Mario Alejandro Ariza

📽️ Listen to our reporter Eli Hager, who spoke with former acting commissioner Leland Dudek for 15 hours and interviewed dozens of Social Security insiders, explain the untold saga of what happened when DOGE stormed Social Security.

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On this day in 1940, Walter Benjamin took his own life in the town of Portbou, after being denied entry by Spanish officials.

“If the killing of Lorca was Fascism’s first crime against literature, Benjamin’s death was undoubtedly the second.” - The Listener

Ex-Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Former Reform Party UK MP caught taking bribes from Russia for positive comments

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FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

A Florida Home Insurer Was Allowed to Bypass the Courts During Claim Disputes. It Won More Than 90% of the Time. State legislators and executives at Citizens Property Insurance touted mandatory arbitration as advantageous for both consumers and insurers. In practice, homeowners were left with few avenues for rec...

Are you a Floridian with Citizens Insurance? Know if you have a dispute with them and go to arbitration, as required, you most likely will lose. Reporter @marioarizabaez.bsky.social explains... www.propublica.org/article/citi...

A Florida Home Insurer Was Allowed to Bypass the Courts During Claim Disputes. It Won More Than 90% of the Time. State legislators and executives at Citizens Property Insurance touted mandatory arbitration as advantageous for both consumers and insurers. In practice, homeowners were left with few avenues for rec...

Half of all cases resolved during Citizens’ mandatory arbitration process between March 2024 and July 7, 2025, settled for $500 or less to the policyholder.

An additional 28% were settled by Citizens for an average of $30,000.

By @marioarizabaez.bsky.social

A Florida Home Insurer Was Allowed to Bypass the Courts During Claim Disputes. It Won More Than 90% of the Time. State legislators and executives at Citizens Property Insurance touted mandatory arbitration as advantageous for both consumers and insurers. In practice, homeowners were left with few avenues for rec...

State legislators and executives at Citizens Property Insurance touted mandatory arbitration as advantageous for both consumers and insurers. In practice, homeowners were left with little recourse when their claims were denied. My first for
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A Florida Home Insurer Was Allowed to Bypass the Courts During Claim Disputes. It Won More Than 90% of the Time. State legislators and executives at Citizens Property Insurance touted mandatory arbitration as advantageous for both consumers and insurers. In practice, homeowners were left with few avenues for rec...

NEW: A Florida Home Insurer Was Allowed to Bypass the Courts During Claim Disputes. It Won More Than 90% of the Time.
@marioarizabaez.bsky.social

Chart showing average Atlantic hurricane and tropical storm activity from May to December based on data from 1944 to 2020. Activity increases sharply in August, peaking in mid-September. A marker indicates the current date as July 28, just before activity begins to rise.

On average, 86% of all named tropical systems in the Atlantic occur after August 2, and the first hurricane doesn't form until August 11.
We have a long season to go. Prepare now – Learn how at weather.gov/safety/hurricane

ProPublica Sued the FDA for Withholding Records About the Safety of Generic Drugs The agency declined to quickly release documents that would identify drugs made at some of the most troubled foreign factories. The request was part of ProPublica’s ongoing investigation into the…

Last year, ProPublica requested records from the FDA as part of an investigation into the safety of America’s generic drug supply.

The agency declined to quickly release the names of drugs made at some of the most troubled foreign factories.

Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police Police departments in Oregon created an "analyst group" where they casually offer each other assistance with surveillance tools.

"Local police in Oregon casually offered various surveillance services to federal law enforcement officials from the FBI and ICE, and to other state and local police departments, as part of an informal email and meetup group of crime analysts."
#Oregon #USA #Policing #Deportation

Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.

Homeland Security records reveal that Trump admin officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees to an El Salvador prison were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.

The most important and underrated skill of any journalist is that when they don't know something to pick up the phone and call someone smarter.

Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong. The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable.

Since fall, 2022, I've been trying to figure out why Newtok's relocation is riddled with problems - the same kind this move was supposed to solve. Newtok’s residents are Americans - not a “they,” but an “us,” and that’s why I chased this story for so long. www.propublica.org/article/newt...

U.K. Authorizes Rape Charges Against Andrew Tate and His Brother

British authorities have authorised charges of rape, human trafficking and assault against Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate

There are a total of 21 charges relating to 3 women, and the brothers are due to be extradited to the UK after a case in Romania ends
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1/ The day after the Antioch High shooting, Nashville police arrested a 12-year-old for posting a concerning screenshot on Instagram.

His school was supposed to figure out if it was a valid threat. Instead, the school expelled him with no further investigation.

A Tennessee School Expelled a 12-Year-Old for a Social Post. Experts Say It Didn’t Properly Assess If He Made a Threat. The way school officials handled his case also exposes glaring contradictions in two recent state laws that aim to criminalize school threats and require schools to expel students who make them — with...

Schools in Tennessee must use threat assessments to determine if a threat of mass violence is “valid,” but they often carry them out inconsistently. For its part, the doesn't release data on how effective schools’ threat assessments are. @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social

Restoring Gold Standard Science By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

and shame. Often unspoken motivator of the turncoat/defectors in the inner circle of a tyrant who strike out against them. Shame at what they've done or allowed to be done to themselves, and an ardent desire to restore their honor.

This is how El Chivo got killed.

Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.

Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online

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Why the ‘Big, Beautiful’ Tax Bill Is Worrying Bond Investors

Tax cuts pushed by the Trump administration are amplifying debt and deficit concerns among bond investors, a powerful group of market players who influence interest rates.

Single-Dose Psilocybin for Depression With Severe Treatment Resistance: An Open-Label Trial | American Journal of Psychiatry Objective: Depression varies along a difficulty-to-treat spectrum. Patients whose illness fails to respond to at least five treatments may be considered to have severely treatment-resistant depression...

Study finds that psilocybin is effective in treating severe depression.

The DEA Once Touted Body Cameras for Their “Enhanced Transparency.” Now the Agency Is Abandoning Them. An internal email obtained by ProPublica said the agency made the change to be “consistent” with a Trump executive order. But at least two other federal law enforcement agencies are still requiring…

The Drug Enforcement Administration has quietly ended its body camera program barely four years after it began, according to an internal email obtained by ProPublica.

By @marioarizabaez.bsky.social

a man sitting in a car with the words feel that that 's friday on the bottom ALT: a man sitting in a car with the words feel that that 's friday on the bottom

Its FOIA Friday. That means I'm going to spend some time today requesting documents from the Feds and the Florida government. Hit me with your ideas and suggestions - or reach out confidentially to me over signal (I'll dm you my number.)

The DEA Once Touted Body Cameras for Their “Enhanced Transparency.” Now the Agency Is Abandoning Them. An internal email obtained by ProPublica said the agency made the change to be “consistent” with a Trump executive order. But at least two other federal law enforcement agencies are still requiring…

An internal email obtained by ProPublica said the DEA made the change to be “consistent” with a Trump executive order. But at least two other federal law enforcement agencies are still requiring body cameras.

By @marioarizabaez.bsky.social

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The DEA Once Touted Body Cameras for Their “Enhanced Transparency.” Now the Agency Is Abandoning Them. An internal email obtained by ProPublica said the agency made the change to be “consistent” with a Trump executive order. But at least two other federal law enforcement agencies are still requiring bo...

NEW: The DEA Once Touted Body Cameras for Their “Enhanced Transparency.” Now the Agency Is Abandoning Them. @marioarizabaez.bsky.social

The DEA Once Touted Body Cameras for Their “Enhanced Transparency.” Now the Agency Is Abandoning Them. An internal email obtained by ProPublica said the agency made the change to be “consistent” with a Trump executive order. But at least two other federal law enforcement agencies are still requiring bo...

NEW: In 2021, the Drug Enforcement Administration welcomed the addition of body cameras and touted the “enhanced transparency” they bring.

Now the agency has quietly ended its body camera program, citing a Trump executive order.

By @marioarizabaez.bsky.social

DeSantis said every sheriff has a Hope Florida expert. That’s news to some sheriffs “We’re not actively engaged in anything with Hope Florida,” Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said.

DeSantis said every sheriff has a Hope Florida expert. That’s news to some sheriffs
“We’re not actively engaged in anything with Hope Florida,” Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said.

By Justin Garcia Tampa Bay Times
May 2, 2025 11:00 AM
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