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Data and visual investigations at The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/by/karen-yourish
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Bill Grueskin
about 20 hours ago
“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever.” — Madison Biedermann, whose entire, taxpayer-funded job is to serve as a spokesperson for the US Department of Education Via
@charlesornstein.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/prop...
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Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-reaching-out-reporting-obstacles
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ProPublica
3 days ago
DOJ official Todd Blanche promised to dump his crypto holdings no later than 90 days after his Senate confirmation in March. But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies. By
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Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets
The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, exper...
https://www.propublica.org/article/todd-blanche-crypto-doj-trump?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1766889000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Tim Carvell
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RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
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Second-term presidents typically wind down fundraising after their inaugurations. President Trump has ramped it up. We traced $500 MILLION back to 346 DONORS, and found that MORE THAN HALF have benefited from actions taken by Trump or his administration. (2/2)
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Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-donors-fundraising-benefits.html
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➡️ 15 Ambassadorships ➡️ 2 Pardons ➡️ Hundreds of White House invitations ➡️ 13 Dropped investigations ➡️ Dozens of executive actions Inside Trump’s FUNDRAISING BONANZA at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. W/
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-donors-fundraising-benefits.html
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Sheera Frenkel
9 days ago
A+ data journalism.
@karenyourish.bsky.social
@kenvogel.bsky.social
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@charliesmart.bsky.social
analyzed 346 donors who gave more than $250,00 to Trump. They found that more than half, “benefited, or are involved in an industry that has benefited,” from Trump.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-donors-fundraising-benefits.html
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Karen Tumulty
9 days ago
Love this Wendell Berry quote sent my way by Anne Lamont. Perfect for the holidays — “Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.”
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Eric Roston
9 days ago
🚨Extraordinary, relentless, detailed data investigation from
@karenyourish.bsky.social
@kenvogel.bsky.social
and Charlie Smart showing who has given more than $250,000 to Trump causes and passion projects and who has benefited from the administration in pardons, jobs, access and more.
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Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office (Gift Article)
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-donors-fundraising-benefits.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k8.9Y0f.RcpAuaja_rg0&smid=url-share
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Timothy McBride
9 days ago
Opinion: What Ozempic might tell us about the future of Alzheimer’s
www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/o...
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What Ozempic might tell us about the future of Alzheimer’s
Someday, there will be a game-changing drug for Alzheimer’s. It’s worth thinking about that now.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/ozempic-alzheimers-iconic-drugs/
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Christiaan Triebert
9 days ago
Olive grove by olive grove, sheep pasture by sheep pasture, village by village — over the past two years, Israeli settlers, often with Israeli military support, have escalated their unrelenting campaign to seize land and erase its Palestinian presence. Paywall free:
nytimes.com/interactive/...
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GIFT LINK: Brilliant story and presentation
@stuartathompson.bsky.social
& Michael Grynbaum
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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President Trump Wants to Be Everywhere, All the Time (Gift Article)
President Trump dominates our collective consciousness. The Times broke down how he has relentlessly pursued attention in the first 329 days of his second term.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/20/business/media/trump-media-year-in-review-2025.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U8.f_xf.XSxkoC0sEn7B&smid=bs-share
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The Upshot
10 days ago
A total of 16 photos were taken down at some point on Saturday from the website that the Justice Department created. One featured an open drawer containing other photos, including at least one of President Trump. From NYT Politics:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...
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Epstein Files Photos Disappear From Government Website, Including One of Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/trump-epstein-files-government-website.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E8.HVK1.0pegff0-Jv3R&smid=url-share
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Karen Tumulty
11 days ago
Sad news. He was a great and fair journalist, and a truly lovely person. I borrowed a quote from one of his books as the first words of the preface of mine. -- Lou Cannon, Post reporter and preeminent Reagan biographer, dies at 92
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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Lou Cannon, Post reporter and preeminent Reagan biographer, dies at 92
His books on Reagan “have never been transcended,” said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/12/19/lou-cannon-dead-reagan/
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Eric Lipton NYT
13 days ago
Today, my colleague David Yaffe-Bellany and I published an investigation into the frenzied world of crypto unleased by Trump. Risk taking, profiteering & yes, innovation, as crypto bros sense that this is the moment crypto will go mainstream in the U.S. Free link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...
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What Trump’s Embrace of Crypto Has Unleashed
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/technology/trump-crypto-unleashed.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.pR0U.v6_nrG5DSOQ6&smid=url-share
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Carol Rosenberg
15 days ago
Updated: Our online tracker, now with 25 U.S. military strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats that have killed 95 people since the campaign began on Sept. 2.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
In three months, the Trump administration has killed scores of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/29/us/us-caribbean-pacific-boat-strikes.html
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The New York Times
16 days ago
The director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their home in Los Angeles on Sunday. He has said that falling in love with his wife inspired him to give “When Harry Met Sally…” a new ending.
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Michele Singer Reiner: A Photographer Who Changed Movie History
Falling in love with her inspired the director Rob Reiner to give “When Harry Met Sally…” a new ending. The Reiners went on to work together on movies and political causes.
https://nyti.ms/3YqZFtI
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Jesse Eisinger
16 days ago
NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid. We went to S. Sudan to see the effects. Rubio says no one has died from the cuts. Spoiler: That's not true.
@annamaria.bsky.social
& Brett Murphy:
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan
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Marisa Kabas
16 days ago
every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different
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Hunter Walker
20 days ago
Let me just say that I do not work at an outlet with an aggressive paywall, but I will also instantly block this kind of nonsense. How does anyone think not paying to be informed is a flex? We have to support real news and indie outlets. The alternative to paying is AI slop and Billionaire PR.
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"OpenAI’s new guidelines ask its chatbot to celebrate ‘innovation,’ contradicting its stated goal of objectivity—and raising questions about what objectivity even means."
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ChatGPT’s Self-Serving Optimism
OpenAI’s new guidelines ask its chatbot to celebrate ‘innovation,’ contradicting its stated goal of objectivity—and raising questions about what objectivity even means.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/12/chatgpts-self-serving-optimism/685165/?gift=z9xKz_1xvLnYqLJtiTB0Figo1fsCRdYWsZCPTh6MWNo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Justin Elliott
23 days ago
NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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@amierjeski.bsky.social
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences
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Andy Kaczynski
23 days ago
NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments. Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same. LINK:
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ProPublica
23 days ago
NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Peter Baker
25 days ago
Trump administration makes Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, according to park service web site.
www.usatoday.com/story/travel...
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National parks cut free entry for MLK Day, add Trump's birthday
NPS changed its free admission days in 2026, removing MLK Day and Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/national-parks/2025/12/05/national-parks-free-entry-days-2026/87631147007/
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Eric Roston
26 days ago
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 The idea that a global cabal of Jews is "replacing" white people with immigrants (Great Replacement Theory) now appears to be entrenched in US National Security Strategy. Does the new Strategy say "Jews"? No. Is this how coded white-supremacist racism, misogyny and antisemitism work? Yes.
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Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/world/europe/trump-europe.html
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The white nationalist conspiracy theory that Western "elites," often manipulated by Jews, want to “replace” white people is now embedded in the Trump administration's national security strategy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
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Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/world/europe/trump-europe.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U8.Kdne.7h6w2_EHFop1&smid=bs-share
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In Aug., the NY Young Republican Club posted a statement to its website in support of the AfD. The statement concluded with the phrase “AfD über alles” in bold, a play on the line “Deutschland über alles,” which was frequently used in Nazi propaganda
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Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat
The New York Young Republican Club will host Markus Frohnmaier, an AfD deputy chairman, at its annual gala after calling for a ‘new civic order’ in Germany.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/03/young-republicans-chapter-plans-to-host-far-right-german-leader-after-i-love-hitler-chat-00671540?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f112-dd93-ad7f-f91797010001&utm_source=The+Forward+Association&utm_campaign=91dec46b04-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_12_05_39_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-628507ef87-273171596
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Brad Heath
about 1 month ago
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
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Davey Alba
about 1 month ago
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25/ai-slop-recipes-are-taking-over-the-internet-and-thanksgiving-dinner?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NDA4MzUxMCwiZXhwIjoxNzY0Njg4MzEwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNkFGNzVLR1pBSlowMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFNzAxNENGQzIzNTI0MzU0QTVENUY2QkREMDAxOEU3NiJ9.zVeH6d7ceqUngdCBCfynlfmG4wiYTU-Dv8BjiwikQsU
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-tierra-walker-preeclampsia?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Tim Carvell
about 1 month ago
I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."
add a skeleton here at some point
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Susan Glasser
about 2 months ago
Just the person to talk to this week for our
@newyorker.com
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@janemayer.bsky.social
@eosnos.bsky.social
about Trump, Epstein, and the changing Washington scandal — the legendary
@misikoff.bsky.social
Listen here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Is the Epstein Scandal Trump’s Kryptonite?
Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 11/15/2025 · 39m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-political-scene-the-new-yorker/id268213039?i=1000736832203
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Carol Rosenberg
about 2 months ago
Updated: Our tracker on the military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, with 20th strike disclosed by Southcom, the Pentagon outpost in Miami.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/29/us/us-caribbean-pacific-boat-strikes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Eric Roston
about 2 months ago
NO ONE, EVER: "What I really want is a car that can sense my key and open the trunk whenever I'm within six feet of it." CAR DESIGNERS: "Oh that's a great idea."
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GIFT LINK: America’s Roman Catholic bishops on Wednesday rebuked the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign in a rare and near-unanimous statement that framed the immigration crisis in starkly moral terms.
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Catholic Bishops Rebuke U.S. ‘Mass Deportation’ of Immigrants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/bishops-trump-immigration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.008.5BF4.7VoZvYUz1lad&smid=bs-share
about 2 months ago
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Charles Ornstein
about 2 months ago
NEW: How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters, by
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How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters
The president’s second term has brought a flood of clemency for allies and donors — as well as felons, like him, who were convicted of financial wrongdoing.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-pardons-clemency-george-santos-ed-martin
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Yonette Joseph
about 2 months ago
Kimmel said that he and Escobedo, who led Cleto and the Cletones on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” had been “inseparable since I was 9 years old.”
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Cleto Escobedo III, Jimmy Kimmel’s Bandleader, Dies at 59
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/arts/cleto-escobedo-dead-jimmy-kimmel-live.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0k8.8fiZ.Bi0FcNqH1Z_g&smid=url-share
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Sheera Frenkel
about 2 months ago
The videos surfacing online from Sudan are horrifying, and I say this as a journalist who has sadly become an expert on violent videos and images uploaded to the internet over the last decade.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
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Executions and Mass Casualties: Videos Show Horror Unfolding in Sudan
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/world/africa/sudan-el-fasher-atrocities-executions-video.html
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Kashmir Hill
about 2 months ago
Allan Brooks, the corporate recruiter from Canada I wrote about in August who went into a 3-week-long delusional spiral with ChatGPT, sued OpenAI Thursday, alongside six other plaintiffs. They blame ChatGPT for their mental breakdowns and for four suicides.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
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Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/technology/chatgpt-lawsuit-suicides-delusions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8.Nd--.vak5P2CV73BJ&smid=url-share
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ProPublica
about 2 months ago
NEW: Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food. “It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said.
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Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fruit.
https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Ruth Graham
about 2 months ago
Two bishops with ties to Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, including Bishop Robert Barron, criticized the administration’s treatment of Catholics detained by immigration officials this week.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Bishops With Ties to Trump Commission Criticize Treatment of Immigrants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/trump-bishops-communion.html
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Peter Baker
about 2 months ago
Mikie Sherrill elected governor of New Jersey after a campaign that pounded away at her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, for his allegiance to Trump.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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Live Updates: New Jersey Elects Sherrill Governor as Democrats Pick Up Key Wins
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/04/us/election-new-jersey-california?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Karen Tumulty
about 2 months ago
Re-upping my column from last year on @MikieSherrill and @SpanbergerForVA. A really fun interview. -- Can these Capitol Hill roommates lead Democrats out of the wilderness?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Can these Capitol Hill roommates lead Democrats out of the wilderness?
Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill are strong contenders to be the next governors of Virginia and New Jersey.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/22/sherrill-spanberger-virginia-newjersey-trump-2024/
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The New York Times
about 2 months ago
Follow live results from the Virginia governor election.
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Virginia Governor Election Results 2025: Abigail Spanberger, Winsome Earle-Sears
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Virginia Governor election.
https://nyti.ms/43ap3H9
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The Upshot
about 2 months ago
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Our forecasting model now sees Spanberger finishing with around 57 percent of the vote.
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Kathleen Bachynski
about 2 months ago
“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”
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Selma van de Perre, Dutch Jew Who Resisted Nazis, Dies at 103
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/world/europe/selma-van-de-perre-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Katie Drummond
2 months ago
In a shocking reality check,
@wired.com
is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.” We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.
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Eric Roston
2 months ago
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see Like the US economy Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters. Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
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Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-disaster-industrial-complex-us-economy/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTA4MDY2MiwiZXhwIjoxNzYxNjg1NDYyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNEkyRTBHUFdDSUowMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEQ0NGODY3Qzk2ODk0MzJDQjRBMEMwM0FENDNGNTJENyJ9.9pM7yp5gAdZWrdjaPL-QGd5dMsdc9nyx2s4DcJY3dHk
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The New York Times
2 months ago
In
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The private conversations in the Young Republicans’ Telegram chat were only marginally more racist and hateful than the language that’s out in the open, common on the most popular podcasts in America,” our columnist David French writes.
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Opinion | Trump Is Dragging Us Down to His Level
The Young Republicans’ Telegram chat was revealing in so many ways.
https://nyti.ms/47lYW1d
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Carolyn Bertozzi
2 months ago
I love this story 😊
add a skeleton here at some point
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