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"The canceled awards include ongoing projects in more than 1,000 communities to address homelessness, disaster recovery, persistent poverty and other housing issues, according to a list seen by Bloomberg CityLab." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Full page in today’s Anchorage Daily News:

Having a hard time understanding why Elon Musk thinks its a good odea to degrade NOAA’s ability to give us lifesaving early warnings for Hurricanes & Tornadoes. www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

Imagine having this much disdain for your own voters

🔥 Top Campaigns, Last 24 Hours: 1️⃣ “Stop allowing Trump to threaten members of Congress: stand together against it” (+3,149) 2️⃣ “The U.S. MUST stand with Ukraine!” (+2,658) 3️⃣ “Say NO to the coup: either make your courage visible or skip Trump's address” (+1,185)

Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!

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Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism forward.com/news/686797/...

1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox General Mills Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

Teachers. Firefighters. Cops. After 44 years of Reagan’s cuts to their Social Security, Joe Biden just restored their benefits. This win for working people came thanks to unions, President Biden, and bipartisan support led by former Rep. Abigail Spanberger.

According to Mark Zuckerberg, people who live in California are biased but people who live in Texas are objective

“This is an extinction-level event for the idea of objective truth on social media – an organism that was already on life support, but was clinging on in part because Meta was willing to fund independent factchecking organisations in order to try to maintain some element of truthfulness…”

Just out: We analyzed the record-shattering amount of money given by AIPAC to the members of the new Congress.

Four years ago, Donald Trump declared the January 6 riots “a heinous attack." By 2024, he was calling it “a day of love.” Now as Trump prepares to issue pardons to rioters on "day one," how can we undo Trump's rewriting of history? thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-janu...

H5N1 Update: January 7 open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Our 2-person newsroom worked relentlessly in 2024 to expose the influence of money in politics. Here’s some of the work we’re most proud of. First up, with the U.S. backing foreign wars, we identified every member of Congress who owns defense stock.

Wonderful piece by journalist Margaret Sullivan (and thank you for the kind words!). You asked for 'action steps' for this troubling moment: Here are a few for your consideration. Read here 👉 margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/you-asked-...

DOGE’s Ties to the Military-Industrial Complex readsludge.com/2024/12/23/d... "Sharing" this using the link in the newsletter itself experimentally to see how it displays - if you are interested in investigative journalism, check them out.

The owner of a car company is controlling the House of Representatives from a social media app.

It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter

It is no small thing that a Manhattan judge continues to stand up to the criminal who is headed to the White House.

Head into next week with the confidence of a crow. 🪶

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about. -- Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Morning Joe, and now ABC News have shown us how truth and serving the public good is not their mission. Corporate media is fundamentally at odds with speaking truth to power.

For the record, I know what it is like to be sued by Donald Trump. He sued me and several others in 2022. We did not bow down, we did not settle, we fought and we won.

Ahahahah!

Our Wins Of The Week open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...

Resistbot makes it so easy to organize petitions but also very easy for users to sign petitions! Join them now! Been a user since early 2017.

This is not a mandate.

Well, at least it got that one right.

and here we are.

new beginnings...

"The now-president-elect, according to that NBC survey, posted his biggest margin of 53-27% among voters who don’t follow any news. Trump’s win was a triumph of the ill-informed... Donald Trump was returned to power by the most badly informed electorate in modern American history."