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“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

Missouri officials directed county election administrators to make voters temporarily unable to vote if they were flagged as potential noncitizens by a federal tool.

But in hundreds of cases, the tool's determinations were wrong.

With @texastribune.org

Teddy Roosevelt’s family urges GOP to protect Boundary Waters In a rare letter to Republican senators, four descendants of the former president oppose mining near the Minnesota wilderness area.

In a rare letter to Republican senators, four descendants of Teddy Roosevelt oppose mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters.

This is all John Roberts’ fault Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

Judge orders Trump administration to allow men expelled to El Salvador to return, challenge removal The Trump administration's decision to send these men to a notorious Salvadoran megaprison has not stood up well in court.

Chief Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to allow the Venezuelan men it sent to El Salvador last year to return to the U.S. and challenge their removal.

The order comes amid the federal government’s ongoing resistance to bring the Venezuelan nationals back.

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

(Published Feb. 2025)

Leakers Helped Destroy Deportation Case Against Tufts Student This week, a judge finally dismissed the deporation case, which was built solely on an op-ed, against the Tufts doctoral student.

“This administration doesn’t value the First Amendment rights of citizens any more than those of noncitizens; immigrants are just the low-hanging fruit.”

Help ACPC raise $65,000 The Atlanta Community Press Collective needs you to help us raise $65,000 to keep delivering the news that matters to Atlantans.

We've done numbers. We've tightened our belt. We've figured out how much we need to raise from the community to keep our work going.

We need you to help us raise $65,000 to ACPC keep operating at the level you expect from us until the second half of the year, when most of our revenue comes in.

Europeans push back at US over claim they face 'civilizational erasure' A top European Union official on Sunday rejected the notion that Europe faces "civilizational erasure," pushing back at criticism of the continent by the Trump administration.

A top European Union official on Sunday rejected the notion that Europe faces "civilizational erasure," pushing back at criticism of the continent by the Trump administration. n.pr/4rNE9fn

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We are Reducing the Cost of PCTG The point of Tangled is to do two things. Reduce the Cost of 3D Printing Raw Materials and Ensure that 3D Printing has a reliable supply Chain.We did it with PLA. Print Farms and Hobbyists alike used ...

Want to try PCTG filament? This is likely as cheap as youre going to get it!
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Pentagon 'trampled on' the First Amendment in trying to punish Mark Kelly, judge rules | Arizona Mirror Federal judge blocks Pentagon from punishing Mark Kelly over military video, saying Defense Secretary trampled on Constitution

“Donald Trump and his administration don’t like accountability. They don’t like when retired veterans question them. That’s why they are cracking down on our rights and trying to make examples out of anyone they can.”

New York leaders, defying Trump, rehang Stonewall Inn Pride flag in chaotic scene The Trump administration had removed the LGBTQ+ symbol, citing a policy limiting what can be displayed on federal property.

New York City leaders rehung the Pride flag in front of the Stonewall National Monument in a chaotic scene that included an American flag briefly being removed, a rebuke of the Trump administration’s efforts to remove the symbol from federal property.

Ukrainians rally in support of Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych, banned for his helmet Ukrainians are uniting in solidarity with Olympic skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after he was disqualified for wearing a helmet with images of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's invasion.

Ukrainians are uniting in solidarity with Olympic skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after he was disqualified for wearing a helmet with images of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's invasion. n.pr/4rqEdSs

This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...

“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about the state’s efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!”

(Published Oct. 2025)

Federal judge orders return of Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador under Alien Enemies Act In his Thursday order, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ordered the government to allow any of the men deported last year to El Salvador to appear in a U.S. port of entry to be conditionally allowed in as they challenge their removal.

In his Thursday order, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ordered the government to allow any of the men deported last year to El Salvador to appear in a U.S. port of entry to be conditionally allowed in as they challenge their removal. n.pr/468i2bo

Democratic Governor Bans ICE From State Property Governor Mikie Sherill is ramping up ways to keep ICE in check.

New Jersey’s newly elected Governor Mikie Sherill is the latest Democratic state leader to take action to protect her state’s residents from ICE: barring agents from entering, accessing, or using nonpublic areas of state-owned property without first receiving a judicial warrant. trib.al/vqBrPzT

📽️ WATCH: We went inside the immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas.

Listen to what kids told reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social about their life in detention — and the things they’ve lost and left behind.

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YouTube video by ProPublica Russell Vought: The Shadow President

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

Live updates: Trump's EPA revokes scientific finding that underpinned US fight against climate change The Trump administration revoked a scientific finding at the center of U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, a significant rollback of regulations.

BREAKING: The EPA revokes scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger the public health, removing a key basis for the climate change fight.

A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.

Firing a pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind. Berating staff when she's not on TV enough. Inside the constant chaos at DHS.

And the rich pay less in taxes.

Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.

First they said critical ICE detention footage was "destroyed." Then, lost in a system crash. Then, never recorded.

Now, in the latest court docs, it shows the federal government lost three hard drives it was supposed to put footage on in a case where ICE detainees say they faced inhumane abuse.

DHS shot her and called her a “terrorist.” New videos show something different. "It’s time to get aggressive," a Border Patrol agent said shortly before Marimar Martinez was shot five times.

Newly released body camera footage further undermines the Trump administration’s efforts to falsely portray Marimar Martinez—who was shot multiple times by Border Patrol agent Charles Exum in October—as a “domestic terrorist.”

How one Minneapolis man is helping neighbors surveil ICE back • Minnesota Reformer When thousands of immigration agents flooded Minneapolis late last year, Garrett Guntly had an idea: a network of neighbor-owned security cameras, pointed towards public areas, that they could use to ...

When thousands of immigration agents flooded Minneapolis late last year, Garrett Guntly had an idea: a network of neighbor-owned security cameras that they could use to monitor ICE activity in the area.

The system has helped neighbors interrupt around a dozen immigrant arrests, Guntly says.

Wasatch County GOP chair charged with felony child abuse Wasatch County GOP Chair David Nephi Johnson, accused of waterboarding a 16-year-old relative, has been arrested on charges of felony child abuse.

Wasatch County GOP Chair David Nephi Johnson, accused of waterboarding a 16-year-old relative, has been arrested on charges of felony child abuse.

Under Trump, ICE’s Work Force Grew as Other Immigration Agencies Shrank With more ICE agents and fewer judges and asylum officers, the balance of the federal immigration apparatus has shifted.

As ICE hired droves of new agents last year, the immigration system lost staffers who process asylum claims and preside over court hearings, according to a New York Times analysis of government work force data.

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During Bondi’s House testimony, Rep. Raskin cited judicial criticisms of the DOJ's conduct.

He quoted judges who found the department to be: "So disingenuous that the court is left with little confidence that the government can be trusted to tell the truth about anything."
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Local and State Police Can Investigate Federal Agents, But Rarely Do 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 w...

“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights," said Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA.

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted of sexually abusing children A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child.

A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child. n.pr/4tx7oVq