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Maryland aquaculture and goldfish breeder.

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The White House gave Don Jr a $620M contract. I’m old enough to remember when repubs in Congress bribed a Russian asset who was later convicted of lying about a $5M payout to Hunter Biden. What ever happened to Smirnov? Oh that’s right. Trump sprung him from jail.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

The White House intervened to get a $620 million deal for a company tied to Don Jr. The request was made by top aide Peter Navarro. Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was considering funding at the time, the Don Jr.-linked company was the only deal initiated by a top aide to Trump.

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We will no longer have access to evidence of peer review if this happens. This means when grants are pulled by political minders, we will not have evidence of political influence in the granting process with which to go to Congress who funds the work from the taxpayers.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social

I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3

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SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

washingtonpost.comCDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visitsThe report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

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The Pentagon received direct orders from President Trump to prepare for a military escalation in Cuba, according to multiple reports. Trump’s existing oil and aid blockade of Cuba has caused rampant human suffering, as the island experiences blackouts, food shortages, and inflation. trib.al/4PrBxi8

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OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

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OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji's mom shared this yesterday After quitting OpenAI, Suchir was going to testify against them on copyright infringement He was found dead and the police ruled it a suicide His parents have been pointing out that his death was not investigated thoroughly since 2024

@propublica.org covering the important news, as opposed to the bullshit covered by most major outlets. Support them!

ProPublica@propublica.org

NEW: For more than a century, a smelter and other factories spewed 400 million pounds of lead dust across Omaha’s east side. Faced with similar concerns, 13 states passed laws requiring all kids to get a blood test before kindergarten. But not Nebraska.

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“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

thetimes.comThe man who watches Trump all day, every dayAaron Rupar spends up to 80 hours a week following the US president, from meandering speeches to impromptu press conferences. He says it’s ‘pretty bleak’

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The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

pbs.orgDeath of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicideThe Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death.

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There have been 64 games of 20-15-15 in NBA history. Nikola Jokic has 18 of them. I didn't even need to look this up since I did last night when he did the same thing...

Jake Shapiro@shapalicious.bsky.social

There have been 63 games of 20-15-15 in NBA history. Nikola Jokic has 17 of them. That's 27%!!! Never gets old.

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Nate Cavanaugh has gone viral recently for his taped deposition about DOGE eliminating "DEI" grants. He's also a key figure in our story from last year. We found that he helped expose a sensitive Afghanistan program, leading to a brutal Taliban crackdown.

propublica.orgDOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...

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Officials are normally presented with ceremonial swords or paintings or whatever. But these guys are so fucking stupid that foreign intelligence agencies can literally give them an "Honorary Electronic Communications Device for a Very Special Boi" and they fall for it every time.

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Remember when Rep. Greg Gianforte, now the GOP governor of the state, body slammed a reporter into a table? We probably need to shut down the Montana Republican Party entirely until we can figure out where all this violent rage is coming from.

Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P@clairezagorski.bsky.social

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone] Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

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"In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics." www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

miamiherald.com‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chatThe chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

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Here’s the 60 Minutes report on “white genocide” in South Africa. It demonstrates it’s a lie, shows what’s really happening, debunks the specific claims made by Trump and ends with an Afrikaner saying it’s racist for the US to welcome his people rather than genuine refugees from around the world.

youtu.beInvestigating Trump's claims that White South African farmers are victims of genocideYouTube video by 60 Minutes

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The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

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North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

tiktok.comEven without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ...TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance

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AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

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Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

pbs.orgWATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate changeThe Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

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Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

propublica.orgThe Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention CenterProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

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New reporting shows local police are tapping school security cameras and license-plate reader systems to assist federal immigration enforcement, raising serious concerns about student privacy and surveillance. Read more here:

theguardian.comLocal police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdownLocal police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data show

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if elon had a normal dick he absolutely would have posted it by now