curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Marvin Olasky:
Learning about homelessness
I’ve learned a lot by staying for 3-6 days at a time in homeless shelters and villages —Texas, Missouri, Colorado, and California — and by interviewing many among the unhoused in New York, Chicago, and Washington.
There but for Friends and Family Go I
Lack of relationships is as important as lack of money in determining who becomes homeless.
Homelessness Is More Than ‘Mascots’
We can’t understand the big picture by reporting only the most sympathetic cases.
From an Old Addiction Baseline to a New Epidemic
Introducing Jeremiah and others on the drugs-to-homelessness pipeline.
(Marvin Olasky more…)
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Catherine Rampell @ Bulwark:
One of America’s most trusted institutions just put its name on a totally bogus voter-fraud report.Joyce Vance:
They’re Building The Excuse NowGideon M-K:
COVID-19 Vaccines And Excess Mortality – Why Does Scientific Correction Take Such A Long Time?
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Stephanie Guilloud @ Waging Nonviolence:
Atlanta offers a model for building sanctuaryBy creating “Sanctuary Zones” that refuse to cooperate with ICE or police, a coalition in Atlanta is building the infrastructure to practice real community safety.
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Noah Hurowitz @ Intercept:
ICE Worked With Iranian Regime to Set Up Deportation Flights as Trump Laid Plans for WarInternal emails indicate immigration agents complied with an Iranian request to hand over specific nationals — and accidentally sent the wrong person to Iran.
(Noah Hurowitz @ Intercept more…)David Bacon @ Truthout:
Union-Busters Are Using ICE to Intimidate California Wine Industry WorkersCalifornia’s wine industry runs on immigrant exploitation. Now migrant workers are unionizing.
Colin Kalmbacher @ Law & Crime:
Judge slams Trump admin for relying on multiple mistakes in case where ICE tried to deport man for opening beer inside convenience storeJosh Boswell @ CBS:
He spied for the U.S. in the war on terror. Now ICE wants to deport him.I infiltrated al-Qaeda for the CIA. This month, I was arrested by ICE
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Prem Thakker @ Zeteo:
Israel Finally Admits to Killing Hind Rajab. 933 Days LaterOmar Suleiman @ RNS:
Hind Rajab was killed while pleading for help in a car with her six dead relatives. On Wednesday (Aug. 19), the Israeli military acknowledged for the first time its firing on the car.
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Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – August 20, 2026On Saturday, August 15, the New York Times editorial board published an op-ed noting that the Republicans are trying to hide the cuts they have made to health care in the U.S.
…The Trump administration seems to have embraced Sumner’s belief that the nation depends upon the survival of the fittest.
…In the 1890s, the determination of those like William Graham Sumner to keep government out of society in order to promote individualism had undermined public health and safety. Producers adulterated tuberculosis-carrying milk with chalk and formaldehyde, decorated candy with lead paint, and scooped melted ice cream off the bottom of the vat to refreeze for sale the next day, and what was in sausage meat was a terrifying mystery.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Dave Philipps @ NY Times:
Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to SlaughterA legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
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James Eagle:
US Employers Unexpectedly Cut Jobs in July
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Edith Olmsted @ TNR:
Why Did Natalie Harp Wait Over a Year to Get a Security Clearance?
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Luke Broadwater, Ann E. Marimow @ NY Times:
Trump’s Ballroom Is Rising at Breakneck Speed: 20 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week
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Pandora Dewan @ Live Science:
Out-of-control SpaceX rocket carved a 60-foot crater into the moon, NASA images reveal
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Emanuel Maiberg @ 404 Media:
Subtlefakes: Slightly Altered Nonconsensual AI Images Are Taking Over X
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Decoding Fox News:
A condensed overview of 16 hours of Fox News for the week ending 8/16/26
Climate Solutions Explorer
Have I Been Flocked?
Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting
resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak
Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
Mike Ludwig @ truthout: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That’s an Undercount.
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
- August 1: Edwin Lopez-Cornejo
- July 19: Jose Chajon-Raxon
- July 14: Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran
- July 13: Joan Sebastian Guerrero
- July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
- June 4: Mamuka Artmeladze
- 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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