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Important column from Will Bunch, saying the names of the ICE prisoners shot by a sniper in Dallas. Trump regime refused to release their identities, part of their broader effort to dehumanize immigrants. https://share.inquirer.com/MRUQhX
Black motorists received three quarters of the citations issued by officers from a controversial special patrol in Cleveland, most for minor offenses like window tinting,
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/15/cuyahoga-county-downtown-patrol-sheriff
A Maine state trooper was captured on video repeatedly punching a handcuffed man in the face, but officials cleared the officer and promoted him
https://themainemonitor.org/trooper-repeatedly-punched-handcuffed-man-in-face/
Nebraska claims the lowest drug death rate in the nation, but reporter Destiny Herbers determined the numbers are likely a false undercount. The state relies on county attorneys, not doctors, to count the deaths.
Every year, Nebraska undercounts overdoses, say state officials, public health experts, on-the-ground treatment workers and a new Flatwater Free Press analysis. Laws and money are impacted. And lives hang in the balance.
Like other industries, Big Booze fights science, health, and climate as it chases profit:
Alcohol lobby takes on WHO in battle over health impacts The previously unreported efforts reflect how the $1 trillion global drinks industry is taking on the World Health Organization over its hardening stance that there is no risk-free level of drinking.
A Russian banker spent more than $37 million on properties in the Atlanta area before the federal government sanctioned him and other “elites close to Putin.” Afterward, he quietly transferred the assets to his ex-wife, highlighting potential gaps in the sanctions system
This is super interesting. Wikipedia editors put together a guide on patterns that tend to crop up regularly in AI writing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
Tim Berners-Lee (@timbl) explains why he gave away the #WWW for free.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free
"For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free. That’s why, in 1993, I convinced my #CERN managers to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone."
But he adds:
"Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments…Trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web."
In 2016, after Trump had announced his candidacy, David Fahrenthold of the Washington Post decided to investigate Trump’s “charity,” the Trump Foundation, and immediately discovered that the whole thing was a giant fraud.
Trump had spent years soliciting donations from people, promising to donate that money to actual charities, and then spending that money on whatever he wanted instead. The lawsuit that eventually dissolved the foundation and banned Trump and his kids from running a charity in New York State called it “a shocking pattern of illegality.”
I want to emphasize that Fahrenthold undertook the most cursory of investigations and immediately discovered that the Trump Foundation was a giant grift, theft on the scale of tens of millions of dollars, out in the open for decades.
No one went to prison for these crimes.
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