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marisakabas.bsky.social
very cool that the police commissioner’s family is involved!
darrigomelanie.bsky.social Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · Oct 26
The max an individual can donate to the 2025 NYC Mayor’s race is $3,700 per candidate.

These billionaires each dropped over a million against Zohran Mamdani:

Michael Bloomberg: $8.3M
Joseph Gebbia: $3M
Lauder family: $2.6M
Bill Ackman: $1.75M
Tisch Family: $1.2M
John Hess: $1M
October 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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mtsw.bsky.social
More Dems should post like Trump, it's genuinely more effective than what they usually do.
carnage4life.bsky.social Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Aug 13
Epic series of tweets by Gavin Newsom. He nailed the style perfectly. Hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣
August 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
stormcloud13.bsky.social
Kinda tough celebrating the founding of our independence the same day as the disenfranchisement of millions of people.
July 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
stormcloud13.bsky.social
Heinous.
themorrancave.bsky.social Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · Dec 13
NEW: UnitedHealth strategically limits access to critical treatment for autistic kids. Leaked documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say United’s strategy may be illegal.
UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i just emailed NYPD:
Hi Deputy Commissioner Sheppard- I’m reaching out regarding the killing of 17-year-old Yeremi Colino on Thursday night in lower Manhattan. Initial reports said that he and his friend were brutally stabbed by three male suspects after the men asked if the teenagers spoke English and they said no. Can you share the ethnicity of the suspects? Have they been caught? What’s the status of the other teenager who was stabbed? Is this being investigated as a hate crime? And has the department’s focus on finding the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson diverted resources from this investigation? Thanks,
December 9, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Has a bee ever landed on you, and instead of getting scared, you appreciate the possibility that you got confused for a flower.
December 8, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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amandamarcotte.bsky.social
Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans.

This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.

www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
Republicans don't care if women die from abortion bans — but they don't want you to know about it
Women will keep dying, but the GOP is working hard to destroy the evidence
www.salon.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Kash Patel apparently runs a "America First" clothing line.

"Tired of seeing your money go overseas?" reads a product page. "Support your fellow Americans by purchasing a Protect Our People t-shirt."

Shirt appears to be made on Next Level blanks ... which are made in Central America and Haiti.
A screenshot from Kash Patel's clothing line website. It shows a "Protect Our People" t-shirt. The page reads: Protect Our People T-Shirt $35.00 Tired of seeing your hard earned money go overseas? Support your fellow Americans by purchasing a Protect Our People T-shirt and help us raise funds to support those affected by recent natural disasters. All net proceeds will go to the Kash Foundation. Snug fit. 4.3-oz., 60% combed ring spun cotton, 40% polyester. Shoulder-to-shoulder taping. Care Instructions: Machine wash cold. Only non-chlorine bleach when needed. Tumble dry low. Do not iron decoration. Size Chart: Chest Width (Measure under the arm & around the fullest part of the chest with arms down, keeping tape horizontal.) XS: 33-35″, S: 35-38″, M: 38-41″, L: 43-44″, XL: 45-48″, 2XL: 48-52″, 3XL: 53.5-56″, 4XL: 59-61.5 A screenshot from a t-shirt supplier. The page shows one of their Next Level blank t-shirt products. The specifications for the shirt matches Kash Patel's page. Each blank costs $4.53 if you purchase in bulk. A screenshot from Next Level Apparel's website. It shows their manufacturing facilities, which are located in Central America and Haiti. A screenshot from an Excel document that you can download from Next Level Apparel's website. It shows more detailed information about where these factories are located (Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, and El Salvador)
December 3, 2024 at 6:38 AM
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charlesornstein.bsky.social
It’s amazing to see impact from prior Local Reporting Network projects. I am thankful for that! 🙏🙏

Maine Proposes Major Staffing Increases for Assisted Living and Residential Care Facilities www.propublica.org/article/main... @mainemonitor.bsky.social
Maine Proposes Major Staffing Increases for Assisted Living and Residential Care Facilities
The proposed regulations come after an 18-month investigation by The Maine Monitor and ProPublica found dozens of violations at the state’s largest facilities.
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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redditspaceviewes.bsky.social
First ever image of another multi-planet solar system captured by ESO Telescope
November 23, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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redditspaceviewes.bsky.social
The closest known black hole to Earth is just 1,560 light-years away.
November 22, 2024 at 8:25 AM
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redditspaceviewes.bsky.social
Earth seen from the ISS
November 20, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Rep. Jasmin Crockett is always 🔥
Tweet from Jasmine Crockett: If @HouseGOP really wanted to protect women, they'd release the Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz' alleged sex trafficking - not try to ban their colleagues from using the bathroom. Stop the bigotry and release the report.
November 20, 2024 at 8:35 AM
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propublica.org
Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
November 19, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
*Oklahoma’s
Tweet from OK school’s superintendent Ryan Walters: “The Bible is back in Oklahomas classrooms. We are getting our kids back on track.” It’s missing the apostrophe in Oklahomas
November 16, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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luxeprogressive.bsky.social
Lmao
CSPAN tweet: President-elect Trump on Elon Musk: "He likes this place. I can't get him out of here!...I'm asking him 'what do you do best?' and we were not able to figure it out."
November 15, 2024 at 2:39 AM
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rami.spaceaustralia.com
Good. Hopefully it is a domino effect and other media start leaving as well.

Extinguish its value. Let him have his echo chamber of bots, lies and nazis.

I really hope other news agencies follow.

And institutions, big brands, agencies, etc.
Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts
Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
New: I wrote about Rudy Giuliani and the MAGA-owned, ultra-Christian Long Island warehouse and event space where he's potentially hiding stuff he absconded from his Manhattan penthouse that's supposed to belong to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss as part of their defamation settlement.
A little Election Day distraction
Enjoy this absurd story about Rudy Giuliani and a Long Island warehouse.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 5, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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jamellebouie.net
my election day column. (gift link)
Opinion | Don’t Let Trump Make America Into an Image of Himself
We cannot become what he wants us to be.
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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sdkstl.bsky.social
At 109 years old, Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Lessie Benningfield Randle voted for Kamala Harris. 🌹
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor votes Kamala Harris for President
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor "mother" Lessie Benningfield Randle voted for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.
theblackwallsttimes.com
November 1, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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propublica.org
“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda

Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.
“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda
Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.
www.propublica.org
October 28, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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propublica.org
The gun industry launched a secret project in the late 1990s.

To elect gun-friendly politicians, manufacturers gave political operatives sensitive, intimate information on their customers without their consent.

The story behind the data sharing and its impact has never been revealed.

Until now.
Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm o...
www.propublica.org
October 24, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it. Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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themorrancave.bsky.social
FYI: Billionaire LA Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong paid NO federal income tax for 5 consecutive years.

In 2021, @propublica.org found that Soon-Shiong had accumulated enough deductions that he could likely avoid paying a tax bill for additional years:
www.propublica.org/article/when...
Text excerpt that reads: "In some cases, the deductions from money-losing businesses have allowed a handful of people to avoid paying taxes for years. Ty Warner, creator of the Beanie Baby toy, lost so much money on his side business — luxury hotels and resorts — that he went 12 years without paying a dollar in federal income taxes. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who built his $7.1 billion fortune by selling two drug companies, oversees an array of businesses that have produced tax losses, including the Los Angeles Times, which he bought in 2018. He hasn’t paid federal income tax in five consecutive recent years." Text excerpt that reads: "Soon-Shiong reported negative income for six straight years from 2013 through 2018. That enabled the billionaire doctor to pay no federal income tax from 2013 through 2017. In 2018, he paid $158,000. By the end of 2018, he still had over $400 million in accumulated losses that he could use to offset income in future years, ProPublica estimates."
October 27, 2024 at 10:19 AM
stormcloud13.bsky.social
I’m not intellectual enough to understand all of this without side research, but it’s both fascinating and frightening.
The far right actually hates America: Its dark ideology has foreign roots
Why do conservatives wrap themselves in the flag so desperately? Maybe because their ideas are un-American
www.salon.com
September 9, 2024 at 10:42 PM