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Stephanie Willerton

@stephwillerton.bsky.social
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Strategic comms for nonprofits/international orgs. Progressive politics. KC native. Former: PBSNews.bsky.social, ED.gov, U.S. Senate, two top PR firms and three tech companies. @mujschool.bsky.social and @fletcherschool.bsky.social mafias. Dog lover.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h
Texas sued after glitch delays almost 600,000 voter registrations
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Texas sued after glitch delays almost 600,000 voter registrations
Voting registration organizations accuse Texas officials of failing to ensure eligible voters can register properly
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.
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A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew
BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”
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Stephanie Willerton @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We cannot become numb to the violence, folks. Perpetrators must be held accountable.
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No More Deaths | No Más Muertes @nomoredeaths.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
⚠️ Border wall contractors plan to remove thousands of sacred saguaros (ha:ṣañ) on sovereign O'odham land starting Monday — Indigenous People's Day. Tadai Me:i Camp calls supporters to join in prayer and protest on the Tohono O’odham Nation.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY
OCTOBER 12, 2026
BORDER WALL CONTRACTORS ARE SET TO BEGIN REMOVING SACRED SAGUAROS AND OCOTILLO IN THE FIRST PHASE OF CONSTRUCTION ON THE TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION.
THE TADAI ME: CAMP CALLS FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT TO THE BORDER TO STAND WITH THE TOHONO O'ODHAM IN OUR FIGHT TO PROTECT O'ODHAM JEWED (LAND).
THESE ARE NON-VIOLENT GATHERINGS!
EVERYONE WELCOME
ALL ONK AKIMEL, KE:LI AKIMEL, AK-CHIN, HIA CED, TOHONO AND MEXICO O'ODHAM STRONGLY ENCOURAGED
PLEASE COME
PREPARED FOR THE
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ELEMENTS (HEAT/RAIN), COME HEALTHY, AND
ALL ELDERS, SINGERS, AND
SELF SUFFICIENT.10/10 - 10/11
GATHERING OF O'ODHAM SISTER
TRIBES AT TADAI ME:I CAMP
10/12 - Prayer to Action
SUNRISE
HIMDAG 'O WUD T-GEWKDAG (OUR
CULTURE IS OUR STRENGTH) GATHERING AT THE TADAI ME:I CAMP AT KO:LI KI:JIG.
9:00 AM
GEWKDAG HI:M (GO IN STRENGTH)
MARCH STARTING AT BASHAS PLAZA, BRING YOUR SIGNS AND WALK IN PEACEFUL PROTEST AGAINST THE DESTRUCTION OF O'ODHAM LAND.Camp is located at the San Miguel Gate, on South Indian
Route 19
Turn right at the "Entering
Prayer Camp" sign
Be aware of cattle and Border Patrol on your way down
If you are planning on staying at Tadai Me:i Camp, you will be required to check in with Camp Caretakers for safety checks and information before entering camps.
Be respectful of camp protocols
No alcohol, drugs or weapons. Zero tolerance.
IF YOU AIN'T PRAYING, YOU AIN'T STAYING!Tohono O'odham Nation Emergency Mobile Command will be stationed at San Miguel
Community Building
In case of emergency dial 911 or T.O.N. Dispatch at 520-383-6412
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In any normal parliamentary democracy, the no confidence vote would be taking place tonight.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Question reporters should be asking every Republican elected: Your president trusts Putin, praises Putin, is beholden to Putin, and wants to help Putin annex more of Ukraine. What are you going to do about it?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1) Putin doesn't have diesel to spare. 2) Diesel is cover for lifting sanctions. 3) Putin's statement sounds like he's offering an Iran escape hatch, which I've been predicting. 4) Half of the MASSIVE bribes Putin is offering now don't exist. 5) But he does mention security coop -- Kash.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026
Yesterday marked the 3rd annual Network State conference (in Singapore). This is the venture capital cult that plans to kill democracy. Peter Thiel protégés Curtis Yarvin and Balaji Srinivasan had a polite fireside chat about exactly how the USA will die. Yeah, The Nerd Reich is a very true story!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On Putin's birthday, moreover, Trump gave him: (1) an end to sanctions; (2) a drawdown of US troops defending NATO; and (3) a sleazy, super corrupt LUKoil deal—and this is just what we know so far.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you think Trump handing a multibillion $ gift to Putin that will help Russia continue to wage war on Ukraine, doesn't make sense...then you're not paying attention. It is Trump doing what he always does, putting Putin and Russian interests ahead of America's and our allies.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Episcopal Church in Washington goes in big with a GOTV campaign for the midterms. 'I am asking for your courage to love your neighbor, to respect the dignity of every human being, and now, to vote,' Bishop Budde says in the new ad, which references her headline-grabbing sermon to Trump last year
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Bishop Mariann Budde, in new election ad, urges people to vote
(RNS) — 'I am asking for your courage to love your neighbor, to respect the dignity of every human being, and now, to vote,' Budde says in the new ad, which references her headline-grabbing sermon to ...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The guy would be kicked out of many a private dementia care home for being abusive and were stuck with him and his thieving vandals.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Missed this story about Trump's efforts to elect his buddy Bolsonaro Jr in Brazil. The US is also heavily tampering in Bolivia right now. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
reuters.com
Brazil briefed French, German officials on alleged US, Russian election interference
A French and German delegation travelled this month to Brasilia, where intelligence officials briefed them on alleged ​US and Russian interference before Brazil's election, according to sources and do...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good news: Wilber Garces Perez finally had surgery to remove the bullet that was in his back for 11 days. It took far too long, and it's more proof of ICE cruelty. But we kept up the pressure, and Wilber got the care he needed. Speaking up for our neighbors works.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s going to use nukes before it’s all over. People need to wake up
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
L'Express secures and publishes extracts from a French intelligence analytical memo forecasting the nature and extent of Russian hybrid warfare plans targeting France. And it's pretty much exactly what the Russians did, including drone acts, influence operations on public opinion and sabotage.
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Attentats, sabotages, assassinats : la note secrète qui détaille les scénarios d'une attaque russe en France
L'agressivité "désinhibée" de Vladimir Poutine pousse la France à se préparer. Des responsables sécuritaires planchent sur une "escalade", sans écarter des attaques terroristes.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump announces "Corruption R Us" by joining Putin and Lukashenko in exit from the Anti-Corruption Panel.
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 30/09/2026
Impeach him again. www.thebulwark.com/p/impeach-hi...
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Impeach Him Again
There’s never been a better time.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m disgusted by today’s press coverage, which mostly just regurgitates the DOJ press release. The story should be that a) they indicted the guy who got shot, not the guy who shot him and b) previous attempts by ICE to blame shooting victims have all been lies, so no reason to believe this. Shame.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 29/09/2026
Where do we stand on litigation regarding this? Scoop: Trump's hand-picked, taxpayer-funded ads about to ramp up www.axios.com/2026/09/29/t...
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Scoop: Trump's hand-picked, taxpayer-funded ads about to ramp up
President Trump is personally selecting which government-funded ads his administration is airing.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Stephanie Willerton @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lots of smart ppl talking about Trump's deteriorating "mental illness" but was he ever thoughtful or judicious? He's plenty smart enough to understand he has a small window of time to enrich himself and his family and lay waste to the country, and he's doing it. Doing it well, unfortunately.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Data allegedly stolen from the FBI provides sensitive assignment descriptions for named employees, exposing members of the "China criminal enterprise unit” & “Russia Operations Section" among others. One ex-employee described it as a foreign intel "goldmine." www.reuters.com/world/hacked...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Hacked FBI data has sensitive information about employees’ intelligence roles
FBI data allegedly stolen by the hacking group ShinyHunters carries granular detail about scores of bureau officials’ ​job assignments, including sensitive work against Chinese spies, Russian intellig...
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Stephanie Willerton @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@nicollewallace.bsky.social Jessica Yellin is so good. More of her, pls! @deadlinewh.bsky.social
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CNN PANIC is setting in now that David Ellison will control the network in a matter of weeks: "People are anxious and worried... Unlike other mergers ... that we've been through, we have the preview of CBS, so it's not like people don't have a sense of what's coming." www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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Ellison’s Bonta Blowout
David Ellison worked the phones over the weekend to secure a settlement for his Warners takeover—but the deal’s supposed safeguard for CNN is already drawing skepticism from inside the network as staf...
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Ian Moody @ianmoody.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks. www.ft.com/content/3848...
ft.com
Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks
FT finds thousands of Russian payments received by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Umar Kremlev, who helped pay for Trump Jr.’s wedding, is tied to a group accused of abducting Ukrainian children and was honored by Vladimir Putin a month before the wedding. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/russian-wh...
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Russian Who Helped Pay for Trump Jr.’s Wedding Tied to Group Accused of Abducting Ukrainian Children
Umar Kremlev, who helped pay for Trump Jr.’s wedding, is tied to a group accused of abducting Ukrainian children and was honored by Vladimir Putin a month before the wedding.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Using AI chatbots to address financial questions could risk large losses, with models from a range of providers giving wrong answers most of the time. The most popular AI models from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Grok and Gemini provided wrong answers to financial queries 57% of the time on average.
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AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries ‘most of the time’
Report finds some chatbots ignored upcoming tax changes and hallucinated rules
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Arizona Star is doing stand-out reporting on the plight of Ahmed Soliman, who grew up in Phoenix (since he was 4). ICE paid $7.5 million to Equatorial Guinea, a repressive dictatorship with a history of torture, to send him and others there. Now he's been tortured. 1/2 tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Six key points on the ‘retaliatory’ arrest of a Phoenix man deported to Africa
The Arizona Daily Star has been reporting on the plight of dozens of people imprisoned at a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, including one man who grew up in Phoenix,
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
President Donald Trump has traded more securities than every member of Congress combined since he returned to office — even as he seeks to pass a stock-purchasing ban for lawmakers that would exclude him from any restrictions.
bloomberg.com
Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In the 25 years since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion+ on wars that have taken millions of lives in the name of fighting "terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds here on climate, health care, housing, and education?
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Heather Hendershot @profhendershot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I just...I just can't. We truly live in the stupidest timeline.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
40 men the Trump administration sent to CECOT prison in El Salvador were beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to attempt suicide. It's basically the same story Bari Weiss yanked at 60 Minutes told by @hrcberkeley.bsky.social researchers working with @hrw.org and @cristosal.bsky.social.
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‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison (Gift Article)
The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatme...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Let's not forget the percentage of German voters who oppose the AfD and don't want them in a government even as a junior coalition partner.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/09/2026
Newsom: "He's not screwing around. He wasn't screwing around when he called Greg Abbott for 5 seats, said he was entitled to 5 seats. Why does he do that? Because he knows he's going to lose the election unless he rigs the election before one vote is cast. That is what we're up against."
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Doesn’t sound familiar at all
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This could easily be entered into evidence in a future prosecution of Trump for corruption.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As WSJ reported, Witkoff was handpicked by Putin to replace Gen Kellogg. He was picked because he built his whole New York real estate empire by laundering money for assorted Russian oligarchs in Putin's inner circle and is beholden to them.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So you know where we stand: United States was the only country to vote against it. The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size www.npr.org/2026/09/04/n...
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The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size
The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 04/09/2026
HHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-ca…
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HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED
Officials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Trump's crackdown on foreign student who criticize Israel was revealed in discovery to be the implementation of a plan designed and prepared by an organization funded and set up by the government of Israel. It was found to violate the Constitution, unsurprisingly.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Who’s the Snowflake Now?
Marco Rubio is taking the wrong approach to free speech.
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