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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
For all you misinformed doctors, nurses, pharmacists, cancer technicians, politicians, bosses, teachers, caregivers, and average people on the street: “There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence.” — David Putrino, Long Covid researcher
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Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage | CBC Radio
Scientific evidence is painting an unsettling picture: COVID infections, even if mild or asymptomatic, may be causing long-term cellular and organ damage, as well as increasing your risk of developing...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11/11/2025
If the Trump administration decides to pursue land strikes in Venezuela, U.S. forces could pursue a range of sites as targets. But the potential impact of such strikes remains uncertain.
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If Trump attacked Venezuela, these sites could become targets
U.S. forces could pursue a range of options as targets, from Venezuelan military bases to cocaine refinery labs or clandestine airstrips, according to former U.S. and Venezuelan military officials.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/11/2025
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is coming to an end, but the central issue that caused it — the staggering cost of health care — isn’t going away anytime soon. nyti.ms/4nLPJoT
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As Shutdown Nears End, Trump Still Confronts Soaring Health Costs
The central issue of the government closure remains unresolved, leaving Republicans under political pressure ahead of the midterms.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE
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Federal jury awards $112M to immigrants detained by Suffolk for ICE
A federal jury found the county and the Sheriff's Office violated the Constitutional rights of 674 people.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/11/2025
Just like television and film shoots, commercial production in Los Angeles has plummeted. That has left a gaping hole in the longtime safety net for industry workers in the area just as those workers need it the most.
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Hollywood’s Commercial Production Crews Are Losing a Lot of Work
Commercial production has long been crucial to sustaining entertainment workers in the Los Angeles area. But it continues to plummet.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/11/2025
Gay Americans expressed relief on Monday after the Supreme Court denied a request to revisit a decade-old decision that established same-sex marriage as a national right. Conservative groups and state lawmakers said they would continue to press legal challenges.
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Marriage Ruling Relieves Gay Americans and Leaves Conservatives Pledging New Challenges
The Supreme Court chose not to revisit a case involving same-sex marriage. The number of married same-sex couples has doubled in the last 10 years.
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
It's unusual to see a bloody face on a polar bear this time of year. Our bears are current nearing the end of their over 140 day fast waiting for Hudson Bay to freeze. This bear, however, must have found an unsuspecting seal along the shore. Definitely a bonus. #BearSeason2025 #mammals 🌿
A healthy-looking polar bear looks at the photographer, showing off the red tinge of dried blood around its muzzle.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 11/11/2025
This seems like a cool and normal way to run a government agency.
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The EPA Is in Chaos
“We learn who is furloughed when we send an email to someone and get the out-of-office message,” one employee tells WIRED.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.
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This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline.
After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/11/2025
Going to be writing some things for MSNBC/NOW. Here’s a look at how Trump says great things are going to happen when they aren’t because he wants you not to be mad about the bad things that actually *are* happening. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | Trump's $2000 checks from tariff revenue? The math doesn't add up.
Here are the charts to prove it.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 11/11/2025
Winter is coming and Gazans are freezing.
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Gaza prepares for another difficult winter despite the ceasefire
With their homes reduced to rubble, many Palestinians in Gaza remain displaced in tents that pose significant hazards as winter approaches
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
As goes Loudoun County, so goes the rest of the nation. And Republicans mastered anti-trans messaging in Loudoun since Glenn Youngkin's campaign. @amandabecker.bsky.social writes how Abigail Spanberger figured out how to respond to transphobic messaging. 19thnews.org/2025/11/elec...
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Democrats responded to anti-trans attacks this year — and won
LGBTQ+ rights organizations and party strategists point to wins in gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey as a template heading into the 2026 midterms.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/11/2025
There are few American mariners today. But demand could soon rise, as President Trump and a bipartisan group in Congress look to revitalize the U.S. shipbuilding industry. nyti.ms/3WTbMiD
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Trump Wants to Revive Shipping. He Will Need More Mariners.
Few American are becoming mariners today, but demand could soon rise because President Trump and a bipartisan group of legislators in Congress want to revitalize the American shipbuilding industry.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11/11/2025
The steep tariffs imposed by President Trump have magnified the economic strain of an already volatile coffee market, leaving shop owners with the question: Can they absorb some of those increased costs without putting themselves out of business?
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Tariffs are testing your neighborhood coffee shop
Coffee shops across the country are wrestling with how to remain affordable “third spaces” under the weight of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
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STAT @statnews.com · 11/11/2025
The FDA on Tuesday named Richard Pazdur, its longtime overseer of cancer therapies, as its top drug regulator. www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/f...
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Richard Pazdur, longtime cancer regulator, named drug center director at FDA
Pazdur is a longtime FDA staffer and founded the agency's cancer therapy division
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
In September, the Trump administration conducted a historic deportation flight to Iran. We tracked down people deported on the plane. Some are in hiding, others have fled the country. Their story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
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‘It Feels Like I’m in a Nightmare’: Inside the First Deportation Flight to Iran
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Probation officers pause in-person visits and home searches for offenders facing an arrest warrant. That reduced supervision can last for months — in one case it was over a year. Six mothers died during this gap, WPLN and ProPublica found. www.propublica.org/article/tenn...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11/11/2025
Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy." www.wfyi.org/news/article...
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IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation
A lecturer in the Indiana University School of Social Work has been removed from teaching one of her classes Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice while the university investigates a complaint...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/11/2025
The Israeli police said four Israelis had been arrested after dozens of masked civilians attacked Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday and set fire to property, in an assault the authorities labeled “acts of extremist violence.” nyti.ms/49eYkNu
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Trump Threatened to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion. What Are His Chances?
Legal experts say President Trump’s litigation track record offers both hope and warning to the British public broadcaster, which he has threatened with a $1 billion suit.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/11/2025
Breaking news: The Supreme Court extended a pause on a lower-court order directing the Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits to millions of Americans, preventing federal officials from having to provide the aid for now.
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Supreme Court extends pause on order requiring full SNAP payments
The Trump administration has twice gone to the Supreme Court in recent days, seeking to prevent other judges from forcing it to fully fund SNAP benefits for November.
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
first it's pensions, then it's healthcare, then vacation, finally it's the wages, pretty soon you're just going to one box to work all day for no money and going to another to get the rest of snap to eat, which sounds a lot like how they described the soviet union to me in the 80s but what do i know
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 12/11/2025
Don’t worry folks I’m sure Chuck Schumer has a plan /s
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/11/2025
A spill on a family farm in Oklahoma killed several acres of vegetation and contaminated drinking water. A judge ordered the farmers to pay when they went after the oil company. (Published May 2024)
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Oil Companies Contaminated a Family Farm. The Courts and Regulators Let the Drillers Walk Away.
The oil and gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells. In Oklahoma, that work could cost more than $7 billion if it falls to the state.
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Malaclypse the Fetus @omfproductions.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
That they are developing robots to work in nursing homes and not radioactive mines or shit humans cannot do safely - and not work humans could do better than a machine is how you know their priorities are all out of whack.
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BA Haller @media-disdat.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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U. of California System Eliminates Its DEI Office Amid Trump’s Scrutiny
We’ve documented actions taken on hundreds of campuses to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid mounting political pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and re...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/11/2025
The fury at eight Democratic-aligned senators who voted with Republicans to end the longest-ever government shutdown highlights the dramatic shift in the Democratic Party less than a year into President Trump’s second term. wapo.st/43oEMT9
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🅲🅸🆅🅸🅻 🅳🅴🅵🅴🅽🆂🅴🗽 @musiccomposer.com · 11/11/2025
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/11/2025
ByHeart, a maker of organic baby formula, expanded a voluntary recall on Tuesday to include all of its products sold in the U.S. after federal health regulators found botulism infections in two additional infants, bringing the number of reported cases to 15.
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Infant Formula Recall Expands as Botulism Outbreak Grows
Federal health officials said caregivers should stop using all ByHeart powdered formula products after 15 infants in 12 states were hospitalized.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/11/2025
Immigrant parents are scrambling to secure emergency caretakers for their children as deportations increase under President Trump. Some said guardianship planning has become one of the few things they can control. “It helps me breathe,” said one mother.
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As deportation fears rise, immigrant parents ask: Who cares for my kids?
More parents — from the undocumented to U.S. citizens — are rushing to make temporary guardianship arrangements, lawyers said.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/11/2025
During the United Nations climate summit on Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California responded to President Trump’s proposal to allow new oil and gas drilling off the California coast, declaring it “dead on arrival.” Read more: nyti.ms/4p3n3J7
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 02/11/2025
PSA: If we love your content but you don't provide alt-text, we can't share it unless we do the alt-text ourselves (unlikely), because accessibility. Please provide alt-text for your images—especially the text-heavy ones—if you can. Here are alt-text guidelines: www.levelaccess.com/blog/alt-tex...
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Alt text for Accessibility ✅ Examples, Tips & Best Practices
Learn how effective alt text supports accessibility and explore tips, examples, and best practices to improve your content for all users.
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BA Haller @media-disdat.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
UK - Research Associate in Media Audiences and Social Change (2 years, full-time) Bournemouth University - hybrid (UK-based, remote optional) vacancies.bournemouth.ac.uk/vacancies/49...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Media Audiences and Social Change (Fixed-term Two Years) in Weymouth House (Bournemouth - Talbot) | Bournemouth University
View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Research Associate in Media Audiences and Social Change (Fixed-term Two Years) vacancy in Weymouth House (Bournemouth - Talbot). The Leverhulme Research ...
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Many Canadians have no idea how high tuberculosis rates are in the Inuit population - hundreds of times the non-Indigenous Canadian-born rate. Globally this remains an illness of poverty and marginalization and that's true in one of the richest countries on earth.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow 'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'
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As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void
The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/10/2025
Just stepping on our own dicks when it comes to rejecting even the most basic public health innovations let's bring back the Broad Street Pump.
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Want fluoride in the water? Too bad. - High Country News
Across the West, lawmakers are skipping over the will of voters and yanking fluoride.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/10/2025
The anchor John Dickerson said on Monday that he would depart CBS News at the end of the year, the first sign of what is expected to be a major shake-up at the network under its new corporate owners.
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John Dickerson, Anchor and Correspondent, Will Leave CBS News
He is a veteran anchor with a long family legacy at CBS, and his exit presages a series of changes expected at the broadcast news division.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/10/2025
Most plastic items are too small for recyclers to bother sorting and processing, or they're assembled in such a way that it's less expensive to just make new plastic. In fact, only 5% of Americans’ plastic finds new life. (Published Aug. 2024) By @lisalsong.bsky.social
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When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.
Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually guaran...
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/10/2025
'In the immediate future, the threat of losing SNAP benefits is “not something I want to think about,” she said, “because we’re already in a rough spot.” Phillis, like many parents of medically complex children, is just trying to get through today before thinking about tomorrow.'
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/10/2025
NEW: Citing a ProPublica investigation, lawmakers are calling on the FDA to conduct more drug testing and to alert hospitals and other purchasers when foreign manufacturers with safety failures are given a special pass to send their products to the U.S.
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Senators Propose Sweeping Changes to Generic Drug Oversight
Citing a ProPublica investigation, lawmakers are calling on the FDA to conduct more drug testing and to alert hospitals and other purchasers when foreign manufacturers with safety failures are given a...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/10/2025
#ICYMI: We found that the FDA allowed 20+ foreign factories to continue to send certain medications to the U.S. even after those facilities were banned because of concerns about contamination and other breaches. The agency kept the practice largely hidden from the public and Congress.
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Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs
A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The Al Jazeera reporters were unambiguously targeted by Israeli forces for being journalists, and also very clearly were not anything other than career journalists. This war has already killed almost as many journalists as Iraq in shorter time, many targeted www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Killing of Al Jazeera journalist in targeted Israeli strike draws condemnation
Anas al-Sharif was part of a Reuters team that won a Pulitzer last year for its coverage of the war
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 13/08/2025
In the hands of financiers, a New York Medicaid program that lets disabled and elderly participants live at home is under fire.
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Mother with cerebral palsy struggles to hire aides after private equity takeover
In the hands of financiers, a New York Medicaid program that lets disabled and elderly participants live at home is under fire.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/08/2025
Respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, is one of the world’s most common respiratory illnesses and the leading reason infants go to the hospital in the U.S. Doctors recommend that eligible people get vaccinated in late summer or early fall so antibodies can kick in before cases spread.
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R.S.V. Season Is Approaching. Here’s How to Protect Yourself.
Doctors recommend that eligible people get vaccinated in late summer or early fall so antibodies can kick in before cases spread.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Another piece to read. And bsky.app/profile/loll...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
seems fine
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New Trump Stats Guru Has a Giant Picture of Hitler’s Favorite Ship
E.J. Antoni is just a history buff, the White House says.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 14/08/2025
Very cool editorial package on the economics of disaster recovery, which is a big business!!
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The Disaster Economy
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Zach Montague @zjmontague.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
In a 2-1 vote, a DC circuit panel allowed the Trump administration to go back to withholding foreign aid funds Congress appropriated for FY2024. Today sets up an uncertain landscape moving forward, as the court concluded that only the GAO can sue Trump over impoundment, rather than outside groups.
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Trump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Aid, Appeals Court Rules
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/08/2025
A Minneapolis pediatrician said he felt pressured to “fall in line” with child abuse specialist Dr. Nancy Harper and her team. Then he was given a choice: resign or be fired. (Published June)
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A Doctor Challenged the Opinion of a Powerful Child Abuse Specialist. Then He Lost His Job.
A Minneapolis pediatrician said he felt pressured to “fall in line” with child abuse specialist Dr. Nancy Harper and her team. Then he was given a choice: resign or be fired.
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