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· U.S. Citizens Seek Millions in Damages After Violent ICE Arrests
· Trump Bashed Other Countries for Their Immigrant Crime Rates. Here’s Why He Didn’t Mention the U.S.
· California Got This One Right: ICE Agents Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Wear Masks
· Trump Administration Is on Track to Cut 1 in 3 EPA Staffers by the End of 2025, Slashing Agency’s Ability to Keep Pollution Out of Air and Water
· Trump’s Executive Order Against ‘Political Violence’ Is an Un-American Attack on Free Speech
· Security Researchers Say G1 Humanoid Robots Are Secretly Sending Information to China and Can Easily Be Hacked
· Flood-Prone Houston Faces Hard Choices for Handling Too Much Water
· How House Republicans Plan to Rewrite History of Jan. 6
· FEMA Is Paralyzed. Disaster-Torn Communities Are Paying the Price.
· The Nonsense and the Menace
U.S. Citizens Seek Millions in Damages After Violent ICE Arrests (USATODAY)
A 79-year-old California car wash owner and a US citizen are among those seeking millions from the government after agents tackled him to the ground.
Trump Bashed Other Countries for Their Immigrant Crime Rates. Here’s Why He Didn’t Mention the U.S. (Alex Nowrasteh, Reason / CATO)
Trump railed against migrant crime abroad but skipped U.S. stats—because immigrants here are locked up far less often than native-born Americans.
California Got This One Right: ICE Agents Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Wear Masks (Steven Greenhut, Reason)
Masked agents are the unmistakable sign of a police state.
Trump Administration Is on Track to Cut 1 in 3 EPA Staffers by the End of 2025, Slashing Agency’s Ability to Keep Pollution Out of Air and Water (Elizabeth Blum and Chris Sellers, The Conversation)
As Congress faces a Sept. 30, 2025, deadline to fund the federal government, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has put the EPA on the chopping block. But even before Congress decides about the administration’s recommendations to slash its staff, the EPA’s political leaders have made even more significant cuts to the agency’s workforce.
And a look at past efforts to cut EPA staff shows how rapidly those changes can affect Americans’ health and the environment.
Using publicly available government databases and a collection of in-depth interviews with current and former EPA employees, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, a group of volunteer academics that we are a part of, has begun to put some numbers behind what many have suspected. Zeldin’s cuts have diminished the EPA’s staffing levels, even before Congress has had a chance to weigh in, affecting the environment, public health and government transparency.
Trump’s Executive Order Against ‘Political Violence’ Is an Un-American Attack on Free Speech (Joe Lancaster, Reason)
The order lists “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity” as common threads among “domestic terrorists,” though all are protected by the First Amendment.
