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How Trump and MAGA Fans Are Talking About the Epstein Case (Gift Article) Their actions range from pressuring the administration to release more information to spinning additional conspiracy theories about the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender.

Trump calls the Epstein case a "hoax." His MAGA base disagrees. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Nassau County Will Let Officers Wear Masks When Working With ICE

“A suburban New York county that recently barred residents from wearing masks is now making an exception for police officers so they can obscure their identities while helping the federal authorities detain immigrants.” — www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/n...

An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election See how your neighborhood voted on our interactive, precinct-level results map of the presidential election.

The @nytimes.com just posted an updated version of their detailed map of the 2024 election results, with the data available for download. This is invaluable in part because funding constraints have slowed down academic efforts at releasing precinct-level results. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Trump Goes on a Charm Offensive as He Woos Holdout Republicans

As Shawn McCreesh and Tyler Pager report, House Republican holdouts were apparently swayed to support President Trump’s tax and spending bill by signed merch and photographs with the president.

Top F.D.A. Official Overrode Scientists on Covid Shots

GIFT LINK: The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official rejected broad uses of two Covid vaccines, citing unknown risks or injuries despite assurances of safety from dozens of staff experts, newly released documents show. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...

How long will you wait for Social Security help? Why it's anybody's guess. The Social Security Administration is providing less information about caller wait times. Critics complain it's misleading the public.

USA TODAY reporters called Social Security's 1-800 line multiple times over several days and found the wait times to be consistently over an hour. Multiple times they did not reach a live person before the line disconnected with no warning.
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Rod Nordland, 75, Dies; War Reporter Who Also Wrote of His Own Struggle

RIP Rod Nordland, one of our generation's most extraordinary foreign correspondents. For 40 years, if there was a war or conflict or crisis anywhere around the world, Rod was likely to be there reporting the hell out of it. An inspiration to so many of us. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/b...

A sad day for @washingtonpost readers as the standalone Metro section in print is eliminated and folded behind Style. As a lifelong Washingtonian and veteran of the Metro staff, I always admired the Post's commitment to covering Washington as a community not just a capital.

What was the 1980s like? Well, there was a buff Australian man who starred in commercials for batteries where he just shouted “oi” and on the basis of that, he got a network series where he drove around in a big custom truck and solved crimes.

Crying deported migrant

Spy Guys meme about deportation

Hey hey goodbye song to deportations

Uncle Sam meme: Report All Foreign Invaders

New: The White House wants you to laugh at its mass-deportation memes. The Trump admin is using dark jokes, hype videos and personal jabs to promote its immigration policy. A former MAGA organizer is disturbed by how far they've gone: "This is not reality TV. It’s actual reality" wapo.st/3ZT5FNl

The White House wants you to laugh at its deportation memes The administration is using dark memes, music videos and personal jabs to boost its immigration policy across social media. Not everyone thinks it’s funny.

I talked to @dieworkwear.bsky.social for this story, who JD Vance and DHS made jokes about deporting.

He's unnerved but hopes it'll backfire, saying most people take no "pleasure in cruelty"

Of X: "It’s hard to recognize when you’re in sewage until you get out of the sewage" wapo.st/3ZT5FNl

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

NEW: We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill.

“AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said.

By @bxroberts.org, @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

The State Department Published A Substack Manifesto On ‘Western Civilizational Heritage’ The case against “mass migration” and in favor of “Western heritage” sharply...

The State Department Published A Substack Manifesto On ‘Western Civilizational Heritage’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-sta...

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Achievement unlocked:
I got home one evening recently and discovered I'd somehow spilled coffee on the *back* of my shirt.

(AP) — Secretary of State Rubio says the Trump administration will start revoking visas for some Chinese students.

Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining...

Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives.

By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social

HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses.
In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump

Joe Kent, top aide to DNI Tulsi Gabbard, ordered rewriting to an intel analysis re Venezuela & TDA so the doc could not be "used against" Trump, adding to concerns about politicizing intel. More emails also emerging.

@julianbarnes.bsky.social Maggie Haberman & me.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

Trump Budget Cuts Hobble Antismoking Programs

Efforts to drive down the smoking rate have worked: We're at a 75-year low for smoking and a 25-year low for vaping. Now the CDC office credited with some of that work is gone.

I met with teens in West Virginia who were sad to see their anti-vaping group cut:

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

Inside Elon Musk’s X Feed: Trumpism, Falsehoods and Lots of Love for Elon Musk The New York Times tracked 1,109 accounts that Mr. Musk follows on X to recreate his news feed.

I tracked more than 1,000 accounts that Elon Musk follows on X to recreate what he sees www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Mideast Is Donald Trump’s Safe Place On the “free” airplane from Qatar, and an American President with a self-interested foreign policy a sheikh could admire.

Trump has long had plane envy. “People come in from, especially the Middle East countries, with brand-new 747-800s, the brand-new super-duper-new one, and we have planes that are thirty-one years old," he told @sbg1.bsky.social and me when we interviewed him in 2021 www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Barnard suspends WKCR and Spectator reporters who covered Butler Library protest Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from Pub...

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library.

Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.

Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

Any day now, an old Soviet spacecraft will crash-land on Earth Podcast Episode · Apple News Today · 05/09/2025 · 14m

Fun to pop on the Apple News Today podcast and chat about an innovative and sophisticated new way to wreck the atmosphere.
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When your news org that is less than 3 years old wins a Pulitzer Prize! www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.

Facebook tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment. 😳

Trump Administration Cancels $1 Billion in Grants for Student Mental Health Congress authorized the money in a bipartisan breakthrough around addressing gun violence after a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two teachers.

The Trump administration halted $1 billion for mental health services for children, saying that the programs funded by a bipartisan law aimed at stemming gun violence in schools were no longer in “the best interest of the federal government.”

At a Dubai Conference, Trump’s Conflicts Take Center Stage (Gift Article) A deal for a state-backed Emirati firm to use a Trump-affiliated digital coin was announced in a panel that included the president’s son and his business partner, who promised, “This is only the begin...

"Virtually every detail of Mr. Witkoff’s announcement, made during a conference panel with Mr. Trump’s second-eldest son, contained a conflict of interest." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...