Eric Barker
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Newspaper reporter at the Lewiston Tribune focused on fish, outdoor recreation, and the environment.
Idaho Fish and Game seeks information on bighorn ram poached and left to waste near Riggins.
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Bighorn ram shot and left to waste along Big Salmon Road
Idaho Fish and Game and Wild Sheep Foundation are offering reward for information on poacher
https://www.lmtribune.com/local-news/bighorn-ram-shot-and-left-to-waste-along-big-salmon-road-20950085
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New York Times Opinion
13 days ago
Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.
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Opinion | Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello Dynamic Pricing.
Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.
https://nyti.ms/49JEgTz
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Laura Bassett
23 days ago
A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me
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Once thought stable, one of Hells Canyon's iconic species is in trouble.
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Sturgeon in Hells Canyon are on the decline
Regional fisheries managers are seeking ways to help the fish that have been vexed by dams and predation
https://www.lmtribune.com/local-news/sturgeon-in-hells-canyon-are-on-the-decline-20834537
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Justin Wolfers
24 days ago
The plow, the steam engine, electricity — all replaced muscle. AI replaces cognition. If you spend your day “reading lots of stuff and turning it into straight English,” well… so does the machine. The goal now is to learn from history and cushion the blow better than last time.
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Mike Sacks
25 days ago
Trump’s War on Carolina Christians
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The Tennessee Holler
25 days ago
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
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"If he was some kind of narcoterrorist,” she said, “then why are we living in misery instead of a mansion?”
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Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/world/americas/trump-drug-boat-strikes-colombian-fisherman.html
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Catherine Rampell
about 1 month ago
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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Alexandra (Alex) Duggan
about 1 month ago
BREAKING: Two Spokane Police officers resigned this year amid an investigation into allegations they were seducing victims of domestic violence, hundreds of documents show. MORE:
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
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Two Spokane Police officers resign amid investigation for on-duty sexual acts with domestic violence victims
Two Spokane police officers have resigned within the past year amid internal affairs investigations into allegations that they had used their badge to seduce women who were victims of domestic violenc...
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/oct/30/two-spokane-police-officers-resign-amid-investigat/
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Mother Jones
about 1 month ago
During a press conference this week in Gary, Indiana, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem brazenly claimed no US citizens have been detained or arrested by ICE, and labeled any reporting to the contrary is “simply not true”. But Noem is ignoring the facts.
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know. By
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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
https://www.propublica.org/article/health-insurance-denial-external-review?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1761706807&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Stan Oklobdzija
about 2 months ago
"Provincial officials allied with the Trump regime have jailed a political dissident for over a month after he made comments on social media critical of the authoritarian leader and a recently slain political ally who founded an influential group to radicalize America's 'White' ethnic majority."
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The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/23/charlie-kirk-meme-arrest-tennessee-larry-bushart/?utm_content=bufferab6b8&utm_medium=buffer&utm_source=bsky&utm_campaign=theintercept
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The Bulwark
about 2 months ago
"No planning. No proposals to the National Capital Planning Commission. No opportunity for notice and comment from the public. Just Trump’s whim—and a beloved national symbol tumbles to dust. It’s obscene." @monacharen.bsky.social on Trump's White House demolition
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"What the fuck? How is this real? This is a nightmare"
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Craig Welch
2 months ago
Journalism, he said, is how we know what's happening in troubled lands. "These extraordinary eyewitness accounts are the culmination of the daily efforts of countless people who work to ensure that information isn't manipulated for ends contrary to truth and human dignity“
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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
https://apnews.com/article/pope-free-press-media-journalists-c826e0567122d6fa7c094850787c1a39?fbclid=IwY2xjawNWL9pleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEwZktCQTdweXoxTk9MVXpFAR4F4410MSSsaEMCTxI38V-93TgXtaOkpSTAqkfBBGikmMcWaMVrotR0CPDYag_aem_Mw-lv6Ec3sQhR3wAg5Ibdg
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Adam Serwer
2 months ago
John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine
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“The [US] supreme court hasn’t wanted to be Churchill.” Levitsky said. “John Roberts has been Chamberlain. I think that is incredible destructive behavior.”
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Anil Kalhan
2 months ago
"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'"
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I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
https://newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-citizen-and-a-veteran-ice?utm_medium=web
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Ron Filipkowski
2 months ago
American taxpayers are paying people to post Bible verses on a US government account.
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris
2 months ago
Deeply disappointed in my alma mater for this
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Amy Tidd
2 months ago
Thanks Carl!
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The Oregonian
2 months ago
Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.
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Elliott Young
2 months ago
“This is perhaps the most extreme sign that the Supreme Court has abandoned law for politics,” he said in a statement. “There is no way under law to make sense of the vast new power the court has taken for itself.”
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Revoke Deportation Protections for Venezuelans
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/politics/supreme-court-deportation-protections-venezuelans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Clara Jeffery
2 months ago
ICE agent sprays a woman criticizing them with mace, nothing more threatening on her part
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TikTok video by @
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Some federal agency and department websites are posting unusually partisan messages on their websites blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.
2 months ago
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Drew Harwell
2 months ago
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
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Chip Mitchell
2 months ago
Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S.
#BorderPatrol
, claims a
@wbez.org
/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown
#Chicago
was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
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Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on ‘how they look’
WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/30/transcript-audio-gregory-bovino-immigrant-arrests-downtown-chicago-chosen-how-they-look
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Lauren Necochea
2 months ago
Heartbreaking. Their disregard for human life knows no bounds.
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The New York Times
2 months ago
In
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
“A strategy for remaking the Democratic Party is coming together — a coalition of moderates and progressives leaning into economic populism while leaving room to maneuver in the culture war,” writes Tim Shenk.
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Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.
A blistering assault on economic elites, a moderate stance on cultural issues and a rejection of politics as usual. That’s how to remake the Democratic Party.
https://nyti.ms/4gSjbYO
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The New York Times
2 months ago
For those who were directly targeted by Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric, bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech signal the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views, Nikole Hannah-Jones writes in an essay for The New York Times Magazine.
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What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/magazine/charlie-kirk-rhetoric.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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An Idaho Department of Lands firefighter died Friday after being struck by a tree on a prescribed fire east of Kooskia.
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Firefighter from Minnesota was on prescribed fire related to timber sale
https://www.lmtribune.com/local-news/idaho-firefighter-dies-after-being-hit-by-falling-tree-near-kooskia-f5ef3b45
2 months ago
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Bill Kristol
2 months ago
I'm not a big MLS fan, but I see the Portland Timbers are playing all their games and even doing pretty well, despite playing in a war ravaged city. And Powell's Books, the world's largest independent bookstore, is holding book readings pretty much every night. Impressive. Like London 1940.
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Jon Walker
2 months ago
As a resident of
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it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway
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Dustin
2 months ago
War ravaged Portland.
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Heather Knight
3 months ago
Scoop: Trump fired a U.S. Attorney in Sacramento less than six hours after she told his California border patrol chief to abide by court orders and the Constitution while conducting his immigration raids. With
@haleaziz.bsky.social
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Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/trump-fires-us-attorney-california-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Radley Balko
3 months ago
One pretty foolproof way to know your government is fascist is when your government tries to punish you for calling it fascist.
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Given other disturbing news, this
@nytimes.com
story about a chip deal involving the U.A.E and the Trump and Witkoff families is flying under the radar. But it's bonkers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
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Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chips-witkoff-world-liberty.html
3 months ago
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Karen Attiah
3 months ago
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
https://substack.com/@karenattiah/note/p-173531760?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2bz6j
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Grist
3 months ago
How a profit-sharing agreement could be a new model for mining on Indigenous land.
grist.org/indigenous/h...
#Mining
#Indigenous
#Mines
#Gold
#Silver
#Metals
#Canada
#Canadian
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How a profit-sharing agreement could be a new model for mining on Indigenous land
The unprecedented deal the Shoshone-Paiute struck with a Canadian gold company will test whether mining can align with Indigenous rights.
https://grist.org/indigenous/how-a-profit-sharing-agreement-could-be-a-new-model-for-mining-on-indigenous-land/
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James Downie
3 months ago
NBC: "DOJ says names of two associates Epstein wired $100k and $250k to should stay secret." The payments were made shortly after the Miami Herald began publishing
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social
's investigative series:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Paul Waldman
4 months ago
What if Russia sends sharks with lasers on their heads and they grab onto the windmill at the bottom and then the centrifugal force hurls them onto our territory and then boom, there's laser sharks right on your street, President Trump is very concerned about that and every American should be too
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Aaron Rupar
4 months ago
Trump: "The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, 'You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.'"
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Acyn
4 months ago
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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Gillian Brockell
4 months ago
Here’s what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub. Not one of those men helped her up the stairs. Courtesy
@lalabote.bsky.social
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Brendan Nyhan
4 months ago
Seven months into Trump II and state police are threatening an elected representative with a felony for communicating with the press.
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Alan Elrod
4 months ago
These are lose-lose scenarios where you can either comply and be kidnapped (possibly by the federal gov’t, possibly by random vigilantes) or fail to comply and be treated with even more aggressive force.
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 months ago
So if a group of men -- all of them wearing masks, with no uniforms or badges visible, driving unmarked cars -- approach anyone on the streets of DC, they're just supposed to submit?
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The coolest wanted picture of all time.
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Idaho State Police hunts for biker who escaped near Hubbard Gulch
Idaho State Police are looking for a man last seen running away from them through farm fields near Hubbard Gulch.
https://www.lmtribune.com/local-news/idaho-state-police-hunts-for-biker-who-escaped-near-hubbard-gulch-20022365
5 months ago
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