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"“You can’t get rid of 30 percent of your staff and expect to be functional,” says Traci DiMartini, the former IRS human capital officer who was one of the first high-ranking officials DOGE pushed out last year. “Things are starting to break.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The IRS is imploding.The CEO says the agency is proving it's possible to have “less people and better results.”www.motherjones.com
Democratic candidates in competitive races are hoping that anger over labor and delivery unit closures will prompt voters to reject the Republican lawmakers who helped enact President Trump's tax-and-spending law, which contained nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid.
As maternity wards close, community outrage rises in key battleground statesMillions of women of childbearing age live in counties where there's no place to give birth. Nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts could devastate labor-and-delivery services in already struggling hospi...19thnews.org
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportationsThe couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.www.stlpr.org
NEW -- Hungary was even further along the path toward autocracy than America. Three months ago, Hungarians resoundingly rejected their power-mad, would-be dictator. Can we? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Hungary Escaped The Clutches Of A Power-Mad Autocrat. Can We?Hungarians resoundingly rejected a would-be autocrat and got another lease on life for their democracy. Can we?www.huffpost.com
Are we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...
Corey Ruiz police killing reveals an America numb to violence | Will BunchPolice killings like the death of Madison’s Corey Ruiz, caught on gruesome video, are rising, but public outrage is not.www.inquirer.com
no amnesty
Kyle CheneyCAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We DidSince Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...www.propublica.org
If you start your article or newscast with an unqualified “President Trump says…” what are you even doing?
NBC NewsNEW: President Trump says that the nuclear deal between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia requires the kingdom to normalize relations with Israel, a significant condition not previously mentioned when the deal was announced.
Hunter Biden art sale update:
ProPublicaWhen the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House. (Published May)