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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

From the book of checks that can never be cashed: DOGE dividend, $5,000 if GOP wins...

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20/04/2026

New: We found out how much money Nick Fuentes makes from "superchats": $900,000 since the start of Trump's second term. Here's the story of Kristine in Ohio, a food-truck operator who became his most frequent donor, despite not making much money herself: wapo.st/4mERkhv

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

No matter how incompetent these schlubs have to fight to the teeth to keep their jobs so they can continue to live like billionaires on the public's dime

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Perspective : $100 million annually for Bezos is the equivalent of tapping your $75,000 nest egg for a Chic Fil A meal for your family . Yes you can do it every year

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Real question - who's writing this stuff? It sounds like AI slop

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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 25/07/2025

Ever wonder about the VIP treatment Matthew McConaughey gets at the University of Texas? FOIAball, a new site covering college football through public records reporting, is coming next week. So subscribe now: foiaball.com

Matthew McConaughey travel coordination email for the Cotton Bowl

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

New rule: The truth is inversely related to the number of adjectives used in an official statement

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Real question: how do customs officers figure out how much tariff is owed? Do they have a blinking light for each product / country combination that changes hourly?

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Anti deficiency act? There's a reason that you're it allowed to "volunteer" and "donate" to the feds

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Cmon publishers - join them : Wired and 404 media are "tipping the balance .... between public interest and business more toward the public interest. "

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Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Histories wanted! Are you a recently terminated federal employee? Historians want to record your story! There's so much you know; let's get it on the record. You may record anonymously if you wish. www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...

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OAH | Federal Employees Oral History ProjectOAH | Federal Employees Oral History Project

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The Poynter Institute @poynterinstitute.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

“Anytime that whole FOIA offices are getting fired, it portends terrible things,” said Washington Post FOIA director Nate Jones. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

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Firing of FOIA officers leaves experts worried about public records access under Trump - Poynter

‘Anytime that whole FOIA offices are getting fired, it portends terrible things’

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This headline. This photo. Is it bad when people get what they want?

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I would love to see the wheels turn as they try to decide between funneling taxpayer $ to their media supporters vs reaching their supposed audience www.semafor.com/article/02/1...

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Homeland Security budgets $200m for new border ad campaign

In the ads, Kristi Noem praises President Trump and warns migrants in the US illegally that “we will find you.”

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/02/2025

It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017

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This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up

A snapshot from America before the impact of the EPA and the effects of rules regulating clean water and air were felt.

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

An incredibly stupid policy of 3 byline limit and no tag lines at the WSJ. A better idea: get rid of bylines altogether if there are too many, since reporting is a team effort. The union said it pretty well talkingbiznews.com/media-news/w...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Glad to see the president using the awesome powers available to him to dictate plastic straw use. Guess they're running out of things to sign in the daily performance art part of governing

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hear me out - some inefficiencies in gov are features not bugs. They're failsafes against failing or corrupt contractors; separate systems to prevent untrustworthy government officials from having too much power. If you distrust gov then you want this

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Jessica Silver-Greenberg @jsgatnyt.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Job training in West Virginia, unemployment help in Wisconsin, assistance for disabled kids. It's all been thrown into disarray because of Trump's federal funding freeze. Our story. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

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Trump’s Attempt to Freeze Grant Funding Leaves Nonprofits Reeling (Gift Article)

Some groups said their funding was still blocked, even after the freeze had been rescinded. Others saw their money reinstated but worried about future cuts.

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

It is kind of funny to think about what a headache it is to get and maintain Special Sworn Status so that I can access a relatively small amount of completely de-identified administrative data in a cold room for use on pre-approved research projects

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This is a good time to settle down with a great read on - yes - civil servants (gift link, I think) wapo.st/4aHhMRI

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Opinion | The Canary

Michael Lewis on Chris Mark of the Department of Labor.

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The definition of sunk cost fallacy - waiting to return one small item at Whole Foods after 1st Person returns an entire shopping cart of books.

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

Here's a choice: 1. Be one of the 20 most powerful public officials in the country 2. Have privacy and avoid public scrutiny for you and your spouse You don't get both

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

What an exceptional run Susan Chira has had leading the Marshall Project. She is an exemplary journalist and leader, mentor to so many women (very much including me!) and I cannot wait to see what she does next. Brava. www.themarshallproject.org/2024/05/16/s...

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Susan Chira to Step Down as The Marshall Project’s Editor-in-Chief in January

Under her stewardship, the news nonprofit more than doubled in size, opened local newsrooms and won its second Pulitzer Prize.

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

It's the last day of class at the Cronkite School -- and the last forever for me! Looking forward to the every-day-is- Saturday life and going home, but will miss the remarkable students I've had the privilege to mentor & my incomparable colleagues -30

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

I *love* this. The 19th starts a network for mutual sharing quality news. I did this years ago in NJ: embeddable news. Didn't take off. So glad it's happening here. Brava! 19thnews.org/the-19th-new...

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Join The 19th News Network

Welcome to The 19th News Network, a collective of national, regional and local publishers seeking to advance racial and gender equity in politics and policy journalism.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

If you’re a newsroom CEO and your reference point for “alternative storytelling techniques” is the New York Times 2012 “Snowfall” project, your newsroom is in big trouble. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Screenshot from Texas Monthly article about the implosion of Houston Landing, a nonprofit newsroom:
Bhatia declined to provide details about his “reset” of the Landing. When asked for examples of the kind of digital journalism he wants to produce, he cited “Snow Fall,” a 2012 New York Times multimedia story about a deadly avalanche in Washington State. The project was produced by a team of eleven Times journalists over six months. “Maybe that’s not realistic, but the principle is to utilize different techniques to tell stories,” Bhatia said. “If we’re going to differentiate ourselves from traditional media, which is what we’re all about, then we have to be willing to try those things.”

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

An officer overdosed on fentanyl on duty. At first, police believed he had been “exposed” to fentanyl confiscated that day. After placing some in evidence, he had actually kept the rest to use. PSA: LEOs have the same substance use rates as the general population. Drug myths are bad for them, too.

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A Mesa police officer overdosed on fentanyl while on duty. Will that shock Arizona awake?

A Mesa police officer overdosed on fentanyl in his patrol car. Is this the incident that fully awakens Arizona to the opioid epidemic?

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Sarah Cohen @shcohen.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

Latest pain meds inspired political outlook test: who is Roadrunner and who is Wiley Coyote ?

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