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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
NEW: A private-equity executive took a top Pentagon role to help secure weapons contracts and critical minerals for the Department of Defense. After he joined, a firm he has ties to began landing major military contracts.
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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official
The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think...in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.” (Pub. July)
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Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct
ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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Sia At The Game @rhpsia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This South African news site is reporting the latest development regarding @icij.org's Johannesburg-based reporter Micah Reddy, whose whereabouts in Djibouti Saturday were unknown. The news that he's in police custody raises many questions that need to be answered: thepost.co.za/news/south-a...
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ICIJ confirms missing journalist Micah Reddy is in Djibouti custody
ICIJ says South African journalist Micah Reddy and Djiboutian journalist Mohamed Willo Ismael are in custody after they were reported missing in Djibouti.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵
A group photo shows about 35 people, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina Anderson; Ivanka Trump; Jared Kushner; Tiffany Trump; and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

Little Pipe Cay/Lux Hospitality Bahamas; Laura Gordon Photography via Instagram; Laura Gordon Photography
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/09/2026
There is little evidence that MAGA influencer Nick Adams’ nonprofit has provided the civics education it claims. A review of the organization's finances show that it has paid Adams and his mother more than half its recent annual revenue. (Published July)
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This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.
Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG w...
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Flock has said for years its cameras don’t identify or track people. We obtained the code for its police AI and rebuilt parts of it. The tool can find witnesses, surface associates, search people by race or physical description, and flag vehicles by how they move. W/ @dell.bsky.social
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...
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ICIJ @icij.org · 18/08/2026
The European Union last month included the cryptocurrency exchange HTX in a roster of 18 firms allegedly involved in Russia’s vast crypto ecosystem, which the country has used to evade Western sanctions aimed at pressuring Russia to end its war in Ukraine. bit.ly/4vTBrql
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Europe sanctioned crypto exchange HTX. Experts say the firm is deploying tactics that could blunt the impact. - ICIJ
The exchange is rapidly generating new accounts in a way that can confuse authorities and compliance officials, experts told ICIJ.
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Jesse Coburn @jessecoburn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
You and I — all of us taxpayers — funded this $533 million artillery plant outside of Dallas. It hasn’t produced a single usable shell. Yet the defense contractor, General Dynamics, has never been held publicly accountable. Nor has it had to pay a penny back… 1/
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Ellis Simani @emsimani.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NEW @propublica.org: A quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. We uncovered troubling inconsistencies in how some DAF sponsors applied their policies and found that donors and charities are routinely left in the dark. www.propublica.org/article/dono...
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Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities
A quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. A ProPublica investigation reveals how these high-stakes decisions to cut off funding often leave charities, donors ...
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 12/08/2026
Aaron Rodgers is obsessed with his own privacy. His neighbors? Not so much. After moving to a new town, Rodgers used a cutout to secretly fund the local police department’s Flock-style surveillance program. www.foiaball.com/p/aaron-rodg...
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Aaron Rodgers secretly funded his town's Flock-style cameras
The QB used an LLC to shield his identity.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
New: Capitol One court filing states it closed hundreds of Trump related accounts following money laundering review: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 29/07/2026
DOGE has effectively hidden itself by breaking FOIA "If the department is stonewalling the inspector general’s office, it’s an extremely safe bet that they’re absolutely ignoring FOIA officers who are asking for information" per @laurenleharper.bsky.social
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Trump’s Education Department Leaves Mountain of Public Records Requests Unaddressed
A review by The 74 of FOIA logs shows the department has fulfilled 3% of them — some only in part.
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gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
OpenAI is setting money on fire: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHAb...
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AI Companies Are Setting Money on Fire | OpenAI's Pre-Bailout Bailout Plan
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Talking ID verification for operating systems, the possibility of VPN bans, and ID verification law: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0So...
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Requiring ID for Operating Systems, VPN Bans, and ID Verification, ft. Wendell
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Update: We are working on a follow-up to the LG story and have some disturbing findings re: LG's products. It will take us a while to parse everything and we have involved multiple security researchers, lawyers (working on reading around 40,000 words of LG agreements that are, generally, terrifying
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gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The DRAM Oligopoly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNO0...
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The DRAM Crisis: 600% Price Increases by Micron, SK Hynix, & Samsung
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have in the first place with Palantir. First Medicaid officials shared data about millions of people with ICE. ICE then shared that data with Palantir, according to a new court filing reported on by @NPR. /1
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ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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kal-el-dorado.bsky.social @kal-el-dorado.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
LG's adware monitors and definitely-not-wiretapping TVs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ue...
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DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Mayo Clinic is being sued by its former AI compliance lead, who is alleging the hospital network tried to hide its AI tool’s 67% error rate at patients’ expense. /1 futurism.com/health-medic...
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Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic's Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care
A former director at the Mayo Clinic claims she was fired in retaliation for reporting the network's horribly inaccurate AI tools.
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gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The Hard Drive Cartel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj1m...
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The Hard Drive Cartel | Criminal Conspiracy & Price Fixing
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
401K plans often route you on the DL to high-cost, low-return funds that are good mainly for the firms pushing them. So ya know what we're gonna go: Expose 'em. And we're gonna do it *with you.* Join along: www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
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Have a 401(k)? Help ProPublica Investigate What’s Really Happening to Your Money.
Some retirement plans are stuck in investments with bloated fees and costly add-ons. Help ProPublica investigate the financial products companies are pushing and what they’re charging workers.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/07/2026
NEW: Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage less-regulated — and often riskier — investments.
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Wall Street Wants to Change the Rules for Your 401(k). It Could Put Your Retirement at Risk.
Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage  less-regulated — and often riskier — inv...
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
NEW The Justice Department is threatening to prosecute election officials across the country for failing to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls, an escalation of the Trump administration's attempts to prosecute election fraud, according to letters I obtained with Andy Mannix @propublica.org 🧵
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Breaking: Per MSNOW’s Vaughn Hillyard, acting DNI Bill Pulte is now firing dozens of intelligence officials at agencies beyond his own office as part of removing the “deep state.” Reportedly, the officials may have refused to provide him requested intel.
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Corey Husak @chusak.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My new @americanprogress.bsky.social post is my tax wish for progressives: Take 50% of the time spent thinking about Taxing Corporations and instead think about taxing a different (Larger! More inequitable! Shadowy!) business type: partnerships www.americanprogress.org/article/busi...
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Business Income Has Moved Beyond Corporations, and Tax Policy Must Follow
Since the 1980s, partnerships have displaced traditional C corporations as the largest source of business income, transforming business taxation and contributing to rising economic inequality.
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ICIJ @icij.org · 30/06/2026
Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, the daughter-in-law of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., helped her father secure at least $12M from a Russian investment bank that cooperated with the Kremlin while she was working as an American spy. buff.ly/IMTR2df
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Trump intelligence adviser previously helped father pursue millions from Kremlin-linked bank, leaked documents show - ICIJ
Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, who recently stepped down from two senior administration posts, was serving as a CIA officer during the dispute.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 29/06/2026
BREAKING: Today was another power grab by the Supreme Court — and a big increase in power for unaccountable presidents. 1/4
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ICIJ @icij.org · 27/06/2026
Fidelity opened an account for Jeffrey Epstein in mid-April 2019, and it received over $5 million by the time the firm apparently moved to close it in late May of that year, several weeks before Epstein’s arrest on sex trafficking charges, documents show.
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Fidelity opened account for Epstein, even as outrage grew - ICIJ
Asset manager Fidelity moved millions for company owned by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein just weeks before his 2019 arrest, documents reveal.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/06/2026
Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. (Published 2021)
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Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank
Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.
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gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Talking about router backdoors that @tekwendell found: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NIX...
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"There's a Secret Backdoor in Netgear" Routers, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 18/06/2026
Midjourney announces the world’s first full-body ultrasound CT scanner • Goal is to bring affordable full-body imaging to everyone on Earth • Users are submerged in water during the scan • Creates detailed 3D body maps in under a minute • Maps over 25 organs and anatomical structures in detail
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 15/06/2026
We spent over $70B bombing them. We will spend $300B to rebuild them. We lost this war, and now we will be funding Iran. www.msn.com/en-in/money/topstories/…
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gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
If not corruption, why corruption shaped? www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhWk...
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If Not Corruption, Why Corruption Shaped?
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12/06/2026
We’ve learned that federal law enforcement raided offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, as well as homes of employees, board members, and activists. This appears to be an outrageous fishing expedition, an attempt to intimidate people working for democracy in our communities and country. 1/3
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
1. States are not just allowing AI data centers to be built. States are spending BILLIONS to incentivize tech giants to build data centers. And its creating major issues for state budgets.
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How data centers are blowing a hole in state budgets
States are paying billions to subsidize the AI boom
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Peter Barth @oldpete45.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
US special forces seized an oil tanker that our joint @bellingcat.com @thetimes.com project linked to the Kinahans. In March we covered how we found a bill of sale listing former UFC fighter Mounir Lazzez, a friend of Daniel Kinahan, as the director of a company that purchased the ship in 2023.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Right-wing media figures have accused Democrats of “cheating” in California races and called for the federal government to “step in”
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"Compromised": With votes still being counted, right-wing media promote election misinformation and conspiracy theories about California primaries
As California continues counting mail-in ballots for its primary elections, right-wing media were quick to whip up conspiracy theories and accuse Democrats of cheating.Californians wrapped up voting i...
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NPR @npr.org · 31/05/2026
A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers reported Sunday, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the deadliest types of cancer. n.pr/4fRJobf
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Experimental pill promises new hope for deadly pancreatic cancer
A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers reported Sunday, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the deadliest types of cancer.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/05/2026
One person who has benefited from AquaBounty coming to Pioneer, Ohio is the town’s mayor. His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M. (Published February 2025)
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The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon
AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish — and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility happen. But years after breaking ground, there are no fanc...
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gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This reminds me of the height of the crypto insanity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoYe...
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They Want to Put Mini Data Centers in Your Front Yard Now | NVIDIA Partner SPAN's XFRA
YouTube video by GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists." It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries. But it's funders and motivations have been secret. Until now. It's a GOP dirty tricks operation. 🧵
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A GOP dirty tricks operation, exposed
Following the breadcrumbs from a “progressive” super PAC to a powerful Republican operative
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gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
NVIDIA says AI agents need their own PCs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUqQ...
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NVIDIA is Not a Loser | Abandoning the Personal Computer
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/05/2026
A longtime researcher of gun trafficking said the ATF’s new rules under Trump tell gun retailers to “do whatever you want.” “My take is that this ATF is more interested in protecting the industry than in the American public.”
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This Gun Shop Stayed Open Despite Repeated Violations. Then a Cop Was Killed With One of Its Guns.
The Indiana store is one of several Range USA locations that faced losing its license for breaking rules designed to deter illegal sales. Now the Trump administration is weakening penalties for failin...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Private equity firms now own 1 in 8 American apartments — according to a new report from @pestakeholder.bsky.social. pestakeholder.org/reports/priv...
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Private Equity Multi-Family Housing Tracker
PESP’s analysis of private equity buyouts in apartment housing reveals that PE firms own 10% of all US apartment units
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