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David Crook

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/10/2026
Newborn baby Malachi, whose parents belong to a faith-healing sect that doesn’t believe in medical care, died of preventable and treatable conditions. Thirteen months later, their next newborn, Liam, died from the same things.
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These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.
For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of tr...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Watchdog group @citizensforethics.org files legal challenge, asking court to block Jared Kushner from serving as Trump envoy They allege he's “breaking the law by acting as one of the country’s top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Authoritarian regime grabs electronic communication devices of prominent opposition member. Since it’s highly unlikely there is anything on her phone about immigration paperwork from 30 years ago we can assume this just became a fishing expedition.
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Average hourly earnings, adjusted for inflation, fell 0.5 percent in September and are now back to where they were in January, 2025. That means that Americans, on average, have experienced zero real wage growth since Trump returned to office.
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 14/10/2026
NEW: Ukrainian troops were caught off guard by restrictions on Starlink satellite internet systems that disrupted frontline operations, as Kyiv received no advance warning from its partners of a Russian missile attack on its energy facilities for the second day running, Ukrainian officials tell me.
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Ukraine blindsided by Starlink restrictions and intelligence gaps during Russian attack
Moscow ignores Donald Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ while Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14/10/2026
CBS: “US officials blamed “bad weather” for not warning Ukraine of Russian missile launches overnight which killed 6 and left more than 600,000 without power, sources tell CBS News. Ukrainian officials don’t buy the excuse, believing intelligence was withheld on purpose.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.
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AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health News
A Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Ossoff: "When the congressman voted for this Medicaid cuts, the largest in history, he knew that 50% of all births in our state are covered by Medicaid. He still voted for them. And as a result, a labor and delivery unit in his own district had to shut down. He also supports a total ban on abortion"
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Unprecedented corruption
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: Texans spent decades steadily tearing down the church-state wall, claiming it is a myth meant to obscure America's true Christian roots. Now, Trump is helping them export their playbook nationally. The result: A federal bureaucracy remade in their Christian nationalist image. (Gift link)
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Texans Spent Decades Tearing Down the Church-State Wall. Now They Have Trump’s Ear.
Dan Patrick calls the separation of church and state a lie and has worked to infuse Christianity into Texas institutions. Trump is helping him take that strategy nationwide.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
the *smallest* gain to diesel vs a year ago: Hawaii: $2/gal, while California and Colorado see diesel prices up over $3/gal from a year ago. I don't see much improvement to these anytime soon, despite every possible lever being pulled. only real lever that matters? diplomacy.
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The official U.S. Department of Education account posted a Columbus Day video set to the song L'Amour toujours, which, if you don’t know, is a random dance song that’s been song co-opted by Nazi groups across Europe, complete with new (nazi) lyrics. link in next post. x.com/usedgov/stat...
a screenshot from x. the U.S. department of education account has posted a video. in the screenshot it’s conquistadors with a cross from the movie apocalypto.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 12/10/2026
Biggest takeaway from a decade reporting on the Trump's businesses: Norms ain't laws. And laws ain’t shit unless they’re enforced quickly and proportionately.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hi Mike Rogers. Here’s a message from me and 783 of my friends in R+32 Ionia County. Good luck out there, habibi.
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And the hundreds of millions of dollars its owner spends on elections influence campaigns - many of which are about EXCLUDING certain people, and include in-kind contributions and thumbing the scale in his “inclusive” place
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
X is the platform of choice for these smears. Musk himself pushed this conspiracy from his own account three times. Democrats need to go to war against Musk because he's already attacking them. He's deeply unpopular. And, as we saw in Wisconsin, voters recoil when he becomes an issue in a race.
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Leaving a legacy: - Doubling federal deficit to $2 TRILLION annual run rate - Evicting millions from their health insurance coverage - doing nothing to curb a very unpopular undeclared war - allowing Executive Branch to run roughshod over Article I powers, incl. destroying scientific institutions
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Can someone ask CBS News why Ted Koppel said that "Bannon's technically correct; they didn't have standing" in the 60+ cases Trump and his allies lost in 2020. This is verifiably false and is a GOP talking point. Many/most of the cases Trump lost were on the merits. Do they not fact check at CBS?
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Useless idiots > useful idiots
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/10/2026
As the Trump administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, federal agents have run roughshod over the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. We’re showing you every incident we’ve confirmed — along with the receipts: propub.li/3TBuddL
500+ U.S. citizens detained since the start of the second Trump administration. 100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. At least 70 American children and teens detained, some of whom were handcuffed. 36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or family.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Here are the details: literally any time, any place, any network.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 11/10/2026
You guys can keep repeating this all you want, but it doesn’t make it true. America was founded as a secular republic, not a Christian nation. The Constitution is pretty clear about that.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
these people are so fucking stupid that it’s embarrassing to inhabit the same planet
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Well, it’s a quick take, and no doubt data will come in, but it sure looks like based on today’s evidence that a lot of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot work depends directly on Russian data centers.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
October 2026, @financialtimes.com: “The Trump administration is threatening to stop the procurement system that provides Ukraine with weapons in order to press Kyiv to halt its deep strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, according to officials in Europe.”
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US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over attacks on Russian refineries
Officials lobby European capitals and Kyiv following Trump’s diesel deal with Putin
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Didn’t you hear? Everyone that matters is using X again, and it is safe to go back. /s
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Musk is trying to help the regime steal the midterms by spreading lies and misinformation. Democrats and progressive organizations need to treat X like a fascist propaganda network—because it is. X will be part of their campaign to deny the results and refuse to seat duly elected representatives.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 12/10/2026
Garnet broke a huge story. We don't have salaries and we still pay for fact-checking. Please support our worker-owned, paywall-free publication with a gift or paid subscription today: www.autonomynews.co/support/
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/10/2026
1. Russia is not winning on the battlefield and had to reform the entire budget in favor of the continuous war against sovereign Ukraine. 2. Zelenskyy has reacted favorably to any suggestion of a peaceful deal that would stop Russian aggression. Each attempt of such was declined by Kremlin.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/10/2026
The very first shipment of 300K tons of Russian diesel—carried by the tanker Minerva Zen, which left St. Petersburg on September 22—arrived on the US East Coast less than 24 hours after the deal was formally announced.
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So inconvenient! Considering Russians are bombing cities in Ukraine daily, these hosts are basically just mouthpieces for Putin regime now. Err, I mean Trump regime.
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One place where that Russian revenue goes bsky.app/profile/kate...
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Today Russia celebrated the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia. At least 15 people are killed, among them 3 children. The number may rise as rescuers check the rubble‼️
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 08/10/2026
NEW: Harmeet Dhillon's Civil Rights Division is trying to indict former Trump White House official Cassidy Hutchinson, a star witness before the Jan. 6 Committee.
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Justice Department seeks criminal charge for former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson
The former Trump aide was a star witness before the Jan. 6 committee. The case is being pursued by the Civil Rights Division, led by Harmeet Dhillon.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/10/2026
The Trump administration wants to lift sanctions on a Russian company to benefit mostly Middle Eastern investors (who also happen to be Trump family business partners) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This feels like what life was like before modern medicine. Four young kids, born to "Followers of Christ" family died of treatable illnesses. This is willful ignorance enabled by religious exemptions. Parents were not touched due Idaho's child abuse laws. www.propublica.org/article/idah...
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He said the sacrifice of those cities: “it’s a small price to pay” after lying about and campaigning against and withdrawing from multi lateral JCPOA But often course WaPo post here gives benefit of doubt to the serial liars in Trump and Cheung and leaves it at. Why?!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“.. U.S. trade deficit blew out to $105.6 billion in August ... up significantly from the prior month and now up by $34.4 billion in the past two months. .. Outside of the Liberation Day swings, this is a record.” - Schwab
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A return to the systematic abuses of the US government on the vulnerable in the 1980s – the public knowledge of which led to reforms and today’s system of immigration courts. It is deeply troubling to see a return of these systematic abuses by the system put in place to prevent them.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
They spend all this time and money defending Richard Nixon but can’t prosecute the men in the Epstein Files?
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is there a threat of violence (immediate or otherwise) in any of the materials?
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Trump-Roberts Court remains undefeated in its usage as a lens to describe the Trump monarchy and his disdain for the Constitution
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They made her wait all day to kill her, and now they’re torturing her.
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These sycophancy sessions are so tiresome and useless A confederacy of dunces, wasting valueable resources
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