Similar dynamics on micro-display in Missouri: the stateās voters elected anti-labor Republican officials who passed RTW legislation, but the same voters blocked the law via referendum.
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If you want to support news that doesn't tell you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears, help @thexylom.com hire a full-time Managing Editor so I can have more support reporting on Trump's assault on evidence-based policy and democracy:
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The Trace spoke to veteran researchers who explained that the presidentās strategy to decrease crime in urban cities ignores leading public health research, and sidelines critical suicide prevention efforts.
Read more: thetr.ac/Cti2X
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The Strangerās follow up piece on the protest itself is also a thoughtful extension (and theyāre one of few Seattle publications doing consistent or insightful protest coverage).
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/08...
Christian Supremacist Sean Feucht Flops at Gas Works
At his Christian supremacist “Revive in 25” prayer rally at Gas Works Park on Saturday, there were no fist fights to film. No “trans terrorism,” or demonic forces. No suppressi...
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Iām not actively covering this, but this Stranger piece seems consistent with (and in context of) what Iāve heard from local organizers. Activists were concerned that there wasnāt enough planning against these specific tactics in the May protest, and that arrestees were put at unnecessary risk.
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Weāre suing the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service for records that could shed light on Trumpās politicized use of federal power in D.C., from enforcing cruel immigration policies to deploying the military against protesters. americanoversight.org/american-ove...
American Oversight Sues for Records on Trumpās Federal Power Grab Targeting D.C. and Immigrant Communities - American Oversight
American Oversight demands transparency on Trumpās politicized use of federal power ā from immigration enforcement to the unprecedented federalization of D.C. Police.
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The website that I co-own Defector.com is hosting a RARE sale where you get three months of blogs for just $5! Thatās something like 600 blogs for FIVE AMERICAN DOLLARS. Pretty good deal imo and you get to support worker-owned media.
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New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
āScan your faceā laws for the web are having unexpected consequences
The new age-verification laws in the United States and United Kingdom have brought some surprising downsides, including soaring traffic to seedy parts of the web.
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Police "buffer zone" laws, which interfere with journalistsā right to report on law enforcement activity, have been pursued in multiple states ā and @rcfp.org attorneys have helped news outlets fight back against them.
The state of play in the legal battle over police ābuffer zoneā laws
RCFP's Grayson Clary discusses the significance of the Seventh Circuitās ruling in Indiana's buffer zone case and the warning it sends to state legislatures.
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When todayās far-right pundits use concerns about natural resource scarcity to push the anti-immigrant āgreat replacement theory,ā theyāre using a playbook created decades earlier by environmentalist and white nationalist John Tanton.
(Published Oct. 2024)
Far-Right Extremists Embrace Environmentalism to Justify Violent Anti-Immigrant Beliefs
Climate change and anti-immigrant hate are colliding, foretelling a volatile future.
