If ESPN still had a soul, they would lead every one of their shows with this story.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2w agoICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
NEW: Sports reporting is shrinking. But at ProPublica, we’re diving in. We won’t cover the games, but we’ll be keeping score — of which powerful people are winning, of who’s being hurt and of which systems can be held accountable.
Why ProPublica Is Leaning Into Sports Investigations
Sports is a wealthy, powerful industry. We’ll cover the system instead of the games. We’ll ask who’s responsible for some of its biggest problems and who’s preventing them from being fixed.
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If you think local journalism doesn’t matter, you’re wrong. This Kentucky coucilwoman gets it. kiesow.net/how-to-talk-...
How to talk about the local news crisis: We are all worse off.
Last week, McClatchy rolled out the latest round of destructive cuts to its local reporting staff. The cuts themselves are barely newsworthy within the industry at this point, though the futility of '...
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Indeed, We The People Should Be Getting The Same Healthcare And Paid Leave As McTurtle.......🐢
WSJ editorial board FOIAs emails showing Sen. Katie Britt’s office privately seeking Trump tariff exemptions for Alabama — while she’s publicly praising the tariffs. www.wsj.com/opinion/kati...
Opinion | One Senator’s Plea for Tariff Breaks
How protectionism works in practice: Public support, but seeking exemptions in private.
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The Defense Department’s inspector general reports a major munitions shortfall—and damage to U.S. bases throughout the region. trib.al/hwlI6kb
Pentagon Watchdog Reveals Devastating U.S. Losses in Iran War
The Defense Department’s inspector general reports a major munitions shortfall—and damage to U.S. bases throughout the region.
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He took a team to the Super Bowl. Once he was bringing injustice to light he was suddenly not a very good NFL player.
Small potatoes have also wounded hundreds of Americans, rendered a vast swathe of our bases unusable, emptied our stockpiles of high-end strike munitions and interceptors, and are shellacking our economy. What are the big potatoes?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Trump says 18 Americans dying fighting Iran is “small potatoes”
"One Trump voter issued a tear-filled video regretting his decision to vote for the president after his brother, who served with U.S. special forces, died while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement." www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
Teary Trump voters regret after brother dies in ICE custody
A former voter of President Donald Trump is expressing his remorse for voting for the president after his brother, a member of U.S special forces, died in an ICE facility
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The highlighted portion should be a MUCH bigger story and receive SIGNIFICANTLY more attention than it has gotten.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last mo.This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
4 days ago The Pentagon fired the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes. Yesterday they broke the story of Elsie Dominguez, a civilian engineer who was raped repeatedly by the Captain of a Navy ship she was on. They keep trying to silence the press & quash the truth. Elsie’s story must be told:
Lawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as worker’s comp issue
The order handed down this month closed an attempt by a civilian engineer to get justice for an assault she said threw her life into shambles.
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Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion
The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.
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Chase Madar@madar.bsky.social · 2mo agoRemarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
This commentary from Stephen A. Smith is comical. I have proof that he does not practice what he is preaching. 🤦🏾♂️
This extraordinary interview is worth 7 mins of your time. Delsia Bare has a nuanced, comprehensive theory of corporate power and the value of human life. Quite inspiring. www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/u...
KY farm owner wants governments to ‘throw on the brakes’ after turning down $26M offer from AI data center | CNN
Delsia Bare joins CNN’s Pamela Brown in The Situation Room to talk about her family turning down $26M from a company to build an AI data center on their farmland. Bare explained their decision and her...
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I never thought about putting dash cams in my cars to protect me from my own government before 2024, but here we are. I want reform now. And I want consequences for those promulgating and perpetrating these abuses upon people.
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 2mo agoVideo of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
So, SCOTUS rules against Trump on 3 things: tariffs, removing birthright citizenship, and firing Fed governors. And he moves forward with all three...
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: Trump is trying to fire Lisa Cook again. The Trump administration, rebuffed by the Supreme Court in its first attempt to fire Cook, just sent the Federal Reserve governor a letter saying it was "considering" removing her from the job.
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
