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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5h

very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 12h

Once they wanted to dismantle the Dept of Education.

Now these activists want to use it for their own goals.

One of those? Eliminating public schooling.

@megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/educ...

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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 12h

“I'm optimistic that, you know, five years from now a majority of kids are going to be in a private school choice program.” www.propublica.org/article/educ...

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

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 publ...

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 2d

Early last year, Seattle signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space for homeless people. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there. @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social @kuow.org

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.

Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

Red line. Orange line. Tips line.

#ICYMI, you can now catch ProPublica’s tips line on the DC metro 🚆

Federal workers and contractors: We want to hear from you. You can reach us at https://propublica.org/tips or 917-512-0201 on Signal.

Interior of a WMATA train. Near the exit doors, above the blue accessible seats is a ProPublica ad that reads "Someone on this train has the next big story. Is it you? Signal: 917-512-0201. propublica.org/tips." The poster's illustration features a Black woman wearing business attire, standing while holding on to a guardrail. Next to her is a seated white man in a button-down shirt. He wears his backpack and is looking down intently at his phone.

Close-up of a D.C. metro ad. Tagline reads: "There are thousands of federal staffers with stories to tell. Share yours. Signal: 917-512-0201. propublica.org/tips." Background illustration shows a man in a dark suit standing on an escalator that's heading out of the metro station, holding his phone out as he looks back.

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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 5d

“When they were separated at the U.S. Border, nobody had enough food; Dimitry told me that the men in his cell knew their kids were hungry because the guards would sometimes move the small children to a cell opposite their fathers so that the fathers could hear them cry.” nymag.com/intelligence...

Why Did DHS Send a Russian Exile to Costa Rica?

How Trump’s third-country removal strategy forced an asylum-seeking family to start over — in Monteverde.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 6d

Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power.

We should all be outraged.

freedom.press/issues/mario...

Quote card from FPF Advocacy Director Seth Stern

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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 5d

“ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture of each planned delivery in 2025, detailing the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached hungry people because of the administration’s cut.” projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

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 cut...

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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 6d

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

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 importan...

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 8d

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8d

NEW: 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.

The Trump-Appointed Diplomat Accused of Shielding El Salvador’s President From Law Enforcement

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 enforc...

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WIRED @wired.com · 15d

Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress. www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...

She Fought the Far Right Online for Years. Now She Wants to Do It in Congress

Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress.

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WIRED @wired.com · 16d

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley?

In our new politics issue, we're getting into it.

Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

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WIRED @wired.com · Sep 3

Surrogate pregnancies are increasingly popular in tech circles, and the practice is expected to explode globally in the coming decade. It’s also shockingly unregulated. This is a story about what happens when it goes horribly wrong.

The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?

When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Sep 2

Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted.

One officer who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter now has a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast.

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”

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 “mini...

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Micah @rincewind.run · Aug 30

multiple gutting top 10 losses and a new meme? college football has never been more back

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · Aug 30

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · Aug 29

Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.

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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · Aug 29

Filed under this *really* happened: Following a week of strife at the disaster relief agency, Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem told FEMA employees to "be vocal" about their positive experiences with the Trump administration.

@mollytaft.com on the chaos at FEMA:

FEMA's Chaotic Summer Has Gone From Bad to Worse

Following a week of strife at the disaster relief agency, Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem told FEMA employees to "be vocal" about their positive experiences with the Trump administration.

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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · Aug 29

"As the nation heads into the most intense months of the Atlantic hurricane season, employees worry that the agency is not prepared to face another catastrophe." New from @mollytaft.com www.wired.com/story/fema-f...

FEMA’s Chaotic Summer Has Gone From Bad to Worse

Following a week of strife at the disaster relief agency, Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem told FEMA employees to “be vocal” about their positive experiences with the Trump administration.

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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · Aug 29

EVs, solar panels, and now, brain-computer interfaces. In a new policy document, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in the same brain technology that Elon Musk's Neuralink is building. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/china-...

China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry

A new policy document outlines China’s plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years, and proposes developing devices for both health and consumer uses.

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Zoë Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social · Aug 29

We obtained emails that appear to show the White House ordered government officials to put Grok back on the list of approved vendors “ASAP” www.wired.com/story/white-...

The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok 'ASAP'

A partnership between Elon Musk's xAI and the US government fell apart earlier this summer after Grok praised Hitler. Then the White House apparently got involved, per documents obtained by WIRED.

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WIRED @wired.com · Aug 29

NEW: The White House appears to have instructed leaders at the General Services Administration (GSA) to add xAI’s Grok chatbot to a list of approved vendors “ASAP,” according to an email sent by agency leadership earlier this week, which WIRED obtained.

The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok 'ASAP'

A partnership between Elon Musk's xAI and the US government fell apart earlier this summer after Grok praised Hitler. Then the White House apparently got involved, per documents obtained by WIRED.

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · Aug 29

SCOOP: DOGE ops join Airbnb cofounder + DOGE member Joe Gebbia’s new National Design Studio.

Gebbia was possibly going to join USDS, but now he has his own office and is bringing DOGE folks from the General Services Administration along with him.

www.wired.com/story/doge-o...

DOGE Operatives Are Joining Donald Trump’s New National Design Studio

Many proposed NDS projects were already in the works from federal workers who were let go earlier this year. Now, DOGE is getting involved.

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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you for highlighting! we note their statement in the story.

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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · Aug 28

the online knitting community is not happy right now, i can tell you that!

404 Media @404media.co · Aug 28

The Trump administration is making buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas far more complicated, slow, and expensive.

🔗 www.404media.co/trump-tariff...

Trump Tariffs Cause Chaos on Ebay as Every Hobby Becomes Logistical Minefield

Buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas just became far more complicated, slow, and expensive.

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