"It is easy to publish things on the internet. It’s a little more time-consuming to report, write, edit and fact-check things." —Sara Rubin, #MontereyCountyNow
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Hurricane Helene Killed His Wife and Destroyed His Mobile Home. New Tenants Are Now Renting the Same Flood-Prone Land.
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Residents of a riverfront trailer park in the Appalachian Mountains have lost homes and loved ones in multiple storms. A policy gap puts mobile home residents in harm’s way again and again.
https://www.propublica.org/article/western-north-carolina-helene-mobile-home-fema-recovery?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NorthCarolina #Asheville #Hurricane #Housing #Home #Flood
NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #ICE #Immigration #Law #Legal #News #DOJ
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"Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that Al can handle,” according to an all-hands email sent by co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn announcing that the company will be “AI-first.”"
https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers
Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division can take months or even years to issue formal safety warnings about marijuana products even when it receives reports that the products are harming people’s health, The Denver Gazette and ProPublica found.
#News #Colorado #Denver #Cannabis #Marijuana #Health #Safety #Regulation
Interview: Prairieland Protester's "Act of Solidarity” became a 50-year prison sentence
Autumn Hill is "serving a 50-year prison sentence for protesting outside the Prairieland ICE jail last July."
She is "one of nine protesters convicted of terrorism-related charges after federal prosecutors accused them of being members of an 'antifa terror cell'."
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/25/autumn_hill_prairieland_nine_50_years
#USPol #EUPol #news #PrairielandProtest #Fascism #democracy #ICE .
NEW: These local jails in Florida were supposed to detain immigrants for only up to 72 hours, per DHS.
One woman was rebooked 10 times, spending a cumulative 26 days in jail.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigrants-rebooking-ice-jails-florida?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump has, in recent months, repeatedly broadcast live from his office, appearing on pro-Israel and right-wing programs to promote his book denying Israel’s genocide.
On one such broadcast, the judge, Roy Altman, called the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh scarf a “terrorism scarf.” He’s participated in events with a group that purports to combat “lawful Islamism” in the U.S.
https://zeteo.com/p/judge-roy-altman-trump-israel
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#Gaza #Palestine
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To continue running the deadly El Paso detention center, the feds turn to a company that’s faced numerous lawsuits from labor unions and former employees and is actively fighting a whistleblower in court. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-contractor-camp-east-montana-el-paso/
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.
The state performed just one execution in that period.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-lethal-injections-costs-secrecy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Georgia #Money #Transparency #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #Justice
Report: Francesca Albanese says it is “absolutely urgent to establish an international protection presence in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem & Gaza."
"Third states have an obligation, per the ICJ, to act to end Israel’s unlawful occupation."
The UN's 'Uniting for Peace' mechanism allows the General Assembly to step in "when the Security Council is unable to act due to a lack of unanimity."
https://aje.news/rucung?update=4879182
#USPol #EUPol #UnitingForPeace #UN #ICJ #Palestine #Gaza #news .
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This is the big LG television surveillance documentary story GN have been working on for a couple of months, and that they previewed a few days ago.
The complete pervasiveness of spying upon not just you and what you watch but _every person and every device around every set_ is genuinely staggering. And it gets worse if you use their apps, particularly the LG TV "network":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA
Having an old set DOES NOT HELP YOU; they've been adding these spying functions in firmware updates.
So DO NOT BUY ANYTHING LG. Certainly not anything "smart."
#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period.
The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ectopic-pregnancy-deaths-doubled-analysis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Women #Health #Pregnancy #Abortion #Data #Research #Texas
A new audit by the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays.
Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterms.
https://www.propublica.org/article/postal-service-audit-primary-election-ballots?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #USPS #Vote #Voting #Election #Midterms #Democracy #USPolitics
Does anyone have a list of book blogs, legit book reviewers, book magazines, and such places a Mastodontian author could get visibility for their book?
Speaking for myself and other indies that could use the boost, since many of us have left META and need new ways to share the exitement of new releases. (:
#Book #Books #List #Lists #blog #bookblog #bookish #bookstodon #magazine #bookreview #bookreviewer #indieauthor #author #news
NEW: As delegates gather at NATO headquarters to discuss reducing civilian harm during combat, the Trump administration's absence from a group the U.S. co-founded is being dubbed "humiliating" and “dangerous” by current and former officials.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hegseth-dod-nato-civilian-harm-reduction-absent?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #PeteHegseth #Defense #Pentagon #DOD #NATO #Politics
Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another.
But it doesn't have to be this way. These #books offer a humane approach to #trans athletes: https://www.texasobserver.org/trans-athletes-inclusion-sports-culture/
NEW: To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education.
But those students’ families often have the hardest time finding schools that will accept them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/school-vouchers-disabilities?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #School #Education #Disability #Accessibility #Students #Children #Parenting
Washington has joined 20 other states around the country in filing two lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s changes to the Endangered Species Act.
https://www.kuow.org/environment/2026-09-09/wa-sues-to-prevent-federal-changes-that-would-undercut-endangered-species-act
#KUOW #News #EndangeredSpecies #Environment #Government #LawAndCourts #TrumpAndTheNorthwest
NEW: In 2020, Pittsburgh Pirates prospect Oneil Cruz was involved in a car crash that left three people dead.
ProPublica reveals how a Dominican moneylender helped to ensure that the young star was not prosecuted.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oneil-cruz-pittsburgh-pirates-santo-caraballo-car-crash-payments-dominican-republic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Pittsburgh #PittsburghPirates #OneilCruz #Baseball #MLB #Sports
NEW: Major League Baseball has long known about teams making handshake deals with Dominican players as young as 11 — and the predatory industry that has grown around this system.
But it’s never publicly warned or penalized a team for making an early deal.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-dominican-republic-baseball-factory-traps-players-mlb-santo-caraballo?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
NEW: Evidence that became public only in the last two years raises new questions about a Saudi man who assisted two 9/11 hijackers.
“Somebody needs to explain to the American people why we didn’t see this information before,” a former FBI agent said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-911-saudi-bayoumi-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress
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Industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. The candidate’s father-in-law happens to be the U.S. secretary of transportation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-michael-alfonso-congress-transportation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Wisconsin #USPolitics #Ethics #Transportation #Congress #Election
After reporting by ProPublica revealed industry connections among Transportation Department regulators and showed how they are seeking to loosen oil and gas pipeline safety regulations, Sen. Maria Cantwell is demanding answers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dot-oil-gas-pipeline-ethics-questions-senator-cantwell?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Transportation #Industry #Business #Government #Regulation #Senate
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling work to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death.
“We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-federal-workers-public-health-hhs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post