Featured story: The Observer obtained #Flock license-plate reader logs that show #police conducted 117 immigration-related searches of local data from Jan to March. One dept's search: "Obstructing Justice – Suspicious female filming traffic stop & making comments about #ICE” https://www.texasobserver.org/license-plate-readers-texas-privacy-advocates/
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Ohio Chaplain’s Case Shows How 9/11-Era Terror Rules Could Empower Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
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The U.S. government is trying to deport Ohio children’s hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, alleging tenuous connections to terrorism. If DHS succeeds, experts say it could hand the Trump administration a “sledgehammer” to use on mass deportations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ayman-soliman-dhs-deportation-trump-immigration-ohio?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Ohio #Cincinnati #DHS #Immigration #Trump #Deportation
What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever
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We heard from more than 40 current and former emergency managers in 11 states about what they need to prepare for the next disaster — and what they aren’t getting.
https://www.propublica.org/article/emergency-managers-united-states-resource-needs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Emergency #Disaster #Resources #Tornado #Hurricane #FEMA
Little Bits: Issue #31 For November 2025
Road blocks may have delayed this release, but it is still full of endless little bits to explore along with a message of gratitude and positivity.
After a lung transplant, Hannah Goetz’s life depended on the generic version of tacrolimus, a critical drug to prevent organ rejection.
It was supposed to be equivalent to the brand-name medication — but the FDA doesn’t always ensure that’s the case.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-generic-drug-equivalents-tacrolimus?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
A County’s Move to Protect Domestic Violence Victims Is Spreading Across Tennessee After Legislative Delay
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Judges across Tennessee are now demanding greater accountability from people who have been ordered to give up their guns, a shift aimed at strengthening protections for domestic violence victims.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-guns-dispossession-domestic-violence-impact?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Tennessee #DomesticViolence #Violence #Guns #Safety #Women #Law
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-students-education-deaf-blind-grant-funding?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Diversity #Education #Disability #Disabled #Students #Trump
After 17 Years, DNA Tied a Man to Her Rape. Under Massachusetts Law, It Was Too Late.
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Massachusetts has one of the strictest deadlines in the country for prosecuting rape. After the 15-year mark, no DNA match, testimony or even confession can give a rape victim a chance of facing their attacker in court.
https://www.propublica.org/article/massachusetts-statute-of-limitations-rape?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Meat from ‘critically endangered’ sharks being sold in supermarkets
A new study has found that shark meat sold in U.S. grocery stores, seafood markets, and online vendors…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #environment #pound #Science #Sharks #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/137635/
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
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For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it finally succeeded.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-governor-power-transfers-gop?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did
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Billions of prescriptions for generic drugs are filled in the U.S. annually. The FDA tests only a few dozen of them every year, its own records show, and it has largely dismissed warnings about contaminants, irregularities and other issues.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-generic-drug-testing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #FDA #Safety #Research #Testing #Health #Drugs #Medicine #Medication
"Only ten percent [of over 5,000 US adults] said they were "more excited than concerned," indicating that most Americans simply do not share the extremely optimistic views of tech leaders selling AI products."
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Senators Demand Names of Foreign Drugmakers Skirting FDA Import Bans
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Citing a recent ProPublica investigation, Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said they had “urgent concerns” about the agency’s oversight of foreign drugmakers and whether medications coming into the U.S. are safe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-letter-fda-drug-import-bans?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
A Florida Home Insurer Was Allowed to Bypass the Courts During Claim Disputes. It Won More Than 90% of the Time.
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State legislators and executives at Citizens Property Insurance touted mandatory arbitration as advantageous for both consumers and insurers. In practice, homeowners were left with few avenues for recourse when their claims were denied.
https://www.propublica.org/article/citizens-property-insurance-florida-arbitration-cases?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Eunice Whitman's boyfriend was indicted for her murder on flawed evidence. A defense witness wrote that police should have treated no fewer than 12 people as suspects of “higher interest.”
A decade after the killing, no one has been convicted in Whitman’s death
https://www.propublica.org/article/eunice-whitman-murder-alaska-justice-system?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Alaska #Crime #TrueCrime #Murder #Justice #CriminalJustice #Law
A Connecticut DMV Task Force Was Asked to Develop Towing Reforms. As Deadline Looms, Members Struggle to Agree.
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The group was formed in a legislative overhaul prompted by a Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica investigation that found the state’s laws favored towing companies over vehicle owners.
https://www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-towing-dmv-reform-overhaul?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
A Minnesota senator wants to strengthen the state’s mandatory reporting laws, after a Minnesota Star Tribune-ProPublica investigation found that the leaders of a Duluth church failed to report a child sex predator for years.
https://www.propublica.org/article/minnesota-mandated-reporting-law-old-apostolic-lutheran-church?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-civil-rights-racial-harassment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Trump #Racism #CivilRights #School #Family #BlackMastodon
Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started
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As federal agencies review their guidance on fluoridation and the nation’s top health official calls fluoride “industrial waste,” state and local governments are pulling back on the practice, upending a decadeslong public health success story.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fluoride-drinking-water-rfk-jr-michigan-cdc-hhs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #RFKJr #PublicHealth #Michigan #Water #Government
Lab practices at the drug testing company Averhealth have been faulted by its own accreditor, and the company has been targeted in lawsuits and dropped by two child welfare agencies, a ProPublica investigation found.
Learning a new AI-related term: workslop.
"The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver."
https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity
#workslop #AI #slop #GenAI #technology #news #TechNews #study
Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
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Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
https://www.propublica.org/article/psychiatric-hospitals-emtala-violations-mental-health?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #Law #Hospital #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #Medicine
“His Audience Was Really Trump”: How New FBI Lead Used His Missouri AG Role to Wage a Culture War
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Andrew Bailey’s nearly three-year term as Missouri’s top lawyer was marked by splashy fights over gender, schools and diversity that often fizzled but boosted his political profile. Now he’s co-deputy director of the FBI.
https://www.propublica.org/article/andrew-bailey-fbi-missouri-attorney-general-culture-wars?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #FBI #Missouri #Law #Trump #Gender #Diversity #Culture
Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
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Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at least $54 million on administrative costs alone.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirement-gao-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments
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The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, experts told ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/todd-blanche-crypto-doj-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DOJ #Ethics #Crypto #Law #Transparency #Stocks #Trump #USPolitics