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Police keep losing their jobs for using Flock cameras to stalk people

Advocates say it’s too easy to abuse automated license plate reader technology.

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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3d ago

Exclusive: Bad actors have used Flock's massive camera network as a powerful weapon for intimate surveillance. Authorities have charged or accused at least 50 law-enforcement officers of using license-plate readers for unauthorized purposes.

I really hope people haven't gotten comfortable with the insane fact that the Trump administration keeps breaking the law by acting in defiance of Congress's appropriations powers. It violates the Constitution and should be a much, much bigger deal.

The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U.S. visas at airports, including spouses of Americans, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and interviews with immigration lawyers. nyti.ms/45r7OBZ

PARIS (AP) — A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officials said.

French wildfire created country's 1st recorded pyrocumulonimbus cloud, igniting more fires

A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officia...

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ATLANTA (AP) — US surpasses 2025’s record-breaking tally for measles cases, with 2,318 cases and 5 more months left in the year.

Join me, my @statesnewsroom.com colleagues and @kff.org experts for a virtual discussion about #Medicaid spending cuts, work requirements and what's next for states, providers and families. It's Thursday at noon ET and it's free: kff-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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There have been 166 people who died in Nevada prisons since 2024 with the largest portion attributed to natural causes. State lawmakers still have a lot of questions around those deaths. ICYMI, my story in @nevadacurrent.com.

NV prison system mortality report 'sounds like a lot of unexplained deaths,' legislator says • Nevada Current

The growing number of deaths in Nevada prisons prompted scrutiny from state lawmakers, who were told by corrections officials Tuesday that 166 people have died in custody since 2024. There were at lea...

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“State and local governments … often say that it is a federal issue, and for the most part, that is true ... there are things that the state Legislature can influence in terms of the environment of the enforcement,” said the NV Immigrant Coalition. My story via @nevadacurrent.com

State lawmakers urged to step up resistance to Trump's detention and deportation tactics • Nevada Current

Nevada lawmakers need to do more to protect sensitive locations like hospitals, courts, and schools from being targeted in federal immigration operations, civil rights attorneys and immigration groups...

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Breaking: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has died at the age of 71 after what his office called a “brief and sudden illness.”

They could have made this map any color.

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Explosive diarrhea outbreak due to a parasite found on produce. Advice for now? Don’t buy produce…unless you can cook it. www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

State lawmakers invited DHS/ICE to an interim legislative hearing today, but they pulled out w/o explanation. Lawmakers wanted to get more info about deportation, detention operations, especially after a NV judge said the agency was in "open defiance" of the court. My story via @nevadacurrent.com

DHS stiffing NV legislators' questions about what judge ruled ‘open defiance,’ state senator says • Nevada Current

Representatives with the Department of Homeland Security scheduled to speak at a state legislative committee meeting Thursday notified lawmakers this week they “would not be appearing,” Democratic sta...

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Family demands an independent probe after ICE officer fatally shoots a man in Houston

The son of a Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston says he was a hardworking father who had been working toward a work permit after 35 years in the...

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County child welfare services agencies have received the same block grant funding from NV since 2012. If the state adjusted the for inflation it would take Clark County’s block funding base from roughly $42 million to $63.1 million. ICYMI, my story in @nevadacurrent.com.

Neglected for years, child services funding formulas are badly outdated, lawmakers told • Nevada Current

Funding for child welfare services in Nevada has stagnated and rising inflation is making it more difficult for county agencies to provide support, state lawmakers were told Tuesday.  Clark and Washoe...

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I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her

The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”

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“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

Dozens of Patriot Front members just boarded metro minutes ago at the Eastern Market station in Washington, D.C. I asked one National Guard member who they were and they responded "protesters." A July 4th community parade is about to begin just outside the Eastern Market station.

This year is another stellar year for horror films! I saw “Leviticus” last night and it was fantastic. It has to be among my top three favorites of the year.

See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.

BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing

Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.

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Tomorrow at SCOTUS is gonna be like: a. Trans athletes get screwed b. Another campaign finance law is gutted c. Birthright citizenship is upheld ... and we're all supposed to focus on (c) and forget about all the atrocious decisions that preceded it. Let's not, please!

@mjlyle.bsky.social breaks down some Nevada bills going into effect this week #nvleg

Limits on cellphones in classrooms, path for foreign-trained doctors among new laws taking effect • Nevada Current

Requiring school districts to adopt policies limiting cellphones in the classroom, opening a path for foreign-trained doctors to practice medicine in the state, and limiting the number of children soc...

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Footage of me trying to explain my most recent investigative piece to my editor

Man Explaining Stressed with Conspiracy Board

ALT: Man Explaining Stressed with Conspiracy Board

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A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

The New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis finds

A new data investigation says the paper of record increasingly framed transgender rights as a debate instead of a lived reality.

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Regulators have noticed an increase in wildfire-related home insurance cancellations and declinations in surprising parts of Nevada - areas that aren't typically fire prone - and can't say for sure why. ICYMI, my story in @nevadacurrent.com.

Home insurance getting canceled/declined for wildfire risk in some surprising places • Nevada Current

Wildfire-related home insurance cancellations and declinations — refusals to insure applicants — have skyrocketed in pockets of Nevada, and insurance regulators couldn’t give state lawmakers a solid e...

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Sen. Peters: "Yes or no, if a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule?" Postmaster General David Steiner: "Under our proposed regulation, no."

currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals

BREAKING: President Trump says he's canceling the signing of a housing bill at the Capitol, saying a voting bill should pass Congress first.

Trump heads to Capitol to speak with GOP senators who have grown increasingly frustrated with him

President Donald Trump is headed to Capitol Hill to meet with Republican senators who have grown increasingly frustrated with his efforts to divert their agenda.

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oh my god

Our @madisonmcvan.bsky.social was named "Young Journalist of the Year" by the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists for her exemplary work in 2025. You can look back at some of that work below. minnesotareformer.com/briefs/refor...

Reformer reporter Madison McVan named 'Young Journalist of the Year' • Minnesota Reformer

The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists named Reformer reporter Madison McVan the state’s “Young Journalist of the Year” Tuesday for her work during 2025, when she covered a wide array of hi...

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