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Rick Larios

@ricklarios.bsky.social
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Book lover. Democracy lover. Dad. New York City raised and resident. Married to Cara. Picture taker. Scribbler. Doodler. Pronouns: he, him, us

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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 16h
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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“Approaching Sundown”
“There is suddenness / to all surfaces.”
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Rick Larios @ricklarios.bsky.social · 16h
Just got mine today. Feeling fine after two jabs.
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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 19h
Saxophonist Melissa Aldana’s album "Filin" is an exquisite ballads album of songs drawn from Cuba's Filin music tradition performed by a quartet featuring pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba. Listen to the alternate duo version of “La Sentencia” which is released today: melissaaldana.lnk.to/LaSentencia-...
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 02/10/2026
If every Dem fighter in #NY17 - or within 15 miles of its borders - came out to knock on doors just once, we'd win. You can find endless volunteer opportunities below. PLEASE help us defeat Mike Lawler, elect @caitfornewyork.bsky.social, and flip the House blue. www.mobilize.us/caitfornewyo...
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Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · Cait Conley For New York on Mobilize
Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Cait Conley For New York.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h
Hard to disagree with this.
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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 21h
Today is Groucho Marx’s birthday.
With Margaret Dumont in ‘Duck Soup’ (1933)
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yehonatan Ovadia – a Hasidic Jew and Israeli citizen who has lived in the U.S. on a visa since 2022 – is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (a notorious federal prison) and facing deportation … for his criticism of Israel on religious grounds.
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A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported.
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Troy Jackson supports tax cuts for workers, abolishing ICE, lowering drug prices, & banning Congress from stock trading conflicts of interest. Support Democrat Troy Jackson for Maine.
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Donate to support Troy Jackson for Senate
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026
The fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration agent last January in Minneapolis set off a firestorm of protests around the U.S. Her family is speaking out for the first time. n.pr/4xWcFac
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The family of Renee Good files lawsuits over her death during Minneapolis ICE raids
The fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration agent last January in Minneapolis set off a firestorm of protests around the U.S. Her family is speaking out for the first time.
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sen. Patty Murray calls Trump’s $810 million pocket rescission “theft from the American people, plain and simple.” He canceled housing counseling and health research money he already signed into law, while families drown in costs. Who exactly does that help? #PayToPlayPresident @bennet.senate.gov
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 01/10/2026
"Federal agents engaged in a persistent and systematic pattern of flagrantly unconstitutional, indiscriminately abusive and frequently criminal acts during 'Operation Metro Surge,' " law professor Michael Stokes Paulsen writes.
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Opinion | Months later, legal accountability for Operation Metro Surge has finally begun
"Federal immigration agents are not above our laws. Those who commit crimes must be held responsible."
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MS NOW @ms.now · 01/10/2026
Hours after the family sued, Renee Good's partner made her first public remarks since January. “Every morning, she’s my first thought. I think about how the kids are growing up without their mama. How I’ll grow old without the love of my life." Read more from Clarissa-Jan Lim and Jillian Frankel:
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Renee Good’s family sues the Trump administration over her fatal shooting in Minneapolis
Good was killed by ICE officer Jonathan Ross while driving away from federal officers, according to bystander video. Trump officials have sought to paint her as the aggressor and said Ross acted in self-defense.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Want to learn about the history of our city?  Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 01/10/2026
“The White House defunded cancer research so they could spend your tax dollars rehabilitating Nixon” writes itself.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-dep…
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we
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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of my favorite songs -- with an interesting backstory.
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Rachmaninoff’s Summer of Love
Tracing the roots of one of his most popular songs
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
5 million people, including an estimated 1 million children, have lost access to food because of Trump. Instead of a ballroom, an arch, or a war, we could be making sure people don’t go hungry. 

This President’s priorities are shameful.
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Changes to SNAP benefits begin Oct. 1 for millions of Americans: What to know
Major changes are coming on Oct. 1 for the tens of millions of Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for food assistance.
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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump and sons invest heavily in AI economy as he resists guardrails ... wait, say what now? Does anyone see a possible conflict of interest here? JFC! FOLLOW THE DAMN MONEY! #GuardrailsForAI www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump reveals millions of dollars' worth of share deals in big tech and AI
Stock in major firms such as Microsoft, Nvidia and SpaceX was bought and sold on behalf of the US president.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
“Trust us, bro” is not a safety plan. We’re racing toward superintelligent AI with the brakes ripped out. Trump is pushing industry self-policing while major tech leaders are warning that AI could pose severe risks to humanity. #GuardrailsForAI
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Susan Perri @perri4health @perri4health.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cory Booker's fiery speech yesterday was incredible . Yesterday @booker.senate.gov represented us and the frustration we feel. Thank you Senator Booker. Signed, The American people with a conscious. youtu.be/SMbfSldjZrM?...
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Lawrence O’Donnell on Senator Booker Calling out Republicans: “This Is How You Do It”
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Utterly barbaric Supreme Court Allows Execution of Tennessee Woman to Proceed www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Execution of Christa Pike, Tennessee’s Lone Woman on Death Row (Gift Article)
Christa Pike tortured and murdered a classmate in 1995. She had been set to die on Wednesday, the first woman executed in the state in 200 years, until a lower court paused the execution.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
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West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
Pierre Damas Bel was an honor student & part of his college's ROTC program. He was also a TPS recipient. After Trump's attacks on TPS, he was forced to wear an ankle monitor that isolated and humiliated him. Pierre died in an apparent suicide. He was 20.
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Senator John Hickenlooper @hickenlooper.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
If there’s one thing Coloradans don’t need right now, it’s another detention facility run by a reckless agency like ICE. We’ve seen how they operate, and this lawlessness shouldn’t have a home in Colorado. coloradonewsline.com/2026/09/29/a...
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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sues to stop ICE detention center in Hudson | Colorado Newsline
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sued the federal government to stop or delay the opening of a new immigration detention facility in Hudson.
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.), a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, is urging the administration to pull back on its immigration sweeps. He says ICE is removing people who have been part of their communities for years. www.rawstory.com/jim-justice-...
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GOP senator shocks with 'remarkable break from Trump': 'Maybe we're doing something wrong'
Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.), a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, is urging the administration to pull back on its immigration sweeps. He says ICE is removing people who have been part of their c...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published Oct. 2025)
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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Saying it again: the destruction of the service academies as actual universities is a very importany piece of the Trump administration's undermining of both higher ed and the civilian-military constitutional order. thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Hegseth freezes hiring of civilian tenured faculty at US military academies
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed departments on Tuesday to halt appointments of civilian staff to tenured positions at U.S. military service academies and develop hiring plans that prioritiz…
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 30/09/2026
Top story: Two years after Adrian Martinez became a sexual assault whistleblower against the U.S. Army, he was found dead. The law says the military should have protected Martinez. His family says he was mistreated, abandoned, and targeted for abuse when he sought help.
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A Texas Soldier's Death Casts Doubt on Federal Whistleblower Protections
Adrian Martinez reported a sexual assault two years before he was found dead on a Hawaii Army base. The Vanessa Guillén Act is supposed to protect soldiers like him.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
✍🏾 MY LATEST: I wrote about the moral panic Republicans manufactured about trans girls in sports. I decided to turn all my yelling on social media about trans girls in sports into a column.
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The Panic Over Trans Athletes is Fake: Opinion
Republicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans children—or at the very least, leave them alone.
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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(1/2) At least 39 Haitians were deported on the Sept. 24 ICE deportation flight to Haiti, per @miamiherald.com, bringing the total # of Haitians deported following the end of TPS to 530+ on weekly (Thursday) ICE Air flights to Haiti. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Pastor loses bid to remain: ICE deports him to Haiti despite U.S.-citizen wife, kids
Despite relentless advocacy from his family, faith leaders, and a national coalition of supporters, ICE deported Pastor Molis Augustave to Haiti on Thursday, along with dozens of other Haitians.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 30/09/2026
Minnesotans have not forgotten the violence that the Trump Administration brought to our streets. We will continue to seek accountability and justice.
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J6 Plaque @thejan6plaque.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Vote. Vote early. Get everyone in your life to vote. Especially text the ones you think might forget to vote. Vote so that it isn’t even a little close. The pro-democracy coalition has the advantage as of today, but it has to turn out. And they will not go down without a fight.
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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Twenty-eight years later, in 2006, the same team, Earls and O'Doherty, launched the pilot issue of a purely online review, then an absolutely unknown phenomenon on the Irish cultural scene. Twenty years later, the Dublin Review of Books is still going strong, as is Books Upstairs after forty-eight.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please give these journalists their flowers.
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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everyone demanding Senator Schmidtt apologize to Jack Smith are again setting the bar too low. They should be demanding his resignation from the Judiciary Committe. He's unfit to serve Pound the table. Make some noise. Turn this into a multi-day story
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
Black text on a white page that reads as follows: 

Too often, homeless New Yorkers cycle from our hospitals to our streets — making it harder to continue treatment and find long-term stability. 

The City's Bridge to Home program in Manhattan ends the cycle by providing a safe place for New Yorkers to live while they receive medical care, apply to jobs, and find an apartment. The program has been a massive success.

Today, we’re expanding Bridge to Home to Brooklyn and Queens, so more New Yorkers get the help they need.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." 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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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cornell. Didn’t. Refund. Her. Tuition. THEY DIDNT EVEN REFUND HER TUITION. I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ONE SINGLE BLIP ABOUT TRUST IN HIGHER EDUCATION UNTIL WE TEAR DOWN THE SYSTEM THAT MADE THIS BOTH POSSIBLE AND A COMMON OCCURRENCE.
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Susan Perri @perri4health @perri4health.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you @ossoff.bsky.social for caring. My family live a crisis away from disaster everyday. My son suffers from cystic fibrosis , I have stage four cancer. We know what it is like to struggle to pay for hospital bills. People need to look around them and find people who are struggling and care
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue deporting people to countries where they have no ties and where they may face violence.
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Supreme Court Cosigns One of Trump’s Most Inhumane Immigration Practices
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration...
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29/09/2026
To stay or to go—that’s the quandary faced by government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice are facing a quandary: Should they stay or should they go?
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A case that isn’t getting the headlines it deserves: an LSU student was raped by an LSU football player. He admitted it, but the school is still letting him play football. How multiple systems have failed this young woman & why she went public to get the help she needs: youtu.be/LihN7hsNKnw?...
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SHOCKING College SCANDAL EXPOSES Stakes Of Trump’s DANGEROUS AGENDA!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watch Melissa Aldana & Gonzalo Rubalcaba's NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EWL... Along with Pablo Menares & Kush Abadey, the quartet plays music from Melissa’s most recent Blue Note release "Filin": melissaaldana.lnk.to/Filin
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Melissa Aldana with Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Tiny Desk Concert
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026
NEW: A new White House rule would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives, including ones that help disabled Americans vote. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to restrict voting access.
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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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