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Last January, when many of us were telling everyone that Trump's appointees were all terrible, The Washington Post gave thumbs up to many of the worst of the worst.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Last January, when many of us were telling everyone that Trump's appointees were all terrible, The Washington Post gave thumbs up to many of the worst of the worst.
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DOE orders WA coal plant to continue operating despite state ban
DOE orders WA coal plant to continue operating despite state ban
A state law requires Washington utilities to stop using coal-fired electricity beginning next year.
www.seattletimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 AM
DOE orders WA coal plant to continue operating despite state ban
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Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.
After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.
Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.
Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.
After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.
Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.
Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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SNAP FAQ: WA, Seattle officials’ response, where to get food aid and more
SNAP FAQ: WA, Seattle officials’ response, where to get food aid and more
Nearly 930,000 low-income Washington residents set to lose their food stamps could need to rely on food banks due to the ongoing federal government shutdown.
www.seattletimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
SNAP FAQ: WA, Seattle officials’ response, where to get food aid and more
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Seattle No Kings from the monorail
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Seattle No Kings from the monorail
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A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects.
In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
October 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects.
In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
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As a US Atty, I prosecuted and oversaw police excessive force cases. We took them seriously because they were serious abuses of power. What we're seeing now is the outbreak of an epidemic & instead of being condemned by fed'l law enforcement leaders, it seems to be tolerated if not encouraged.
September 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
As a US Atty, I prosecuted and oversaw police excessive force cases. We took them seriously because they were serious abuses of power. What we're seeing now is the outbreak of an epidemic & instead of being condemned by fed'l law enforcement leaders, it seems to be tolerated if not encouraged.
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NEW: Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises.
Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.
Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...
www.propublica.org
September 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEW: Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises.
Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
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Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...
www.propublica.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much.
But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic.
Don't be fooled.
(Published June 2024)
By @lisalsong.bsky.social
But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic.
Don't be fooled.
(Published June 2024)
By @lisalsong.bsky.social
The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling
The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’...
www.propublica.org
September 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much.
But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic.
Don't be fooled.
(Published June 2024)
By @lisalsong.bsky.social
But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic.
Don't be fooled.
(Published June 2024)
By @lisalsong.bsky.social
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On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
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43 cities in the states sending troops to Washington, D.C., have higher rates of violent crime than the capital does.
August 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
43 cities in the states sending troops to Washington, D.C., have higher rates of violent crime than the capital does.
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As federal authorities sweep homeless encampments in D.C. , I want to resurface the reporting we @propublica.org did last year on the possessions people lose, which include the things they need to survive: projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...
Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments
People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or kee...
projects.propublica.org
August 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
As federal authorities sweep homeless encampments in D.C. , I want to resurface the reporting we @propublica.org did last year on the possessions people lose, which include the things they need to survive: projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...
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Krugman: Tariffs can raise real wages only if they lead to an expansion in labor-intensive manufacturing. And America has barely any labor-intensive manufacturing left. High as they are, Trump tariffs won’t bring any significant amount of that manufacturing back open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
The Economics of Smoot Hawley 2.0, Part II
This trade war is really a class war
open.substack.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Krugman: Tariffs can raise real wages only if they lead to an expansion in labor-intensive manufacturing. And America has barely any labor-intensive manufacturing left. High as they are, Trump tariffs won’t bring any significant amount of that manufacturing back open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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They literally want people to get used to dying more frequently from preventable causes. Chalk it up to "God's will," let the government off the hook, channel more money to billionaires.
"Cruz inserted language into the reconciliation bill that eliminates a $150m fund to 'accelerate advances & improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, and dissemination of info to the public' around weather forecasting."
Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding
Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics say
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
They literally want people to get used to dying more frequently from preventable causes. Chalk it up to "God's will," let the government off the hook, channel more money to billionaires.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
Stop the Everglades Detention Camp!
Everglades National Park is in a High-Velocity Hurricane Zone—meaning buildings should be constructed to withstand winds of 180 miles per hour. But the Everglades Detention Camp is made up of flimsy t...
sign.moveon.org
July 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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A few days ago, Kristi Noem was bragging about stealing money from FEMA to fund Alligator Alcatraz
July 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A few days ago, Kristi Noem was bragging about stealing money from FEMA to fund Alligator Alcatraz
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“No matter what you have done before,” Professor William McBride wrote to Annapolis’s Superintendent Adm. Yvette Davids, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
How the U.S. Naval Academy Is Bending the Knee to Trump (Gift Article)
Even before the presidential election, the school began preparing for Donald Trump’s potential return to power. Now faculty members are resigning in protest.
www.nytimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“No matter what you have done before,” Professor William McBride wrote to Annapolis’s Superintendent Adm. Yvette Davids, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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"The same people in the administration promising the return of domestic manufacturing and coal mining are also dismantling measures to keep workers safe. They’re the same people who don’t believe in a minimum wage that could feed a family. They’re the same people who want to see unions crushed."
Trump tries to restore a grim era for American workers
Make Black Lung Great Again.
www.publicnotice.co
April 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"The same people in the administration promising the return of domestic manufacturing and coal mining are also dismantling measures to keep workers safe. They’re the same people who don’t believe in a minimum wage that could feed a family. They’re the same people who want to see unions crushed."
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
Stop Trump’s Political Retaliation and Deportations!
This is not a drill. Trump is weaponizing ICE and Homeland Security to arrest and disappear people, including students, fathers, academics, among other everyday people, in yet another power grab demon...
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April 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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NEW: TCE, a chemical used in dry cleaning and manufacturing, can cause cancer, organ damage and a potentially fatal heart defect in babies.
Republicans in Congress want to reverse a ban on it.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social and @lisalsong.bsky.social
Republicans in Congress want to reverse a ban on it.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social and @lisalsong.bsky.social
TCE Is Linked to Heart Defects in Babies, Cancer and Parkinson’s. Republicans in Congress Want to Reverse a Ban on It.
The toxic substance, used in dry cleaning and manufacturing, has been linked to a host of serious health problems. A Biden-era ban on the chemical has faced multiple challenges since Trump took…
propub.li
March 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
NEW: TCE, a chemical used in dry cleaning and manufacturing, can cause cancer, organ damage and a potentially fatal heart defect in babies.
Republicans in Congress want to reverse a ban on it.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social and @lisalsong.bsky.social
Republicans in Congress want to reverse a ban on it.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social and @lisalsong.bsky.social
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...
Reject Trump's attacks on judges!
Trump is working every angle to squash dissent against his extreme agenda–whether it be student protestors, independent reporters, judges, or political opponents. His aim is to instill fear against al...
sign.moveon.org
March 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...