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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New: from 404 Media. The catastrophic FBI hack also exposed the FBI's own hacking unit. The Remote Operations Unit is a highly secretive part of the FBI, responsible for making tools to break into peoples' devices. Some of their names and addresses are in the data www.404media.co/fbi-hack-exp...
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FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit
The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Students in Kyiv flee as a Russian Geran-5 mini cruise missile targets the campus of the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture today. Students returned to studying on campus only two days ago after studying remotely due to frequent air raids.
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Moscow skyline does a “Bladerunner” impression after the oil refinery in Kapotnya district comes under attack by Ukraine again.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/09/2026
We scraped through the data and found that 50% of all clinical trials are at risk of being cancelled. 1,026 cancer trials 273 pediatric trials 115 heart disease trials 184 diabetes trials This is unacceptable and inhumane.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨NEWS: So this is totally crazy. A Republican candidate in Texas is sending texts that say "Attachment: $5,000 Check … Pres. Trump just authorized it," and a link to the "portal" to get the money goes to a fundraising page for him to pay off a personal loan he made to the campaign!
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Republican Nominee in Texas Using Trump’s $5,000 Promise to Deceive Voters - The American Prospect
Eric Flores is an Army veteran and lawyer running to unseat Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez in Texas District 34.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
WSJ editorial board FOIAs emails showing Sen. Katie Britt’s office privately seeking Trump tariff exemptions for Alabama — while she’s publicly praising the tariffs. www.wsj.com/opinion/kati...
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Opinion | One Senator’s Plea for Tariff Breaks
How protectionism works in practice: Public support, but seeking exemptions in private.
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 14/09/2026
To Utah’s chief election officer’s surprise, the DOJ says it has been investigating her since 2025
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To Utah’s chief election officer’s surprise, the DOJ says it has been investigating her since 2025
Letters from the U.S. Department of Justice have become a constant in Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson’s mail. As Utah’s chief election officer, she has refused to release private voter data despite threats of criminal prosecution from the agency, and has been the most vocal top elected official on the issue — until now.Last week, Henderson said in a social media post, the department revealed she was under investigation over her resistance to hand over the information, a notice that came as a surprise for her.
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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 14/09/2026
Our latest Zooming In is a wide-ranging convo between @bernybelvedere.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social on today's discourse ecosystem, and what it will take for liberals to win in it. Along they way they also talked streamers, David French and Zohran Mamdani, Covid and RJK Jr., and much more
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Liberals Need to Loosen Up to Play the Social Media Game Against Authoritarians: A Conversation with Renée DiResta
Their need to stay on message makes them less effective communicators
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Dmytro Spivakov @dmytro-spivakov.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Eat shit
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
HISTORY: diesel has crossed $6/gal nationally for the first time ever, according to live GasBuddy data. every truck, every delivery, every package, every grocery run just got more expensive. the cost of moving everything in america just hit a record. Statement⬇️ (9/10/26, 3p CT)
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“The president’s war on the “deep state” led directly to his debacle in the Middle East.” Important point by Ariane Tabatabie and Julia Curlere about the real costs of firing all the experts and putting unqualified ideologues in their place. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/09/t...
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How Could Iran Happen? An Autopsy.
The president’s war on the “deep state” led directly to his debacle in the Middle East.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One person was killed and five others were injured in a Russian attack on Kyiv's Dniprovskyi district. ​Emergency responders rescued four people, including two children. The strike triggered a fire in a nine-story apartment building. Daily russian terrorism continues.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
WSJ - When fragile peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan looked in danger of collapsing last year, American negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's artificial-intelligence chips to help secure a preliminary peace deal. www.wsj.com/world/u-s-used-pr...
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Exclusive | U.S. Used Promise of Nvidia Chips to Broker Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Deal
Negotiators offered access to advanced AI hardware to help secure a preliminary agreement last year to end decades of conflict, the latest example of chip diplomacy.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 04/09/2026
Fascinating reporting on how churches are fighting back against Germany's far right, via @liamsadams.bsky.social. Remarkable how much overlap there is between the American religious left and the efforts chronicled here, despite wild contextual differences: religionnews.com/2026/09/03/a...
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As the far-right in Germany aims to take power, churches are fighting back
BURG near Magdeburg, Germany (RNS) — The AfD may gain power on Sept. 6 in Saxony-Anhalt, posing a direct threat to refugees and the German churches that serve them. Inspired by past resistance in East...
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 03/09/2026
"I think what made Dolly Parton special was how she stood up for what she believed in: with grace, humor, and respect for those who believed differently than she did." @heidischlumpf.bsky.social: Why did Dolly mean so much to us? www.commonwealmagazine.org/schlumpf-dol...
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Why Did Dolly Mean So Much to Us?
The lack of judgment with which Dolly Parton practiced her faith could be a lesson for many of today’s Christians.
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Maria @mariasergiivna.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The school year has just begun in Ukraine, and Russia is already trying to completely disrupt it Today Russia launched a massive attack on Odesa 8 people were injured, including a 5-year-old child the school is among the damaged buildings #UkrainianVIew
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.
A picture of a young black man, dressed in a light blue suit with a smart black bow tie, smiling as he is handed a diploma from a school official, a white man in his 40s-50s who is also smiling. Underneath is the caption “Pierre Damas Bel receives his high school diploma. (Family Photo/Instagram)”Bel arrived in the United States in 2024 in order to reunite with his parents, who had fled Haiti three years before. The family was granted temporary protected status, purchased a home in Springfield and settled into life in the U.S. Bel dreamed of studying medicine and graduated high school last May with honors and as a proud member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), his father said. He was the eldest of three siblings and his family described him as smart and responsible.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Erica Schwartz, the new CDC director, ordered agency officials to challenge two measles deaths reported by PA, shunning the agency’s normal procedure of accepting state data and amplifying comments made by her boss, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/h...
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C.D.C. Director Challenges Pennsylvania’s Report of Two Measles Deaths (Gift Article)
Questioning a state’s investigation is highly unusual for the public health agency, but reflects tensions between the Trump administration and many states over health issues.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Colonel Zachary Schmidt speaking about Khalil, brother of an Afghani solider: "I worked with Khalil's older brother in 2009, I know the risks he took to help the United States. I owe it to Khalil's brother and their family to help share this story."
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yesterday, despite herculean efforts of brilliant lawyers the regime trafficked 70 people, including relatives of Afghani's who face death at home for their families' roles in having aided US military, to the Central African Republic. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/u...
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Relative of Afghans Who Helped U.S. Military Is Deported to Africa
The Trump administration has deported thousands of immigrants to countries where they have no ties. Dozens were on the latest flight, to the Central African Republic.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 28/08/2026
Let's be clear about what's happening here: The president's family is in business with a foreign royal and just got approval from the US government to expand that business with a banking charter. This is as corrupt as it gets. On every level. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Exclusive | Trump Family’s New Crypto Bank Is Backed by Abu Dhabi Sheikh
The Emirati “spy sheikh” backs a 49% stake in the entity behind the new World Liberty bank.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Strait of Hormuz is still closed.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/08/2026
Proof we got RFK lying on the record during his confirmation hearing (a crime). RFK should be referred to the DOJ for criminal investigation, and when Democrats retake the Senate, he will be at the top of the list of Trump officials I will hold accountable for endangering American families.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Between October 2025 and July 2026, the U.S. accepted 10,258 refugees. All but three (3!) were white South Africans. Regardless of your opinion of South Africa's laws and government, I don't know how you could call this anything other than an explicitly racist policy.
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Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly Parton ❤️ Here's a lovely Dolly story: We worked together on "Transamerica." She told me that the bible passage that used to puzzle her the most was, "the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men." She said, "How the heck do you sin against the Holy Ghost, and-
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A story for our times. triblive.com/news/world/h...
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He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him
When Luis Manuel Aviles was arrested by immigration authorities, his son was entering his ninth month on the USS Abraham Lincoln with the Navy — a vessel that set a U.S. military record for unin...
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 22/08/2026
Hundreds of Afghans who worked for the US, including combat interpreters, now hold green cards and letters saying the visa they were granted for that service has been revoked. www.npr.org/2026/08/15/n...
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They fought for the U.S. in Afghanistan. Now they worry about losing their green cards
When the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan five years ago, thousands of Afghans who helped U.S. troops were brought here to rebuild their lives. But now, some fear the U.S. may want to send them back.
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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
“I infiltrated al-Qaeda for the CIA. This month, I was arrested by ICE”
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I infiltrated al-Qaeda for the CIA. This month, I was arrested by ICE
Blerim Skoro, a Kosovan refugee who spent a decade helping the US stop terror attacks after 9/11, is being held in a New Jersey cell. He doesn’t know why
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 20/08/2026
This is very interesting. Military insiders are making big longshot polymarket bets that are then copied by trading bots, "raising concerns that the market could broadcast signals exploitable by foreign adversaries." www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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EXCLUSIVE: More than 150 Polymarket wallets may have traded on military secrets, research finds
More than 150 wallets on Polymarket International may have traded on inside U.S. military information, attracting copycat ​bets and raising concerns that the market could broadcast signals exploitable...
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
BIG news this morning: Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer “vaccine” worked in a late-stage melanoma trial www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/m...
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Moderna and Merck say mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trial
A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in a late-stage melanoma study, results that could herald a new, powerful approach in oncology.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 17/08/2026
The number of US kindergartners starting school without being fully immunized continues to rise, as families forgo the protective shots despite outbreaks of vaccine-preventable illnesses.
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US Kindergarten Vaccine Rates Drop Again for 2025-26 School Year
The number of US kindergartners starting school without being fully immunized continues to rise, as families forgo the protective shots despite outbreaks of vaccine-preventable illnesses.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
January 6 was only 5 and a half years ago, and we’ve already cycled through investigation, indictment, conviction, pardon, and now gleeful promises to do it again only with actual hanging rather than just chants about it. Nice job GOP.
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They're still doing it because we didn't hang them
last time.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12/08/2026
You can’t wrap yourself in the flag while ripping apart the families of the people who defend it.
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She enlisted because the Army said it could protect her parents. Then her father was deported on July 4.
The military says it can protect immediate family members from deportation. Yet members of active-duty soldiers’ families are still being deported.
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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
My latest @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social Energy contribution: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗢𝗶𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 An overview of the Hormuz crisis’ most important revelation: China’s ability to halve its crude imports, what I’m calling the Beijing Swing. thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...
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How China Saved the Global Oil Market
Beijing’s move to cut crude imports softened the blow of the Iran war, but its motives remain a mystery.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Medicaid will have new work requirements next year. But some people with disabilities, who already work, say they'd like to work more, but risk losing their Medicaid coverage if they earn too much. www.npr.org/2026/08/10/n...
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People with disabilities say Medicaid income limits can stifle career advancement
Medicaid will have new work requirements next year. But some people with disabilities, who already work, say they'd like to work more, but risk losing their Medicaid coverage if they earn too much.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/08/2026
holy shit Trump is OUT
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/08/2026
President Trump wants to soften one of the strongest legal protections American workers have: the right to hold an employer accountable when retirement savings are mishandled. Here's what you need to know: propub.li/4g078bJ
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 05/08/2026
"As part of the partnership, Patel has brought officials from China's Ministry of Public Security, or MPS, to multiple FBI facilities in the United States to share ​intelligence and investigative information."
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EXCLUSIVE: Under Patel, FBI forges unprecedented law enforcement ties with China, Russia
FBI Director Kash Patel says he has forged new law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia, two longtime U.S. rivals, over the past year in hopes of gaining allies in combating transnational cr...
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.
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U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.
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Louisiana Illuminator @lailluminator.com · 31/07/2026
LOST SNAP? Have your or someone in your Louisiana household been denied SNAP benefits over the past year? We'd love to talk with you. DM us here to start the conversation — or email info@lailluminator.com. We won't share your contact info.
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Grocery Store Cereal Block
ALT: Grocery Store Cereal Block
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
GOP Gov. DeWine: "Over a third of the people who work in our long-term care facilities are from some other country.  When you start mass deporting these people, it's gonna impact your mother, your father, your brother, your sister… You're not gonna be able to find people to replace them, frankly."
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
CBS reports that Ashley Moody did precisely what the entire GOP has accused Tim Walz of doing -- and yet, somehow, that crack fraud task force has not arrested the GOP nominee for Senate. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
As Florida Attorney General, it was Moody and her office that approved the diversion of $10 million of taxpayer money to the Hope Florida Foundation. And the Attorney General did so without placing any of the safeguards or guardrails her office would typically require to make sure the money was properly spent.

These funds were intended to expand Medicaid for children in Florida, but instead they ended up in the bank accounts of a pair of political action committees, one of which was controlled by the governor and his chief of staff, James Uthmeier.

And that was the money that DeSantis used to defeat Amendment 3.

Amendment 3 garnered 56% of the vote in November 2024, just shy of the 60% needed to pass. And two months after the amendment failed, DeSantis appointed Moody to the United States Senate, and he appointed Uthmeier to replace Moody as attorney general.

The diversion of $10 million from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation and then into the political action committees fighting Amendment 3 was uncovered through a series of legislative hearings in 2025 in the Florida House. And it prompted one Republican legislator to call it a criminal act.

"This is a misuse of Medicaid money," Republican State Rep. Alex Andrade told CBS Miami in August 2025. "This is money laundering."
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 27/07/2026
Missed this an hour ago, The Information reporting that a Chinese company has started production of deep ultraviolet lithography machines, a market that up until now ASML has a total monopoly on. Shares -6%. www.theinformation.com/articles/chi...
(Bloomberg) -- (Updates share-price moves; adds more details from the report in the sixth bullet.)
ASML shares drop as much as 6.4% in Amsterdam after The Information reported that a Chinese state-backed company has begun manufacturing immersion deep ultraviolet lithography machines.
ASML shares erase gain of as much as 1.9% to trade 6.2% at 4:14 p.m. in Amsterdam; the stock is trading without a €1.88/share dividend on Monday
In Europe, semiconductor equipment peers ASM International and BE Semiconductor also drop after the report
In US, Applied Materials -4.0%, Lam Research -4.3%, KLA -3.5%
NOTE: DUV tools are primarily made by ASML, along with Japan’s Nikon and Canon
The Information said that the Shanghai-based company brought together immersion DUV development teams from other Chinese companies, including state-backed startup Shanghai Yuliangsheng Technology
The report cited two people familiar with the matter
Report didn’t give the name of the Shanghai company
If the DUV machine is successfully put into mass production at Chinese chipmakers, it would replace equipment from ASML, according to the report
The Shanghai company plans to manufacture about five DUV machines this year and roughly 20 in 2027
The DUV systems are scheduled for delivery this year to local chipmakers including SMIC, Hua Hong Semiconductor and memory maker CXMT
The Chinese DUV uses mostly domestic components, though some key parts come from Japan, the report says
Yuliagsheng, SMIC, Hua Hong and CXMT didn’t respond to requests for comment to The Information
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 23/07/2026
Can a cancer become a new species of parasite? Here's my story on the discovery of a transmissible cancer lurking in Vermont catfish. Gift link: nyti.ms/4whfi6v
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Deep in This Lake, a Contagious Cancer Is Spreading (Gift Article)
Transmissible tumors have been reported in a handful of animal species, but never before among fish. Is it possible in humans?
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Carney: "I'm going to take this opportunity to thank President Scheinbaum and the Mexican people for sending 200 firefighters to help us with our fires here. That's what friends do when you have crisis and fires." #cdnpoli
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Paul Bleicher @pbleic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
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FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
FDA identifies a new cyclosporiasis cluster that has made ill an additional 72 people. www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-fo...
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Investigations of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
The following is a list of outbreak and adverse event investigations primarily being managed by FDA’s CORE Response Teams.
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