@benolietz.bsky.social
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📽️ WATCH: Photographer @annie-flanagan.bsky.social went to Clairton, PA, where residents live in the shadow of the country’s largest coke plant. Coke is a product used to manufacture steel.
This is what Annie saw — and inhaled — while on assignment in Clairton.
Link to our story below ⤵️
This is what Annie saw — and inhaled — while on assignment in Clairton.
Link to our story below ⤵️
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
📽️ WATCH: Photographer @annie-flanagan.bsky.social went to Clairton, PA, where residents live in the shadow of the country’s largest coke plant. Coke is a product used to manufacture steel.
This is what Annie saw — and inhaled — while on assignment in Clairton.
Link to our story below ⤵️
This is what Annie saw — and inhaled — while on assignment in Clairton.
Link to our story below ⤵️
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Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
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I am not a lawyer. David Super is *the* lawyer. If he says the Trump Administration is illegally withholding SNAP benefits, they are. So...they are.
"A more clearly unlawful impoundment is difficult to imagine."
"A more clearly unlawful impoundment is difficult to imagine."
My latest on the Administration's wildly unlawful shutdown of SNAP. To buy their argument, you must ignore the interpretation they took Sept. 30 and repeatedly in the first Trump Administration. Shamelesly and gratuitously cruel.
Balkinization share.google/yaVtx89DJsIR...
Balkinization share.google/yaVtx89DJsIR...
Balkinization
Balkinization
<br>an unanticipated consequence of
<br>Jack M. Balkin
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share.google
October 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I am not a lawyer. David Super is *the* lawyer. If he says the Trump Administration is illegally withholding SNAP benefits, they are. So...they are.
"A more clearly unlawful impoundment is difficult to imagine."
"A more clearly unlawful impoundment is difficult to imagine."
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The judge points out that the 76 pages of grand jury testimony are a drop in the well compared to the 100,000 documents the government could release.
JUST IN: Judge Berman agrees that effort by DOJ to unseal Epstein grand jury files is a “diversion” when DOJ could just release a trove of far more comprehensive documents without court involvement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
August 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The judge points out that the 76 pages of grand jury testimony are a drop in the well compared to the 100,000 documents the government could release.
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UNEARTHED: Donald Trump judges the 1991 Look of the Year modeling competition organized by Elite Model Management, featuring participants as young at 14-years-old.
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July 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
UNEARTHED: Donald Trump judges the 1991 Look of the Year modeling competition organized by Elite Model Management, featuring participants as young at 14-years-old.
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SCOOP: Elon Musk's DOGE has started rolling out a dedicated website and other digital infrastructure for Trump's $5 million gold card program, which he said would allow wealthy people to buy US residency. From me & @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
A 'Trump Card Visa' Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms
Donald Trump has proposed launching a "gold card" program offering US residency for $5 million. Elon Musk’s DOGE has begun rolling out the technology to enable it.
www.wired.com
May 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
SCOOP: Elon Musk's DOGE has started rolling out a dedicated website and other digital infrastructure for Trump's $5 million gold card program, which he said would allow wealthy people to buy US residency. From me & @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
This should be an impeachable offense.
WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
May 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This should be an impeachable offense.
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open.substack.com/pub/closerto...
Long yet vital to read until the end or listen and share. She brings the receipts. ⚖️🇺🇸⚖️🕶️☕️
Long yet vital to read until the end or listen and share. She brings the receipts. ⚖️🇺🇸⚖️🕶️☕️
SHE CONNECTED THE DOTS BEFORE THE REST OF US EVEN FOUND THE PENCIL
Heather Cox Richardson just handed us the clearest, most unflinching blueprint of how the U.S.
open.substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
open.substack.com/pub/closerto...
Long yet vital to read until the end or listen and share. She brings the receipts. ⚖️🇺🇸⚖️🕶️☕️
Long yet vital to read until the end or listen and share. She brings the receipts. ⚖️🇺🇸⚖️🕶️☕️
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A really important email from my friend Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social . As he says "this is a 5 alarm fire."
America is under attack right now.
America is under attack right now.
February 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A really important email from my friend Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social . As he says "this is a 5 alarm fire."
America is under attack right now.
America is under attack right now.
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New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
February 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
February 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
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I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x
Trying to find all the lovely folks I followed on the Twits before I officially delete that crap app. Anyone know of a good way to find/download a list of from the bird app?? Musty's made it difficult 😒😒
PS: I love birbs, just not that app anymore 😒
PS: I love birbs, just not that app anymore 😒
January 31, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Trying to find all the lovely folks I followed on the Twits before I officially delete that crap app. Anyone know of a good way to find/download a list of from the bird app?? Musty's made it difficult 😒😒
PS: I love birbs, just not that app anymore 😒
PS: I love birbs, just not that app anymore 😒