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 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted February 6 Author Members Posted February 6 “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 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted February 10 Author Members Posted February 10 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 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted February 15 Author Members Posted February 15 “Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. When county clerk Brianna Lennon got an email in November saying a newly expanded federal system had flagged 74 people on the county’s voter roll as potential noncitizens, she was taken aback. https://www.propublica.org/article/save-voter-citizenship-tool-mistakes-confusion? Tracking Habeas Cases As federal immigration agents surge into communities and detain people, the number of cases filed by those claiming their detention is illegal has risen to historic highs. ProPublica is tracking the volume of these cases, known as habeas petitions, as they overwhelm legal advocates and government attorneys. https://projects.propublica.org/habeas-tracker/? Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why. In the summer of 2022, months after Tammy Boarman and her husband, Chris, moved into their newly built “forever home” 30 miles from Oklahoma City, the plants in their yard began to turn yellow. The shrubs wilted, though Tammy watered them often. And the couple began to notice a salty taste in their drinking water. https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-polluted-drinking-water-boarman-family? As Helene Survivors Wait for State Help, Some Victims of Earlier Hurricanes Are Still Out of Their Homes In the 459 days that Willa Mae James spent living in a Fairfield Inn in Eastern North Carolina, her footsteps wore down paths in the carpet: from the door to the desk, from the bed to the wooden armchair by the window, her favorite place to read the Bible. https://www.propublica.org/article/hurricane-helene-housing-recovery-program-lessons? Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges Under pressure from Republican state attorneys general, the agency that advises the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges on scientific and technical matters has withdrawn the entirety of its content on climate change from a new judicial reference manual. https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-judicial-center-climate-change-republican-pressure? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted February 22 Author Members Posted February 22 South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. In mid-January, an unassuming man in khakis and a button-down shirt walked to a wooden lectern at a school board meeting in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Most chairs in the audience were empty. The man, Tim Smith, was the only person signed up to speak during public comments. He had five minutes. https://www.propublica.org/article/south-carolina-measles-hospital-admissions? ps:Unbelieveble!!!!! Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The warning on the government website was stark. Some products and remedies claiming to treat or cure autism are being marketed deceptively and can be harmful. Among them: chelating agents, hyperbaric oxygen therapies, chlorine dioxide and raw camel milk. https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-fda-removes-autism-treatments-warning? ps:That makes sense!! Insurer Agrees to Pay Millions for Failing to Fix Errors That Made It Harder for Customers to Get Mental Health Care One of New York’s largest health insurers is set to pay a multimillion-dollar fine for failing to fix a series of errors that made it harder for its customers to get mental health care. https://www.propublica.org/article/emblem-health-ghost-network-settlement-mental-health? New Moms in Wisconsin to Get Extension of Vital Benefits After GOP Powerbroker Ends Holdout For years, Wisconsin’s powerful Assembly speaker refused to allow a bipartisan bill to come to a vote that extends postpartum Medicaid coverage for new moms. Finally, this week, he relented. https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-postpartum-medicaid-new-mothers-robin-vos? Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment For months, President Donald Trump has railed against Latin American narcoterrorists flooding the United States with “lethal poison.” He has used the scourge of drug trafficking as a rationale for dozens of military strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, which have left more than 140 people dead. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-ice-pardon-juan-orlando-hernandez-honduras-prison-special-treatment? How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention This week, ProPublica published a story I wrote based in part on interviews with parents and children being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. I had asked some of the parents to see if their children would be willing to write to me about their experiences inside. More than three dozen did. https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-maria-antonia-guerra-story? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted February 24 Author Members Posted February 24 The Victims Who Fought Back Lisa Rae Moss — serving a life sentence for her involvement in the 1990 murder of her husband, Mike Moss — sat in the witness box in a courtroom in Seminole, Oklahoma, on a frigid January morning in 2025, her hands knotted in her lap. Moss, who is 60, was asked to recount what she endured in her 20s, during her marriage to a volatile man a dozen years her senior. Her long silver hair and prison-issued glasses accentuated the years between her and the younger self she was describing. https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-survivors-act-domestic-violence? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted February 27 Author Members Posted February 27 U.S. Forest Service Stops Issuing Firefighter Pants That Contain PFAS, Following ProPublica’s Reporting Following a ProPublica article revealing that the U.S. Forest Service had for years issued clothing to wildland firefighters that it knew contained potentially dangerous “forever chemicals,” the agency has stopped distributing those garments. It also says that it will instruct its equipment manufacturers to avoid using PFAS in the future. https://www.propublica.org/article/pfas-firefighter-gear-forest-service? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted March 1 Author Members Posted March 1 Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories When guards appeared earlier this month outside the room Christian Hinojosa shared with her son and other women and children at the immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas, she guessed what they might be after. She quickly donned her puffy winter jacket, then slipped a manila envelope inside it. “Thank God the weather was cool,” she said — the jacket didn’t raise suspicions. https://www.propublica.org/article/dilley-detention-center-kids-art-removal? Senate Leaders Warn Defense Department About Procuring Generic Drugs Overseas Senate leaders are urging the Department of Defense to prioritize the purchase of generic drugs manufactured in the United States, warning that the country’s overreliance on foreign factories poses an “existential risk” to the military. https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-warn-hegseth-foreign-drug-manufacturers? Democrats Demand Answers for Federal Prison Staffing Shortage After Corrections Officers Flee for ICE Jobs Four House Democrats demanded the top Federal Bureau of Prisons official explain how he plans to address the agency’s “persistent, unsafe conditions” and “pervasive shortage of critical staff,” driven in part by corrections officers fleeing the bureau for more lucrative jobs at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. https://www.propublica.org/article/bop-prison-staffing-shortages-ice-democrats-william-marshall? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted March 5 Author Members Posted March 5 Albuquerque’s Mayor Said Arrests Were “Not the Solution” to Homelessness. Yet Jail Bookings Have Skyrocketed. During his reelection campaign last fall, the mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, criticized his challenger for suggesting the city should get tougher on the homeless population. Such an approach would be cruel, Tim Keller said during a televised debate with former County Sheriff Darren White. https://www.propublica.org/article/albuquerque-homelessness-citations-surge-tim-keller? Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia If you’re among the more than 1 million people who make Nike’s sneakers and apparel around the world, the company says you should be able to support your family. You should earn enough to pay your living expenses and have some discretionary money left over. If your factory wages don’t cut it, your employer should have a plan to get you there. https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-jobs-indonesia-living-wages? ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools ProPublica has sued the U.S. Department of Education in federal court in New York, accusing it of withholding public records about how it’s enforcing civil rights protections for millions of American students. https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-office-foia-lawsuit? What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever Local emergency managers, the behind-the-scenes coordinators who mobilize help during disasters, have raised the same point time and again: We need adequate resources to protect people in harm’s way — before the harm arrives. https://www.propublica.org/article/emergency-managers-united-states-resource-needs? Emergency Managers: Help ProPublica Prepare to Report on the Next Disaster We know disasters are a matter of where and when, not if. And just like you, our reporting team at ProPublica wants to be prepared well in advance. https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/emergency-managers-disaster-needs-survey? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted March 12 Author Members Posted March 12 New York Attorney General Is Investigating Columbia for Allowing Predatory Doctor to See Patients Despite Warnings The New York State attorney general’s office has begun investigating how Columbia University let a predatory doctor continue to see patients despite decades of warnings. https://www.propublica.org/article/columbia-university-new-york-ag-investigation-robert-hadden-assault? Native Students Receive Excessive Discipline in This New Mexico School District, Report Finds One of the largest school districts in New Mexico subjects Navajo students to pervasive discrimination and a climate of fear, according to a report released last week by the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission. https://www.propublica.org/article/gallup-mckinley-native-students-discipline-navajo-report? He Promised His Dying Mother He’d Protect the Family’s Health. In This Georgia Town, It Isn’t Easy. Clifford Thomas and his family lost four relatives during the COVID-19 pandemic, including his beloved mother, Beverly. A middle school teacher, Beverly had struggled with chronic health problems all her life, and when they forced her to leave her job due to disability, she was unable to afford regular medical care. Her final request to her son was that he keep the family healthy. https://www.propublica.org/article/cliffords-promise-phoebe-hospital-albany-georgia? ProPublica Wins Lawsuit Over Access to Court Records in U.S. Navy Cases The Navy is no longer allowed to shroud its criminal trials in secrecy and must provide public access to hearings and records, a federal judge ruled last month. https://www.propublica.org/article/navy-court-records-ruling-first-amendment? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted March 15 Author Members Posted March 15 Amid Crowded Skies, FAA Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk The Trump administration is backing off a rule aimed at stopping commercial space companies from leaving rocket bodies in Earth’s orbit, a practice that experts say could threaten public safety and telecommunications. https://www.propublica.org/article/faa-trump-space-junk-safety-spacex-rockets? ps:But of course! Otherwise it might interfere with what his billionaire friends want!!!!! DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement arm is requesting unfettered access to what is considered to be the most comprehensive government database of people in the United States and their most private information, including sensitive details about individual children, according to six current and former federal officials. https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-trump-child-support-federal-parent-locator-service-immigration? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted March 22 Author Members Posted March 22 How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues Dr. Adam Ratner hovered over a gravely ill infant in a New York City intensive care unit on a grim day in 2022. The 3-month-old girl spiked a fever two days earlier and had become lethargic. Soon she was having seizures and struggling to breathe. https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues? The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law Jose Omar Flores-Penaloza was willing to admit that he had entered the United States illegally. He was ready to be deported, according to his attorneys. https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-military-trespassing-charges-pam-bondi? An Open Letter to the Inspectors General Community Last year, in a highly unusual move, President Donald Trump fired more than 18 inspectors general without specific justifications, as the law requires, and replaced several of them with political loyalists. Over the past weeks, we have spoken with dozens of people who have experience in this field. They have given us important context on how these offices work. Some have expressed concerns that these new federal government watchdogs may be unable to independently carry out their critical oversight duties. https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/an-open-letter-to-the-inspectors-general-community? Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress The $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project, under construction between Manhattan and New Jersey, will improve passenger rail service, an important issue for New York City commuters. It would seem to have nothing to do with what’s happening in northern Wisconsin. https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-michael-alfonso-congress-transportation? Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by ProPublica. https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government? Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings. Five years ago, Oklahoma oil regulators took on a project with an impressive name: the Source of Truth. State officials wanted a comprehensive database capturing all vital information about the more than 11,000 wells in Oklahoma that shoot the toxic byproduct of oil production back underground. https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-injection-wells-oil-regulators-database? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted March 24 Author Members Posted March 24 DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the eastern desert of Idaho where the U.S. government built its first rudimentary nuclear power plant in 1951 and continues to test cutting-edge technology. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought? As Trump Demands Voter Data, This Fiercely Independent Red State Says No States were on notice from the U.S. Department of Justice that if they didn’t fall in line, the federal government would force them into compliance. https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-voter-data-trump-justice-department? She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section. It’s difficult to put yourself in the place of Cherise Doyley, a pregnant mother of three who found herself facing a judge while in labor at the University of Florida Health hospital in downtown Jacksonville. https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-hearing-c-section? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted March 27 Author Members Posted March 27 Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids The baby needed somewhere to go. So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife. As squad cars waited outside the family’s Lakeland, Florida, trailer home, she gave them a crash course in how to care for the 4-month-old. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids? Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments Last October, President Donald Trump nominated nursing home owner Benjamin Landa as his next ambassador to Hungary, a key position that would place him in a country with a vigorous conservative movement. Trump has endorsed the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, a long-standing ally, for reelection, saying he “does an unbelievable job.” https://www.propublica.org/article/benjamin-landa-ambassador-company-lawsuit? ProPublica Adds Ownership Search to Nursing Home Inspect Database The owner of a nursing home can significantly impact the quality of care that home’s residents receive, research has shown. One owner’s influence can be widespread: Nearly one-fifth of people or companies who report an ownership interest in a nursing home have a financial stake in five or more homes, according to data from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. Nearly 100 owners have direct or indirect ownership in 50 or more homes. https://www.propublica.org/article/nursing-home-inspect-database-update? The Number of Families Being Held at Dilley Detention Center Has Plummeted The number of parents and children booked into the country’s only immigrant family detention center, in Dilley, Texas, plummeted in February by more than 75% compared with a month earlier, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data obtained by ProPublica. https://www.propublica.org/article/families-detained-at-dilley-plummets? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted March 30 Author Members Posted March 30 An OB-GYN Was Repeatedly Accused of Sexual Misconduct. The State Medical Board Let Him Keep Practicing. The woman, 52, lay on the exam table at a clinic in Richland, Washington. Her legs were parted and propped up. https://www.propublica.org/article/mark-mulholland-washington-sexual-misconduct-allegations? “This Is What It Means to Be Minnesotan” On the day that federal immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, I ran out of my house with my camera in hand to document the aftermath. As a visuals editor at ProPublica, I spend most of my time at my desk. But I couldn’t ignore this massive story rapidly unfolding in Minneapolis, the city I’ve called home for the past few years. https://projects.propublica.org/why-minneapolis-neighbors-protest-ice/ This Sheriff Says His Department Eliminated Racial Bias. Data Shows Otherwise. In one talk radio appearance after another, Sheriff Jerry Sheridan has declared that his department had eliminated the racial bias that plagued it under his former boss Joe Arpaio. As a result, he’s quick to add, a landmark racial profiling court case dictating much of what the Maricopa County, Arizona, sheriff’s department does should be dismissed. https://www.propublica.org/article/sheriff-jerry-sheridan-maricopa-county-court-oversight? Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable With the federal government refusing to identify agents or share evidence, the dispute has become a game of constitutional chicken over states’ rights versus federal immunity, with implications for others hoping to hold agents criminally accountable. https://www.propublica.org/article/minnesota-trump-ice-shooting-lawsuit-alex-pretti-renee-good? Walkway Over Dangerous Train Crossing Is Dead After Norfolk Southern Backtracks on Funds, Mayor Says The mayor of Hammond, Indiana, says train company Norfolk Southern is reneging on a promise to partly finance the construction of a pedestrian overpass at a dangerous rail crossing that was the subject of a ProPublica investigation. And without the funding, he added, the project is dead. https://www.propublica.org/article/norfolk-southern-train-crossing-hammond-indiana-school-pedestrian-overpass? New Portland Trail Blazers Owner Played Key Role at Company Oregon Accused of Predatory Lending Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is on the verge of giving the Portland Trail Blazers a major gift: hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to overhaul the team’s arena in an effort to keep the Blazers’ incoming owner, billionaire Tom Dundon, from moving the NBA franchise to a new city. https://www.propublica.org/article/tom-dundon-moda-center-portland-oregon? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted April 3 Author Members Posted April 3 Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations? The Victims Who Fought Back Lisa Rae Moss — serving a life sentence for her involvement in the 1990 murder of her husband, Mike Moss — sat in the witness box in a courtroom in Seminole, Oklahoma, on a frigid January morning in 2025, her hands knotted in her lap. Moss, who is 60, was asked to recount what she endured in her 20s, during her marriage to a volatile man a dozen years her senior. Her long silver hair and prison-issued glasses accentuated the years between her and the younger self she was describing. https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-survivors-act-domestic-violence? A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. Doris Coulson remained spirited even as her illness progressed — watching cooking shows on TV, working crossword puzzles and wheeling herself down the hallways of her nursing home to show off her granddaughter when she came to visit. https://www.propublica.org/article/joseph-schwartz-trump-pardon-skyline-nursing-home-patients? Utah Bans Polygraph Tests for Those Reporting Sexual Assault For years, Utah allowed government officials to do something other states banned: ask a person who reports a sexual assault to take a polygraph test. https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-polygraphs-sexual-assault-law? The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish Before vaccines, death and disability stalked children. Then shots turned once-common infections into something doctors only read about in textbooks. https://projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/ Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted April 8 Author Members Posted April 8 “Economic Civil War”: States Push Laws to Shield Oil and Gas Companies From Accountability Across the country, Republican-led state legislatures are passing a slate of laws that effectively shield oil and gas companies from legal claims that they are responsible for the destruction and mounting toll caused by climate change. Fifteen laws have either been passed or are currently being debated in 11 states. Together, they threaten to remove long-standing tools for the public to hold corporations accountable. https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-alec-leonard-leo-lawsuits-fossil-fuel-oil-gas-immunity? The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write an Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules The Trump administration official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution was an unnamed author of key industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc? ps:Another person doing trumps bidding!! The Federal Government Is Rushing Toward AI. Our Reporting Offers Three Cautionary Tales. As a cybersecurity reporter at ProPublica, much of my work over the past two years has focused on how the federal government and its IT contractors, like Microsoft, have navigated major technological transitions. The one now in the news every day is artificial intelligence. https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-government-ai-cautionary-tales? RFK Jr. May Reverse a Peptide Ban He Calls “Illegal.” Former FDA Officials Say He Mischaracterized Their Work. Just under three years ago, the Food and Drug Administration deemed 19 peptide drugs too unsafe to be dispensed by compounding pharmacies, which mix components of approved drugs to create bespoke medication for people who have trouble taking commonly available products. https://www.propublica.org/article/peptide-safety-fda-compounding-pharmacies? Why We Went Looking for National Defense Areas Along the U.S. Southern Border Our reporting started, like much of our work, in a spreadsheet. As I parsed through federal court data, I noticed something odd: Within months of President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025, prosecutors began filing obscure charges related to trespassing on military property — so many, in fact, that more cases were filed in 2025 than in the prior decade. https://www.propublica.org/article/military-zones-border-migrants-charges? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted April 10 Author Members Posted April 10 They Needed Treatment for Drug Addiction. The Company They Turned to May Have Used Them to Commit Fraud. Renault Shirley remembers the first time he was asked to falsify billing reports for Kentucky’s largest drug rehab center. https://www.propublica.org/article/kentucky-addiction-recovery-care-medicaid-fraud? “The Alarm Bell”: Arizona’s Drop in SNAP Participation Signals Potential Nationwide Impact of Trump Legislation More than 400,000 Arizonans have lost their SNAP benefits since July — the largest decline in the nation by a wide margin — as an underfunded state agency administered changes called for in President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act. https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-snap-benefits-trump-legislation? For-Profit Hospital Chain Never Put Aside Money for Malpractice Insurance to Compensate Injured Patients The collapse of Prospect Medical, a for-profit hospital chain plundered by private equity and the company’s management, has generated a painful litany of woes. https://www.propublica.org/article/prospect-medical-malpractice-bankruptcy-hospitals-doctors-philadelphia? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted April 14 Author Members Posted April 14 Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections In mid-December 2020, federal officials responsible for protecting American elections from fraud converged in a windowless, dim, fortified room at the Justice Department’s downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-midterm-elections-takeover? “A Slap in the Face”: Trump’s DOJ Plans to Settle Predatory Lending Case Without Compensating Victims In December 2023, the U.S. Justice Department sued a Texas land developer it accused of duping tens of thousands of Hispanic residents into predatory mortgages, a landmark case for the Biden administration. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-colony-ridge-texas-settlement-victims? Tennessee Lawmakers Pass Fix to School Threats Law After Kids Were Arrested for Jokes and Misunderstandings Tennessee lawmakers passed legislation this week to fix the state’s controversial threats of mass violence law, which had resulted in children being charged with felonies over jokes and misunderstandings. https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-changed? Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter? The call came from a number I didn’t recognize, with a Canadian area code. https://www.propublica.org/article/impersonating-propublica-reporter? A Judge Worried a Proposed Settlement Doesn’t Do Enough to Help Victims. The DOJ Is Still Moving Forward. The Justice Department said Friday that it would move forward on a proposed $68 million settlement with a Texas land developer it had accused of preying on Hispanic residents, despite a judge’s concerns that the agreement did not do enough to help victims. https://www.propublica.org/article/colony-ridge-settlement-court-hearing-doj? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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