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Jesse Ellis

@jesseellis.bsky.social
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once got retweeted by George Clinton here for politics, news, Jewish stuff, at least until there’s more sports stuff here

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2h
1 in 8 students experiences sexual violence in college, incl 1 in 4 undergrad women (26%)+ 1 in 14 undergrad men (7%) University administrators: "Imagine if we had to refund all that tuition! Could you imagine!?!" Everyone else: "Imagine if you made systemic fucking changes to prevent rape!"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Jesse Ellis @jesseellis.bsky.social · 2h
Hard to keep up with all the Maryland women’s basketball news today
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 4h
The core appeal of reactionary politics is hatred of competent and smart people who follow evidence rather than use it to support conclusions. A million incidents like this happen daily in academia and legal settings, and they're behind almost all right-wing "liberal bias" accusations.
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Paul Bleicher @pbleic.bsky.social · 3h
A complete disdain for expertise. The USPSTF is such an incredibly important component of preventative medicine.
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Jesse Ellis @jesseellis.bsky.social · 3h
Never watched a 20-minute IG video before. This was worth every second.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6h
God, I had so much fun putting together this 20 min. video on Eric Schmitt and the most embarrassing moment in a congressional hearing I’ve ever seen. Yes, 20 minutes. Full video on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4wvOY...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16h
Turns out there is election fraud, after all. trib.al/YGlQX47
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Surprise! MAGA Candidate Convicted of Election Fraud
Turns out there is election fraud, after all.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The imminent landlord bailout, a settlement of litigation over the COVID-era eviction moratorium, is dominated by affiliates of Starwood Capital, a private equity firm that itself received direct and indirect federal assistance during COVID. Zachary Groz reports. prospect.org/2026/09/25/p...
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Private Equity Landlords Double-Dipping in Imminent Bailout - The American Prospect
Companies like Starwood Capital Group, which benefited greatly from financial assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, want a federal bailout on top of that.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
But if trans girls are "cheating" by playing women's sports, what else are the sneaky trans people cheating about. They're also coming for Title IX. They don't care about women in sports. They want women out of sports. Please, I am begging you, stop falling for this shit.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
What's happening is that Republicans are priming Democrats and Democratic voters for more violent forms of transphobia. They're manipulating people into caring about something that is most likely never going to affect them.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jesus fucking Christ
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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National Council of Jewish Women @ncjw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💖 😍 ✨ 💅 No matter what you choose, you're getting a fun fact about medication abortion! Here's the most important fact: mifepristone is safe, effective, and essential to our reproductive health care. Join our day of action to protect medication abortion by sharing this post! #mifeinall50
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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Jesse Ellis @jesseellis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i didn’t think the leopards would eat the cows www.washingtonsun.com/policy/ranch...
washingtonsun.com
Ranchers Criticize ICE Raids for Disrupting Livestock Operations
“These types of disruptions will lead to higher beef prices for consumers,” groups from three states say.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
I saw that clip circulating yesterday and thought there could be a completely normal, non-sexist, explanation other than the rage bait one. Grateful for this (really well-written!) peek into a loving family, sad she felt she had to write it. themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 25/09/2026
🚨EXCLUSIVE: AI safety rules were about to be enacted - then $25 million from OpenAI's president was deposited in Trump's super PAC and the rule disappeared. @levernews.com unearths documents exposing how AI oligarchs got Trump to kill rules they now claim to support. A must-read - pass it on👇
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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to catc...
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 25/09/2026
If the ballroom construction is such a sensitive national security matter, why is Trump inviting the Chinese delegation on a tour???
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Jesse Ellis @jesseellis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Smithsonian's “Black museum”??? apnews.com/article/afri...
Screen shot of AP article headline published 9/25/26 that calls the National Museum of African American History and Culture the “Black museum”
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵
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Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm pretty sure that not responding to an inquiry from an insurer can't be contractual grounds for cancellation, right? I would assume that thousands of people would have very good standing to sue.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Vice President JD Vance and administration officials are set to announce Tuesday that they are removing hundreds of thousands of people from Affordable Care Act coverage”. Yeah taking healthcare away from hundreds of thousands of people smells like MAHA all right.
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Trump officials plan to cut hundreds of thousands from ACA, claiming fraud
Vance targeted ACA enrollment as part of a broader administration crackdown on suspected fraud.
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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How to Prove White Privilege in 10 Seconds timjacobwise.substack.com/p/how-to-pro...
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How to Prove White Privilege in 10 Seconds
And once proven, how to recognize how dysfunctional it is, even for the one who has it
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
More US military personnel have reportedly died during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has shared publicly, the latest and most serious evidence of the Trump administration’s ongoing cover-up around disastrous military failures in that conflict.
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What else is the Pentagon hiding from us?
Four more troops have died than Pete Hegseth's DOD has admitted, new reporting reveals.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 19/09/2026
Trump quietly used claims of an economic “national emergency” to deny federal workers an annual pay increase to meet the rising cost of living. Meanwhile he says we’re in a “Golden Age.” Inflation is high and Trump is making it worse with his pay freeze.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19/09/2026
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The fact that Jeff Bezos ruined the Washington Post for nothing is just peak 2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
Trump posts about a “new” deal with Greenland and Denmark which appears to be just about exactly the same as our current deal with them, but nobody tell him that.
Trump post: BREAKING NEWS: I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns. There will be NO COST to the United States! At my direction, we worked with representatives of Denmark and Greenland to guarantee that the United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the security of Greenland, and the United States of America. Additionally, from now on, no U.S. adversary can EVER have a base in Greenland, have a military presence in Greenland, or make sensitive investments in Greenland, without our express written approval. For over 100 years, Presidents have known the strategic importance of Greenland, but NONE of them were able to do anything about it. I am proud to be the President that permanently and conclusively addressed this very important situation. This is an “Infinite Life” Agreement, there is no end! We are very honored and proud of what has just taken place, and everything agreed to today will be cherished by the American People. We will immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland, of which there are many. We will work with the people of Greenland in its development and construction. This solution is a great one for the United States of America, Denmark, Greenland, and all of our Allies. We look forward to working with the wonderful people of Denmark and Greenland toward a magnificent future with respect to this large, and highly strategic, parcel of land. We will be very protective of it! This is a dream come true for the United States of America, one that is very important, historic, and special. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: Census Bureau Directs Staff to Keep Quiet During Comment Period for Controversial New Rule talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
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Exclusive: Census Bureau Directs Staff to Keep Quiet During Comment Period for Controversial New Rule
Leadership at the Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You might remember @propublica.org’s series last year on the safety of generic drugs? The Senate has stripped a key requirement out of the Clear Labels Act that would have made it easier to directly connect your generics to the factory that produced them. www.propublica.org/article/clea...
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“A Clear Watering Down”: Drug Transparency Bill Stripped of Critical Provisions Ahead of Senate Vote
The bill was designed to alert consumers about where their drugs came from. After two major changes to the proposed law, experts worry it won’t be as effective.
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 18/09/2026
"When they raise doubt on the adjudication that a state may have made around a death, that is highly problematic," says Daskalakis. "This is dangerous.""What we have been seeing, that got amplified even more with these measles cases, is a breakdown in the coordination and trust between states and the federal government," says Dr. Anne Zink, a senior fellow at the Yale School of Public Health who previously served as Alaska's chief medical officer and president of the Association for State and Territorial Health Officers. "That to me is a significant concern.
These partnerships are critical and essential to making us healthy and well.""What the director should be doing instead of looking into these disease counts is responding to the outbreak itself, says Dr. Debra Houry, who resigned as the CDC's chief medical officer at the same time as Daskalakis for the same reasons. "I haven't heard from her talking about the importance of getting kindergarteners vaccinated when we're seeing declining rates.
It's back to school time around the United States. We need her to step up publicly to talk about what can be done.""We are seeing a pretty compromised CDC and a director who is at best facilitating non-scientific behavior and at worst colluding with non-scientific behavior," says Daskalakis.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes, all his businesses failed. But I do wonder how someone this stupid continued to be in a position to have new businesses to drive into the ground. Now he's just selling his power. But who was having conversations with a guy this dumb in the 80s and 90s and then writing him a check?
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 16/09/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep Thomas More Society sends letter to Wake County NC school system demanding Middle Creek Elementary Christian kids be allowed to out of a trans music teacher’s class and requirement that use their correct pronouns.
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Parents threaten lawsuit unless Wake lets them opt out of trans teacher’s class
The conservative law firm representing the parents is giving Wake 15 days to respond or face legal action.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How dare the National Museum of the American Indian refer to George Washington with a name that he was given by the Iroquois in 1753, a name which he himself used in his correspondence! So glad to see Fox News taking a stand against the politicization of history. s/
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The National Museum of the American Indian's exhibit describes the destruction of 40 Iroquois towns but leaves out that the campaign was a direct response to devastating raids that crippled the Continental Army, destroyed frontier settlements and took prisoners.
The Trump administration has threatened funding cuts over what it calls the Smithsonian's push to reframe America's founding as "a deeply flawed creation of the country."
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The American armies destroyed 40 Haudenosaunce (Iroquois) towns and burned their harvests while residents fled. At Chonodote, or Peach Town, the army. burned 1,500 peach trees. The Haudenos still call George Washington
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The cuts in staff across federal health agencies are staggering. Great analysis from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social. 1 in 5 people gone from NIH. More than 1 in 4 gone from CDC. Nearly 7 in 10 gone from AHRQ. ourpublicservice.org/resource/the...
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The Cost of Cutting American Science: How Federal Cuts Diminish Public Health Capacity
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Two U.S. citizen teenagers who were on their way to file enlistment papers to join the Marines were violently attacked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who reportedly detained them for nearly eight hours before letting them go.” newrepublic.com/post/215393/...
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ICE Attacks Two U.S. Citizen Minors on Their Way to Enlist in Marines
The ICE agents reportedly said they didn’t care after being told the two teenagers were citizens.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 04/09/2026
Trump and MAGA have waged a campaign of racist lies and fear on Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian community — from ICE raids to the president’s destruction of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). @swin24.bsky.social reports on the crackdown that is unlike anything else. Read now: zeteo.com/p/trump-spri...
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 11/09/2026
This is... to me... a denial that trans people exist. The reference to genetic anomalies is common anti-trans language referring to intersex people.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Exclusive: The White House has given RFK Jr access to military aircraft as the health secretary has criss-crossed the country. RFK Jr used private flight to join GOP candidates in Iowa last month. w @rachelroubein.bsky.social @abtran.bsky.social
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RFK Jr. uses military aircraft as he campaigns for GOP in midterms
The White House and Department of Health and Human Services lawyers signed off on the plan to let the health secretary use military jets, five people said.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since people are noticing what Trump is trying to do with the Census, here’s what I wrote a couple of weeks ago when he first proposed it www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Trump Plan to Cook the Census Books
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Truthout @truthout.org · 09/09/2026
The Trump administration has removed language critical of slavery from the site where a Confederate memorial once stood in Arlington National Cemetery. The Confederate statue was taken down after Congress voted to remove it in '23. The White House has indicated that it plans to reinstall the statue.
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Trump Admin Removes Slavery Context From Former Confederate Statue Site at Arlington
The revision comes as members of the Trump administration have indicated plans to restore the statue at the site.
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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 Big news: The Washington Sun launches w/: — Huge investment in DC & local reporters — Legend Tom Sietsema — Capital Weather — Newsroom of +100, w/ great reporters (& me) Comes after Bezos's enormous cuts to WaPo To support, sign up for (free!) newsletter: washingtonsun.com/newsletters
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: 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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