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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/07/2026

Breaking News: Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman. nyti.ms/4pfTwgK

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Mexican Man Fatally Shot by ICE Wasn’t the Intended Target

Officials say agents believed the driver resembled one suspect, but the encounter quickly escalated into a fatal shooting.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

RFK Jr. says that HPV vaccine is “dangerous and defective”. A new study from England shows that HPV vaccines have reduced deaths from cervical cancer to ZERO for women aged 20-24. Significant reductions in older age groups were observed as well, though the latter have lower vaccination coverage.

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Cervical cancer mortality trends following HPV vaccination in England, 2001–24: an analysis of population-based mortality data

Our findings provide the first robust national-level evidence, albeit observational, that high HPV vaccination coverage is associated with a substantial reduction in cervical cancer deaths. This is sh...

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Jennifer Orsi @jenorsi.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I would like to see reporters ask those alleging fraud in California vote counting if they would support changing the law there and in states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to make it like Florida's -- early votes and mail in ballots are opened and processed before election day (more)

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Jennifer Orsi @jenorsi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It's always a great day when we get to announce the winners of the Poynter Journalism Prizes! The judges were so impressed by the high-quality, high-impact journalism we saw in the contest, across platforms and newsroom sizes. Please congratulate all the winners and finalists across 12 categories.

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Greg Jaffe @gregjaffe.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Over the objections of top Army leaders Hegseth strikes 2 Black and 2 female officers from one-star promotion list www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

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Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List

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Gene Rayburn @generayburn.com · 09/03/2026

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

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Jennifer Orsi @jenorsi.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Great news for Poynter to have @neilbrownpoynter.bsky.social taking on an additional leadership role. Much gratitude to Paul Tash for his 20 years as chairman of the institute's board.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

“If a newspaper’s publisher makes a bunch of decisions that lose money, and then the owner keeps the publisher while firing the staff who puts out the paper—none of this is really about the money, is it?” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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The Washington Post Dies in Daylight

Civic vandalism and the mutilation of a great paper.

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Jennifer Orsi @jenorsi.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

AP journalists trying to film immigration enforcement in Minneapolis from a public street and sidewalk ordered to stay in vehicle or face arrest. They were not impeding law enforcement, they were documenting action on public streets That's arrestable now, I guess. www.tiktok.com/@apnews/vide...

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AP journalists were in Minneapolis covering federal immigration enforcement actions and preparing to document the encounter. When the journalists got out of their car, officers pushed one of them, thr...

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Jennifer Orsi @jenorsi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The Poynter Journalism Prizes are now open for entries. The deadline is Feb. 13. Enter today! poynterprizes.secure-platform.com/a

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Jennifer Orsi @jenorsi.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

In traffic: Google maps: typical. Apple Maps: it will be at least 10 minutes longer than whatever I say. Waze: if you go through the trailer park, ford this stream, and take this back road strewn with construction debris, you will save eight minutes. Let’s go!

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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

“Since 1998, independent researchers have conducted more than 40 high-quality studies involving over 5.6 million people. The conclusion is clear and unambiguous: There’s no link between vaccines and autism." -Dr. Susan Kressly, AAP President on recent changes to the CDC's website

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 18/11/2025

You can oversee the bloody dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist with a bone saw, and the president of the United States will smile, shake your hand and threaten to pull the license of a news outlet whose reporter asks you a question about it. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

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Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing

The de facto Saudi ruler was branded a pariah in 2018 after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.

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Jennifer Orsi @jenorsi.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Surprisingly large number of grammar takes on social related to Epstein emails. I’m a language nerd but other things are capturing my attention….

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Jennifer Orsi @jenorsi.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Today is Poynter Day, the day 50 years ago that officially began @poynterinstitute.bsky.social. Our work has been dedicated to making journalism better, news organizations stronger, accurate and factual information easier to find, and democracy thrive with the support of a free press. (more)

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

“What they’re really doing, they want to spoon-feed information to the journalist, and that would be their story. That’s not journalism,” said Jack Keane, a retired U.S. Army general and Fox News analyst, said on Hegseth’s former network. Via @apnews.com

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Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.

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Jennifer Orsi @jenorsi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 03/10/2025

Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney encouraged families to keep newborns at home and away from many visitors, especially sick people, during the baby’s first 6 to 8 weeks of life. The state, like much of the country, is dealing with a rise in potentially deadly whooping cough cases.

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Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.

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Jennifer Orsi @jenorsi.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"Those who accept must report for duty on October 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers ..." www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

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Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE | CNN Politics

Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.

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neilbrownpoynter.bsky.social @neilbrownpoynter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Honored to celebrate @MikeAllen & @JessicaYellin in D.C. with the Poynter 50 Make a Mark Leadership Award — recognizing their pioneering work meeting their audiences where they are with trustworthy journalism. #Poynter50

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/09/2025

The Guardian has now completely retracted quotes from an anonymous high school source who had called Tyler Robinson a “leftist.” The source now says they couldn’t accurately recall details of their relationship.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Egregious example of this was when the anti-public health crowd held up Sweden’s lack of restrictions as the example to follow, then Sweden saw much higher COVID hospitalizations and deaths than Scandinavian peers and changed course, but those Americans didn’t go “OK, my idea was tested and failed.”

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Listen to experts like @autismspeaks.org: "Scientists have conducted extensive research all over the world over the last 2 decades to examine the link between childhood vaccinations & autism. The result of this research is clear: vaccines do not cause autism." www.autismspeaks.org/do-vaccines-...

Vaccines do not cause autism. It is possible that the timing of an autism diagnosis or onset of autism symptoms might coincide with the recommended vaccine schedule for children, but this is a coincidence, not a cause.
Vaccines and autism

Scientists have conducted extensive research all over the world over the last two decades to examine the link between childhood vaccinations and autism. The result of this research is clear: vaccines do not cause autism.

Additionally, vaccination can protect children from many preventable diseases like measles. Learn more about vaccine safety.

There are many causes of autism. Learn about the factors that increase the risk of ASD and shape the type of autism that a child will develop.

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Jennifer Orsi @jenorsi.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

As I approach an age when my own immune system starts to weaken, great to know there will be resurgences of COMPLETELY PREVENTABLE DISEASES to take me out. Medical experts 'profoundly concerned' as DeSantis looks to end vaccine requirements www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/l...

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Medical experts 'profoundly concerned' as DeSantis looks to end vaccine requirements

Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo is a faculty member at the University of Florida. But in a statement, UF Health said vaccines are "safe" and "essential"

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/09/2025

because polio is freedom

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 02/09/2025

Noem's complaints underscore why news outlets can't settle frivolous lawsuits. Now, the door is wide open for government officials to question every editing decision news outlets make, whether to shorten an interview for time or to not air lies and nonsense.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/08/2025

Kennedy might have prospered had he simply been content to continue slapping a MAHA coat of paint on the good work of the government’s actual scientists. Instead, he seems determined to rip the engine out while the car is hurtling down the interstate.

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Camelot for Crazies

RFK Jr. f*cked around. Now we get to find out.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2025

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

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RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns

“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

“Social Security official says DOGE compromised Americans’ data Chief Data Officer Charles Borges said sensitive data was uploaded to a digital cloud, risking the security of critical personal information for more than 300 million people.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Social Security official says DOGE compromised Americans’ data

Chief Data Officer Charles Borges said sensitive data was uploaded to a digital cloud, risking the security of critical personal information for more than 300 million people.

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Jennifer Orsi @jenorsi.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

How many past presidents have had a bad jobs report (since they existed) without firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics? I'm guessing, all of them?

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Jennifer Orsi @jenorsi.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Very sad. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down. And we're already seeing major layoffs at multiple local public media stations around the country, cutting off vital local news.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Orbán "consolidated media control through centralized propaganda, market pressure and loyal billionaires."

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Trump today: "I'm surprised he [Jerome Powell] was appointed. I'm surprised frankly that Biden put him in." Trump in November 2017: "It is my pleasure and my honour to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve."

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

President Trump is openly telling a celebrity and political enemy — Rosie O’Donnell — that he is “serious” about taking away her American citizenship and exiling her from the U.S. because he dislikes the views she expresses when exercising her free speech rights www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Trump Thinks He Can Take Away Citizenship From Anyone He Doesn't Like

Trump says he wants to take away Rosie O’Donnell’s American citizenship after threatening Zohran Mamdani.

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