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Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened
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The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-fema-florida-naples-sinan-gursoy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Root canals gone wrong. A dental implant lost inside a sinus cavity. Months of antibiotics for infections.
Utah dentist Nicholas LaFeber, his colleagues warned, was harming his patients. The state has allowed him to continue practicing anyway.
https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-dentist-license-nicholas-lafeber?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The video I filmed of an ICE agent shoving a woman to the ground at 26 Federal Plaza, a New York City immigration courthouse, went viral.
Then, in a rare move, the government publicly reprimanded the officer, calling his actions “unacceptable.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-officer-shoves-woman-till-eckert?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.
But in some N.C. counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fema-aid-hurricane-helene-income-disparities?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.
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Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found.
https://www.propublica.org/article/psychiatric-hospitals-emtala-mental-health-profit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #Hospital #Law #Health #Medicine
Atlassian is sunsetting its Data Center products. For Confluence users, the question is no longer whether to migrate, but how.
Together with @nextcloud ,we ran a webinar, “Break free from Confluence”, covering:
✔ Live migration demo
✔ Preserving hierarchies, macros & permissions
✔ Migration strategies with minimal disruption
Recap 👉 https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/Webinar-overview-break-free-from-Confluence/
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Some 4 million people in the U.S. could lose federal housing assistance under new plans from the Trump administration, say experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica.
#News #Trump #Housing #Poverty #Homelessness #Homeless #Immigration
A previously undisclosed State Department report and interviews reveal accusations that U.S. Ambassador Ronald D. Johnson shielded Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele from U.S. and Salvadoran law enforcement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ambassador-ronald-johnson-nayib-bukele-trump-el-salvador?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
ONE WEEK FROM NOW: You're invited to join our Publisher and Editor @alexip718 for a virtual walkthrough and discussion of our new analysis on H-1B skilled workers in America's land-grant, sea-grant, and R1 research institutions.
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Besides all that … who is on the Epstein list?
Does it include members of SCOTUS?
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies
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The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most important military contractors.
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-china-investors-court-testimony?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Chicago Cop Who Falsely Blamed an Ex-Girlfriend for Dozens of Traffic Tickets Pleads Guilty but Avoids Prison
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Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets. Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key witness because of credibility issues.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-cop-jeffrey-kriv-pleads-guilty-avoids-jail?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
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ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cuts.
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-food-cuts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Before Tom Dundon Agreed to Buy the Portland Trail Blazers, Oregon Accused the Company He Created of Predatory Lending
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In 2020, the state sued Santander Consumer USA for allegedly preying on Oregonians through high-interest car loans they couldn’t afford in a case involving more than 265,000 borrowers nationwide.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tom-dundon-portland-trail-blazers-subprime-loans?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign
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A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tom-homan-border-czar-trump-mark-hall-charles-sowell?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Democratic and Republican lawmakers across the country tried to push through bills to tighten gift limits, toughen conflict-of-interest provisions or expand financial disclosure reporting requirements. But many of the measures were derailed.
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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
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Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-public-schools-activists-linda-mcmahon-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Oregon Accelerates Green Energy Projects Before Trump Phase-Out of Tax Credits
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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek told state agencies to take “any and all steps necessary” to expedite solar and wind permits before federal green energy tax credits expire next year. The order prioritizes high-priority projects to begin by July 2026.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-renewable-energy-trump-tax-credits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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19-year-old Jorge Ruiz, a Mexican immigrant in Alabama on an H-2B visa, was convicted of murder after a fatal car crash.
He was initially sentenced to the maximum possible punishment, longer than what prosecutors had requested: 99 years.
https://www.propublica.org/article/jorge-ruiz-alabama-murder-sentence-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
PFNA can be found in drinking water systems that serve about 26 million people.
The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-pfna-forever-chemical-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates.
Those dates have come and gone.
They’re still stuck here.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-self-deportation-cbp-home-app?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Immigration #Venezuela #Immigrants #Deportation #App
Cutting federal funding. Weakening civil rights protections. Injecting God into the classroom.
Here are some of the ways Trump’s Department of Education could upend public schools.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-department-of-education-changing-public-schools?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Trump #School #Teaching #Parents #Family #Children
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project
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Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-boring-company-violations-fines-vegas-loop?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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