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Associate professor of journalism and mass communication.

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This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.

Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

12.03.2026 15:33 👍 4991 🔁 1931 💬 751 📌 1251

Filed only 8 months before “Potatoidahoans”

11.03.2026 20:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

While drinking a brew skai

11.03.2026 20:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Justice Department publishes some missing Epstein files related to Trump The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.

4 days ago, NPR reported that the Trump administration is still withholding, in violation of the Epstein files statutes, 37 pages of documents that implicate him in the rape of a child. This should end his presidency. www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

10.03.2026 19:14 👍 916 🔁 427 💬 18 📌 27
ICE Flights are torture; the stories of Melissa Tran and so many more are highly disturbing
ICE Flights are torture; the stories of Melissa Tran and so many more are highly disturbing YouTube video by Liberal Currents

ICE flights are torture youtube.com/shorts/iB7rL...

10.03.2026 00:09 👍 160 🔁 64 💬 3 📌 1
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🧵 Some personal news:

My new book, ON COURAGE – with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @juliaangwin.com – is available for pre-order NOW (out June 30).

It’s a deeply reported manual with sixteen lessons for how each of us can defy authoritarianism.

Pre-order: www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...

09.03.2026 15:03 👍 260 🔁 81 💬 2 📌 7
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Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

"A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Epstein and Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records ... she claimed Trump forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984."

08.03.2026 18:39 👍 4121 🔁 1736 💬 121 📌 82
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Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

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The authority that Trump has asserted in taking America to war against Iran is, like many of his other power grabs, an expression of the very tyranny the Framers were seeking to prevent.

“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young congressman named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.

The authority that Trump has asserted in taking America to war against Iran is, like many of his other power grabs, an expression of the very tyranny the Framers were seeking to prevent. “Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young congressman named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.

The design of the Constitution divided warmaking authority between Congress and the executive to prevent a president to take the country to war by themselves for any petty or self-serving reason. You know, like a king would. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

04.03.2026 22:04 👍 1665 🔁 428 💬 29 📌 6

A couple things…

The “conflict“ in Iran *IS* a war.
It is a war of choice.
It is warfare without conscious.
It was unprovoked.

And I’m sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!

05.03.2026 00:25 👍 13754 🔁 2885 💬 575 📌 142

Or just enough

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Raskin: We are fighting for American citizens, madam secretary, because your eyes agents shot them in the face and killed them and each person you see here represents 800,000 American citizens and you should know that as a former member of congress.

04.03.2026 16:08 👍 3132 🔁 732 💬 81 📌 25

As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular.

So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!

02.03.2026 00:49 👍 7216 🔁 1176 💬 82 📌 14
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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

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a man wearing glasses and a red jacket says allow myself to introduce . ALT: a man wearing glasses and a red jacket says allow myself to introduce .
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FYI the entire Russian force that invaded ukraine has been destroyed like 4 times over

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Trump Invites Victims Of Jeffrey Epstein Investigation As SOTU Guests

Trump Invites Victims Of Jeffrey Epstein Investigation As SOTU Guests

Trump Invites Victims Of Jeffrey Epstein Investigation As SOTU Guests

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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

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Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

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Mead me in St. Louis

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Four interviews of a girl who says Trump sexually assaulted her when she was underage are gone -- missing from DOJ's release of the Epstein files.

#ReleaseTheInterviews

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Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

19.02.2026 21:43 👍 8698 🔁 1918 💬 3 📌 530

a government for, by and of degenerates

19.02.2026 22:11 👍 7281 🔁 1516 💬 164 📌 47
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

17.02.2026 19:31 👍 12165 🔁 6994 💬 324 📌 831

TLDR

1) very real accuser OF TRUMP in the Epstein files
2) FBI found her credible
3) Epstein found dead THE DAY AFTER the interview was formally entered into the record

17.02.2026 03:07 👍 168 🔁 59 💬 4 📌 2

Whatever it is, he owns the future

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