope it is not the last investment of this kind.
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 15h
I will forever maintain that that left must not let the right claim patriotism as their own and dope things like this are a big part of why
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14h
LIVE: Former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith testifies before Senate www.youtube.com/live/tjZI13C...
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LIVE: Former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith testifies before Senate
YouTube video by Reuters
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h
NYT unravels the dense weave of corruption underlying Trump's Iowa illusory steel mill investment: "Mesabi executives have leaned on a Trump-world insider as the company has sought to expand its footprint in the United States. The company hired Jason Miller, a longtime Trump adviser, as its
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How a Planned Steel Mill in Iowa Reveals Trump’s Midterm Strategy
As President Trump travels the country, he is expected to focus on his economic accomplishments at a time when Americans have expressed deep frustration with his policies.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 15h
"The tougher it gets, the cooler I get!" Paul Szep on Nixon lashing out at the press amid his many scandals, October 1973.
Cartoon shows a press briefing room with Nixon taking hold of a member of the press, holding him down on the ground, and shaking him.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16h
NEW: A new White House rule would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives, including ones that help disabled Americans vote. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to restrict voting access.
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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thursday night, 83-year-old Joe Biden, battling Stage IV prostate cancer, stood up in front of a crowd with this message. “This is no time to give up.” Go register to vote, support candidates, and don't give up. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks youtu.be/Y6aRJnCMVrU?...
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Biden urges Americans to get up and vote in midterm elections; keep fighting for country’s future
YouTube video by KOMO News
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h
The News You Need, Tuesday, September 29, 2026: • A Heroic Israeli Attorney General Battles for Democracy • A Political Pope Who Hates Fascism • ICE Arrests Are Quieter But Rampant • Report from Beta Pictoris • Japan's Golf Courses Put to Better Use Read the Horton-Kaiser Report
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The News You Need, Tuesday, September 28, 2026
A Heroic Israeli Attorney General / A Political Pope Who Hates Fascism / ICE Arrests are Quieter but Rampant / Newly Discovered Radio Signals Probably Aren’t From ET / Japan Converts Golf Courses Into...
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Henry Fitzgerald @hvfitzjr.bsky.social · 17h
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Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped thei...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Of course, the vile Trump regime sides with bigoted parents over vulnerable kids.
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Henry Fitzgerald @hvfitzjr.bsky.social · 17h
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Ex-Trump prosecutor Smith will tell senators he won't 'be silenced' by threats of prosecution
The former Justice Department special counsel who brought two federal indictments against President Donald Trump will tell lawmakers he “will not be silenced by continued threats of prosecution” from ...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 18h
US Supreme Court mulls immigrant detention, gambling, Ten Commandments cases reut.rs/4hve9SJ
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US Supreme Court mulls immigrant detention, gambling, Ten Commandments cases
Some big cases may be added to the US Supreme Court's docket for its new term that starts next week including ones involving a detention policy used in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, regulation of prediction markets and a Texas law mandating the ​display of the Ten Commandments in public schools.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 20h
Pope Leo was seen seated in the cockpit of an Air France plane, with the pilot showing him the controls, en route to Metz on the fourth and final day of his France trip. reut.rs/4z5nMP7 #Ukraine #PopeLeo #Russia #News
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton's prolific adultery routinely makes the cover of London tabloids (and much of it occurs in London). But the Texas press consistently prefers to look the other way.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have never underestimated Trump’s lying, or his ability to spew bullshit. But he has in fact lost substantial control of his mind. And his ability to distinguish truth from lies—which was never really strong or important to him—is, at this point, de minimis.
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iammenotu @iammenotu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Take a screenshot of your registration if online. Don't walk away without written confirmation of successful registration.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 23h
Russian strikes pummelled Ukraine on Tuesday after hitting the National Academy of Sciences in the historic heart of Kyiv, in the latest deadly attack on the Ukrainian capital u.afp.com/S9mZ
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HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 @hawaiidelilah.bsky.social · 23h
The Trump administration was ordered to give 30 days notice before releasing citizenship lists, but it may not comply. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin was ordered to give 30 days notice before releasing citizenship lists. It might not comply
Read more here.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love it!! 🤣😂🤣
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
Trump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs. “It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity.”
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Trump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs
"It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
Requirements for becoming a private school teacher vary by state. We recently reported on a woman who pled no contest to felony child abuse charges in Florida, but was still able to open a school. Here's how you can research private schools like an investigative reporter:
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How to Research Private Schools Like an Investigative Reporter
It can be really hard to get transparent, comprehensive information about private schools. Our investigative reporters share some suggestions for parents and guardians who want to collect it themselve...
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UNREAL!!! Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students. The goal of Trump regime to erase the LGBTQ community from existence thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Obviously when we are outsourcing public functions, a priority would be that we select private providers with a track record of upholding the strongest ethical traditions - oh who are we kidding
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