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Kae Reed
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Author ... Sleeping with Strangers: An Airbnb Host’s Life in Lake Tahoe and Mexico, and three Lake Tahoe outdoor books
Freelance journalist
Outdoor lover
www.KathrynReed.com
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Despite ample funding, the agency halted payments in October. They may not resume for several months.
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
Despite ample funding, the agency halted payments in October. They may not resume for several months.
www.motherjones.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Union elections plummeted last year after Trump gutted the NLRB — while the cost of living soars and corporate profits hit record highs.

Unions are the key to taking on corporate power and increasing working people’s standard of living.

No wonder Trump wants to eradicate them.
February 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Some other billionaires could teach Jeff Bezos a thing or two about the news businesses.

Their papers — as well as some with nonprofit ownership models — are showing how to sustain ambitious journalism.

theconversation.com/as-jeff-bezo...
As Jeff Bezos dismantles The Washington Post, 5 regional papers chart a course for survival
Other billionaires who own newspapers are doing a better job, a journalism professor explains.
theconversation.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation.

It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

(Published Dec. 2025)
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
www.propublica.org
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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The vaccine maker Moderna said on Tuesday that the FDA had notified the company that the agency would not review its mRNA flu vaccine, the latest sign of federal health policy that has become hostile to vaccine development.
F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine
The vaccine maker’s shots involve the successful Covid vaccines’ RNA technology. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has broadly rejected it, canceling millions of dollars in research projects.
nyti.ms
February 11, 2026 at 4:30 AM
thehill.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Vaccines Are Helping Older People More Than We Knew
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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It never made sense to tell a downhiller like Lindsey Vonn, "Oh don't do that, you might hurt yourself." My piece for the @theatlantic.com on a great champion's crash. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
Lindsey Vonn Was Never Going to Play It Safe
Skiing in the Olympics at 41 with a torn ACL, Vonn pushed her body as far it could go.
www.theatlantic.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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"Because we all deserve the truth."
Watch the Epstein survivors' powerful Super Bowl Sunday ad
www.motherjones.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, Karoline Leavitt, and Jeanine Pirro are the best friends a group of pedophiles and rapists ever had.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-powerf...
The Powerful Women Who Protect A Predator
I can understand why Conservative men support a serial predator like Donald Trump.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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Washington Post Chief Executive Officer Will Lewis resigned, days after the newspaper laid off several hundred staffers in a move that triggered a backlash against billionaire owner Jeff Bezos
Washington Post CEO Quits After Cuts That Led to Bezos Backlash
Washington Post Chief Executive Officer Will Lewis resigned, days after the newspaper laid off several hundred staffers in a move that triggered a backlash against billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.
bloom.bg
February 8, 2026 at 2:12 AM
ICE keeps freezing lawmakers out of detention centers, despite court orders www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
ICE keeps freezing lawmakers out of detention centers, despite court orders
A fight for more oversight of federal immigration detention facilities that began during President Trump’s first term has erupted again as his administration tries to block congressional access.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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Welcome to a world where America First is coming to mean America Alone, whose friends are searching for alternatives to what increasingly feels like an abusive relationship and whose enemies are gloating. on.wsj.com/4ruz7o5
February 3, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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"The Kennedy Center has been a living memorial for 55 years to President Kennedy, to the arts, and it's been nonpartisan. And in just one short year, (Trump) has destroyed all of that," said former Kennedy Center board member Barbara Comstock. https://to.pbs.org/45ObjTQ
Trump announces 2-year closure of Kennedy Center after multiple cancellations by artists
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, recently renamed the Trump Kennedy Center, will likely close its doors for two years starting this summer. President Trump made the announcement on ...
to.pbs.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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Trump’s proposal to re-classify marijuana as a less deadly type of pharmaceutical would not legalize it nationwide, but it would end a special tax rule that makes legal cannabis businesses pay far higher taxes than other companies. buff.ly/7zSlRbL
Rescheduling marijuana would be a big tax break for legal cannabis businesses – and a quiet form of deregulation
Consequences will go far beyond the tax bill that businesses face, a tax law professor explains.
theconversation.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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This Sunday across this nation, self-identified followers of Jesus will fill churches and declare a love for God and God's people, while knowingly supporting a serial rapist and doing nothing to stop the brutal violence he is inflicting on their neighbors.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/things-mag...
Things MAGA Christians Can Pray About In Church This Sunday
If you’re a professed Christian currently still supporting this President and this Administration, and you’re on your way to church on Sunday, here are a few things you might talk with God about in be...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:19 PM