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Amy Qin

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data reporter at @us.theguardian.com covering the trump admin's deleting/altering of public information and data previously in your ears at @wbez.org

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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 17h
Interestingly, it looks like ICE posted today a detainee death report and review for a man who died in detention in March 2024
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 17h
theintercept.com/2026/09/30/i... via @tanvi.bsky.social
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ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of ill detainees.
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The next in @us.theguardian.com's series on Ice this summer. Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 29/09/2026
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke yesterday at a MAHA Institute event. As many as 26 people (including me) tuned in. He detailed exactly how US health agencies are gathering data to try to link vaccination to autism, for instance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
RFK Jr outlines expansive vision for collecting US health data at Maha event
Health secretary calls for medical and lifestyle details to be sent to doctors and AI to address ‘chronic disease epidemic’
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
new: federal authorities tapped into a network of flock license plate readers and surveillance cameras owned by chicagoland police during their failed attempts to prosecute marimar martinez and anthony ruiz for following immigration agents last october.
chicagoreader.com
Feds tapped local surveillance networks in botched Chicago prosecutions - Chicago Reader
During their failed efforts to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz, federal authorities accessed a network of Chicagoland license plate readers and surveillance cameras.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵
Federal agents line up in front of community members at the scene where federal agents fatally shot a man while trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2026.

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Grace Hauck @gracehauck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🧵Those pepperball guns you've seen ICE agents firing in the Chicago area? They're also used inside Illinois county jails. An @illinoisanswers.bsky.social investigation found that Winnebago County Jail stands out for the most incidents — and a concerning pattern.
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Winnebago County guards fire pepperballs more than any other Illinois jail — often on people with mental illnesses
Use of pepperball guns in Illinois jails is not the norm. Of the 90 jails, 11 reported using them in recent years, and 9 others have them on hand. But one, the state’s second-largest county jail, stan...
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"After its run in cinemas, the film will stream on the Guardian’s website, for free, as part of the news organisation’s commitment to the dissemination of independent journalism."
theguardian.com
Global release announced for acclaimed Gaza documentary NAZA
Theatrical rollout across 56 territories planned for documentary about Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza before film will stream on Guardian website
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 25/09/2026
The Supreme Court said the Trump administration could deploy a federal immigration database to check voters’ citizenship on.wsj.com/4hoUXWr
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The Supreme Court said the Trump administration could deploy a federal immigration database to check voters’ citizenship
Supreme Court Says Trump Officials Can Use Immigration Database for Voter Checks
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Trump administration gutted data collection on US education as reading and math scores plummet. Advocates say it's akin to "just shooting the messenger" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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US math and reading test scores are at a 25-year low. Trump cut the agency that can provide answers
National Center for Education Statistics, which collects critical data to guide policy on learning, was decimated after Doge canceled crucial contracts
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this excellent roundup is just the latest example of consistently stellar public service journalism @boltsmag.org has been doing - be informed and read Bolts Mag
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows DHS to use its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database with Social Security info, staying a district court order that had vacated the new policy. Justice Jackson dissents for the three Dem appointees. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 23/09/2026
More than 450,000 people are projected to die from the additional heat brought by the super El Niño by February 2027, according to estimates by climate scientists.
A global map of projected additional heat deaths linked to the Super El Niño between September 2026 and February 2027, compared to 1996-2025.

The largest casualties are listed as Nigeria (31,320 deaths), Indonesia (19,251 deaths), Sudan (17,430 deaths), India (15,670 deaths) and Brazil (13,271 deaths)
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
People are hiding at home, afraid to go outside and encounter ICE. They're struggling to find food and holding kids out of school, as friends and family are disappeared in bunches. This is now the reality of daily life across the U.S., and I took a snapshot of what it looks like in one community:
boltsmag.org
“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“He asked the agents if he could stop somewhere safer than in traffic under the freeway. He said an agent told him no, then he felt one shot to his back.”
texastribune.org
Migrant shot by ICE in Texas said he tried to pull over
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez legally entered the country in 2024 via the CBP One app and applied for asylum, his attorneys said. But he missed a court hearing after the notice went to the wrong address.
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding thousands of detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relatives to find them. apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Have to think this is the admin's counter to the surge in habeas petitions. apnews.com/article/ice-...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding thousands of detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relatives to find them, according to current and former officials familiar with the practice.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead. - 25,000 people deported - $410 million spent. - UN aid used to sweeten the deals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One (or all) of the following is happening: - ICE is intentionally conducting insultingly bad FOIA searches to screw requesters out of records about the agency's use of force. - It is failing to create records, or improperly destroying the ones it generates. All scenarios are unlawful.
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ICE Says It Can't Find Its Own Records Of Teargassing And Arresting Broadview Protesters
ICE's own rules require reports every time an agent uses force. But the agency says it can't find any from its attacks on protesters on Sept. 19, 2025.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Trump admin is currently preparing temporary signs that will accuse the National Museum of American History of ideological bias. The National Park Service is planning to add about a dozen signs outside the museum at an estimated cost of $84,000, according to a letter from the Interior Sec'y.
theatlantic.com
The Next Change Trump Has Planned for the Smithsonian
A letter from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed new details about warning signs the White House will install near the American-history museum.
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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hundreds of people died in county jails across the state in recent years. After @illinoisanswers.bsky.social reporters found that dozens of these people weren’t counted by the state agency responsible for tracking in-custody deaths, the agency said it would audit and update its data.
illinoisanswers.org
Dozens of deaths in Illinois jails missing from state records
An Illinois Answers Project analysis revealed that 63 people who died in jails were missing from state data on in-custody fatalities. Now the state is auditing its records.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
19thnews.org
Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Carla Astudillo @carla-astudi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Since I joined ProPublica in January, I have been tracking the massive surge in petitions by immigrants to contest their detention. When I looked closer at the data, I found HUGE disparities in the time it takes certain judges to resolve these cases. THREAD ⬇️ www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Park visitors submitted more than 35,000 comments between June 2025 and January 2026...more than half expressed support for the parks or opposition to the administration’s censorship campaign. My colleague Flávio Pessoa's on what people actually said: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
Trump asked Americans to help him whitewash national parks. They revolted instead
The DOI placed QR codes in national parks, inviting visitors to report content deemed ‘negative about either past or living Americans’. Instead, it became a mode of resistance
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: A deal has been reached that will allow Chicago’s parking meters to be sold to a New York-based investment firm, which has agreed to sell an airline that has been carrying out deportations for the Trump administration, 5 Chicago City Council members announced Tuesday. @wttw.bsky.social
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Deal Reached to Sell Chicago Parking Meters to Investment Firm, Alderpeople Say
The deal requires Stonepeak to sell Omni Air International, which has a contract with the Trump administration to carry out deportations, according to the City Council members.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lumpen radio is having a radio segment with community organizers from Bridgeport and Chinatown speaking about Amtrak’s proposed maintenance facility. Regardless of your stance, it’s important to hear what local organizers and residents are saying. More info on lumpen radio social media.
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LUMPEN RADIO SPECIAL

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DON'T GET
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SEPTEMBER 16TH, 2026 • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST

STOP AMTRAK! DON'T GET RAILROADEDlumpenradio 🚨 Lumpen Radio Special: STOP AMTRAK!
DON’T GET RAILROADED

📅 Wednesday, September 16th
⏰ 12:00PM - 1:00PM (Re-airs 4:00PM)

In this Lumpen Radio Special, host Cynthia Salgado
speaks with community organizers: Sarah Tang (CBCAC
Director of Programs), Hannah Dembosky (Bridgeport
Environmentalists), Mary Lou Lopez (Bridgeport
Alliance).

They represent three of the many organizations and
residents across Bridgeport, Chinatown and Armour
Square who are raising their voices over Amtrak’s
proposed 24/7 maintenance facility.

Tune in to hear why residents are organizing, what an
active rail yard could mean for families who call these
neighborhoods home, and what questions remain about
pollution, noise, traffic, air quality and meaningful
community involvement.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Kennedy Center board votes to close over financial woes, Trump branding dispute, AP sources say.
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: ICE is arresting and detaining a record number of pregnant women and teens. At the same time, it has lost count of how many had miscarriages, according to a Guardian review of internal ICE documents. w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa
theguardian.com
Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/09/2026
ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers, according to government documents obtained by the Guardian. At the same time, the agency appears to have lost count of how many suffered a miscarriage. 🧵
Two charts side by side. The first shows the number of pregnant people in ICE detention, which peaks in November 2025. The second shows the number of miscarriages recorded by ICE, until October 2025, when ICE said it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages.
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Records obtained through a FOIA lawsuit shows that despite record number of pregnant women are in detention, ICE has lost count of the number of miscarriages. A Deleted Data/Immigration/Guardian investigations collab
theguardian.com
Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 14/09/2026
Btw, I've added 2 new columns to the state-by-state breakdown of active agreements + agencies on the report home page to provide context on the total # of local/county/state law enforcement agencies in each state (from the DOJ's 2018 LEA census). www.tituslegaldesign.com/immigration-...
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ICE 287(g) Program Tracker
Interactive map and data visualization tool tracking local law enforcement partnerships with ICE under the 287(g) program. Understand how immigration enforcement operates in your community.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW: The first deportation of the constitutionally suspect Alien Terrorist Removal Court happened weeks ago, following a secret plea deal. DOJ told the public about the deportation on 9/11 — a choice that tells us much about where 9/11 took the U.S. and where we are now. Today, at Law Dork:
lawdork.com
The first deportation of the constitutionally suspect Alien Terrorist Removal Court happened weeks ago, following a secret plea deal
DOJ told the public about the deportation weeks later, on September 11 — a choice that tells us much about where 9/11 took the United States and where we are now.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
houstonchronicle.com
Texas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midterms
Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 09/09/2026
Chicago-area members of Congress have asked DHS's Inspector General to investigate a "severe pattern of incidents of excessive force" by ICE and CBP agents. The letter heavily cites our recent report on an increasingly violent group of agents we tracked across Chicago, Minnesota, and Virginia.
documentcloud.org
ramirez-letter-illinois-accountability-commission-findings
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
BREAKING: Trump admin proposes major #2030Census changes that would reshape voting maps, including no race & ethnicity questions and excluding non-U.S. citizens without a green card from a count that 14th Amendment says must include “whole number of persons in each state” www.npr.org/2026/09/09/n...
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Trump officials propose sweeping changes to the census that would reshape voting maps
A Trump census proposal would stop asking about race and exclude millions of U.S. residents from a count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is planning to stop collecting data on the race and gender of workers because it promotes DEI and discrimination against white men. Experts say its part of a bigger pattern to "weaponize our civil rights agencies" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete it
Enforcing civil rights without these reports will be difficult for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, pushing US agency closer to Trump’s agenda, experts warn
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a new webpage that will help carry out President Donald Trump’s plans to create a national voter registry and shape who can vote in the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DHS posts ‘Citizenship Lists Portal’ to advance Trump’s anti-voting order
It’s the latest sign that the federal government is hurtling forward with Trump’s anti-voting executive order.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
NEW: Today is Day 3 of the Census Bureau's homepage, census.gov, featuring an unauthored report with analysis that @npr.org found was conducted not by career civil servants, but a team that included individuals affiliated with a President Trump-aligned think tank, the America First Policy Institute
npr.org
Experts raise alarms over Census Bureau report Trump is touting on noncitizen voting
A Trump-aligned think tank has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020, NPR has learned.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 19/08/2026
60 yrs ago, sex workers, drag queens and street youth held a landmark riot against police in SF's Tenderloin—the world's 1st Trans District now that space is held by Geo Group. trans people are still arrested at SF Pride—over tagging Flock cams. the trans fight against police in '66 and today:
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The fight to protect a trans landmark in California from ICE’s biggest contractor
Compton’s Cafe is one of the earliest examples of LGBTQ+ resistance. Today, a prison company occupies the site
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NEW: Over the past year and a half, the Trump admin has deleted at least 28 federal datasets and modified another 338 data collections, according to a new tracker from dataindex.us www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Bar chart of most common topics of federal data deleted or altered during Trump's second term with health at 158
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
aiddata.org
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:
nature.com
NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy
US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Meet the army of amateur archivists racing to save US history in national parks
Save Our Signs aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the Trump administration removes them
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
EDGI found “communities of color disproportionately live w/in 1 mile of EPA-regulated data centers & are exposed to levels of nitrogen dioxide & particulate matter above the national median. Those findings suggest that data centers are deepening broader patterns of inequality.” tinyurl.com/48eds4an
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Building at the Speed of AI:  Data Centers, Expedited Permitting, and Who Bears the Burden Harvard Law Review
“xAI is scaling at an immeasurable pace—we are building our third massive data center in the greater Memphis area…. This is insane execution speed by...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 07/08/2026
Last year, the Trump administration launched a sweeping campaign to censor American history and science in the National Park Service. A crowdsourced project aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the government removes them 🧵
A map of the US that shows over 400 national parks in monuments where Save Our Signs volunteers have taken 17,000 photos.

The parks with the most photo submissions are:
1) Independence national historical park in Pennsylvania (887 photos)
2) Harpers Ferry national historical park in West Virginia (553 photos)
3) Valley Forge national historical park in Pennsylvania (511 photos)
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This was entirely predictable: “ICE will promptly release video of shootings and other encounters in which its agents cause death or serious injury only after determining “it is in the best interests of the agency” to do so.”
chicagotribune.com
ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency’s policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public.
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A crowdsourced digital archive has empowered hundreds of national park visitors to become archivists of their own government as the Trump admin continues to take down park signage about slavery, Indigenous history and climate change. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
The amateur archivists racing to save US history in national parks against Trump administration censorship
Save Our Signs aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the Trump administration removes them
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