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carolvan.bsky.social
Retired journalist/journalism professor whose best job was watching ambitious, talented and unruly student journalists kick ass for 30 years at the Montana Kaimin
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MANA Nutrition makes a special kind of peanut butter paste that many humanitarian aid workers are familiar with. On Wednesday afternoon, Mark Moore, the CEO and co-founder of the Fitzgerald, Georgia-based plant, got word from USAID that MANA’s contracts with the agency were being canceled.

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GOP reps love your vote, but not your voice. They’re dodging town halls faster than Trump dodged the draft. Demand answers! adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/run-for-of...

submitted 12 hours ago • 299 comments

Exclusive: Over the years, Elon Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Post analysis has found, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person.

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Thought we were attempting to reduce the federal deficit? Instead, Trump’s proposed budget plan is projected to significantly increase it.

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

Top five answers are my response to the email tomorrow. Must be appropriate enough not to get me fired. Go!

submitted 5 days ago • 239 comments

The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, deleting a resource that experts said improved public safety by helping to prevent bad officers from jumping to new agencies and starting over.

submitted 6 days ago • 97 comments

Science explains why certain people are so obsessed with “cancel culture.”

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

10% of NASA’s workforce has been laid off—guess that’ll be a boost for SpaceX.

submitted 9 days ago • 635 comments

Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded an FBI task force investigating foreign influence operations, including those targeting U.S. elections. Additionally, she restricted enforcement actions against individuals who fail to disclose lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

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Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.

submitted 15 days ago • 843 comments

The #NFL removing the words "No racism" from the end zones of today's #SuperBowlLIX venue, New Orleans, because the president's attending the game, is so 1936 Berlin Olympics.

submitted 18 days ago • 332 comments

Elon Musk’s 20-year-old staffers are not only demanding access to highly restricted information but are also displaying aggressive behavior—shouting at anyone who stands in their way, resorting to name-calling, throwing tantrums, and even hitting objects in anger.

submitted 20 days ago • 854 comments

True.

submitted 20 days ago • 2032 comments

Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.

submitted 25 days ago • 2787 comments

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books. bookshop.org/ebooks

submitted 30 days ago • 148 comments

RFK Jr. is far more than just an “anti-vaxxer.” Over the years, he’s made countless outrageous statements on a wide range of topics. We’ve compiled 10 of the wildest clips—though even that barely scratches the surface.

submitted 29 days ago • 1238 comments

Born in Missoula, Montana

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Some of my LA friends have told me that the problem is climate change, and it is. It’s January for fucks sake. But that doesn’t mean we have to solve climate change to better control fire. If we wait for that, cities will keep burning. There are ways to mitigate risk. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 47 days ago • 191 comments

Elon will do for America what he did for Twitter.

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"Tulsi Gabbard’s longstanding association with a shadowy rightwing cult, her history of suspicious uses of campaign funds, her habitual conspiracism and advocacy for the interests of bloodthirsty dictators (including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad as well as Putin) all raise a multiplicity of red flags."

submitted 90 days ago • 258 comments

America

submitted 91 days ago • 68 comments

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

submitted 94 days ago • 2251 comments

An unusually powerful force is fueling weather hazards in the northwestern United States and Canada, including an intense atmospheric river headed to California. The record-strong low-pressure system is forecast to develop offshore of Oregon and Washington on Tuesday.

submitted 100 days ago • 12 comments