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ProPublica: “President Donald Trump has pushed out the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the bipartisan agency in limbo as he rushes to remake how elections are run before this year’s midterms. Trump fired Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, the Democrats on the commission, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ProPublica, …
“Impunity is the exercise of power without accountability, which becomes, in its clearest form, the commission of crimes without punishment. Impunity is not experienced equally across the globe. Where accountability is strong, citizens benefit from institutions that protect human rights and personal freedoms and impose just consequences on those who abuse power. Where it is …
Gallup: “As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, 33% of U.S. adults say they are “extremely proud” to be an American, the lowest reading in Gallup’s trend dating back to 2001. Another 20% say they are “very proud,” which means just over half of Americans express high levels of pride in their country. The …
The New York Times – no paywall: “Behind the scenes, the Trump White House went to extensive lengths to advance its theory of executive power, potentially giving the president remarkable leeway to install loyalists at nearly every echelon of government. In the tiny corner of the legal world that follows such things, the March ruling …
“The Trump administration took aim at the separation of church and state June 26, 2026, issuing a draft report from the president’s Religious Liberty Commission that says the separation concept is a legal error and that Americans should view religion as an “essential support” and always remember “the Creator who made us and bestows our …
Washington Post – no paywall: The Interior Department’s guidance instructs parks staff not to confirm deaths, the severity of injuries or other details. “…recent internal guidance prohibits park staff or other Interior Department employees from directly notifying the public about the deaths. The department, which oversees the National Park Service, had not issued any statements …
Washington Post – no paywall: “A covid vaccine study that the CDC’s chief halted this spring over methodological concerns was published Tuesday in The analysis used the same methodology that CDC’s interim director had criticized when the paper was not allowed to be published in the weekly scientific report of the Centers for Disease Control …
The Nation – Unless we begin to act, our democracy will likely be destroyed. Richard Gephardt and Timothy Wirth: “We believe that in the United States of America today we are in the middle of a “rolling coup.” Our democracy’s avowed commitments to social justice, the empowerment of all citizens, a more equitable economy, the …
KARK.com – June 10, 2026 – “A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments Thursday in the ongoing legal challenge to Arkansas’s Act 372 of 2023, which would amend the law concerning libraries and obscene materials made available to minors. Opponents say Act 372 would criminalize librarians and expand censorship of library materials. The …
Truthout – “Su Casa Liberation Library is part of a flourishing anarchist library scene that includes the Tamarack Library in Oakland, California; Legacy Library on Chicago’s South Side; and the mobile Free Society People’s Library (FSPL) in Portland, Oregon. These autonomous libraries build on the values of the traditional public library — connecting people to …
Gizmodo: “If you work for the Department of Homeland Security, an app is about to be auto-loaded onto your work phone, sort of like that U2 album that auto-loaded on everyone’s iPhone in 2014, except instead of delivering “Songs of Innocence,” the app claims to deliver “unfiltered, real-time updates straight from the source”—the source being …
A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target The Hollywood Reporter: “The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved. The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker …
