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Reporter (details: felicefreyer.com) • Journalism professor • Immediate past president, Association of Health Care Journalists • Will follow you back only if you include a bio

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Massie goes full beast mode today.

Gets on the house floor, shreds the DOJ and starts naming names from the Epstein files.

25.02.2026 00:01 👍 18144 🔁 5616 💬 475 📌 294
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The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

03.02.2026 17:27 👍 4397 🔁 2278 💬 81 📌 321
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Listen.
No other words needed.
#ChoosePeaceNotChaos

16.01.2026 20:00 👍 35 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 9
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

21.12.2025 22:26 👍 12950 🔁 7030 💬 99 📌 241

I couldn’t get it to go away. There was no X. When I clicked on it, it took me to the page where you ask a question. I asked how to get rid of it and the bot referred me to customer service. That’s all I’m asking for, a way to remove it.

13.12.2025 16:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Are you frustrated by your bosses’ lack of faith in your writers’ ability to hold my attention?

13.12.2025 16:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I really wanted to read this but the AI generated “ask me anything” banner was blocking so much of the text in my phone and was so distracting that I gave up. At the very least USAToday should allow people who actually want to read the story to remove the AI slop.

13.12.2025 16:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

11.12.2025 16:22 👍 52055 🔁 16994 💬 2158 📌 1767
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Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.

28.11.2025 18:05 👍 1802 🔁 760 💬 72 📌 67
Vaccine Safety
MENU V
For Everyone
NOV. 19, 2025
KEY POINTS
• The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
• Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
• HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism,
including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. • HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.

Period.

This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

20.11.2025 03:29 👍 2937 🔁 1118 💬 108 📌 87

This relative advantage means that, even if they are relying on government programs like welfare or Medicaid, Trump supporters can see themselves as the "deserving" poor while disparaging others who are worse off than they are for being "lazy" and making "bad choices." 1/

17.11.2025 15:13 👍 176 🔁 49 💬 5 📌 4

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

03.11.2025 18:44 👍 26105 🔁 10331 💬 676 📌 485
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Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

31.10.2025 13:37 👍 3873 🔁 3590 💬 89 📌 209
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

16.10.2025 16:06 👍 4490 🔁 2740 💬 74 📌 237
Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

16.10.2025 14:07 👍 13249 🔁 6497 💬 372 📌 460
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Here's a montage of Trump talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare.

It would be a shame if everybody shared this on Social Security's 90th birthday, today!

#HandsOffOurSocialSecurity

14.08.2025 19:05 👍 203 🔁 187 💬 15 📌 8
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The only crime I've been a victim of in Washington, DC, CAME AT THE HANDS OF A DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTER!!!

13.08.2025 00:33 👍 137 🔁 39 💬 7 📌 1
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How does a lie become “common sense” & eventually the law?
Not by truth, but rather by coordination.
Here’s how a fake claim goes from one think tank to local news, to churches, to Congress, to your uncle’s Facebook, until it feels like fact.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

26.05.2025 15:50 👍 143 🔁 112 💬 6 📌 5

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

10.05.2025 14:53 👍 25623 🔁 5636 💬 844 📌 341
Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control
Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy

Full clip of "Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control"

09.05.2025 15:34 👍 821 🔁 237 💬 19 📌 22
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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

08.05.2025 13:14 👍 14770 🔁 4285 💬 217 📌 240
Misinformation with a Motive: Whitehouse Reveals Trump's Plot to Wreck Social Security
Misinformation with a Motive: Whitehouse Reveals Trump's Plot to Wreck Social Security YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

youtu.be/AREEE-jX3cs #sheldonwhitehouse

May 5 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) takes to the Senate Floor to expose months of flat-out lies from Trump and Musk to degrade public confidence in Social Security.

06.05.2025 03:52 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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#WorldPressFreedomDay 🔥

@froomkin.bsky.social

03.05.2025 15:17 👍 11441 🔁 4281 💬 163 📌 126
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.

‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

01.05.2025 03:19 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Watch this, and note how many of these errors were brought to light by the hard work of mainstream reporters, and how “outcry” from you led to reversals. The First Amendment is still at work. Don’t give up! Truth telling and protest remain our best hope.

24.04.2025 18:37 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Trump Admin’s $9 Billion Review of Harvard’s Grants Could Hit Boston’s Hospitals Hardest | News | The Harvard Crimson The Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of nearly $9 billion in multi-year research funding tied to Harvard has sparked uncertainty across the University — but the brunt of the planned cuts...

Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

15.04.2025 12:33 👍 5467 🔁 2410 💬 106 📌 114

“Coal in the US is now being economically outmatched by renewables to such an extent that it’s more expensive for 99% of the country’s coal-fired power plants to keep running than it is to build an entirely new solar or wind energy operation nearby, a new analysis has found.”

11.04.2025 03:06 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Important for all of us but especially journalists.

08.04.2025 23:09 👍 6224 🔁 1866 💬 60 📌 24

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

07.04.2025 17:47 👍 24365 🔁 7735 💬 367 📌 215

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

07.04.2025 04:13 👍 62928 🔁 13022 💬 1080 📌 582