Aaron

Aaron

@probablywriting.bsky.social

Working to cover the Southern Illinois investigative journalism gap. reliableresource.substack.com

161 followers90 following141 posts

Aaron reposted

The tax breaks given just to the top 1% by Trump's tax law could have paid for 131,578,900 people on Medicaid keep their benefits for one year; or for 443,262,400 people to receive food stamps for one year.

Conservative influencers have been promoting raw milk as a health food. Now, 21 people in Florida, including children, have fallen ill from drinking raw milk. This was due to Shiga-toxin producing E. Coli not being pasteurized out, among other bacteria that caused illnesses.

usatoday.com21, including children, fall ill in Florida after consuming raw milkFlorida health officials issued the warning and said due to sanitation practices and raw milk consumption, 21 people became sick.

Aaron reposted

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

Aaron reposted

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

Aaron reposted

Leavitt without a trace of irony: "When you have a totalitarian regime, you have to save face. I think any common sense, open-minded person knows the truth about the precision strikes on Saturday night. They were wildly successful."

Aaron reposted

Aaron reposted

Spray paint a Tesla: domestic terrorism Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism

Nikki McCann Ramírez@nikkimcr.bsky.social

On the lack of federal terrorism charges in Minn. killings, Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson says they "brought the charges that we think are appropriate right now."

In Carbondale, IL, right now, the U.S. Attorney and FBI are investigating anti-Trump protestors for "vandalizing" a federal building. The problem? Local media went to the federal building the next day and couldn't find any evidence of vandalism anywhere on, in, or near the building.

thesouthern.comU.S. Attorney, FBI claim federal building was "defaced," investigation ongoingCARBONDALE — The U.S. Department of Justice has announced an investigation into an alleged incident on Tuesday evening at the Sen. Paul Simon Federal Building in Carbondale.

Aaron reposted

Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.

Aaron reposted

why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this

Aaron reposted

oh crazy, it is as if protests have consistently hurt trump since 2017

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com

Brand-new polling from YouGov out this AM finds Trump's actions re: LA underwater. Double-digit disapproval on sending in Marines. This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive. today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

Aaron reposted

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

Honestly, I'm applauding the media for highlighting how Republicans try to defend the indefensible.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social

Medicaid cuts don't matter because "we are all going to die" does not seem like a winning political message www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...