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“The Base, founded in 2018 by a former Pentagon contractor living in Russia and now suspected of Kremlin-sponsored espionage, once boasted close to 50 stateside members before the bureau made more than a dozen arrests in a years-long counter-terrorism operation.”

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Everyone deserves to BE safe. No one deserves to put others in danger because they've confused their comfort with safety.

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I want Talarico for governor.

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Thread, on how European cities have memorials to constantly remind you of the horrors of Naziism—while our memorials praise murderous racist autocratic slavers who sought to destroy the country that now honors them.

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Hey everyone, I have a new story out showing how the sausage got made in the new NYT podcast on youth gender-affirming care. It's pretty ugly - my source refused to participate in the podcast so reporters used audio of her captured in public against her will.

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Covid vaccines for pregnancy and babies: Sorting fact from chaos https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-vaccines-for-pregnancy-and > The events of the past week around Covid-19 vaccines have created a whirlwind of confusion—especially for those trying to make the best decisions […]

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For the July/August issue of @motherjones.com, I dived into Elon Musk's relationship with Aspie supremacy and how it's promoted online. This ideology, coined by the late autistic blogger Mel Baggs, also dehumanizes autistic people with high support needs. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Last week, the State Department published a Substack post accusing European allies of destroying democracy. I looked into the author, and found out that he was a disciple of Adrian Vermeule who believed in infiltrating the bureaucracy to undermine liberalism www.vox.com/on-the-right...

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Alex Jones, who spent years ranting about shadowy government mass surveillance technology, is now stanning for Palantir

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What's behind the attacks on trans women and girls in sports? Today on Assigned, @billiejsweeney.bsky.social teases out the threaded political, legal, business, and media arms of the coordinated conservative assault on trans inclusion in athletic events.

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"The team found that the proportion of rats that tested positive for coronaviruses was tenfold higher at the markets and restaurants where they’re sold than in the fields where they’re caught." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Excited to see this new paper building on my work on respectability politics and Black attitudes toward social control—using my respectability measure to explore views on punishment & the justice system. Congrats to Alexander Goodwin & Tony Carey on the new paper! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

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As I said here, we know who is bringing in the drugs. This will just make visits more onerous, more terrifying, result in fewer visits per day, and won’t stop the contraband coming in.

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The Brennan Center and @cato.org filed a brief in support of the @aclu.org ’s challenge to the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport Venezuelans. The president exceeded the limits of his powers by invoking a wartime law to conduct peacetime immigration enforcement.

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A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college…

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We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol. Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists. W/ @texastribune.org‬ @cazadoresdefakenews.info & Alianza Rebelde Investiga

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Today, Ukrainian intelligence launched 117 attack drones from trucks that had been placed near Russian air bases. I tasked several collects this morning via Umbra and my first images have already started processing. What a remarkable success in a well-executed operation.

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"Miller has trained Trump’s rubes to believe that migrants should have no due process. But this time around, Miller’s puppet Leavitt is saying that small business owners are not entitled to due process."

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Texas lawmakers just finalized a bill to roll back parts of the state’s abortion ban — clarifying when doctors can provide life-saving care. Turns out, abortion care is healthcare. Learn more:

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This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)

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The Children’s Gulag. How a Canadian-funded project is mapping Russia’s network of camps where abducted Ukrainian children are being held - and helping to bring some of them home. My report www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

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A nuanced look at ultra-processed foods https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-nuanced-look-at-ultra-processed > Practical tips and your questions answered

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New Yorkers are awesome. They're busy and don't suffer fools gladly, but they're also as good a people as you'll find anywhere. Also, while I found they look at you funny if you try to talk in the check out line, they're likley to say hello in the elevator which this garrulous Southerner found […]

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Wordless screaming www.npr.org/2025/05/28/n...

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I was in NYC in November and when we rode the subway the entire car teamed up to help an elderly Chinese couple using a translation app figure out when to switch trains to get to the Whitney. It was terrifying.

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At 1pm Eastern today, 200 scientists will be doing a 100 hour livestream about all of the ways that the administration, through DOGE, is endangering us, through the dismantling of the weather and climate science apparatuses. Let people know and tune in. You don't have to watch all 100 hours.

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"Keeping Cops Accountable: Supreme Court Issues Decision in Barnes v. Felix" [@foxmike90.bsky.social]

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Around D.C., the new going rate is well-known: $5 million for a one-on-one dinner with Trump, but gov-affairs execs have “no clue where the money is eventually going,” one said. Another told me it’s “outer-borough Mafia sh*t.” My new piece is out @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Medicare patients who get emergency surgery in private-equity hospitals are 42% more likely to die in the next 30 days, according to new research. www.marketwatch.com/story/medica...

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This reminded me of stories from @radiationkevin.bsky.social years ago. www.instagram.com/reel/DJ8DsiH...

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