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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An amazing moment.
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😾😾😾 @rocky2026.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Receipts
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Four Seasons Total Landscaping (not really!) @4seasonstl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If ESPN still had a soul, they would lead every one of their shows with this story.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
NEW: Sports reporting is shrinking. But at ProPublica, we’re diving in. We won’t cover the games, but we’ll be keeping score — of which powerful people are winning, of who’s being hurt and of which systems can be held accountable.
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Why ProPublica Is Leaning Into Sports Investigations
Sports is a wealthy, powerful industry. We’ll cover the system instead of the games. We’ll ask who’s responsible for some of its biggest problems and who’s preventing them from being fixed.
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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you think local journalism doesn’t matter, you’re wrong. This Kentucky coucilwoman gets it. kiesow.net/how-to-talk-...
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How to talk about the local news crisis: We are all worse off.
Last week, McClatchy rolled out the latest round of destructive cuts to its local reporting staff. The cuts themselves are barely newsworthy within the industry at this point, though the futility of '...
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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Indeed, We The People Should Be Getting The Same Healthcare And Paid Leave As McTurtle.......🐢
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
WSJ editorial board FOIAs emails showing Sen. Katie Britt’s office privately seeking Trump tariff exemptions for Alabama — while she’s publicly praising the tariffs. www.wsj.com/opinion/kati...
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Opinion | One Senator’s Plea for Tariff Breaks
How protectionism works in practice: Public support, but seeking exemptions in private.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
$9.5 billion not to work… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16/09/2026
The Defense Department’s inspector general reports a major munitions shortfall—and damage to U.S. bases throughout the region. trib.al/hwlI6kb
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Pentagon Watchdog Reveals Devastating U.S. Losses in Iran War
The Defense Department’s inspector general reports a major munitions shortfall—and damage to U.S. bases throughout the region.
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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
He took a team to the Super Bowl. Once he was bringing injustice to light he was suddenly not a very good NFL player.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Small potatoes have also wounded hundreds of Americans, rendered a vast swathe of our bases unusable, emptied our stockpiles of high-end strike munitions and interceptors, and are shellacking our economy. What are the big potatoes?
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"One Trump voter issued a tear-filled video regretting his decision to vote for the president after his brother, who served with U.S. special forces, died while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement." www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
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Teary Trump voters regret after brother dies in ICE custody
A former voter of President Donald Trump is expressing his remorse for voting for the president after his brother, a member of U.S special forces, died in an ICE facility
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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Long overdue.
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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The highlighted portion should be a MUCH bigger story and receive SIGNIFICANTLY more attention than it has gotten.
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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
4 days ago The Pentagon fired the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes. Yesterday they broke the story of Elsie Dominguez, a civilian engineer who was raped repeatedly by the Captain of a Navy ship she was on. They keep trying to silence the press & quash the truth. Elsie’s story must be told:
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Lawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as worker’s comp issue
The order handed down this month closed an attempt by a civilian engineer to get justice for an assault she said threw her life into shambles.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
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Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion
The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.
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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This commentary from Stephen A. Smith is comical. I have proof that he does not practice what he is preaching. 🤦🏾‍♂️
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This extraordinary interview is worth 7 mins of your time. Delsia Bare has a nuanced, comprehensive theory of corporate power and the value of human life. Quite inspiring. www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/u...
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KY farm owner wants governments to ‘throw on the brakes’ after turning down $26M offer from AI data center | CNN
Delsia Bare joins CNN’s Pamela Brown in The Situation Room to talk about her family turning down $26M from a company to build an AI data center on their farmland. Bare explained their decision and her...
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Tod Jones @tfosteroaks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Absolute insanity. Sailors in Crisis: 260 Days open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...
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Sailors in Crisis: 260 Days
What the Navy calls a “mental health episode,” anyone who has stood a flight deck calls a warning
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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wow! How is this not a bigger story?
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I never thought about putting dash cams in my cars to protect me from my own government before 2024, but here we are. I want reform now. And I want consequences for those promulgating and perpetrating these abuses upon people.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/08/2026
So, SCOTUS rules against Trump on 3 things: tariffs, removing birthright citizenship, and firing Fed governors. And he moves forward with all three...
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 07/08/2026
Amid a recent surge in racist, transphobic, and sexist attacks, WNBA leadership has a responsibility to protect and stand behind the players who have made the league a model for diversity and progress.
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The WNBA Is Courting the Wrong Kind of Notoriety
And for what? A short-lived promotional boost?
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Halloween III: Season of the Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It really sucks that I have known multiple black people in my life who have felt the need to say "Hey, for the record, I will never hang myself from a tree, so if that happens please investigate it."
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“This would arguably be America’s most blatant loss in war ever, especially for a war the U.S. started.”
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Just a note that @jbendery.bsky.social is 100% worth following. Always finds stories like these that matter, and yet are a bit under the radar.
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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Tyler Marsh called officiating on Kamilla Cardoso "a fucking joke." Tyler does not swear or get angry in media.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Blanche’s appeasement is hollow. Trump still gets immunity from tax audits worth $100 million. And last week’s payout to abortion clinic blocker shows the path to payouts to rewrite history will be individual settlements instead of one designated fund. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
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Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal (Gift Article)
Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 03/08/2026
The Green Bay Packers' starting right tackle is changing his name from Zach Tom to Zach Bako-Bewele as a way of paying tribute to his Nigerian ancestry.
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Packers offensive tackle changing his name from Zach Tom to Zach Bako-Bewele
The Green Bay Packers’ starting right tackle is changing his name from Zach Tom to Zach Bako-Bewele as a way of paying tribute to his Nigerian ancestry.
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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
🤦🏾‍♂️ so predictable.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“.. The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump's family business.” @reuters.com $COF www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Teresa Walker 👑 @teresamwalker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Over 100 women's college basketball players team up in unionization effort apnews.com/article/coll...
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Over 100 women's college basketball players team up in unionization effort
Over 100 women's college basketball players have formed the United College Athletes Association, a union for college athletes. The UCAA announced this on Friday.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 30/07/2026
A central figure of the 1960s Black Art Movement, Saar pioneered assemblage boxes, or sculptures made of found objects, and reclaimed Jim Crow-era memorabilia as powerful totems of Black liberation. to.pbs.org/4pOF6V1
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Artist Betye Saar, whose work reflects Black identity and spirituality, dies at 99
A central figure of the 1960s Black Art Movement, Saar pioneered assemblage boxes, or sculptures made of found objects, and reclaimed Jim Crow-era memorabilia as powerful totems of Black liberation.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Don’t let this clip get memory-holed
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Top homeland security official resigns, citing "brazen corruption," as well as the Trump Administration's "war on immigrants... war on feds... war on facts": www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...
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DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’
The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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Bruce Feldman @brucefeldmancfb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This has truly been a disastrous hire for Bill Belichick. Now, his longtime confidant, UNC GM Mike Lombardi has been placed on administrative leave: www.nytimes.com/athletic/747...
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UNC GM Michael Lombardi, longtime Bill Belichick confidant, placed on administrative leave
Lombardi, a former NFL executive with three decades of experience in the league, arrived at North Carolina with Bill Belichick last year.
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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
There is no end to the insanity: Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/a...
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Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum
President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”
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Paul Bleicher @pbleic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
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FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
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🦋 Still Standing 🦋 @imstillstanding.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Well…isn’t this a little gem. @jenpsaki.bsky.social did you know about this?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If you are the DOJ, it is unprecedented to lose 17 straight voting cases in 17 different courts without winning a single one. It's even more remarkable when 8 of them were decided by judges appointed by Trump. How long will the networks ignore this? How long will Trump?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
They died serving our country. They should be honored, not erased. Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina
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