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Senior editor of
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's data journalism teams. Super gay. Sometimes printmaker.
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Last year I picked up printmaking and linocutting as a hobby, and yesterday I ran this giant 18x24 print of the sky over Fire Island. I was trying to translate that big and calming sense you get when it’s warm and breezy out and you’re just watching the clouds go by.
#linocut
#printmaking
#artsky
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ProPublica
1 day ago
NEW: Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food. “It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said.
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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 nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fruit.
https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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dan sinker
3 days ago
I spent Halloween chasing ghosts. Not kids in costumes, or jumpscares in a haunted house. I spent Halloween chasing ghosts of a different kind: careening from one ICE spotting to another. I wrote an essay about it, and about other ghosts we’re chasing.
dansinker.com/posts/202…
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Gregory Pratt
3 days ago
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
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southpaw
3 days ago
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Damon Beres
4 days ago
“We can’t police that whole thing,” Common Crawl said. “It’s not our job. We’re just a bunch of dusty bookshelves.” Meanwhile, CC has accepted hundreds of thousands in donations from AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. And it expressed open antagonism toward the media:
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Jen Fifield
4 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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
4 days ago
In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
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max tani
4 days ago
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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Aaron Rupar
5 days ago
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
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Catherine Rampell
5 days 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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Chris Morran
6 days ago
How did
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reporter
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learn that the Trump administration had just gone ahead and made it significantly harder for male vets with breast cancer to get coverage? This crucial info was not made public. Read his 🧵 for the details👇
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The Weekend on MSNBC
7 days ago
“Our diversity is our strength, but it can also be a weakness” Former Governor and NYC Mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo stresses the need for a united NYC and says diversity can cause problems when there’s “antipathy between groups”.
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depths of wikipedia
7 days ago
If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)
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Kosh
7 days ago
Andrew Cuomo interview this morning on MSNBC and he… -said diversity could be a weakness -continued to repeatedly mispronounce “Mamdami” -CONFUSED TWO BLACK ANCHORS WITH EACH OTHER
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Dolan's Knicks
8 days ago
My question would be what is the salience of the issue set? Congestion pricing polled terribly. Yet, its salience was low.
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This is a lie:
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Philip Bump
9 days ago
I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
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Caitlin Kelly
9 days ago
cool cool cool cool cool
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Kevin Collins
9 days ago
The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended
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Noah Shachtman
9 days ago
ADL used to rightfully and regularly boast that it was one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the country.
www.jta.org/2025/10/29/u...
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ADL removes ‘Protect Civil Rights’ from website as it narrows its mission amid right-wing attacks - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The removal took place after FBI Director Kash Patel said he would cut ties with the ADL, though it is unclear if that has happened.
https://www.jta.org/2025/10/29/united-states/dl-removes-protect-civil-rights-from-website-as-it-narrows-its-mission-amid-right-wing-attacks
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Full ass MTA meltdown between Manhattan and Brooklyn
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David Bier
9 days ago
WOW! The Washington Post obtained the rest of the body cam footage showing that the drunk-driving ICE agent promised to check if the arresting officer's partner was Haitian. "I’m going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."
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Kyle Cheney
9 days ago
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
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Reuters Legal
9 days ago
The U.S. Justice Department placed two prosecutors on leave on Wednesday, hours after they referred to Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as "a mob of rioters" in a sentencing memo, said four people familiar with the matter.
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US prosecutors suspended after calling January 6 defendants 'mob of rioters,' sources say
The U.S. Justice Department placed two prosecutors on leave on Wednesday, hours after they referred to Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as "a mob of rioters" in a sentencing memo, said four people familiar with the matter.
https://reut.rs/3Wr0ySj
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The Boston Globe
10 days ago
A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent said the DEA made “high-level arrests” of 171 Sinaloa Cartel members across New England in August. A Globe investigation found that many of the DEA’s targets were addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and homeless people.
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The DEA said they arrested 171 ‘high ranking’ Sinaloa Cartel members. A Spotlight investigation found that’s 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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southpaw
10 days ago
Nazis openly organize on Elon Musk’s X platform and the Nazi fundraising outfit GiveSendGo to bail out a Nazi in Georgia who donned an SS uniform and assaulted a woman with a glass pitcher.
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Eric Umansky
10 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: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” I got the memo laying it all out
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
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Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” 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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Jesse Eisinger
10 days ago
NEW: About 100 male veterans a year get diagnosed w/ breast cancer. It’s usually due to a toxic exposure. Now the Trump Admin is making it harder for them to get their treatment covered. The reason? Basically: Real men don’t get it.
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sean kuhn
10 days ago
NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is:
defector.com/products
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Bill Grueskin
11 days ago
These shots were fired by a Homeland Security officer at an unarmed Black man in DC. Officers saw tinted windows, lack of front license plate, and said he was trying to flee. Judge dismissed all charges. “Miraculously, every shot missed," says his lawyer.
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Katharine Hayhoe
11 days ago
Stunning video of the enormous eye at the center of hurricane Melissa. Taken by the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron “Hurricane Hunters” just before they had to abandon their mission. Melissa is extremely dangerous, the strongest Atlantic hurricane to occur this late in the season.
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US Air Force provides views from inside Hurricane Melissa
The U.S. Defense Department has released footage of views inside Hurricane Melissa. The military said a U.S.
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Colin Boyle
11 days ago
Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino arrives at the Federal Building in Chicago's Loop this morning.
#OnAssignment
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Brad Heath
11 days ago
In the first half of this year, the income of President Trump's family business soared 17-fold to $864 million, based almost entirely on new crypto ventures that have been a magnet for overseas cash, a Reuters investigation found.
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Chip Stewart
11 days ago
Just about spit out my coffee when I saw this in my morning newspaper
@theonion.com
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Mitch Ryals
11 days ago
A Homeland Security Investigations agent shot at an unarmed Black man during a traffic stop on Oct. 17. But a
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officer omitted any mention of the shooting from his reports, apparently under instruction from a "team leader."
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A Federal Agent Shot at a Driver in D.C. An MPD Officer Was Told To Omit the Shooting from His Report.
An HSI agent fired three times into a vehicle police claimed was trying to flee. The charges were dismissed during a preliminary hearing.
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/773235/federal-agent-shot-coverup-mpd-police-report/
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Chris Geidner
11 days ago
BREAKING: The full Fifth Circuit decided that it will be rehearing the case over West Texas A&M's effort to ban a charity drag show from campus. The panel, on a 2-1 vote, sided with the student group. The Fifth Circuit decided to go en banc even after the school didn't seek en banc review.
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Brian Rosenworcel
12 days ago
Joe Rogan is confusing measles with chicken pox
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jamelle
12 days ago
once again, i think electoral college maps shape people's sense of political reality in incredibly destructive ways
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As we reported earlier this month, many food banks are already reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of 94 million pounds of deliveries that were already scheduled:
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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Alastair Coote
12 days ago
Everybody wants swing voters to have some kind of consistent political ideology and at every turn they refuse
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Chris Geidner
12 days ago
And former chief counsel for nominations to Grassley on Judiciary. This was someone who came to where he is at now right through the middle of the “traditional” GOP elites’ path.
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As we reported earlier this month, many food banks are already reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of 94 million pounds of deliveries that were already scheduled:
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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Jesse Eisinger
12 days ago
A great passage from a great novel. The Oppermanns, 1933.
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Alex Baumhardt
15 days ago
Feds have repeatedly claimed 115+ federal police (25% of force) had to be deployed to Portland over the summer to quell violence. Oregon lawyers found on discovery this was not true and are asking 9th Circuit to reverse Monday decision because feds lied:
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Jacob Harris
15 days ago
It's like a Birdwatcher's Guide to Dystopia
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Aaron Rupar
15 days ago
COLLINS: Today you pardoned the founded of Binance. Can you explain why you did that? TRUMP: Which one was that? COLLINS: The founder of Binance TRUMP: I believe we're talking about the same person, because I do pardon a lot of people. I don't know. He was recommended by a lot of people.
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Adam Klasfeld
15 days ago
What on Orwell’s green earth is a “figurative” bounty?
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Ken Klippenstein
15 days ago
I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime. While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...
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VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester
“Your name was brought up.”
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-agents-visit-anti-ice-protester
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Carl Quintanilla
16 days ago
This photo.
@sfstandard.com
#SFO
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