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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
Emily Marris bought raw milk from a farm recommended to her on Facebook. After her 17-month-old drank it, the toddler contracted E. coli and nearly died. Despite knowing this, the farmer continued advertising “raw goat milk from a clean tested herd.”
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 16h
"The government is treating people who exercise their First Amendment rights and seek to hold it accountable as criminal suspects, and that's what we're asking the court to stop." www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 16h
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: GOP pumps $8 million into Kansas to prop up flailing Roger Marshall. We have a race on our hands. #ksleg
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Opinion: GOP pumps $8 million into Kansas to prop up flailing Roger Marshall. We have a race on our hands. • Kansas Reflector
Opinion editor Clay Wirestone writes: National Republicans are racing to the rescue of U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, diverting millions of dollars in advertising from North Carolina to Kansas. At least, t...
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 15h
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This Case Has Flown Under the Radar. It Won’t Stay There. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...
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Opinion | This Case Has Flown Under the Radar. It Won’t Stay There. (Gift Article)
This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The only option: a federally operated insurance system that covers everyone, has the power to control costs, and will eliminate huge expenses that we all bear for parts of the system that don’t make anyone healthier, including insurance company profits. kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/29/t...
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Commentary: The tipping point is close. Get ready for Medicare for All. • Kentucky Lantern
Health insurance costs are becoming unsustainable, and no one, and I mean no one, has a better idea for dealing with this crisis than Medicare for All.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Public university privatizes transparency. www.kentucky.com/news/local/e...
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Many records from new UK partner will not be public. Why lawyer says it’s ‘concerning’
UK isn’t violating open records law by rejecting the requests, but one lawyer says it’s troublesome that the public university’s partnership allows records to be concealed.
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Liam Niemeyer @liamniemeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eliza Petzinger, her daughter, her niece, her brother, her father and her mother all live on Owen Co. farmland. They also have alpha-gal syndrome: a tick-borne allergy to mammal products. A local doctor said it's "spreading like wildfire": kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/29/s... @kentuckylantern.com
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‘Spreading like wildfire’: How one KY county is grappling with a national tick-borne scourge • Kentucky Lantern
Alpha-gal syndrome is yet another illness connected to ticks that's continuing to emerge in Kentucky.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Eric Schmitt pins down Jack Smith — as a Caitlin Clark fan
It appeared that the Missouri Republican misinterpreted a text message reference to the "hawks."
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think Republicans might have made a tactical blunder with this Jack Smith hearing.
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 29/09/2026
In the early months of 2022, Democrats in Congress came close to passing an appropriations bill that did not include a provision barring federal funding for abortions — maybe the closest it had ever come in more than 40 years.
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Anti-abortion groups worry Hyde Amendment’s 50-year run could end with new congressional majority
In the early months of 2022, Democrats in Congress came close to passing an appropriations bill that did not include a provision barring federal funding for abortions — maybe the closest it had ever come in more than 40 years.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 29/09/2026
Big news out of Mercer County: Officials reject regulations to allow data centers next to coal-fired power plant From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/29/m...
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Mercer County officials reject regulations to allow data centers next to coal-fired power plant • Kentucky Lantern
HARRODSBURG — The Mercer County Fiscal Court rejected zoning regulations on Monday that would have allowed the siting of large data centers on land adjacent to a Kentucky Utilities coal-fired power pl...
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 29/09/2026
‘Spreading like wildfire’: How one KY county is grappling with a national tick-borne scourge From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/29/s...
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‘Spreading like wildfire’: How one KY county is grappling with a national tick-borne scourge • Kentucky Lantern
Alpha-gal syndrome is yet another illness connected to ticks that's continuing to emerge in Kentucky.
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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 27/09/2026
Politicians’ superpower might allow them to avoid blame for rising healthcare costs Politicians' superpower is that we, members of the voting public, often do not understand how elected officials' actions can impact… mississippitoday.org/2026/09/27/sup…
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Politicians’ superpower might allow them to avoid blame for rising healthcare costs
Politicians' superpower is that we, members of the voting public, often do not understand how elected officials' actions can impact issues such as healthcare costs.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kentucky State athlete is in ICE detention. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Bluegrass Politics @bluegrasspolitics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tomorrow the Lexington Herald-Leader will lose a lot of great journalists, including most of the people who have been covering Kentucky politics and state government for us. Here's a too-quick summary of our losses, and yours. ^JC
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The eradication of polio, one speaker said, was really the result of the elimination of DDT, an insecticide. That speech earned him a standing ovation. wapo.st/4ySVO9d
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Opinion | I attended an anti-vaccine conference. The joke ended quickly.
I am firmly pro-vaccine. Ridiculing those who are not helps no one.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto hosts panel of coal magnate Joe Craft, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg and U. of Louisville President Gerry Bradley to talk about growing Kentucky's workforce by investing in artificial intelligence. Read more at: www.kentucky.com/news/local/e...
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One of Kentucky’s biggest figures in coal thinks data centers will bring lots of jobs
A major donor to the GOP and to the University of Kentucky discussed plans for more data centers and AI in military defense.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 22/09/2026
Medical groups, patients sue Trump administration over Medicaid work requirements Enrollees from Kentucky are part of lawsuit kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/22/r...
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Medical groups, patients sue Trump administration over Medicaid work requirements • Kentucky Lantern
Medicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit Friday challenging new Medicaid work requirements.
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Jason Bailey @jbaileyky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Federal Medicaid cuts are a severe threat to rural hospitals in Kentucky, and the small rural health fund provided in HR 1 will not come anywhere close to stopping the harm. See the new @KyPolicy analysis for more 1/2
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
FBI in 2024 sought to investigate interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor. The ex-defense contractor told agents his company won millions in federal contracts by bankrolling politicians' campaigns. The investigation died after Trump returned. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kentucky measles update: There are now 49 cases in current outbreak and 7 hospitalizations. kyhealthnews.net/2026/09/21/m...
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Making sure you're not a bot!
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 21/09/2026
A data center ban or data center regulations? Catch up on Kentucky data center news. From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/21/a...
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A data center ban or data center regulations? Catch up on Kentucky data center news. • Kentucky Lantern
The council for Kentucky’s largest city is now grappling with how to craft planning and zoning regulations for data centers — particularly hyperscale data centers.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 21/09/2026
Before you say yes to a data center, listen to this advice from coal country kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Before you say yes to a data center, listen to this advice from coal country • Kentucky Lantern
The mayor of Russell learned in June that a Barcelona company wanted to build a two-gigawatt data center on the old AK Steel site in his town. He learned it from a consultant's email.
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Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 20/09/2026
“When the next administration comes, Republican or Democrat, funding may be restored, but it’s going to be incredibly difficult to rebuild.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/c...
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How Trump Has Disrupted National Parks (Gift Article)
Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 17/09/2026
Shelbyville tenants launching union against Lexington property management company From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/17/s...
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Shelbyville tenants launching union against Lexington property management company • Kentucky Lantern
Tenants at several properties in Shelbyville owned by a Lexington-based property management company are launching a tenant union to make demands on a range of concerns they have on unresolved maintena...
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 17/09/2026
Very excited about our first freelance story from the great Bill Estep. Feds take on Kentucky cockfighting with multiple indictments kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/17/f...
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Feds take on Kentucky cockfighting with multiple indictments • Kentucky Lantern
Federal authorities have charged five people in Kentucky in connection with cockfighting in cases that show the state remains a key player in the illegal activity, according to animal-welfare groups.
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KyPolicy @kypolicy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The cost of living keeps rising, but many Kentucky teachers are seeing their pay stay the same. Because of the continued erosion in state funding for Kentucky public schools, a third of districts gave no raise to teachers and other certified employees this year.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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KY lawmakers censored universities, then shielded their own records • Kentucky Lantern
What happens when politicians dislike what a professor teaches, an employee says, or a university prints?
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
David French on white men and meritocracy … www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/o...
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Opinion | When I Look at the Picture Bo French Hates (Gift Article)
Watching bigots erupt.
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Utah News Dispatch @utahnewsdispatch.com · 16/09/2026
Calling Charlie Kirk’s death at Utah Valley University “entirely preventable,” his family says he wouldn’t have been shot and killed last year had the university put in place tighter security protocols. Now they're taking the first steps toward suing the school.
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Charlie Kirk’s family says lapses in event security at Utah campus left him ‘helpless’ • Utah News Dispatch
Charlie Kirk’s death at Utah Valley University last year was “entirely preventable,” his family says in a notice of claim.
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Lexington Herald-Leader @kentucky.com · 16/09/2026
Apparently the spirits maker has moved on from its failed Brown-Forman takeover bid.
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Sazerac’s buying spree: Bourbon maker buys a vodka, in talks for schnapps
Apparently the spirits maker has moved on from its failed Brown-Forman takeover bid.
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 16/09/2026
Despite agreeing to settle his contentious lawsuit against the state, fired Indiana utility regulator Andy Zay maintains that his dismissal was manufactured to change the outcome in a now-pending review of a $71 million electricity rate increase for AES Indiana.
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Former Indiana utility regulator calls firing a ‘fishing expedition,’ denies spending allegations
Despite agreeing to settle his contentious lawsuit against the state, fired Indiana utility regulator Andy Zay maintains that his dismissal was manufactured to change the outcome in a now-pending review of a $71 million electricity rate increase for AES Indiana.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
James Orlick, a University of Louisville Ph.D. candidate, turns back the covers on Republicans' anti-DEI crusade in Kentucky. www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
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After Kentucky Banned DEI, Senator Called for Professor to Be ‘Fired or Worse’
After Kentucky Republicans banned DEI, a diversity, equity and inclusion defender used open records requests to reveal what public universities face behind the scenes.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 16/09/2026
Commentary Does talking about domestic violence make you a wimp? Asking for some candidates. From @lblackford.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/16/d...
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Does talking about domestic violence make you a wimp? Asking for some candidates. • Kentucky Lantern
Ralph Alvarado’s campaign pushed out a press release this week on a curious piece in the Daily Caller, the right-wing website about Alvarado’s opponent in the 6th District Congressional race, Zach Dem...
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 16/09/2026
From @weku.bsky.social, via the Appalachian News Exchange. Are Trump’s policies helping KY coal? Not much, new federal outlook shows kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/16/a...
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Are Trump's policies helping KY coal? Not much, new federal outlook shows • Kentucky Lantern
The Trump administration has taken steps to boost coal’s fortunes in recent years, but the government still forecasts an industry decline this year and next.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton.
The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Every time he insults another country or world leader, it feels less like a deliberate diplomatic strategy as his followers insist, & more like an indicator of the absence of such work, marking the indifference of a social media addict craving his next dopamine hit." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/o...
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Opinion | Trump Has Untethered Himself From Reality (Gift Article)
The president’s distortions have an impact on much more than belief in his claims about what he was doing on Sept. 11.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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What is lost when a Trappist monastery is sold to a tech billionaire?
Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, has purchased St. Benedict’s Monastery in the Elk Mountains, where a group of Trappist monks lived and worked for decades.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
In states with abortion bans, medical providers are hesitating or flat-out refusing to terminate ectopic pregnancies, lawsuits allege. “I genuinely thought I was going to die,” said Kyleigh Thurman, who couldn’t get care in Texas.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@shannimcg.bsky.social had this great insight that the "Woke 1.0" discourse is a product of the "polarization" meta-narrative. Essentially, since we had radical, crazy, dangerous, ideas/movements from the right (MAGA, Jan 6, anti-CRT/DEI), there must have been equivalents on the left. They weren't.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Heartbreaking story of an immigrant mother's journey from Guatemala and "welcome" in Kentucky reported by @dyetter.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/11/j...
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Judge clears path for 1-year-old girl to be reunited with mother • Kentucky Lantern
A judge has cleared the way for a one-year-old girl in foster care to be reunited with her birth mother who is scheduled to be deported to Guatemala and currently is in custody of U.S. Immigration and...
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If you can’t win, change the rules. A Gender War Explodes in Utah Over the Courts, Abortion and Representation www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...
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A Gender War Explodes in Utah Over the Courts, Abortion and Representation (Gift Article)
When Republicans tried to repeal a law that voters passed banning gerrymandering, they found an opposition that flew in the face of Utah women’s “tradwives” imagery.
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McKenna Horsley @mckennahorsley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's answer to a question about former Gov. Matt Bevin's arrest last week for contempt of court. Beshear defeated Bevin in 2019.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
August Ties the Record for Earth’s Hottest Month on the Books www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/c...
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August Ties for Hottest Month on Record (Gift Article)
Sweltering summer temperatures put last month on par with July 2023 for global warmth, scientists said. More records could be broken in the months ahead.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 09/09/2026
Bruce Lunsford, Kentucky politician and businessman, dies at 78 kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Bruce Lunsford, Kentucky politician and businessman, dies at 78 • Kentucky Lantern
Bruce Lunsford, who founded Fortune 500 healthcare company Vencor, served as Gov. John Y. Brown Jr.’s commerce secretary and ran unsuccessfully twice for governor of Kentucky and once for U.S. Senate,...
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 09/09/2026
From Cheves: "Given Alvarado’s many ties to nursing homes... it seems worth noting that the state Health Dept. at some point 'scrubbed its website' of nursing home inspection reports, instead requiring citizens to file time-consuming open records requests in order to read individual reports..."
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Ralph Alvarado kept outside jobs while working as Tennessee health commissioner
Reports show that Alvarado, now a GOP congressional candidate, worked for Kentucky nursing homes and other facilities while in Tennessee.
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Liam Niemeyer @liamniemeyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ICYMI: a Burgin city council member walked out of the engine bay of the small community's fire department to stop a vote that would have advanced consideration of a proposed hyperscale data center. "You can’t do business without a quorum." kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/09/b... @kentuckylantern.com
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Burgin city council member walks out to stop a vote for a proposed data center project • Kentucky Lantern
A city council member for a small Mercer County community walked out of a meeting Tuesday evening, stopping a vote that could have restarted efforts to annex land for a proposed hyperscale data center...
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