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Liza Fuentes

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 22h
NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: Former Deputy AG Sally Yates will lead a review of Cornell's handling of sexual assault and harassment reports, the university said.
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Cornell brings in ex-Justice official Sally Yates to review school’s handling of sex assault claims
Cornell University trustees have announced that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates will review how the university handles sexual misconduct complaints.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it
NYT: "It was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware that the clip had been included in the video before he shared it."
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Inhumane.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 04/10/2026
Go read the whole thing — and come back next week, when I hand the guest-writer's pen to the incomparable @pamspaulding.bsky.social. 🫡
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Nine Years After #MeToo, One Answer for Survivors Is ‘So What?’
‘Maybe she was assaulted, maybe not’: from federal agencies to online platforms, people with power and audiences take pains to show they don’t care
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SaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A NEW FIGHTER HAS ENTERED THE ARENA
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Gang of eight sperm whales sink yacht after ramming boat in South Pacific
Crew described terrifying encounter as they were woken up by “loud thud” as the 52ft vessel was struck
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Digital Diogenes @digital-diogenes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back
An autopsy shows that an armed man killed by the Tennessee National Guard was shot in the back. The report that Tyrin Johnson’s family shared with The Associated Press on Thursday contradicts accounts...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If we lived in a functioning democracy, major newspapers would run Page 1 editorials pleading with people to vote out the Republicans to save us from a fascist dictatorship. But most of the mainstream media have run out of bravery, if they ever had any.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We want Free Abortion On Demand. Nothing less.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 03/10/2026
The reason Epstein’s urologist would no longer be seeing patients at Cornell is he was abusing boys. Paduch was sentenced to life in prison. But Cornell wanted to make sure Epstein saw one of their other physicians instead of leaving Cornell. In 2019!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ht @alyssaburgart.com
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Liza Fuentes @lizafuentes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cornell settled the abuse claims in August of this year to the tune of $1 billion
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Weill Cornell Settles Sexual Abuse Claims for Over $1 Billion, Announces $30 Million Patient Safety Initiatives
Weill Cornell Medicine will pay over $1 billion to settle civil claims brought by patients sexually abused by former assistant professor and urologist Dr. Darius Paduch. The agreement will also establ...
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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing work by @propublica.org and partners illustrating the lack of regulations around microschools in some states. www.propublica.org/article/prop...
In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school with the Arkansas Times.
We established a school with Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia after filing our new school's name and location with authorities on a piece of notebook paper, then exchanging a few emails.
And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not her first case against amoral men . . .
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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cop is subject of community complaints (including for punching a driver in the face during a traffic stop). Local newsroom files a public records request about him. Eugene, Ore says sure thing, that’ll cost $2.5 million and take at least 44,000 hours to complete. My latest for @theintercept.com:
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Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
Eugene-based Double Sided Media requested police officer Justin Peckels’s records. The city slapped the publication with an exorbitant fee.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When Musk AND Rubio said “not a single person” died as a result of shutting down USAID, I wanted to vomit An estimated 700,000 people died (500,000 were kids) within a year of USAID being “put in the wood-chipper” Studies by Brooke Nichols at BU and by CGD researchers estimated a similar number
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026
oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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NPR @npr.org · 30/09/2026
Disabled kids make up the largest group in foster care. They have the worst outcomes. They stay in foster care longest. They're the most likely to die. n.pr/4hkqJ8q
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Foster care often fails kids with disabilities. Consider these cases
Disabled kids make up the largest group in foster care. They have the worst outcomes. They stay in foster care longest. They're the most likely to die.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Grant Witness @grantwitness.org · 29/09/2026
NOAA studies and monitors our coasts, the deep sea, weather, climate and even outer space. It has endured staff firings, suppression of scientific reports, budget cuts and grant terminations. This week we're adding it to Grant Witness's tracking. grantwitness.org/noaa/updates... 🧪
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Grant Witness is tracking NOAA Terminations and Funding
Tracker and Submission Form is now available on our website
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 30/09/2026
The mortality reviews document immigrants’ rapidly deteriorating health as they endure symptoms of conditions that are otherwise treatable. prospect.org?p=145558
Demonstrators place flowers outside the Adelanto Ice Processing Center
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ANSIRH @ansirh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meet MiMi! A conceptual design for a future over-the-counter medication abortion kit containing instructions, abortion pills, and a pregnancy test. MiMi is not yet available—but it’s a dream that could one day be reality. Here's why: [🧵] www.mimi4all.com
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2026
Donald Trump’s rush to deport as many immigrants as possible is creating a new family-separation crisis, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social writes. She reports on the babies left behind in America:
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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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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In France, abortion access is becoming more difficult. A shortage of trained professionals and lack of services have led to increased wait times. Pathways are "fraught with obstacles", including refusals to provide support, pressure, or a lack of choice regarding abortion methods.
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Access to abortion becoming increasingly difficult
Access to abortion is becoming increasingly difficult in France despite it being enshrined in the Constitution, warns the Family Planning Association.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People love threatening to murder people for legally riding bikes. Of course drivers regularly hit cyclists riding in painted bike lanes or shoulders. It's almost like motorists don't need any excuse to inflict violence upon bicyclists.
A Facebook comment that includes a comic of a car mowing down a group of cyclist with the text, "Cyclists! Move over and it won't happen!"
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We stopped the federal administration from cutting critical grant programs meant to retain teachers in underserved school districts.  With this win, we can provide students with the programs they need to succeed and thrive.
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Judge blocks Trump’s $600 million cuts to DEI grant funding for teachers
A federal judge in Boston found the administration couldn’t even define what diversity, equity and inclusion is.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
I haven't seen a single story explain that the lawsuit filed by Tierra Walker's family is part of a broader legal argument that women and pregnant people have a right to life. There are at least four state cases like this. Subscribe to @autonomynews.co for context you're not getting anywhere else
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Looking at this poster reminds me of the study by @brooklynwalker.bsky.social & @pauldjupe.bsky.social showing that it's the men who are trying to compensate for feeling unmasculine who are more Christian nationalist, sexist, extremist, & pro-violence. Study here: academic.oup.com/socrel/artic...
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Last Saturday we inaugurated a mural painting by our students, families at community outside of Casa Cultura in Trenton. We had a matching guava cake to celebrate. If you’re in #trenton, do go see it. And remember that the sun melts ice. Keep on shining. #chingalamigra
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This administration continues to give a giant middle finger to the environment, wholeheartedly embracing an active attack on the wellbeing of the planet and everyone who lives on it.
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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (Gift Article)
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I received an EXCELLENT education at City College where I received my MA in Sociology. And I was debt free. I attended PT while working FT. I'm a ride or die for the CUNY system. Once again, one of the best parts of NYC.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
this guy doesn’t seem to know what insurance is
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
It was a rare federal dataset that captured human emotions. Consumers could have their complaints about American businesses published for all to see. For years, corporations have critiqued the system. Now the narratives are no longer being published.
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The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly Move
Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped pu...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2) insurance fraud, from a consumer point of view, consists of filing fake or excessive claims, not paying premiums and then making no claims. Where’s the payout?
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There are like 500 of these books and they all exist in an alternate universe where trying to win over white working class voters is a Bold Forbidden Insight rather than the guiding ideology of the entire party.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Liza Fuentes @lizafuentes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes we generally know how long our period was
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JAMA Health Forum @jamahealthforum.com · 25/09/2026
In Pennsylvania, nonprofit #AmbulatorySurgeryCenters had higher profit margins than for-profit centers and accounted for a larger share of total net income relative to their share of facilities. ja.ma/4cYTqW2
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