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December 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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For more than a century, a smelting plant in Omaha spewed lead-laced smoke across the city, resulting in about 400 million pounds of it settling into the soil and bodies of countless Omahans.
Wondering if you’ve been exposed to lead? ProPublica and @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social can help.
Wondering if you’ve been exposed to lead? ProPublica and @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social can help.
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An Omaha lead smelter spread dust that seeped into the soil and bodies of many residents for over a century. Focus areas include the Superfund site and neighborhoods east of 72nd Street; Bellevue; Car...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
For more than a century, a smelting plant in Omaha spewed lead-laced smoke across the city, resulting in about 400 million pounds of it settling into the soil and bodies of countless Omahans.
Wondering if you’ve been exposed to lead? ProPublica and @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social can help.
Wondering if you’ve been exposed to lead? ProPublica and @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social can help.
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Sad… The Trump administration keeps pushing antivax rhetoric.
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Sad… The Trump administration keeps pushing antivax rhetoric.
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It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.
Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
October 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.
Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
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Pretty remarkable exchange. Can I admit to being a little jelly of @krassenstein?
September 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Pretty remarkable exchange. Can I admit to being a little jelly of @krassenstein?
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Hmmm…
Why did SecDef cancel the classified briefing on the Hill about the Venezuelan ship attack that killed 11? Probably because of this. Hegseth is struggling to come up with an explanation for what he did. An explanation that is not actually incriminating.
September 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Hmmm…
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Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.
Mohawk Skywalkers: The History Stephen Miller Whitewashed
The Kanien'kéhá:ka Haudenosaunee ironworkers were vital to building Miller's favorite monuments to modern America
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.
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Trump's rhetoric in his federal takeover of Washington, D.C., police echoes that of conservative politicians going back decades who've denounced American cities with majority non-white populations or progressive leaders as crime-ridden and in need of outside intervention.
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Trump’s Rhetoric on DC Echoes History of Racist Narratives
Trump’s rhetoric about Washington D.C. echoes decades of racist political rhetoric casting majority non-white American cities as crime-ridden.
www.mississippifreepress.org
August 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Trump's rhetoric in his federal takeover of Washington, D.C., police echoes that of conservative politicians going back decades who've denounced American cities with majority non-white populations or progressive leaders as crime-ridden and in need of outside intervention.
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“Both of them.”
August 2, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“Both of them.”
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They Had Deal, Than Got Fucked, Needed A Path To Citizenship
August 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM
They Had Deal, Than Got Fucked, Needed A Path To Citizenship
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UPDATE: @SenatorHagerty and the Republicans just voted to let Trump take the Qatari jet with him when he leaves office.
Insane corruption. There is no bottom.
Insane corruption. There is no bottom.
July 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
UPDATE: @SenatorHagerty and the Republicans just voted to let Trump take the Qatari jet with him when he leaves office.
Insane corruption. There is no bottom.
Insane corruption. There is no bottom.
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I've long believed 2016 Russian operation in US was most successful intelligence operation in recent history.
With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...
With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...
How John Durham and Chuck Grassley Covered Up Getting Ass-Handed by Russia - emptywheel
John Durham (with Chuck Grassley's help) tried to obscure that on the same day as the Russian spy report that drove his entire investigation, Russian spooks discussed seeding conspiracies about "dark ...
www.emptywheel.net
August 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I've long believed 2016 Russian operation in US was most successful intelligence operation in recent history.
With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...
With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...
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August 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Wow! What a surprise! said no one ever.
July 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Wow! What a surprise! said no one ever.
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These two headlines are related.
It's no accident.
It's a choice by the ultra rich and powerful to make themselves and their friends richer and more powerful at everyone else's expense.
It's no accident.
It's a choice by the ultra rich and powerful to make themselves and their friends richer and more powerful at everyone else's expense.
The United States summed up in two headlines.
July 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
These two headlines are related.
It's no accident.
It's a choice by the ultra rich and powerful to make themselves and their friends richer and more powerful at everyone else's expense.
It's no accident.
It's a choice by the ultra rich and powerful to make themselves and their friends richer and more powerful at everyone else's expense.
These two headlines are related.
It's no accident.
It's a choice by the ultra rich and powerful to make themselves and their friends richer and more powerful at everyone else's expense.
It's no accident.
It's a choice by the ultra rich and powerful to make themselves and their friends richer and more powerful at everyone else's expense.
The United States summed up in two headlines.
July 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The Abrego Garcia fiasco keeps getting worse. The way Trump and the WH are bringing the full weight of their propaganda and legal machines to destroying this one day laborer is an extraordinary abuse of power.
I try to take stock of that larger story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1977...
I try to take stock of that larger story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1977...
July 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The Abrego Garcia fiasco keeps getting worse. The way Trump and the WH are bringing the full weight of their propaganda and legal machines to destroying this one day laborer is an extraordinary abuse of power.
I try to take stock of that larger story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1977...
I try to take stock of that larger story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1977...
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Thinking about the wave of trauma this causes, in the kids’ schools, in the neighborhood, everyone that interacts with these kids. Thinking of that quote from an official about how trauma is their goal.
Gut-wrenching read. Mom abducted at work by ICE. Kids left at home.
15-year-old son: “I don’t know what to tell [my brothers] because I don’t want them to freak out. Because they’re little, they’re little kids.”
Amplify this work by Santa Barbara Independent.
15-year-old son: “I don’t know what to tell [my brothers] because I don’t want them to freak out. Because they’re little, they’re little kids.”
Amplify this work by Santa Barbara Independent.
Horrifying ICE story in the Santa Barbara Independent (led by Publisher Brandi Rivera, my friend, colleague and new president of @aanpublishers.bsky.social). The Independent is a vital, long-time, truly local and connected news source in Santa Barbara.
www.independent.com/2025/07/11/c...
www.independent.com/2025/07/11/c...
July 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Thinking about the wave of trauma this causes, in the kids’ schools, in the neighborhood, everyone that interacts with these kids. Thinking of that quote from an official about how trauma is their goal.
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this is why abolishing ICE is the *least* we should demand—because, by the government's own admission, ICE sits at the heart of the fascist agenda www.thenation.com/article/poli...
July 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
this is why abolishing ICE is the *least* we should demand—because, by the government's own admission, ICE sits at the heart of the fascist agenda www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Republicans know that they just voted to cut healthcare and food stamps to pay for tax cuts for the rich and mass deportations, no matter the lies they tell saying otherwise www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The GOP Is Trying to Destroy Your Medicaid
Republicans are trying to ram through some of the most harmful anti-welfare policies in living memory.
www.thenation.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Republicans know that they just voted to cut healthcare and food stamps to pay for tax cuts for the rich and mass deportations, no matter the lies they tell saying otherwise www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis faced a choice:
He could tell the truth that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will leave millions without healthcare: leading to thousands of deaths.
Or he could lie and keep Trump’s favor.
Tillis told the truth and ended his career.
That’s the reality of Trump’s GOP.
He could tell the truth that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will leave millions without healthcare: leading to thousands of deaths.
Or he could lie and keep Trump’s favor.
Tillis told the truth and ended his career.
That’s the reality of Trump’s GOP.
Thom Tillis Figured Out How to Tell the Truth in Trump’s GOP Cult: Quit
The Republican senator dropped his reelection bid rather than lie about the devastating damage Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will do to Medicaid.
www.thenation.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis faced a choice:
He could tell the truth that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will leave millions without healthcare: leading to thousands of deaths.
Or he could lie and keep Trump’s favor.
Tillis told the truth and ended his career.
That’s the reality of Trump’s GOP.
He could tell the truth that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will leave millions without healthcare: leading to thousands of deaths.
Or he could lie and keep Trump’s favor.
Tillis told the truth and ended his career.
That’s the reality of Trump’s GOP.
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Senate Republicans just passed Trump’s Big Ugly Bill to:
📈Raise deficit by $3.3T
🏥Cut $1T from Medicaid
🧑🧑🧒🧒Kick millions off care
🏠Gut SNAP by $200B
Lives are at stake—but they’d rather kiss Trump’s ring than help people. It’s heading back to the House. I’ll be a NO.
📈Raise deficit by $3.3T
🏥Cut $1T from Medicaid
🧑🧑🧒🧒Kick millions off care
🏠Gut SNAP by $200B
Lives are at stake—but they’d rather kiss Trump’s ring than help people. It’s heading back to the House. I’ll be a NO.
July 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Senate Republicans just passed Trump’s Big Ugly Bill to:
📈Raise deficit by $3.3T
🏥Cut $1T from Medicaid
🧑🧑🧒🧒Kick millions off care
🏠Gut SNAP by $200B
Lives are at stake—but they’d rather kiss Trump’s ring than help people. It’s heading back to the House. I’ll be a NO.
📈Raise deficit by $3.3T
🏥Cut $1T from Medicaid
🧑🧑🧒🧒Kick millions off care
🏠Gut SNAP by $200B
Lives are at stake—but they’d rather kiss Trump’s ring than help people. It’s heading back to the House. I’ll be a NO.
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Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, ProPublica Analysis Shows. Here's how we did it.
Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.
Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.
www.propublica.org
July 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, ProPublica Analysis Shows. Here's how we did it.
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.