“We are stable, and life is pretty predictable here,” reads an ad East Georgia State College recently placed in local papers amid a nationwide wave of campus protests.

But experts caution against playing the comparison game to recruit students.

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“The group is examining career civil servants to make recommendations on who could be trusted and who should be reassigned or removed in a second Trump administration,” reports Isaac Arnsdorf

New: Trump allies are plotting a crackdown—and potential ban—on pornography with anticipation the former president, who once made several cameos in soft-core films, will take action if elected to a second term.

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A day after this story published, Manafort says he is stepping away from his role at the GOP convention washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Pardoned Paul Manafort, now poised to rejoin Trump world, aided Chinese media deal. From Isaac Stanley-Becker Beth Reinhard Josh Dawsey washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

VA leaders improperly approved nearly $11 million in bonuses for executives, watchdog finds. Some got more than $100k. From Lisa Rein
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Freedom to think independently in Russia has been eroded as 'classrooms become echo chambers of the authoritarian nativism and historical distortions that Putin uses to justify his war and his will.'

Very important story by Mary Ilyushina washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/…

NEW: Major social media platforms tried to limit the reach of Trump’s messages. It didn’t work.
Analysis of thousands of the former president's Truth Social posts and who shares them off-platform, via me + Ence Morse 
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Baltimore’s old houses often have secrets stashed inside. The ⁦The Baltimore Banner⁩ solved the mystery of century-old love letters with a romance novel-like plot.

Phenomenal detective work & writing by ⁦Tim Prudente⁩ & ⁦Stokely Baksh⁩ thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/lifest…

Judges sound skeptical about DeSantis push for executive privilege subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians have been forced from their homes. Our latest report.
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The 234-page report on the FDIC culture is out & includes many examples of brazen misconduct. A senior examiner was known for going to brothels with colleagues on work trips. A former exec was thrown out of a strip club for inappropriately touching dancers. Employees said they

Staff are invited to weekly prayer circles. The director of messaging spent weeks in Costa Rica, where he called some of RFK’s views “actually repugnant.” At a potluck, volunteers were told to bring crockpots bc some staff fear radiation from microwaves. wsj.com/politics/elect…

Background on the investigation, which the FDIC formed a special committee to oversee, here: wsj.com/finance/regula…

Errors and accidents often go unreported in the burgeoning fertility industry, which is largely self-policed and not mandated to notify even patients of mistakes.

Read Lenny Bernstein & Yeganeh Torbati is on book leave in 2024's dive into the opaque world of IVF.

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NEW: As bird flu spreads in cows, U.S. response has echoes of early covid. Testing of cows too limited. Results + studies not shared fast enough. Genetic analysis of H5N1 suggests outbreak started months before it was noticed. w ⁦Rachel Roubein⁩ washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04…

“The people of this blue-collar town on the north side of what used to be the Francis Scott Key Bridge, now a tangle of metal in the Patapsco River, are still trying to make sense of it all.” ⁦Joe Heim⁩ washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

Our national, expensive domestic PPE gambit: Two years after a showy groundbreaking, a $350 million medical gloves plant in Baltimore sits empty.

Great accountability journalism from the ⁦⁦The Baltimore Banner⁩. thebaltimorebanner.com/article/baltim…

New from me: Arizona voters will decide whether property owners should get rebates if the city fails to crack down on homeless people latimes.com/politics/story…

Bad times for #opengov in Florida!!

'Approximately two weeks after FDLE and the Post reached their agreement about the AMP records, FDLE’s then-counsel met with [DeSantis] officials who overruled her determination and directed FDLE not to disclose any further public records.