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Author, screenwriter, research scholar at Columbia SIPA.
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Walker Bragman
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I’ve been tracking and writing about Brownstone since December 2021 and it’s really validating to see these pieces. Solid write-up from KFF on its influence. One thing left out: The group helped steer the GOP House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic long before Trump took office.
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A Small Texas Think Tank Cultivated Covid Dissidents. Now They’re Running US Health Policy. - KFF Health News
Fueled by covid backlash, a libertarian author created the Brownstone Institute in 2021. In recent months, people with ties to the group have catapulted to the highest levels of U.S. government, exerc...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/brownstone-institute-vaccines-acip-cdc-jeffrey-tucker-bhattacharya-kulldorff/
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This Thanksgiving.
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Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
https://thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-trump-ice-raids-churches-holiday/
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate. It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. (Published May with
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This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...
https://www.propublica.org/article/flex-loans-tennessee-advance-financial?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1762561801&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Anne Applebaum
about 2 months ago
Americans are on the verge of losing their ability to choose their government. But they don't seem to have realized it yet.
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Carl Quintanilla
about 2 months ago
“.. In the first half of this year, the Trump Organization’s income soared 17-fold to $864 million .. “.. more than 90% .. came from Trump crypto ventures, including sales of World Liberty tokens.”
@reuters.com
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David R. Brockman, Ph.D.
about 2 months ago
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. - from
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www.propublica.org/article/okla...
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Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution
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Robert Downen
about 2 months ago
That’s Brent Bozell III, founder of the Media Research Center, nephew of William F Buckley and one of many Council For National Policy members who worked to oppose anti-apartheid efforts in the 1980s. Also, his son was one of the first rioters inside the Capitol on Jan 6. Got four years for it.
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ProPublica
2 months ago
There already aren’t enough dentists who accept Medicaid patients, said Kimberly Raleigh of the Michigan Oral Health Coalition, and “if there is a reduction in community water fluoridation, it’s just a downward spiral.”
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On the Front Line of the Fluoride Wars, Debate Over Drinking Water Treatment Turns Raucous
After decades of fluoridating drinking water to improve public health, some communities are wavering on the practice. In one Michigan county, the medical director is mirroring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-fluoride-drinking-water-st-clair-county?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1760882419&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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NPR
2 months ago
In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.
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U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country
In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.
https://n.pr/4nmS7Tb
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David Sirota
2 months ago
This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time. There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.
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STAT
2 months ago
The White House’s mass firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...
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‘It’s a massacre’: CDC battered by government shutdown firings
The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-firings-government-shutdown-hhs/
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Matthew Hay Brown
3 months ago
Indigenous people are 5 percent of Canada's population but have made up more than half its wildfire evacuees this year while their generational knowledge of forest stewardship is largely ignored. Indigenous Services Canada says “more work needs to be done”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Canada’s historic wildfire season hits Indigenous people hardest
Indigenous people make up 5 percent of Canada’s population but have accounted for more than half its wildfire evacuees this year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/05/canada-wildfires-indigenous-people/
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Sarah Posner
3 months ago
MAGA charismatic pastor mismanaged funds, enriched himself, etc. a continuing saga
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Worship leader Sean Feucht mismanaged millions in ministry funds, former associates say
Worship leader Sean Feucht's meteoric rise to prominence began in 2020 during the pandemic. His mask-free concerts defied public health rules and drew thousands, boosting his ministry's revenue from $...
https://apnews.com/article/sean-feucht-financial-allegations-financial-christian-conservative-3dba6dd8bce9ad31f4888e5082b3d329?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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Till Eckert
3 months ago
1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD
4 months ago
🚨🧵My latest: As measles took off in Texas, the Trump administration took actions that prevented CDC scientists from responding. The outbreak became the biggest in 30 yrs. It’s far larger considering the outbreaks it sparked in other states & Mexico.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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As Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered. - KFF Health News
Trump officials sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists, slowing their response to the measles outbreak in West Texas. Cases surged and sparked new outbreaks across the U.S. and Mexico. Together...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/texas-measles-outbreak-cdc-vaccines-rfk-trump/
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Amy Maxmen, PhD
4 months ago
The CDC has been decapitated. In my latest newsletter, I wrote about how most of the agency's division directors are gone. RFK's stated priorities for the CDC directly contradict his actions. Newsletter
@kffhealthnews.org
@healthbeat.org
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Jacob Ware
4 months ago
God, Guns, and Sedition, now available in paperback! "Nothing short of a new grand narrative of the contemporary far right." -
@drewmckevitt.bsky.social
"An encyclopedic examination." -
@anelsona.bsky.social
"A frighteningly easy read." -
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The Council for National Policy's core organization, the Leadership Institute, is getting a jump on the 2026 elections. Check out this line-up:
leadershipinstitute.org/training/
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Bloomberg News
4 months ago
An impending US Treasury Department decision threatens to undermine the financial viability of hundreds of planned wind and solar projects.
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Trump’s Treasury Set to Decide Fate of Hundreds of Wind, Solar Projects
Tax guidance due next week threatens the financial viability of projects across the US.
https://bloom.bg/4lmoyzP
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Carl Quintanilla
4 months ago
“Veggie-flation Nation” 🌽 🥒🥦 “.. the biggest month-on-month increase for fresh vegetables since March 2022. .. “.. also the largest monthly increase ever recorded in a summer month .. in figures that go back to 1947 ..”
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Tom Carter
5 months ago
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America’s best idea, at risk
America’s best idea, at risk
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
5 months ago
Official data released yesterday shows US data center construction hitting another record high in June, exceeding $40B annualized for the first time That's up 28% from this time last year and up 190% since the launch of ChatGPT nearly three years ago
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Mueller, She Wrote
5 months ago
May: Bondi tells Trump he’s all over the Epstein files June: Acosta - architect of the og Epstein sweetheart deal - gets a Trump Media streaming deal & a seat on the Newsmax board July: Bondi tells SCOTUS Maxwell isn’t part of the Acosta deal, keeping her in prison That’s called a set up
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Matthew Hay Brown
5 months ago
The U.S. passport falls to 10th, based on the number of countries its holders may visit visa-free. It was No. 1 in 2014
www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...
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U.S. drops to lowest ranking yet on index of most powerful passports
The United States fell to 10th place on the ranking, which is based on the number of places a traveler can visit without a visa.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/07/24/us-passport-henley-ranking/
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Molly Jong-Fast
5 months ago
This is a great resource
adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...
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Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
https://adoptastation.org/?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwLqT6pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp09JkdFG2zgYTGB5OCW9ONMz3tP6t-aeRq40wGMhj43u6m45kc7qTkrYNFFY_aem_XzCTgoBtJ_3Hgym37-zlBw
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Kai Ryssdal
5 months ago
Do I really need to say how bad this would be?
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Trump Likely to Fire Powell Soon, White House Official Says
President Donald Trump is likely to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell soon, a White House official said, and discussed the possible move in a meeting with congressional Republicans on Tuesday n...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/trump-likely-to-fire-powell-soon-white-house-official-says
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The Council for National Policy's core organization, the Leadership Institute, is getting a jump on the 2026 elections. Check out this line-up:
leadershipinstitute.org/training/
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Zach Everson
6 months ago
🔎💰 New: "Trump Media Board Member Who Led SPAC Merger Sells Nearly All His Shares" me, for
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Trump Media Board Member Who Led SPAC Deal Sells 90% Of His Shares
The executive who led the blank-check deal to merge with Trump Media has unloaded nearly all his stock, making millions in the process.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/06/25/trump-media-truth-social-board-djt-stock/
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Simon Rosenberg
6 months ago
Early post-immigration escalation polling ugly for Trump: Immigration approval 37%-52% (-15) WaPo 43%-54% (-11) Quinnipiac (Q) Deportations 39%-50% (-11) YouGov 40%-56% (-16) Q Overall approval 43%-52% (-9) Econ/YouGov 40%-53% (-13) YouGov 38%-54% (-16) Q Budget Bill 30%-50% (-20) Econ/YG
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Brian Stelter
7 months ago
Tonight's the night – "GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK" is airing & streaming on CNN at 7 p.m. Eastern. All spring long, the play has been breaking its own records for highest weekly gross for a Broadway play. Tomorrow is the final performance. All the more reason to tune in >>>
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA
7 months ago
There already is a doctor shortage in the US. Wait times can take months — even longer in rural areas. Imagine your cancer or heart disease worsening… not because there’s no treatment, but because you can’t see a doctor. It’s already bad. And the policies they’re pushing will make it much worse.
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Max Boot
7 months ago
President Donald Trump’s pick to investigate waste, fraud and abuse at the Labor Department, Anthony D’Esposito, is a former Republican congressman who lost his New York seat after he was accused of putting his mistress and fiancée’s daughter on his payroll.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump oversight picks include scandal-hit ex-lawmaker, antiabortion lawyer
Several nominees have clearly partisan backgrounds, including two with controversial histories and two with ties to the agency they would be investigating.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/28/trump-inspectors-general-scandal-partisan/
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Andrew Stroehlein
7 months ago
If you live in the US, this new law will make you sick. My Daily Brief:
www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...
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Washington Turns Super-Toxic : Daily Brief
What might convince Trump not to sign this bill that poisons America’s air – and its people? Maybe he doesn’t want to become known for making the United States dirtier and deadlier? Read Andrew Stroeh...
https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2025/05/28?story=paragraph-10876
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Greg Sargent
7 months ago
Awful: Trump just blamed foreign students for taking the slots of American kids. But the cuts in the House GOP bill he's pushing could cost hundreds of thousands of working class kids their route to college. Those two things are connected. 1/ (new piece)
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Trump’s Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam
Trump says he’s attacking foreign students because they’re taking places reserved for American kids. But the House GOP budget bill would hurt countless American students from the working class.
https://newrepublic.com/article/195766/trump-fury-harvard-maga-scam
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7 months ago
I love this idea👇🏼 Big Dem donors should help revive local news—I was founding editor of a small town paper and we grew readership w/high school sports, school news, small biz news, local orgs, local govt. See Shadow Network by
@anelsona.bsky.social
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@markjacob.bsky.social
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Houston Chronicle
7 months ago
#Opinion
: A proposed Republican budget includes cuts to Medicaid and other social services. What will happen to people, like a veteran in a nursing home, who rely on it?
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My sister, a veteran, deserves better than Republican Medicaid budget cuts
A proposed Republican budget includes cuts to Medicaid and other social services. What will happen to people, like a veteran in a nursing home, who rely on it?
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Steve Rattner
7 months ago
America’s drug prices are indeed extraordinarily high — other developed countries pay about a third of what Americans do for prescriptions. My
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John Hyatt
7 months ago
Scoop: Saudi firm Kingdom Holding Co. helped refinance debt for Elon Musk's social media company X two weeks before his Musk's visit to Riyadh with Trump. More details on that deal, and Musk's extensive dealmaking with Gulf funds, in my new piece
@forbes.com
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www.forbes.com/sites/johnhy...
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Saudi Fund Helped Refinance X Debt On Eve Of Musk Visit
It’s no surprise Elon Musk is joining Trump on his Arabian jaunt. His businesses have been lapping up gulf money for years.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2025/05/14/musks-saudi-trip-caps-gulf-dealmaking-spree/
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Brad Heath
8 months ago
President Trump's media company, which runs Truth Social, told investors today it expects to "incur significant expenses and operating losses for the foreseeable future." It reported sales of $821,000 for the entire quarter, and lost $31.7 million (which is better than last quarter).
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