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Jake Lahut
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I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere â the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night.
straightfromthehut.substack.com
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Annie Waldman
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NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. đ§”/
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Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nationâs seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda
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Brian Barrett
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Incredible reporting from
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about a school Mark Zuckerberg opened on his Palo Alto compound and operated for years with no permits, permissions, anything at all
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Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted
Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergsâ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-school-palo-alto-shut-down/
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Not sure whether to recommend reading this before or after breakfast, sorry! New from
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: lots of our food comes from overseas and uh, those factories arenât getting inspected as much as you might want.
www.propublica.org/article/fore...
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Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nationâs seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda
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Jeff Horwitz
about 19 hours ago
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion âhigher legal riskâ scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads.
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https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
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Mike Quigley
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ICE isnât going after the worst of the worst. This morning, they took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district.
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Hillary Borrud
2 days ago
ICE detained a U.S. citizen for 7 hours in Portland after she photographed ICE agents. As of Tuesday morning, ICE still had her phone and her engagement ring, she said.
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ICE detains U.S. citizen for 7 hours after she photographed agents in Oregon
Authorities claim Berenice Garcia-Hernandez "aggressively followed" agents, while she says she was targeted for documenting their presence to warn the community.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/11/ice-detains-us-citizen-for-7-hours-after-she-photographed-agents-in-gresham.html
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What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard
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What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard
In the two months before Trumpâs decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...
https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-protests-national-guard-trump
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Since Trump took office, virtually all CFPB investigations have ground to a halt, including three probes into Andreessen-backed companies, according to the records and the people familiar with the cases.
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Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. Itâs Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administrationâs gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of âterrorizingâ fintech startup...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-valley
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dell cameron
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New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnapâa problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me &
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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICEâs image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-warns-of-criminals-posing-as-ice-urges-agents-to-id-themselves/
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Phil Lewis
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Reggie Williams was walking to a corner store when armed authorities aggressively asked him if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana, he said He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trumpâs police task force: "I don't feel safe"
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âI Donât Feel Safeâ: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trumpâs Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphisâ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
https://www.propublica.org/article/memphis-safe-task-force-police-harassment
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Jen Fifield
3 days ago
Just in: USCIS says in news release that election officials have run more than 46 million queries to check voters' citizenship in expanded SAVE tool, and more than half of states have signed up to use the tool or are in the process. Background:
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Mike Masnick
3 days ago
Look, it's impossible to get just how stupid this is into a single headline, but I tried, okay?
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Gregory Pratt
4 days ago
NEWS: Federal agents crashed with womanâs car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
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Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability
The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/chicago-woman-collision-ice-accountability/?lctg=64878560258254F155C4F504CF&utm_email=64878560258254F155C4F504CF&active=no&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.chicagotribune.com%2f2025%2f11%2f03%2fchicago-woman-collision-ice-accountability%2f&utm_campaign=trib-chicago_tribune-daywatch-nl&utm_content=curated
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max tani
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NYMag blew up its story about ICE's increased presence at 26 Federal Plaza, and pasted it on a wall a few blocks away on Broadway
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JW Mason
4 days ago
This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized.
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Until now, Social Security disability benefits got easier to qualify for as a person reached 50 and above. The Trump plan would end that.
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Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
Planned changes to Social Securityâs disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Presid...
https://www.propublica.org/article/social-security-disability-eligibility-trump-red-states
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"The U.S. Marshals Service told MLK50 and ProPublica that the task force does not track the number of stops law enforcement agencies have made since they surged into the city or how many of those stops resulted in citations or arrests." Seems not great!
www.propublica.org/article/memp...
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âI Donât Feel Safeâ: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trumpâs Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphisâ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
https://www.propublica.org/article/memphis-safe-task-force-police-harassment
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Classics & Virtues
5 days ago
How do you even come up with this idea as a Halloween costume? Maybe geniuses do walk among us
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ProPublica
5 days ago
Qiyam Ansari has asthma â an attack nearly killed him â and even his cat suffers from it. Their region is notorious for its air pollution. Trump has halted rules that would have forced companies to more accurately measure and reduce emissions in such areas. đ Full story:
https://propub.li/4hDtkcb
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Jen Fifield
6 days ago
JUST IN: The Department of Homeland Security says it intends to add state driverâs license information to a swiftly expanding federal system envisioned as a one-stop shop for checking citizenship, raising concerns about privacy and accuracy.
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DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driverâs License Data for Citizenship Checks
Itâs the latest step in an unprecedented initiative to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-citizenship-checks-drivers-license-data
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ProPublica
6 days ago
Tip-or-treat đ This Halloween, a reminder that a great way to scare those abusing their power is to reach out to us on Signal: 917-512-0201. *You, too, can shine a light on injustice by making your own ProPublica pumpkin:
https://propub.li/43AXneD
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Faine Greenwood
6 days ago
âIndividuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,â Nathaniel Raymond, the labâs executive director, said. âBy that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldnât reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.â
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Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10/31/yale-lab-reports-mass-killings-in-sudan-calls-for-student-activism/
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lauren
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i don't throw around the word "hero" too often,
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Chris Morran
7 days ago
NEW: The states with the highest proportion of people relying on disability benefits are West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama â all states that lack their own aid programs for workers to turn to amid federal cuts.
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Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
Planned changes to Social Securityâs disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Presid...
https://www.propublica.org/article/social-security-disability-eligibility-trump-red-states?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=cm
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Sharon Lerner
8 days ago
More than 5 million people face an increased cancer risk because they live near a type of industrial plant that would have been subject to rules put forward by the Biden. The Trump administration is rolling them back By the inimitable
@lisalsong.bsky.social
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Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-air-pollution-pittsburgh-clairton-coke-works
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ProPublica
8 days ago
NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolinaâs Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, heâs driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. By
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âBiblical Justice, Equal Justice, for Allâ: How North Carolinaâs Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolinaâs Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, heâs driven changes that have reverberated well be...
https://www.propublica.org/article/paul-newby-north-carolina-supreme-court?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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For decades, some big polluters were allowed to estimate their emissions using methods the government knew were often unreliable. The EPA was taking more steps to fix that under Biden. Guess what happened next. New from
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Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-air-pollution-pittsburgh-clairton-coke-works
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: recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americansâ Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and privacy, experts say.
www.propublica.org/article/dhs-...
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DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks
A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americansâ Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-social-security-data-voter-citizenship-trump
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Adam Keiper
8 days ago
SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience."
www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...
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SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr
The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trump-replaces-admiral-office-naval-research-rothenhaus-riley-doge
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The Boston Globe
9 days ago
A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent said the DEA made âhigh-level arrestsâ of 171 Sinaloa Cartel members across New England in August. A Globe investigation found that many of the DEAâs targets were addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and homeless people.
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The DEA said they arrested 171 âhigh rankingâ Sinaloa Cartel members. A Spotlight investigation found thatâs not true. - The Boston Globe
A Globe investigation found that the federal agency misrepresented the stature of its targets, claiming cartel ties at a time when the Trump administration is taking lethal military action against such groups.
https://trib.al/sU3WzJt
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Joseph Cox
9 days ago
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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Tracy Jan
9 days ago
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil & gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground & threatening Oklahomaâs drinking water. MUST READ
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's dive into one of OK's largest, most powerful industries
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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 Oklahomaâs drin...
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution
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Eric Umansky
9 days ago
SCOOP The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered The admin cites Trump order: âDefending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Governmentâ I got the memo laying it all out
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Citing Trump Order on âBiological Truth,â VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-male-breast-cancer-coverage-trump-executive-order
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Hypervisible
9 days ago
âThe videos show how Meta has built an entire supply chain for dangerous, privacy violating content on the internet. It sells glasses that allow people to surreptitiously film others in public and operates a social network where inflammatory, outrageous content is rewarded and monetizedâŠâ
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Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers
âThe shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dangerous.â
https://www.404media.co/metas-ray-ban-glasses-users-film-and-harass-massage-parlor-workers/
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"In the first half of this year, the Trump Organizationâs income soared 17-fold to $864 million from $51 million a year earlier, according to Reuters calculations." Wild.
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Inside the Trump familyâs global crypto cash machine
The U.S. presidentâs family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized âon paperâ gains. Much of that cash came from foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons touted their business on an international investor roadshow.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-trump-familys-global-crypto-cash-machine-2025-10-28/
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Parents Fell in Love With Alpha Schoolâs Promise. Then They Wanted Out
In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new schoolâs methodsâsurveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachersâto be an education in and of itself.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-teacher-inside-alpha-school
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ProPublica
10 days ago
NEW: Citing a ProPublica investigation, lawmakers are calling on the FDA to conduct more drug testing and to alert hospitals and other purchasers when foreign manufacturers with safety failures are given a special pass to send their products to the U.S.
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Senators Propose Sweeping Changes to Generic Drug Oversight
Citing a ProPublica investigation, lawmakers are calling on the FDA to conduct more drug testing and to alert hospitals and other purchasers when foreign manufacturers with safety failures are given a...
https://www.propublica.org/article/lawmakers-propose-changes-drug-oversight-fda?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Senators Propose Sweeping Changes to Generic Drug Oversight
Citing a ProPublica investigation, lawmakers are calling on the FDA to conduct more drug testing and to alert hospitals and other purchasers when foreign manufacturers with safety failures are given a...
https://www.propublica.org/article/lawmakers-propose-changes-drug-oversight-fda
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Andy Kroll
14 days ago
I obtained ~dozens of hours~ of previously unreported recordings of Russ Vought's briefings from 2021 to 2024. Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch
@propublica.org
's new mini-documentary about Vought đ THE SHADOW PRESIDENT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
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Russell Vought: The Shadow President
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1LuV82l0vs
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
15 days ago
Excessive government secrecy literally makes you sick. Great FOIA reporting from
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Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Wonât Tell You.
The agencyâs decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures t...
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-hides-drug-names-contaminated-factories
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15 days ago
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NEW: The FDA routinely redacts drug names on its factory inspection reports, making it difficult for Americans to learn whether their meds are made at substandard factories.
www.propublica.org/article/fda-...
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Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Wonât Tell You.
The agencyâs decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures t...
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-hides-drug-names-contaminated-factories
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ProPublica
15 days ago
LIVE NOW —ïž
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Want to know how the Trump administrationâs vision for education in the US might play out? Look to Oklahoma. New from
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www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools
Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in Americaâs history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its âAmerica Fi...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-oklahoma-public-schools
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Anna Bower
17 days ago
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. âAnna, Lindsey Halligan here,â it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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