Matt Krupnick

ICE contractor locked an immigrant and her baby at an O’Hare hotel for five days Valentina Galvis' detention at a hotel raises questions about the types of facilities being turned into de facto detention centers as the Trump administration ramps up immigration detention.

A Chicago woman went to immigration court. Her case was dismissed; she and her infant were taken by federal agents who turned her over to contractor MVM. They spent five days confined at the Sonesta O'Hare hotel without communication to the outside world.

My first byline at @injusticewatch.org:

The official version of the constitution on Congress.gov has removed Article I, Section 9 and 10 from the website which includes the writ of habeus corpus.

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Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools. Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than two-th...

If you want to see the consequences of low education funding, look no further than Alaska.

How Alaska’s Budget Crisis Has Kept the State From Fixing Crumbling Rural Schools @emilyschwing.bsky.social

At least 9 U.S. citizens have been taken into the custody of agents with ICE or U.S. Customs and Border Protection after observing or protesting near immigration raids in the LA area.

@cerisecastle.bsky.social reports.

#ICEraids #ICE #Immigration #LosAngeles #LocalNews

And I'm hearing some of the tribal colleges have lost students and employees who weren't sure whether the schools would close without federal funding.

Tribal College Campuses Are Falling Apart. The U.S. Hasn’t Fulfilled Its Promise to Fund the Schools. Decades ago, Congress made a commitment to fund a higher education system for Indigenous communities. But a quarter-billion-dollar annual shortfall has led to crimped budgets and crumbling buildings, ...

But...

Even the congressional budget proposals are a quarter-billion less than tribal colleges should be getting. See:

www.propublica.org/article/trib...

The administration also has started paying the tribal colleges the USDA grants that were frozen earlier this year, although nobody has explained the change of heart to the schools.

Tribal colleges are feeling guarded relief after both the House and Senate defied the Trump administration by including funding in next year's budget.

Lawyer Dilan Esper writing about how amazing the Bollea v. Gawker case was for him while insisting no harm done to the 1st Amendment. I can't say that much about our mediation strategy (it's shrouded in lawyer-client privilege and work product) but I have seen Nick Denton make accusations about it, and they are false. We were willing to settle; Gawker needed to offer a lot more than they did though. In other words, Peter Thiel was not my client and he was not directing the litigation behind the scenes. We were actually litigating the case exactly the same way we would have had Bollea been personally paying his bills. Thiel may have had his reasons for getting Gawker (and to be clear, he apparently paid the bills for several cases that were brought by us and others against Gawker), but the strategy doesn't work without a viable case. Gawker hung itself with its conduct towards Bollea. The bottom line is I take a great deal of professional pride in what we did. Precisely because we actually didn't ruin the First Amendment. No outlet is prevented from doing real journalism as a result of the Bollea v. Gawker case. We simply enforced a long existing norm. And drew a line in an era of "anything goes" content on the Internet. This was Hulk Hogan's legacy, and in a very real way, it is mine as well.

I had to spend two and a half years fighting a frivolous lawsuit that was a direct result of Bollea v. Gawker. And that lawsuit massively decreased our capability to do what we do, so I take issue with one of Hulk Hogan's lawyers claiming that Bollea v. Gawker had no impact on journalism

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

A looming global water crisis may be under appreciated as climate change takes hold. Today I report on a new study that finds the planet is quickly drying, with mega-regions of water loss now stretching across continents. www.propublica.org/article/wate...

I've covered budget hearings at all government levels - city to the US House - and have never come across this lack of transparency.

I'm watching a Senate budget markup hearing and apparently the Senate doesn't make budget proposals available to the public that pays for those proposals. A spokesman said it was because the process has been too contentious.

Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Important to note: The funding increase proposed by Congress is still *less than half* the amount promised to tribal colleges in 1978.

Congressional Republicans have refused to discuss their defiance of Trump, and Democrats say they're baffled but encouraged by the move. Stay tuned for more...

After my @propublica.org story last month about Trump's proposed 90% cut to tribal college funding, the House has restored those funds in its latest budget proposal, and with a funding increase to boot.

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

ADOPT A STATION! Particularly in rural America. So many to choose from, including KILI--Lakota owned and operated, station on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota: adoptastation.org. h/t to Alex Curley, who created this and posted on his LinkedIn

This deserves more attention!

He lost his wallet, which had his green card, and made an appointment in Philly to replace it. There he was handcuffed & taken away with no explanation. “His wife, who speaks little English, was left behind and kept in the building for 10 hours until she was released to her granddaughter.” He’s 82.

Donate : NPR Power independent journalism in your community. Donate to your NPR station.

It's not a great day for public media, but it is a great day for you to support public media and nonprofit media. If public media like NPR, its members stations and PBS and its affiliates are important to you, consider donating. I'm going to collect as many posts from stations in a thread below.

The subcommittee votes along party lines to send Interior budget to full appropriations committee. No mention of tribal colleges. Stay tuned, I guess.

This hearing also includes EPA funding, so much of the discussion so far has been about climate change, water safety and other environmental issues. No mention of tribal colleges yet.

The colleges still have no idea whether the House budget proposal would reinstate higher education funding, but they're cautiously optimistic and waiting for details.

Chairman Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) starts by saying he refuses "to balance the budget on the backs of the tribes."

This is the first opportunity to see what Congress thinks about the president's proposed dismantling of the three dozen or so tribal colleges and universities.

I'm watching a congressional committee discuss next year's Department of the Interior budget, which will determine whether tribal colleges continue to exist.

Good luck. We're all counting on you.

This has absolutely been my experience. And I'm not sure people understand what that loss of accountability means.