NPR EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans. From Jude Joffe-Block Miles Parks npr.org/2025/06/29/nx-…

It is not true that Americans have experienced "continual cuts" to public benefits since Reagan, as the lede of this piece suggests. Rather, wage subsidies, food assistance, and public health insurance were all expanded between 1980 and 2020. Tho tide obviously just reversed

Some hospitals in the U.S. are without essential staff because international medical residents set to start their training this week were delayed by the Trump administration’s travel and visa restrictions. apnews.com/article/intern…

I could not possibly be filled with more rage after seeing Texas Republicans blame the National Weather Service forecast for the unspeakable tragedy that hit the girls camp. You were warned this would happen if you fired everyone!

I need a follow up story on Crackhead Barney

“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,” wrote five former NWS directors from both Democratic and Republican administrations in an open letter on May 2nd. In Houston, 44% of NWS positions are vacant.

Zohran's best Staten Island precinct? This one in Graniteville, a mostly Pakistani enclave centered around the Al Noorani Islamic Center. This was a single-digit Harris precinct in November, with Jill Stein notching 5% of the vote in write-ins.

Life in 1776: - heat is such a luxury that Thomas Jefferson can’t write in deep winter bc his ink freezes (one reason perhaps why Independence Day is in July) - nighttime darkness is such a burden that George Washington reportedly spent $15k in today’s dollars on candles every

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Texas officials have long worried about the dangers to children who packed into camps each summer along the flood-prone Guadalupe River. They knew that warning systems were inadequate. So why was nothing done? We have reviewed documents spanning a decade to find answers. 🧵 1/9

I wrote about a very 2025 DC dillemma: An Elderly Lawmaker’s Staff Keeps Walking Back Things She Tells Reporters. Should They Keep Quoting Her? politi.co/4eHIHPq

"Republicans as the party of red tape and bureaucracy" is an intriguing message.

Unlike most of the countries Trump is shaking down with tariffs, South Korea has a free trade agreement with the U.S. (KORUS) that was ratified by Congress. The Constitution gives control of trade policy entirely to Congress, the president has no legal authority to do this.

The data is clear. It’s not harsher sentences but higher certainty of getting caught that deters crime. Shifting resources toward solving crimes—by funding more detectives and boosting clearance rates—can curb crime.

On Epstein: as I've written too many times to count, there ARE massive amounts of FBI/DOJ files that have not been released, or those that are available are so heavily blacked out that they are unreadable. The FBI and DOJ can release these files (redacting the names of victims)

NEW: For eight years, Kerr County sought help from Texas officials to pay for a $1 million early flood warning system. Twice, they were rejected. The third time the state agreed to chip in just 5% of the cost. With Keri Blakinger houstonchronicle.com/news/investiga…

"'There is no water here to bathe,' he told Telemundo 51, adding it's been four days since he showered."

BOMBSHELL suits from former top brass says Mayor Adams' NYPD sold promotions, stole overtime, abused bodycams and promoted unqualified cops into sensitive positions. Those who raised concerns, like former top det. James Essig, were told to take huge demotions - or resign.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

So not only have abortion bans not reduced the number of abortions—they’ve increased the number of later abortions!