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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · Jun 2

Washington Post Gift Article: The CBO may be a convenient target, but its analysis is echoed by reports from other research organizations. Johnson earns Four Pinocchios.

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Analysis | Mike Johnson’s bogus attack on CBO’s score of the 2017 tax bill

The House Speaker says the CBO missed by $1 trillion, but even the CBO couldn’t predict a pandemic.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
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The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 4d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · 4d

New York Times Gift Article. The majority of the cocaine that is smuggled to the US moves through the Pacific, not the Caribbean, U.S. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs (Gift Article)

President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · 4d

NY Times Gift Article by David Wallace-Wells
“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence,” a federal judge, William Young, wrote in a blistering 161-page First Amendment ruling handed down last week.
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Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11d

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · 12d

NYT Gift Article: "All the political skirmishing around the looming government shutdown has obscured the critical reason for it in the first place: Republicans have essentially stopped saying they want to repeal Obamacare, but quietly, they are doing exactly that."
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Opinion | These 6 Charts Explain Why Democrats Shut Down the Government

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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · 14d

NY Times Gift Article: Russell Vought spent years drawing up plans to expand presidential power and shrink federal bureaucracy. He's an unelected bureaucrat overriding the will of the people who voted for their congressional representatives.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency

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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · 16d

Washington Post Gift Article: ‘We’re not a disease’: Families push back on Trump’s autism rhetoric. Parents fear that progress toward inclusion is under threat as political leaders call autism a “crisis.”
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‘We’re not a disease’: Families push back on Trump’s autism rhetoric

Parents fear that progress toward inclusion is under threat as political leaders call autism a “crisis.”

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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · 16d

Washington Post Gift Article: This blue state governor sent the National Guard to her biggest city. No guns, no Humvees and no arrests. This deployment looks very different from the way Trump has used soldiers in places like D.C. or Los Angeles. And local police say it’s working.
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This blue state governor sent the National Guard to her biggest city

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham sent soldiers to Albuquerque to help police deal with crime, making sure it didn’t look like a military takeover.

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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · 17d

Same

Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · 18d

Only the Admin who blames everything on ANTI-FA would write ANTI-ICE

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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · 19d

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21d

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability

This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · 21d

Wonder if it was a potato chip bag?

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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · 22d

NY Times Gift Article - Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviews Reese Witherspoon
Good Sunday Read!
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How Reese Witherspoon Figured Out Who She Really Is

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25d

Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.

I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 26d

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Stephen Miller’s Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid

When ICE agents arrested over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.

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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · 28d

Washington Post Gift Article
Over 6K Reader Comments aren't buying the Governor's new leftist story line.
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Kirk shooting suspect had ‘leftist ideology’ but motive unclear, Utah official says

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said authorities are speaking with suspect Tyler Robinson’s family and romantic partner as they investigate Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · Sep 11

Washington Post Gift Article
By Donald G. McNeil Jr., who was a global health reporter for the NY Times, and is the author of “The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons From 25 Years of Covering Pandemics.”

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Opinion | The exorbitant cost of skipping vaccines

Agony and death are not all that shots prevent.

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Just Jill 💖 @just-jillg.bsky.social · Sep 9

OMG 😳

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · Sep 9

You might find this interesting. It's Wyden's letter to Scott Bessent, and includes some names and companies/entities you will surely want to add to your radar.

www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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Lindsay but pumpkin-spiced @lindsaynicolle.bsky.social · Sep 8

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · Sep 9

VTDIGGER: Howard Dean says it’s time to pass the torch.
So why is he still embracing the fire? vtdigger.org/2025/09/07/h...

Howard Dean says it’s time to pass the torch. So why is he still embracing the fire? - VTDigger

“Yeah, you’ve got a neofascist government,” says the ever-blunt former Vermont governor and presidential candidate. “But I’m an optimist, and I’ll tell you why.”

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Paula Schwartz @paulasz24.bsky.social · Sep 8

NYT Gift Article: How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Epstein
A Times investigation found that America’s leading bank spent years supporting — and profiting from — the notorious sex offender, ignoring red flags, suspicious activity and concerned executives.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein