A lawsuit filed Monday mirrors the findings of a ProPublica investigation that made public for the first time details about a program that sent gun owners’ information to political operatives without their consent.
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Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times?
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Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen whose prior detentions went viral and were detailed by ProPublica, was recently detained for a third time — and shackled. “I just want to live in peace,” he says.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-leo-garcia-venegas-arrests-detentions-citizens-ice-dhs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
NEW: James Talarico accused Ken Paxton of committing voter fraud after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found that the Texas attorney general may have broken state law by voting using an address where he no longer appears to live.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-voter-registration-james-talarico?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #TX #USPolitics #Election #Vote #Fraud #Law #KenPaxton #JamesTalarico
How GOP Lawmakers’ Power Transfers Are Reshaping Everything From Utilities to Environmental Regulation in North Carolina
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The GOP-led North Carolina legislature spent nearly 10 years trying to control the elections board. But it’s also taken aim at other commissions in the state by shifting who has power to appoint members that historically belonged to the governor.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-legislature-power-transfers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
So when are Republicans going to begin Weekend at Bernie-ing Mitch McConnell?
Counterterrorism Czar’s Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump
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Sebastian Gorka’s anti-terror plan makes no mention of long-established threats posed by far-right militants and instead villainizes the president’s political enemies. “This administration is not paying attention to the data,” one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-counterterrorism-plan-ignores-far-rights-gorka?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Terrorism #Trump #USPolitics #Violence #Security #Extremism
#USPolitics picks of the day:
➡️ @jensorensen - Award-winning cartoonist on politics & social issues
➡️ @heidilifeldman - Law professor at the Georgetown Univ
➡️ @QasimRashid - Human rights lawyer
➡️ @indivisibleteam - Progressive political org formed to resist Trumpism
➡️ @dennycarter - Blog on politicians trying to normalise fascism
➡️ @z_everson - Investigative journalist tracking Trump's profiteering
➡️ @rbreich - US political commentator, lawyer, former cabinet member
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Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief told ProPublica.
One of our most-read investigations of 2025: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#DOGE #SocialSecurity #Government #ElonMusk #USPolitics #Musk #News
Our most-read story of 2025:
Three years ago, our reporter received an envelope with no return address.
Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Jan6 #Extremism #Insurrection #Trump #USPolitics #Journalism
Despite falling crime rates, leaders at a nonprofit argued Dallas was descending into anarchy to sell voters on increasing police.
Some residents now fear the push could be used as a playbook for other cities.
https://www.propublica.org/article/police-dallas-hero-crime-proposition?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Documents Reveal Real Reason for Raid on Chicago Apartment Building
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The DHS arrest records make no mention of the Tren de Aragua gang even though officials repeatedly cited its presence in the building as motivation for the raid, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter and zip-tied U.S. citizens.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Chicago #Immigration #Venezuela #Immigrants #DHS #USPolitics
Ahead of the FBI’s raid of an election center in Georgia, the prosecutor overseeing the investigation met with several Trump lawyers, including Ed Martin and Kurt Olsen, who helped the president try to overturn the 2020 election.
https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-albus-fulton-county-georgia-election-records?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #FBI #Georgia #Election #Vote #Missouri #USPolitics #Law #Trump
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.”
In a letter to EPA Chief Lee Zeldin, Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, cited a recent ProPublica story that quoted government scientists saying a yet-to-be-released report on the toxicity of PFNA was ready to publish in April.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-pfna-report-chellie-pingree-letter?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #USPolitics #EPA #environment
It's a know your enemy sort of thing to say, no, #Trump is not a king. He's a stupid brand. And recent events just highlight that as he slapped his name on the #Gaza agreement.
I keep thinking of the Trump brand of wine.
Trump didn't make that wine. I doubt he knows how wine is even made at all. He's notorious for not drinking, so how would he even know if the wine is good or bad? He doesn't know anything about it, he just slapped his brand on it.
To counter Trump it's foolish to approach him as a king. In fact that might might make things worse because it brings more attention to his brand.
The #nokings stuff is foolish because it misses what's going on here. And it will serve to actually embolden and strengthen Trump.
Know your enemy. He's not a king, he's not that smart, he's just a brand hopping from issue to issue the same way he hops from crappy wine to crappy steaks.
Elon Musk was the face of DOGE, but records show that Russ Vought, Trump’s budget chief, played a key role in guiding DOGE behind the scenes.
Tomorrow at 6 p.m. ET, head to Reddit to ask our reporter Andy Kroll about Vought’s influence over the Trump presidency: https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1o8zj92/im_andy_kroll_a_propublica_reporter_i_just/
#RussellVought #Trump #ElonMusk #DOGE #WhiteHouse #Government #USPolitics #Reddit
Democrats in the House and Senate announced plans for a wide-ranging investigation into immigration agents’ detention of citizens after a ProPublica story found that more than 170 Americans have been held by immigration officials this year.
Let's just rename it Schrodinger's Strait at this point 😮💨
Fellow *non*-Americans—are you using any or all of the U.S. support for Israeli wars and the Israeli genocide on Palestinians, the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the annexation threats against Greenland, or other U.S. policy decisions to move away from U.S. products and services?
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Options: (choose one)
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I'm reading Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler. As an American, this part sings loudly to me right now. I carry so much angst about our situation, doubled by the obliviousness of my neighbors who ignore or celebrate our fate. Why are we so blind? Our democracy has a shorter life expectancy than Mitch McConnell.
#fascism #USpol #Trump #USPolitics #Democracy #OctaviaEButler #USA
NEW: ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of Justice Department lawyers.
We found judges nominated by both parties who are frustrated that they can no longer take the government at its word.
https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-presumption-of-regularity?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DOJ #Law #Legal #Courts #Trump #Justice #Ethics #USPolitics
Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #USPolitics #Government #DHS #Immigration #ICE #Trump #Texas
The Trump administration is testing the waters regarding the law and states’ rights, and we as citizens of the United States of America must educate ourselves and inform others so we can push back within the framework of the law and states’ rights. We must share information to help educate others.
I now realize that for myself the sharing of memes on social media has become a form of entertainment and self-validation, and to me this provides only a distraction rather than a chance to inform others therefore I am going to focus as much as possible on posting information to inform others.
This famous poster from the Holocaust Museum displays the early warning signs of #fascism. While still applicable, I want to make it clear that we are chest-deep in the #fascist #cesspool and have been for *years*.
Pinning this to my profile in case you know someone who still has doubts. Send them this post.
History is repeating itself once again.
#unitedstates #uspol #uspolitics #antifascism #warning #History #resistandinsist
Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With
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The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sent to national security experts at the agency.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usda-foreign-scientists?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post