<p>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.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-ice-americans-detained-joint-congressional-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/immigration-ice-americans-detained-joint-congressional-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/imm</span><span class="invisible">igration-ice-americans-detained-joint-congressional-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/democrats/" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>
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<p>Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-oklahoma-public-schools?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-oklahoma-public-schools?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-education-department-oklahoma-public-schools?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/oklahoma/" rel="tag">#Oklahoma</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/teaching/" rel="tag">#Teaching</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> <a href="/tags/project2025/" rel="tag">#Project2025</a></p>
<p>Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You.<br>---</p><p>The agency’s decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures that could make them ineffective or unsafe.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-hides-drug-names-contaminated-factories?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/fda-hides-drug-names-contaminated-factories?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/fda</span><span class="invisible">-hides-drug-names-contaminated-factories?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/fda/" rel="tag">#FDA</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/drugs/" rel="tag">#Drugs</a> <a href="/tags/manufacturing/" rel="tag">#Manufacturing</a></p>
<p>Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.</p><p>They’ve had their necks kneeled on.</p><p>They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.</p><p>At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.</p><p>Revisit our Oct. 2025 story:<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/imm</span><span class="invisible">igration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>
<p>Today, Congressional Democrats are spotlighting a particularly troubling part of Trump's immigration dragnet: the American kids — including some featured in ProPublica's reporting — who have been collateral damage in the deportation campaign.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/american-kids-detained-trump-immigration-deportation-democrats-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/american-kids-detained-trump-immigration-deportation-democrats-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ame</span><span class="invisible">rican-kids-detained-trump-immigration-deportation-democrats-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/democrats/" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a></p>
<p>💥SÓ NA CONVERSA! | Mudanças no Projeto 2026 | Botafogo na zika | Notícia Bombástica 💥 </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/wqf1OIikrWI" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/live/wqf1OIikrWI"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/live/wqf1OIikr</span><span class="invisible">WI</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/notíciasdasemana/" rel="tag">#notíciasdasemana</a> <a href="/tags/notícias/" rel="tag">#notícias</a> <a href="/tags/botafogo/" rel="tag">#Botafogo</a> <a href="/tags/venezuela/" rel="tag">#Venezuela</a> <a href="/tags/mudançasnoprojeto/" rel="tag">#mudançasnoprojeto</a> <a href="/tags/projeto/" rel="tag">#projeto</a> <a href="/tags/zika/" rel="tag">#zika</a> <a href="/tags/bomba/" rel="tag">#bomba</a> <a href="/tags/breakingnews/" rel="tag">#breakingnews</a> <a href="/tags/live/" rel="tag">#live</a> <a href="/tags/aovivo/" rel="tag">#aovivo</a> <a href="/tags/envivo/" rel="tag">#envivo</a></p>
<p>The Trump Nominee Whose Company Is Suing the Trump Administration<br>---</p><p>A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination as Ambassador to Hungary, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now, the facility is suing to stop collection.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/benjamin-landa-ambassador-company-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/benjamin-landa-ambassador-company-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ben</span><span class="invisible">jamin-landa-ambassador-company-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/lawsuit/" rel="tag">#Lawsuit</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>GrapheneOS Won’t Implement Age Verification</p><p><a href="https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/03/23/grapheneos-wont-implement-age-verification/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/03/23/grapheneos-wont-implement-age-verification/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.privacyguides.org/news/202</span><span class="invisible">6/03/23/grapheneos-wont-implement-age-verification/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#Privacy</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/privacyguides/" rel="tag">#PrivacyGuides</a></p>
<p>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:</p><p>“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a></p>
40% of New England EPA employees furloughed amid government shutdown, union says
<p>As President Donald Trump’s administration pushes a pro-ranching agenda, ProPublica and High Country News investigated how public lands grazing has evolved.</p><p>Here are the biggest takeaways from our reporting.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/grazing-public-lands-investigation-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/grazing-public-lands-investigation-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/gra</span><span class="invisible">zing-public-lands-investigation-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/grazing/" rel="tag">#Grazing</a> <a href="/tags/publiclands/" rel="tag">#PublicLands</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>
<p>The DOJ indicted “Bitcoin Jesus” Roger Ver in one of the largest-ever crypto tax fraud cases.</p><p>Those familiar with the case said the evidence was “rock solid” and that prosecutors were confident of a conviction.</p><p>Then Donald Trump won a second term.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/bitcoin-jesus-roger-ver-tax-evastion-friends-of-trump-doj?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/bitcoin-jesus-roger-ver-tax-evastion-friends-of-trump-doj?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/bit</span><span class="invisible">coin-jesus-roger-ver-tax-evastion-friends-of-trump-doj?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/doj/" rel="tag">#DOJ</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/tax/" rel="tag">#Tax</a> <a href="/tags/crime/" rel="tag">#Crime</a> <a href="/tags/fraud/" rel="tag">#Fraud</a> <a href="/tags/billionaire/" rel="tag">#Billionaire</a> <a href="/tags/crypto/" rel="tag">#Crypto</a> <a href="/tags/bitcoin/" rel="tag">#Bitcoin</a></p>
<p>Wag the Dog, <a href="/tags/venezuela/" rel="tag">#Venezuela</a>: <a href="/tags/democrats/" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> Must Relentlessly Expose <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p><p>Rep Seth Moulton & Sen Ruben Gallego are leading the way responding to Trump’s unconstitutional, int <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a> crimes</p><p>But Venezuela, <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a>, <a href="/tags/epstein/" rel="tag">#Epstein</a>, tariffs, Trump’s billionaire-fluffing, are all of a piece. So the broader narrative goes like this <br><a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/wag-the-dog-in-venezuela-democrats" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/wag-the-dog-in-venezuela-democrats"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/wag-the-dog-i</span><span class="invisible">n-venezuela-democrats</span></a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/minneapolis/" rel="tag">#minneapolis</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#israel</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/greenland/" rel="tag">#greenland</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a></p>
<p>A Father’s Quest for Justice Finds Resolution After 13 Years<br>---</p><p>Restrained by three white men for attempted shoplifting, a Black teen died from asphyxiation. His father refused to accept that no one would be held responsible. More than a decade later, his idea of justice has shifted — and may finally be achieved.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-corey-stingley-death-charges-milwaukee-prosecutor?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-corey-stingley-death-charges-milwaukee-prosecutor?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/wis</span><span class="invisible">consin-corey-stingley-death-charges-milwaukee-prosecutor?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/wisconsin/" rel="tag">#Wisconsin</a> <a href="/tags/milwaukee/" rel="tag">#Milwaukee</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/justice/" rel="tag">#Justice</a> <a href="/tags/accountability/" rel="tag">#Accountability</a></p>
<p>After Sowing Distrust in Fluoridated Water, Kennedy and Skeptics Turn to Obstructing Other Fluoride Sources<br>---</p><p>Florida and Utah have banned fluoridation, with multiple other states looking to do the same. Critics of fluoride in drinking water point to other fluoride sources as an alternative, but many are creating barriers to these very products.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/fluoride-supplements-fda-rfk-jr-ken-paxton-restrictions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/fluoride-supplements-fda-rfk-jr-ken-paxton-restrictions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/flu</span><span class="invisible">oride-supplements-fda-rfk-jr-ken-paxton-restrictions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/utah/" rel="tag">#Utah</a> <a href="/tags/florida/" rel="tag">#Florida</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a></p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115899135117601234" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115899135117601234"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1</span><span class="invisible">15899135117601234</span></a></p><p>On the other hand. </p><p>"Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companies on Thursday as it marked its 25th anniversary."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/wikipedia-internet-jimmy-wales-50e796d70152d79a2e0708846f84f6d7" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="apnews.com/article/wikipedia-internet-jimmy-wales-50e796d70152d79a2e0708846f84f6d7"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/wikipedia-i</span><span class="invisible">nternet-jimmy-wales-50e796d70152d79a2e0708846f84f6d7</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/wikipedia/" rel="tag">#wikipedia</a> <a href="/tags/wikipedia25/" rel="tag">#wikipedia25</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
<p>For years, a Phoenix nonprofit has run a mail room for thousands of homeless people, who use the address for job applications, for medication, to receive benefits like food stamp cards and even to vote.</p><p>Now the U.S. Postal Service is cutting its $24,000 investment, leaving the organization to raise the extra money to keep it open.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/phoenix-post-office-homelessness-funding-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/phoenix-post-office-homelessness-funding-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/pho</span><span class="invisible">enix-post-office-homelessness-funding-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/phoenix/" rel="tag">#Phoenix</a> <a href="/tags/arizona/" rel="tag">#Arizona</a> <a href="/tags/homeless/" rel="tag">#Homeless</a> <a href="/tags/usps/" rel="tag">#USPS</a> <a href="/tags/mail/" rel="tag">#Mail</a> <a href="/tags/nonprofit/" rel="tag">#Nonprofit</a></p>
<p>Senators Propose Sweeping Changes to Generic Drug Oversight<br>---</p><p>Citing a ProPublica investigation, lawmakers are calling on the FDA to conduct more drug testing and to alert hospitals and other purchasers when foreign manufacturers with safety failures are given a special pass to send their products to the U.S.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/lawmakers-propose-changes-drug-oversight-fda?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/lawmakers-propose-changes-drug-oversight-fda?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/law</span><span class="invisible">makers-propose-changes-drug-oversight-fda?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> <a href="/tags/senate/" rel="tag">#Senate</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/fda/" rel="tag">#FDA</a> <a href="/tags/drugs/" rel="tag">#Drugs</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a></p>
<p>Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With<br>---</p><p>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.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usda-foreign-scientists?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-usda-foreign-scientists?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-usda-foreign-scientists?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/usda/" rel="tag">#USDA</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/academia/" rel="tag">#Academia</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center is calling for an inspector general investigation into potential conflicts of interest and ethics violations in the office of border czar Tom Homan related to government contracting.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/border-czar-tom-homan-mark-hall-conflicts-interest-ethics-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/border-czar-tom-homan-mark-hall-conflicts-interest-ethics-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/bor</span><span class="invisible">der-czar-tom-homan-mark-hall-conflicts-interest-ethics-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tomhoman/" rel="tag">#TomHoman</a> <a href="/tags/ethics/" rel="tag">#Ethics</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>
<p>A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer.</p><p>The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-male-breast-cancer-coverage-trump-executive-order?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-male-breast-cancer-coverage-trump-executive-order?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/vet</span><span class="invisible">erans-affairs-male-breast-cancer-coverage-trump-executive-order?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/cancer/" rel="tag">#Cancer</a> <a href="/tags/men/" rel="tag">#Men</a> <a href="/tags/veterans/" rel="tag">#Veterans</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.</p><p>Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/okl</span><span class="invisible">ahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/oklahoma/" rel="tag">#Oklahoma</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/regulation/" rel="tag">#Regulation</a></p>
<p>“There’s this veneer of respect for privacy that is painted over all of this data aggregation and consolidation.”</p><p>But beneath it all, <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> experts warn that smartphone-monitoring software "Tangles" is the latest in a law enforcement arsenal, from surveillance <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> to an army of drones, operating with little oversight. </p><p>Our latest from Francesca D'Annunzio is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/texas-po</span><span class="invisible">lice-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/</span></a> <br> <br><a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#police</a> <a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a></p>