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After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
https://www.propublica.org/article/seattle-homeless-shelter-vacancies-civic-hotel?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
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When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal process.
https://www.propublica.org/article/health-insurance-denial-external-review?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.
ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.
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
Getting ever closer to living the dream!
"Slackbot today is fairly rudimentary. But what we've done is we've actually rebuilt it from the ground up as a personalized AI companion."
https://www.theverge.com/news/797890/slack-slackbot-ai-assistant-upgrade
After decades of fluoridating drinking water to improve public health, some communities are increasingly wavering on the practice.
In one Michigan county, the medical director is mirroring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts against fluoridation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-fluoride-drinking-water-st-clair-county?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.
#News #Education #Deafblind #Students #Teaching #School #Trump
Despite falling crime rates, leaders at a nonprofit argued Dallas was descending into anarchy to sell voters on increasing police.
Some residents now fear the push could be used as a playbook for other cities.
https://www.propublica.org/article/police-dallas-hero-crime-proposition?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Front page of the Scottish paper The National today
( Full story here: https://www.thenational.scot/news/25536879.nationals-front-page-today-genocide-happened/ )
#politics #palestine #gaza #israel #zionism #palestinianholocaust #gazagenocide #news
#Loops has entered #beta with #ActivityPub support, allowing users to connect with creators across the #fediverse. This means users can follow and interact with creators on platforms like #Mastodon and #Pixelfed, and vice versa. Loops has implemented several technical features to ensure smooth federation, including a shared inbox, HTTP signatures, and smart content representation. https://blog.joinloops.org/loops-joins-the-fediverse/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
In 2024, lawmakers celebrated the largest investment in Idaho’s history to fix its schools. But only a handful will be able to fully address challenges to accessibility.
At least 10 districts reported in 2023 that their bathrooms, gyms and cafeterias weren’t all accessible for students with disabilities, with some unable to get their lunch or attend classes on second floors.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-schools-students-disabilities-ada-accessibility?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Idaho #Education #Accessibility #Disability #Students #School
The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
"Research outfit Five Percent has published a new white paper analysing online content published between January 2020 and May 2025. The results indicate that material created with machine learning tools initially overtook human-written content late last year."
#news #technology #TechNews #slop #AI #DeadInternet #DeadInternetTheory
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Little Bits: Issue #29 For September 2025
A fresh new issue is here overflowing with discovered little bits to explore and a message of personal reflection on the challenges of writing.
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.”
In a letter to EPA Chief Lee Zeldin, Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, cited a recent ProPublica story that quoted government scientists saying a yet-to-be-released report on the toxicity of PFNA was ready to publish in April.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-pfna-report-chellie-pingree-letter?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #USPolitics #EPA #environment
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 challenges to their arrests.
Russell 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 wants to take a hatchet to the federal government.
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.
"Don't Wanna Be Called #nazi Don't Do Nazi Sh*t"
https://www.blueamp.co/p/young-republicans-and-congressman
"These Young Rs are 'no one swiped right' in human form
And what's w 'young' for #MAGA lasting til minoxidil's a thing? Hell, they prob had their 1st #crypto scams a decade+ ago" #news #politics #fascist #tech #media #press ##youngrepublicans #trump #ai #donaldtrump #eu #tv
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.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-287g-maricopa-county-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Arizona #ICE #Police #Immigration #Discrimination #CivilRights
Democrats in the House and Senate announced plans for a wide-ranging investigation into immigration agents’ detention of citizens after a ProPublica story found that more than 170 Americans have been held by immigration officials this year.
Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.
#News #Oklahoma #Trump #Education #Teaching #School #GOP #Project2025
Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You.
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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 that could make them ineffective or unsafe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-hides-drug-names-contaminated-factories?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #USPolitics #Government #DHS #Immigration #ICE #Trump #Texas