White Nationalist Jake Lang came to Minneapolis and got fucking smacked the fuck up by a dude dressed like Spiderman.
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NEW on “Paper Trail”: Hundreds of immigration agents stormed a Chicago apartment complex overnight last year, some rappelling down from a helicopter.
Trump officials claimed they successfully arrested “terrorists.”
We uncovered a very different story. Listen to the full episode:
https://www.propublica.org/podcast/why-chicago-south-shore-apartment-immigration-raid?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Immigration #ICE #Chicago #Venezuela #Immigrant #Trump #USPolitics #Podcast #Journalism
NEW: Missouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban with limited exceptions, but its advertising is focused on a different provision: banning gender transition care for minors.
Campaign messaging never explicitly states the amendment would repeal the constitutional right to abortion voters approved only two years ago.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-abortion-gender-transition-minors-amendment-3?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Missouri #GOP #Republican #LGBTQ #Abortion #Women #Health #USPolitics
Weekend at the White House. https://www.byteseu.com/2387604/ #PoliticalHumor #PoliticalHumor #Politics #USPolitics
I ain't no snitch but shouldn't someone tell FIFA what the guy they gave their Peace Prize to is doing tonight??????
Happy 250th to America's ultimate power couple! 🗽 💘 ⚖️
#IndependenceDay #LadyLiberty #LadyJustice #4thOfJuly #Art #FanArt #FanFic #FanFiction #Illustration #July4th #Politics #USPol #USPolitics
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I handle my stress by making shitty memes
Jonathan Ross handles his stress by shooting you in the face
A limited-government advocate in Texas persuaded five small towns to incorporate as “liberty cities,” which feature lean governments, little to no taxation and scant regulation.
At least two of them struggle to provide basic services.
https://www.propublica.org/article/art-martinez-de-vara-dallas-hero-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
NEW: These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the first Trump presidency.
https://www.propublica.org/article/unaccompanied-minors-deportations-elder-chavez?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #ICE #Immigrants #Trump #Children #USPolitics #Law
Happy birthday to me and happy birthday to Alex Pretti, who was executed by federal forces while exercising his constitutional first amendment rights just 34 days ago
They Rebuilt After Texas’ Devastating Floods. Then Their Home Flooded Again.
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Research shows more flood deaths occur in Texas than in any other state. But state lawmakers have cleared the way for residents to stay in risky places, even after flooding killed at least 119 people in Kerr County last summer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-flooding-2026-kerr-county?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #House #Home #Flood #TX #USPolitics #KerrCounty #TexasFloods
Special kind of hypocrite https://www.byteseu.com/2388843/ #PoliticalHumor #PoliticalHumor #Politics #USPolitics
Newsletter: The SEC’s “Reg Crypto” aims to carve out exemptions, the CFTC wields emergency powers to shield prediction markets from state regulators, and a Trump family crypto firm gets a bank charter.
A U.S.-Mexico Impasse Will Test How Far the Trump Administration Will Go to Fight Drug Trade
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Under Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, security forces have worked with the U.S. to destroy drug labs and kill or capture crime bosses. But the president is saying she won’t extradite members of her own political party.
https://www.propublica.org/article/us-mexico-drug-trade-sheinbaum?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.
#News #FCC #Entertainment #USPolitics #CBS #Paramount #Business #Ethics
Powerful video from Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic senate candidate from Michigan:
"We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights.
We all know that's some BS."
I'll put a link to the source and the full transcript in replies to this post.
1/n
#USPol #USPolitics #TransRights #CivilRights #HumanRights #USSenate #Michigan
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
#News #KristiNoem #DHS #Ethics #USPolitics #Government #Nonprofit
NEW: The Trump administration has initiated a string of unprecedented actions to assert more federal control over elections.
While courts have thwarted most of the plans, voting experts remain concerned about potential problems at the polls.
https://www.propublica.org/article/five-voting-disruptions-midterm-election?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Election #Midterms #Elections #Vote #Voting #Trump #USPolitics #Democracy
NEW: ProPublica found that over 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by immigration agents.
Forty Democratic lawmakers are now asking the Department of Homeland Security to explain why Americans have been held against their will.
https://www.propublica.org/article/american-citizens-ice-detention-congress-impact?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #ICE #DHS #Immigrant #USPolitics #Congress #Government #Law
NEW: Over the past year, we’ve tried to use the techniques of accountability journalism to add new facts to this pivotal moment in American history.
We’ll keep that focus on Election Day — and beyond.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-approach-2026-midterm-elections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Election #Elections #Midterms #USPolitics #History #Journalism
Results are coming in, and I’m tracking how crypto and AI super PACs’ bets are faring live on Tech Influence Watch: https://influence.citationneeded.news/2026/results
I’ll thread the industries’ biggest wins and losses tonight below 🧵
Crypto- and AI-focused super PACs have poured nearly $250 million into this year’s elections. Tonight we find out what it bought.
Here’s my guide to the races to watch, where the money went, and which results could embarrass the industry: https://www.citationneeded.news/2026-election-guide/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #citationNeededNewsletter
Today, America is celebrating new voices and historic victories, including Palestinian voices.
As a young woman living in Gaza, I see these moments as a reminder that every voice deserves to be heard and every dream deserves a chance.
Support my second year of university:
🔗 https://chuffed.org/project/161851-help-aya-go-to-uni-and-survive-in-gaza
#EducationForAll #PalestinianVoices #DreamsDeserveAChance #WomenInEducation
#AbdulElSayed #MichiganPolitics
y #USPolitics #AmericanVoices #EducationForAll #PalestinianVoices
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喜歡看那些激動喜悅的笑臉，很有感染力。
Guardian的幾張照片選的蠻好。
馬一龍豪擲數億又怎樣。
選民一人一票教訓你。
有真正的選票真的不一樣。
德州都能翻藍。
看似一夜之間，應是多年潛移默化發生的。
政治版圖不是永久不變的。
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/04/democrats-house-midterm-elections-results
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/04/midterm-election-takeaways-trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2026/nov/03/midterm-elections-in-pictures
Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion
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The administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could just as easily be incompetence,” one lobbyist said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-tariffs-exemptions-pet-lobbyists-asbestos-confusion-secrecy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Tariffs #Economy #USPolitics #Business #Industry