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Alex Pretti was protesting against a tyrannical federal government which is kidnapping and terrorizing immigrants, and the federal government murdered him in cold blood.
Be brave like Alex. Fuck MAGA, drive them out like a cancer. #MeltingPot
Be brave like Alex. Fuck MAGA, drive them out like a cancer. #MeltingPot
January 24, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Alex Pretti was protesting against a tyrannical federal government which is kidnapping and terrorizing immigrants, and the federal government murdered him in cold blood.
Be brave like Alex. Fuck MAGA, drive them out like a cancer. #MeltingPot
Be brave like Alex. Fuck MAGA, drive them out like a cancer. #MeltingPot
Every FBI agent that cares about justice, following the law, that respects the constitution and cares about our citizens is eventually forced out by MAGA.
MAGA hates the true patriots, experts, and civil servants.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
MAGA hates the true patriots, experts, and civil servants.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN Politics
The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with...
www.cnn.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Every FBI agent that cares about justice, following the law, that respects the constitution and cares about our citizens is eventually forced out by MAGA.
MAGA hates the true patriots, experts, and civil servants.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
MAGA hates the true patriots, experts, and civil servants.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
So now it begins. I have my “snowed in food” and it not snowed in time. Please resist eating it all in two days, pleaseeee. #snowstorm
January 22, 2026 at 6:35 PM
So now it begins. I have my “snowed in food” and it not snowed in time. Please resist eating it all in two days, pleaseeee. #snowstorm
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Former special counsel Jack Smith told a House committee Thursday that he stands by the decisions he made in that role, "including the decision to bring charges against President Trump." https://to.pbs.org/4beRV60
WATCH: 'I stand by' my decision to prosecute Trump, Jack Smith says in House testimony
“If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Democrat or Republican,” Smith said.
www.pbs.org
January 22, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Former special counsel Jack Smith told a House committee Thursday that he stands by the decisions he made in that role, "including the decision to bring charges against President Trump." https://to.pbs.org/4beRV60
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Former special counsel Jack Smith told a House committee Thursday that he stands by the decisions he made in that role, "including the decision to bring charges against President Trump."
January 22, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Former special counsel Jack Smith told a House committee Thursday that he stands by the decisions he made in that role, "including the decision to bring charges against President Trump."
Former special counsel Jack Smith will **publicly** testify about the Trump prosecutions today.
Luckily, it will be livestreamed by @pbs because I’m not sure which US News agency can be relied upon to show it in full.
www.youtube.com/live/z56_LJt...
Luckily, it will be livestreamed by @pbs because I’m not sure which US News agency can be relied upon to show it in full.
www.youtube.com/live/z56_LJt...
WATCH LIVE: Jack Smith testifies publicly about his Trump investigations
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Former special counsel Jack Smith will **publicly** testify about the Trump prosecutions today.
Luckily, it will be livestreamed by @pbs because I’m not sure which US News agency can be relied upon to show it in full.
www.youtube.com/live/z56_LJt...
Luckily, it will be livestreamed by @pbs because I’m not sure which US News agency can be relied upon to show it in full.
www.youtube.com/live/z56_LJt...
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18 years ago, we started ProPublica to do hard-hitting, rigorous journalism that exposes wrongdoing and injustice.
If you have a tip related to the Trump administration, we want to hear it.
Here's how to contact our reporters securely: www.propublica.org/tips/
If you have a tip related to the Trump administration, we want to hear it.
Here's how to contact our reporters securely: www.propublica.org/tips/
January 10, 2026 at 4:30 AM
18 years ago, we started ProPublica to do hard-hitting, rigorous journalism that exposes wrongdoing and injustice.
If you have a tip related to the Trump administration, we want to hear it.
Here's how to contact our reporters securely: www.propublica.org/tips/
If you have a tip related to the Trump administration, we want to hear it.
Here's how to contact our reporters securely: www.propublica.org/tips/
I have never donated to good news organizations harder than I do right now. Looking at you @propublica.org
#MAGAvsInformation
#MAGAvsInformation
January 19, 2026 at 1:20 AM
I have never donated to good news organizations harder than I do right now. Looking at you @propublica.org
#MAGAvsInformation
#MAGAvsInformation
Hard to believe I’ve ever run in cold before. I wish it was possible to search Nike Run Club data based on weather because if I could verify I’ve run in 30° weather before then I’d feel much more confident. But rn it feels like an Arctic tundra to me outside.
January 18, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Hard to believe I’ve ever run in cold before. I wish it was possible to search Nike Run Club data based on weather because if I could verify I’ve run in 30° weather before then I’d feel much more confident. But rn it feels like an Arctic tundra to me outside.
This past week Virginia legislature passed four constitutional amendments:
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
These will all go to 2026 referendums.
#DemocratsDefendDemocracy
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
These will all go to 2026 referendums.
#DemocratsDefendDemocracy
January 18, 2026 at 3:12 PM
This past week Virginia legislature passed four constitutional amendments:
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
These will all go to 2026 referendums.
#DemocratsDefendDemocracy
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
These will all go to 2026 referendums.
#DemocratsDefendDemocracy
Milan having fashion week then the Olympics is just so epic. 🔥😎
January 18, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Milan having fashion week then the Olympics is just so epic. 🔥😎
FBI searched Washington Post reporter's home as part of probe into government contractor
MAGA GOP via the DOJ ended the policy that former AG Merrick Garland put into place restricting subpoenas of reporters.
#MAGAvsJournalism
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... via @nbcnews.com
MAGA GOP via the DOJ ended the policy that former AG Merrick Garland put into place restricting subpoenas of reporters.
#MAGAvsJournalism
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... via @nbcnews.com
FBI searches Washington Post reporter's home as part of an investigation into government contractor
The contractor has been charged with "unlawful retention of national defense information."
www.nbcnews.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:44 PM
FBI searched Washington Post reporter's home as part of probe into government contractor
MAGA GOP via the DOJ ended the policy that former AG Merrick Garland put into place restricting subpoenas of reporters.
#MAGAvsJournalism
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... via @nbcnews.com
MAGA GOP via the DOJ ended the policy that former AG Merrick Garland put into place restricting subpoenas of reporters.
#MAGAvsJournalism
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... via @nbcnews.com
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This Holger Czukay quote from ‘All Gates Open’ by Rob Young is an existential gut punch. I think about it a lot.
January 12, 2026 at 10:25 PM
This Holger Czukay quote from ‘All Gates Open’ by Rob Young is an existential gut punch. I think about it a lot.
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Using his clemency power, Trump has undone prosecutions made by his own DOJ during his first term.
Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.”
(Published Nov. 2025)
Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.”
(Published Nov. 2025)
A Tale of Two Terms: How Powerful Figures Were Prosecuted in Trump’s First Term, Then Pardoned in His Second
We found that Donald Trump has granted clemency in at least a dozen criminal cases that originated during his first term. No other president has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on s...
www.propublica.org
January 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Using his clemency power, Trump has undone prosecutions made by his own DOJ during his first term.
Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.”
(Published Nov. 2025)
Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.”
(Published Nov. 2025)
$5million?? What’s that going to cover? One site for one agency? It’s as if the idea of America improving upon itself is not allowed with MAGA GOP in charge.
(President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan injected the program with $1 billion).
fedscoop.com/technology-m...
(President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan injected the program with $1 billion).
fedscoop.com/technology-m...
Congress earmarks $5M for TMF in fiscal 2026 funding bills
The GSA-housed funding vehicle for agency technology projects expired last month for the first time since its 2017 launch.
fedscoop.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:21 PM
$5million?? What’s that going to cover? One site for one agency? It’s as if the idea of America improving upon itself is not allowed with MAGA GOP in charge.
(President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan injected the program with $1 billion).
fedscoop.com/technology-m...
(President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan injected the program with $1 billion).
fedscoop.com/technology-m...
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Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
In the last 6 months two people have told me that in the 2024 presidential election they voted third party. Both fell for the “opposite sides of the same coin” “lesser of 2 evils” stuff. One voted solely on Palestine so he voted for Jill Stein 💀. The other did a joke write-in. Both men, 50-60.
January 13, 2026 at 10:04 AM
In the last 6 months two people have told me that in the 2024 presidential election they voted third party. Both fell for the “opposite sides of the same coin” “lesser of 2 evils” stuff. One voted solely on Palestine so he voted for Jill Stein 💀. The other did a joke write-in. Both men, 50-60.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has made the decision to forego federal funding in order to maintain the integrity of their evidence-based work on maternal health, preventive care, and more.
Via @thelancet.com
Find out more in a new letter: hubs.li/Q03-bHZh0
Via @thelancet.com
Find out more in a new letter: hubs.li/Q03-bHZh0
ACOG eschewing federal funding is about action, not talk
For more than a decade, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
has been an international leader working to mitigate the maternal mortality crisis
through education, advocacy, a...
hubs.li
January 12, 2026 at 4:14 AM
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has made the decision to forego federal funding in order to maintain the integrity of their evidence-based work on maternal health, preventive care, and more.
Via @thelancet.com
Find out more in a new letter: hubs.li/Q03-bHZh0
Via @thelancet.com
Find out more in a new letter: hubs.li/Q03-bHZh0
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Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.
(Published April 2025)
(Published April 2025)
“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
www.propublica.org
January 11, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.
(Published April 2025)
(Published April 2025)
“For the cool, unemotional resident weighing up the pros & cons of buying, there is a clear winner. Without a much steeper fall in house prices, a sudden decline in long-term interest rates or a protracted surge in rents, renting will remain the better option.”
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Is it better to rent or buy?
Much depends on long-term interest rates
www.economist.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:53 PM
“For the cool, unemotional resident weighing up the pros & cons of buying, there is a clear winner. Without a much steeper fall in house prices, a sudden decline in long-term interest rates or a protracted surge in rents, renting will remain the better option.”
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
"It took four blocks and five years to go from kneeling on a black man's neck to shooting a white woman in the face"
January 10, 2026 at 3:10 PM
"It took four blocks and five years to go from kneeling on a black man's neck to shooting a white woman in the face"
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NEW: A teacher called over a dozen therapists to find mental health care following a miscarriage.
An EMT spent months looking for one after a suicide attempt.
They couldn’t find any in-network provider able to see them. Now they're suing their insurer.
An EMT spent months looking for one after a suicide attempt.
They couldn’t find any in-network provider able to see them. Now they're suing their insurer.
They Couldn’t Access Mental Health Care When They Needed It. Now They’re Suing Their Insurer.
A new lawsuit alleges that an insurer’s ghost network hindered New York City employees from accessing the mental health care they sought — and harmed the reputation of psychiatrists wrongly listed as ...
www.propublica.org
January 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
NEW: A teacher called over a dozen therapists to find mental health care following a miscarriage.
An EMT spent months looking for one after a suicide attempt.
They couldn’t find any in-network provider able to see them. Now they're suing their insurer.
An EMT spent months looking for one after a suicide attempt.
They couldn’t find any in-network provider able to see them. Now they're suing their insurer.
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I guess we still have to sell books and stuff so we’ll have our usual free wine & cheese plus 10% off all purchases thing this Saturday from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
January 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM
I guess we still have to sell books and stuff so we’ll have our usual free wine & cheese plus 10% off all purchases thing this Saturday from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.