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Jessica Wakeman
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Independent journalist in Asheville, NC | https://jessicawakeman.contently.com | previously seen in Brooklyn and Connecticut | cream puff in a knife fight | email: jessica dot wakeman at gmail dot com | signal: jessicawakeman.80
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Trump calls New York Times reporter ‘ugly’ in latest insult to female journalist
In a Truth Social post, the president lashed out at journalist Katie Rogers after an article questioned whether he was slowing down
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November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew detained by ICE in Revere; Brazil native came to US as a child - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Nonprofit breaks ground on NC’s first tiny home community for formerly incarcerated women
Benevolence Farm in Graham helps women after jail or prison to transition back into society. The nonprofit is building a tiny home community for women who are ready to live independent lives and depar...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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'Everybody needs a home': New federal policy threatens to slash funding for permanent housing for homeless • Asheville Watchdog
Beverly Nowling, sitting in a wheelchair outside the ART Transit Station on Coxe Avenue last week, recounted her decades of homelessness – couch surfing with friends and family, sleeping outside or in...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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How MAGA's favorite military podcaster is fighting to "take the Rogan spot"
Inside Shawn Ryan's forever wars.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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The Women Quietly Quitting Their Husbands
Rather than deal with the inconveniences of divorce, more and more women over 40 are choosing to just check out.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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‘Is the price of doing this worth it?’: North Carolina Republicans worry about Trump immigration raids
The concerns surrounding Trump’s immigration clampdown in the Tar Heel state speak to a tension at the center of the president’s immigration agenda.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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‘Toxic Soup’: PFAS and other contaminants surged in French Broad River after Helene, study finds
Research shows hurricanes can wash sewage, chemicals and “everything in people’s garages” into NC waterways, and how to prevent it.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
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November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Jill Freud, Love Actually actor and inspiration for Lucy in Narnia books, dies aged 98
The actor ran her own theatre company and was described by her daughter Emma as ‘feisty, outrageous, kind, loving and mischievous’
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November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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How Rural N.C. Lowered Overdose Deaths—But Will Struggle to Keep Pace
Rural North Carolina communities are finally reversing opioid overdose deaths. But funding cuts could undo progress.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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She Was Ready to Have Her 15th Child. Then Came the Felony Charges.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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I have a new piece on @theprogressivemag.bsky.social — thanks for reading
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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As immigration raids descend on Triangle, focus turns to protecting children from trauma  • NC Newsline
While no immigration enforcement activities were reported at any of its campuses, WCPSS recorded a 67% jump in absences on Nov. 18.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Trump this morning suggested executing Democratic members of Congress, reposting a Truth Social user who called to "HANG THEM"
Trump Suggests Hanging Democratic Members Of Congress
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November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Amid the MAHA Anti-Vaxxers at the Texas Book Festival
When I walked into the hotel lobby the first person I saw was a woman with enormous lips wearing a T-shirt that said BAN ASSAULT VACCINES. Wow, Austin really has changed, I thought. I used to come …
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November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Some of the largest online propaganda campaigns are using 'AI slop,' researchers say
Researchers at Graphika say that online propaganda campaigns have flooded the internet with low-quality, AI-generated content.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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if you're going to fuck with reporters' work, you should expect their going to have alllll the receipts

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Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use
Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Inside the $4 billion industry built on America's school shooting epidemic
Filmmakers Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari examine the booming market a troubling new market.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts
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November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Trump has a 38% approval ratings & Americans hate every single thing he’s doing. He know it, his minders know it, we all know it.
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Trump: "This has been according to those that seem to say it, and I would never say a thing like that because I want to be very modest. I always want to be modest, as modest as I can. They say this has been the best 9 month that any president has ever had." (Note the laughter from the crowd.)
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Border Patrol Expands North Carolina Operations to More Liberal Cities
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November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM