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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 1d

🎤America's polarization isn't just political—it's informational.

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Rising Signal: Powering Media for the People - BigTentUSA

Join BigTentUSA on Tuesday, October 14 at 7pm ET as we examine how media paywalls, profit models, and political timidity have left the public misinformed and disengaged—and what we can […]

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 1d

#FreeSpeech #FreeSpeechMatters #CEOs #businessleadership

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 14 at 7:00 pm ET
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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 1d

👉 A dysfunctional news ecosystem has left millions without access to shared facts or trusted voices, creating a vacuum where misinformation thrives.

📺The collapse of local journalism and the dominance of algorithmic media have fractured our shared reality.

News for and by the People

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 1d

🎤America's polarization isn't just political—it's informational.

🎟 Please join us on Tuesday at 7:00 pm to learn more about how we can move forward, collectively:

bigtentusa.org/event/pressu...

Rising Signal: Powering Media for the People - BigTentUSA

Join BigTentUSA on Tuesday, October 14 at 7pm ET as we examine how media paywalls, profit models, and political timidity have left the public misinformed and disengaged—and what we can […]

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Aug 9

"You’re the one who won’t sell me my pierogi!"

Jeffrey Epstein’s Lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, Gets Shouted Out of Martha’s Vineyard Farmer’s Market: ‘Go Home!’

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Lawyer Gets Shouted Out of Martha’s Vineyard Farmer’s Market: ‘Go Home!’

Defense attorney Alan Dershowitz was jeered and escorted from a farmer’s market stand on Martha’s Vineyard after he insisted on returning to a vendor that had previously refused to serve him. The reti...

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Aug 8

Employees say bullets struck the windows of several CDC buildings

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Police say a suspect is dead and a police officer has been injured at Emory University

A suspected shooter at the campus of Emory University in Atlanta is dead and one law enforcement officer is injured after police responded to reports of an active shooter Friday, according to police.

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Jul 24

After living in the US for 30 years, she was arrested during her work break at Target.

👇Who's being locked up in for-profit prisons?

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · Jul 21

Politico & Punchbowl report House Republican leadership is shutting down the Rules Committee - which is essential for moving party-line bills on the floor - for the week rather than vote on Democratic amendments on the Epstein files.

Dems have effectively halted Republican legislation in the House:

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Grant Hermes @granthermes.bsky.social · Jul 15

How much are the tariffs REALLY costing you? Another great collab with Get Real News and @heidireports.bsky.social

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jul 7

Rather than simply talking about horrible responses to the flooding in Texas, let's share some vetted and trusted avenues for support, and donate if we can. Hands Off Central TX is raising funds and resources for mutual aid including housing, food, transportation (gas), and medical needs.

Hands Off Central TX

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thank you so much!!

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Jul 7

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Jul 7

Hey everybody,

I'm really excited to share that we are now partnering with other independent journalists to start bringing the most authentic and insightful content about what's happening across the states and nationally!

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jun 7

The targeting of Harvard seems to have originated within Peter Thiel’s network. JD Vance—whose US Senate campaign was bankrolled by Thiel—is Exhibit A. 1/

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jun 6

“Harvard University’s $120B endowment is ammunition for our enemies, & we can’t let the enemy have that much ammunition or we’re gonna lose” - JD Vance, May 2021, at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life (Vance launched his US Senate campaign less than 2 months later. 1/

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Jul 4

Up to six hospitals in Nebraska that are in a "critical financial state," according to the Nebraska Rural Health Association, which anticipates additional closures in the next two years as the bill is fully enacted.

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Jul 4

On July 3, the Community Hospital in McCook became among the first. It announced that it will close Curtis Medical Center due to anticipated Medicaid funding cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Jul 4

The Big Beautiful Bill's First Casualty

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Jul 4

It triggers about $500 billion in automatic Medicare cuts over 8-10 years via PAYGO sequestration, per CBO estimates,

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Jul 4

Hi there. I am so very sorry to hear this. We are trying to give a voice to the people at this difficult time. If you'd like to share your story I'd be honored. You can message me: [email protected]

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thank you a much. We mid career journalists have a big responsibility right now. At least that’s how I feel. 🙏🏻

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Jul 3

Surprise!

Republicans Are Cutting Medicare.

Not Only Medicaid, Medicare.

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Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare.

Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · Jul 3

Citizen journalism is an antidote to a backsliding democracy.

We must become diffuse and collectively powerful. 💪

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