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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 7h

👇👇👇👇👇 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Double check your state's deadline to register to vote. AND -- check your registration to be sure you're registered!

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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · 7h

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Voters should realize that Trump—with his failure to grasp basic economics—is a danger to our economy. He has brought us higher prices, trade tensions, slower GDP growth & huge economic uncertainty Voters should remember this in November www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trump’s recent statements on the economy are even more bonkers than usual | Steven Greenhouse

Our ‘genius’ president is revealing his ignorance of economics, fueling concerns about the threat he poses to the world

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 10h

Over a dozen states have important voter registration deadlines today. Check your registration and make a plan to vote at IWillVote.com. Then ask friends and neighbors to do the same.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 7h

Less than a year in, New Mexico's universal childcare program is already changing who's working. @brycecovert.bsky.social reports on a new study from @chrismherbst.bsky.social finding employment among low-income mothers is up 18%, and full-time work is up 23%.

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Nearly a Year In, Universal Childcare Is Reshaping Work for Moms in New Mexico

A new study highlights some early impacts of universal childcare on labor supply for mothers in New Mexico.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 8h

The thing I've been mulling: for every horrifying sexual assault story you hear, there are 100 stories that don't quite reach the level of "report this to the police immediately" but still are traumatic, still have long, long effects. 1/

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. In the last hours of Kristi Noem’s tenure as the homeland security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man’s firm at a substantial markup ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We live in a time of parables, and the lesson in this man’s is that the suffering we are responsible for is much closer to us than we would like to believe. And that our obligations to our neighbor must therefore be held even closer.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I see some folks asking: what motivates RFK Jr to tell such horrific, dangerous, repulsive lies about the HPV vaccine? Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way) Always follow the 🤑! www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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RFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker Merck

RFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/10/2026

Despite MAGA’s outrage, statistically in Arkansas, between 52 and 54 percent of food stamps, or SNAP, recipients in the state are white, as are 57.8 percent of those on Medicaid. trib.al/Qbto4M7

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MAGA Furious Over Republican Ad Featuring White Man as Face of Welfare

Conservatives are pissed at Sarah Huckabee Sanders for choosing a young white man to portray welfare recipients.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A year earlier, Pope Leo XIV put the contradiction plainly: “someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion,’ but says, ‘I’m in favor of the death penalty,’ is not really pro-life.”

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CNN @cnn.com · 02/10/2026

The pilot suspected of having attacked another pilot aboard a Tel Aviv-bound Flydubai flight on Wednesday was removed from a previous job at Oman's national airline last year following concerns about his extremist views, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

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The Flydubai attack suspect was removed by another airline over concerns about his extremist views, sources say

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Kira @kiragooddog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A remarkable story about Leonard Leo’s main funder.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026

just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Guardian's series on the new ICE tactics continues: From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivot www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivot

After switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the US

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Penelope Wang @pennywriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Medicare Advantage insurers are paring back or eliminating their plans next year, while increasing cost sharing for enrollees in the plans that remain. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of beneficiaries will have to find new plans. www.healthcaredive.com/news/medicar...

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Here’s how much insurers are cutting Medicare Advantage plans for 2027

Newly released CMS data shows that insurers continue to adapt to pressure in the privatized Medicare program by culling plans. A press release stressing “stability” didn’t soften the blow.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...

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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II

A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump - The move, called a pocket rescission, is illegal, according to the Government Accountability Office, an independent, non-partisan watchdog agency charged with providing fact-based information. www.npr.org/2026/09/28/n...

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What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump

President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"We are living in an era of protein hype." Make STOP! 🛑 Have We Reached Peak PROTEIN? www.nytimes.com/interactive/... ‼️ Reality: more isn't always better, a protein label doesn't make the food "healthy", this trend is mostly a marketing scam...

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How Supermarkets Became Protein-Maxxed

Protein is everywhere — in chips, candy, cookies, even water. Does that make these products healthy?

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Judy Graham @judygraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Unfortunately, ED boarding is far too common

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Russ Vought just sent a rescissions request to Congress, signaling he intends to illegally impound funds. The $810 million highlighted in this “request” (but this is a pretext to just illegally impound the funds) is not the exhaustive list of many billions of dollars he’s impounding this year.

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Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 25/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: A new report recovers nearly one million link shortener URLs used by OpenAI's agents while hacking Hugging Face. The agents attempt to message other chatbots like Claude, solve CAPTCHAs and exfiltrate Hugging Face's internal Slack messages. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...

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How OpenAI’s Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector (Gift Article)

A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds new details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“.. None of the incidents were breaches, OpenAI said, but were examples of its technology behaving in unexpected and concerning ways.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As objectionable as this is, it allows only individual searches. Mass purges at this point in the cycle are prohibited under existing statute. Congress under Dems needs to begin defunding all these menacing devices that threaten privacy and voting rights.

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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Activists and elected officials are demonstrating outside Texas’ health department in Austin as the state’s maternal mortality committee holds a meeting closed to the public and press about the women who have died since the state banned abortion.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My dad was a small-town doctor who made late-night house calls on most nights I can remember growing up—and to my personal knowledge forgave (or delayed) payments from people who were on hard times. This story makes me want to move to Kansas and spend next 5+ weeks canvassing.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 25/09/2026

Here’s what to know about voting in the midterms: ✅You can vote by mail. ✅You don’t need to bring a passport or birth certificate to vote. ✅It is illegal for ICE or federal troops to be at the polls. Make a plan to vote, and vote early if you can. bit.ly/3UjBBrc

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is remarkable investigative reporting by @propublica.org into a pay to play scheme involving Sen Collins. Stop whatever you are doing and read it. The corruption is staggering but the Trump admin killed the investigation. 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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Donald Trump’s Department of Justice suffered its 25th straight district court loss Tuesday in its nationwide campaign to force states to hand over unredacted voter registration data, after a federal judge in Washington rejected the department’s legal theory. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Washington state hands Trump DOJ its 25th straight voter roll loss

The ruling was particularly notable because DOJ’s own attorney conceded during oral arguments last month that Washington’s case was factually indistinguishable from the department’s other voter roll l...

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yup. If you kick healthy people off insurance, this sets up a death spiral in which heath insurance costs keep rising and rising until the system collapses. Honestly, it makes me think that Dr Oz & his MAGA/MAHA buddies running the federal health system WANT federal health insurance to collapse.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.

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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)

At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NEW: Jay Bhattacharya and Russ Vought have been fighting for months over White House plan to take control of N.I.H. Grants . It got so bad that Vought refused to meet with Bhattacharya. Things finally blew up on Friday. Now Trump is preparing an EO www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...

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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

CBO analysis: The Iran war has cost the U.S. $38 billion as of August 1. That’s >$246 million per day, on average. CBO says the war has raised inflation and global energy prices, citing reduced traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, and says it’ll raise interest rates on treasuries.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This jaw-dropping story has become ProPublica's most-read article of 2026, with more than 2.2 million views in the first day, a spokesperson tells me

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