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Jimmy Cloutier
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Level 33 human | Investigative Data Reporter @post-gazette.com | Previously at @opensecrets.org, News21 | RPCV Armenia 🇦🇲 | Québécois + American

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The national security threat:
A still image from Flow, an award-winning animated film from Latvia about a cat that survives a biblical flood.
May 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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December 16, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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I guess I’m not going anywhere anytime soon.
Cat sleeping on my lap.
November 20, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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Happy Birthday to the late great Kurt Vonnegut. Here is a letter he sent to the chairman of the Drake High School Board in North Dakota who ordered Vonnegut’s books burned. Seems as relevant today as then.
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If you were to bother to read my books, to behave as educated persons would, you would learn that they are not sexy, and do not argue in favor of wildness of any kind. They beg that people be kinder and more responsible than they often are. It is true that some of the characters speak coarsely. That is because people speak coarsely in real life. Especially soldiers and hardworking men speak coarsely, and even our most sheltered children know that. And we all know, too, that those words really don't damage children much. They didn't damage us when we were young. It was evil deeds and lying that hurt us.
November 11, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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Outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin weighs in on Dave McCormick’s presumed victory in Pa. U.S. Senate race. Incumbent Sen. Bob Casey hasn’t conceded and the razor-margin could trigger an automatic recount.
November 10, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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I’m devastated for my former colleagues — and shocked that this news comes just days after the most expensive election in U.S. history.
SCOOP: OpenSecrets, the nonpartisan money-in-politics research nonprofit, laid off 10 employees yesterday due to financial difficulties. Much of the research team were among the casualties, which constituted around a third of the group's total headcount.
November 8, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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The latest from Sen. Bob Casey. Per AP, GOP challenger Dave McCormick leads Casey by about 30,000 with 99% reporting.
The Bob Casey for Senate campaign released the following statement on the ongoing vote count in Pennsylvania. Statement from Maddy McDaniel, spokesperson for Bob Casey for Senate: "The count in Pennsylvania is still continuing. Yesterday, the vote margin shrunk by 50,000 votes and this race is now within half a point, the threshold for automatic recounts in Pennsylvania. With tens of thousands more votes to be counted, we are committed to ensuring every Pennsylvanian's vote is heard and confident that at the end of that process, Senator Casey will be re-elected." ###
November 7, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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Outside spending has surpassed $3.4 billion this election cycle, shattering records. Per @opensecretsdc.bsky.social:
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October 23, 2024 at 9:30 PM