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Emmy-nominated labor reporter @PaydayReport often in 🇧🇷. Alum: @Guardian! Yinzer @UEunion fam. Autistic⚾️ Jew. Falo Português e Pittsburghese. Melk@PaydayReport.com

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Many residents fleeing the war in Iran crossed into Turkey through the Kapikoy border gate as the conflict intensifies.

10.03.2026 16:36 👍 35 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 2
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Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

(Published July 2025)

11.03.2026 03:00 👍 601 🔁 336 💬 15 📌 17
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sharply criticized the Supreme Court for being quick to issue rulings that have temporarily allowed some of President Trump’s controversial policies to stand while legal challenges against them play out in the courts. https://wapo.st/4s2Wiqg

11.03.2026 03:00 👍 204 🔁 64 💬 7 📌 1
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‘A redução da jornada de trabalho é plenamente sustentável’, diz Luiz Marinho sobre a PEC da escala 6×1 Proposta é uma das principais apostas do governo Lula neste ano…

‘A redução da #JornadaDeTrabalho é plenamente sustentável’, diz ministro Luiz Marinho sobre a PEC da #Escala6×1.
www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/03/10/a...

11.03.2026 03:00 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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This Iranian man broke me. These are ordinary people whose lives are being destroyed and who are being killed by U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.

10.03.2026 21:42 👍 108 🔁 50 💬 4 📌 5
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Iran’s Control of Hormuz Means It’s Exporting More Oil Today Than Before the War Tehran is letting ships carrying its crude pass through the strait, while it scares off others that would dare.

An amazing stat:

Iran exported more oil *today* than it did daily before the war.

It's the one country whose tankers are getting through the Strait of Hormuz.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

11.03.2026 02:55 👍 296 🔁 142 💬 13 📌 15

Dems need to make media mergers a major 2026 campaign issue

11.03.2026 01:47 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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How a Maryland Farm Became a Federal Detention Warehouse A family land trust, a vacant warehouse, and $215 million in federal contracts trace the twenty-year path of a Maryland field to an ICE detention facility.

Your long read for the week. We reviewed 20 years' worth of property records, permits, county council meeting minutes, assessor data, business records, land plats — and more — to track how a derelict Western Maryland farm became the site of an emerging ICE concentration camp.

11.03.2026 01:31 👍 101 🔁 60 💬 4 📌 1

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

11.03.2026 00:40 👍 8249 🔁 2085 💬 153 📌 47
US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high f...

US Navy tells shipping industry that it cannot offer naval escorts

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

10.03.2026 23:40 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high f...

US Navy tells shipping industry that it can’t offer escorts through Strait of Hormuz until now

10.03.2026 23:39 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175

Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

08.03.2026 18:37 👍 5553 🔁 1963 💬 126 📌 82
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lol Summer Lee’s primary opponent just dropped out - AIPAC ain’t got shit on Summer Lee!

10.03.2026 22:08 👍 51 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
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Mamdani wants to take buildings from bad NYC landlords. This bill could make it happen. A Council bill with majority support would revive the once-controversial "third-party transfer" program.

The New York City Council is considering a bill to allow the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development to seize buildings from landlords who have racked up housing code violations and debt from unpaid taxes and fines and turn them over to better owners.

gothamist.com/news/mamdani...

10.03.2026 15:33 👍 1112 🔁 240 💬 19 📌 46
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Paul Skenes Boosts Militarism as US Bombs Iran The NL Cy Young winner has increasingly made militaristic statements as the US bombs Iran.

“We’re doing it to represent the men and women that are fighting for us, along with many other things that make this country the greatest country in the world,” Skenes said as they bomb Iran this week.

paydayreport.com/paul-skenes-...

04.03.2026 16:11 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

That line of his is followed by "That's what we do. It's gonna be fun"

Fascist stuff

10.03.2026 12:19 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Paul Skenes Boosts Militarism as US Bombs Iran The NL Cy Young winner has increasingly made militaristic statements as the US bombs Iran.

NL Cy Young winner Paul Skenes is increasingly make militaristic statements as the US bombs Iran.

​"We're America, we've got to assert our dominance over everybody else", said Skenes.

paydayreport.com/paul-skenes-...

04.03.2026 16:07 👍 30 🔁 11 💬 16 📌 10
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Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

09.03.2026 15:29 👍 3615 🔁 928 💬 94 📌 113
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Meanwhile the Trump boys did a reverse merger of a West Palm Beach drone roll-up into their golf course company.

We are doing penny stock mad libs now.

I wonder if they will score a Pentagon contract? Surely only if the tech is really up to snuff.

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

09.03.2026 22:12 👍 33 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
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Dozens of case files showcase how ICE violated court orders in Minneapolis Officers have repeatedly detained people under a reinterpretation of a 1996 law that states that anyone in the United States illegally “shall be detained” without bond, indefinitely.

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ICE violated dozens of court orders in Minneapolis. Here's why -- and what happened to the people they detained:

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

09.03.2026 15:34 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Duquesne Club - not like they don’t have money for it

09.03.2026 20:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Colômbia left wins at the ballot box

09.03.2026 05:02 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Here's the first-ever Linkedin message from this company, which seems to be a small company run by two millennials with some background in migrant shelters.

Four months ago they suggest they won a contract to run a "mass care site" in Lexington, KY, but this is their first-ever federal contract.

09.03.2026 01:40 👍 1023 🔁 506 💬 44 📌 35
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AmicaMossOpn030826

BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump plan set to take effect Monday that would rapidly dismiss many/most? immigration appeals. Judge Randy Moss (Obama/DC) says DOJ has to complete notice-and-comment before such a change. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

09.03.2026 04:11 👍 875 🔁 303 💬 17 📌 30
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‘Acabar com a jornada 6×1 é uma pauta da mulher brasileira’ Em pronunciamento sobre Dia Internacional da Mulher, Lula diz que quando uma mulher é violentada, é o Brasil que sangra, promete operações contra agressores e pede redução da jornada

Em pronunciamento sobre Dia Internacional da Mulher, presidente Lula diz que quando uma mulher é violentada, é o Brasil que sangra, promete operações contra agressores e pede redução da jornada
pt.org.br/acabar-com-a...

#MulheresEmLuta
#8deMarço
#8M
#Lula2026
#LulaReeleito
#VotePT
#VoteLula

09.03.2026 04:46 👍 64 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 0
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The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/middle...

08.03.2026 22:52 👍 4988 🔁 1910 💬 318 📌 370
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I’ve been friends with the Post and Courier’s managing editor since the 90’s when he worked for me. But I also worked with him on a story in the last few years and he’s as old-school gumshoe (frustratingly so for a hothead like me at the time) as it gets and I’m extraordinarily proud to know him.

09.03.2026 02:18 👍 39 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 0

Every time I open a news app or site and this story isn’t being discussed or featured prominently I feel like I’m losing my mind. Do not look away.

09.03.2026 02:54 👍 4941 🔁 964 💬 61 📌 14
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Country Joe McDonald, Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84

"His stage name wryly reflected the fact that Stalin was sometimes referred to as 'Country Joe' because of his rural background. The word 'Fish' was taken from Mao Zedong, who wrote that revolutionaries 'must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.'"

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...

08.03.2026 23:49 👍 44 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2
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Abughazaleh claims ‘undercover’ Fine staffer visited office This is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available. Last updated March 7 at 6:35 p.m. During her Thursday night stand-up comedy routine at the Prattic, congressional c...

My colleague Jack Baker broke yesterday allegations by Kat's campaign that Fine's field director attempted to covertly get info about campaign strategy.

Today, Kat's campaign provided us video of the incident and named the alleged spy: Madeleine McGrath.

McGrath has now deleted their LinkedIn.

08.03.2026 01:19 👍 725 🔁 142 💬 7 📌 19