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Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.
Education Department employees' emails automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown
Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.
www.nbcwashington.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.
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I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls
Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...
people.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
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“I did not include my brother being picked up by ICE in my whole entire business plan."
He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation.
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.
www.motherjones.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“I did not include my brother being picked up by ICE in my whole entire business plan."
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I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.
Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...
There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp
Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.
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“This is madness. We are running out of words to describe it. And the people of Gaza are running out of time,” says Chris Hayes on the dire aid situation amid Israel’s war on Gaza.
‘Madness’: Hayes says ‘the people of Gaza are running out of time’
YouTube video by MSNBC
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July 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
“This is madness. We are running out of words to describe it. And the people of Gaza are running out of time,” says Chris Hayes on the dire aid situation amid Israel’s war on Gaza.
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What kind of person grows up to be an ICE agent?
To understand the appeal, it helps to look at our culture's "boys will be boys" excuse for bad behavior—playground taunts and racist "jokes"—with ICE's plainclothes goon aesthetic as cover.
"The guys who roam around America's dead malls."
To understand the appeal, it helps to look at our culture's "boys will be boys" excuse for bad behavior—playground taunts and racist "jokes"—with ICE's plainclothes goon aesthetic as cover.
"The guys who roam around America's dead malls."
The plainclothes goon squad
The aesthetics of ICE—puff-chested and average bro—do more than shroud Trump’s immigration cops in secrecy.
www.motherjones.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
What kind of person grows up to be an ICE agent?
To understand the appeal, it helps to look at our culture's "boys will be boys" excuse for bad behavior—playground taunts and racist "jokes"—with ICE's plainclothes goon aesthetic as cover.
"The guys who roam around America's dead malls."
To understand the appeal, it helps to look at our culture's "boys will be boys" excuse for bad behavior—playground taunts and racist "jokes"—with ICE's plainclothes goon aesthetic as cover.
"The guys who roam around America's dead malls."
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Los Angeles Unified School District
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
June 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Los Angeles Unified School District
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
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An Australian journalist was struck by police with a rubber bullet while reporting live during the protests in L.A.
June 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
An Australian journalist was struck by police with a rubber bullet while reporting live during the protests in L.A.
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Snatched, shackled, and shipped off to a Salvadoran prison, Marylander Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an immigrant with no criminal record, was deported in what the Trump White House is calling an ‘error.’ Our full statement on this miscarriage of justice: raskin.house.gov/2025/4/raski...
Raskin, Colleagues Statement on Maryland Immigrant Deported in ‘Error’ by Trump White House
raskin.house.gov
April 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Snatched, shackled, and shipped off to a Salvadoran prison, Marylander Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an immigrant with no criminal record, was deported in what the Trump White House is calling an ‘error.’ Our full statement on this miscarriage of justice: raskin.house.gov/2025/4/raski...
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SMITHSONIAN EXEC ORDER: President Trump signed an executive order targeting funds for programs with “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
Trump order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with ‘improper ideology'
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.” Trump say...
www.nbcwashington.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
SMITHSONIAN EXEC ORDER: President Trump signed an executive order targeting funds for programs with “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
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Use NEA's state-by-state, program-by-program guide to identify the local impact of programs that may be cut and how they may impact students, families, and educators in your state and community. www.nea.org/resource-lib...
March 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Use NEA's state-by-state, program-by-program guide to identify the local impact of programs that may be cut and how they may impact students, families, and educators in your state and community. www.nea.org/resource-lib...
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New on the Blog: Returning Education Entirely to the States is a Dangerous Proposition. Dismantling the Department of Education and returning education to the states will put all U.S. students at risk. Read the full blog: edtru.st/4bJd8mI #educationnews #educationpolicy
Why Returning Education Entirely to the States is a Dangerous Proposition
Dismantling the Department of Education and returning education to the states will put all students in the U.S. at risk
edtru.st
March 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
New on the Blog: Returning Education Entirely to the States is a Dangerous Proposition. Dismantling the Department of Education and returning education to the states will put all U.S. students at risk. Read the full blog: edtru.st/4bJd8mI #educationnews #educationpolicy
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“I have never heard of anything like this happening, and any other lawyer that I talked to is also, I mean, the reaction is just one of shock, because this really is just a flagrantly ignoring the law.”
Wife of man deported from Maryland says he has protected status, isn't in a gang
29-year-old man sent to El Salvador under Alien Enemies Act A man was deported from Maryland under the Alien Enemies Act — a 1798 law invoked by President Donald Trump — according to his wife, but she...
www.nbcwashington.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
“I have never heard of anything like this happening, and any other lawyer that I talked to is also, I mean, the reaction is just one of shock, because this really is just a flagrantly ignoring the law.”
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Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."
March 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."
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At least 9,000 people have been forcefully evicted from a riverside community in Nigeria's most populous city, Lagos. Like many waterfront communities across the city, it has faced multiple threats and been targeted by luxury real estate developers.
A Lagos community, destroyed in one day
At least 9,000 people have been forcefully evicted from a riverside community in Nigeria's most populous city, Lagos. Like many waterfront communities across the city, it has faced multiple threats an...
www.npr.org
March 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
At least 9,000 people have been forcefully evicted from a riverside community in Nigeria's most populous city, Lagos. Like many waterfront communities across the city, it has faced multiple threats and been targeted by luxury real estate developers.
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Kaine: "You can talk about sending education back to the states. Yeah, that's where we were before Brown v. Board of Education. The states got to decide, and the states made a hell of a lot of decisions that were really awful."
March 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Kaine: "You can talk about sending education back to the states. Yeah, that's where we were before Brown v. Board of Education. The states got to decide, and the states made a hell of a lot of decisions that were really awful."
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"With the dismantling of these programs, we are witnessing a surge in discrimination toward people with disabilities." www.additudemag.com/what-does-de...
"Disability Is DEI."
"DEI programs and initiatives designed to encourage diversity and promote fairness in education and in the workforce benefit people with disabilities, including ADHD… The full impact of this administr...
www.additudemag.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"With the dismantling of these programs, we are witnessing a surge in discrimination toward people with disabilities." www.additudemag.com/what-does-de...
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We know that students deserve fully funded public schools. But Trump's DOGE just cut 89 education contracts worth nearly $1 billion, wiping out research and support programs for students with disabilities, literacy initiatives, and more.
Read how these cuts hurt students:
Read how these cuts hurt students:
A teen with autism and his mom were getting help planning for college. Then came DOGE.
A federally funded research program helped students with disabilities prepare for life after high school. DOGE’s sweeping Education Department cuts brought this and dozens of other studies to an…
buff.ly
March 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We know that students deserve fully funded public schools. But Trump's DOGE just cut 89 education contracts worth nearly $1 billion, wiping out research and support programs for students with disabilities, literacy initiatives, and more.
Read how these cuts hurt students:
Read how these cuts hurt students:
Incredibly well done and unfortunately incredibly accurate. Our educators and families need support.
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How Department of Education cuts could hurt resources for students with disabilities
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
February 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Incredibly well done and unfortunately incredibly accurate. Our educators and families need support.
youtu.be/VPknWn3mMDo?...
youtu.be/VPknWn3mMDo?...
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CN: murder, police violence, slavery
"Though this nation likes to think of its treatment and acceptance of people with disabilities as ahead of the curve, it is clear that ableism and racism, among other prejudices, leave legacies that must be addressed."
"Though this nation likes to think of its treatment and acceptance of people with disabilities as ahead of the curve, it is clear that ableism and racism, among other prejudices, leave legacies that must be addressed."
Understanding the Policing of Black, Disabled Bodies
Current data collection on state violence does not paint a picture that is inclusive of victims with disabilities.
www.americanprogress.org
February 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
CN: murder, police violence, slavery
"Though this nation likes to think of its treatment and acceptance of people with disabilities as ahead of the curve, it is clear that ableism and racism, among other prejudices, leave legacies that must be addressed."
"Though this nation likes to think of its treatment and acceptance of people with disabilities as ahead of the curve, it is clear that ableism and racism, among other prejudices, leave legacies that must be addressed."