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Audience editor,
@ProPublica.org
Philadelphia resident and sports masochist My dog likes you.
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Our long national nightmare is over. Everything can go back to being just great.
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Jimmy Kimmel is returning to ABC on Tuesday, Disney says
"Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will return to ABC on Tuesday after the late-night host's comments on Charlie Kirk's death caused the network to pull the show.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jimmy-kimmel-back-on-abc-disney-after-suspension-fcc-2025-9
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At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.
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Kristine Malicse
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The widespread violations of EMTALA by psychiatric hospitals â and the lack of enforcement â come even as Americaâs mental health crisis is reaching a fever pitch, with suicide rates near record highs. By
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Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals arenât honoring the law â and the government isnât following up.
https://www.propublica.org/article/psychiatric-hospitals-emtala-violations-mental-health
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Eric Umansky
about 22 hours ago
Check out the chyron. "Text Merch to 71776 to Receive a Link to the official TPUSA Merch Store."
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RiotGrlErin
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iâve been investigating and i think kermit might share the same dna with strawberries.
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When i relocated from the living room to the den in the early 3rd quarter, the eagles were down by 19. The second i turned on the other TV, the eagles went on a 26-0 run. I'm not saying I'm responsible for the win, but... Go birds.
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Sarah McLaughlin
1 day ago
the philadelphia eagles are blessed by the angels and graced by the light of heaven. i'm sorry if this offends you but it is demonstrably true
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Freezing Cold Takes
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Jacob Schriner-Briggs
1 day ago
In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.
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Group of workers reportedly detained while working on roof in Naperville, homeowner says
A Naperville homeowner was left with an unfinished roof and in disbelief after neighbors told his family they believe ICE agents came to his house and detained crew members working on his home.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/naperville-news-group-workers-reportedly-detained-agents-believed-ice-working-roof-homeowner-says/17838441/
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Eric Umansky
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So Trump has also gutted the DOJâs elite Public Integrity unit. The office â created after Watergateâ has gone from 30 prosecutors to âfewer than five.â
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It's Sunday, which means Archie is out and about in the neighborhood, showing off his favorite jersey and wishing everyone a happy "go birds"
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RiotGrlErin
1 day ago
anakin skywalker is like three and competitively pod racing when i canât even parallel park.
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Teressa Sutton-Schulman's husband had attempted suicide twice in very rapid succession, yet their insurance company, Highmark BCBC, decided that inpatient care was not medically necessary. So Teressa began recording her calls with the insurer...
www.propublica.org/article/ment...
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ProPublica
2 days ago
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texasâ abortion ban. Hereâs how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Wonât Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Hereâs how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-maternal-mortality-analysis-methodology?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1758416407&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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RiotGrlErin
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Disney Surrenders Hat
2 days ago
Lindsey Halligan is a 2013 law grad, an insurance lawyer, who acted as Trump's personal lawyer for several years and is now tasked with bringing the Smithsonian into ideological compliance. In the context of the Trump Administration this makes her well qualified to be US Attorney.
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Radley Balko
2 days ago
lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench.
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Kyle Cheney
2 days ago
Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM.
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Ed Martin was reportedly a key figure in this week's ouster of a US Attorney who wouldn't bring baseless charges against Trump enemies. In April
@propublica.org
detailed Martin's role in an online smear campaign of a judge handling a case involving Martin:
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The Untold Story of How Ed Martin Ghostwrote Online Attacks Against a Judge â and Still Became a Top Trump Prosecutor
Martinâs career is dotted with ethical and professional questions, records show. Some of the most serious ones about the interim U.S. attorney for D.C. have remained buried in court filings, overlooke...
https://www.propublica.org/article/ed-martin-trump-interim-dc-us-attorney-secret-judge-attacks
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Eric Umansky
2 days ago
No, it doesnât âteeter.â
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ProPublica
2 days ago
Insurers sometimes deny coverage citing lack of progress, labeling patientsâ conditions as chronic. Yet if they do make progress, insurers have also used that to argue patients no longer need treatment. Doctors are left to walk a tightrope. (Published Dec. 2024)
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Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. Thatâs Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.
Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mental-health-insurance-denials-patient-progress?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1758402013&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Ryan J. Reilly âpaints a vivid and urgent portrait of⊠disarrayâ
2 days ago
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a âdeep stateâ probe in early 2025.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568
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Jerry Chen
2 days ago
they should invent a potato peeler you can find
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The Tennessee Holler
2 days ago
NBC: âThe federal investigation has yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups on which Trump and his administration have pledged to crack down after the killingâŠâ
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Anodyne
3 days ago
"My earliest recollections are just of war, of violence, of blood and of killings ... My mother used to tell me Afghanistan was a peaceful place in the past. I have no memory of it."
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Karl Bode
2 days ago
While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April:
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Brendan Carrâs FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment machine
The White Houseâs personal censor.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/656653/brendan-carr-fcc-anti-consumer-harassment-dei-trump
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RiotGrlErin
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Eric Umansky
2 days ago
DHS tweeted an homage to a Nazi. As an ad for agents. "You don't usually see white supremacist propaganda on government websites,â said one expert. âBut that's what this really is.â
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Trump, GOP lawmakers and even some big-name Dems are once again calling for the repeal of Section 230, as if that would be some cure-all for misinfo on social media. But as
@jkosseff.bsky.social
told
@propublica.org
in 2021, that's just not true. Read here:
www.propublica.org/article/nsu-...
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Somehow the nyt crossword knew Bohm would be back with the Phillies tonight
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ProPublica
3 days ago
âł FINAL hours to become a ProPublican during our Fall Member Drive! You read our work. You believe in it. Nowâs the moment to become part of it. Any gift makes you a member! Donate today:
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Eric Umansky
3 days ago
So the guy who heads the CDC panel that just voted to restrict COVID vaccines⊠-he called the shots the âmost failing medical product in the history of medical productsâ -heâs not a medical doctor
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/h...
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Ryan Mac đ
3 days ago
Ah yes the Authorized Pentagon Papers
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/19/pentagon-hegseth-press-unauthorized-material/
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RiotGrlErin
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itâs nosferatu but with muppets: thread
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Joshua J. Friedman
3 days ago
NEW: US Attorney Erik Siebert has resigned this evening after investigators found insufficient evidence to bring charges against NY AG Letitia James, contrary to President Trump's wishes. Below an email Siebert sent his staffâvia Glenn Thrush / NYT.
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âTake note of the throughline of misdirection that has been a central feature of this political moment, getting us to argue about supposed excesses of academic jargon and the progressive left... Itâs all about getting us to focus on that and not paying attention to the power grab that is underway.â
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Breaking Silence, Former University President Claudine Gay Blasts Harvardâs âComplianceâ With White House Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson
In a rare address two years after her resignation, former University President Claudine Gay issued a blistering rebuke of Harvard in Amsterdam on Sept. 3, accusing her successor of surrendering to Don...
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/9/19/former-president-blasts-compliance/
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Timothy Burke
3 days ago
i'm curious who nate thinks "progressives" are because they sure weren't the ones saying there was nothing wrong with Joe Biden, there was a whole tiktok meme about not wanting to have to vote for joe biden and everything
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ProPublica
3 days ago
Following Soliman's release from an Ohio jail, his asylum status had been reinstated and his application for a green card has been revived, one of his attorneys told ProPublica. More from
@hannahallam.bsky.social
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www.propublica.org/article/ayma...
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NEW: Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its deportation case against the children's hospital chaplain. By
@hannahallam.bsky.social
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Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case
âThis is beyond my dreams,â Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the childrenâs hospital chaplain of providin...
https://www.propublica.org/article/ayman-soliman-dhs-deportation-free-ohio?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=cm
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Starbucks says surveillance clears an employee whoâd been accused of writing âLoserâ on a cup when someone ordered Charlie Kirkâs âfavorite drink.â The accusation was originally posted by a Republican party official. It forced the store to shut down for safety.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
3 days ago
The FAQ posted online for this program claims that this would be an EB-1/EB-2 visa. That is EXTREMELY illegal. Those visas are, by law, ONLY for people with âextraordinaryâ or âexceptionalâ ability, or advanced degrees (MAs or PhDs) who are being hired by an American business.
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Anodyne
3 days ago
"Until our reporting, top Pentagon officials said they had been unaware of Microsoft's digital escort system, which the company developed as a work-around to a Defense Department requirement that people handling sensitive data be U.S. citizens or permanent residents."
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Disney Surrenders Hat
3 days ago
I wonder if the statute of limitations are passed to sue all the stations that only showed the bad side of Osama bin Laden
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Radley Balko
3 days ago
What a ridiculous statement. Kimmel wasn't pulled from his home, moved across the country, and detained for months. He won't be deported to Algeria. Kimmel's suspension is a dangerous threat to free speech. But he'll be fine. What you *can* say is that Khalil is far braver than the cowards at ABC.
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Annie Waldman
3 days ago
My colleague
@vernalcoleman.bsky.social
is a diligent, careful reporter (and a great human!). He's been doing an excellent job holding the Department of Veterans Affairs to account. Do you have a tip to share? Reach out to him directly:
[email protected]
or on Signal at vcoleman91.99
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New copypasta just dropped...
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The Louvre of Bluesky
3 days ago
Sometimes it feels like everyoneâs brains have been in the microwave.
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