Members phkrause Posted January 9 Author Members Posted January 9 “We’re Too Close to the Debris” When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry. https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-faa-launch-airlines-safety-explosions-florida-caribbean? “Step in the Right Direction”: Connecticut DMV Commissioner Calls for More Reforms to State Towing Law to Protect Drivers Despite a slew of reforms enacted last year to rein in the practices of towing companies, more needs to be done to protect consumers whose cars face removal and possible sale, the commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles said Tuesday. https://www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-towing-dmv-proposal-update? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted January 15 Author Members Posted January 15 We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing This story contains photos, videos and descriptions of violent arrests. Immigration agents have put civilians’ lives at risk using more than their guns. https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens? The Biggest Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Grazing on Public Lands The federal government allows livestock grazing across an area of publicly owned land more than twice the size of California, making ranching the largest land use in the West. Billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies support the system, which often harms the environment. https://www.propublica.org/article/grazing-public-lands-investigation-takeaways? Vouchers, Patriotism and Prayer: The Trump Administration’s Plan to Remake Public Education Linda McMahon, the nation’s secretary of education, says public schools are failing. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-linda-mcmahon-public-education? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted January 15 Author Members Posted January 15 A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion. When Ciji Graham visited a cardiologist on Nov. 14, 2023, her heart was pounding at 192 beats per minute, a rate healthy people her age usually reach during the peak of a sprint. She was having another episode of atrial fibrillation, a rapid, irregular heartbeat. The 34-year-old Greensboro, North Carolina, police officer was at risk of a stroke or heart failure. https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-abortion-laws-ciji-graham? Life of the Mother When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, doctors warned that women would die, but lawmakers who passed state abortion bans didn’t listen. The worst consequences are now becoming clear. https://www.propublica.org/series/life-of-the-mother? ps:That's because they didn't or don't care!!!!! After Sowing Distrust in Fluoridated Water, Kennedy and Skeptics Turn to Obstructing Other Fluoride Sources Last year, when Utah lawmakers passed the nation’s first statewide ban on community water fluoridation, they included a provision making it easier for people to get fluoride supplements without having to visit a dental provider. https://www.propublica.org/article/fluoride-supplements-fda-rfk-jr-ken-paxton-restrictions? A Father’s Quest for Justice Finds Resolution After 13 Years Craig Stingley had no legal training, no big-name lawyer or civil rights advocate by his side. Yet for 13 years, he refused to accept that the judicial system would hold no one responsible for the killing of his 16-year-old son, Corey. https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-corey-stingley-death-charges-milwaukee-prosecutor? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted January 16 Author Members Posted January 16 Federal Agents Keep Invoking Killing of Renee Good to Threaten Protesters in Minnesota Amid heated protests in Minneapolis following the killing of Renee Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross, federal agents have repeatedly invoked Good’s death to threaten the lives of observers and demonstrators in Minnesota. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/14/ice-minneapolis-protests-renee-good/? DHS Used Neo-Nazi Anthem for Recruitment After Fatal Minneapolis ICE Shooting Less than two days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis during a controversial enforcement operation, the Department of Homeland Security’s official Instagram account made a recruitment post proclaiming “We’ll Have Our Home Again,” attaching a song of the same name by Pine Tree Riots. Popularized in neo-Nazi spaces, the track features lines about reclaiming “our home” by “blood or sweat,” language often used in white nationalist calls for race war. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/13/dhs-ice-white-nationalist-neo-nazi/? U.S. Military Command That Attacked Venezuela Gutted Its Civilian Harm Team U.S. Southern Command is unable to cope with the volume of civilian casualty reports stemming from the military mission to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, according to two government officials. Instead, the Pentagon itself is accepting reports directly. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/13/civilian-harm-venezuela-airwars-southcom/? Would-Be Iran Monarch Reza Pahlavi Declares a Civil War in Iran After more than two weeks of what began as peaceful protests in Iran and devolved into calls by many protesters for an end to the regime, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, on a visit to India, said he believes we are witnessing the “final days and weeks” of the Iranian government. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/13/iran-reza-pahlavi-protests-israel/? New York Attorney General Slams Pro-Israel Group Betar U.S. for Biased Harassment of Arabs, Muslims A Zionist extremist group notorious for doxxing pro-Palestine college students and providing lists of activists to the Trump administration is set to cease operations in New York after an investigation by Letitia James, the state’s attorney general. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/13/betar-us-israel-harassment-ny/? Trump Bullies Flip-Flopping Senators Into Defeating Vote to Block Venezuela War President Donald Trump’s furious public pressure campaign succeeded Wednesday night in flipping the votes of two Republican senators who last week supported blocking further attacks on Venezuela. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/14/trump-venezuela-senate-war-powers-vote-failed/? National Progressives Side With Mamdani in House Race Splitting NYC Left Justice Democrats is wading into a high-profile congressional race in New York City, where a competition between the progressive Brooklyn borough president and a socialist first-term State Assembly member is testing competing visions for the future of the electoral left under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/14/claire-valdez-antonio-reynoso-zohran-mamdani-nyc/? Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland The Trump administration has threatened that if it can’t buy Greenland, it may take it by military force. Top aide Stephen Miller even proclaimed that “nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland.” But in the case of military attack, Danish troops are required to shoot first and ask questions later. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/14/trump-greenland-denmark-nato/? Bill Ackman Gave $10,000 to Jonathan Ross GoFundMe Created by User Linked to Nazi Salute Image After a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week, rival GoFundMe campaigns emerged. One raised $1.5 million for the family of the slain mother of three. Another has pulled in nearly half a million dollars for Jonathan Ross — the ICE agent who killed her. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/12/ice-gofundme-bill-ackman-jonathan-ross/? Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About Putting Data Centers in Space? Data centers present sprawling engineering and political problems, with ravenous appetites for land and resources. Building them on Earth has proven problematic enough — so why is everyone suddenly talking about launching them into space? https://theintercept.com/2026/01/12/data-centers-space-ai/? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted January 24 Author Members Posted January 24 “A Fraudulent Scheme”: New Mexico Sues Texas Oil Companies for Walking Away From Their Leaking Wells New Mexico’s lawsuit accuses three Texas oil executives of pocketing revenue from oil and gas wells and offloading cleanup costs to the public. An investigation in 2024 by ProPublica and Capital & Main uncovered some of these business dealings. https://www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-oil-orphan-wells-cleanup? Alaska Lawmaker Calls for Hiring More Prosecutors, Public Defenders to Reduce Extreme Delay in Criminal Cases A top Alaska lawmaker said the state needs to hire twice as many prosecutors and public defenders if it wants to end the kind of extreme courtroom delays that the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica exposed over the past year. https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-murder-pretrial-delays-impact? A Drug Testing Company Favored Speed Over Reliability, Some Ex-Employees Say. The Firm Says Its Work Is “Accurate.” In 2020, a foster care supervisor in Montcalm County, Michigan, messaged her boss with concerns about drug testing. A father who was working to reunite with his children had tested positive for methamphetamine with the lab the state had a contract with, Averhealth, and the results contradicted tests ordered by other law enforcement agencies, she wrote. https://www.propublica.org/article/averhealth-drug-testing-child-welfare-michigan? Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans For over a year, we’ve been writing about pregnant women who have died in states that banned abortion after Roe v. Wade was overturned. And we’ve been trying to better understand: Who are the women who are most likely to suffer because of these new laws? https://www.propublica.org/article/high-risk-pregnancies-chronic-conditions-abortion-bans? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted January 31 Author Members Posted January 31 Smoke and Mirrors: How Intoxicating Hemp Seeped Into the First Recreational Marijuana Market in the Country The owner of a marijuana testing lab called a top regulator in Colorado on his cellphone in April 2024 with an urgent situation. https://www.propublica.org/article/colorado-marijuana-thc-intoxicating-hemp-regulation? We Tested Vapes in Colorado for Signs of Hemp. This Is What We Found. Leaders in the Colorado marijuana industry have complained in recent years that intoxicating products derived from hemp are endangering consumers and creating unfair competition, threatening to upend the first regulated recreational marijuana market in the United States. https://www.propublica.org/article/colorado-marijuana-hemp-thc-testing-results? A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion. When Ciji Graham visited a cardiologist on Nov. 14, 2023, her heart was pounding at 192 beats per minute, a rate healthy people her age usually reach during the peak of a sprint. She was having another episode of atrial fibrillation, a rapid, irregular heartbeat. The 34-year-old Greensboro, North Carolina, police officer was at risk of a stroke or heart failure. https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-abortion-laws-ciji-graham? After Sowing Distrust in Fluoridated Water, Kennedy and Skeptics Turn to Obstructing Other Fluoride Sources Last year, when Utah lawmakers passed the nation’s first statewide ban on community water fluoridation, they included a provision making it easier for people to get fluoride supplements without having to visit a dental provider. https://www.propublica.org/article/fluoride-supplements-fda-rfk-jr-ken-paxton-restrictions? FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn When the FBI executed a warrant on Wednesday to seize records from the 2020 presidential vote in Fulton County, Georgia, it marked both an extraordinary event in the history of American elections and a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms, several legal experts said. https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-fulton-county-voting-records-search-warrant? New York Homeless Families Placed in Hotels Weren’t Guaranteed Social Services. New Regulations Could Change That. New York state may soon guarantee homeless families placed in hotels the same services as those in shelters, including help finding housing, meals and child care. https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-homeless-families-hotels-update? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted February 4 Author Members Posted February 4 Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez? What We Saw in Minneapolis Over the past month, the Trump administration has deployed thousands of federal immigration agents to the Minneapolis area. On Saturday, Jan. 24, federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Pretti was the third person shot by federal agents in the area in January. https://www.propublica.org/article/minneapolis-immigration-protests-photos? Nike Says Its Factory Workers Make Nearly Double the Minimum Wage. In Indonesia, Workers Say, “It’s Not True.” Through boom times and, more recently, slumping sales, Nike Inc. has stuck by a key claim about its overseas suppliers: They pay the average factory worker about twice the local minimum wage. https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-wages-clothing-shoe-factory-indonesia? She Was a Key Voice of the 1990s Labor Movement in Nike’s Indonesia Factories. Today She Relies on Donations From Abroad. Once a month, American labor activist Jim Keady logs into Remitly, an app for transferring money abroad, at his New Jersey home and sends $100 to a former Nike factory worker in Indonesia. https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-factory-worker-rights-indonesia-advocate? Two School Districts Sue, Claiming Alaska Is Failing Its Constitutional Obligation to Fund Public Education Two Alaska school districts filed a lawsuit on Jan. 20 in Anchorage Superior Court against the state, its governor and its education commissioner over what they say is a long-running failure to adequately fund public education. https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-public-education-funding-failure-lawsuit? Six Senators Accuse Deputy Attorney General of “Glaring” Crypto Conflict, Cite ProPublica Investigation Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche this week of having a conflict of interest when he shut down investigations into crypto companies, dealers and exchanges and eliminated an enforcement team dedicated to looking for crypto-related fraud and money-laundering schemes. https://www.propublica.org/article/todd-blanche-crypto-conflict-senator-letter? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted Friday at 06:45 PM Author Members Posted Friday at 06:45 PM “You’re Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer” It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable when they violate the Constitution and the law. https://www.propublica.org/article/why-local-state-police-rarely-investigate-ice-cbp-fbi? After Years of Silence, Texas Medical Board Issues Training for Doctors on How to Legally Provide Abortions For the first time since Texas criminalized abortion, the state’s medical regulator is instructing doctors on when they can legally terminate a pregnancy to protect the life of the patient — guidance physicians have long sought as women died and doctors feared imprisonment for intervening. https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-medical-board-abortion-training-doctors? The Dramatic Rise of Farm Labor Contractors Has Led to Rampant Abuses. Here’s Why Regulators Have Failed to Stop Them. In the summer of 2019, a crew leader tasked with overseeing farm laborers sent them to harvest corn in a field where they weren’t authorized to work — and where there wasn’t adequate protection from the sweltering sun. One of them died of symptoms of heatstroke. https://www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-visa-farmworker-exploitation-regulators? The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building For months, the Trump administration has justified its dramatic midnight raid on a Chicago apartment complex by saying that it had intelligence that the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But officials have provided no evidence to back up the claim. https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua? A Mississippi Synagogue Was Attacked in 1967 and 2026. The Antisemitic Rhetoric Looked the Same Then and Now. In July of 1968, Samuel Bowers sat down in his office with fingers poised over his typewriter keys, thoughts filled with fury. As founder and imperial wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, he cut a charismatic figure, though one with a militant Christian faith and a hate-filled mind. Just a day earlier, police had killed one of his most trusted assassins and severely injured another. https://www.propublica.org/article/jackson-mississippi-synagogue-arson-antisemitism? We Found New York’s Guardianship System in Shambles. Now State Lawmakers Say They Have a Plan to Help Fix It. New York state lawmakers have introduced legislation to boost spending on the state’s troubled guardianship system by $15 million a year — an unprecedented cash infusion for a bureaucracy that has long struggled to care for the tens of thousands of disabled or elderly New Yorkers who cannot care for themselves. https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-good-guardianship-act-kathy-hochul? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted 4 hours ago Author Members Posted 4 hours ago The Clear Labels Act Would Change What You Know About Your Prescription Medication Senators introduced legislation on Thursday that would require prescription drug labels to identify where the medication was made, adding momentum to a yearslong campaign to bring more transparency to the often elusive generic drug industry. https://www.propublica.org/article/drug-manufacturer-labels-us-senate-bill? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
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