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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 1d

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users.

Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social

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Here’s how TikTok ‘power users’ end up scrolling 4 hours a day or more

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

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sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 20h

holy cow! that looks great - i wondered what was going on there, the space has been vacant for a while... so definitely!!!

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Angie Chuang @angiechuang.bsky.social · 1d

Unboxing AMERICAN OTHERNESS IN JOURNALISM! Thank you @routledgebooks.bsky.social for seeing this through from proposal to books!

Available here: www.routledge.com/American-Oth...

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Michael Karlik @michaelkarlik.bsky.social · 1d

A win for transparency, as Colorado's justices concluded organizations are entitled to recover the costs of pursuing an open meetings violation just as individuals are. The chief justice dissented for the *sixth time* since *last month*:
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Colorado justices deliver favorable ruling for organizations raising open meetings violations

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that organizations are entitled to the same recovery of their costs as individuals when they successfully pursue a public entity's violation of the state's ...

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Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition @coloradofoic.bsky.social · 1d

The Aurora Sentinel is a “citizen” entitled to recover attorney fees and court costs for prevailing in an open meetings lawsuit against the Aurora City Council, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

CO Supreme Court: Aurora Sentinel is a ‘citizen’ entitled to attorney fees for winning an open meetings law case - Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition

The Aurora Sentinel is a “citizen” entitled to recover attorney fees and court costs for prevailing in an open meetings lawsuit against the Aurora City Council, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled.

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Caitlyn Kim @caitlynkim.bsky.social · 1d

On govt shutdown day 7, I’m taking a break and working across the street for a bit as Colorado’s conversion therapy ban law arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court. www.cpr.org/2025/10/07/c... #copolitics

Colorado’s conversion therapy ban arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court

A conservative legal powerhouse is challenge the law, which prevents licensed therapists from trying to change a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 1d

i did something small about this in a larger, very long story about what public records people requested in 2024. the local reporter, Ruth, and a part-time resident filed a bunch of requests because the city wasn't responding... it's pretty crazy stuff

sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 1d

and here's the local story

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sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 1d

realized something was up in Aguilar earlier this year when i sought 2024 open records requests from state agencies and a reporter was requesting lots of info she couldn't get from the city. #copolitics

Former clerk for small Colorado town accused of diverting $26k from water project to personal accounts

The town of Aguilar has since set up a separate water account for the project designed to ensure long-term water access for the town of 450

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sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 1d

it's a beautiful day in Portland.

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Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 2d

Never buy this Maytag washer or dryer. It’s maybe three years old and the dryer sensors have never worked (and you can’t override them) and now we have an overflowing washer. I mean…three years and your product just does not work

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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 2d

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm officially up and running at
@propublica.org covering election and voting issues, and expanding my sourcing nationally. Spread the word.

Reach out, say hi, introduce yourself, send tips:
[email protected]
Cell: 480-476-0108
Signal: jenafifield.01

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 2d

Look at what they have to face

Person dressed in a silly looking frog costume at a protest.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

“A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded.

“A task force in Kansas focused on stemming fentanyl has been redirected.

“Highway checkpoints near the border—on roads identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed”

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Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

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Caitlyn Kim @caitlynkim.bsky.social · 2d

Prices through marketplace health insurance could double as government shutdown dispute digs in www.cpr.org/2025/10/06/h... via @codaleynews.bsky.social #copolitics

Prices through marketplace health insurance could double as government shutdown dispute digs in

Colorado resident Aubrey Hix, an independent contractor, said her health insurance costs could still skyrocket despite not depending on subsidies.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

It’s right in front of our face.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · 2d

ICYM: @cprmarkus.bsky.social and I finished this piece last week and it landed Friday amid a busy news day. We could find no evidence that ICE's claims that assaults on their agents have gone up 1,000 percent nationally. Or in Colorado.

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Claims of huge rise in assaults against ICE drive responses, but aren’t seen in available data

Despite repeated requests from CPR News for data to support the assault claims — ICE and Homeland Security have produced nothing but a handful of anecdotes.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 3d

More for you! The way it’s done!

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 3d

One of the largest school districts in the nation, which was taken over by the state of Texas, deciding to shut out local media (us at chron.com and the Houston Chronicle included) should be a bigger story imo

Chron.com @chron.com · 3d

Get ready for the news, straight from the source.

HISD plans to shut out outside media, hire its own news crew

Get ready for the news, straight from the source.

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Caitlyn Kim @caitlynkim.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not the exact funding plan Ds backed 13 times. The March ‘25 CR increased defense spending by $6B & cut non-defense spending by $13B. It’s why most Ds didn’t vote for it, including in the Senate, but 10 Ds did vote to help it clear the filibuster. www.npr.org/2025/03/14/n...

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