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Good morning, New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story on.ft.com/48jhdhG
September 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Good morning, New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story on.ft.com/48jhdhG
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One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...
www.propublica.org
August 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
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A Tarrant County resident who has worked as an election judge criticized the county’s move to cut more than 100 polling sites.
“You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.”
With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
“You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.”
With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally
The decision by commissioners in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
www.propublica.org
August 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A Tarrant County resident who has worked as an election judge criticized the county’s move to cut more than 100 polling sites.
“You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.”
With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
“You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.”
With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
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No words.
This is…
a) …laughable
b) …dangerous
c) …damaging
This is…
a) …laughable
b) …dangerous
c) …damaging
Vance on undermining the Federal Reserve: "I don't think we allow bureaucrats to make decisions about monetary policy and interest rates without any input from the people that were elected to serve the American people...POTUS is much better able to make these determinations."
August 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
No words.
This is…
a) …laughable
b) …dangerous
c) …damaging
This is…
a) …laughable
b) …dangerous
c) …damaging
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As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
August 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
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Fact check: true
Janet Yellen weighs in: Trump’s claim that he has “fired” Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook “for cause” is not only unlawful. It is profoundly dangerous. on.ft.com/3UKtLa1
Trump’s attack on the Fed threatens US credibility
History teaches us that chaos follows when leaders undermine the independence of central banks
on.ft.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Fact check: true
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This is a smart piece by @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social that applies to DC, but also more widely. Protest and resistance don't necessarily take the form of big marches, but that's what we (and media in particular) have conditioned ourselves to expect. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The resistance is active in DC—you’re just not looking closely enough
It's not massive protests on Pennsylvania Avenue, but happenstance hecklers and Nextdoor posts.
www.motherjones.com
August 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is a smart piece by @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social that applies to DC, but also more widely. Protest and resistance don't necessarily take the form of big marches, but that's what we (and media in particular) have conditioned ourselves to expect. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma. For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns.
Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce’s Push for Elon Musk’s xAI Data Center
In the face of intense public opposition, the city’s Chamber of Commerce has gone to unusual lengths to promote Musk’s xAI facility: sending out a mailer, for the first time in recent memory, that inc...
www.propublica.org
August 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma. For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns.
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Trump stays silent on Gaza’s famine
Trump stays silent on Gaza’s famine
The US president has said nothing about a devastating new report.
www.motherjones.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Trump stays silent on Gaza’s famine
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BREAKING: Gavin Newsom just launched his “Patriot Store” to raise money to redistrict California.
Please donate or at least SHARE!
Please donate or at least SHARE!
August 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
BREAKING: Gavin Newsom just launched his “Patriot Store” to raise money to redistrict California.
Please donate or at least SHARE!
Please donate or at least SHARE!
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Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s memoir to be published posthumously
Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s memoir to be published posthumously
Nobody’s Girl, which Giuffre had been working on before her death, is set to be released this autumn
The posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, will be published in the autumn, a publisher has announced.
Giuffre had been working on Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, with the award-winning author and journalist Amy Wallace before her death earlier this year.
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www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s memoir to be published posthumously
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“I remember the first time that I saw a little girl, she was eight months old, brought to me—she was sticks and bones and she was dead.”
A doctor in Gaza describes the horror of starvation.
A doctor in Gaza describes the horror of starvation.
A doctor in Gaza describes the horror of starvation
"I remember the first time that I saw a little girl, she was eight months old, brought to me—she was sticks and bones and she was dead."
www.motherjones.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“I remember the first time that I saw a little girl, she was eight months old, brought to me—she was sticks and bones and she was dead.”
A doctor in Gaza describes the horror of starvation.
A doctor in Gaza describes the horror of starvation.
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Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people
Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.
www.motherjones.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Tell me the president doesn’t understand the economy without telling me the president doesn’t understand the economy.
Your occasional reminder -- as arrivals on student visas decrease 28% -- that tuition from foreign students counts as an export, which means that every rejected student visa is going to contribute to the US trade deficit.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Student Arrivals to US Continue to Plummet, With Asia Hit Especially Hard
Visitors to the US arriving on student visas plunged in July, falling year-on-year for a fourth straight month.
www.bloomberg.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Tell me the president doesn’t understand the economy without telling me the president doesn’t understand the economy.
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Where are all the "Nancy Pelosi belongs in prison for insider trading" people at now?
August 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Where are all the "Nancy Pelosi belongs in prison for insider trading" people at now?
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With the new release of video and documents around the disastrous police response in Uvalde, it's worth reiterating that another side of that awful tragedy still deserves far more attention: the array of warning signs and how the massacre could've been prevented www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Uvalde school massacre could have been prevented
The disastrous police response demands further scrutiny—and so does another side of the horrific tragedy.
www.motherjones.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
With the new release of video and documents around the disastrous police response in Uvalde, it's worth reiterating that another side of that awful tragedy still deserves far more attention: the array of warning signs and how the massacre could've been prevented www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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NEW: A district court granted a temporary restraining order in this case today, ruling the feds must provide detained people at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC w notice of their legal rights, adequate space & sleeping conditions, hygiene products, & free/regular phone calls to their attorneys. Story updated
No showers, sleeping on concrete floors: The “squalid” conditions for immigrants in NYC
Detainees at 26 Federal Plaza are being denied access to attorneys, medication, hygiene products, and adequate food, according to a legal filing. @motherjones.com
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Detainees at 26 Federal Plaza are being denied access to attorneys, medication, hygiene products, and adequate food, according to a legal filing. @motherjones.com
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
No showers, sleeping on concrete floors: The “squalid” conditions for immigrants in NYC
Detainees at 26 Federal Plaza are being denied access to attorneys, medication, hygiene products, and adequate food, according to a legal filing.
www.motherjones.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
NEW: A district court granted a temporary restraining order in this case today, ruling the feds must provide detained people at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC w notice of their legal rights, adequate space & sleeping conditions, hygiene products, & free/regular phone calls to their attorneys. Story updated
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"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
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August 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
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Why does Trump attack Mamdani? Because, Mamdani says, “We will actually deliver on those commitments (to serve working people). And our delivery on them will throw his betrayal into stark relief. That is a threat to his politics, and it motivates so much of this language and this focus that he has.”
“The Nation” Interviews Zohran Mamdani
New York's Democratic mayoral nominee shares his views on the city's affordability crisis, the new media landscape—and how Democrats need to stand up for what they believe.
www.thenation.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Why does Trump attack Mamdani? Because, Mamdani says, “We will actually deliver on those commitments (to serve working people). And our delivery on them will throw his betrayal into stark relief. That is a threat to his politics, and it motivates so much of this language and this focus that he has.”
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Holy CRAP. Gavin Newsom is good at this game!
August 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Holy CRAP. Gavin Newsom is good at this game!
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#ICYMI: We obtained internal data showing the Trump administration knew at least 197 of the men it sent to CECOT had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S.
Nearly half were whisked out of the U.S. while in the middle of their immigration cases, which should have protected them from deportation.
Nearly half were whisked out of the U.S. while in the middle of their immigration cases, which should have protected them from deportation.
Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT
Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released…
www.propublica.org
August 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
#ICYMI: We obtained internal data showing the Trump administration knew at least 197 of the men it sent to CECOT had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S.
Nearly half were whisked out of the U.S. while in the middle of their immigration cases, which should have protected them from deportation.
Nearly half were whisked out of the U.S. while in the middle of their immigration cases, which should have protected them from deportation.