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ProPublica
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25 minutes ago
One doctor’s recommendation to deny a 43-year-woman coverage “contained errors on practically every aspect” of her condition, the Labor Department said in 2012. United and other insurers continued to hire the doctor over the next decade. (Published Dec. 2024)
Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts

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Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts

In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions…

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ProPublica
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about 2 hours ago
“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.” (Published May)
Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.

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Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.

In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power…

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Clara Jeffery
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about 5 hours ago
Got some actionable information you want to put in the hands of investigative journalists. Here's how: www.motherjones.com/contr….
How to Leak to Us

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How to Leak to Us

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ProPublica
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about 5 hours ago
Rep. Dacia Grayber, a longtime firefighter, was the only state lawmaker to support keeping Oregon’s wildfire mandates and risk map in place before a vote to repeal. The tragedy, she said, is that the vote “was 100% based in misinformation.”
How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map

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How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map

After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.

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Clara Jeffery
@clarajeffery.bsky.social
about 5 hours ago
reading the NYT's blow-by-blow account, it's just so obvious that you have a bunch of smart and competent world leaders, whatever their faults, trying to navigate around our willifully ignorant president: www.nytimes.com/live/2025….
Live Updates: Zelensky and European Leaders Press for Security Guarantees in Meeting With Trump

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Live Updates: Zelensky and European Leaders Press for Security Guarantees in Meeting With Trump

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19thnews
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about 6 hours ago
D.C. residents are organizing against Trump’s power grab in the capital — the latest embodiment of a generations-long fight for autonomy.
Free DC: Inside the women-founded movement opposing Trump’s militarized takeover

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Free DC: Inside the women-founded movement opposing Trump’s militarized takeover

Residents are organizing against Trump’s power grab in the capital — the latest embodiment of a generations-long fight for autonomy.

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The Marshall Project
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about 6 hours ago
A 9-year-old pepper sprayed in handcuffs, crying for her dad. A teenager wrestled to the ground, and another pepper sprayed while waiting for the bus. All were Black girls hurt by police.
Police Hurt Thousands of Teens Every Year. A Striking Number Are Black Girls.

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Police Hurt Thousands of Teens Every Year. A Striking Number Are Black Girls.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — On a warm September Sunday in 2016, a small Black teenager in a pink T-shirt biked through narrow city streets and rolled into an intersection. So did a Chevy Cruze, driven by an…

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Grist
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about 8 hours ago
Grist is looking for an Upper Great Lakes reporter to cover climate impacts, environmental health, and solutions to the climate crisis, primarily for a local and regional audience. #journalismjobs Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/grist/jobs/4...

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Regional Reporter, Interlochen

Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan

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19thnews
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about 8 hours ago
The film’s success may help narrow some of the representation gaps for Asian and Pacific Islander filmmakers and the protagonists in their films. www.instagram.com/p/DNgd0….
Screenshot from the film KPop Demon Hunters. Below the image is text that reads: "The Asian women of ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ smashed records and stereotypes Hit films rarely have Asian women protagonists, let alone ones that are “a lot silly” and “have potbellies.”
Text reads: “I didn't feel like I was seeing female superheroes in a way that I wanted to see them, which is, like, very real. ... And so I was like, Okay, this is the type of woman I want to see. I'm going to try to push through this. Maggie Kang Director KPop Demon Hunters"
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Chabeli Carrazana
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about 9 hours ago
As always, so proud to work @19thnews.org, where we're growing with intention to both serve our readers and our staff. Here's our new strategic plan, a three-year guide on how we're growing and where we're focusing: 19thnews.org/strategic-pl...
The 19th's Strategic Plan

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The 19th's Strategic Plan

As we move from our founding phase into one focused on long-term sustainability and service, we’re excited to share what’s next: a three-year plan that will guide The 19th through this next chapter.

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19thnews
@19thnews.org
about 9 hours ago
We're hiring! We're looking for an audience growth manager to collaborate across departments and develop and execute a growth strategy to help us reach the women and LGBTQ+ people we aim to serve. 💰: $100,000 – $120,000 📌: Remote (U.S. only) 📆: Apply by Sept. 8
We're hiring an audience growth manager - The 19th

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We're hiring an audience growth manager - The 19th

We're hiring an audience growth manager to collaborate across departments and develop and execute an audience growth strategy to reach the women and LGBTQ+ communities we aim to serve — particularly t...

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Rest of World
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about 9 hours ago
China’s driverless future is miles ahead of everyone else restofworld.org/2025/chin….
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The Marshall Project
@themarshallproject.org
about 10 hours ago
In this guide, families who have lost someone to violence in St. Louis share what did – and did not – help them rebuild their lives after a tragic loss.
How Do You Grieve the Victim of an Unsolved Homicide? Ask the People Who’ve Been Through It.

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How Do You Grieve the Victim of an Unsolved Homicide? Ask the People Who’ve Been Through It.

In this guide, families who have lost someone to violence in St. Louis share what did – and did not – help them rebuild their lives after a tragic loss.

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Anna Merlan
@annamerlan.bsky.social
about 11 hours ago
The fact that Jezebel's former parent company stripped all the images and tweet embeds from our articles makes this almost hilariously unreadable: www.jezebel.com/donald-tr….
Donald Trump's Nazi and White Supremacist Fans Hate Me, For Some Reason

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Donald Trump's Nazi and White Supremacist Fans Hate Me, For Some Reason

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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19thnews
@19thnews.org
about 11 hours ago
The trend, connected to a cryptocurrency group’s moneymaking scheme, is yet another example of online misogyny escalating to real-world violence against women.
Meme coins and misogyny: What the dildo-throwing trend at WNBA games can teach us

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Meme coins and misogyny: What the dildo-throwing trend at WNBA games can teach us

The trend, connected to a cryptocurrency group’s moneymaking scheme, is yet another example of online misogyny escalating to real-world violence against women.

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Emily Ramshaw
@eramshaw.bsky.social
about 11 hours ago
Today @19thnews.org launched its first-ever strategic plan. From now through Aug. 28, we’ll be rallying the support of our community to help us bring this three-year vision to life. Please consider becoming a member today! 19thnews.org/membership/?...
Support our nonprofit newsroom | Donate to The 19th

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Support our nonprofit newsroom | Donate to The 19th

Join hundreds of others already supporting our mission with their membership. Your financial support helps make our journalism possible.

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Rest of World
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about 12 hours ago
Google, Meta, and Microsoft are investing in “AI for good” tools to tackle problems like wildfires, hunger, and maternity deaths in Africa. But some experts say such projects could exploit the continent for data and erode local control. New from @tarykuh.bsky.social
Big Tech’s “AI for good” spending increases in Africa. So does skepticism

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Big Tech’s “AI for good” spending increases in Africa. So does skepticism

While Google, Microsoft, and Meta provide AI for social good, some advocates say projects exploit the continent for data, erode local control.

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Clara Jeffery
@clarajeffery.bsky.social
about 12 hours ago
The recall against Joel Engardio is misguided and wasteful NIMBYism the reasons for which are unsupported by the data. But more than that, there is an election next year when district voters can reelection him or not www.sfchronicle.com/opini….
Endorsement: No on Joel Engardio recall. Yes on charter reform

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Endorsement: No on Joel Engardio recall. Yes on charter reform

OPINION: “There is no justification for expending diminishing city resources on a recall when angry Sunset voters could simply oust Engardio when he’s up for reelection next year.”

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The Marshall Project
@themarshallproject.org
about 12 hours ago
After roughly 25,000 unredacted death records from 2019 to 2023 were made available online late last year, The Marshall Project checked them against independent sources on in-custody deaths, including news reports and academic research. We found at least 681 deaths missing from the federal count.
Why Doesn’t the U.S. Government Know How Many People Die in Custody?

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Why Doesn’t the U.S. Government Know How Many People Die in Custody?

Under the Death in Custody Reporting Act, the government is supposed to track how many people die in law enforcement custody — but the data is a mess.

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Clara Jeffery
@clarajeffery.bsky.social
about 13 hours ago
“Goodbye, MSNBC. Hello, MS NOW. “ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/1….
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