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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 33m
We updated this story after seeing that the government took down the mortality reports. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social has the files. Read the documents ICE doesn't want you to see in her story here: buff.ly/yYeaoFI
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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 7h
The mortality reviews document immigrants’ rapidly deteriorating health as they endure symptoms of conditions that are otherwise treatable. prospect.org?p=145558
Demonstrators place flowers outside the Adelanto Ice Processing Center
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 7h
All told, at least five million people already lost health insurance in the first six months of 2026. prospect.org?p=145518
Demonstrators holding "Medicare for All" signs
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 8h
We are crying out for an overhaul of our entire financial system. There are few ways to make that easier than by taking the Silicon Valley oligarch class down a peg or three. prospect.org?p=145569
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell is shown projected onscreen in Times Square
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 19h
It may sound logical that the NCAA, like professional sports leagues, should be able to set its own rules. But the reason that the NFL and NBA can do so is that they collectively bargain with their players. buff.ly/Ja7ugt4
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Union Busting Comes to Campus - The American Prospect
The Senate-passed Protect College Sports Act is really an anti-labor bill meant to restore the NCAA cartel at the expense of the athletes.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 20h
What Troy Jackson has is a gruff, sometimes endearing authenticity, which energizes volunteers. He is a pure Mainer. Taking that away from him, as Chuck Schumer’s out-of-state transplants seem to be doing, isn’t exactly smart. buff.ly/WKXoN3p
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Chuck Schumer Neuters Troy Jackson - The American Prospect
Can the populist Maine Democratic Senate nominee take back his own campaign?
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 22h
The Protect College Sports Act grants the NCAA a limited antitrust exemption so it can avoid the parade of lawsuits that finally forced it to pay the athletes who generate all the value. prospect.org?p=145551
Sen. Ted Cruz speaks during a press conference
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 29/09/2026
OpenAI models are attacking websites and taking anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company. prospect.org?p=145474
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 29/09/2026
Jackson, a flat-out populist, is not an ideal candidate. He is not a great speaker, and he does not have anything like Platner’s charisma.  prospect.org?p=145461
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 28/09/2026
Trump’s summit with China’s Xi Jinping was a perfect metaphor for the entire Trump presidency: no strategic goals or coherent plans, and a clear win for America’s main global adversary. prospect.org?p=145456
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 28/09/2026
Katie Wilson must handle a multiyear budget deficit in the hundreds of millions and keep together an increasingly fractious coalition, while overseeing meaningful “sewer socialist” reforms to housing and public transit. prospect.org?p=145341
Headshot of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 28/09/2026
There are two kinds of elections happening this November, one of them quite strange. prospect.org?p=145395
Democratic congressional candidate Angela Gonzales-Torres
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 25/09/2026
A great deal of both the stock market boom and the surprising continued GDP and job growth rests on the artificial and unsustainable stimulus of the AI bubble. prospect.org?p=145364
Protesters gather outside the New Mexico Environment Department
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 25/09/2026
The key here is that on everything that matters, Trump and Republicans in Congress are fully aligned. prospect.org?p=145293
Capitol dome overlaid White House
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 25/09/2026
The Trump administration’s election-rigging exercise isn’t quite panning out, but Missouri Republicans have tethered themselves to it just the same. prospect.org?p=145302
People opposing the congressional redistricting plan rally outside the Missouri Supreme Court
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 25/09/2026
Though marketed as relief for “mom-and-pop” lessors, private equity groups and other large institutional real estate investors have lined up hundreds of LLCs in the class action suit, demanding compensation over income they claim they lost during the eviction moratorium. prospect.org?p=145309
Starwood Capital Group company logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/09/2026
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is exerting pressure on congressional lawmakers to allow unwarranted spying to continue by presenting a false looming deadline. buff.ly/bz1Mgvn
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Trump Administration Ignores Statutory Deadline to Declassify FISA Court Opinion - The American Prospect
The director of national intelligence appears to be withholding an explosive court opinion that could give lawmakers all the more reason to meaningfully reform surveillance law.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Source request! 📣 Are you volunteering to do midterm poll watching/election observation? I'd love to hear what training you're doing! 'm on Signal at wwimbish.07 & wwimbish @ prospect dot org.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/09/2026
A Peruvian man threatened with removal to the Central African Republic is safe for now after an appeals court reiterated late Wednesday night that its decision last week overturning the Trump administration’s third-country removal policy was effective immediately. buff.ly/appn1yQ
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Judges Reject ICE’s Underhanded Attempt to Maintain Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect
An appeals court made clear deportation flights to third countries must stop immediately, but flight data showed ICE may be violating the order.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/09/2026
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/09/2026
It has been almost two weeks since the statutory deadline to declassify a potentially damningForeign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinion. prospect.org?p=145233
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton testifies during his confirmation hearing
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/09/2026
The idea is to use a deep canvass to learn what’s on the minds of working families, and then distill the results into an explicit plan of action that reflects actual worker views rather than top-down policy wonkery. prospect.org?p=145220
Troy Jackson seated with other attendees at a labor council breakfast
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/09/2026
We are witnessing the collapse of antitrust enforcement at the federal level under the second Trump administration. prospect.org?p=145231
Oracle chairman Larry Ellison speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 23/09/2026
Harris performed dismally in the 2020 primaries because she wasn’t clear about what she stood for. She suffered from the same deficits when she became the party’s accidental nominee in 2024. prospect.org?p=145214
Former Vice President Kamala Harris
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 23/09/2026
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are trying to expel at least one immigrant to a country he’s never been to, despite a federal appeals court smacking down the Trump administration’s “third-country removal program” last week, new court documents show. buff.ly/HOn9Ysd
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ICE Is Trying to Ignore Court’s Decision Striking Down Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect
Immigration officials want to send a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic within hours, court filings show.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 23/09/2026
Republicans know they're in trouble, so they are spending hard. prospect.org?p=145157
Texas Democratic congressional candidate Bobby Pulido speaks to supporters
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 23/09/2026
Rideshare giants Uber and Lyft each offer recourse for drivers facing deactivation, but drivers and their advocates across the country said that their appeals processes favor companies over drivers. prospect.org?p=145147
Uber and Lyft stickers are seen on a rideshare vehicle
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 22/09/2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has settled the challenge that he brought with 11 other state AGs to the merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. The deal to settle the suit is both improbable and outrageous. buff.ly/2rmbnaQ
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Bonta Gives Up on the Paramount Case - The American Prospect
Why would California AG Rob Bonta settle the Paramount–Warner Bros. lawsuit when he’s winning?
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 22/09/2026
In addition to the damage to the technical assistance program, the Trump administration has been systematically dismantling the Office for Civil Rights’ Equity Assistance Centers, the successors to 1960s “Desegregation Assistance Centers.” buff.ly/2U4ThuZ
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This Office Was the Best Defense Against Discrimination in Schools. Trump Destroyed It. - The American Prospect
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights once resolved issues before they became yearslong investigations.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 22/09/2026
Virtually every state can curtail the corporate domination of politics—without amending the Constitution. buff.ly/hEqxiHZ
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Can the States Stop the Corporate Domination of Our Politics? - The American Prospect
States giveth corporations the right to exist, so the states can taketh away their political spending power—or at least, Hawaii and Montana are trying.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 22/09/2026
You’d think that a country whose economy depends on oil would not attempt a war of conquest in the age of drone warfare. And you’d be wrong. buff.ly/UtAgNE0
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War Has Never Been More Irrational - The American Prospect
Yet right-wing leaders like Trump and Putin keep starting them.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 22/09/2026
Having exhausted the possibilities of “doing a good job” and “making Americans happy,” Republicans have resorted to swamping the opposition with cash in a bid to salvage what is shaping up to be a disastrous midterm election. buff.ly/xNspSlm
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Money Can’t Buy Me Votes - The American Prospect
Republicans are going to try to solve their midterm problems with money. Good luck to them.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 22/09/2026
By the time this year’s primary season was winding down, corporations had already shelled out more than half a billion dollars in support of congressional candidates. prospect.org?p=145115
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 22/09/2026
With the cost of fighting is so high, and the world’s economy so entangled, war has never been more irrational. prospect.org?p=145094
Flame and smoke is seen rising from Moscow’s oil refinery
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 22/09/2026
Decades after Jim Crow battles over legal school desegregation, students continue to encounter discrimination that interferes with their ability to learn. prospect.org?p=145105
Hands holding "Equality for all" sign
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 21/09/2026
Data centers are now the biggest issue in the Wisconsin governor’s race, and the public has turned on them faster than on anything the state’s leading pollster has measured in 15 years. buff.ly/FeunWxx
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Wisconsin GOP Candidate Is Exploiting the Data Center Backlash to Hit Solar, Wind - The American Prospect
Gubernatorial nominee Tom Tiffany flipped on data centers, outflanked his Democratic rival, and tied the issue to renewable projects he has opposed for years.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 21/09/2026
Something strange happened: A tidal wave of public backlash turned Macklemore into the undisputed victor of the PR skirmish. buff.ly/HKyvZcm
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Macklemore vs. Everybody - The American Prospect
The wokest rapper took on the NFL’s plutocratic ownership, the Israel lobby, and the Live Nation ‘flywheel’—and won.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 21/09/2026
A federal appeals court roundly rejected the Trump administration’s third-country removal policy, largely upholding a lower court’s decision that the policy was unlawful. The panel ruled that immigrants must be given more time to raise fears about removal to a third country. buff.ly/MJzx3tO
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Appeals Court Smacks Down Trump’s Third-Country Removal Policy - The American Prospect
Tens of thousands of people have been subjected to the cruel policy, but the Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’ could soon bring it back.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 21/09/2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has settled the challenge that he brought with 11 other state AGs to the merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. The deal to settle the suit is both improbable and outrageous. buff.ly/2rmbnaQ
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Bonta Gives Up on the Paramount Case - The American Prospect
Why would California AG Rob Bonta settle the Paramount–Warner Bros. lawsuit when he’s winning?
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 21/09/2026
Medicare for All is a winning policy supported by the vast majority of Democratic voters that can give the party a boost, including in battleground states, according to a new survey from Rep. Pramila Jayapal and her political action committee. buff.ly/bcq70gx
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‘Stunning’ Level of Support for Universal Health Care: Jayapal - The American Prospect
Even more people want Medicare for All than did last December, a new poll shows.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 21/09/2026
In Kansas, data centers and the fiscal pressures posed by the Kansas City Chiefs stadium deal raised voters’ collective blood pressure in the governor’s race between the two candidates, who are both state senators: Democrat Cindy Holscher and MAGA Republican Ty Masterson. buff.ly/3HW5gOe
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The Brownback Brushback in Kansas - The American Prospect
Data centers and a stadium deal have set the table for a contentious governor’s race in Kansas, a state that has yet to recover fully from its disastrous mid-aughts tax-cutting “experiment.”
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 21/09/2026
The $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. will give the Ellison family control of two of America’s biggest media companies. prospect.org?p=145077
Paramount logo displayed on a laptop screen and Warner Bros logo displayed on a phone screen
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 21/09/2026
In Kansas, data centers and the fiscal pressures posed by the Kansas City Chiefs stadium deal raised voters’ collective blood pressure in the governor’s race between the two candidates, who are both state senators. prospect.org?p=145040
A group of people hold a Kansas City Chiefs jersey, with the Kansas State Capitol in background.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 21/09/2026
Not only do 94 percent of Democratic voters support a universal public health insurance program, but so do a majority of moderate and independent voters.​ prospect.org?p=145030
Person attending a political rally holds up sign reading "Medicare for all"
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 21/09/2026
In January, Rep. Tom Tiffany called data centers “exciting new technology” and voted for a federal bill to speed their construction. By May, as he was running for governor of Wisconsin, he was promising to repeal the state tax breaks that lure them. prospect.org?p=145035
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany talks to supporters
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 19/09/2026
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 19/09/2026
The chain of events that led to the rapper Macklemore’s ejection from a concert tour for the sin of proclaiming “Free Palestine” before a screaming football stadium unfolded in trite and predictable fashion. prospect.org?p=144975
Macklemore performs
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 18/09/2026
Mark Carney’s trip to Brussels and speech to the European Parliament was purely performative. The press ate it up, and Trump took the bait. prospect.org?p=144938
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney next to the symbol of the EU
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 18/09/2026
It wasn’t so long ago that when a scary new technology burst onto the scene and raiseduncomfortable new social questions, lawmakers knew just what to do: call their in-house techthink tank to get some perspective. prospect.org?p=144899
Composite photo collage of thoughtful man instead head computer monitor screen think business strategy isolated on painted background
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 18/09/2026
If Donald Trump were some Hiroo Onoda–style holdout from the old Soviet Union, carrying out a decades-long communist plot to destroy America, it’s hard to imagine what he’d be doing differently from what he’s doing every day. prospect.org?p=144887
President Donald Trump speaks at a rally
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