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Colorado-based health & investigative journalist. Send tips to
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ProPublica
3 days ago
We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth â sometimes, ev...
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1779418680&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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For a story for Slate - have you ever had a paracervical block while getting an IUD inserted? If so, please reach out! Email is me @ helensantoro . com
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Charles Ornstein
7 days ago
Heartbreaking story by
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: Tiny Footprints, a Blue Blanket: What I Canât Forget About the Babies Who Died of Vitamin K Deficiency
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What I Canât Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot
Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-baby-autopsy-reports
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Alejandra Caraballo
13 days ago
đ¨đ¨đ¨ DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states.
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Robert Mahon
18 days ago
I don't think there should be a work requirement for SNAP. I think there should be a wage-should-be-enough-for-employees-to-eat requirement for employers.
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Michelle Cyca
17 days ago
personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the
@nytimes.com
â certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country â asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.
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Topper
24 days ago
Fact: The person who named sweetbreads isn't allowed to name things anymore.
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More Perfect Union
24 days ago
BREAKING: The Senate just unanimously banned Senators from trading on prediction markets, effective immediately.
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alright guys. that's a wrap. we're in a twilight zone episode, we can all sign off now.
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about 1 month ago
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hey anyone wanna work in a basement with me and uncover some huge corruption or something? iâll bring the bad coffee.
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Unusual Whales
about 1 month ago
BREAKING: The BBC has reported that there appears to be "insider trading consistently happening in the Trump administration before announcements."
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Robert Reich
about 1 month ago
The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks. The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
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Unusual Whales
about 1 month ago
BREAKING: Just 20 minutes before Trump's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was open, massive trades hit the market. Investors sold a combined 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures, âa $760 million bet that oil would go down. These orders were much larger than anything else at the time. Unusual.
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More Perfect Union
about 1 month ago
Unbelievable stuff from the Washington Post on behalf of Jeff Bezos today.
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ProPublica staff are on strike starting today. Tell ProPublica youâll honor a digital picket line:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell ProPublica youâll honor a digital picket line
Unionized staff at ProPublica have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike after more than two years of bargaining their first contract. ProPublica management has: Refused to agree to basic jo...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-propublica-youll-honor-a-digital-picket-line?source=bluesky&
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uosdÉŻá´S ÉuÉęˇ đŚ
about 2 months ago
The Olympics have allowed trans people to compete since 2004. Iâm the 22 years since, exactly one trans athlete has competed. She didnât make it past the first round of competition. Fuck the Olympics.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
about 2 months ago
Only 1 transgender woman has ever competed in the Olympics: Laurel Hubbard (NZ). None has medaled. So this ban isnât about the unfair competition from transwomen athletes; It's about the busybody bigotry of people running the Olympics. (Casey Wasserman, head of LA games, is in the Epstein files.)
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Nsikan Akpan
3 months ago
Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows - Camilo Montoya-Galvez
www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...
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Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows
The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arrests-violent-criminal-records-trump-first-year/
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Senator Bernie Sanders
4 months ago
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Marc Elias
4 months ago
The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand. Support independent media.
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Gabriel Malor
4 months ago
Jeff Besos never really struck me as a Sports Guy.
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andyâ˘
4 months ago
ohhh âdemocracy dies in darknessâ was aspirational
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Julia MĂŠtraux
4 months ago
This is painful to read.
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Brian Phillips
4 months ago
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
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Institute for Policy Studies
4 months ago
VICTORY: After thousands of locals protested, called, and gave public comments, a company halted the sale of a Virginia warehouse to DHS to be used for immigrant detention. DHS wants to buy 23 warehouses nationwide. Resist all of them.
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Hanover warehouse owner pulls out of potential Virginia ICE facility deal
The company, Jim Pattison Developments, put out a statement Friday afternoon saying the deal would not proceed.
https://www.dailypress.com/2026/01/30/hanover-ice-facility-deal-withdrawl/
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More Perfect Union
4 months ago
Southwest Airlines expects to quadruple profits this year after making changes including charging for checked bags, adding fees for extra-legroom seats, and eliminating open seating, WSJ reports.
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More Perfect Union
4 months ago
Three delivery apps, including UberEats, will pay NYC delivery workers $4.6 million after they violated the city's minimum pay law. The Mamdani admin will announce the settlement today, which comes after enforcement action taken by the city.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/30/t...
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The Mamdani Effect: Three Delivery Apps Must Pay $5M In Minimum Pay Settlement - Streetsblog New York City
A new era: Mayor Mamdani's worker protection department announces new enforcement against UberEats, HungryPanda, and Fantuan for not complying with the minimum pay law.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/30/the-mamdani-effect-three-delivery-apps-must-pay-5m-in-minimum-pay-settlement
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Democracy Now!
4 months ago
DHS appears to be bringing decades of violence at the U.S.-Mexico border to cities throughout the United States.
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âThe Border Is the Entire Countryâ: How Trump Brought Borderland Violence into U.S. Cities
As President Trump shakes up the leadership of his immigration crackdown in Minnesota following the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents, we examine the expanding role of the agenc...
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/28/border_todd_miller
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Julia MĂŠtraux
4 months ago
If any disabled/chronically ill people in the South want to share any stories of how they've been impacted by the storms, please reach out at
[email protected]
or signal juliametraux. 49 This is for a potential
@motherjones.com
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Mother Jones
4 months ago
Why was Jeffrey Epsteinâs procurer transferred to a cushy prison?
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Mother Jones sues the Bureau of Prisons for Ghislaine Maxwell records
Why was Jeffrey Epstein's procurer transferred to a cushy prison?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/mother-jones-sues-bureau-of-prisons-ghislaine-maxwell-records-epstein-trump-todd-blanche/
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Marc Elias
4 months ago
đ¨BREAKING: A federal court Wednesday ruled against a Republican challenge to Californiaâs redistricting plan, rejecting the GOP claim that the state had engaged in illegal racial gerrymandering when drawing up its new congressional map.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Federal court rejects GOP bid to block California redistricting
Read more here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-court-rejects-gop-bid-to-block-california-redistricting/
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Carl Zimmer
4 months ago
Hospitals and doctors are ignoring RFK Jr.âs new vaccine schedule and relying on pediatriciansâ guidance instead. Story by
@danielpayne.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2026/01/15/n...
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Hospitals and doctors are ignoring RFK Jr.âs new vaccine schedule and relying on pediatriciansâ guidance instead
Their decisions underscore a growing divide between federal health authorities and major medical groups.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/15/new-vaccine-schedule-largely-ignored-major-healthcare-providers/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9bJluxL2DZmkPdRJBMFBIXHYORQeQwsflyqf1DDfZs9YvxueDae1XY-fRutGjCqx6BkNVGSljU6aVpbH81k1HmSt_F4A&_hsmi=398639956
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Institute for Policy Studies
4 months ago
NEW: No, it was never really about drugs. Yes, it was about oil â but it wasn't *only* about oil. And no, it wasn't even close to being legal. In a new explainer out today, IPS scholars clear up the biggest questions about the U.S. attack on Venezuela:
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What You Need to Know About the U.S. Attack on Venezuela - Institute for Policy Studies
What You Need to Know About the U.S. Attack on Venezuela
https://ips-dc.org/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-u-s-attack-on-venezuela/
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Erin Reed
5 months ago
Great news! EITM has been nominated under the category of Outstanding Independent Journalism by the GLAAD awards. We share this nomination with many other deserving publications. We couldn't do it without our readers, who help us break news every day. Thank you all.
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Julia MĂŠtraux
5 months ago
If you're a 55-64 year old who is retired due to health issues who is struggling to get SNAP work requirement exemptions, please get in touch for a
@motherjones.com
piece. My email is
[email protected]
. I can potentially use first name only.
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Erin Reed
5 months ago
In a small breath of reprieve, the 9th Circuit Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling from a conservative judge that would have allowed teachers to forcibly out trans students to their parents. This case will eventually have national implications. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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9th Circuit Court Temporarily Blocks Lower Court Forced Outing Ruling In California
A lower court ruling would have required schools to allow teachers to out transgender students to their parents.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/9th-circuit-court-temporarily-blocks
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Charles Ornstein
5 months ago
âYou are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,â is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters,
@megomatz.bsky.social
, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.
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Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our journalists reach out to people theyâre writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, theyâve 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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A biotech company was called out for concerning science about their artificial blood vessels. Now, instead of restricting the vessels' reach, the company appears to be touting the product beyond the prescribed limits set by the FDA. My latest for
@levernews.com
www.levernews.com/regulatory-r...
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Regulatory Ruptures For A Lab-Grown Blood Vessel
Despite controversies and safety concerns, biotech firm Humacyte is pushing its cutting-edge lab-grown blood vessels for uses far beyond what regulators have allowed.
https://www.levernews.com/regulatory-ruptures-for-a-lab-grown-blood-vessel/
5 months ago
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Michael Hobbes
5 months ago
How dare you assume that someone whose entire career has been a bad faith grift to benefit conservatives is acting in bad faith to benefit conservatives.
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More Perfect Union
5 months ago
BREAKING: Instacart is ending all price testing on its platform in the wake of this report.
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More Perfect Union
5 months ago
John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up. The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
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We Went to Arkansas. The Farm Crisis Will Shock You
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02K72QFS0&t=162s
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Erin Reed
5 months ago
For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care.
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
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More Perfect Union
5 months ago
While Starbucks workers are on strike because they can't get a fair contract, the Bezos-owned Post is saying the CEO deserves the $96 million he got last year.
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Public Citizen
6 months ago
BREAKING: A CDC panel voted to push back the first dose of the safe & effective hepatitis B vaccine. This is a tragedy in the making. This unfounded change to the childhood vaccine schedule will only lead to entirely preventable disease outbreaks in the years ahead.
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More Perfect Union
6 months ago
For the first time a U.S. county is making their guaranteed income program permanent. The Cook County Board of Commissioners has unanimously approved $7.5 million to continue its guaranteed income program. Each month over 3,000 households will get an unconditional $500.
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Erin Reed
6 months ago
1. Over Thanksgiving, texts from Dem. Sen Ruben Gallego leaked where he repeats far-right talking points on masculinity, lamenting that Democratic women "look like men." Using far-right gender-panic rhetoric will not ingratiate the Democratic Party towards men. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Dem. Senator Gallego's Leaked Texts Echo Far-Right Gender Panic And Misogyny
Last week, Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego's texts leaked, where he lamented that Democratic "women look like men and men look like women."
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-senator-gallegos-leaked-texts
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Alejandra Caraballo
6 months ago
Abolish ICE, prosecute their agents.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
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College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/politics/college-student-deported-thanksgiving-texas.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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Michael Hobbes
6 months ago
someone attended the Bari Weiss School of Having Principles
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