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Monica Rhor

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Story Editor - @Chalkbeat. Proud Latina, mom, lover of words, proponent of the curative power of Vivaporú.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.
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Shameful and Evil Leopard on Parade @leopardonparade.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What a lovely article about a gentle, introspective faith.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"She understands and has committed in this process to following the law going forward," Jared Polis said when commuting Tina Peters' sentence.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
NEW: Sen Michael Bennet (D) says he will not appoint Gov Jared Polis to the Senate if Bennet is elected Governor. Bennet calls Polis' clemency for Tina Peters "disqualifying"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/05/2026
Kash Patel claims he was actually working when he was boozing at the Olympics: "We purposely planned that trip around the Olympics because the top cyber criminal from the CPP was housed in Italian custody"
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/05/2026
NEW: Trump won’t rule out deploying troops or federal agents to the polls during the 2026 midterms, saying he would “do anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections.” The declaration comes after he previously said he would like the federal government to “take over” November’s elections.
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‘Anything necessary’: Trump won’t rule out sending troops to polls
Trump has previously said he would like the federal government to “take over” the midterm elections.
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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I admire the hell out of these Texas Tech students, who held a funeral for academic freedom: pen.org/texas-tech-a...
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Texas Tech Students Hold ‘Funeral’ for Academic Freedom
A horse drawn carriage carrying an urn, books, photographs and other markers of academic life led the students' "funeral" procession.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 08/05/2026
here we go again, the new york times calling an increase of 115k jobs under Trump "solid" while it called similar or considerably bigger gains under Biden "disappointing" or "weak"
1. **Job Growth Slows, Sowing a Mix of Concern and Calm**
   - U.S. employers added 150,000 workers in October, falling short of expectations, but the labor market remains spark nearly three years into a recovery.
   - By Talmon Joseph Smith
   - Nov 3, 2023

2. **U.S. Job Growth Remains Strong Despite Economic Clouds**
   - Employers added 339,000 workers in May, the Labor Department said, though the report also offered signs of shakiness.
   - By Sydney Ember
   - June 2, 2023

3. **Against the Odds, the U.S. Economy Chugs Along, as Fears Linger**
   - Hiring slowed last month, a sign that the Federal Reserve's inflation-fighting campaign is taking hold. But with rising wages and low unemployment, the labor market remains resilient.
   - By Talmon Joseph Smith
   - July 7, 2023

4. **Job Market Slows Significantly, Raising Economic Jitters**
   - U.S. employers added 144,000 jobs in July, far short of forecasts, and unemployment rose to 4.3 percent, the highest level since 2021.
   - By Sydney Ember
   - Published Aug 2, 2024
   - Updated Aug 7, 2024

5. **June Jobs Report**
   - U.S. Job Growth Cooled in June
   - Hiring slowed last month, a sign that the Federal Reserve's inflation-fighting campaign is taking hold. But with rising wages and low unemployment, the labor market remains resilient.
   - Published July 7, 2023
   - Updated May 10, 2025

6. **U.S. Employers Keep Hiring, but Signs of Easing Are Seen**
   - The economy added 311,000 jobs in February despite higher interest rates. But hourly earnings rose more slowly as the pool of available workers grew.
   - By Lydia DePillis
   - March 10, 2023

7. **Job Growth Slowed in April, Muddling Expectations**
   - The increase of 266,000 fell short of estimates, though strong economic growth is still forecast for the months ahead.
   - By Patricia Cohen
   - May 2022

8. **Job Openings and Hiring Are at a 3-Year Ebb**
   - March data showed a cooling labor market, but layoffs remain low. The overall trend is likely to be welcomed by Federal Reserve policymakers.
   - By Ben Casselman
   - May 1, 2024

9. **Weak Job Gains Leave Washington on High Alert**
   - The Federal Reserve and White House had hoped for strong job gains, and the August report did not deliver. That makes coming numbers critical.
   - By Jeanna Smialek and Jim Tankersley
   - Published Sept 3, 2021
   - Updated Oct 8, 2021
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/05/2026
President Trump wants the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool painted blue. He used an exemption to steer a $6.9 million contract to somebody he said had worked on his own pools, despite rules about how government money is spent, The New York Times found.
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Trump Gave Out a No-Bid Contract to Turn D.C.’s Reflecting Pool Blue
President Trump handpicked a firm he said had worked on his swimming pool to repair the iconic site near the Lincoln Memorial.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/05/2026
Rep. Roger Williams on the SAVE America Act: "We want the right people voting"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/05/2026
Pete Buttigieg took a brief leave when his son was in the ICU and Republicans still attack him for it to this day. But Duffy goes on an extended vacation to shoot a reality show while there are all sorts of pressing problems with air travel and Fox News thinks it's awesome. Beyond parody.
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NPR @npr.org · 08/05/2026
More than two dozen passengers left the cruise ship before the outbreak was identified. The race is on to connect with them to monitor their health — and the health of those they've interacted with. n.pr/4wy7VrY
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Contact tracing could be key in halting the spread of hantavirus. Here's how it works
More than two dozen passengers left the cruise ship before the outbreak was identified. The race is on to connect with them to monitor their health — and the health of those they've interacted with.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Texas eliminated 5 Democratic seats with no voter approval. Louisiana suspended election with no voter approval. Tennessee erased last majority-Black district with no voter approval. But VA Supreme Court blocks redistricting map approved by 3 million voters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Republicans don’t need to win elections anymore. They just need their judges.
The Virginia Supreme Court nullifies three million votes, boosting Trump’s effort to rig the midterms.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
In one state, CPS took a teenager from her home to prevent her from having an abortion—threatening her mother with murder charges if she helped her daughter get out-of-state care. Another mother was investigated by CPS and police for helping her teen get an abortion *in a pro-choice state*
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Exclusive: She Helped Plan Her Teen's Abortion, So CPS Took Her Daughter Away
Child protective services is being used as an anti-abortion weapon in banned and pro-choice states
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Just to point out, he is not talking about the United States blowing up dozens of Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean Sea. I know it can be confusing.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
What kind of country just blows vessels out of the water, without any sort of due process for the people in those boats? I don't know if people appreciate how outrageous that is.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
But it wouldn't be the prevailing state of affairs. It would be worse, with more extreme leadership, not to mention the loss of the Obama nuclear deal Trump ripped up years ago.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Trumpism's attack on Smith College is alarming not only for its expansion to admissions for trans students but for its focus--first time?--not on a university but a small college. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump administration investigates Smith College for admitting transgender women
Civil rights inquiry claims policy may breach Title IX as administration escalates attacks on trans rights
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Iran sharpening the humiliation or escalation decision. I’d expected negotiations to drag fruitlessly on thinking it most beneficial to both sides.
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The Obama Foundation @obamafoundation.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/05/2026
Q: In your letter to Congress, you said the hostilities in Iran have concluded. How can you say that given the naval blockade? TRUMP: Well, it's a very friendly blockade
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
9.5 million people live in New Jersey
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 03/05/2026
For those that didn't watch the whole thing: this clip is insane enough as it is, but it doesn't even really convey how far back this horse was when this run began — like, almost last, I think?
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Update, the second manufacturer has also appealed the decision to SCOTUS.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Update: One of the drug manufacturers has already appealed this decision to SCOTUS.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Alito has now written two opinions drastically limiting the fundamental rights of ethnic minorities and women, which was the kind of thing you would have expected from a guy angry about both groups being admitted to Princeton, something known at his confirmation www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...
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From Alito's Past, a Window on Conservatives at Princeton (Published 2005)
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
God this chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How the Voting Rights Act Bolstered Black Representation in the House
The passage of the landmark law in 1965 helped increase Black representation, especially in the South, according to a Times analysis.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is laughable on its face Doubly so bc Bessent’s the guy who suggested Trump might appoint a shadow chair of his own just to screw w Powell.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026
The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
What we can expect in the aftermath of this ruling is for more Republican-controlled states to implement discriminatory maps and call them partisan so they can pass legal muster. In practical terms, this will likely mean fewer nonwhite representatives in Congress. Diminishing the power of minority voters may also allow the Republican Party to continue on its path from reactionary color-blindness to more overt racism, safe in the assumption that it will not have to answer to constituents who oppose such racism because they are its targets. There is little risk in attacking people who lack the power to remove you from office.
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Lily Altavena @lilyalta.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We all get a lot of sales pitches in our email. But school superintendents get *a lot* from ed tech companies. It's reached a fever pitch. Five superintendents shared their ed tech emails from one day. You're not ready for the numbers. projects.chalkbeat.org/2026/ed-tech...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Maybe I'm being Captain Obvious here, but the new Trump/Blanche/DOJ strategy for going after political enemies with ridiculous charges seems to center on finding grand juries in Trump-y states of the former Confederacy like Alabama (SPLC) and now North Carolina (Comey). Up next: Florida
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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Taken by Salwan Georges, photojournalist recently fired from the Washington Post.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Why aren't the reporters asking Blanche and Patel detailed questions? Who gives a shit about how Trump feels and what was going through his mind for the 10th time. I know these reporters have been through something tonight but that's no excuse.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This Mayor Bowser, Metropolitan Police, Secret Service news conference is where the real info is coming from. The reporters here are also asking significantly better questions than at the trump presser. Suspect was a guest at hotel, prelim evidence that he fired one shot, two charges so far
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Updates via Jeff Carroll from DC police: -suspect “was armed w/ a shotgun, a handgun & multiple knives”; -law enforcement “exchanged gunfire” w/ suspect, who authorities believe acted alone; -authorities believe suspect fired a shot; -authorities believe the suspect was a guest at the hotel.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Symone Sanders giving a pretty damning account of the lack of security outside and inside hotel before the incident, which she says was far more lax than she has previously experienced at this same event.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2026
Eric Trump -- the president's son -- is on Maria Bartiromo's show bragging about one of his companies landing a $24 million Pentagon contract
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This morning's Politico Playbook says that "the hottest ticket in town" during the WHCD weekend is a party hosted at Donald Trump Jr's club, where “only non-fake news is allowed in.”
Personally speaking … Your Playbook author (who’s getting old) very much prefers the boozy brunches to the late-night soirees. But it’s hard to argue that the hottest ticket in town this weekend isn’t tomorrow night’s party at The Executive Branch, the highly exclusive MAGA-friendly club co-founded by Donald Trump Jr., where founding membership costs a mere $500,000.

The party promises to be full of buzz again this year: Sources familiar with the planning told Playbook that the guest list is surging past capacity. The space has an upper limit of 275 people — but requests have come in at four times that number. What’s driving the spiking interest? The entertainment, of course. For those lucky enough to get in, Nelly will be taking the stage sometime around 9:30 or 10 p.m., we hear. “No one can compete with Nelly,” one source said.

The guest list will feature plenty of senior administration officials, as well as big names from business and tech, the sources said. It will also be the first time that journalists have been allowed in the space since its opening last year. “Only non-fake news is allowed in,” one of the sources said. But if you’re one of the many who didn’t manage to snag an invite, you’re in good company: even Fortune 15 executives are struggling to get in, the sources said.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is a very good resource. I don't know how @taniel.bsky.social does this but he makes highly technical stuff like this very easy to follow and use:
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Good god the kicker:
Loomer, reached for comment, was unmoved, insisting the women were indeed related, but that it didn’t matter either way. “I want all Islamic immigrants deported. I don’t support any of their asylum claims,” she said.
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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So, the guy who thinks that witches have taken over California is now the acting Secretary of the Navy? Super.
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hung Cao? The guy who was warning about the dangers of California witches? That guy’s going to run the Navy? www.businessinsider.com/hung-cao-gop...
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GOP Senate candidate Hung Cao warns of 'witchcraft' happening in California: 'We can't let that happen in Virginia'
Cao, who was the GOP nominee against Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton in 2022, also said he was "African-American because I grew up in Africa too."
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Huh
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/04/2026
NEW: A republican judge has blocked the redistricting effort in Virginia, invalidating yesterday's vote. But it's a pause, not a defeat. Read more here: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Virginia court blocks voter-approved redistricting, appeal coming
The appeal is expected to move swiftly — and could ultimately land before the Supreme Court of Virginia, which will have the final say on whether the voter-approved map can take effect.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The F.B.I. began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
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F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
For years, I've called on the White House correspondents to cancel their conflict-ridden dinner. This year, they play host to those who'd destroy them: Trump plus Hegseth, Miller, & now Carr, each invited by state media mogul Ellison. Disgusting. www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...
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Carr’s Drive-Thru Dinner
Donald Trump’s FCC chair Brendan Carr is set to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Status has learned, where he will mingle with journalists and news executives at an event ostensibly abou...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 20/04/2026
Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down
Cook will move into the role of executive chairman of the board.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Friday: "trump says Iran deal in a day or two" Two days later: Iran says no to further talks Maybe just maybe it's time for reporters to stop blasting their latest phone chat with trump across the media ecosystem without facts, context AND without a transcript of the call.
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⏱️ NEW: Trump tells Axios he expects Iran deal "in a day or two"
Trump tells Axios he expects Iran deal "in a day or two"
Trump is very feeling bullish.Conflicts
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Iran media: Tehran rejects participation in 2nd round of talks with Washington

www.europesays.com/iran/73350/

Iran’s state-run news agency has reported that the country has refused to take part in the second round…
Iran media: Tehran rejects participation in 2nd round of talks with Washington - Iran
Iran's state-run news agency has reported that the country has refused to take part in the second round of negotiations with the United States.
www.europesays.com
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