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ProPublica: “When President Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held — but just barely. If faced with the same tests today, those guardrails and the people who held the line would largely be missing, a ProPublica examination found. At least 75 career officials who once held roles …
Decoding Fox News – Includes full transcript of the interview: “On Sunday April 26 President Donald J. Trump sat down with Norah O’Donnell for a CBS “60 Minutes” interview the day after a shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. That evening a I went through both and made a transcript of exactly what was …
Washington Post – no paywall: “The Trump administration inadvertently exposed the Social Security numbers of health care providers in a database powering a new Medicare portal, The Washington Post found. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) last year created a directory to help seniors look up which doctors and medical providers accept which …
The Conversation: “Most people know the basics of healthy living that become more important as you grow older: Eat plenty of vegetables, exercise regularly, sleep well, have a social life, limit your alcohol consumption and don’t smoke. As an economist and social psychologist who study altruism and health, we wondered whether civic engagement might play …
Notice News: “Yesterday’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais is the biggest voting rights story in years — and it moved fast. The Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district (AP Politics), effectively eviscerating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and making it nearly impossible to challenge racially discriminatory maps (Common Dreams). Justice Kagan’s …
“A new report from Democracy Forward, The Second Front: The Escalating Right-Wing Legal Threats Beyond the White House, reveals the perilous threats to American democracy represented by the far-right legal movement. The report, part of Democracy Forward’s work to track the far-right legal movement, focuses attention on ways that extremists continue to deprive Americans of …
The Verge – no paywall: “In the days that followed the US and Israel’s joint military strike on Iran on Saturday, floods of images and videos that supposedly document the war have appeared online. Some are old or depict unrelated conflicts, are made or manipulated with AI, and in some cases, are actually taken from …
The Daily Docket – A newsletter by Reuters and Westlaw: “Reuters uncovered a broader‑than‑previously known Trump administration effort to gain federal control over elections, historically run locally, in at least eight states – using investigations, raids and demands for access to balloting systems and voter ID. What happened In January, a DHS agent sought unredacted …
The Developer: “The newly unsealed indictment against former FBI Director James Comey shows the Justice Department has charged him with two counts tied to his May 15, 2025 Instagram post showing seashells arranged as “86 47.” The case was filed in the Eastern District of North Carolina and names Comey as “James Brien Comey Jr.” Read the full indictment …
For the first time in the history of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, over half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom. In 25 years, the average score of all 180 countries and territories surveyed in the Index has never been so …
MakeUseOf: “Your ISP can see everything you do online. Every site, search, and click is diligently logged by the company that provides your internet connection, logging your online presence. Maybe it’s for analysis, but maybe it’s waiting to be sold to the highest bidder at a later date. The good news is that you don’t …
Greg Sargent – The New Republic – no paywall: There’s no clean way to hive off terms like fascism or authoritarianism from Trump’s policies. Even if you disagree that the words apply, their use is backed up by a genuine attempt at intellectual justification for it. The use of these terms just is deeply linked …
