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Further ensure the number plates match the vehicle and they are wearing ICE uniforms. If they are wearing fake Uniforms charge them with impersonation.

@governor.ca.gov Suggestion. Order your Police to create CHECHPOINTS at the entry of ICE Detention Facilities. Then only allow ICE to pass through if they display a lawfull arrest warrant for detainees. If they don't then arrest them as Kidnappers and free the victim.

Screenshot of the LASD uniform guidelines page from the link. Text highlighted to show that uniformed LASD Deputies always display their name and badge number. Hit the link for more.

It's ICE, not LASD. Real uniformed Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Deputies always display their name and badge number. Hat tip to @caitykaboom.bsky.social: “Hard stop. Never in my life have I seen an LACS wear a black long sleeve tshirt with jeans. F*ck 🧊”

lasd.org/identifying-...

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

Congress may as well not exist at this point under this Spineless Speaker.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Canada was caught, red handed, putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan’s Speech on Tariffs. The Reagan Foundation said that they, “created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address,” and “did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter.” The sole purpose of this FRAUD was Canada’s hope that the United States Supreme Court will come to their “rescue” on Tariffs that they have used for years to hurt the United States. Now the United States is able to defend itself against high and overbearing Canadian Tariffs (and those from the rest of the World as well!). Ronald Reagan LOVED Tariffs for purposes of National Security and the Economy, but Canada said he didn’t! Their Advertisement was to be taken down, IMMEDIATELY, but they let it run last night during the World Series, knowing that it was a FRAUD. Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs

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Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You. The agency’s decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures t...

At one factory pigeons infested a storage room and defecated on boxes of sterilized equipment. At another, pathogens contaminated purified water used to make drugs. At a third, stagnant urine pooled on a bathroom floor not far from where injectable meds were made.
www.propublica.org/article/fda-...

Left: Veteran and U.S. citizen George Retes, pinned by immigration officers in Camarillo, CA in July, before he disappeared for days

Right: George on Capitol Hill today, trying to tell as many members of Congress his story as possible

Here’s What Happened When ProPublica Reporters Tried to Find Out Where a Popular Prescription Drug Was Made We wanted to know where a widely used prescription drug that treats high cholesterol was manufactured and whether the factory had quality issues. The search led to a labyrinth of company names and dat...

And here's what happened when we tried to find out where a specific generic—atorvastatin, one of the most commonly prescribed drugs in the US—was made, and the steps we took to try to figure that out (spoiler alert: it's a journey): www.propublica.org/article/fda-...

We’ve been reporting on the VA for several months now, and have spoken to hundreds of people who have shared their experience with us, many of them in very sensitive situations.

We take the privacy and well-being of all of the people who come forward very seriously.

What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the...

Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law.

By @richardawebster.bsky.social

Collage of a diverse group of five student journalists. In the first row, from left to right: Annabelle Ink, Lee Ann Anderson, and Safa Wahidi. In the second row: Kahlie Wray and Gabriel Velasquez Neira.

👋 Say hi to our 2025 Emerging Reporters: Annabelle Ink, Lee Ann Anderson, Safa Wahidi, Kahlie Wray and Gabriel Velasquez Neira!

These student journalists will receive stipends and one-on-one mentorship with our staff. Learn more about each of them: https://propub.li/4hmFEx4

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump's DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents' anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.

“ICE, their secret police, is their tool,” said Michelle Brané, a human rights attorney who directed DHS’ ombudsman office under Biden. “Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.”

@davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social

YouTube video by ProPublica Russell Vought: The Shadow President

I obtained ~dozens of hours~ of previously unreported recordings of Russ Vought's briefings from 2021 to 2024.

Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's
new mini-documentary about Vought 👇

THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...

The Floods Kept Coming. He Needed to Grow a Crop That Would Thrive in Water — or to Quit. One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring diversity to the Corn Belt, but improbable so long as federal farm policy remains f...

“There’s nothing in farm policy that takes into account climate change,” said one former USDA official. “In fact, most arguments would be that it’s at best neutral and at worst counterproductive for climate change.”

Published Sept. w/ @capitolnewsil.bsky.social

Article excerpt with a section of the second paragraph highlighted: State social studies standards for years have included discussion of how white Tulsans murdered as many as 300 Black people. But once the 2021 state law that restricted teaching about race and gender passed, some teachers avoided the topic. The law prohibits teachers from singling out specific racial groups as responsible for past racism. It specifies that individuals of a certain race shouldn’t be portrayed as inherently racist, “whether consciously or unconsciously.” In addition to teachers’ licensure being on the line, repeated failure to comply would allow the state to revoke district accreditation, which could result in a state takeover. When educators questioned how to teach about a race massacre without running afoul of the law, state legislators and the Tulsa County chapter of the conservative parent group Moms for Liberty weighed in to say that white people today shouldn’t feel shame and that the massacre’s perpetrators shouldn’t be cast as racists. A Moms for Liberty chapter representative did not respond to questions from ProPublica.

Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.

➡️ Full story: https://propub.li/3WXTkFm

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

Joint Congressional Investigation Launched in Response to ProPublica’s Revelations on Detained Americans Senators, House members and even a mayor expressed outrage and demanded accountability after our investigation detailed how at least 170 citizens have been held by immigration agents this year.

“Over 170 U.S. Citizens are being arrested. Why? Because they look like me,” Rep. Robert Garcia of California said, referencing our reporting. “Or because they are suspected to not be a U.S. citizen, or because they are suspected of crimes they have not committed.”

Just a reminder that the government has made it almost impossible to hold agents accountable for abuse.

They are even more shielded from suits than police.

And Trump has gutted the office that handled complaints.

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

This County Was the “Model” for Local Police Carrying Out Immigration Raids. It Ended in Civil Rights Violations. Under Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County was one of the first testing grounds for ICE’s 287(g) program, which lets local police enforce immigration laws. Many Arizonans say those abuses parallel what...

Advocates say some tactics used by officers to target Latinos in Trump’s deportation effort draw from Joe Arpaio’s playbook.

“The model was Maricopa County — the very public, very humiliating, demoralizing approach to the raids, and the cruelty.”

With @azluminaria.org

Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You. The agency’s decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures t...

One factory was contaminated with pigeon feces. At another, pathogens got into purified water used to produce drugs.

But when the FDA cites an errant factory, it conceals an important piece of information: the names of drugs made there.

Why Did You Leave the Department of Veterans Affairs? ProPublica wants to hear from doctors, nurses and other front-line medical providers who recently left positions at a VA hospital or clinic.

Are you a doctor, nurse or other frontline medical provider who has recently left your position at a VA hospital or clinic?

We want to hear from you. Tell us your story 👇

The Landlord, the Tenant and a House Fire in Milwaukee A young mother rents a house near Milwaukee. The previous tenant tells her, “Baby, they shouldn’t have let you move in.”

Near Milwaukee, two lives intersect in a house that catches fire.

What came before and after shows there’s one kind of justice for those who own and another for those who rent.

(Published 2022 w/ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

As SNAP benefits are cut, this should be something we demand of state governors to do with their states national guard.

Food banks & other forms of community aid will feel the stress caused by these cuts. There will undoubtedly be understaffing and shortages, this is one way we can prepare for this

People claiming that the Epstein Ballroom™ is really just a cover for a bunker has me fondly recalling what Hitler did in his.

What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...

Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government.

Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.

(next to an image of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez) “You cannot love this country if you only fight for the wealthy and big business. To love this country is to fight for its people, all people. Working people ….. who punch a clock and are on their feet all day in some of the toughest jobs out there."