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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h
WATCH: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica revealed the existence of the case for the first time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg
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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19h
With everything else going on, at least the administration is quietly gutting science and medical research. ...
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This Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Medical Research
Future cures and America’s innovation lead are in jeopardy thanks to Donald Trump and Russ Vought’s latest scheme.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
“The ultimate goal was to create chaos and doubt in the vote-by-mail process,” said the American Postal Workers Union president. “You’re creating a rule to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.”
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20h
Despite multiple complaints — and videos — of physical abuse and mistreatment of students, Arkansas' Delta Institute continues to receive public funds. It is just one of hundreds of private schools taking state money with little oversight. (Published July with @arktimes.bsky.social)
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This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.
One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about saf...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h
“You’re fake news… you’re fake news….” Trump lashes out like a toddler at reporters telling him his poll numbers suck (with Hispanics too) and there’s no proof of fraud with mail-in ballots despite his lies — both true ✅ ✅
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?'
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22h
1/ We’re excited to announce that our “Paper Trail” podcast has been nominated for three Signal Awards: “Best New Podcast,” “Best Documentary,” and “Best Documentary Host”! We’re deeply grateful for your support. If you’re a fan of our show, you can vote for us via the links below 👇
A graphic with text that reads: Listener's Choice Sept 29-Oct 15th. "Paper Trail," ProPublica. 2026 Finalist, Signal Awards. Vote for me. The center of the graphic features the artwork for ProPublica's "Paper Trail" podcast: a woman walking along a path of files and folders, facing an open entryway filled with light.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Justice Alito is confusing court reform with attacking the court. Many of us simply want the Court to be better. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What I'm saying here is that maybe the 10K donation did not secure the $900 million contract. It is more plausible that some of the firms being shaken down by Salus/Lewandoswki said yes, and some of that $900 million went to Lewandoski. That changes the story from political favoritism to corruption.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dhs-contractors-told-white-house-officials-asked-pay-corey-lewandowski-rcna263744

The representative in a follow-up call told the marketing firm owner that this contract would be worth $40 million to $50 million, but that the marketing company would get only $20 million, according to the person familiar with the discussions. The representative would direct the rest to a consulting company tied to Lewandowski, the person said.

“We will make sure the consultant is handled,” the representative said, according to the person familiar with the discussions.

In both cases, the Salus representative made it clear to the marketing firm owner that hiring a Lewandowski-linked consultant was a condition of winning the contract, according to the person familiar with the discussions.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h
This goes from the interviewer trying to tie him the Muslim brotherhood to her defensively saying, no, she is not cheerleading the war.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h
Yes, the White House sometimes serves as a branch Kremlin press office, which would be humiliating for anyone who had the slightest hint of patriotism or for that matter personal dignity.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms
DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 19h
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Shrek: Lord Farquaad - Some of you may die
Alt: Shrek: Lord Farquaad - Some of you may die
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h
This starts with her aggressively trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd like to see someone turn the tables on this. "You're Christian, right? Did you support Timothy McVeigh? Did you agree with Dylann Roof? Or Eric Rudolph? Robert Lewis Dear? No? Even though you share their religion?"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
A 17-month-old girl was hospitalized with E. coli after consuming raw milk. Soon, another child — a 6-year-old girl who’d drunk milk from the same farm — would wind up in the same San Diego hospital, with the same potentially fatal illness.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now he’s gone too far www.tpr.org/government-p...
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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
A child in an Idaho faith-healing family died of a treatable condition. Then another died — and another, and another. Idaho’s child abuse laws contain such broad religious exemptions that authorities didn’t intervene — before or after the deaths.
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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Seamus @wiredtexan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When our son outgrew his Lightning McQueen bed, most awesome bed ever, the father and son who took it off our hands made it worth it. The boy was so excited and bouncing on his toes.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/10/2026
If the Dems win the senate, expect this retirement and then the Senate GOP will jam the next person down our throats. Probably someone like Judge Eileen Cannon. Good lord www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s insider trading is, on its own, the worst corruption scandal in US history, with $$$ dwarfing Teapot Dome. So are Trump’s bribes-for-pardons. So is the Qatar bribe plane. So is all the Saudi money he (and Kushner) have pocketed. And the ballroom. And more. Each alone would be the worst.
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Absentee ballot voters in Montana won’t have to comply with an onerous birthdate verification requirement after a state court blocked the measure Friday night, ruling that it violates the state constitution. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Montana court blocks onerous mail voting law that caused thousands of rejected absentee ballots last year
The mail voting measure led to nearly 3,000 mail ballots getting rejected in the Nov. 2025 election, in a state where 80% of voters vote absentee.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They're really flooding football games with these ads, but it feels like the only result is making low-information voters realize how obsessed Republicans are with people's privates
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Another NEW development in my case against AG Todd Blanche: he has now filed a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings, trying to get rid of my case at this stage of the lawsuit. Blanche must be a glutton for punishment because he just recycles the same losing arguments. youtu.be/32RC_CPlZhI?...
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WOW!! AG Blanche BEGS Judge To DISMISS My EPSTEIN LAWSUIT!!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Really innovative. Normally with a government grift, you do the ostensibly public service work and get a bribe payment off-stage. These guys are disrupting peace deals by making the grift part of it.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Data centers on the gubernatorial ballot in Ohio. Acton against, Ramaswamy for (and personally invested in). www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
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Ramaswamy is in bed with data center owners. He'll get richer at your expense | Amy Acton
Amy Acton: Vivek Ramaswamy is bought and paid for by data center owners. He'll never get everyday Ohioans like I do.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Of all the politicians Navatek’s CEO courted, Susan Collins was its most important patron. The senator’s office steered federal contracts worth millions toward the company while her campaign was pumping its CEO and his network for donations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg
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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Georgia’s election board asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate a leading nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program, potentially adding yet another probe based on hyper-partisan conspiracy theories to the department’s portfolio. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Georgia’s GOP-controlled election board wants DOJ to investigate nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program
Despite his request for a federal investigation into ERIC, the board's executive director appeared to know very little about the organization during a meeting earlier this week.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.” — White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Endless corruption.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Historians: What the fuck are you talking about, you insane clown?
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GOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during Watergate
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal. “We now know more ab…
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2026
"I have to be careful with details here—for reasons of safety and to avoid re-traumatizing people. At multiple businesses I visited, members of the staff had open asylum cases."
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Trump Turned His Beloved Golf Hub Into a Ghost Town
In Doral, there are empty tables, shuttered businesses, and families struggling to survive after their loved ones have been thrown in detention.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you think that you should not say bad things about power people, you are not a journalist. You are a corporate public relations agent.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx has been fined $57,647 for campaign finance violations, the largest such fine in state history. A hearing officer ruled that the Marx campaign intentionally took illegal contributions, writing: "the scale of the violations are without precedent."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s been saying this for 11 years. Obviously if the cultists still believe this BS they are just hopelessly lost to an alternate reality.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Similarly, people keep asking me if immigration will get much better if Democrats retake Congress and the answer is "probably not." ICE is largely insulated from Congressional pushback (the 2026 budget reconciliation bill funded them through 2029) and hearings and subpoenas can only do so much.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
NEW: We learned that the rules for starting a private school vary wildly across states. Some require background checks and specific qualifications. Others invite anyone with a dream and a pulse. See where your state draws the line. Take our quiz and share your results ⤵️
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It’s Easy to Start a Private School. Take Our Quiz to Find Out Where You Can Open Yours. — ProPublica
Private school requirements vary wildly across states. Take our quiz to find out just how easy starting one can be.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
just catching up on JD Vance telling Hannity that Jeffrey Epstein is actually "a great character reference" for Donald Trump 😳
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So does the GOP force all of its candidates to prove they’ve physically and/or sexually assaulted a woman before they can run as a Republican? Sorta like a gang initiation?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
It’s not just the 7. Or the 57. It’s the whole system.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
NEW: We’re reporters, not teachers. We have no business running a private school. But to show you just how easy it is to start one, we decided to test the process ourselves.
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/10/2026
Got to have a fun discussion on stage with Jimmy Wales this morning about Wikipedia and free speech.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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