Iceland's minister for the Environment mandates gender neutral toilets
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WATCH: When Angela Sequera learned that her son had been transferred from an El Paso immigration facility to Guantanamo, she panicked. Her son wasn’t a terrorist.
“It hit me like a bucket of cold water.”
ProPublica and Documented identified 25 employers that, despite histories of wage theft, have received contracts worth more than a collective $500 million from city and state agencies since 2018.
(Published July 2024)
https://propub.li/40ep0sJ
Trump Has Promised to Build More Ships. He May Deport the Workers Who Help Make Them.
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President-elect Donald Trump has promised to increase the pace of U.S. military shipbuilding. But his pledge to also clamp down on immigration could make it hard for shipyards already facing workforce shortages.
#News #Trump #Government #Military #Navy #Immigration #Labor #DonaldTrump
Man who died in Cybertruck explosion outside Trump hotel in Vegas was shot, sheriff says
#accident #military #politics #automobile #LasVegas #News #World
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/tesla-cybertruck-trump-hotel-explosion-1.7421747?cmp=rss
Exeter, one of the largest auto lenders in the U.S. and a CarMax partner, specializes in high-interest subprime loans.
“We’re here to help,” reads its website. In reality, Exeter’s practices often do the opposite.
(Published Sept. 2024)
https://propub.li/4h0hZBd
"After a wave of coverage in outlets like Rolling Stone and posts circulating on social media, the bot accounts are just now being noticed, and the reaction is confusion, frustration, and anger."
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/24334946/meta-ai-profiles-instagram-facebook-bots
#news #TechNews #technology #AI #ChatBots #meta #facebook #instagram
The Mount Vernon News was family owned from 1939 until it was sold in 2020 to a “pink slime” media company with ties to conservative billionaires. Then it began publishing one-sided articles that make dubious claims about solar power.
(Published Oct. 2024)
https://propub.li/3CY5WFR
#News #Oil #Gas #FossilFuels #Solar #Energy #Billionaires #Journalism
Louisiana’s governor eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those arrested before.
Then he tossed those rules aside for one group: undocumented immigrants. Why? To have them deported.
https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-parole-deportation-jeff-landry-operation-geaux?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Louisiana #Immigration #ICE #Prison #Immigrants #CriminalJustice
Defending Texas sovereignty has been central to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s political identity.
Yet he has helped President Donald Trump erode states’ authority over elections, policing and deploying the National Guard.
https://www.propublica.org/article/greg-abbott-donald-trump-presidential-power-state-rights?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #USPolitics #GregAbbott #Trump #NationalGuard #Election #Law
The world is drowning in plastic.
Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic.
Don't be fooled.
(Published June 2024)
https://propub.li/4eYp8RR
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Nike Repeatedly Raised Concerns About Repression in Cambodia. It Expanded Its Factory Workforce There Anyway.
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Nike’s continued growth in Cambodia underscores the level of political and labor repression the company has been willing to tolerate in countries that provide inexpensive labor.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-employment-cambodia-labor-rights?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Nike #Cambodia #Labor #Factory #Business #LaborRights
Industry documents obtained by ProPublica reveal how NW Natural, Oregon’s largest natural gas company, pursued an approach that ended up perpetuating its core fossil fuel business while the company painted a picture of going green.
(Published Sept. 2024)
https://propub.li/3PlzCQ7
#News #Environment #Energy #Green #CleanEnergy #FossilFuels #Oil #Gas
Not a real #NewstodonFriday post from us this week because we're still getting back up to speed after the holidays (yes, we're relaxed, no, we don't expect it to last!). Instead, here's a list of independent publishers we love and that have an active presence in the fediverse. Please follow, boost, donate and support however you can. Below the list is our spreadsheet of federated Flipboard accounts, all of which are followable here.
@bolts
@damemagazine
@gbhnews
@KnowableMag
@ProPublica
@restofworld
@SFPublicPress
@TexasObserver
@thecontinent
@TheConversationUS
@themarkup
@thetyee
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The Indian midwives who stopped murdering girls and started saving them
A Tennessee School Expelled a 12-Year-Old for a Social Post. Experts Say It Didn’t Properly Assess if He Made a Threat.
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The way school officials handled his case also exposes glaring contradictions in two recent state laws that aim to criminalize school threats and require schools to expel students who make them — with minimal transparency or accountability.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threat-assessment-expulsion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Tennessee #School #Students #SocialMedia #Education #Parents
Connecticut allows towing companies to sell some people’s cars after just 15 days — one of the shortest windows in the country.
The sales have particularly affected low-income people, who have lost jobs after they were unable to get their cars back.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
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Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detentions-immigrant-kids-family-separations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Immigration #Children #Family #Trump #USPolitics
In two months, will Ghislaine Maxwell be dead or pardoned and tight-lipped?
The House panel issued the subpoena requesting a meeting with Maxwell at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee on Aug. 11, committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., announced.
The subpoena comes just one day after the committee voted in favor of the subpoena despite calls from Trump to drop the story
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/07/23/republicans-subpoena-maxwell-without-trust/
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A Teacher Dragged a 6-Year-Old With Autism by His Ankle. Federal Civil Rights Officials Might Not Do Anything.
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The Garrison School is part of a special education district that had students arrested at the highest rate in the country. It had pledged to change how it disciplines kids after a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation and subsequent federal probe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/garrison-school-illinois-autistic-student-dragged-ankle?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Illinois #Autism #Disability #Students #School #Education #CivilRights
Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
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The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-strategy-group-senate-probe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
A Chattanooga public charter school has agreed to pay the family of an 11-year-old boy $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit claiming that it wrongfully reported the student to police for an alleged threat of mass violence.
#News #Tennessee #School #Education #Students #Violence #Law #Police
The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy
The #Trump administration is using the claim that #immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process.
A faction of the far right has been building this case for years.
#Immigration #News #Law #HumanRights #government
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-immigration-invasion-rhetoric-courts