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In comments at a private police conference, Garrett Langley also said his wife advised him to never apologize.

Missouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban with limited exceptions, but its ads focus on a different provision: banning gender transition care for minors. The campaign website never explicitly states it would repeal the constitutional right to abortion voters approved 2 years ago.

60 people have now died in ICE custody since Trump's return to office. Our country is set to spend $268 BILLION on mass deportations and detentions through the end of Trump's term. Instead of death and cruelty, imagine what we could have invested that money in instead?

The death toll in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza climbs to 74,555, including 1,559 killed since 'ceasefire' last year.

Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure a war crime: UN https://aje.news/fnzd3i

NEW: Garrett Langley, the CEO of Flock, told an audience of police chiefs at a private police conference Sunday that anti-Flock protests around the country are not real, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. “It’s anonymous bots, and so it is not real,” he continued.

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

AIPAC's super PAC funded attack ads through groups with progressive-sounding names. Here are a few of them: 👩 Elect Chicago Women ⚖️ Pro-Choice Majority Action 🗳️ Elect Democratic Women None of the ads disclosed AIPAC’s role.

Seven killed in Gaza as Israel targets university campus and other sites https://aje.news/p67591

In August, President Trump announced he had signed the “biggest oil deal in world history.” ProPublica reviewed the deal and found it gives a small group of people largely handpicked by the Trump administration long-term control of the enterprise.

California's highways represent an almost impenetrable barrier for wildlife. Soon, habitats on either side of the 10-laned 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills will be reconnected thanks to the world’s largest wildlife crossing www.popsci.com/environment/...

To everybody’s dad who’s been watching those TV ads about me 👇🏾 I don’t have big money for ads, so let me talk to you directly. I’m going to protect your Social Security. I’m going to protect your Medicare. I’m going to make billionaires pay what they owe.

Before the Brazilian election where progressive Lula beat right-wing Bolsonaro, Meta is accused of disrupting Lula's Insta and WhatsApp accounts Meta blamed "technical difficulties" That would be more believable if similar incidents had not happened recently in the US Tech billionaires are evil

Because big tech doesn't do customer service, we are being inundated with AI-generated emails begging us for help.

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

Nothing and no one should stand between New Yorkers and their right to vote — least of all the government.
 Early voting is happening now through November 1. Election Day is November 3. See you at the polls!

President Trump is planning to open up some of the nation's last pristine forests to road building and timber companies. But those who work in the woods say it won't do enough to revive the industry. n.pr/4yAumMJ

companies to employees a few months ago: you better use AI companies now: wait, wait, just $29 a month on claude pls www.404media.co/accenture-te...

Researchers who track online influence operations say Kremlin-backed groups are renewing tactics they've used to sow distrust and discord in previous elections in the U.S. and around the world. n.pr/4snxJFv

TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. From the ProPublica archives:

In 1972, a group of Harlem Renaissance cultural icons gathered at Duke Ellington's house. The afternoon was captured on 16mm film by William Greaves, but the footage remained unedited in a vault for 50 years until David Greaves restored his father's project, releasing the documentary it 2026.

I wrote about all the bullshit the Trump admin is doing to Ilhan Omar--and how Ilhan Omar is far from the only person to whom the admin is doing this bullshit ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Medicare open enrollment runs through Dec. 7, and for as many as 5 million seniors, it will be important to log on and pick a new plan. n.pr/4sp3qya

The Trump administration has signed an oil deal with a Venezuelan energy baron who has faced money-laundering investigations in three countries. ProPublica reviewed a copy of the 18-page agreement.

Trump's most recent rendering of East Potomac Park overtakes the D.C. peninsula with a sprawling golf course, without the grassy areas and road beloved by locals. That's prompted grassroots pushback. n.pr/4so6XNc

Moody voted for Trump's Big Ugly Bill, slashing Medicaid, and voted against stopping Trump's war.  Ashley, you and your Republican colleagues are a big reason Floridians are struggling to make ends meet. And in two weeks, we're going to vote you out. #AngieForFlorida

“A gaping wound of earth” 🌎 😕 Google illegally knocked down 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data center. @nonewdatacenters (From the Guardian)

When a worker wears an Amazon vest, drives an Amazon van and delivers on an Amazon-controlled route, but Amazon denies they work for the company — that's exploitation.

Worth remembering

Fired up to serve alongside fighters like @chrisrabb.com who understand that we don't wait around for things to happen to us. We make things happen. Organized people beat organized money every time. Grateful to have Rep. Rabb back on the ground in Michigan to help get out the vote!

The trillionaire has given more than $445 million to Republican political groups this election cycle, as Democrats vow to investigate him.

⚠️ Wolves roam into Finnish villages after Google illegally destroys 1,300 acres of forest for AI data centers - forest where wolf packs used to live is now an expanse of mud A senseless destruction of so many animals' lives for the pursuit of enriching the few.

NEW: Texas has suspended construction permits of 17 data center projects. This comes after 404 Media's @mjgault.bsky.social reported that a group of Texans discovered the state had continued to issue construction permits related to data centers despite Governor Greg Abbott calling for a pause.

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

New SEC filings show that Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to pay California’s billionaire tax without losing control of Meta. So billionaires can afford to pay the tax? And they won't lose control of their companies or flee the state? Don’t fall for billionaires’ propaganda. Vote YES on Prop 40.

GM just announced the biggest stock buyback in automotive industry history. Instead of investing in their workers or new product lines, GM executives are robbing from the future to pay themselves and their shareholders today. Stock buybacks should be illegal.

“If they try to take one of us, they’re going to have to take all of Long Beach,” “community members distracted agents while others freed the detained women by sneaking up and opening the doors of the cars in which they were held.” www.commondreams.org/news/ice-bre...