⛔️⚠️Russian terrorist’s drone strikes civilians in a residential apartment building in Kharkiv less than 24 hours into Trump/Putin/Zelensky concocted ceasefire (more) https://kyivindependent.com/russian-drone-strikes-apartment-building-in-kharkiv-less-than-24-hours-into-ceasefire/ #Ukraine #WarCrime #Press #USA #Berlin #Paris #London #America #Media #Germany #France #Brussels #ICC #Hague #PACE #UK #OSCE #CoE #News #UN #US #Mastodon #Headlines #russiaUkraineWar
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The Trump Administration Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets Federal Workers
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A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do the Trump administration and elected officials keep relying on it?
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-employees-work-from-home-trump-myth?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In
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Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.
https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-social-security-elon-musk-trump-closures-benefits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Little Bits: Issue #25 For May 2025
Enjoy the exploration of the past bits of May and read an motivational message of accountability and condolences of a beautiful precious life.
About 150 Chicago schools sit half-empty, while 47 operate at less than one-third capacity.
The city “doesn’t seem to be having an honest conversation about the challenges it’s facing,” one school finance expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-public-schools-enrollment-costs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
NEW: Trump Pushes Out Remaining Members of Bipartisan Election Commission Ahead of Midterms
President Donald Trump has fired Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, the Democrats on the federal Election Assistance Commission, while Christy McCormick, the Republican, was allowed to resign, sources tell ProPublica.
#News #Trump #Elections #Midterms #USPolitics #Vote #Voting #Election
While Elon Musk and his underlings demand budget cuts and layoffs across the federal government, funding for the agency they operate — the Department of Government Efficiency — has soared to some $40 million, ProPublica found.
Amid Increasing Domestic Violence, Illinois Struggles to Review Fatalities
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Four years after the state called for a network of domestic violence review panels, only seven counties have joined committees. Glaringly absent from the program: Cook County, home to Chicago and about 40% of the state’s population.
https://www.propublica.org/article/deaths-are-rising-but-illinois-domestic-violence-review-boards-have-yet-to-offer-solutions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Scientists used historical tidal data to predict that future storms in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook will produce surging waves reaching at least 11 feet.
The area’s yet-to-be-built flood protection system is only 10 feet.
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-city-brooklyn-flood-storm-protection?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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⚠️🇩🇪Despite the German government and people allowing; Infineon, Würth, AMS Osram Goettle, and Advanced Products GmbH & Co. KG to aid Russian terrorism and bypass sanctions by providing parts for attack drones, German government attempts to distract by discussing housing policy and spatial planning with Ukraine (More) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-vidbudova/4141165-ukraine-germany-strengthen-cooperation-on-housing-policy-and-spatial-planning.html #Ukraine #Germany #Berlin #Press #Media #News #Headlines #russiaUkraineWar
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"Before ChatGPT distorted Eugene Torres’s sense of reality and almost killed him, he said, the artificial intelligence chatbot had been a helpful, timesaving tool."
Fair enough.
Since Trump took office, immigration officials have more than quadrupled the number of 287(g) agreements with law enforcement agencies across 40 states, giving local officers authority to function as deportation agents in jails and the streets.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-deportation-police-287g-program-expansion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
An EPA complaint filed under the Biden administration alleged that a harmful disinfectant was being used without proper protection at an ICE facility in California.
Last week, the case — filed against the GEO Group, a major Trump donor — was dropped without explanation.
Montana Renews Accused Cancer Doctor’s License Despite Criminal, Civil Inquiries
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Questions about whether oncologist Dr. Thomas Weiner would be permitted to continue practicing medicine intensified after a ProPublica investigation exposed a trail of patient harm tied to his practice.
DOGE can now access a HUD system that includes addresses domestic violence survivors have relocated to for safety, medical records in disability cases and credit reports in lending discrimination cases.
Few of the records are redacted or anonymized.
Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
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The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.
https://projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-research-lost-trump/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NIH #Trump #Science #Research #Health #PublicHealth #Medicine
Trump’s anti-green agenda could lead to 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths.
Most of the people expected to suffer live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-climate-rollbacks-heat-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Trump #Data #Science #Politics
Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
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The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-strategy-group-senate-probe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
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Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detentions-immigrant-kids-family-separations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Black Friday is the perfect day to support independent news sites and journalists with clicks and/or cash. 💰
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404 Meda, @404mediaco
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Brian Merchant, @brianmerchant
Casey Newton, @caseynewton
Cory Doctorow, @pluralistic
Joan Westenberg , @Daojoan
GBH News, @gbhnews
Knowable Magazine @KnowableMag
Molly White, @molly0xfff
The New York Review of Books, @nybooks
ProPublica, @ProPublica
Rest of World, @restofworld
San Francisco Public Press, @SFPublicPress
Steve Herman, @w7voa
The Texas Observer, @TexasObserver
The Continent, @thecontinent
The Conversation, @TheConversationUS
The Transmitter, @thetransmitter
The Tyee, @thetyee
The Xylom, @thexylom
The Tucson Sentinel, @TucsonSentinel
Tim Mak/The Counteroffensive, @timkmak
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Some of the data used by Cambridge Analytica highlighted gun owners’ most personal information, like:
• If they owned cats
• Whether they were dieting
• If they were recently divorced
• Their political opinions
Missouri GOP’s Effort to Take Over St. Louis Police Hearkens Back to Civil War
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City officials say the state’s plan to wrest back control of the police department is an attempt by white conservatives to weaken Black political influence. It’s part of a broader pattern of Missouri Republicans trying to override the will of voters.
At least 38 DOGE members work, or have worked, for one of Elon Musk’s companies.
Meanwhile, nearly two dozen DOGE officials are making cuts to the same federal agencies that regulate the industries that employed them.