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OPB @opb.org · 27/08/2026
Measles has an incubation period of 7 to 21 days, meaning that if susceptible people did get infected, they could be showing symptoms soon.
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Oregon health officials warn of possible measles exposure at crowded Canby Rodeo
Oregon health officials say large crowds, tight seating and the difficulty of pinpointing who might have been at risk led to their exposure notice about the outdoor event.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
According to CNN, Natalie Harp once jumped into the trunk of an SUV after getting into a screaming match with other Trump staffers after being denied a seat in the motorcade heading to a Trump trial appearance. www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/p...
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Meet Natalie Harp, the aide so close to Trump she once rode in an SUV trunk to accompany him | CNN Politics
Natalie Harp has become a main conduit between President Donald Trump and the outside world, sources say.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Trump admin defunds lawyers helping unaccompanied kids @wyden.senate.gov: "The Trump administration is quietly breaking the law and continuing to smother a federal office created and funded by Congress to protect children from trafficking and other dangers." www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
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Wyden Sounds Alarm on Trump Administration’s Critical Failure to Fund Legal Representation for Unaccompanied Minors | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Sounds Alarm on Trump Administration’s Critical Failure to Fund Legal Representation for Unaccompanied Minors
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A simple Google search says Jamie Raskin, Richard Blumenthal, & Gary Peters all took oversight actions last year re treatment of Tate brothers. Then Yassamin Ansari wrote a letter on July 23--again more oversight. None of those efforts made Moira Donegan's July 27 column claiming Dems were "silent."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Marc Rosenblum, head for statistics at DHS, resigns, saying he is delighted to no longer be involved in supporting the agency's war against facts and the truth. www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...
wired.com
DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’
The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
CBS reports that Ashley Moody did precisely what the entire GOP has accused Tim Walz of doing -- and yet, somehow, that crack fraud task force has not arrested the GOP nominee for Senate. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
As Florida Attorney General, it was Moody and her office that approved the diversion of $10 million of taxpayer money to the Hope Florida Foundation. And the Attorney General did so without placing any of the safeguards or guardrails her office would typically require to make sure the money was properly spent.

These funds were intended to expand Medicaid for children in Florida, but instead they ended up in the bank accounts of a pair of political action committees, one of which was controlled by the governor and his chief of staff, James Uthmeier.

And that was the money that DeSantis used to defeat Amendment 3.

Amendment 3 garnered 56% of the vote in November 2024, just shy of the 60% needed to pass. And two months after the amendment failed, DeSantis appointed Moody to the United States Senate, and he appointed Uthmeier to replace Moody as attorney general.

The diversion of $10 million from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation and then into the political action committees fighting Amendment 3 was uncovered through a series of legislative hearings in 2025 in the Florida House. And it prompted one Republican legislator to call it a criminal act.

"This is a misuse of Medicaid money," Republican State Rep. Alex Andrade told CBS Miami in August 2025. "This is money laundering."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
When Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...
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The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids
In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
RNC has ~$128 million cash on hand and no debt, per FEC filings. DNC has ~$16 million cash on hand and ~$18 million in debt. DNC Chair Ken Martin says they’re winning the future: “we must measure success by power built, not simply dollars retained.” substack.com/@kenmartin28...
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The DNC Is Building a Democratic Party That Can Win the Moment and Win the Future
By Ken Martin, Democratic National Committee Chair
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/07/2026
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)
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Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I asked Liz Oyer what it was like to work for Todd Blanche. He sent armed U.S. Marshals to her home to try and stop her from speaking to Congress.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/07/2026
Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Casually threatening mass rapes
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16/07/2026
President Trump is aware of reports that a White House teleprompter operator won thousands of dollars on an online betting platform after betting on the content of some of the president's speeches, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday. to.pbs.org/4gE3XbL
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WATCH: Trump believes his Kalshi-betting teleprompter operator is a 'disgrace,' Leavitt says
Leavitt added that no other staffers are under investigation and that the White House counsel had no awareness of the alleged bets.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Justice Department appears to have included a fake AI-generated. citation in an ICE detainee's case. Judge Jarbou, a Trump appointee in Michigan, called it out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/07/2026
Haberman: "Last year the administration signed a critical minerals mining deal with Kazakhstan for a U.S. company...Six days before the deal was signed...the president's older sons with other partners took a 20% investment in a company related. What did the president know?" Leavitt: "Nothing."
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Reuters @reuters.com · 16/07/2026
Trump's teleprompter operator under CFTC probe over potential insider trading, sources say reut.rs/4fb1Zgo
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Trump's teleprompter operator under CFTC probe over potential insider trading, sources say
U.S. President Donald Trump's longtime teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez is under investigation by federal regulators over potential insider trading on prediction market platform Kalshi, according to two sources ​familiar with the matter.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 16/07/2026
“A man was lynched here yesterday." On the ground with Mainers protesting and mourning, after ICE killed a man in his vehicle in Biddeford earlier this week. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 16/07/2026
Epstein survivor: We urge Senators Tillis and Cornyn to vote no on Todd Blanche’s nomination.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“‘That is RIDICULOUS,’ one person with knowledge of the planned golf trip said in a message. ‘Pence and Harris never pulled anything like that.’” www.ms.now/news/veeps-s...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026
"By voting to confirm him, Republicans are putting their stamp of approval on a DOJ that investigates the president’s enemies & treats every Q of law as a question of loyalty. It’s a grotesque perversion of the legal system, & it’s beyond anything Roy Cohn could have imagined." — @lizdye.bsky.social
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Todd Blanche is Roy Cohn ... but worse
Republicans own the orgy of corruption that will follow their vote to confirm him.
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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
With a huge surge of public money, new private schools are opening fast - without meaningful oversight. Even this Arkansas school - where the founder hit a kid, urged other kids to do the same, and stayed involved in the school's administration from JAIL - is still supported by taxpayer dollars.
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This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.
One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about saf...
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 15/07/2026
permanent daylight saving time is one of those things that sounds awesome until you learn a little more about it and then realize that the actual solution to the problem (it’s annoying to change clocks, esp because not everyone does it) is permanent standard time, which sucks
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
AOC on Trump’s Thursday address: I don’t think we should be contributing to the platforming of lies about our elections. Many of these outlets often receive transcripts, and I think we have an ethical obligation not to air things that undermine our elections and are not rooted in fact.
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In 2020, Trump's conspiracy theories about "foreign interference" had, shall we say, imperfect messengers, like the ink-dripping Rudy Giuliani. Now, the whole administration is on board with the effort.
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The Brief: Get Ready for Trump’s 2026 Disinformation Deluge
Its Time to Flood the Zone With Shit Again Trump announced Monday...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14/07/2026
President Trump on Monday sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah, undoing protections established by former presidents on public lands that are sacred among many Native Americans.
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Trump reduces size of 2 national monuments in Utah as Republicans reshape land management
President Donald Trump is sharply reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah. The move to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by about 90% unravels protections established by former presidents for areas with unique archaeological and historical features.
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Write a horror story in 6 words. I’ll go first: Mike Lee’ll be Judiciary Committee chairman.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The number of children receiving SNAP nationwide has dropped by more than 1.5 million since Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill became law, based on CBPP’s analysis of available data from 17 states. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Republican Megabill Is Implemented
SNAP participation nationwide fell by more than 4 million people (nearly 10 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and March 2026, based on the latest month of data.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
the real story behind this viral photo is even more heartbreaking than the one the public created.
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The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.
America saw what it wanted to see on the face of its newest icon. And everyone saw it wrong.
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C.R. Denis @crdenis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Cyclospora and screwworm aren’t related pathogens. They’re related decisions. Strip the monitoring, strip the funding, then point at the last guy when the thing you stopped tracking finds you anyway.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Comments close at 11:59 PM tonight. For handy toolkit of how you can submit a comment, hit this link.
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Critical action needed: Stop OMB's political review of federal grants | Defend Public Health
A proposed rule from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) seeks to take expert review of federal grants out of the hands of experts and put it into the hands of political appointees. This rule co...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Spelled his name wrong.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 12/07/2026
Okay so I’ve got a podcast to pitch to everyone
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Aquilino A. Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Betrayed once more. This is the same DOJ that tried to prosecute people for throwing a sandwich, recording ICE agents violating people’s rights and for removing peeling paint from the reflection pool. Yet the violent siege of the Capitol seems acceptable.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 11/07/2026
The Trump administration is threatening to withhold federal funding from states that don't make changes to voting practices and warning state election officials that they face arrest if they don’t remove noncitizens from voter rolls.
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The Trump administration is ramping up pressure on states to change election practices
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10/07/2026
The Fund for PPS had hoped to raise $1 million this school year. It wound up with about $250,000.
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Portland Public Schools promised more equitable fundraising. Donations are far short of targets
The Fund for PPS had hoped to raise $1 million this school year. It wound up with about $250,000.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Trump's DOJ is threatening to arrest and imprison Oregon's Secretary of State on the basis of false claims about supposed widespread voting by non-citizens.
Secretary of State Tobias Read & X.com
@ORSecretaryRead
Yesterday, I received a letter from the U.S.
Department of Justice stating that the federal government was ready to prosecute and imprison me and other elections officials and renewing their attempts to unlawfully meddle in Oregon elections. Here's my response:
The U.S. DOJ is knocking on our door again with more threats and no evidence to back up their fever dreams about non-existent voter fraud.
Oregon elections are secure, accurate, and fair.
These are facts backed up by decades of work by local elections officials who follow the law.
I'm not intimidated by political threats or manufactured controversy. My priority is making sure Oregonians can continue to hold government accountable, free from any interference by politicians in Washington D.C.
We've beaten back every illegal executive order and lawsuit so far. We're ready to do it again, as many times as it takes.
If the President actually wanted to strengthen our elections, there are better places to start: adequately funding election administration, restoring the federal election cybersecurity program he cut, and expanding access to vote-by-mail, paper ballot elections - just to name a few.
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CELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
People are debating whether Platner belongs to the dirtbag left or the normie libs, and that's not the axis on which this revolves. He was backed by guys who thought "identity politics" was Mommy trying to make them take their diarrhea medicine, and that's a broad swath with members in both camps.
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Graham Platner hid his sexual assaults the right way. by Ezra Klein
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Graham Platner’s history of sexual assault proves he does not belong in the US Senate. He belongs on the Supreme Court. by Susan Collins
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/07/2026
President Donald Trump said Monday that he's building a granite helipad on the White House lawn, insisting that the landing area is needed to accommodate new, more powerful presidential choppers. to.pbs.org/4eLHeZY
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WATCH: Trump says Sikorsky is paying for a 'beautiful' granite helipad at the White House
President Donald Trump said Monday that he's building a granite helipad on the White House lawn, insisting that the landing area is needed to accommodate new, more powerful presidential choppers.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If you read just a few comments on any article about Graham Platner it should become crystal clear why victims don’t come forward earlier. The level of cruelty people direct at victims is gutting
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 07/07/2026
Obamacare rolls shrank dramatically in many states over the past year, new federal data shows
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Obamacare rolls shrank dramatically in many states over the past year, new federal data shows
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j2d2pdx.bsky.social @j2d2pdx.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not in Maine, so never had a vote, but... you don't have to rescind endorsement of a guy with a Nazi tattoo if you never endorsed a guy with a Nazi tattoo....
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I get it. Maine is super special. But... Maybe it's time to face the glaring, latent misogyny infused throughout our party instead of giving every man throwing a tantrum anything they want and demanding every woman "fall in line" to be a "team player."
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Last week, Peter Thiel told a private group that Pope Leo XIV was working for the Chinese Communist Party.
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Peter Thiel Accuses Pope Leo XIV of Working for the Chinese Communist Party
Thiel told a nonrecorded Aspen Ideas Festival panel with Francis Fukuyama that the pope’s AI encyclical serves Beijing. The billionaire behind JD Vance has spent a year casting Leo as an agent of the ...
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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
NEW: The ad campaign was jarring. People who smoked for decades warned others as they were dying of cancer or lung disease. After 14 years, it went dark in September. Calls to 1-800-QUIT-NOW plummeted. A look at tobacco policy under Trump: 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...
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Efforts to Help Smokers Quit Stall Under Trump
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