Annette Foglino
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Annette Foglino
@angelvine888.bsky.social
Journalist, Novelist
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Alice Walton's vision for a new medical school is to transform medical education and the broader health care system. https://to.pbs.org/4tdJBdk
New medical school blends art and science to train new doctors
A painting can't heal all that’s ailing the healthcare system, but it might help the healers themselves and, in turn, the people they care for. That is Alice Walton's goal for a new medical school see...
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January 30, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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NEW: Typhoon Halong’s destruction in Kipnuk, Alaska, adds an exclamation point to long-simmering fears about the future of coastal villages facing climate change.

Which town will be wiped away next? Should their former homes be rebuilt?

w/ @adn.com
Documenting an Alaska Village, Before and After the Storm That Destroyed It
The story of Typhoon Halong’s destruction in Kipnuk adds an exclamation point to long-simmering fears about the future of Alaska coastal villages facing down climate change.
www.propublica.org
January 24, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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A New York Times investigative reporter flagged what he described as a "very unusual" arrangement in President Donald Trump's latest pardon during an interview on Thursday on CNN.
'Very unusual' arrangement flagged by investigative reporter in Trump's latest pardon
A New York Times investigative reporter flagged what he described as a "very unusual" arrangement in President Donald Trump's latest pardon during an interview on Thursday on CNN. Eric Lipton joined CNN's Anderson Cooper on "AC 360" on Thursday to discuss Trump's pardon of Changpeng Zhao, the former...
bit.ly
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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This is very good
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
Dozens of sitting judges shared with The Times their concerns about risks to the courts’ legitimacy as the Supreme Court releases opaque orders about Trump administration policies.
nyti.ms
October 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I feel like this didn't get enough attention.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...
Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Millions of dollars worth of contraceptives destined for low-income countries were destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration.
$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
The birth control pills, IUDs and hormonal implants were purchased by U.S.A.I.D. for women in low-income countries. They had been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse after the U.S. cut much of its foreign aid.
nyti.ms
September 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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September 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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This is a reminder that Speaker Mike Johnson, the prude who is currently helping Donald Trump to cover up his alleged pedophilic past, was the first (and only) dean of Judge Paul Pressler School of Law. Judge Paul Pressler liked to molest underage boys.
apnews.com/article/mike...
House Speaker Mike Johnson was once the dean of a Christian law school. It never opened its doors
Before House Speaker Mike Johnson was elected to public office, he was the dean of a small Baptist law school that didn’t exist.
apnews.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...
August 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Pentagon officials fumed on Wednesday after The Washington Post reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's "unusually large" security requirements are straining the agency.
'Scum': Trump's Pentagon melts down over 'astonishing' Hegseth ​report
Pentagon officials fumed on Wednesday after The Washington Post reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's "unusually large" security requirements are straining the agency.The Post investigation found that Hegseth relies on an "unusually large" and expensive personal security detail, which signi...
bit.ly
August 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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August 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for denying people access to lawyers and subjecting them to inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in New York.

ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.
August 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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I'm sorry, Charlotte, but this list needs to redone in Scaramuccis.

@scaramucci.bsky.social
There have been five different heads of the IRS this year alone:

Doug O'Donnell (Jan. 20th thru Feb. 28th)
Melanie Krause (Feb. 28th thru April 16th)
Gary Shapley (April 16th thru April 18th)
Michael Faulkender (April 18th thru June 16th)
Billy Long (June 16th thru today)

About to be a sixth.
Breaking News: President Trump is removing the head of the IRS from his job, according to four people familiar with the matter.
August 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.
August 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Here's a gift link to the story (by Sarah Kliff, @bykatiethomas.bsky.social & me) showing a real world effect of Trump's pay-for-access operation.

In this case, it benefited companies making a product that helps patients, but also that Medicare has dinged for “abusive pricing practices.”
August 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Longtime Jeffrey Epstein confidant and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell will get to enjoy a number of perks at the cushy prison camp in Texas where she was transferred last week, but training service dogs won’t be one of them.
Ghislaine Maxwell barred from service dog training at cushy prison camp
“We do not allow anyone whose crime involves abuse towards minors or animals — including any crime of a sexual nature,” the chief executive officer of Canine Companions said.
nbcnews.to
August 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Customized pricing – where each customer receives a different price for the same product – is a holy grail for businesses because it boosts profits. With customized pricing, free-spending people pay more while the price-sensitive pay less. (via @us.theconversation.com)
Personalized pricing has spread across many industries. Here's how consumers can avoid it
As AI powers individualized pricing across industries, businesses are increasingly charging based on what they think you can pay.
buff.ly
August 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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August 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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More of this, please.
August 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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The statistical unlikelihood of this many Israelis agreeing on anything suggests something unusual is going on
August 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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August 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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he’s definitely somewhere right now demanding the stock market be fired
August 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Heard tourism is way down in Las Vegas, if anyone knows how to put casinos out of business it’s Donald f’n Trump.
August 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM