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Jean Mikle

@jeanmikle.bsky.social
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Journalist at the Asbury Park Press, app.com. Music lover. Yankees fan. Proud member of APP-MCJ Guild.

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you Empire State Building. NYC ❤️ Dolly.
Empire State Building lit up in bright pink in honor of Dolly Parton. Beautiful.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
According to ERA5 global sea surface temperatures have set a new all time record. This is likely the warmest sea surface temperatures have been in at least the last 125,000 years. What’s more concerning is this will likely rise further in the coming months.
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Jean Mikle @jeanmikle.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today, I am joining colleagues across @usatoday.com network, formerly Gannett, in a lunch out against A.I. slop. We are calling on @usatoday.com to stop forcing generative artificial intelligence on newsrooms and invest in the people who power their journalism. Written by an actual journalist.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026
US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph  showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/07/2026
NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...
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Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home
The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 04/07/2026
This sales pitch from Donald Trump sent out three days before he was sworn in to his second term has ended up being disastrously bad financial advice for most of the buyers. Only a small set of traders who moved fast to buy the coin, then quickly dumped it made $$. Almost everyone else lost bigly
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/06/2026
Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 09/06/2026
Music America: The Songs that Shaped Us Night Two. June 5, 2026. 📸: Pam Springsteen
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95
A photo of Sonny Rollins
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Thomas Stockett's Baltimore Afro-American cartoon on the Voting Rights Act, August 1965.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Open reentrenchment of white supremacy, across the South, at a staggering speed.
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Amy McEuen, Ph.D. @mceuen.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com
Bird mom admiring her “smooth round children” which hatch and become a loud handful
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 08/05/2026
Republicans stripping majority-Black Memphis, where 39-year-old Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated 58 years ago, of its majority-Black congressional district takes its place in a rancid arc of American history that seems to be bending backwards.
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The Great Whitening Comes Without Irony or Shame
America’s Original Sin Republicans stripping majority-Black Memphis, where 39-year-old Dr. Martin Luther...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026
While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.
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The Supreme Court Has Completed Its Quest to Kill the Voting Rights Act
In its 6-3 decision, the court gutted the legislation that ended apartheid in this country—and once again gave white people the ability to suppress Black political power.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.
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NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO @nyclabor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Unionized staff at ProPublica have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike after more than two years of bargaining their first contract. Let them know you’ll honor the picket line. nycclc.org/news/take-ac...
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Take Action: Tell ProPublica You'll Honor a Digital Picket Line
Unionized staff at ProPublica have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike after more than two years of bargaining their first contract.ProPublica management has:
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Jean Mikle @jeanmikle.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Vaccines work.
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SPLC Union @splcunion.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Below is a statement from the unionized workers of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Yesterday, the Department of Justice leveled outrageous allegations at the Southern Poverty Law Center. In so doing, they maligned the integrity of the SPLC workers who have labored tirelessly for decades to expose the dangerous cruelty of extremists and hate groups in the United States. SPLC Union Logo: 

This work is punishing. It takes a toll on our health and on our safety. But we persist because we believe in our mission to advance justice for all, and we believe that investigating, naming, and alerting the American people to the activities of those who seek to harm our neighbors is a moral imperative and an essential public service.Today our colleagues are facing abuse and harassment from the far-right figures emboldened by this attack. But we will not be deterred, we will not be intimidated, and we will continue to name racism, sexism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and all hate for the blight that it is.
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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Members of the journalist union at Pro Publica went on a 24-hour strike as part of their efforts to add protections against layoffs due to efficiencies from using AI technologies into their contracts. White collar worker unions fighting for such protections will be the new normal.
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ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI
On the picket line in New York, union leaders said they expect "more concentrated conflicts" over AI in the news industry.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 21/03/2026
Since October there have been 24 deaths in ICE detention.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/03/2026
Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake.
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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump’s assertion that Iran could be to blame.
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Investigative Reporters & Editors @ire.org · 07/03/2026
IRE calls for the immediate release of Estefany Rodríguez, a reporter for Nashville Noticias and Univision 42 Nashville, who was taken into custody while in a marked news vehicle, according to reports. Read the rest of our statement: bit.ly/4sto4Mh
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LaCiuraRaffaele @laciuraraffaele.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.
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Jean Mikle @jeanmikle.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Love this
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
#BREAKING #SCOTUS blocks President Trump's tariffs.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 13/02/2026
Contrary to Trump's claims, immigrants, even illegal ones, use fewer services and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, according to Cato Institute studies.
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Want To Reduce The Debt And Lower The Crime Rate? Bring In Even More Immigrants.
Contrary to Trump's claims, immigrants, even illegal ones, use fewer services and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, according to Cato Institute studies.
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Politico @politico.com · 10/02/2026
NEW: After an unexpectedly tight race, former Rep. Tom Malinowski conceded to Analilia Mejia in New Jersey’s special Democratic primary.
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Former Rep. Malinowski concedes New Jersey House Democratic primary to progressive Mejia
He also ssued a warning against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, whose super PAC spent more than $2 million against him.
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 10/02/2026
Chappell Roan is leaving her talent agency led by Casey Wasserman after he appeared in the Epstein files.
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Jean Mikle @jeanmikle.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Heartbreaking
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stevefalk.bsky.social @stevefalk.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Signature moment: Rutgers wrestling stuns No. 6 Minnesota app.com/story/sports... via @asburyparkpress
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Signature moment: Rutgers wrestling stuns No. 6 Minnesota
Stay here for updates on the Rutgers University wrestling team's Big Ten Conference match against Minnesota after 7:15 p.m.
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Jean Mikle @jeanmikle.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sheesh, this is terrible
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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Well, I was laid off at The Washington Post today. It's been an honor to work with some of the best journalists in the business. I'm hoping to continue reporting, producing videos and finding long-forgotten archival footage. If you have any openings, reach out.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Proud have helped the Society of Professional Journalists draft its statement condemning the Trump administration’s arrest of journalists Don Lemon, Georgia Fort and other independent voices. READ: loom.ly/W2bH6zA
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/01/2026
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
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Trump's DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September. Here's what to know.
Federal agents have shot three people in Minneapolis in recent weeks, killing two U.S. citizens, Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Videos contradict the Trump administration's account of their deaths.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 22/01/2026
ICE says it detains the "worst of the worst." Meet Liam Ramos, age 5.
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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
ICE detained a 5-year-old child in Minnesota to use as “bait.” An innocent child. America, let this sink in. This is what the government is doing right in front of our eyes.
MPR News: ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’

Liam Conejo Ramos, a student at Valley View Elementary, whom school officials and a lawyer for the Ramos family say was detained with his parent by federal agents on Tuesday.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
PSA: When Trump brags about how much money tariffs are bringing in, he’s bragging about taxing regular folks and taking more of your money. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/01/2026
Days away from the first anniversary of President Trump’s second term in office, grocery prices are still rising, as he continues to falsely claim otherwise. It undercuts his administration’s rhetoric about how it is making life more affordable for average Americans.
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Food Prices Keep Climbing, Rattling Consumers and Trump
Weather, supply, tariffs, labor and changing consumer habits continue to drive up the cost of groceries. President Trump falsely claims prices are falling.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/01/2026
Breaking News: U.S. consumer prices rose 2.7% in December from a year earlier, as inflation ended 2025 on a subdued note.
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Live Updates: Inflation Steady as Fed Considers Rate Path
Consumer prices in December were 2.7 percent higher than a year ago, a similar rate to the previous month.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
the fastest growing gofundme I’ve seen in my life.
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Tory Wegerski @producertory.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
NEW: Publishers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announce they are shutting down the newspaper on May 3, 2026. Hours ago, the Supreme Court of the US declined to extend a stay on a court order for the paper to pay its journalists following the end of a 3-year strike.
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Post-Gazette to Publish Final Edition and Cease Operations May 3, 2026
Block Communications, Inc. and the Block family are saddened to announce that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette plans to publish its final edition and cease operations on May 3, 2026.
Over the past 20 years, Block Communications has lost more than $350 million in cash operating the Post-Gazette. Despite those efforts, the realities facing local journalism make continued cash losses at this scale no longer sustainable.
Recent court decisions would require the Post-Gazette to operate under a 2014 labor contract that imposes on the Post-Gazette outdated and inflexible operational practices unsuited for today’s local journalism.
We deeply regret the impact this decision will have on Pittsburgh and the surrounding region. The Block family is proud of the service the Post-Gazette has provided to Pittsburgh for nearly a century and will exit with their dignity intact.
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