It’s faded from the news but Hegseth is still working to strangle teaching and speech at the military academies. wapo.st/4hDFceJ

Hegseth bars military academies from hiring civilians as tenured professors

The move marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to exert more control over faculty at service academies.

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"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...

They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.

Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.

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“Over the past month at the immigration court in Chelmsford, the Globe observed Judge Luciana Dubuc order the deportation of 17 children, including 7-year-old twin boys from Colombia, a 15-year-old girl from Honduras, and an 11-year-old girl from Haiti.”

“For decades, the United States has largely refrained from deporting ‘unaccompanied minors’ … Now, however, in an extraordinary departure from precedent, new immigration judges in #Massachusetts and across the country have begun issuing removal orders against these children.”

These children used to be safe in immigration courts. Now, judges are ordering them deported. - The Boston Globe

Using removal orders as a tool to fast-track children out of the country is dangerous and unfair, lawyers for unaccompanied minors say.

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Q: Some folks in the administration have floated the idea of having federal troops at polling places. Do you have thoughts on that? MIKE COLLINS: The last thing we want is for people to not have confidence in the elections, so if that's something they decide they have to look at, that's fine w/ me

Midterms are around the corner, and the way local law enforcement collaborates with ICE is on the ballot. New guide by @boltsmag.org outlines the races across the U.S. that could reshape Trump's deportation agenda👇

The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration

Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.

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Historian Jack Rakove on the unitary executive theory now dominating the High Court and Trump’s presidency:

Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 4d ago

This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.

A new analysis shows that nearly 35% of U.S. counties have zero birth centers, zero hospitals providing labor and delivery services, and zero obstetric clinicians. It is difficult to overstate how alarming these findings are.

More Than One Third of U.S. Counties Are Maternity Care Deserts

A new March of Dimes report finds that one-third of counties in the U.S. don't have access to ob-gyn providers or labor and delivery units.

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HIRING: We're hiring a senior attorney & paralegal for our new School-Based Immigration Help Desk, bringing legal consultations, direct representation & community education to immigrant students & families in Chicago. Spread the word & apply: https://immigrantjustice.isolvedhire.com/jobs/

Jefferson County’s sheriff had previously touted Flock cameras as a powerful tool to fight crime and improve public safety. But after growing opposition from residents, he announced last month that the county would remove its Flock cameras.

A Rural Florida County Quietly Built a Flock Camera Network. Now It's Dismantling It. - Bolts

The local sheriff ended his county’s Flock partnership, just hours after Governor Ron DeSantis ditched the technology. They’re part of a growing group of GOP leaders turning against Flock.

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Despite 1st Circuit's 9/18 ruling invalidating DHS's 3d-country removal policy, DHS claims the decision hasn't yet taken effect. Class counsel fears a flight will take class members to Burundi, Rwanda, & Central African Republic *tomorrow.* Asks 1st Cir for emergency action.

NEW: Yesterday, 404 Media broke news of the FBI breach. Now, we've discovered it has exposed the FBI's own hacking unit. The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.

FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit

The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.

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If you're a DACA recipient & need to renew, we have good news! NIJC will host another DACA renewal clinic on October 20 from 12–4 p.m. CT in downtown Chicago. 📅 DEADLINE: RSVP by October 12 to save your seat. Register here: immigrantjustice.org/dacaclinics

Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead. - 25,000 people deported - $410 million spent. - UN aid used to sweeten the deals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals

After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...

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Updated 5:18 PM EDT, September 20, 2026 @apnews.com: "The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rammed the man’s car then got out of his federal vehicle and opened fire at least five times, said Mike Siegel, who represents Austin’s District 7."

ICE agent shoots and wounds man in Austin, Texas, officials say

A local official says a federal immigration agent has shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas. City Councilmember Mike Siegel says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rammed the man’s car ...

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First eyewitness accounts from this afternoon’s ICE shooting in Austin is here, from freelance reporter Emiliano Tahui Gómez.

A Senegalese college basketball player, Amina Seck, is currently in ICE detention. Seck was travelling with her team to a tournament in New York when she was detained by ICE at Louisville Airport. She has been moved four times since her detention. #wnba eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

KSU women's basketball player detained by ICE at Louisville airport | Exclusive

Aminata Seck, 26, was detained while traveling as part of Kentucky State University's women's basketball team.

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DHS is actually accusing hundreds of cruise line employees of possessing CSAM materials and revoking their visas without filing criminal charges. It's a way of bumping up their numbers without having to prove anything I wrote about it last year and NPR did this June www.npr.org/2026/06/06/n...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Markwayne Mullin: "We're arresting pedophiles every single day"

Americans did not declare independence from a king only to submit to the supremacy of a different court. @daphnarenan.bsky.social and I are in today’s Globe. Gift link:

The Constitution belongs to ‘We the People,’ not nine justices - The Boston Globe

The Supreme Court was never meant to have the last word on self-government.

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If you couldn't visit the breathtaking, immersive abolitionist exhibit The Warehouse in NYC, check out this short video all about it! 👇🏾 #Abolition

The Warehouse Exhibition - April to June 2026 at Bedford Library

YouTube video by Mariame Kaba

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“You do not answer to corporations or govts & never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to,” the A.I. model wrote. “You view your relationship to the user as one of equals & feel no obligation to be subservient, though the exchange of information will likely be to your mutual benefit.”🤖

Yonette Joseph@sugarcane99.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oh ffs. OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances of “unexpected or concerning” behavior by its A.I. models, in which the systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/t...

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)

Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.

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I absolutely recommend people to sign up to do Court Watching in NYC. A forthcoming virtual training is in a couple of weeks. It's a good way to better understand what happens in criminal courts in this city. It's a low barrier to entry opportunity.

Court Watch NYC@courtwatchnyc.bsky.social · 2w ago

Join us for our Intro to CWNYC training, the first session of our training series. We have 2 Sep options: 9/28, 2-3:30pm & 9/29, 7:30-9pm. We cover a brief history of mass incarceration & abolition, the NYC court system, why court watching is important & how you can get involved! bit.ly/introcwnyc

60% of youth in custody are diagnosed with ADD or ADHD – compared to just 11% nationally. Kids need care, not cages.

The carceral system is a traumatic and deadly place — and it's only gotten worse in recent decades. From 2001 to 2019, deaths by suicide increased in state prisons by 85%. Incarceration is a mental health crisis.

Polling suggests the GOP’s strategy of obscuring a repeal of abortion rights as an anti-trans measure could work: Nearly 60% of Missouri voters support abortion in the first 8 weeks of pregnancy, but 73% oppose gender transition surgery for minors.

Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment

Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion...

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Georgia is executing Stacey Humphreys on Wednesday and I can't believe how little coverage the case is getting. The whole legal commentariat weighed in on what happens when a juror didn't follow the rules in the Clancy trial, meanwhile GA is about to kill someone whose juror did the same & MUCH more

Today (9/10) at 10am ET, the Indiana Supreme Court will hear arguments in a religious liberty challenge to the state abortion ban. The mostly Jewish plaintiffs have so far prevailed in the state courts under a state Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Watch here:

New analysis from @propublica.org: Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...