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Investigative Reporter at U.S.Right To Know; formerly NBC News, Axios, Seattle Times Signal: lewiskamb.206 I ❤ the #PNW 🏂 + public records #FOIA 📑

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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW: In Feb. 2020, Ralph Baric was being asked to publicly refute claims linking his coronavirus research to the Wuhan outbreak. Privately, he warned scientists advising U.S. intelligence that such a statement could be used for “nefarious purposes to shift blame.” My latest: tinyurl.com/uskvuzvv
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Ralph Baric warned COVID statement could be used for 'nefarious purposes to shift blame,' email shows
New emails show virologist Ralph Baric worried that a public statement on COVID origins and his lab's work could be used for 'nefarious purposes'.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
ICYMI My story this week: NIH committee greenlighted Wuhan coronavirus experiments despite concerns, emails show The recentlyreleased records, obtained via our ongoing #FOIA lawsuit, reveal ad hoc review committee’s lax oversight during federal ban on risky research usrtk.org/covid-19-ori...
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NIH committee green-lighted Wuhan coronavirus experiments despite concerns, emails show
Public records for the first time show the NIH "gain-of-function" review committee's informal vetting of a controversial project in Wuhan.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Claim: Trump admin promises "maximum transparency" on COVID origins records Reality: After for weeks ignoring a federal court order to process 500 pages per month in our #FOIA suit, Trump's DIA just released 92 pages—58 of which we already had. The rest? It looks like this... .
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
NYT: Virginia Giuffre’s Family Responds to Trump’s Claim That Epstein ‘Stole’ Her www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
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Virginia Giuffre’s Family Responds to Trump’s Claim That Epstein ‘Stole’ Her
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
WSJ: Justice Department told Trump in May that his name appears in the Epstein files www.wsj.com/politics/jus...
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Exclusive | Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files
Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that the department also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victim...
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
RIP Ozzy www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/a...
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Ozzy Osbourne, ‘Prince of Darkness’ Turned Reality TV Star, Dies at 76
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Despite the Trump admin's pledge to make more COVID origins intelligence transparent & a federal law passed 2 years ago instructing U.S. intel agencies to declassify & share with the public as much info as possible, we're still getting records from the FBI that look like this:
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"It will be remembered as one of the most shameful capitulations by the press to a president in history." @freedom.press's statement on CBS/Paramount's settlement with Trump freedom.press/issues/param...
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Paramount’s capitulation to Trump is a dark day for press freedom
Freedom of the Press Foundation plans to hold Paramount directors accountable for this affront to the First Amendment
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
NEW Posted at usrtk.org: 6.5K+ pages of docs obtained from the University of California-Davis related to PREDICT -- the USAID-funded virus hunting project (which drew scrutiny during the COVID pandemic) that collected 10k samples from bats & discovered ~120 new coronaviruses from 2009-2020 (1/2)
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Home U.S. Right to Know
We're a nonprofit public health research group. We investigate corporate wrongdoing and government failures that threaten our health and food system. We work in the public interest to keep families he...
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
One of the greats. RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...
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Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
While Elon Musk became one of Donald Trump’s closest allies last year, he was consuming so much Ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms, Adderall and ketamine that it was adversely affecting his bladder, per @NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
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On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
White House Health Report Included Fake Citations www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
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White House Health Report Included Fake Citations
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Yesterday, we filed an appellate brief with the North Carolina Court of Appeals in our NC Public Records Act case against the University of North Carolina for roughly 50,000 pages of documents, mostly of Ralph Baric, possibly containing clues about the origins of COVID-19. usrtk.org/wp-content/u...
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner, via @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
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Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
ICE agents last week began showing up in immigration courts across the US to detain certain migrants who are appearing for scheduled hearings, targeting them shortly after their cases were dismissed by judges www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/n...
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ICE, Shifting Tactics, Detains High School Student at N.Y.C. Courthouse
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Justice Department reaches deal to allow Boeing to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes apnews.com/article/boei...
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Justice Department reaches deal to allow Boeing to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes
The Justice Department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the company to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the pl...
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar; Trump Administration asks Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the president, per NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
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U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar for Trump
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
For two years, New Orleans police secretly used facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, per @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras
Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
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U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs
Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumblin...
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
For sale: Portland’s NBA franchise
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Trump Is Poised to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One. The plan raises substantial ethical issues, given the immense value of the lavishly appointed plane and that Trump intends to take ownership of it after he leaves office, via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
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Trump Is Poised to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/s...
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Genetic Study Retraces the Origins of Coronaviruses in Bats
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The Nat’l Archives and Records Administration just released another big batch of records on the assassination of RFK archives.gov/rfk
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Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
On This Page The National Archives’ Role in Fulfilling Executive Order 14176 How is the National Archives Making These Records Available? 2025 Release Release Notes Other Records Related to RFK C...
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing new ventures involving billions of dollars that directly benefit their father, the president, via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...
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Donald Jr. and Eric Trump Pursue New Deals That Would Enrich President Trump
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing new ventures involving billions of dollars.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Congress’s Fight Over Trump’s Agenda Runs Through Alaska, via @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...
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Congress’s Fight Over Trump’s Agenda Runs Through Alaska
Republicans in Congress are clashing over whether to repeal Biden-era clean energy tax credits that are a lifeline for some of their constituents.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A day before Trump ousted him as national security adviser, Michael Waltz checked his phone during a White House cabinet meeting. A Reuters photographer captured his phone screen with a list of his chats on what appears to be the messaging app Signal. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u...
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Photo Shows Waltz’s Conversations on a Version of Signal
A Reuters photographer captured an image of Michael Waltz’s phone screen during a White House cabinet meeting, a day before he was ousted from his job as national security adviser.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.cnn....
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Poll: Trump’s approval rating at 100 days in office | CNN Politics
Donald Trump won back the Oval Office and took charge of the government amid the strongest poll numbers of his political career, but as the 100-day mark of his presidency approaches, Americans’ views ...
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A day after making an Easter Sunday appearance to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis died today at age 88. The NYT’s sweeping obituary: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/w...
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Francis, the First Latin American Pope, Dies at 88
After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing inclusion and care for the marginalized over doctrinal purity.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The White House has posted a statement announcing “the true origins of COVID” as a lab leak but has provided no new supporting evidence or documentation to back it up www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...
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Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19
THE ORIGIN “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Source: Another roughly 60 positions at the CDC were cut today — this time targeting the team devoted to preventing malaria in developing African nations
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Always nice to see State Department staffers discuss how the documents we’ve #FOIA’d have been “redacted into oblivion…”
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Scoop: Via a #FOIA lawsuit, we obtained the US Defense Intelligence Agency’s classified analysis from 2020 about how the COVID pandemic started. The scientific assessment breaks down how the virus could have been engineered at the Wuhan’s Institute of Virology usrtk.org/covid-19-ori...
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US intelligence agency's classified analysis offers detailed scientific view that COVID-19 may have come from Wuhan lab
A Defense Intelligence Agency analysis said the virus that causes COVID-19 could have been engineered in a Chinese lab and escaped to spawn the pandemic.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Tesla sales tumble 13% as Musk backlash, competition and aging lineup turn off buyers, via @apnews.com apnews.com/article/tesl...
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Tesla sales tumble 13% as Musk backlash, competition and aging lineup turn off buyers
Tesla sales fell in the first three months of the year in another sign that Elon Musk’s once high-flying electric car company is struggling to attract buyers.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/m...
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Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65
A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The Trump administration deported a man to El Salvador due to an administrative error & now can't bring him back, per court filings ICE arrested Abrego Garcia, alleging he was an MS-13 gang member. He's now being held in a notorious prison but hasn't been charged, via @wsj.com on.wsj.com/3QURl1T
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ICE Can’t Bring Back Man Deported to El Salvador Prison in Error, Agency Says
The Trump administration said the court didn’t have the authority to order the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Booker just broke the record for longest speech in the US Senate — Dixiecrat Storm Thurmond’s 24 hour 18 minute filibuster against the Civil Rights Act in 1957
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
CDC source: “it’s a bloodbath.” Firsthand perspective of today’s wide-scale cuts at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker’s marathon anti-Trump speech has lasted more than 20 hours — and counting apnews.com/article/cory...
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New Jersey Sen. Booker presses his marathon speech against Trump's agenda past 19 hours and counting
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker has pressed his marathon speech against President Donald Trump’s agenda past 19 hours and counting.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
RFK Jr forced out the FDA’s top vaccine scientist www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
In his resignation letter, Marks rebuked Kennedy for seeking “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies” about vaccines.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
U.S. officials went door-to-door in Greenland to find anyone who wanted to be visited by the Vances. They found no one. via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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U.S. officials can’t find any Greenlanders who want to talk to Usha Vance
A local travel company in Greenland’s capital also cancelled a planned visit by Usha Vance
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Here are the war plans that Trump’s advisers shared on Signal, via @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Kennedy wants to let bird flu spread on farms www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...
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Kennedy’s Alarming Prescription for Bird Flu on Poultry Farms
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Musk’s Role in Dismantling Aid Agency Likely Violated Constitution, Judge Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...
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Musk’s Role in Dismantling Aid Agency Likely Violated Constitution, Judge Finds
It appears to be the first time a federal judge has acted to constrain Elon Musk, a top adviser to President Trump. The judge also ordered agency functions be partially restored, though that relief co...
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
NYT analyis: The counter-measures imposed by Canada, China and other nations in retaliation to Trump’s tariffs will hit the counties that voted for him the hardest www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Maps: Where Trump Voter Jobs Will Be Hit by Tariffs
Nearly 8 million Americans work in industries targeted by the levies and the majority are Trump voters, a New York Times analysis shows
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Los Angeles’ mayor wasn’t saving her text messages during the critical days of decision-making surrounding the devastating LA wildfires, per LA Times. Sound familiar, Seattle? www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Why is Mayor Karen Bass deleting her text messages?
Bass and her office have said she was in constant communication while she was out of the country. But it’s impossible to know exactly what she was communicating, because her messages were not saved, a...
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting, Via @wired.com www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
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Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @RadioFreeTom. Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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It Was an Ambush
Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
NYT: Over the last five years, more than 1,200 people have died after being skipped while near the top of the waiting lists for donated organs www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Organ Transplant System ‘in Chaos’ as Waiting Lists Are Ignored
The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But more and more, they are being skipped over.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A federal judge in Seattle just temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s stoppage of the country’s refugee resettlement program that froze funding for agencies that support refugees, via @seattletimes.com www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Seattle judge blocks Trump’s refugee ban
Lutheran Community Services Northwest, a Tacoma-based resettlement agency, was one of three agencies that sued to challenge the program’s freeze and to restore federal funding.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
After CNN made a FOIA request to the Office of Personnel Management for records detailing security clearances for Elon Musk his DOGE staff, an OPM email responded, 'Good luck with that.' The staff responsible for responding to FOIA requests at OPM had been fired. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...
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Firing of FOIA officers leaves experts worried about public records access under Trump - Poynter
‘Anytime that whole FOIA offices are getting fired, it portends terrible things’
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