April Hunt

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Longtime reporter now permitted opinions. Fan of #hesm, AP Style, good writing, good baseball, good jokes and all pets.

Seth Moulton was given the chance to make several private equity investments that were not available to everyday investors with defense tech companies he helps oversee on the House Armed Services Committee. They are now worth millions of dollars. Bob Kuttner reports: prospect.org/2026/08/03/s...

Seth Moulton’s Sweetheart Deals - The American Prospect

In Rep. Moulton’s upcoming Senate primary challenge, questions about his lucrative investments in defense tech companies may prove more important than incumbent Ed Markey’s age.

prospect.org

this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol

The Verge@theverge.com · 3d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

At this point, I'm not sure how to eliminate gambling on sports. But for the sake of the athletes and their families, we should reign in some of the most extreme and exploitative practices #wnba

Senate leaders on Wednesday sent a strongly worded letter to the nation’s regulator of buses that oversees transportation safety. The move comes after a @wbur.org and ProPublica report found dozens of fatal crashes missing from the federal safety record:

Senators Push Federal Regulator to Prove School Bus Safety Data Is Accurate

The request from two Democratic lawmakers comes after WBUR and ProPublica found that the federal safety record was missing dozens of fatal crashes involving one of the nation’s largest public transit ...

propublica.org

Read the article: He says straight up that he didn’t believe the women posed a threat but his anger level at them was still a “15 out of 10”, so he shot at them. He’s a violent misogynist and truly believes women deserve what he did for speaking to him in a way that he doesn’t like.

Man accused of shooting woman outside ICE facility says he only meant to 'scare' protesters, affidavit says

The man accused of a shooting a protester in her foot near the ICE detention facility in Aurora said he was "extremely angry" over perceived threats to his children when he fired a single shot in her ...

yahoo.com

Holy shit! Jim Jordan is reduced to stammering when Kasie Hunt presses him on why he continues to support Max Miller despite credible allegations that he abused his ex-wife and toddler daughter

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

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