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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How careful should NASA be about possibly importing Earth life to Mars? A new directive from NASA chief Jared Isaacman calls for cutting back on decades of “planetary protection” regulations to facilitate and modernize future missions to the Red Planet.

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NASA directive might increase the odds of contaminating Mars

The new push loosens U.S. regulations for sterilizing spacecraft bound for the Red Planet and calls for modernizing the science of “planetary protection”

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a big f’ing deal. Story at the newsletter right now, and full explainer coming soon (so make sure you’re subscribed to AED) Three anti-abortion states are asking the Supreme Court to allow them to extradite abortion providers from pro-choice states.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Republican states are asking the Supreme Court to let them extradite abortion providers. Here's what we know so far

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BREAKING: Republicans File Supreme Court Suit to End Shield Laws

9.30.26

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

especially if you work at the FBI

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Received a phone call this morning letting me know they started moving people from Guantanamo Bay to Somalia late last week. Working on getting in contact with them now.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

SO much love for the covid cautious spaces that maintain their shared principles under enormous pressure to capitulate. When organizers commit to accessibility they send the message that the participation of disabled agitators is understood as critical.

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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 27/09/2026

To understand what it's like inside ICE's Aurora detention center, @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social and @sethklamann.bsky.social spoke to current + former detainees and reviewed 911 records and audio recordings from emergency calls. “They treat you as if we’re animals, basically,” a Venezuelan told them

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Pepper spray, health crises and rotten food: Inside Colorado’s only immigrant detention center

In interviews with The Denver Post, current and former detainees described frequent fights and feelings of hopelessness. They say they’re often served inedible or rotten food that frequently gives the...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s up! Our new film “Kill.Bury.Print” is streaming now on Peacock #KillBuryPrint trailer here: youtu.be/ZLfo4At-stg?... and here’s a clip:

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.

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K 🦈🌊🏄🏼‍♀️🏳️‍🌈 @superk1013.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Do I have #TheXFiles on DVD, Blu-ray, and probably still some VHS recorded off FOX back in the day in a box in my closet? Yes. Am I watching it on Pluto now anyway? Also yes 😂❤️

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vigil set tonight up tonight at the Broadview ICE facility.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5

Hold Room 1(820.78 sq. ft.)
With 87 people
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Lying Down/Sitting
Diagram showing the largest tenth-floor hold room containing eighty-seven detainees in which each rectangle represents one lying-down detainee with the average height and shoulder width of an adult man and each circle represents one sitting-down detainee with the average shoulder width of an adult man. PX303, Ex. 1.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 25/09/2026

It took a week for CNN to get White House access back. Other outlets boycotted in solidarity. But not David Ellison – he dined at the WH with Trump and Xi and ignored calls from 100+ reporters and advocates to stand up for the journalists he seeks to employ.

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Journalists, advocates demand Ellison condemn White House ban, back lawsuit

The Paramount Skydance CEO may soon own CNN. He should be condemning the outlet’s ban

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...

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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:

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I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see

'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.

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Paul Franz @paulfranz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So much this. My partner is disabled and high risk for Covid complications. We both mask in all public spaces, and the amount of non-reciprocated empathy and emotional labor we are required to exhibit in conversations with our families has been, in some ways, the hardest part.

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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

good reminder to take a beat before you react to a viral story, especially ones where the people you're supposed to hate after reading it are the same people ben shapiro and libsoftiktok are trying to get you worked up about.

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K 🦈🌊🏄🏼‍♀️🏳️‍🌈 @superk1013.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh boy. Good luck. Minnesotans do not play about their state, either side of the aisle.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 23/09/2026

Mark nailed it a month ago.

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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

BREAKING: An Iowa state court dismisses President Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer (represented by @thefireorg.bsky.social) and the Des Moines Register newspaper, a victory for First Amendment rights. Opinion here: www.fire.org/research-lea...

This case sets a President, a member of Congress, and a former state senator against a pollster and a newspaper, and it arises out of an election. A case of that kind invites the reader to look for a political result. The Court’s role is narrower. It is to sit as an impartial arbiter, to apply the law without passion or prejudice, and to rule without regard to the politics of the day. As such, the only question before the Court is whether the Petition states a claim the law recognizes. At its core, the Plaintiffs’ Petition seeks to stretch both Iowa statutory and common law beyond their current bounds, turning speech that enjoys the highest category of First Amendment protection into a liability. After considering the parties’ arguments, the Court must conclude that the protection is too great and the reach is too far. The case must therefore be dismissed.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Both WaPo and @oliverdarcy.bsky.social are reporting that one of the stories the WH claims they banned Politico for was based off a background briefing (that is, they're complaining Politico reported what WH told them to). Darcy makes it clear JD was the background briefer in this case.

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K 🦈🌊🏄🏼‍♀️🏳️‍🌈 @superk1013.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m thankful the Guardian still covers climate, so many outlets have stopped.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dems replaced action on trans rights with hollow statements, then dropped those statements, then embraced anti-trans rhetoric. Now supporting anti-trans laws and blocking pro-trans ones. At every step the "they're betraying us" radicals were correct and "be patient" liberals were completely wrong.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 23/09/2026

Jennifer Coursey, who attended the Mississippi Legislature's redistricting hearing in Hattiesburg on Sept. 17, said the decision feels "very sneaky and dishonest" and that it makes the redistricting hearings "feel like a show." buff.ly/y00E01A

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Some Mississippi Legislative Districts Reverting to 2022 Maps Under Michael Watson’s Orders

Forrest County voters recently received a letter that said Mississippi’s legislative districts are reverting back to 2022 boundaries.

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K 🦈🌊🏄🏼‍♀️🏳️‍🌈 @superk1013.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

All for a deal that’s looking at 4,500 immediate job losses

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NPR @npr.org · 23/09/2026

CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are asking a federal judge to hold the president in check for what they say is a violation of their Constitutional rights simply because he doesn't like how they cover him. n.pr/3TdtAqx

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Major news outlets banned by Trump will have their day in court

CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are asking a federal judge to hold the president in check for what they say is a violation of their Constitutional rights simply because he doesn't like how they cover him.

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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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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This description of the CNN/CBS “editorial independence board” is not reassuring, because there is no sign that it has any actual power. Also, the requirement that the journalists on the board be from different political parties is exceptionally weird. Via @brianstelter.bsky.social

Under the settlement terms, that board must be established within 180 days of closing and comprise of five "established journalists (active or retired)," each with at least 10 years of experience.
The panel will resolve disputes over
"alleged reporting bias or failure to meet agreed reporting fairness standards" and monitor "editorial independence,
including from... ownership and shareholders." Members will be appointed by the company's board of directors, and "no more than two" may be
"affiliated" with the same political party.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Media advocacy group Free Press slams Rob Bonta for caving to Paramount. "But the AGs’ capitulation marks a new low. It’s a sad day for all of us who have been opposing this merger because it will cut jobs and raise prices, all as it consolidates the media even more to enable authoritarians."

“We are disappointed that Attorney General Bonta went back on his promise to enforce the law and protect consumers and workers. Hundreds of thousands of people called on our state AGs to stand up to the Ellisons, who have engaged in a campaign of corruption and extortion to pave the way for this unlawful merger. We can no longer rely on the federal government to enforce the law and protect regular people. That much is clear. But the AGs’ capitulation marks a new low. It’s a sad day for all of us who have been opposing this merger because it will cut jobs and raise prices, all as it consolidates the media even more to enable authoritarians.

“Based on all reports, this weak deal contains nothing but unenforceable, empty Paramount promises. It abandons the thousands of creatives and workers who risked speaking out, and the tens of millions of consumers the attorneys general should be fighting for.

“Behavioral conditions do not work. They won’t save jobs, preserve choice, or prevent price hikes. As we learned from the failed and widely-panned Facebook Oversight Board, a fake bipartisan oversight committee won’t save CNN. We have all the evidence we need from the Ellisons’ destruction of CBS about what they do to warp journalism at Donald Trump’s request. This latest capitulation comes as the Trump administration barred CNN and other reporters who dare ask hard questions from the White House press pool.

“Consolidating the media in the hands of friendly oligarchs is right out of the authoritarian playbook. Americans across the political spectrum are fed up with corruption and consolidation, and billionaires calling all the shots while everyone else struggles. People won’t forget who stood up for them and who capitulated.

“What’s exceedingly clear is that our laws and our political system are not strong enough to resist the pressure and manipulation of corrupt billionaires.

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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...

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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton

The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m sure they just…complied

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Macklemore has been dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour for advocating for a free Palestine, which a growing majority of Americans support. Meanwhile unrepentant abuser Chris Brown was just presented with a congressional honor on his tour

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision striking down Trump's policy of mass arrest and incarceration without trial ends with a big brushback reminder of what the US government did to Japanese Americans in 1942: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Maybe most important: we have to take this seriously. I know it's so tempting to laugh at people who claim Americans are all "drinking abortions." It's fucking absurd. But stupid is the new normal, and we'd do well to stop acting like we have the luxury of being above it

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BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception

The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Perseverance rover is rather busy capturing images of Phobos lately. This was taken yesterday on Sol 1978 of the mission. 🔭🧪 flic.kr/p/2sAEB4a Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

a potato shaped moon against the dark sky.
The large crater Stikney at the top is mostly in shadow, making parts of its rim look like they are not attached to the moon.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Seriously though are Republicans ever asked about Musk’s support in tandem with quoting his most racist or anti-Semitic tweets?

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is the interview Trump’s FCC doesn’t want you to see. We’re not just going up against the most corrupt politician in Texas. We’re going up against this entire corrupt system.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026

AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...

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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect

Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

as is always the case when he's sitting and not talking, Trump had a hard time staying awake during the 9/11 ceremony (Finn Gomez/Getty)

pic of Trump sitting, slightly hunched over, with his eyes closed

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

After 9/11, was there some solidarity? Yes. But don't candy coat it. The USA lost its mind in so many ways... The bigotry and violence was flowing. www.interfaithamerica.org/article/25-y...

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Sikh Reflections on Unity and Division in America, 25 Years After 9/11

"We should remember that patriotism is strongest when it expands our sense of belonging rather than narrowing it," writes Kiran Kaur Gill, SALDEF.

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Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: I obtained a draft of the Trump administration plan to roll back the Biden EPA rules on methane pollution. I reported previously on the little-known oil-industry campaign to deregulate “stripper wells” — which is finally coming to fruition: www.propublica.org/article/meth...

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EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells

The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained and prone to leaking methane, the highly p...

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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

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A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain

In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.

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