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Mama. Laborer. Food Grower. Recovering Academic. Curious Human.
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NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2026 at 11:46 AM
NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
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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
w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa
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...
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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
w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa
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September 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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it’s really fucked up that the only way out is through
September 1, 2026 at 11:08 PM
it’s really fucked up that the only way out is through
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BREAKING: We sued the Pentagon to STOP the firing of 3 Stars & Stripes journalists for defending their paper's independence
The firings came a day after reporting on USS Abraham Lincoln
@democracydefendersfund.org @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social @govacctproj.bsky.social & MFIA clinic are on it👇 -TN
The firings came a day after reporting on USS Abraham Lincoln
@democracydefendersfund.org @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social @govacctproj.bsky.social & MFIA clinic are on it👇 -TN
Fired Journalists From Stars and Stripes Sue Pentagon
Three journalists dismissed from Stars and Stripes accused the government of violating their First Amendment rights, asking the courts to stop their termination.
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2026 at 9:29 PM
BREAKING: We sued the Pentagon to STOP the firing of 3 Stars & Stripes journalists for defending their paper's independence
The firings came a day after reporting on USS Abraham Lincoln
@democracydefendersfund.org @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social @govacctproj.bsky.social & MFIA clinic are on it👇 -TN
The firings came a day after reporting on USS Abraham Lincoln
@democracydefendersfund.org @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social @govacctproj.bsky.social & MFIA clinic are on it👇 -TN
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NEW: Oregon has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each subsidized apartment has nearly doubled.
But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, the state doesn’t have to provide the details of that spending.
But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, the state doesn’t have to provide the details of that spending.
Oregon Is Spending More Than Ever on Low-Income Housing. A State Law Keeps the Details Secret.
The state has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each subsidized apartment has nearly doubled. But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, Oregon does...
www.propublica.org
August 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM
NEW: Oregon has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each subsidized apartment has nearly doubled.
But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, the state doesn’t have to provide the details of that spending.
But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, the state doesn’t have to provide the details of that spending.
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“You sure do read a lot”
“Why are you reading in a bar”
“Whatcha reading”
“It’s so funny when women pretend to read in public to look smart”
“I bet you don’t understand one third of that book”
Things men who were strangers to me have said to me while I was reading.
Why are men? Allowed to speak
“Why are you reading in a bar”
“Whatcha reading”
“It’s so funny when women pretend to read in public to look smart”
“I bet you don’t understand one third of that book”
Things men who were strangers to me have said to me while I was reading.
Why are men? Allowed to speak
August 18, 2026 at 3:15 PM
“You sure do read a lot”
“Why are you reading in a bar”
“Whatcha reading”
“It’s so funny when women pretend to read in public to look smart”
“I bet you don’t understand one third of that book”
Things men who were strangers to me have said to me while I was reading.
Why are men? Allowed to speak
“Why are you reading in a bar”
“Whatcha reading”
“It’s so funny when women pretend to read in public to look smart”
“I bet you don’t understand one third of that book”
Things men who were strangers to me have said to me while I was reading.
Why are men? Allowed to speak
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Michael Allen Caruso is accused of kidnapping and molesting a child younger than 5.
DeSantis Ally In Florida Arrested On Child Sex-Abuse Charges
Michael Allen Caruso is accused of kidnapping and molesting a child younger than 5.
www.forbes.com
August 18, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Michael Allen Caruso is accused of kidnapping and molesting a child younger than 5.
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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-...
He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding"
www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
August 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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-...
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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When does all the winning start?
August 18, 2026 at 2:32 PM
When does all the winning start?
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Pulled starting lineups for today’s WPBL game between the Heights and the Firebells:
August 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Pulled starting lineups for today’s WPBL game between the Heights and the Firebells:
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NEW: Donor-advised fund sponsors have deemed the Southern Poverty Law Center ineligible for donations after Trump’s Justice Department charged the group with fraud.
We decided to investigate how funds wield this power.
We decided to investigate how funds wield this power.
Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities
A quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. A ProPublica investigation reveals how these high-stakes decisions to cut off funding often leave charities, donors ...
www.propublica.org
August 14, 2026 at 12:31 PM
NEW: Donor-advised fund sponsors have deemed the Southern Poverty Law Center ineligible for donations after Trump’s Justice Department charged the group with fraud.
We decided to investigate how funds wield this power.
We decided to investigate how funds wield this power.
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i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2026 at 4:52 PM
i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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"Brookfield police pulled over a car, guns drawn, after a Flock camera flagged it for a Milwaukee homicide.
MPD said its staff failed to remove a wanted vehicle alert from the system."
🤦♂️
#Flock #DeFlock #Axon #Surveillance #AxonAxoff
www.fox6now.com/news/brookfi...
MPD said its staff failed to remove a wanted vehicle alert from the system."
🤦♂️
#Flock #DeFlock #Axon #Surveillance #AxonAxoff
www.fox6now.com/news/brookfi...
Flock system mix-up leads to guns-drawn Brookfield traffic stop of wrong person
Brookfield police pulled someone over, guns drawn, after a Flock camera flagged their car for a Milwaukee homicide. It turned out to be a mix-up.
www.fox6now.com
August 7, 2026 at 8:42 PM
"Brookfield police pulled over a car, guns drawn, after a Flock camera flagged it for a Milwaukee homicide.
MPD said its staff failed to remove a wanted vehicle alert from the system."
🤦♂️
#Flock #DeFlock #Axon #Surveillance #AxonAxoff
www.fox6now.com/news/brookfi...
MPD said its staff failed to remove a wanted vehicle alert from the system."
🤦♂️
#Flock #DeFlock #Axon #Surveillance #AxonAxoff
www.fox6now.com/news/brookfi...
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Russia has attacked the Chornomorets Stadium in Odesa.
Several people were injured.
What do you say to that, Infantino? Still want to allow russians back?
Several people were injured.
What do you say to that, Infantino? Still want to allow russians back?
August 7, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Russia has attacked the Chornomorets Stadium in Odesa.
Several people were injured.
What do you say to that, Infantino? Still want to allow russians back?
Several people were injured.
What do you say to that, Infantino? Still want to allow russians back?
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More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
August 4, 2026 at 11:14 AM
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
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NEW: The EPA spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site.
New soil tests by @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead.
New soil tests by @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead.
The EPA Heralds Its Omaha Cleanup as a Success. But We Found Many Yards Still Have Toxic Levels of Lead.
The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, Nebraska, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show th...
www.propublica.org
August 4, 2026 at 12:04 PM
NEW: The EPA spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site.
New soil tests by @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead.
New soil tests by @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead.
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
www.muellershewrote.com
August 3, 2026 at 7:58 PM
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
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RFK Jr and wife had a soiree at their Hollywood mansion during COVID and required proof of COVID vaccination with RSVP.
Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow
Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow
August 2, 2026 at 7:38 PM
RFK Jr and wife had a soiree at their Hollywood mansion during COVID and required proof of COVID vaccination with RSVP.
Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow
Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow
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Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old.
ICE took him this June. He was 29.
He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention.
After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital
Prisciliano died five days later
enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
ICE took him this June. He was 29.
He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention.
After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital
Prisciliano died five days later
enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
enlacelatinonc.org
July 30, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old.
ICE took him this June. He was 29.
He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention.
After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital
Prisciliano died five days later
enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
ICE took him this June. He was 29.
He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention.
After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital
Prisciliano died five days later
enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
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Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files.
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
www.propublica.org
July 30, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files.
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
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Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.
In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.
This is only the beginning.
In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.
This is only the beginning.
July 29, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.
In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.
This is only the beginning.
In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.
This is only the beginning.
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Do white people ever think, "I wonder what it would be like if every book I read or TV or film only had Black people in them?" Just constantly inundated with images of Black people, in our vastness. Probably not, but, I dare say, it would change how they view everything. Representation matters.
July 29, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Do white people ever think, "I wonder what it would be like if every book I read or TV or film only had Black people in them?" Just constantly inundated with images of Black people, in our vastness. Probably not, but, I dare say, it would change how they view everything. Representation matters.