curated news excerpts & citations
Juliet Jeske @ Decoding Fox News:
The Department of Justice is Scrubbing its Website of Documents Related to January 6th Crimes
Thanks to a tip by Aaron Parnas I learned that the DOJ had purged its website of documents related to crimes involving the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The Trump administration is trying to re-write history again. These documents regarding the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol should not be hidden from the public.
On January 6, 2021 Trump supporters were trying to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power. According to witness testimony Donald J. Trump sat in the White House dining room and watched the massive melee unfold on Fox News.
[May 23 “Page not found”:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/court-sentences-two-oath-keepers-leaders-18-years-prison-seditious-conspiracy-and-other]
[May 8 Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260508010430/https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/court-sentences-two-oath-keepers-leaders-18-years-prison-seditious-conspiracy-and-other]
Eric Tucker @ AP: Trump’s Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defedants
C.J. Ciaramella @ reason: A Florida Detention Center Was the Harshest in the Country. Then ICE Stopped Tracking Details on Use of Force.
Brian Allen: Inside the New Immigration Shockwave: What Trump’s Reported Green Card Policy Shift Could Mean for Millions
María Teresita Armstrong-Matta @ RawStory: Trump’s plan to ban voting machines collapses due to lack of evidence
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Matthew Jordan @ Conversation: As goes CBS Radio News, so goes the idea that news media should serve the public interest
When CBS Radio News [went] silent on May 23, 2026, Americans [lost] access to news programming they’ve tuned into from their living rooms, kitchens and cars for nearly a century.
(Matthew Jordan @ Conversation more…)
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Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz @ Inside Climate News: Wildfire Crews Race to Keep Fierce California Blaze From Former Nuclear Reactor Site
Shifting winds placed a former nuclear reactor and rocket testing site in the path of the growing Sandy Fire. The region’s first major blaze of the season raised alarm from families aware of the site’s history and spotty cleanup.
(Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz @ Inside Climate News more…)Eric Licas, Hailey Branson Potts, Allen J. Schaben @ L.A. Times: A night of fear, confusion as thousands flee their homes in O.C. amid chemical crisis
Becky Ferreira @ 404 Media: ‘Corpse Point’ In the Arctic Is Melting, Disturbing Centuries-Old Bodies
Whalers buried in the Norwegian Arctic in the 1600s and 1700s are thawing out of the permafrost, underscoring the threat of climate change to archaeological sites around the world.
Todd Woody @ Bloomberg: ‘Move-in Ready’ Means Green for This City’s Homebuyers
Berkeley, California, now requires that homes for sale meet an emissions-saving threshold.
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Hannah Totte, MPH and Elisabeth Marnik, PhD @ Your Local Epidemiologist: From questions to confidence: What changed my mind on vaccines
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- Changing minds takes time.
- Vaccine decisions play into identity.
- Close the language gap.
- Get genuinely curious about sources.
- You don’t have to be a doctor to be a trusted messenger.
Elisabeth Marnik: I Grew Up Unvaccinated. Now I’m an Immunologist.
… Eventually, the stories I had grown up with that said scientists were corrupt and that vaccines were worse than the diseases they protect against no longer held up to my scrutiny.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 23, 2026
President Donald J. Trump’s proposed triumphal arch would sit at a rotary on the Virginia side of the Arlington Memorial Bridge between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The proposed arch obscures the Lincoln Memorial, built to honor the president who steered the country safely through the Civil War, but perfectly frames Arlington House, the mansion built by enslaved Americans and once owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The arch does not frame the nation’s honored dead, but frames instead the home of the man who led the armies of the Confederacy that killed them.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy @ Conversation: Today’s bans on DIY repairs of everything from cell phones to tractors grew out of Hollywood’s fear of videotaping
If you have ever tried to repair something, realized that it was beyond your financial or technical means, and ended up buying a new one, you are not alone. Repairing electronics and household appliances has not been a real option in the United States for decades now, particularly for items that have proprietary software in them.
Absurd situations have proliferated. It can cost about the same to buy a new printer as it does to replace the ink cartridge. The U.S. Department of Defense cannot repair the weapons systems it purchases because the intellectual property rights remain with the manufacturer. John Deere, the farming equipment company, doesn’t allow farmers to access the software needed to repair their own combines and tractors because, while the purchase covers the physical machinery, it does not cover the software.
(Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy @ Conversation more…)
resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak
Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
April 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide - January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
Suffering Under President Obama
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks’ journey to Washington
Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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