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Katherine Stewart

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8h
California leaders condemned President Trump's comments at a political rally, where he appeared suggest that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego if it develops a nuclear weapon. Gov. Gavin Newsom called the Trump “deranged and dangerous.” nyti.ms/3TG9Rjw
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 8h
In which Texas Republicans refer to Muslims as "infestations" and argue that "we basically have to make it so uncomfortable for them that they want to leave."
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Texas Faith Fest speakers propose plans to make Muslims ‘more uncomfortable’
At Texas Faith Fest this year, speakers suggested policies that would limit Muslim religious practices and reshape the government's relationship with religion.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 9h
They should do the same for presidents, cabinet officials, lawmakers, and their family members who engage in fraud and corruption at the public's expense
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 05/10/2026
Because of federal rules, children covered by Medicaid won't be able to access vaccines that are no longer recommended by the federal government, even as children with private insurance will.
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RFK Jr’s Relentless Anti-Vax Push Will Disproportionately Hurt Children on Medicaid
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already demonstrated his Department of Health and...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New Fox poll shows Trump coalition collapsing in Texas. GOP is sinking money into Iowa and Kansas. The horrors of Late-Stage Trumpism are creating space for a new anti-corruption, anti-cruelty politics to emerge. On the pod, @aselrod.bsky.social is brilliant on this: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Fox Drops Brutal Poll on Trump as Leaks Reveal MAGA Panic: “Wake Up!”
As the Trump-GOP position worsens, political theorist explains why Trump-MAGA’s corrupt and depraved misrule has created space for a new, values-based liberal-Democratic politics to emerge.
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Perhaps they would prefer to live in Afghanistan or Yemen
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Once you get past REN’s blather about globalism and the agricultural revolution, it's clear that his real beef is women’s equality. “Maybe men and women shouldn’t work together in the same spaces,” he says.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"A greater share of Latino voters hold negative views of the GOP than at any time since 2016. "Two years ago, Latino voters gave Trump a 4-point edge over Kamala Harris on handling the economy. Today, they give Democrats a 21-point advantage on the question." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Poll: Latino voters swing away from Trump and Republicans
Democrats have a significant lead among Latino voters in 2026 amid economic concerns, according to the NBC News/Telemundo poll, though the GOP has made some long-term gains.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 04/10/2026
Incredible piece: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/m...
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Dying Patients Are Inundated by Misinformation. My Dad Was One of Them.
Cancer patients are being persuaded to spend tens of thousands on unproven treatments by alternative-medicine clinics.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
His spiritual leader Doug Wilson ticks at least four of six forbidden categories
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One crazy thing about this new outpouring of racism against South Asians and calls for expulsion or forced assimilation is it was kicked off by some brown skinned students at a Texas game wearing cowboy hats and excitedly celebrating their football team — ie some guys very assimilated to America.
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Logan Jaffe @loganjaffe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
According to @propublica.org I could personally open Ye Olde New Venture Academy, a private school, in 24 states 😅
Quiz results with black text framed in a yellow border of graph paper
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The migrant scheme, according to officials, is part of Russia’s broader strategy for sowing discord in the West, if more subtle than other recent operations pinned on the Kremlin." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/w...
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A Front Line at the Border: How Russia Uses Migrants as Weapons Against Europe
The scheme is part of Russia’s larger strategy for sowing discord in the West, if more subtle than other recent operations blamed on the Kremlin.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The second suit, which names 30 providers, organizations, and pharmacies, seeks injunctions, damages—and threatens RICO claims down the line.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One suit, filed against New York, Massachusetts, and California, asks the U.S. Supreme Court to end shield laws—which would allow the conservative states to extradite abortion providers (among other horrors).
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Come for the @gregstohr.bsky.social scoop. Stay for Justice Alito (again) throwing his spouse Martha under the bus.
Alito said his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, inherited the energy shares. “She wants to hold on to individual stock, and so we have stock holdings in some companies in the oil and gas field,” he said.
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 30/09/2026
The attorneys general of Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana announced Wednesday they are suing three Democratic-led states over laws that grant immunity to doctors who prescribe abortion-inducing medication to people in states where it is illegal.
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Steve Marshall, 2 other AGs sue states with shield laws protecting abortion-pill providers | Alabama Reflector
The AGs are suing Democratic-led states over laws that grant immunity to doctors who prescribe abortion-inducing medication.
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Checks four out of six www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Hegseth invited Christian nationalist Doug Wilson to preach at Pentagon
The self-described “paleo-Confederate” has argued that wives should submit to their husbands, women should be denied the vote and Christian enslavers were on “firm scriptural ground.”
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The religious right that raised up Paxton has cared little about his transgressions so long as they could prop him up to wield power. The alliance has been a perfect marriage of hypocrisy and cynicism in the name of traditional values." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ken Paxton’s Christian identity politics obscure a history of scandal | Sidney Blumenthal
The Texas Senate candidate rose to power as a culture warrior. His record is a marriage of hypocrisy and cynicism
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 29/09/2026
ICE is deporting parents without their children. The Atlantic follows a 2-year-old in Mobile, Alabama, left behind when his parents were sent to Venezuela. 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 28/09/2026
Three pro-Trump ads carrying government disclaimers are airing nationwide ahead of the midterms. AdImpact estimates the buy at $1M+. Taxpayers shouldn't be funding White House propaganda: lincolnsquare.media #Midterms2026 #Trump
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026
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New York Post headline: "Happy if he dies in his sleep: poll"
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An AI-enhanced version of a grainy image that appears to be authentic and shows several men being arrested in relation to the ongoing incident at RAF Fairford is currently being shared on multiple platforms. A SynthID check reveals that the enhanced image was generated with OpenAI.
AI-enhanced version of an authentic image showing arrests at RAF Fairford
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Social work? Religious studies? Teaching aide? You’re out of luck.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction upbraiding ICE for mass arrests that have strained detention facilities and forced detainees all over the country into "overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms for excessive periods of time" www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What makes this so vile is that it takes US refugee resettlement architecture and turns it on its head, repurposing it for the white-nationalist dream of "remigration." Career civil servants are leaking to WaPo that this totally perverts their original mission. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“deals place many migrants in countries to which they have no previous connections, and are structured to skirt ‘human rights safeguards’ that typically are built into U.S. foreign assistance payments abroad.”
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Something is deeply wrong when Trump’s net worth is skyrocketing but families across the country can’t afford gas, groceries, and health care. Donald Trump’s culture of open corruption is leaving Americans out to dry while he and his friends get rich.
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“ An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last”
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Not set in stone: teachers are defying mandates to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms
Some educators are pushing back in class and in court against the display of the religious code in public schools
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Per Texas media, it’s looking like +100K registrations were affected. Secretary of State is saying that it shouldn’t affect voting.
We reached out to 24 counties today to see the extent of the problem. Here's what we got back:
Collin County - 40,000+
Travis County - 32,000
Brazoria County - 9,000+
Hays County - 8,100
Cameron County - 5,000
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 23/09/2026
Funny how this came out immediately *after* California caved on the merger
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you're following the news around Andy Burnham's speech at the UN General Assembly on how Russia has "amplified far right narratives" and "tried to stoke tensions and unrest", here's a handy article on the targeting of the migration debate inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...
inews.co.uk
How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain
Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
religionnews.com/2026/09/22/m...
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Under congressional pressure, a major Muslim charity cuts ties and changes its name
(RNS) — Islamic Relief USA, a humanitarian organization with a $150 million annual budget, rebranded itself as the Islamic Development and Empowerment in America after members of Congress threatened t...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Many appalled seeing such murderous threats in the UN of all places, and they have a point, but don't miss that these extreme threats are most of America's strategy to get concessions from Iran, it has repeatedly failed for months, and the big idea out of the White House is to... say more threats.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hahahahaah the gift link that keeps on giving (lyin byron) www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Byron Donalds strips Trump references from his campaign website
The Republican gubernatorial candidate stopped emphasizing his endorsement from Donald Trump as the presidents’ approval ratings plummet.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
According to this Politico article, Rs have spent $239M on ads in House districts Trump won by 10 or more points. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Republicans were bullish about the Senate. Now they’re playing defense in red states.
President Donald Trump’s economic agenda is becoming a particular problem in the Midwest.
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Status @status.news · 22/09/2026
David Ellison worked the phones over the weekend to secure a settlement for his Warners takeover—but the deal’s supposed safeguard for CNN is already drawing skepticism from inside the network as staffers brace for what’s next. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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Ellison’s Bonta Blowout
David Ellison worked the phones over the weekend to secure a settlement for his Warners takeover—but the deal’s supposed safeguard for CNN is already drawing skepticism from inside the network as staf...
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NPR @npr.org · 22/09/2026
CNN, MS NOW and Politico have sued Trump after the networks were suspended from the White House. And, Paramount makes concessions to resolve a lawsuit over its massive Warner Bros. Discovery merger. n.pr/3VIxzvW
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CNN, MS NOW and Politico sue Trump. And, Paramount settles in massive merger lawsuit
CNN, MS NOW and Politico have sued Trump after the networks were suspended from the White House. And, Paramount makes concessions to resolve a lawsuit over its massive Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On Sep 11 in Alamo, Texas, Luis Ochoa and another teen stopped to film ICE agents during a vehicle stop near a school. Agents pulled one from their car, struck him, used pepper spray, and detained them for 8 hrs even after they proved their citizenship, one ICE agent stating, 'I don’t give a damn.'
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Mother of teen detained in viral Alamo ICE arrest video deported
The mother of a 17-year-old detained by ICE in a viral Alamo, Texas incident has been deported to Mexico, raising concerns among legal experts about potential retaliation for speaking out.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
FBI anti-corruption squad was circling Susan Collins — until Trump got in the way www.rawstory.com/susan-collin...
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FBI anti-corruption squad was circling Susan Collins — until Trump got in the way
In the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.C.For the first time in her two-decade Senate career, the Republi...
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More of this please
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An ‘aligned community’ in Tennessee seeks to bring the culture war home. writekaths.substack.com/p/safe-space...
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Safe Spaces for “Heritage Americans”?
An ‘aligned community’ in Tennessee seeks to bring the culture war home.
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