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Here Is The Last Day Mail-In Ballots Will Be Accepted In Every State
Addy Baird - BuzzFeed News 86d 2 tweets
Many states recommend sending in your ballot a week out from the election; that’s today.
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White House puts ‘politicals’ at CDC to try to control info
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump White House has installed two political operatives at the nation’s top public health agency to try to control the information it releases about the coronavirus pandemic...
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Tom Namako “(AP) — The Trump White House has installed two political operatives at the nation’s top public health agency to try to control the information it releases about the coronavirus pandemic as the administration seeks to paint a positive outlook.” 98d
The US Is Heading Into A Third Wave Of COVID Hospitalizations As Election Day Nears
Peter Aldhous - BuzzFeed News 99d 3 tweets
First the coronavirus ravaged the northeast, then it hit the Sun Belt. Now hospitals across the midwest and northern plains are feeling the strain as COVID-19 continues to stalk the nation.
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Despite Earlier Denials, The White House Now Says An Anti-Muslim Leader Had A Meeting There
Tom Namako - BuzzFeed News 101d 1 tweets
Brigitte Gabriel is the leader of ACT for America.
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Tom Namako After a seven hour overnight break the president of the United States has resumed his frantic and frenetic tweeting by promoting a rabid Islamophobe. 101d
Brigitte Gabriel Wants You To Fight Islam
David Noriega - BuzzFeed News 101d 1 tweets
The anti-Islam group ACT for America has a direct line to Donald Trump. Now, it has seized on allegations of a hideous crime in Idaho’s Magic Valley to spread its reach among regular Americans.
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Tom Namako After a seven hour overnight break the president of the United States has resumed his frantic and frenetic tweeting by promoting a rabid Islamophobe. 101d
Judges Aren’t Buying Trump’s Claims That Mail-In Voting Causes Widespread Voter Fraud
Zoe Tillman - BuzzFeed News 103d 3 tweets
Trump has lost lawsuits challenging pandemic-related mail-in voting plans in Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, and, most recently, Pennsylvania.
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Tom Namako Judges around the US reject Trump campaign's voter fraud claims: "They have pieced together a sequence of uncertain assumptions” "Cannot point to a single instance of voter fraud in Montana" "Plaintiffs offer no instances of voter fraud" 103d
“I Can’t Vote For Someone Who I Blame For The Death Of My Husband”: Meet The Coronavirus Widows
julia reinstein 🚡 - BuzzFeed News 104d 2 tweets
Thousands of Americans have lost a partner during the coronavirus pandemic. Their grief — and anger — is driving some of them to the polls.
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Tom Namako “I Can’t Vote For Someone Who I Blame For The Death Of My Husband”: Meet The Coronavirus Widows Thousands of Americans have lost a partner during the pandemic. Their grief — and anger — is driving some of them to the polls. ⁦⁩ 104d
The FBI Said They Busted A Domestic Terror Plot To Kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
Amber Jamieson - BuzzFeed News 106d 2 tweets
"Snatch and grab, man. Grab the fuckin' Governor. Just grab the bitch," one of the alleged domestic terrorists said.
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Tom Namako Let's be clear about the language here. A far-right militant group is accused of a domestic terror plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and attack police officers. via 106d
I Am The Politics Editor And I Have Absolutely No Idea What Happens Next
Matt Berman - BuzzFeed News 112d 6 tweets
I am not going to pretend to have many answers right now.
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President Trump Finally Laid Out His Health Care Plan. It Doesn’t Do Anything.
Paul McLeod - BuzzFeed News 119d 5 tweets
Trump will promise to protect people with preexisting conditions and end surprise medical billing Thursday, but his plan doesn’t actually do either. HHS Secretary Alex Azar said the plan “is what it is.”
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Tom Namako “Thursday’s announcement was billed as ‘Trump’s Healthcare Vision for America’ but contained no tangible action. Trump has long promised a ‘beautiful’ and ‘phenomenal’ healthcare plan, but his administration never unveiled any comprehensive reform plan.” 119d
ICE Often Gives Detained Immigrants Poor Medical Care And Uses Segregation As Punishment, A New Report Says
Adolfo Flores - BuzzFeed News 123d 1 tweets
The report found that several staff working at detention facilities "diminished the seriousness of suicide attempts as well as evidence of detainee medical issues going untreated."
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Tom Namako Scoop from and , who got their hands on a soon-to-be-published report by the House Homeland Security Committee. ICE Often Gives Detained Immigrants Poor Medical Care And Uses Segregation As Punishment 123d
Coronavirus Vaccine Trials Will Likely Take Months, According To Plans Released By Pharma Companies
Stephanie M. Lee - BuzzFeed News 126d 4 tweets
The disclosures from the two frontrunners, Pfizer and Moderna, come as public trust in a coronavirus vaccine is declining.
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Tom Namako Coronavirus Vaccine Trials Could Take Months, According To Plans Released By Pharma Companies via and 126d
National Editor
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Tom Namako We have three great jobs open here at : National Editor, overseeing politics and government coverage: Deputy Culture Editor News Photo Editor If you’re interested and want to talk, DM me. 143d
Deputy Culture Editor
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Tom Namako We have three great jobs open here at : National Editor, overseeing politics and government coverage: Deputy Culture Editor News Photo Editor If you’re interested and want to talk, DM me. 143d
News Photo Editor
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Tom Namako We have three great jobs open here at : National Editor, overseeing politics and government coverage: Deputy Culture Editor News Photo Editor If you’re interested and want to talk, DM me. 143d
Facebook Employees Slam Zuckerberg Over Militia Groups And QAnon After Kenosha
Ryan Mac 🙃 - BuzzFeed News 147d 16 tweets
Following days of violence and civil unrest, Facebook employees wonder if their company is doing enough to stifle militia and QAnon groups stoking violence on the social network.
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I Was Abducted By Federal Agents In Portland
BuzzFeed News - BuzzFeed News 148d 3 tweets
Now I’m suing.
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Tom Namako Mark Pettibone was abducted by federal agents in Portland: Now, he's suing: 148d
The ACLU Is Suing The Trump Administration Over Its Repression Of Portland Protests
Caroline Haskins - BuzzFeed News 148d 2 tweets
The civil liberties group says protesters were brutalized by federal agents.
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Tom Namako Mark Pettibone was abducted by federal agents in Portland: Now, he's suing: 148d
Two People Were Fatally Shot And One Person Was Injured In Kenosha During Protests For Jacob Blake
Tasneem N - BuzzFeed News 148d 1 tweets
Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the shootings that occurred after a confrontation between armed civilians and protesters during a third night of unrest in Kenosha.
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Tom Namako Protester Dylan Schultz told he walking by a gas station and tire shop n Kenosha last night where there were armed militia who were "menacing" to the crowd of protesters and were "pointing weapons in their faces." 148d
“The US Is Nowhere”: As The Political Crisis In Belarus Deepens, America Is Conspicuously Absent
Christopher Miller - BuzzFeed News 150d 4 tweets
Crackdowns and demonstrations continue to roil Belarus after a contested election, but the US seems reluctant to play a role in the push for an autocratic leader to share power and scale back police a
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