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Former news producer, current news junkie. Communications executive. Endlessly curious about everything. Passionate about new forms of communication, companies creating new industries. Storyteller. Defender of democracy and journalism.
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Incredible reporting here. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Insane that we are here. What a mess we have caused. The U.S.-Canada relationship has survived trade wars and Trump’s first term. Recovering from the past 30 days could be the two nations’ toughest test yet. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

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One month after being pardoned by President Trump for his role in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, was arrested again on charges of assaulting a protester at a bizarre news conference held outside the Capitol on Friday.

submitted 12 hours ago • 100 comments

Okay broadcast news orgs: top military wiped out and the lawyers who will advise what is a legal order or what isn’t also fired. When do you shift coverage to proper context of situation the country we are in? Pre cable, the nets would be doing prime time hours every night. What is the plan?

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Shutting down chargers that are already installed isn’t policy. It’s vandalism. electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 15 hours ago • 142 comments

Don’t get distracted. He’s replacing military leadership with people who will obey illegal orders. This isn’t about DEI. He’s installing loyalists.

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@nancyyousef.bsky.social Check your headline. Pretty big error in it. CQ isn’t first black officer. (Powell).

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This is journalistic malpractice @nytimes.com Call your social team.

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This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

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Germany’s center-right opposition is on course to win this weekend’s election, but gains by the anti-immigrant AfD will likely be the biggest story.

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This guy has your Social Security number and your tax returns.

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How good do people think this flow chart map of the Federal Government is? Do they know of a better one?

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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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A brutal and well-deserved takedown of a shamefully derisible position.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

On Thursdays we post recalls.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

SCOOP: USDS Engineering Director Resigns Anne Marshall, who was only promoted to the role in December, resigned from USDS/DOGE on Wednesday following dozens of terminations at the organization. "This is not the mission I came to serve." More here: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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@jonathanlemire1.bsky.social don’t say unintended consequences. They’re intended.

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"51 employees at CIA and the Office of Director of National Intelligence received calls Friday from their human resources office telling them to report to the visitors center at CIA headquarters in Virginia at 8AM on Tuesday with their badges and without lawyers..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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Where did Trump get the 4% number from? That’s what Putin told him in their recent phone call. The American president takes lies about our allies directly from Putin and asserts they are true to the American people without telling them he got those lies from Putin.

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Thank you @govpritzker.illinois.gov!

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