183 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about ...

From the ACLU -  The coalition has issued a travel advisory for fans, players, journalists, and other visitors attending the 2026 World Cup in areas impacted by the Trump administration’s militarized immigration crackdown.

184 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  Gov. Ron DeSantis’ mapmaker doesn’t want you to know who helped gerrymander Florida. That was one of the most significant takeaways from Jason Poreda’s testimony Tuesday before the Florida legislatur...

From the ACLU -  A flurry of Flock contract changes disempower customers

185 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  The Supreme Court’s six-to-three Republican-appointed majority issued a staggering ruling on Wednesday essentially killing the remaining protections of the Voting Rights Act, dealing a death blow to ...

From the ACLU -  Children describe adult jail-like conditions at Colorado juvenile detention centers

186 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  Remember “the most transparent administration in history”? That’s what Donald Trump promised at the beginning of his second term, and it’s been going about as well as the rest of his promises. The on...

From the ACLU -  Families share how Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order upended their hopes, and forced them to consider early births or leaving the U.S.

187 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  Victims of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting and their families sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US district court in San Francisco on Wednesday, claiming various negligence, product liability, ...

From the ACLU -  One ACLU client spent six months in jail, because police relied on facial recognition technology to incorrectly identify her as a suspect. She’s the fourteenth person known to be wrongfully arrested due ...

188 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  In May 2016, Elon Musk did something out of character that he has now spent years of his life trying to undo: He made what he believed to be a charitable donation.  The world’s richest man is also am...

From the ACLU -  ACLU litigation is leading courts to rethink warrants seizing our digital devices, social media accounts and other data to reinforce our Fourth Amendment protections.

189 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sweeping changes underway at the federal agency tasked with protecting the...

From the ACLU -  City’s police cross a line, breach norms, and threaten to normalize a nightmarish level of surveillance in American life.

190 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have dropped to their lowest level since the start of his second term.  According to the NBC News Decision Desk Poll released on Sunday, only 37 percent of a...

From the ACLU -  Amid rampant abuse by federal agents, state legislatures can pass critical laws that allow people to take federal agents to court for violating their rights.

191 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  In a Truth Social tirade on Sunday morning, President Donald Trump claimed that Iran violated their ceasefire agreement with the US by firing shots at ships in the Strait of Hormuz and again threaten...

From the ACLU -  Despite abhorrent conditions and increasing deaths in ICE detention, the Trump administration’s new warehouse detention system would increase capacity to 96,000 people and undoubtedly lead to continued abuse.

192 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  This article was originally published as part of the Undark series “What I Left Out.” In this installment, journalist Beth Gardiner shares a story that didn’t make it into her recent book, Plastic In...

From the ACLU -  The ACLU is at the Supreme Court for oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara. Follow live coverage of the fight to defend birthright citizenship.

193 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  President Trump signed an executive order on Saturday calling for the acceleration of research on certain psychedelic drugs as treatments for depression and other conditions. Podcaster Joe Rogan stoo...

From the ACLU -  Legislation includes a “duty of loyalty” of participants in an ID system to individuals

194 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  The Department of Homeland Security just rolled out a new website for its city-occupying task forces that looks, more than anything, like a vibe-coded pitch deck. Launched on Friday, HSTF.gov was fir...

From the ACLU -  Follow for live coverage of the nationwide peaceful protests to condemn President Trump's escalating abuses of power.

195 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  Elon Musk has long been in an on-again, off-again relationship with the moon. Though just last year he called it “a distraction”—saying his focus was shifting exclusively to Mars—he now seems to be r...

From the ACLU -  As the ACLU fights to protect people’s privacy, playwright Matthew Libby discusses his play about the private companies fueling the government’s surveillance of immigrants.

196 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Picture yourself in a windswept forest. Leaves are rustling and trunks are creaking as t...

From Citizens for Ethics -  The post CREW statement on Southern Poverty Law Center appeared first on CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

197 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  In June, a sharp-suited Austrian executive from a global surveillance company told a prospective client that he could “go to prison” for organizing the deal they were discussing. But the conversation...

From Citizens for Ethics -  The post CREW statement on Cherfilus-McCormick resignation appeared first on CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

198 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  Hasan Piker’s name is everywhere. Not because he won an election or passed legislation. Not because he’s a big sports star or an astronaut. It’s because he won’t stop yapping—and scores of people won...

From Citizens for Ethics -  The post Congress must use this moment to finally establish a clear standard for expulsion  appeared first on CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

199 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  The AI infrastructure reckoning has until recently stayed local, its battles fought in the relatively puny arenas of town council and zoning commission meetings. But the pushback to hyperscale data c...