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NEW: This year, Democratic and Republican lawmakers across the country tried to push through bills to tighten gift limits, toughen conflict-of-interest provisions or expand financial disclosure reporting requirements. Time and again, the bills were derailed.
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Lawmakers Across the Country This Year Blocked Ethics Reforms Meant to Increase Public Trust
Democratic and Republican lawmakers across the country tried to push through bills to tighten gift limits, toughen conflict-of-interest provisions or expand financial disclosure reporting requirements...
https://www.propublica.org/article/ethics-reform-legislation-blocked-statehouses?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1759320031&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Brent Molnar The Voice of Reason 🗽🕊️ The TL;DR Report #21: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
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🗽🕊️ The TL;DR Report #21: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Good morning, Friends!
https://open.substack.com/pub/brentmolnar/p/the-tldr-report-21-wednesday-october?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=post%20viewer
about 2 hours ago
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The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay
Trump put on a disturbing show for America’s generals and admirals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/trump-hegseth-speech-incoherent/684421/?gift=Kgbop4DMpgJvsEYLHICIMhYVs8JSWMHlyMLRBUgZ9qI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Minds
What’s driving the doomed attempt to revive coal?
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/fossil-fuels-and-fossilized-minds?r=2hor7
about 22 hours ago
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Bad Bunny and MAGA's Super Bowl of Racism
Sometimes you don’t have to work to figure out where the racists are.
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnpavlovitz/p/bad-bunny-and-magas-super-bowl-of?r=2hor7
about 22 hours ago
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She Was Fired for a Comment on Her Private Facebook Account
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/charlie-kirk-free-speech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p08.N3oR.KAeaR-mCyjhd&smid=url-share
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Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/opinion/democrats-dan-osborne.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p08.4ZS3.cFRzia7tRrky&smid=url-share
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YouTube Settles Trump Lawsuit Over Account Suspension for $24.5 Million
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/technology/youtube-trump-lawsuit-settlement.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk8.NMje.v7y8zvfEwEFT&smid=url-share
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A Baby. A Double Mastectomy. Many Opinions From Fox News Viewers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/style/fox-news-kat-timpf-greg-gutfeld.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk8.P3KZ.ALvUl1OhObEj&smid=url-share
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No Woman Could Have Painted This, They Said. They Were Wrong.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/arts/michaelina-wautier-kunsthistorisches-museum.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk8.VUxR.80nsHN84Qb4N&smid=url-share
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The man behind Project 2025 and with Miller, the powers behind the throne. NYT gift link:
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The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/russell-vought-trump-budget.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk8.rQcB.2Zw-ar7SjW2l&smid=url-share
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Again: Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?
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Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?
Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/why-isnt-the-media-reporting-on-trumps-d1e?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
2 days ago
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Some interesting ideas:
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How to Renew New York
From my recent NY Post OpEd on how New York can get growing again by advancing a bold agenda from the vital center.
https://johnavlon.substack.com/p/how-to-renew-new-york
2 days ago
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Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at least $54 million on administrative costs alone.
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Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirement-gao-report
3 days ago
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Kerry James Marshall on Making ‘the Paintings Nobody Else Is Making’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/arts/design/kerry-james-marshall-royal-academy-london-art-museum.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pU8.ZJQF.Zj6baYnJB99Y&smid=url-share
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3 days ago
He came here 30 years ago & is a gardner in Calif suburbs. He is no criminal, pays taxes, is married to an American & raised 3 sons- all three are US Marines. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him.
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He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/us/narciso-barranco-ice-deport-marines-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in ‘The Night Watch’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/arts/rembrandt-the-night-watch-dog.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pU8.RIM9.7-iWD9x32yMj&smid=url-share
3 days ago
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What Happens When A Politician Takes A Real Stand?
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What Happens When A Politician Takes A Real Stand?
And why so many have decided its better not to.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lucaskunce/p/what-happens-when-a-politician-takes?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
3 days ago
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Trump Is Setting the National Parks Up to Fail
Workers say the real crisis is happening behind the scenes.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2025/09/national-parks-maintenance-research-trump/684379/?gift=Kgbop4DMpgJvsEYLHICIMpe24k59-tagI1Lth5FiwnA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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The Tylenol–Autism Panic Is a Disinformation Campaign. Here’s How It Works and What the Evidence Actually Says
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The Tylenol–Autism Panic Is a Disinformation Campaign. Here’s How It Works and What the Evidence Actually Says
A burst of claims linking acetaminophen (Tylenol) use in pregnancy to autism looks like a textbook disinformation campaign: cherry-picked studies, political amplification, and confident conclusions th...
https://open.substack.com/pub/drrubin/p/the-tylenolautism-panic-is-a-disinformation?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened
The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-fema-florida-naples-sinan-gursoy
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6 days ago
RFK Jr Says U.S. Rejects Global Health Goals The nation’s top federal health official said the United States could not support W.H.O. policies that he claimed promotes abortion and “radical gender ideology.”
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Kennedy Says U.S. Rejects Global Health Goals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/health/rfk-jr-un-chronic-disease.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Inside Our Investigation of Jeffrey Epstein’s Personal Yahoo Account
The previously unreported trove contains revelatory, often chilling, details about the intricate facets of Epstein’s life and his partnership with socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-09-12/epstein-email-investigation-sheds-light-into-crimes-social-network?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1ODg1MDgyNCwiZXhwIjoxNzU5NDU1NjI0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMkhDQUlHUFdDTE8wMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEMDlDREQ4MjI3MUI0NkUzOTc1QThDNUVGNDMxMkIxRSJ9.luNIxjbV4hc9Hl1x12t_y_MRIpWZiI2CA2iZ6-t9Ywc
6 days ago
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Mia Farrow
7 days ago
First the beautiful rose garden was paved over. Now they’re cutting down 200+ year old trees to the clear the way for Trumps ballroom. Taxpayers will pay about a half a billion dollars for this. We don’t need a ballroom. Its for his billionaire pals. Poor beautiful White House
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His lawyers say he did everything right. This Bronx student still lost his asylum case.
Dylan Lopez Contreras, a Bronx high school student detained by federal agents in May, was denied asylum. His lawyers are appealing the ruling, which would send him back to Venezuela.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/09/24/bronx-student-dylan-lopez-contreras-denied-asylum/
6 days ago
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Washington Post gift link:
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First successful Huntington’s treatment slows disease progression
The company behind the experimental treatment says it plans to submit its data seeking approval to U.S. regulators in the first quarter of next year.
https://wapo.st/3If9qXP
7 days ago
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What Went Wrong at RFK Jr’s Vaccine Advisory Committee (ACIP) Meeting and Why it Matters
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What Went Wrong at RFK Jr’s Vaccine Advisory Committee (ACIP) Meeting and Why it Matters
When the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met on September 18–19, 2025, the stakes could not have been higher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/drrubin/p/what-went-wrong-at-rfk-jrs-vaccine?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
10 days ago
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NEW: Jack Smith: "The Department of Justice Was My Home...That Home is Now On Fire."
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NEW: Jack Smith: "The Department of Justice Was My Home...That Home is Now On Fire."
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith delivered remarks at George Mason University this week, warning of the weaponization of the Justice Department under the Trump administration.
https://open.substack.com/pub/muellershewrote/p/new-jack-smith-the-department-of?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
11 days ago
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Bloomberg gift link, good for 7 days:
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Should We Let Public Transit Die?
Urban-rural hostility is fueling a public transportation crisis in US cities. But demands to abandon bus and train riders ignore the economic and social costs of cutting service.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-19/for-us-cities-cutting-public-transportation-has-hidden-costs?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1ODQwNjEzNCwiZXhwIjoxNzU5MDEwOTM0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMlVHTVFHUEZJMEIwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEMDlDREQ4MjI3MUI0NkUzOTc1QThDNUVGNDMxMkIxRSJ9.RZ3vGc-iW2WNtSX6o_6biGhmIRvHE_FPzjoX5wzueCk
11 days ago
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WAS MATTHEW DOWD WRONG, OR JUST TOO HONEST?
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WAS MATTHEW DOWD WRONG, OR JUST TOO HONEST?
When the news broke that Charlie Kirk had been shot, MSNBC analyst Matthew Dowd went on air and said something that cost him his job:
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/was-matthew-dowd-wrong-or-just-too?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
11 days ago
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Paper Clip Protest
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Paper Clip Protest
On Thursday, E.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/paper-clip-protest?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
11 days ago
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When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/magazine/robert-munsch-author-children-books-dementia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE8.cQjk.RRTNAYpfM62M&smid=url-share
12 days ago
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Undaunted
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Undaunted
In Pennsylvania, Governor Shapiro gets it right
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/undaunted-191?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
12 days ago
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Action items if you are unhappy that Jimmy Kimmel's show is off the air: Fill out this ABC customer form here:
support.abc.com/hc/en-us/req...
to urge them to support the First Amendment, Freedom of Speech (etc) and reinstate the show. Email Disney CEO,
[email protected]
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disney.com
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Submit a request – ABC
https://support.abc.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360003079511
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Chaos Inside FEMA as Death Threats Distract From Hurricane Response
Internal documents show how online conspiracies and personal attacks disrupted FEMA during back-to-back hurricanes last year.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-18/chaos-inside-fema-as-conspiracies-and-death-threats-distract-from-hurricanes?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1ODI4NjkzMSwiZXhwIjoxNzU4ODkxNzMxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMlNDNFFHUTFZUUUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEMDlDREQ4MjI3MUI0NkUzOTc1QThDNUVGNDMxMkIxRSJ9.ngrw_5FBnLRmEUOGKId-Hs2bW_b9g-XKCB5Y9m4yS8s
12 days ago
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Why Trump cannot write slavery out of our history
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Why Trump cannot write slavery out of our history
Donald Trump would like nothing better than to pretend that this country was not founded on the backs of slaves.
https://open.substack.com/pub/luciantruscott/p/why-trump-cannot-write-slavery-out?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
12 days ago
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They Came For Jimmy Kimmel
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They Came For Jimmy Kimmel
As a fascist authoritarian, Trump has always wanted to silence the comedians who are his most effective critics.
https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/they-came-for-jimmy-kimmel?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
13 days ago
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NEW: I've Filed a Motion for Summary Judgment to Expedite Release of the Epstein Files Training Videos
My lawyer has filed a motion on behalf of my podcast network for partial summary judgment in my bid to get training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to remove Trump from the Epstein files
https://open.substack.com/pub/muellershewrote/p/new-ive-filed-a-motion-for-summary?r=2hor7
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Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started
As federal agencies review their guidance on fluoridation and the nation’s top health official calls fluoride “industrial waste,” state and local governments are pulling back on the practice, upending...
https://www.propublica.org/article/fluoride-drinking-water-rfk-jr-michigan-cdc-hhs
13 days ago
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Column | Erasing this indelible image of slavery is a terrifying idea
The Trump administration’s reported effort to censor one of the iconic images of American history is a five-alarm fire.
https://wapo.st/4nDMgcA
14 days ago
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Free Speech Limits, Bondied About
The Attorney General got the First Amendment wrong three times in a row.
https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/free-speech-limits-bondied-about?r=2hor7
14 days ago
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Joyce White Vance
14 days ago
Noem & Bondi are running neck and neck to see who can care less about the Constitution. I wrote about Bondi last night:
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add a skeleton here at some point
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A New York Times editor on Trump's new $15 billion lawsuit
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A New York Times editor on Trump's new $15 billion lawsuit
Popular Information talks to David Enrich, who wrote the book on how powerful people exploit the legal system to silence journalists.
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/a-new-york-times-editor-on-trumps?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
14 days ago
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Excerpt from Bloomberg newsletter showing spending by the wealthy is driving retail sales:
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What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist?
The tech mogul is amping up his apocalyptic rhetoric—and adding a dangerous dose of extremism into the already-fraught culture war.
https://newrepublic.com/article/200471/peter-thiel-obsession-antichrist-religion
15 days ago
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Women, Jobs and Charlie Kirk
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Women, Jobs and Charlie Kirk
The serious implications of Kirk's ideas
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/women-jobs-and-charlie-kirk?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
15 days ago
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Inside a ‘Hell on Earth’ in Oklahoma
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/us/liberty-greer-center-abuse-oklahoma.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mE8.wP2g.QKZp6w70z-x4&smid=url-share
16 days ago
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Opinion | Trump Is Scrubbing Slavery From Our Historical Sites
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/opinion/slavery-trump-burgum-history.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mE8.N9X8.oC4Xn8X9RKy_&smid=url-share
16 days ago
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: The Charlie's Murderers Website Has Been Torpedoed. I Spoke to the Hacker.
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: The Charlie's Murderers Website Has Been Torpedoed. I Spoke to the Hacker.
The people behind the Charlie's Murderers website have been forced to change domains and hosting after a hacker corrupted the reporting tool
https://open.substack.com/pub/muellershewrote/p/breaking-exclusive-the-charlies-murderers?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/media/washington-post-charlie-kirk-karen-attiah.html
16 days ago
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