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INVESTIGATION & ANALYSIS

Colorado Marijuana Company Voluntarily Recalls Dozens of Contaminated Products Amid State Regulatory DelaysProPublica Across the Country, Youth Prisons Are Closing. This State Is Building More.ProPublica How the Smithsonian Became the Latest Front in Trump’s Culture WarProPublica Susan Collins Dismissed Our Reporting as Old News. Some of Her Claims Aren’t True.ProPublica The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly MoveProPublica The Backlash to “NAZA” Shows How Little Israeli Citizenship Really MeansThe Intercept The Blueprint for Democrats to Win Back VotersThe Intercept Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken OfflineThe Intercept Congress Failed Again to Stop Trump’s Iran War. This Group Is Trying Through the Courts.The Intercept Green Energy Is Coming for the DesertThe Intercept Tim Tebow “Pausing” Christian Seminar Promotion After Our InvestigationMother Jones You’re Paying For Donald Trump’s New AdMother Jones El Niño’s Estimated Death Toll From Extreme Heat Alone: 451,000 by FebruaryMother Jones Supreme Court Allows Trump to Use Flawed Database to Vet Voter CitizenshipMother Jones Tech Bros and the Trump Administration Are Building an AI Empire—In the PhilippinesMother Jones Hands Off!The Nation The First Amendment Lives for Another News Cycle—MaybeThe Nation Netanyahu Came to New York. New Yorkers Were Ready for Him.The Nation

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DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

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It has been a brutal and protracted slugfest. But I think we can finally declare a winner in the long-running "Who is the dumbest United States Senator?" competition.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

Aside from the naked imperialism here, and cash grab, he admits it’s a war. A war without UN or congressional approval. A war which Rubio denied was a war and claimed was a law enforcement action. Trump as ever undermines his own people’s claims. It was a war. An illegal imperial one.

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ProPublica @propublica.org

The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)

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