Jennifer LaFleur

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Republicans could gain nearly 200 state legislative seats across the South if the U.S. Supreme Court guts a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act, a new analysis finds ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/16/r...

"By denying and delaying those funds for months, Trump’s appointees incapacitated the fragile nation’s emergency response systems at the very moment when doctors and aid workers were scrambling to contain cholera’s spread." www.propublica.org/article/usai...

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A reminder of our past nuclear testing: revealnews.org/article/us-v...

NIH Institute Director Abruptly Replaced www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

I obtained ~dozens of hours~ of previously unreported recordings of Russ Vought's briefings from 2021 to 2024. Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's new mini-documentary about Vought 👇 THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...

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The plans reflect a notion "as to who are the true Americans. And they think it’s white people & they think it’s Christians," said a former chief of the refugee affairs division at Citizenship and Immigration Services during the Bush, Obama & Trump administrations. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

'Voice of CDC' Goes Silent www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

"One source told me that some of the reversals came after the Trump administration realized they had accidentally terminated critically important staffers working on current measles and Ebola outbreaks." www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus...

Dept of Justice

“Building a ‘palace in the sky’ is quite complex” www.occrp.org/en/scoop/gol...?

Medicaid work requirements are just bad. But, as I wrote for @motherjones.com, there’s an extra level of vileness going on with them being implemented as more work-from-home jobs disappear. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Not only are we preventing new infections, but we're doing better at keeping people alive," www.medpagetoday.com/hivaids/hiva...

"You can’t eradicate autism without eradicating autistic people. It’s genocidal rhetoric against us that’s justified by 'autism destroys families. It destroys children.' No, it doesn’t. It’s bias against autistic people." From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I don't live in DC anymore, but for following DC news, @51st.news is my go to source. 51st.news/masked-feds-...

Impact! www.dailycourier.com/news/penn-st...

“How can you do this to children?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“In the case of The U.S. Supreme Court v. Everyone Else, this court wins by a serious landslide.”

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"It’s work that would have helped some of the country’s most vulnerable children at a time when extreme weather events are becoming more common..." 19thnews.org/2025/09/epa-... via @19thnews.org

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc. www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...

"Half the population” of greater Los Angeles "now meet the government’s criteria for reasonable suspicion," in the wake of today's 6-3 SCOTUS ruling. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

"What can I do now?...Insist that your state and local governments become more open and transparent about how they are going about making decisions that use your tax dollars, deal with the loss of federal funds, and impact your community." contrarian.substack.com/p/artificial...

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"...most Serbian media coverage has reflected the government narrative, depicting student and other protestors, as well as journalists, as “terrorists” conspiring to destabilize the country." www.occrp.org/en/scoop/tel...?

"...these decisions don't just hurt institutions. They hurt people. Real people like me, and the countless others I've sat with during long chemo infusions." www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Note that is was an open bag of "Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chips" www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

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With respect, the two uses that CJR tests are among the top 10 I might consider, but they are not the best uses of AI in journalism, imo. Would caution against over-interpretation here.

“I don’t think he’s aware of my work...or most of the literature that’s been published on what the causes of autism are.” www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

“San Antonio spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on legal fees to withhold information from the public—and kept losing at every turn” www.texasobserver.org/secrecy-g-fi... - via @TexasObserver

NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior. By @heathervogell.bsky.social

“It was so revolutionary for me, to come into the space that I had never occupied before. It blew me away..." 19thnews.org/2025/08/patt... via @19thnews.org

"Kennedy's false claims have extended to flu vaccines... including saying there is 'zero evidence that the flu shot prevents any hospitalizations or any deaths' and that people who get the flu shot are 'six times more likely to give the flu to somebody else.'" www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

“In the CFPB’s absence, consumers will be left without critical resources” www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...

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“Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work,” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/a...

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"Kennedy plans to remove the 16 task force members because he considers them 'too woke.'" www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/...

“What we’re doing right now, we’re just swimming in the same lakes, we’re tilling the same fields, and we’re expecting a different result.” www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/brew...

Trump Admin Hands Over Nation's Medicaid Enrollee Data to ICE www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

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The FDA is going to stop testing milk for pathogens like I DON'T KNOW, BIRD FLU???? These people are actively trying to kill us. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

New Gallup survey shows that 30% of Americans want immigration decreased, down from 55% a year ago. A record-high of 79% of Americans call immigration a good thing, a reversal from 64 percent last year. news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

How Did Physicians in Congress Vote on the 'Big Beautiful Bill'? www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...