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A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education
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The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural region it serves.
https://www.propublica.org/article/regional-public-universities-trump-funding-dei?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Education #University #Research #DEI #Trump #Diversity #Rural

New Utah Law Seeks to Crack Down on Life Coaches Offering Therapy Without a License
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Some therapists who lose their licenses transition to the unregulated life coaching industry, an investigation by The Salt Lake Tribune and ProPublica found. A new law makes it clear that only licensed therapists can provide mental health treatment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-life-coaches-mental-health-therapy-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Utah #MentalHealth #LifeCoach #Therapy

Alaska Supreme Court Places New Limits on Pretrial Delays
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The move follows an investigation by ProPublica and the Anchorage Daily News that found some cases have taken as long as a decade to reach juries, potentially violating the rights of victims and defendants alike.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-supreme-court-limits-pretrial-delays?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Alaska #Law #Court #Crime

Want To Fight Back? Declare Independence From Corporate #Media? Start Here!

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#LisaMurkowski will never be looked at as someone w decency again. She's a ghoul. She is #maga

"This Awful Mistake Will Haunt Her for The Rest of Her Life"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDFmQ14XWFM #news #politics #bbb #bigbeautifulbill #alaska #unitedstates #america #usa #us #eu #canada #russia #ukraine #china #europe #uk #france #germany #video #budget #donaldtrump #trump #medicaid #healthcare #SNAP #media #press #economy

A Political Power Grab Redirected Funds for North Carolina’s Sexual Abuse Survivors. Women in Crisis Paid the Price.
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The move, which led to disruptions in services for sexual assault and domestic violence survivors, provides a glimpse of the consequences when a branch of government assumes unprecedented control.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-legislature-power-grab-sexual-abuse-survivors?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NorthCarolina #GOP #SexualAssault #Women #DomesticViolence

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BREAKING: SECRET Pete #Hegseth #War Plan #Texts EXPOSED by #Press!

https://youtube.com/live/w3NJEx7ONro #media #tech #politics #news #nato #usa #america #europe #israel #musk #trump #donaldtrump #elonmusk #eu #ai #china #russia #ukraine #america #signal #yemen

Some Texas Officials Didn’t Respond to Flood Alerts, Echoing the Tragedies of Hurricane Helene
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Weather warnings predicted devastation from both the Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were left in harm’s way.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-flooding-evacuations-hurricane-helene?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #NorthCarolina #TexasFloods #Hurricane #TX #Disaster #Emergency #Flood

8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater
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Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.
https://www.propublica.org/article/groundwater-fresh-water-depletion-research-science-advances-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Science #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Water #NASA #Data

The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
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The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #CDC #RFKJr #Health #Measles #Medicine #PublicHealth #Vaccines #Science

It’s #NewstodonFriday once again, and as always, we have a great selection of stories from independent newsrooms. This week’s highlights include @ProPublica’s story about a DJ turned white supremacist influencer, @parkermolloy writing for @damemagazine about the death of legacy media, and @bolts’s @taniel on —yikes — another round of U.S. elections. Please check out these stories and all the others in this thread, comment, like, follow their accounts and give them your money. ⤵️

#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: #Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
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We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before #Trump took office.

#ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

#News #Government #HumanRights #Police #Courts #Politics

https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/

Federal Investigators Were Preparing Two Texas Housing Discrimination Cases — Until Trump Took Over
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The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-texas-housing-discrimination-cases-dallas-houston?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Housing #Discrimination #Trump #Government

“A Wholly Inaccurate Picture”: Reality Cop Show “The First 48” and the Wrongly Convicted Man
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Edgar Barrientos-Quintana spent 16 years behind bars wrongly convicted for a shooting featured on “The First 48.” The Minnesota attorney general’s office effectively alleged that the show shaped the case instead of the case shaping the show.
https://www.propublica.org/article/first-48-reality-tv-police-minneapolis-wrongful-conviction-barrientos-quintana?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Minnesota #TV #Crime #Law #Police #Television

ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said. He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-warrantless-arrests-chicago-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Chicago #ICE #Immigration #Immigrants #Migrants #Trump

Our reporting revealed that Anchorage dropped more than 250 domestic violence assault cases and more than 270 drunken driving cases between May 1 and Oct. 2 last year.

Now, the city says it has hired a full staff of 12 “frontline” prosecutors who will take cases to trial.
https://www.propublica.org/article/anchorage-alaska-prosecutors-criminal-case-dismissals?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Alaska #Law #Crime #DomesticViolence #Assault

New today: It’s a different camp, different year, different creek, but the same story. This story—the one where the Hill Country experiences devastating and unexpected flash #floods following an intense period of extended drought—is a familiar one for those of us who grew up in the area. https://www.texasobserver.org/hill-country-flood-family-home-fourth-of-july-2002/

#Kerrville #KerrCounty #Texas #CentralTexas #flooding #history #environment #weather #politics #USpol #news #ClimateChange

When George Mason University president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.”

But there are signs it may be part of a coordinated campaign to oust him.
https://www.propublica.org/article/george-mason-university-antisemitism-investigation-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #University #HigherEd #Education #Trump #Virginia #DEI

Texas GOP Lawmakers Propose Amending Abortion Ban Linked to Deaths and a Rise in Sepsis Cases
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The bill comes after ProPublica’s reporting on the deaths of three Texas women. It specifies that doctors don’t need to wait until an emergency is “imminent” to terminate pregnancies but leaves in steep penalties for those who violate the law.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-gop-lawmakers-propose-amending-abortion-ban?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Abortion #Texas #GOP #Law #Women #Health #Pregnancy

Money is pouring into Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election so fast that political observers now believe it is likely to reach $100 million by Tuesday, election day.

Already, it has become the costliest judicial race in U.S. history.

https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-race-most-expensive-us-history-elon-musk?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Wisconsin #SupremeCourt #Election #ElonMusk #Billionaires #Musk

A “Goofy” DJ’s Secret Life at the Center of an Online Terrorism Network
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To friends, Matthew Allison was a likeable part of Boise, Idaho’s electronic music scene. But behind his computer screen, authorities say, he helped lead the Terrorgram Collective, an online network that inspired white supremacist violence.
https://www.propublica.org/article/matthew-allison-dj-terrogram-collective-boise-dallas-humber?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Idaho #Terror #Violence #Telegram #Extremism #Technology

TCE Is Linked to Heart Defects in Babies, Cancer and Parkinson’s. Republicans in Congress Want to Reverse a Ban on It.
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The toxic substance, used in dry cleaning and manufacturing, has been linked to a host of serious health problems. A Biden-era ban on the chemical has faced multiple challenges since Trump took office.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tce-ban-cancer-parkinsons-trump-republicans?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Environment #Health #Trump #Cancer #Congress #GOP

Fascinating read from @gruber on Daring Fireball being blacklisted on Hacker News.

Agree with Gruber or not, DF posts should be treated the same as all the other posts. Let the crowd decide.

Shadow-banning is inelegant bullshit. It deprives us of the ability to make our own informed choices of what to read.

https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/the_website_hacker_news_is_afraid_to_discuss
#Apple #News

Texas Overhauls Anti-Abortion Program That Spent Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars With Little Oversight
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After a ProPublica and CBS News investigation revealed that Texas’ funding pipeline for anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers is riddled with waste, nonprofits in the program must now provide a detailed accounting of their expenses.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-overhauls-anti-abortion-crisis-pregnancy-centers-funding?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Women #Family #Health #Nonprofit #Funding