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Duke University
Hofstra School of Law
New Jersey voter
Duke University
Hofstra School of Law
New Jersey voter
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NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp.
“The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp.
“The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...
www.propublica.org
July 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp.
“The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp.
“The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
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Tom Kean Jr. is buying and selling stocks as a member of Congress at a remarkably corrupt rate. And he's getting filthy rich. He's out for himself while his constituents struggle to get by.
Wealthy N.J. congressman promised saintly ethics. He chose getting richer instead, rivals say.
Tom Kean Jr. was elected in 2022 after sharply criticizing his predecessor's stock trades.
www.nj.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Tom Kean Jr. is buying and selling stocks as a member of Congress at a remarkably corrupt rate. And he's getting filthy rich. He's out for himself while his constituents struggle to get by.
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Hello! I’m WIRED’s senior politics editor, and it’s hard to put into words what it’s been like in our newsroom this year. I am so in awe of my colleagues here, and so grateful to wake up every day to get you, our lovely readers, the news. If you’ve haven’t already, subscribe!! Help us keep it going.
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www.wired.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Hello! I’m WIRED’s senior politics editor, and it’s hard to put into words what it’s been like in our newsroom this year. I am so in awe of my colleagues here, and so grateful to wake up every day to get you, our lovely readers, the news. If you’ve haven’t already, subscribe!! Help us keep it going.
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Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
A New Era for WIRED—That Starts With You
As of today, there are even more ways to enjoy WIRED’s journalism, including premium newsletters and livestream Q&As. Join us.
www.wired.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
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One of the most under reported stories in the legacy media is how many states the RNC and DOJ are suing right now to access their voter rolls. It is a frontal assault on democracy that Democracy Docket covers every day, while legacy media both-sides Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
RNC Sues New Jersey for Access to Voter Roll and Election Machine Records
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
One of the most under reported stories in the legacy media is how many states the RNC and DOJ are suing right now to access their voter rolls. It is a frontal assault on democracy that Democracy Docket covers every day, while legacy media both-sides Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A classic sign of authoritarianism is destroying the independent press.
Trump just defunded PBS. He’s threatening to sue WSJ for linking him to Epstein. Colbert was fired after correctly noting CBS had bribed Trump.
Let’s support independent media against this fascist assault.
Trump just defunded PBS. He’s threatening to sue WSJ for linking him to Epstein. Colbert was fired after correctly noting CBS had bribed Trump.
Let’s support independent media against this fascist assault.
July 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A classic sign of authoritarianism is destroying the independent press.
Trump just defunded PBS. He’s threatening to sue WSJ for linking him to Epstein. Colbert was fired after correctly noting CBS had bribed Trump.
Let’s support independent media against this fascist assault.
Trump just defunded PBS. He’s threatening to sue WSJ for linking him to Epstein. Colbert was fired after correctly noting CBS had bribed Trump.
Let’s support independent media against this fascist assault.
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BREAKING: Trump's appointees requested more marble for the Fed's $2.5 billion renovation now attacked by White House as excessive.
Live updates: House approves Trump’s $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid
The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid early Friday.
bit.ly
July 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
BREAKING: Trump's appointees requested more marble for the Fed's $2.5 billion renovation now attacked by White House as excessive.
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⚡️JUST NOW: Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social barred from a Secretary Noem event at NASHVILLE AIRPORT, in his own district🤔
He says he wanted to ask where hundreds grabbed by ICE in the Nashville raids are, has never been kept from an airport event.
FULL Hill stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0cw...
He says he wanted to ask where hundreds grabbed by ICE in the Nashville raids are, has never been kept from an airport event.
FULL Hill stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0cw...
July 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
⚡️JUST NOW: Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social barred from a Secretary Noem event at NASHVILLE AIRPORT, in his own district🤔
He says he wanted to ask where hundreds grabbed by ICE in the Nashville raids are, has never been kept from an airport event.
FULL Hill stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0cw...
He says he wanted to ask where hundreds grabbed by ICE in the Nashville raids are, has never been kept from an airport event.
FULL Hill stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0cw...
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State Rep. Anna Eskamani, who visited the detention center and recalled seeing CRS branding attached to staffers’ name tags, said the firm was simply “not qualified” to manage the detention center. “No one knows what’s going on, nobody can answer basic questions.”
Jacksonville firm with $78 million ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ contract has obscure origins
Information about Critical Response Strategies LLC - including who runs it - has been scrubbed from its website in recent months.
jaxtrib.org
July 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
State Rep. Anna Eskamani, who visited the detention center and recalled seeing CRS branding attached to staffers’ name tags, said the firm was simply “not qualified” to manage the detention center. “No one knows what’s going on, nobody can answer basic questions.”
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"In its current degraded state, the DOJ is purely reactive, capable only of defending the policies of an aging demagogue and targeting his enemies for retribution. In short, Bondi presides over a department of weaponization and nothing else." — @lizdye.bsky.social
Pam Bondi is breaking the DOJ
And will take generations to put it back together.
www.publicnotice.co
July 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"In its current degraded state, the DOJ is purely reactive, capable only of defending the policies of an aging demagogue and targeting his enemies for retribution. In short, Bondi presides over a department of weaponization and nothing else." — @lizdye.bsky.social
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Apropos of nothing, you can always reach ProPublica with anonymous tips, files, and information that you think could hold powerful people and institutions accountable via this link: www.propublica.org/tips/
How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica
Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.
www.propublica.org
July 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Apropos of nothing, you can always reach ProPublica with anonymous tips, files, and information that you think could hold powerful people and institutions accountable via this link: www.propublica.org/tips/
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We also lead the country in imprisonment. Please throw this at Mike as well.
Mike Johnson’s home state of Louisiana seems to be a murderous hellhole, which is something House Democrats should be throwing in his face anytime his caucus tries to lecture other places.
Also, if Steven Miller actually cared about places with high homicide rates, he’d be looking elsewhere
July 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We also lead the country in imprisonment. Please throw this at Mike as well.
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I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
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NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
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Remember, Trump filed a massive lawsuit against CBS alleging that they had edited an interview with *her* to make her come off better.
Unearthed footage that Fox News refused to air during the election last year shows Trump nervously refusing to commit to releasing the Epstein files.
“I don’t know about Epstein so much as I do the others.”
“I don’t know about Epstein so much as I do the others.”
July 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Remember, Trump filed a massive lawsuit against CBS alleging that they had edited an interview with *her* to make her come off better.
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The Florida ICE concentration camp budget alone is $450M.
Four hundred and fifty million dollars.
For one year.
Four hundred and fifty million dollars.
For one year.
July 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The Florida ICE concentration camp budget alone is $450M.
Four hundred and fifty million dollars.
For one year.
Four hundred and fifty million dollars.
For one year.
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AP: “.. Waltz .. has spent the last few months on the White House payroll despite being removed as national security adviser .. earning an annual salary of $195,200 ..”
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/walt...
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/walt...
Mike Waltz to face grilling over Signal chat at Senate hearing for UN role
Mike Waltz will face questioning from lawmakers for the first time since he was ousted as national security adviser.
apnews.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
AP: “.. Waltz .. has spent the last few months on the White House payroll despite being removed as national security adviser .. earning an annual salary of $195,200 ..”
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/walt...
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/walt...
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Very apparent, indeed
July 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Very apparent, indeed
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The thing about Trump calling for the prosecution of Adam Schiff is that last night, the Republicans on the Rules Committee voted against releasing the Epstein files in an apparent effort to prevent Americans from getting to the truth about what happened.
July 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The thing about Trump calling for the prosecution of Adam Schiff is that last night, the Republicans on the Rules Committee voted against releasing the Epstein files in an apparent effort to prevent Americans from getting to the truth about what happened.
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FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found, according to multiple reports. The former Marine also appears to have no experience leading disaster management.
What we know about how FEMA officials are failing Texas
Its acting administrator is MIA, and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem wants the agency eliminated.
www.motherjones.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found, according to multiple reports. The former Marine also appears to have no experience leading disaster management.
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🚨BREAKING: Prince Andrew is now free to travel internationally after the FBI quietly shut down its investigation into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
No charges. No accountability. Just a royal hall pass.
No charges. No accountability. Just a royal hall pass.
July 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🚨BREAKING: Prince Andrew is now free to travel internationally after the FBI quietly shut down its investigation into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
No charges. No accountability. Just a royal hall pass.
No charges. No accountability. Just a royal hall pass.
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At a doctor’s office — with no warrants, masked, no ID 😳
What are we doing? 🇺🇸
What are we doing? 🇺🇸
July 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
At a doctor’s office — with no warrants, masked, no ID 😳
What are we doing? 🇺🇸
What are we doing? 🇺🇸
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I don't mean to sound hysterical but there are some pretty clear historical examples of "force the urban-dwellers to the farms," and none of them are great.
Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."
July 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I don't mean to sound hysterical but there are some pretty clear historical examples of "force the urban-dwellers to the farms," and none of them are great.
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Frum: What a tariff is, is the equivalent of hitting yourself in the head. And he’s saying to the world: “We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head.”
July 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Frum: What a tariff is, is the equivalent of hitting yourself in the head. And he’s saying to the world: “We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head.”
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The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
www.nytimes.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...