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Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 15/10/2026
When are Republican members of Congress going to admit that Trump and Musk are Russian assets? heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-14...
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October 14, 2026
According to Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov, last night, without warning, Elon Musk’s SpaceX restricted the speed limits for the Starlink terminals Ukraine’s military uses, known as...
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 14/10/2026
‘Green button’ was supposed to lower KY electricity bills. Nonprofit says it doesn’t work. From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/14/g...
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'Green button' was supposed to lower KY electricity bills. Nonprofit says it doesn't work. • Kentucky Lantern
Kentucky’s largest electric utility has money on "smart" meters, but a program for customer savings doesn't appear to work.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 14/10/2026
About 80,000 Kentuckians have lost access to food aid under federal rule changes From @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/14/a...
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About 80,000 Kentuckians have lost access to food aid under federal rule changes • Kentucky Lantern
Some 80,000 Kentuckians have lost access to the food benefits known as SNAP because of federal changes to the program.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Everything Trump is doing is exactly what Putin wants. Putin is manipulating him masterfully. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/o...
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Opinion | Russia Was Losing. Enter President Trump. (Gift Article)
The commander in chief is Putin’s ace in the hole.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 14/10/2026
Meta revealed as company behind controversial Mason County hyperscale data center FFrom @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/14/m...
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Meta revealed as company behind controversial Mason County hyperscale data center • Kentucky Lantern
The technology company Meta will invest billions of dollars for a proposed Mason County hyperscale data center but will also receive a 40-year tax break on local property taxes, according to a tentati...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/10/2026
That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.
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The 2026 question: Which is more powerful, money or people?
Elon Musk has spent $366 million this election cycle. Philip Bump examines what that kind of money can buy in American politics.
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Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 14/10/2026
"The idea that a sitting President would put a picture of himself on his country’s passport is an act of pure self-aggrandizement that runs counter to every American instinct since the birth of the country." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The U.S. Passport Gets a Trump Makeover
The passport is the latest national treasure to get a makeover from Trump.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump has been an excellent investment for Putin. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...
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Ukraine’s Vulnerability Grows as Starlink Is Restricted and Russia Escalates (Gift Article)
A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/10/2026
Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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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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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 13/10/2026
Oct. 15 marks 50 years since the premiere of "Harlan County USA," the Academy Award-winning documentary about an eastern Kentucky coal mining community and their fight for a union contract. Listen to the hourlong Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom special commemorating the anniversary here:
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The Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom Presents: Harlan County USA at 50
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 13/10/2026
Trump immigration policies could turn away much-needed foreign doctors, critics say
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Trump immigration policies could turn away much-needed foreign doctors, critics say
As the nation’s physician shortage worsens, some fear the Trump administration’s immigration policies will dissuade or prevent doctors who earned their medical degrees in foreign countries from practicing in the United States.Among all U.S. doctors, an estimated one quarter were educated abroad. But they make up an even larger proportion of physicians in many specialties, including internal medicine (41%), endocrinology (46%) and geriatrics (52%).
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
She didn’t know it at the time, but on that night almost three years ago, Nancy Tucker was beginning an odyssey to uncover the circumstances of her son’s death. She had to pry the puzzle pieces from public officials. kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/12/k...
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‘Killing him over and over’: A Hopkinsville mom’s battle for the truth about her son’s death • Kentucky Lantern
She didn’t know it at the time, but on that night almost three years ago, Nancy Tucker was beginning an odyssey to uncover the circumstances of her son’s death.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 12/10/2026
Kentucky Lantern founder @jamielucke.bsky.social brings us this compelling story ‘Killing him over and over’: A Hopkinsville mom’s battle for the truth about her son’s death kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/12/k...
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‘Killing him over and over’: A Hopkinsville mom’s battle for the truth about her son’s death • Kentucky Lantern
She didn’t know it at the time, but on that night almost three years ago, Nancy Tucker was beginning an odyssey to uncover the circumstances of her son’s death.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Four Hours and Three Minutes in Ithaca www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/o...
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Opinion | Four Hours and Three Minutes in Ithaca (Gift Article)
On the most traumatic night in a young woman’s life, a good man could not be found.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 09/10/2026
Measles hits the 100-case mark in Kentucky From @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/09/m...
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Measles hits the 100-case mark in Kentucky • Kentucky Lantern
Kentucky has now confirmed more than 100 cases of measles as the state grapples with its highest case load this century.
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Lexington Herald-Leader @kentucky.com · 07/10/2026
KY House Minority Whip Rep. Joshua Watkins, D-Louisville, is asking state lawmakers to pass a bill to help homeless college students.
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Lawmaker: Homeless KY college students may be living in cars or ‘couch surfing’
KY House Minority Whip Rep. Joshua Watkins, D-Louisville, is asking state lawmakers to pass a bill to help homeless college students.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 07/10/2026
It’s Banned Books Week, so find a First Amendment Library to exercise your rights From @lblackford.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/07/i...
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Commentary: It’s Banned Books Week, so find a First Amendment Library to exercise your rights • Kentucky Lantern
Three years ago, we talked a lot about banning books in Kentucky.  Back then, the wacky war on woke was gaining ground in our legislature and in our libraries. I remember talking to librarians like Er...
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 05/10/2026
‘A political prisoner’: Roebling Bridge ICE protestor now faced with felony charge, arrested From @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/05/a...
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‘A political prisoner': Roebling Bridge ICE protestor now faced with felony charge, arrested • Kentucky Lantern
More than a year after a Northern Kentucky protest at Roebling Street Bridge over federal immigration officials’ arrest of an Ohio cleric, a protester was arrested Monday morning on an upgraded charge...
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The terminations included two commissioners who had pushed the Alabama Public Television board to disaffiliate from PBS. alabamareflector.com/2026/10/02/g...
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Gov. Kay Ivey dismisses five members of Alabama Public Television governing board | Alabama Reflector
The move to dismiss the members came days after a survey conducted by the board showed support for APT continuing its relationship with PBS.
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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wonderful column by Jim Branscome "One woman knew about one college in Kentucky, and she told me. " kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/05/w...
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Commentary: Where you happen to be standing when angels pass by • Kentucky Lantern
When people ask for career advice, I say, "Your career is going to be far more random than you are prepared to accept. It depends mostly on where you happen to be standing when the angels of light and...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
We started our very own private school with @arktimes.bsky.social. All it took was $45, a few clicks on a state website and an American flag.
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
A child in an Idaho faith-healing family died of a treatable condition. Then another died — and another, and another. Idaho’s child abuse laws contain such broad religious exemptions that authorities didn’t intervene — before or after the deaths.
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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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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 · 03/10/2026
"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 · 03/10/2026
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 · 03/10/2026
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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Jamie Lucke @jamielucke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I guess the Chinese have infiltrated Shakertown? What might this mean for the future of spoon bread?
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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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