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Lisa Harris

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?
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As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind
The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Last year, Chicagoan Marimar Martinez was shot **5 times** by a Border Patrol agent & all agents accounts were contradicted by evidence. Now she is suing the federal govt. Worth reading whole piece; agents cheered for shooter via celebratory texts (“beers on me") blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/05/m...
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Marimar Martinez Sues Feds A Year After Border Patrol Agent Shot Her 5 Times
A reconstruction of the shooting commissioned by Martinez’s legal team found agent Charles Exum was standing to the side of her car and was not in danger as he fired, her attorneys said.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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Lisa Harris @lisajharris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Playtime! #dog
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What we already know about the latest ICE shooting: Agents drove into Wilber Rafael Garces Perez’s car An agent fired at Garces Perez 4 times--while he was still in the car The agents didn't give Garces Perez immediate medical attention They didn't have body-cams www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
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Videos Reveal New Details About ICE Shooting in Austin
A video analysis finds that a federal immigration officer was standing to the side of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez’s car when the officer apparently fired through the rear passenger window. But the even...
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 22/09/2026
Good way to make sure nobody builds a new refinery any time soon *BESSENT: EXAMINING DIESEL EXPORT BAN, WHETHER IT'S FEASIBLE *BESSENT: EXAMINING WHETHER FULL OR PARTIAL BAN WOULD WORK *TRUMP SAYS DISCUSSED DIESEL EXPORT BAN WITH HIS 'PEOPLE' *TRUMP ON DIESEL EXPORT BAN: I'VE CALLED FOR IT TOO
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Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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When Ebola Strikes, HIV Care Cannot Stop - Health Policy Watch
As the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confronts its 17th and fastest-growing Ebola outbreak, a troubling warning is emerging from community networks
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What's worse? The Eagles' alleged supporting role in getting Macklemore kicked off Sheeran tour, or their failure to answer questions about it? If the Birds really want support for a new stadium, they need to make a stronger commitment to free speech My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/eagl...
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Eagles’ silence on their role in the Macklemore mess has become deafening | Will Bunch
What’s worse about the Macklemore-Ed Sheeran debacle in Philly? The Eagles’ role, or the team’s refusal to explain it?
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/09/2026
“The arrangement would give Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a direct role in determining how NIH distributes its $48 billion in congressionally-appropriated money.” Bypassing the many checks and balances at NIH on grant funding decisions.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20/09/2026
www.adamkinzinger.com/p/good-news-...
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Good News From Appalachia: Take It From the Raccoons
For thirty years we've been dropping vaccines out of airplanes onto the mountains below. The lesson we learned goes a lot further than wildlife.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals targeting of World Central Kitchen convoy was result of widely used military tactic
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Congratulations to the New York Times' Euphemism Desk for coming up with a new one. Instead of stating that Maria Bartiromo was letting her guests lie, NYT says she was "permitting her guest commentators to free-associate." 1/2🧵
He had no such issues with Ms. Bartiromo, whose approach — at times permitting guest commentators to free-associate on live television — had not appeared to change much in the years since the Dominion settlement. Puck, a news website, earlier reported on Ms. Bartiromo’s conversations with Mr. Navarro.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As a former trade official, I feel comfortable in saying that there has never been a president who was more clueless about trade and how it works than Trump. Maybe no official in our history. (Except possibly Peter Navarro.)
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
New email to Director Bhattacharya to start Labor Day weekend regarding the secret transfer of appropriated funds to the Department of Defense.
Dear Director Bhattacharya:

Nothing screams "radical transparency" like quietly signing an agreement with another agency transferring hundreds of millions of dollars appropriated to NIH that is only publicly disclosed through investigative reporting and only confirmed by a vague statement by you on "X".

As you know, I have been tracking NIH commitments in as close to real time as possible. I am flattered that NIH has mimicked my "funding curves" on the front page of the NIH Reporter website. Apparently, I will need to consider essentially secret interagency transfers in my analysis.

This is another good contribution to your legacy at NIH..."Director Bhattacharya broke new ground and many other things."

Sincerely,

Jeremy M. Berg
Director NIGMS, 2003-2011
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
the CDC director needs to resign.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
He's addressing infant mortality and postpartum by addressing the root causes of birth.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 02/09/2026
Today marks one year since the administration began its unauthorized and unconstitutional boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific — killing over 200 people. One thing is clear: this military campaign, which continues with the latest strikes just last week, remains illegal and ineffective.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Trump administration is building the case for cracking down on the left by commissioning a study that contradicts everything else we know about political violence in the US, which comes overwhelmingly from the right. Here's the real science: www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the...
journalofdemocracy.org
The Rise of Political Violence in the United States | Journal of Democracy
In a deeply polarized United States, ordinary people now consume and espouse once-radical ideas and are primed to commit violence.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026
Speaking of women in physics: Dr. Melba Phillips. Phillips earned her PhD on nuclear physics with Oppenheimer in 1933 & became a professor at Brooklyn College in 1938. A unionist, in 1952 she was fired after taking the 5th at a McCarthyist committee. She didn‘t get a faculty job again until 1962. 🧪⚛️
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Melba Phillips - Wikipedia
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"From ‘Fortress North America’ to All-Out Trade War: How the U.S.-Canada Talks Collapsed" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w... "the United States maintained that it would retain all power to change tariff policy against Canada at any time, irrespective of the agreement" Then what's the point?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/08/2026
Venkata Vasamsetty is a special education teacher who entered the U.S. legally in 1999 and obtained her green card in 2013. She is detained by ICE and faces deportation for "violating residency conditions" because she caught COVID during a trip to India and couldn't return within a six-month period
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‘Nightmare doesn’t end’: Indian grandmother faces deportation despite green card
Venkata Vasamsetty’s case shows how immigrants with years of lawful status can become subject to detention and deportation.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Substack Sensible Medicine commented on current events constantly when COVID raged and as MAHA loomed. Today, it’s a dispatch from an alternative universe where MAHA doesn’t even exist. I discuss the phenomenon of loud pandemic pundit who are suddenly silent about MAHA today. My latest.
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Why is Sensible Medicine Selectively Silent Regarding MAHA/MAGA? Unlike Science Based Medicine, They Have Paying Customers to Please.
There is a long list of prolific pandemic pundits who have become totally silent about the current events they enabled.
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Bush Walker @duncan-waddell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Today is the last day to comment on the Strategic Plan of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC). Comment by emailing IACCPublicInquiries@mail.nih.gov and commenting via email or with an attached Word document, not a PDF. What’s in the plan? 1/6
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So much for GOP claims that Democratic dominance was killing California’s economy. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/cali...
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California’s AI Dominance Fuels $366 Billion Venture Capital Bonanza
California-based companies have announced a record haul in startup funding, despite billionaire-tax fears.
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Brian Gocial @briangocial.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“If you cut in half the number of journalists reporting new information and double the number of people writing opinions about that information, you have created an information environment that is objectively less valuable for citizens.”
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Paying for News Is Cheaper Than Not Having It
The consequences of privatizing public information.
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Mirco Tomicek @mtomicek.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Nach dem #Drohnen Vorfall am Leipziger #Flughafen, wie steht es um die #Drohnenabwehr? #Leipzig #Drohne #Verteidigung #Karikatur #Cartoon
Karikatur "Klatsche". Eine Sprechblase "...wie läuft die Drohnenabwehr?!". Mit einer Fliegenklatsche bewaffnet und voller Mückenstiche schwirren Drohnen, wie Mücken, um Ihn herum.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Here's the order in which Judge Edelman "dismissed" the case against Reflecting Pool defendant David Hearn, although parties will continue litigating whether he should dismiss it with or without prejudice. Briefing continues till ~ 8/25. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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ORDER OF DISMISSAL 080601
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Yup. Also, Bhattacharya censored a CDC study because it showed that Covid vaccination works (this goes against MAHA ideology) & ended research that does not fit with Trump's anti-DEI ideology & put an NIH staffer on leave because she criticized the harms of his reforms. He hates freedom of speech!
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Heartbreaking and inexcusable.
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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
NY Times was really good about pointing out Hunter Biden's corruption, but rarely frames what Trump is doing as corrupt. They are really fixated on his emotions. Or they present it without comment, presented as "Democrats say..." Hunter Biden story from 10/8/25. Trump story from 7/29/26
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.
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🖇️Country Roads, Take Me Away 🖇️ @mrspnkrsnow.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Mass flash flood covered the entirety of Lewis County, WV & parts of neighboring Upshur County.💔 NO national media.🤷‍♀️ Trump administration has not been here. Community members are on their own for recovery.😔 @hcrichardson.bsky.social @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social @theguardian.com @thegodshow.com 🫶SHARE🙌
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Trump's misguided conduct has unleashed the most serious round of nuclear proliferation in fifty years, and this fact passed unremarked upon in US media... which really prefers not to go there.
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is really not surprising at all to me to see the same people who were complaining about cancel culture and intellectual freedom now argue for eliminating things they disagree with or don’t like. The whole cancel culture thing was an exercise in DARVO
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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UIS Observatory @uisobservatory.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’d like to make it clear for all the people following me what the sheer gravity of the news is. Without this facility we can’t ensure constant communication with spacecraft beyond Earth orbit. If this facility is off-line, the Artemis program cannot send a crew to the Moon.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 20/07/2026
Nico Williams Jr. presenting his World Cup medal to his mother She crossed the Sahara while pregnant with his older brother, Iñaki, to make a better life for her children
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 18/07/2026
The costs of international student exclusion will be vast and permanent. It will harm all Conservative Americans and their children; it will harm all Liberal Americans and their children. It is the exact opposite of what our tech-driven economy needs. I summarize my research at @piie.com —>
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The US is driving away international students at a long-term economic cost
For generations, students from around the world have fueled universities in the United States, their top destination by far. Those students don't just sustain a $43 billion export industry in higher e...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Countries’ pursuit of payments sovereignty may one day mean various regional systems become incompatible, notes one expert. That could harm the global economy, but for the moment it presents an acute threat to the US dollar bit.ly/4fos8bK
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Storm clouds gather over America’s financial supremacy
Its payments firms may be the first casualties
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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
DeSantis appointed AG Uthmeier yaps about culture war issues a lot but clams up when the bill comes due for the cruel stunt that was "Alligator Alcatraz." 🎁 www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/07/08/m...
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Maxwell: Uthmeier scurries from cameras, now that ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ bills are due
Scott Maxwell: James Uthmeier used to be a big talker when it came to “Alligator Alcatraz.” But now that the facility is shuttered and the boondoggle bills are due, CBS Miami reported Uthmeier “refuse...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
One of many ironies in the documents the WH released is that the CISA assessment of electoral cybersecurity does NOT find it realistic that adversaries could exploit vulnerabilities to manipulate vote totals undetected, but rather that breaches could be used to undermine public confidence...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.
nytimes.com
Opinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.
Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
TINA SMITH: Researchers in MN made a breakthrough in childhood cancer in Black kids with a grant. But it seems that according to your proposed rule, this type of research wouldn't allowed bc it's 'DEI.' VOUGHT: We are against DEI policies. We have intended to rid of them whenever we possibly can.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Now that the Reflecting Pool is drained, it is obvious that there is no long cut down the center. Instead, there is significant tire damage from 10,000 pound armored vehicles driving on the fresh coating at Trump's direct order. Time for a 10-year prison sentence?
Obvious tire damage running down side of reflecting pool.Photo from several weeks earlier of Trump's motorcade driving down the same stretch of fresh coating on the reflecting pool.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
ngl, all i want is to live my life in such a way that folks don’t celebrate when i die.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.
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Lisa Harris @lisajharris.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Gianni Infantino deserves a red card.
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