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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system. (Published Oct. 2023)
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We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority
The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026
When 3M scientist Kris Hansen discovered that a chemical the company produced was in the blood of the general public, her bosses questioned her work. Yet all along, some people inside the company had known the same thing. Listen to this excerpt:
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 26/08/2026
As a young attorney in the Reagan Administration, he aimed to destroy the Voting Rights Act and undermine democracy. Now the Chief Justice has finished the job.
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The Long Con of John Roberts
As a young attorney under Reagan, John Roberts aimed to destroy the Voting Rights Act. Now the Chief Justice has finished the job.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 19/08/2026
"It’s time for the political establishment to stop telling the American people what they should believe and start listening to what they actually want," writes @sanders.senate.gov.
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Why are progressives winning across the United States? It’s not complicated | Bernie Sanders
Poll after poll shows the same thing. The American people know that the current economic system is rigged
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/08/2026
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)
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UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/08/2026
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)
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Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/04/2026
Today marks the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. As we honor the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire across modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Armenia, we must refuse to let history repeat itself.
In 2020, the military forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey attacked the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, Azerbaijan expelled over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, continuing the genocidal campaign that had begun over 100 years prior.
On this day of remembrance, we reaffirm the right of the Armenian people - and all people — to freedom, safety, and self-determination.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Is it happening again?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/02/2026
“I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long,” wrote 9-year-old Susej, who said she had been held at Dilley detention center for more than 50 days.
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Terrific
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/11/2025
The banality of evil: how Epstein’s powerful friends normalised him
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The banality of evil: how Epstein’s powerful friends normalised him
Long after his conviction for sexual abuse, people in royalty, academia, business, journalism and politics sought his ear
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 23/08/2025
The chief justice of the US has painted himself as a modern institutionalist over the past 20 years. Experts say he’s emboldening Trump’s drive toward authoritarianism.
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The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America
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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 #AbolishICE, #SlavaUkraini @andreasor.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
You might want to sit down for this one. futurism.com/scientists-w...
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Scientists Just Found Who's Causing Global Warming
A new study observes economic patterns related to climate change in order to find the staggering amount of emissions pumped out by the rich.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Gabriel harvests oranges in Selma CA: I earn $24 per 900lb bin. The pay hasn't changed in 4-5 years. It doesn’t justify the hard, heavy work we do. We run back and forth and go up and down a 16-foot ladder quickly picking oranges in a bag that weighs 60lb when full. #WeFeedYou
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
US recessions since 1950: 1953 - Eisenhower 🔴 1958 - Eisenhower 🔴 1960 - Eisenhower 🔴 1969-70 - Nixon 🔴 1973-75 - Nixon 🔴 1980 - Carter 🔵 1981-82 - Reagan 🔴 1990-91 - Bush Sr 🔴 2001 - Dubya 🔴 2007-09 - Dubya 🔴 2020 - Trump 🔴 2025-?? - Trump 🔴
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
CHUCK SCHUMER HAS TO GO. He’s way past his best by date and I’m not talking about age, I’m talking about usefulness. Senate Dems need to step up and have some courage.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/02/2025
"Under no circumstances should any sane person take his health advice. Nor should any senator consent to give him authority over government agencies that regulate our food and medicines."
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RFK Jr. Is a One-Man Plague
It’s not just that he’s misinformed. It’s the way his mind works that’s dangerous.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2025
Murphy: "Let's not pull any punches about why this is happening. Elon Musk makes billions off of his business with China. And China is cheering at this action today. There is no question that the billionaire class trying to take over our govt right now is doing it based on self-interest."
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/01/2025
Sorry, Mexico and Canada, we elected a dimwitted shitheel
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Time for real protests.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
here's the full (and now-deleted) reddit post supposedly written by an OPM employee:
I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM.

I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.

Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.

The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest “yes man” you'll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck.

Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.

Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.

Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Dems would get much more traction finding and promoting people saying what they know and experience. What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?
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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 22/01/2025
If you have watched the last 2 and a half minutes of the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde's homily this morning, I urge you to watch the whole 15 minutes. My first impression is that of the entire inauguration, this speech will be the one remembered and studied for decades.
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1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Please please please watch this. Please.
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Ex-Sniper reacts to Pete Hegseth Hearing
YouTube video by Hillary Clinton
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/01/2025
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social. propub.li/3DGXECO
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The Militia and the Mole
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Ann Telnaes, a Washington Post editorial cartoonist who has been with the newspaper for sixteen years, just quit her job after the cartoon below—which depicts Post owner Jeff Bezos and other CEOs bowing to Donald Trump—was spiked. It's another huge blow to the credibility of a once-great newspaper.
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Axios @axios.com · 03/01/2025
SCOOP: Apple CEO Tim Cook will personally donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee. He believes the inauguration is a great American tradition and is donating to the inauguration in the spirit of unity.
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Scoop: Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration
Cook joins other top CEOs and companies in making a seven-figure pledge.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
“Rather than fear that the opposition is weakened by these Americans who are bending down to Trump, they are saving us time by telling us that they are not up to the fight and we cannot count on them.”
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The Rich, The Powerful, The Cowardly
We are witnessing media companies, journalists and billionaires bowing down to Trump and his hostile takeover—seeking access, favors and security. They are doing us a favor.
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Want to understand how ABC came to pay a protection racket tribute to Trump? Max Potter and I explained @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/analysis/ant...
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On anticipatory obedience and the media
Trump's campaign against the Fourth Estate has been unfolding before our eyes—far more effectively than some in the press would like to believe.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
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