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Public health consultant. Member of the Society for American Baseball Research. Co-author of Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the Sports World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024). 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dictator Move of the Day.
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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MattRiffs.bsky.social @mattriffs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Putin knows the best way to get the upper hand with the Trump White House is by appealing to its never-ending capacity for grifting. #Ukraine
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pentagon never disclosed that eight US Marines were injured when an Iranian cruise missile hit their vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14, NBC reports. Injuries were eventually added to the casualty record with no announcement ten days later.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The cases dropped included white collar crime, drugs and terrorism, 23,000 of them, all during the first six months of Trump’s second term. Instead the DOJ focused on immigration cases.
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is encouraging voters to request mail ballots while challenging mail voting infrastructure nationwide. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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‘Hypocritical’: RNC pushes mail voting for its supporters while attacking it in court
The RNC has sued across the country to restrict mail voting. But it also paid for emails and a website telling voters to “request your mail-in ballot now,” a Democracy Docket analysis found.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
He's lying about 9/11. He lied about the pandemic. He lied about the integrity of our elections. He doctored an official weather map to lie about a hurricane. There is absolutely nothing that Donald Trump won't lie about.
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...
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For Fired DeSantis Campaign Staff Member, a Second Chance at State Dept. (Gift Article)
The hiring of Nate Hochman, who lost his job amid an uproar over a video containing a Nazi symbol, underscores the administration’s willingness to overlook past transgressions.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March
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MattRiffs.bsky.social @mattriffs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good to see that Trump’s cabinet appointees are focused on the key issue of affordability.
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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MattRiffs.bsky.social @mattriffs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New documents show RFK Jr. lied to a U.S. Senate committee. Not that it matters at all to GOP members of the Senate.
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that
The Associated Press and The Guardian have obtained documents that contradict statements made by current Health Secretary Robert F.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
NEW: A paperback edition of our biography of sports visionary Abe Saperstein, founder of the Harlem Globetrotters. My brother Matthew and I detail Saperstein’s key roles in basketball’s 3-point shot, Negro Leagues baseball, integrating sports, and even secret State Dept. dealings in the Cold War.
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Globetrotter
*Booklist starred review* The captivating biography of Abe Saperstein, creator of the Harlem GlobetrottersThe original Harlem Globetrotters weren't from Harlem,…
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MattRiffs.bsky.social @mattriffs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Pathetic BS. Any day now, Republicans will blame the Iran war on illegal immigration.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/08/2026
Autopsies show how hard doctors tried to save babies who died after not getting a vitamin K shot: tubes inserted in their airways, blood transfusions. They’re excruciating to read because they underscore how preventable these deaths could have been. (Published May)
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What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot
Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Here’s Trump on March 11, talking about the war with Iran: "We've won. ... You never like to say too early you won. We won. We won the bet — In the first hour, it was over." Here’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright 5 months later, with the war dragging on: “The president is playing the long game.”
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Trump signals economic pressure in Iran conflict as talks stall: ANALYSIS
The Trump administration is touting its naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and previewing new sanctions still to be announced.
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MattRiffs.bsky.social @mattriffs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I’ve taken 1,000+ airline flights in my life. If any airline that I fly cooperates with these fascist ghouls, they will lose my business.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
While Trump says he's "low-keying" the war with Iran, desperate sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln are trying to jump overboard during its long deployment to support a criminal president's illegal war.
navytimes.com
Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say
Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/08/2026
What the fuck do you mean “speaking out”?! He stalked her when she was a girl and is using NBC to continue to insert himself into her life four decades later. This is not news, this is aiding and abetting. @nbcnews.com should take this down and apologize.
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MattRiffs.bsky.social @mattriffs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 29/07/2026
Epstein survivor on Trump's criminal lawyer Todd Blanche: "Yeah, I mean, he actually said the words 'get to the point' to us. We're survivors who've been waiting to meet with him for 9 months, 8 months. We've been asking for meetings, and he very much said, 'can you get to the point already?'"
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MattRiffs.bsky.social @mattriffs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I hope there are #journalists out there who will ask President Trump what “very big favors” he is doing for China’s Xi?
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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Echoes of Stalin—in 1937 he received an 11 minute standing ovation. Everyone was too afraid to be the first to stop clapping.
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Ryan @aa-rust.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The claim ”Santa does not exist” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that he might just be really good at covering his tracks.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
From 2003 to 2024, the number of children 17-years and under killed by US law enforcement each year increased from 8 per year (0.01 per 100 000 person-years) to 37 per year (0.05 per 100 000 person-years), noticeably outpacing the significant increases in all annual deaths caused by law enforcement.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is worth underscoring: people here who constantly pop up to say that the GOP "was always like this" are factually incorrect.
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Jack Lerner @jacklerner.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The corruption is staggering.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 18/07/2026
Medicaid covers low-income adults, children, pregnant people, the elderly and people with disabilities. It’s one of our few social safety nets. Giving HIPAA-protected data to ICE and Palantir is a betrayal of public trust and straight-up illegal. The ongoing theft of our country’s data is a heist.
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ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"Fox News has not seen that documentation yet and is not in a position to assess the accuracy of the President's statements tonight..." -Bret Baier, Fox News. That's a $787 million CYA. (And more evidence that the speech didn't need to be aired live)
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 07/07/2026
Drugmakers give consumers financial help to afford costly medications. But some health insurers keep that assistance without applying it to consumers’ deductibles or out-of-pocket maximums.
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Copay Assistance Is Meant To Defray Patient Drug Costs. Some Insurers Keep It Instead. - KFF Health News
Drugmakers provide financial assistance to help patients afford increasingly expensive medications. But some insurers do not count those payments toward a plan's deductible or out-of-pocket maximum and make patients pay instead.
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Cyril Mychalejko @cmychalejko.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The U.S. Border Patrol abandoned a blind, disabled Rohingya refugee to die in frigid Buffalo, a new low for the Trump regime, writes @willbunch.bsky.social.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The Department of Justice has illegally “withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor." The biggest coverup in presidential history just got worse. Release the files.
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, called the arrangement “a recipe for disaster.” Given the deep cuts at the C.D.C., he said, “I think the C.D.C. is one disaster away from being a disaster itself.”
nytimes.com
N.I.H. Director Will Temporarily Run C.D.C. in Leadership Shake-Up
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MattRiffs.bsky.social @mattriffs.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This is so damn outrageous.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 07/02/2026
NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
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Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
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MattRiffs.bsky.social @mattriffs.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Thanks to the @apnews.com for not merely calling this a “controversial” post.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
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jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
1/ In the US, horrifying footage shows ICE agents killing civilians and terrorizing communities in broad daylight. In the West Bank, settlers are filmed beating families and burning homes. As Jews, we are obliged to speak out.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 30/01/2026
From the Epstein email archives. Jeffrey Epstein: "trump is likely to be [asked] questions soon about me…supposedly a girl said that donal= had sex with her at my house when she was underage."
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Trump swore he cut off contact with Epstein before he was arrested in 2006. So why would Epstein be calling Trump in 2011?
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MattRiffs.bsky.social @mattriffs.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Shameful.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
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MattRiffs.bsky.social @mattriffs.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A woman was gunned down in Minneapolis, and our dictator-wannabe barely mentions her killing. Instead, he can’t stop talking about whether Renee Good’s father is still one of his fans. His ego constantly needs to be fed.
independent.co.uk
Trump ‘hopes’ Renee Good’s father is still a ‘tremendous fan’
Trump previously described 37-year-old mother shot three times by ICE agent as a ‘professional agitator’
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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MattRiffs.bsky.social @mattriffs.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This is a gift he could really use.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The New York Times thinks that when a criminal tries to steal someone’s stuff and they say no, it’s a “standoff.”
Trump announces 10% tariff on European countries in standoff over Greenland
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MattRiffs.bsky.social @mattriffs.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
That Gestapo analogy seems more and more appropriate.
washingtonpost.com
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Gerontocracy rules everything around me
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
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Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
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