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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Elon Musk is one of the most dangerous people in the world. Twitter is a right wing propaganda tool. There are far too many folks out there pretending otherwise.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/09/2026
For it's halloween decorations, a California home is taking inspiration from Dr. Dre's iconic music video for "Still D.R.E." Featuring music synced lights a lowrider drone light show, owner Tom BetGeorge is combing halloween with hip-hop royalty.
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
18% interest. 700 lawsuits. 81 arrests. Medical bills should not ruin lives. We must do better than this.
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Jason Arday was hounded to his death because some of the media didn't believe his account of his past. Now Donald Trump brazenly lies about his past, and the same media says nothing. Here's Michael Gove, editor of the Spectator, which is still attacking Arday. I bet they say nothing about Trump.
Picture of Donald Trump and Michael Gove with their thumbs up grinning at the camera.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Huge WSJ report on Noem's DHS corruption. She made Corey Lewandowski a “special government employee,” where he had sign-off power over big contracts. While in that position, he pitched Qatar & UAE on hiring him on the side for help with DHS matters, including visas. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Chasing Side Deals, Flexing Influence: Lewandowski’s Power Moves at DHS
Kristi Noem’s close adviser effectively controlled billions in spending at Homeland Security; Lewandowski denies seeking business or playing any role in agency’s contracts.
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 23/08/2026
we’re at costco and my husband ordered a hot dog from the cashier and the guy said “what flavor” and my husband said wat and costco guy said “jk there’s only one flavor. it’s hot dog” and my husband said dammit you did this to me last time and the costco cashier collapsed in giggles
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
What could go wrong?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Kacey Musgraves asks fans to donate to the Chicago-based Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights in honor of her birthday
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/07/2026
Police arrested a teacher for clapping during a city council meeting last week. They went to the meeting of Emporia, Kansas City Commission to speak out against a proposed hyperscale data center that would sit on 1,000 acres of rural land. @mjgault.bsky.social reports www.404media.co/person-oppos...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026
Half of all Americans die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation. (Published 2022 with @newyorker.com)
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The Hospice Hustle
Half of all Americans now die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/06/2026
For hours, rescuers waited miles away from where journalist Amal Khalil was taking refuge, injured, but still alive inside a building that had been leveled by an Israeli airstrike. Rescuers were denied access to her during a crucial period when she was still alive.
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An airstrike trapped a journalist. She died as rescuers waited for permission to save her.
A Post reconstruction of Amal Khalil’s final hours in Lebanon found that Israel’s military denied rescuers access to her during a key period when she was still alive.
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 24/05/2026
Donald Trump is now responsible for 28% of the US national debt. That's $11 trillion. In 250 years of American history, no president has added more. That's not an opinion. It's math.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 19/04/2026
There is billions in confirmed fraud within the Department of Defense, yet Trump and Vought are going after health care, childcare, and nutrition assistance. As Congress puts together the 2027 budget, we must fight back.
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Trump has no plan to cut the $39 trillion national debt, but he does want to cut childcare. His budget director is scrambling to clarify | Fortune
OMB Director Russell Vought appeared before Congress to answer questions about the request for the largest military spending boost since World War II.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 15/03/2026
The way our nation turned its back on those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families is an unforgivable national shame. We owed Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal. Instead, ICE arrested him in front of his children and he died in their custody. We failed him and his family.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026
A day later and no major national news org has covered what they're doing in Kansas. This is the flip side of the hyper focus on trans issues by the right. The national media ignores what's actually being done to trans people. This erasure is what contributes to the persecution.
A screenshot of a mobile Google search results page in dark mode for the query "Kansas trans". Under the heading "News about Kansas," there is a list of four news articles:
​An article from the Kansas City Star, published 13 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday". The thumbnail shows a sample Kansas driver's license.
​An article from The Independent, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas sends letters to trans drivers demanding the immediate surrender of their licenses over birthright law". The thumbnail shows small pride flags on desks inside a legislative chamber.
​An article from The Topeka Capital-Journal, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas invalidates IDs and birth certificates of transgender people". The thumbnail features a close-up of colorful pride flag stickers.
​An article from Erin In The Morning, published 16 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses". The thumbnail is a nighttime photo of a state capitol building illuminated in pink and red lights.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Why isn't this a WAY bigger story? Planning to be retired in 2040? Or still alive and on Medicare any time after that? Good luck with your healthcare.
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In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A | Fortune
The CBO estimates that benefit reductions would start at 8% in 2040 and steadily climb to a 10% cut by 2056.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Messaging lesson here: DO say - "yet again, MAGA wants to keep people from voting to control our elections to seize power" DON'T say - "see!!! they're the ones doing voter fraud!" Bringing up "fraud" merely feeds desire for anti-voter laws. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...
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Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk
The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.
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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I thought this was the best description ever:
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/02/2026
“ICE plans to activate all facilities by November 30, 2026, ensuring the timely expansion of detention capacity,” the document says. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/metada...
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Metadata Exposes Authors of ICE’s ‘Mega’ Detention Center Plans
Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation.
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Mary Todd @marytodd.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Insightful read ⬇️
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
One of my former grad students was involved in this. Really cool.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
SCOOP: I have the first interview with the 36-year-old South Jersey man whose tearful protest against an ICE raid at a school bus stop has been watched more than 3 million times How a non-political Eagles fan Everyman became the face of ICE resistance My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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South Jersey guy becomes the face of ICE resistance | Will Bunch Newsletter
Last Friday, Joseph Zobel, “an average Joe who grew up in Haddon Heights” saw a video that shocked him. First interview with the ICE protester whose viral video reaction has been seen 3 million times.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/02/2026
Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation finds. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/students-are...
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Robespierre peekin'
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/02/2026
Complaining that following the Constitution will stop you from doing the thing you want to do is... an admission that what you want to do is unconstitutional. You swore an oath to defend the Constitution. You are violating that oath, Rep. Alford. Time to go home and let someone else do the job.
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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Pol Pot killed 3 million people. Vought and Musk have him beat three times over.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
definitely seems like you're safer from any kind of punishment for being in the Epstein Files than for, say, just to pick two examples totally at random, attending a college protest for Gaza or tweeting that you weren't very sad Charlie Kirk died
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𝐝𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐞🎃🍂👻 @londonfog.swifties.social · 09/02/2026
PBS kids is sending me
A PBS kids post of buster from Arthur with sunglasses on waving with the caption “we always loved a bad bunny”
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Birnam Wood has come to Dunsinane
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts www.404media.co/watch-404-me...
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Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad
WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 15/10/2025
The enrollment period for 2026 Medicare coverage starts Wednesday. Here’s what you need to know.
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Big Changes Are Coming for 2026 Medicare Plans. What You Need to Know.
Skinnier benefits, higher premiums and fewer options mean more than a million seniors should shop for new coverage during open enrollment.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2025
In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million from an emergency food assistance program that delivered meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks across the country. Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
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New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, White House Says
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2025
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
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‘People will die because of this’: How RFK Jr. drove out the CDC’s senior leaders
On the same day Susan Monarez was fired, four of the agency’s top leaders quit.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/07/2025
In Alabama, a woman was cut into while she was alive. In New Mexico, another woman underwent days of preparation for donation even as she regained consciousness. As the U.S. has pushed to increase transplants, more patients are enduring premature or bungled attempts to remove their organs.
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A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk
People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 09/06/2025
Letter: The expected cost of Donald Trump’s “military parade” is about $45 million with $16 million estimated to repair the street damage caused by heavy tanks. I guess DOGE missed the memo on that one.
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Letter: Where was DOGE when the cost of Trump’s military parade came up?
Letter: Where was DOGE when the cost of Trump’s military parade came up?
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The Lever @levernews.com · 17/05/2025
🚨NEWS: Republicans quietly put a line in their 1,000-page tax bill blocking states from preventing tech companies from using AI to raise your rent & deny you health insurance. The provision has been a priority of Silicon Valley & the Abundance movement. www.levernews.com/gop-chooses-...
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GOP Chooses AI Dominance Over Democracy
House lawmakers writing the upcoming budget bill just snuck in a provision that would wipe from the books every state law regulating artificial intelligence.
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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 13/04/2025
At 29 I was diagnosed with a cardiac problem and could not raise my heart rate. That meant I couldn't fast walk anymore. I became less judgmental.
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I used to hate slow walkers. Then I got sick and I became one of them.
At 29 I was diagnosed with a cardiac problem and could not raise my heart rate. That meant I couldn't fast walk anymore. I became less judgmental.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 29/03/2025
Deep-sea mining for rare minerals to go into electric car batteries and smartphones could threaten the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that sustains life across our planet. An oceanographer explains how sediment plumes from mining may disrupt this delicate environment: buff.ly/TbOJpdu
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/03/2025
Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
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Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown
Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 16/03/2025
President Donald Trump's administration has put journalists at Voice of America and other US-funded broadcasters on leave, freezing outlets long seen as critical to countering a Russian and Chinese information offensive. In full: buff.ly/RUebz4w
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'Massive gift to America's enemies': Trump freezes Voice of America and Radio Free Asia | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
President Donald Trump’s administration on Saturday put journalists at Voice of America and other US-funded broadcasters on leave, abruptly freezing outlets long seen as critical to countering a Russian...
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CNN @cnn.com · 15/03/2025
Voice of America channels across the globe go music-only after director says "virtually the entire staff" was placed on leave by Trump administration: cnn.it/4irpORh
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Voice of America channels fall silent as Trump administration guts agency and cancels contracts | CNN Business
The Voice of America may not live up to its ambitious name for much longer.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 11/03/2025
Nasa announces shuttering of two departments and office of chief scientist
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Nasa announces shuttering of two departments and office of chief scientist
Office of technology, policy and strategy and one covering DEI initiatives were eliminated in line with ‘efficiency’ cuts Nasa announced on Monday it had eliminated the office of its chief scientist and shuttered two other departments including one…
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 11/03/2025
A majority of Americans don’t want to see Congress reduce spending on Medicaid and believe the health care program for lower income individuals and families is important to their community, according to polling released Friday
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Poll finds support for stable or increased Medicaid funding, including among Trump voters • Ohio Capital Journal
A majority of Americans don’t want to see Congress reduce spending on Medicaid and believe the health care program for lower income individuals and families is important to their community, according…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/03/2025
#ICYMI: The NASA official sent the warning days after Trump called the federal government “bloated” and claimed that a lot of people “aren’t doing their job.” “This is probably one of the saddest emails I have had to write of late,” the official said. By @heathervogell.bsky.social
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NASA Official Warns Staff About Publicly Displaying Their Badges Amid Reports of Harassment
The Trump administration has used strong language to disparage the federal workforce. A NASA official urges staff to “please use caution” in public amid the increasing “negative rhetoric” toward…
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 08/03/2025
The country’s preeminent federal fire training academy canceled classes, effective immediately, on Saturday amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staffing cuts by President Donald Trump’s administration.
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FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts
The country’s preeminent federal fire training academy canceled classes, effective immediately, on Saturday amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staffing cuts by President Donald Trump’s …
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