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Ben Shapiro
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Makes radio documentaries, mostly at Radio Diaries, and films, latest *Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes*
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The annual Penn Center Heritage Day Parade in South Carolina celebrates the Gullah Geechee people. But after several years of traffic complaints, the parade has been scaled back. Black residents say a new route makes it feel as if their legacy is vanishing. nyti.ms/3LxuAl2
November 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Trump’s Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday that the 20 U.S. Army soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor, for their participation in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, may keep them.

This is nothing more than a disgraceful celebration of the Native American Genocide.
September 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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What's public about public media, and why does that matter? Today I'm re-broadcasting a fantastic, inspiring, sobering conversation between Jay Allison
@jayall.bsky.social, founder of WCAI and @transom.bsky.social, and Erica Heilman, host of Rumble Strip soonish.simplecast.com/episodes/wha...
What We're Losing If We Lose Public Media | Soonish
Today we're bringing you an episode of our sister Hub & Spoke show Rumble Strip, from producer Erica Heilman. It's a conversation with Jay Allison about public media—what it's for, why it's important,...
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September 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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This seems bad
September 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Hi, immunologist here:

(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)

RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”

That’s NOT how immunology works.

He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
August 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Last night public radio lost federal funding. I encourage podcast producers to pull for public radio now. Reach out to your listeners. Encourage them to give. Shows like mine would not exist without public radio. www.rumblestripvermont.com/campaigns/vi...
A personal note on a terrible day
Hello everyone! It’s a terrible day!
www.rumblestripvermont.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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wrote about the spirit of public good that birthed public media in the U.S., the Senate's vote to halt all federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and what this really means for your favorite NPR and PBS stations, both local and national: slate.com/technology/2...
LBJ Called It a “Miracle.” Trump’s GOP Just Voted to Kill It.
Congress is gutting the last free information source for many rural Americans. The reason why is ridiculous.
slate.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Eric Adams is trying to use e-bike enforcement to deliver immigrants to ICE, which is evil enough, but in the process is sending innocent regular bike riders to criminal court
Policy Change: NYPD Will Write Criminal Summonses, Not Traffic Tickets, for Cyclists - Streetsblog New York City
Quietly, the NYPD has changed policy and will now make criminal cases against cyclists who go through red lights, a change that will have predictable and unpredictable ramifications.
nyc.streetsblog.org
May 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Was speaking with a USAID person yesterday explaining how at any other time countless phone lines wld be buzzing, working groups stood up, go-teams and aid being dispatched to after the Myanmar quake. Now ... nothing.
March 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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NEW: The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes.

“If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would you cut back on the revenue side?” one expert asks.

By @andykroll.bsky.social
How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would…
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March 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.

Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.

Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.

See how this works?
February 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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“The CFPB is there to make sure that Elon's new project can't scam you or steal your sensitive personal data...This is like a bank robber trying to fire the cops, and turn off the alarms just before he strolls into the lobby.” US Sen. Elizabeth Warren

More here:
More Good News For Us That’s Bad For Trump
Onward.
www.dworkinsubstack.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.
February 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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What if I told you that in a small, rust belt city, where abandoned buildings line the streets, kids are doing better in reading than in some of the richest school districts in America? www.youtube.com/shorts/KsBNf...
The Outlier: Steubenville, Ohio
YouTube video by APM Reports
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February 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Trump's latest executive order puts independent agencies — including the FTC, SEC, and NLRB — under his direct control.

It's a blatant attempt to shield his corporate donors and his own business from agencies that hold the powerful accountable.

This is an alarming power-grab.
February 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Today, shortly after being sworn in, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an explicit threat via directive, indicating that Justice Department lawyers could be fired if they refuse to advance legal arguments on behalf of Trump's administration.

Bondi fired off a memo stating "any Justice…
February 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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We have new episodes of Sold a Story coming on February 20. www.youtube.com/shorts/zJgsx...
The end of the story has yet to be written
YouTube video by APM Reports
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February 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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The top lawyer at the Office of Personnel Management is a self-described “raging misogynist” who for years has talked up a “campaign” to purge the federal civil service and staff it with MAGA diehards.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/opms-to...
OPM’s Top Lawyer Is A ‘Raging Misogynist’ With A Plan To Break The Civil Service
The top lawyer at the Office of Personnel Management is a self-described...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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It’s not about believing DEIs great and wonderful it’s about understanding we’re living through an organized and deliberate effort to enforce hierarchy. This is being done by elites across the ideological spectrum and we do ourselves a disservice by hoping the fallout will somehow benefit our ideals
January 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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THIS is 💯 how I feel.

We can’t wait until the midterms to DO SOMETHING!

The felon is destroying our country more and more each day, and our elected Dems need to speak up NOW.

Please watch this video from Politics Girl.

#Voices4Victory #LiveBlue

youtube.com/shorts/zBYoY...
What The F***?!
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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January 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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📽️ WATCH: At ProPublica, we’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing the second Trump administration.

If you are a federal employee and have tips, documents, data or stories you can share that the public should know about, reach out: www.propublica.org/tips/
Do You Work for the Federal Government? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You
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January 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM