Dan Bloom

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Audio producer, journalist, bon vivant.

New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay. Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics

The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...

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This smart @meredithshiner.com piece explains the zoomed out perspective Democrats are using to justify their shutdown fight despite lacking a clear off-ramp.

Meredith Shiner@meredithshiner.com · 11mo ago

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”

Israel killed 31 journalists in Yemen strike, press freedom group says

Last week’s attack was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East” ever documented by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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Along with his brother, Josue Trejo-Lopez was deported two weeks before his high school graduation. He’d been in the US since he was 10 years old, had no criminal record, and left behind his mom and little brother. 🎧 Hear his story on this week's episode of Reveal:

As aggressive ICE raids rise, we look at the people being targeted and the families they’re leaving behind.

As the Trump administration aims to deport millions of people over the next four years, “Reveal” tells the human stories of those caught up in ICE raids.

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