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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/05/2026

NEW: From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key takeaways from our recent investigation.

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8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections

From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key ta...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/05/2026

After Mariela's daughter was detained, she reached out to what she thought was a Catholic Charities Facebook page, only to lose $18,000 in a scam involving a fake priest, a fake judge and another man impersonating an immigration lawyer.

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Immigration Scams Surged as Trump’s Sweeps Lured Desperate People to Eager Defrauders

Con artists posing as ICE agents and immigration officers are using WhatsApp and fake court hearings to bilk vulnerable people out of their savings with empty promises to fix immigration problems. As ...

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 01/05/2026

Over 9,000 FBI personnel were assigned to immigration after Trump returned to office — a massive diversion that experts warn could put national security at risk.

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FBI Redirected Thousands of Workers to Target Immigrants Under Trump's Deportation Push

Experts warned that the massive diversion of FBI staff could put national security at risk for the sake of immigration enforcement.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/05/2026

NEW: Environmental scientists said a new EPA directive could lead to weakened chemical protections, such as revised limits on how much arsenic is allowed in drinking water or the amount of lead considered acceptable in paint or soil. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

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“A Huge Setback”: New EPA Directive Could Weaken Hundreds of Chemical Regulations

For decades, a small EPA program assessed toxic chemicals. In an internal memo obtained by ProPublica, a top Trump appointee sharply criticized the program’s work and directed agency offices to review...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/05/2026

Donald Trump’s broad economic and foreign-policy agenda is accelerating a “budgetary death spiral” for many child-care programs, leaving parents in desperate straits, @ehaspel.bsky.social writes:

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Child Care Is Buckling

The president’s broad policies are making a bad situation worse.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/04/2026

Public pressure once forced Donald Trump to back out of hosting a major summit at his Florida resort. In The Atlantic Daily, @dgraham.bsky.social explores what’s different now as Trump tries hosting it again:

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Why Government Corruption Has Boomed in Trump’s Second Term

The president is no longer intimidated by backlash.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/04/2026

Ex-MAGA pundits including Tucker Carlson are being praised for their second thoughts about Trump—but to have erred so badly, when so many others saw the truth, disqualifies them from being taken seriously on politics again, @dgraham.bsky.social argues:

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Seriously, Tucker Carlson? Come On

Media figures who have turned against Trump only in recent weeks have forfeited the right to be taken seriously in the future.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/04/2026

Conservative education activists such as Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice now have access to the top levers of the government. “If America’s public schools cease to exist tomorrow, America would be a better place,” Justice told ProPublica. (Published Oct. 2025)

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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/04/2026

Thomas Massie is unafraid of Donald Trump, and the Kentucky Republican thinks he can embolden more people in his party to stand up to the president—if he can get reelected, @russellberman.bsky.social reports.

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Can Thomas Massie Survive the Trump Barrage?

The president’s loudest GOP critic is trying to stay in Congress.

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 27/04/2026

The executive order President Trump signed in February protecting and encouraging the production of glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Roundup, is a major victory for Bayer AG. buff.ly/EkbPuma

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Bayer ‘Turns Over Every Stone’ to Stiff Roundup Cancer Victims

An executive order signed by President Trump may further shield the company from legal liability.

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NPR @npr.org · 24/04/2026

A U.S. appeals court ruled Friday that immigration laws allow people to apply for asylum at the border, and the president cannot bypass this. The decision stems from Trump declaring the border situation an invasion and suspending asylum. n.pr/3QGjfl9

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Appeals court rules that Trump's asylum ban at the border is illegal

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NPR @npr.org · 22/04/2026

After Virginia voters weighed in on Tuesday, the redistricting set off by President Trump to help the GOP in the midterms has been countered and possibly surpassed by Democrats. n.pr/48f9GzN

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With Virginia vote, Democrats gain edge over Trump's national GOP redistricting push

After Virginia voters weighed in on Tuesday, the redistricting set off by President Trump to help the GOP in the midterms has been countered and possibly surpassed by Democrats.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/04/2026

A new investigation from ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps. “We see, just, use of excessive force after use of excess force,” one expert said.

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A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls.

A new investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps. “We see, just, use of excessive force...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/04/2026

Virginia voters approved an aggressive Democratic redistricting plan, and now “Trump’s move to open this new front in a centuries-old gerrymandering war between the parties looks like an enormous tactical blunder,” @russellberman.bsky.social reports.

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Trump’s Enormous Gerrymandering Blunder

The Republican redistricting effort backfires.

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NPR @npr.org · 22/04/2026

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says Trump's effort to try to rig the midterm elections has been "thwarted," after a major victory for Democrats in Virginia. n.pr/490SWfK

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Hakeem Jeffries says Virginia redistricting assures a 'free and fair midterm'

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says Trump's effort to try to rig the midterm elections has been "thwarted," after a major victory for Democrats in Virginia.

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 22/04/2026

Workers are suing a multimillion-dollar North Carolina farm, alleging confiscated immigrant workers’ passports and visas: "Combined with nonexistent law enforcement and the threat of Trump’s mass deportations, farmworkers are even more vulnerable."

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North Carolina Farm Stole H-2A Visa Workers’ Passports: Lawsuit - The American Prospect

A new class action lawsuit against Jackson Farming Company of Autryville highlights how agricultural employers abuse immigrant workers. New GOP policies aim to make that more common.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/04/2026

#ICYMI: We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate

ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21/04/2026

Donald Trump’s aides have kept him in the dark on important conversations—and “the ramifications for democratic accountability are serious,” David A. Graham argues in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/I2zCBFJS

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 21/04/2026

As he flails about for a midterm message, President Trump has hit on a new role as a crusader against fraud. There’s just one problem with this narrative: Trump appears to support medical fraud, as long as corporate executives and other elites are the ones committing it.

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Trump Showers Health Care Crooks With Love - The American Prospect

His extensive pardons to health care executives convicted of various crimes show that his ‘war on fraud’ in blue states has nothing to do with fraud.

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NPR @npr.org · 18/04/2026

Since Trump began his second term, his administration's use of the armed forces has left a growing number in the military unsettled, according to NPR interviews with service members and advocates.

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There's growing disquiet in the military. The Iran war made it worse

Since Trump began his second term, his administration's use of the armed forces has left a growing number in the military unsettled, according to NPR interviews with service members and advocates.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/04/2026

The midterms will serve as an unprecedented stress test of the integrity of American elections “with more election deniers having access to federal power than ever before,” some experts and Democrats warn.

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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections

When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/04/2026

Joseph Schwartz’s case is the latest in a string of health care fraud pardons by Trump. The president also granted clemency to nursing home magnate Philip Esformes, convicted of a $1.3B scheme, and Judith Negron, convicted in a $200M fraud case.

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A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.

At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.

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NPR @npr.org · 19/04/2026

Update: The U.S. has taken custody of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz after firing on its engine room, President Trump said in a post on social media.

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U.S. seizes Iranian cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz, Trump says

The U.S. has taken custody of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz after firing on its engine room, President Trump said in a post on social media.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/04/2026

On Jan. 12, a protester in Minneapolis threw a snowball toward federal immigration agents, who responded by tossing a tear gas canister and firing pepper balls into the crowd, hitting ProPublica & @frontlinepbs.bsky.social correspondent A.C. Thompson in the face.

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A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/04/2026

Josef Palermo spent 10 months working at the Kennedy Center because he wanted to help protect it. He reports from inside the "hostile political takeover" of the nation’s cultural center: theatln.tc/OexwWjt5 📸: Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty

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NPR @npr.org · 20/04/2026

The Trump administration asserts a nearly 50-year-old law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional. Historians warn important papers could be destroyed. n.pr/4sIYv9O

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Who owns presidential records? Trump's Justice Department says it's him

The Trump administration asserts a nearly 50-year-old law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional. Historians warn important papers could be destroyed.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/04/2026

NEW: Stories about pardons are often told as stories about presidential power — who had access, who persuaded a president to intervene. But what drew reporter Jeremy Kohler to this story was the people on the other side of that act of grace.

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Trump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Who Owed Almost $19 Million to a Grieving Family

Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago.

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𝓡𝓪𝔂 @raysoto15.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

More and more MAGA people like this young man are regretting voting for Trump every day so, that 70 million is decreasing rapidly.

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LT @haciendathomaso.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS ROBBIMNG YOU BLIND, WAKE THE FUCK UP.

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Stephen Gutknecht @roundsparrow.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

1. This is #TrumpFandom behavior. Media messages celebrating the mockery Trump + Putin created 2. Carl Sagan described this behavior year 1995 as "Celebration Of Ignorance" usage of media systems in Tweet-length 10-second "sound bites" 3. This is brain rot, mocking always, mockery nation #ToDenyMe

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AV; Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis have a right to Joy @apveng.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

US has done this in the first Trump term too. At the time, I think Iran didn't really retaliate. Well, now they are doing that.

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Wooftom57 @wooftom57.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/u... Hilarious that Trump thinks dyslexia is disqualifying for becoming president, but it seems Trump being a felon and allegedly a pedophile is fine? NO, it is not fine! Trump should be in jail! If only Newsom were president. The WORLD would rejoice! #LockTrumpUp

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Trump Says Newsom Shouldn’t Be President Because He Is Dyslexic

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jenniexplainsitall.bsky.social @jenniexplainsitall.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Trump is planning to bomb or invade Cuba in the next few days. This is WWIII. We are the bad guys. This will continue until Trump is stopped. Literally.

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RevBug is mathing: (8+6)+(4+7)=25th Amendment @revbug.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

As a democrat voter, I hope that if a president I voted for had bumblefucked his way into a war, that I would be able to speak out against such a bumblefuck.

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Kinlika @kinlika.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Markwayne Mullin Resume: Mark Wayne Named for two possible fathers His mother said 'Could be others, it was a hell of a bukkake party' Chief credentials - 1 trump penis sucker 2 See 1

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shelbyb28 @shelbyb28.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The SAVE act. NO mail in voting. Trump voted by mail in the last election. If he can do it, we all should be able to do it. We should never have to fear for our safety going to polls with the gestapo threatening us with guns.

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AC Roosevelt @acroosevelt.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Right before Trump and Netanyahu started the war with Iran, Iran proposed a deal even better than the 2015 one that Trump trashed. It would have confined uranium enrichment to a medical unit. This, according to Middle East experts interviewed by NPR in collaboration with local stations.

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Ole Vet USAF @olevetusaf.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

www.rawstory.com/andrew-paul-... Andrew Paul Johnson, 45, was found guilty last month on five criminal charges, including molestation, lewd and lascivious exhibition, and transmission of material harmful to a minor. "They think they're untouchable," Raskin said. Trump has made America less safe."

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Jan. 6 rioter gets life in prison for sexually abusing two 12-year-olds after Trump pardon

A convicted Jan. 6 rioter was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for sexually abusing two children after he was pardoned by President Donald Trump.Andrew Paul Johnson, 45, was found guilty last mont...

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WiseUpRiseUp @lrb9.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Vote EVERY Republican out. And Democrat John Fetterman

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JD @wuputah.com · 05/03/2026

BREAKING: Trump focuses on affordability by raising oil prices by 45%

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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Presidents Obama and Biden are TOTALLY responsible for the daily price of fuel! It's all their fault! ~ Republicans, 2008-2016, 2020-2024 Trump isn't responsible for ANYTHING causing fuel prices to skyrocket. To suggest otherwise is unpatriotic and antisemitic! ~ Republicans, 2016-2020, 2025-2026

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