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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

I ain't no snitch but shouldn't someone tell FIFA what the guy they gave their Peace Prize to is doing tonight??????

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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

#ICE #Minneapolis #Minnesota #Politics #USPol #USPolitics

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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

#News #Texas #Dallas #Police #Law #Government #USPolitics

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

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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

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.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-109/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

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

#News #Mexico #Crime #Drugs #Politics #Trump #USPolitics

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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/paramount-mergers-fcc-kennedy-center-gala?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#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.

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#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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-political-donations-income-dark-money-dhs-ethics?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #KristiNoem #DHS #Ethics #USPolitics #Government #Nonprofit

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

Bette Midler, ladies and gentleman. 👏🏻

#Politics #USPOL #USPolitics #MAGA #Conservatives #Fascist #Fascism #Abortion #Abortions #AntiAbortion

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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