Text on graphic reads: The Department of Justice has dropped 23,000 criminal cases while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term. -Nearly 5,000: federal drug cases, including trafficking and money laundering -Over 900: cases of federal program or procurement fraud -More than 1,300: cases involving terrorism and national security

The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of Trump’s second administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases.

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They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...

NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.

Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care.

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In today's episode of white people shit...

My calves are killing me from Monday and I’m sure my chest and shoulders will be done when I wake up after today’s workout. #blackskyfitness

Oliver 'Power' Grant, a founding member of Wu-Tang Clan, dead at 52 Grant's passing comes as the group was named a nominee for the 2026 class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

⚫️ "Oliver 'Power' Grant, a founding member of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, dies at 52"

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Why America Fails Adults Who Struggle to Read The nation’s approach to adult education has so far neglected to connect the millions of people struggling to read with the programs set up to help them.

A Fifth of American Adults Struggle to Read. Why Are We Failing to Teach Them?

(Published Dec. 2022)

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Farmer, 86, Rejects $15 Million Offer to Sell His Land to Data Center Developers: ‘Not Interested in Destroying My Farms’ Mervin Raudabaugh, an 86-year-old Pennsylvania man, is making headlines for turning down an offer of more than $15 million to sell his farmland to data center developers. He sold development rights to...

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A legend re-emerges just in time for Women's History Month

As the tributes to Jesse Jackson pour in, I think of Julian Bond’s remarks about Jackson’s two presidential campaigns: In 1984, Jesse Jackson had been the candidate of Black America; in 1988, he became the Black candidate of disaffected and alienated America -- unemployed meat packers and 1/

dispossessed farmers, urban Blacks and browns and rural whites, people with AIDS, farmworkers in southwestern fields, the elderly, the handicapped, women paid less than men for equal work -- a small but real Rainbow Coalition of many colors and many parts.” 2/

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o I started back at the gym at the end of January. I didn’t go to the gym last week and missed a lot the week before because of work. My workout was trash today but at least I went right? #blackskyfitness

Ain’t nothing soft about it.

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The IRS already has all your income tax data – so why do Americans still have to file their taxes? A tax expert explains why the US continues to use such a complex and costly income tax system.

The IRS already knows what you need to pay in taxes – so why doesn’t it just tell you instead of putting you through a costly and tax-consuming reporting process?

Answer: Because Congress is catering to tax prep companies.

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Florida mandates driver's license tests must be taken in English, eliminates other languages Starting Feb. 6, all printed tests in multiple languages and interpreter services for oral exams will be removed throughout the state.

Florida mandates driver's license tests must be taken in English, eliminates other languages

This change will begin on Friday, Feb. 6

The Wyden Siren: Senator’s Cryptic CIA Letter Follows A Pattern That’s Never Been Wrong

If you've been paying attention to surveillance and civil liberties issues over the past fifteen years, you've likely learned to recognize a particular pattern. Senator Ron Wyden will occasionally send a public…

Jimmy Kimmel had Don Lemon on his show tonight, and just the first minute of it captures the sad reality of our state of the union.

Trump Is Reverse Engineering The Great Recession Residential mortgage-backed securities are back. Subprime mortgages are up. Welcome to 2008 2.0.

Read the full story here ⬇️

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Former CNN anchor Don Lemon defended his coverage of an anti-ICE protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He told Jimmy Kimmel there is "a difference between a protester and a journalist" after the incident led to his arrest last week.

Read more: https://cnn.it/46vl5dF

Americans are 'justified in shooting' ICE agents mistaken for 'masked hoodlums': Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) suggested that Americans would be "justified in shooting" ICE agents if they mistook them for "masked hoodlums.""What is really the major problem in this country today is the fascism in our streets, the attacks on American citizens by masked hoodlums," Nadler told the House ...

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) suggested that Americans would be "justified in shooting" ICE agents if they mistook them for "masked hoodlums.

Georgia Fort Arrested After St. Paul Church Protest Georgia Fort arrested after federal agents executed a warrant tied to a St. Paul church protest she documented as a journalist.

Please also support Fort, Crews, and Lundy who may not have the same legal resources as Lemon. spokesman-recorder.com/2026/01/30/g...

Two people have been abducted from Scotland in the middle of the night by the US military. Despite an order from our highest court that they be kept here.

The Scottish Government must show that actions have consequences by evicting American troops from their base at publicly-owned Prestwick Airport