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Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.” www.wired.com/story/the-fb...
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.” www.wired.com/story/the-fb...
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BREAKING: The enforcement chief at America’s consumer watchdog is quitting, ProPublica has learned.
Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/
Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/
June 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
BREAKING: The enforcement chief at America’s consumer watchdog is quitting, ProPublica has learned.
Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/
Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/
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The entire plot of Andor S2 is about the Empire creating a bloody civil disturbance and then blaming the resulting violence on the previously peaceful protestors.
June 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The entire plot of Andor S2 is about the Empire creating a bloody civil disturbance and then blaming the resulting violence on the previously peaceful protestors.
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Living in the upside down. A person who tried to overthrow the government is getting a settlement. The Trump administration has agreed to pay $4.9 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt, the woman shot while trying to breach the Speaker’s Lobby
June 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Living in the upside down. A person who tried to overthrow the government is getting a settlement. The Trump administration has agreed to pay $4.9 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt, the woman shot while trying to breach the Speaker’s Lobby
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This started out as a June 6, 1944 social media post that got insanely out of hand. So I did it on our substack page instead.
I'd say "enjoy", but it really ain't that kind of piece.
dancarlin.substack.com/p/the-real-w...
I'd say "enjoy", but it really ain't that kind of piece.
dancarlin.substack.com/p/the-real-w...
The Real War Will Never Get Into the Books
The best way to avoid the next terrible war is to unflinchingly look at the reality of the last one
dancarlin.substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
This started out as a June 6, 1944 social media post that got insanely out of hand. So I did it on our substack page instead.
I'd say "enjoy", but it really ain't that kind of piece.
dancarlin.substack.com/p/the-real-w...
I'd say "enjoy", but it really ain't that kind of piece.
dancarlin.substack.com/p/the-real-w...
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Multiple nonprofits serving exploited children declined to speak on the record to ProPublica, fearing that doing so might undermine what chance they still had of getting potential grants.
“Look at what happened to the law firms,” one official said.
“Look at what happened to the law firms,” one official said.
The Trump Administration’s War on Children
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
www.propublica.org
June 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Multiple nonprofits serving exploited children declined to speak on the record to ProPublica, fearing that doing so might undermine what chance they still had of getting potential grants.
“Look at what happened to the law firms,” one official said.
“Look at what happened to the law firms,” one official said.
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Inside Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”: Judicial Silencing (Sec. 80121(h)). This might be the most authoritarian section in the entire 1,100+ page bill.
May 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Inside Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”: Judicial Silencing (Sec. 80121(h)). This might be the most authoritarian section in the entire 1,100+ page bill.
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THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.
So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
May 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.
So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
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I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...
The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
www.propublica.org
May 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...
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Two of the offices without senior officials are Houston and Tampa, which, whew, that’s not good.
A slow moving catastrophe that won’t be widely understood until it’s too late.
A slow moving catastrophe that won’t be widely understood until it’s too late.
NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN
Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.
www.cnn.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Two of the offices without senior officials are Houston and Tampa, which, whew, that’s not good.
A slow moving catastrophe that won’t be widely understood until it’s too late.
A slow moving catastrophe that won’t be widely understood until it’s too late.
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And here’s what gets a boost:
- Defense: +13% ($113 billion more)
- Homeland Security: +65% (+$42 billion)
Everything from science, housing, health, and the environment slashed, while the military-industrial complex cashes in.
- Defense: +13% ($113 billion more)
- Homeland Security: +65% (+$42 billion)
Everything from science, housing, health, and the environment slashed, while the military-industrial complex cashes in.
May 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
And here’s what gets a boost:
- Defense: +13% ($113 billion more)
- Homeland Security: +65% (+$42 billion)
Everything from science, housing, health, and the environment slashed, while the military-industrial complex cashes in.
- Defense: +13% ($113 billion more)
- Homeland Security: +65% (+$42 billion)
Everything from science, housing, health, and the environment slashed, while the military-industrial complex cashes in.
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The proposed Trump budget is brutal, unless you’re the military or Homeland Security.
Here’s what gets cut:
- State Department: -84%
- National Science Foundation: -56%
- EPA: -54%
- HUD (housing): -44%
- Labor: -35%
- Interior: -30%
- Health & Human Services: -26%
- NASA: -24%
- Education: -15%
Here’s what gets cut:
- State Department: -84%
- National Science Foundation: -56%
- EPA: -54%
- HUD (housing): -44%
- Labor: -35%
- Interior: -30%
- Health & Human Services: -26%
- NASA: -24%
- Education: -15%
May 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The proposed Trump budget is brutal, unless you’re the military or Homeland Security.
Here’s what gets cut:
- State Department: -84%
- National Science Foundation: -56%
- EPA: -54%
- HUD (housing): -44%
- Labor: -35%
- Interior: -30%
- Health & Human Services: -26%
- NASA: -24%
- Education: -15%
Here’s what gets cut:
- State Department: -84%
- National Science Foundation: -56%
- EPA: -54%
- HUD (housing): -44%
- Labor: -35%
- Interior: -30%
- Health & Human Services: -26%
- NASA: -24%
- Education: -15%
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WIRED spoke to over a dozen US business owners, including mom-and-pop shops, who all said the same thing: Chinese manufacturing is still the gold standard of the world and moving production to a new region would be extremely difficult, regardless of how high tariffs are.
Why It’s Impossible for Most Small Businesses to Manufacture in the US
American companies that make everything from keychains to mattresses say Chinese manufacturing is superior, and tariffs won’t be enough to shift production to the United States.
wired.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
WIRED spoke to over a dozen US business owners, including mom-and-pop shops, who all said the same thing: Chinese manufacturing is still the gold standard of the world and moving production to a new region would be extremely difficult, regardless of how high tariffs are.
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THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/
April 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/
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lmao getting fact checked irl
March 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
lmao getting fact checked irl
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NEW: Elon Musk *wanted* a government shutdown, in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers, sources tell @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown
Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
www.wired.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
NEW: Elon Musk *wanted* a government shutdown, in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers, sources tell @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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In 2008, the US started tweeting air quality data from its embassy in Beijing, putting pressure on the Chinese gov to address dangerously high pollution levels. The program was expanded and is credited with saving many lives and billions of $. Now, it's been killed. www.wired.com/story/air-mo...
US State Department Kills Global Air Monitoring Program Researchers Say Paid for Itself
The initiative helped pressure the Chinese government to clean up the air in Beijing and was later expanded to dozens of cities around the world. Now, it’s been abruptly halted.
www.wired.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
In 2008, the US started tweeting air quality data from its embassy in Beijing, putting pressure on the Chinese gov to address dangerously high pollution levels. The program was expanded and is credited with saving many lives and billions of $. Now, it's been killed. www.wired.com/story/air-mo...
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Other countries are already taking advantage of DOGE chaos.
“Foreign countries are actively recruiting my colleagues, and some have already left...My students are looking at jobs overseas now. People have been coming [to the US] to do science my whole life. Now people are going the other way.”
“Foreign countries are actively recruiting my colleagues, and some have already left...My students are looking at jobs overseas now. People have been coming [to the US] to do science my whole life. Now people are going the other way.”
DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica
Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics.
www.wired.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Other countries are already taking advantage of DOGE chaos.
“Foreign countries are actively recruiting my colleagues, and some have already left...My students are looking at jobs overseas now. People have been coming [to the US] to do science my whole life. Now people are going the other way.”
“Foreign countries are actively recruiting my colleagues, and some have already left...My students are looking at jobs overseas now. People have been coming [to the US] to do science my whole life. Now people are going the other way.”
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🧵 1/… Via Kyle Cheney:
HAPPENING NOW: Fed judge who ordered unfreezing of #usaid contract spending is voicing frustration as #Trump admin lawyer repeatedly refuses to say whether they have actually taken any steps to implement his 12-day-old order.
Judge: "I don’t know why I can’t get a […]
HAPPENING NOW: Fed judge who ordered unfreezing of #usaid contract spending is voicing frustration as #Trump admin lawyer repeatedly refuses to say whether they have actually taken any steps to implement his 12-day-old order.
Judge: "I don’t know why I can’t get a […]
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February 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM