curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
James Eagle:
China’s economy grew 4.5% in the three months to September compared with a year earlier.
What’s really interesting when you look at this chart is just how steady that economic growth has been. Despite a complex and constantly changing economic environment, China has continued to maintain a healthy level of economic growth.
Konrad Putzier @ WSJ:
U.S. Economy Accelerated This Summer Despite High Gas Prices
3.4% growth was driven by both businesses and consumers
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ACLU of Oregon:
ACLU Releases Video of ICE Agent Slashing Observers’ TireTwo Portland-area residents filed an administrative complaint with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) today describing how ICE agents tailed and boxed them in with vehicles and slashed their car’s tire after they observed and filmed agents in a parking lot in Hillsboro, a suburb of Portland, Oregon.
(ACLU of Oregon more…)
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Daniel Johnson, Austin Campbell @ Intercept:
Pentagon Records Missed Almost Half of Troops’ Domestic Abuse Killings…
A killing qualified for the dataset if it occurred in fiscal years 2019 to 2024; if the perpetrator was a member of the military at the time of the crime; and if the case involved a homicide. The database only includes cases where a victim of the violence had dated or was in a romantic relationship with the suspected perpetrator, and it includes multiple women living abroad who were foreign citizens dating American troops.
(Daniel Johnson, Austin Campbell @ Intercept more…)
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Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – October 29, 2026Flávio Bolsonaro’s escape from Brazil to Miami turns out to have been arranged, in part, by White House officials including Trump advisor Jason Miller, who arranged for a charter jet to take the Bolsonaros from Argentina to Florida.
…Trump has refused to recognize Lula’s victory, suggesting that the votes against the right-wing Bolsonaro were rigged. But, as the Wall Street Journal reporters add, it is unclear how much political capital he will be willing to expend on propping up Bolsonaro’s pretensions to power.
Trump’s own energies have been devoted to trying to project authority and power, but he has succeeded primarily in illustrating that he is far more concerned with his development projects than with what’s going on in the White House. …
…Trump is paying less attention to the affairs of government. Today, when asked about claims that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had fired Lieutenant General Sylvia for leaking classified information from the Pentagon, Trump responded: “She’s got problems. She’s gonna have big problems. She did. We’re very much looking for leakers and ah, she’s going to have big problems. Long-term problems.”
Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, the director for strategy, plans, and policy on the joint staff that advises the president on military issues, is a man.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Joyce Vance:
An Epic Opinion From Judge Carter
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Kellen Browning @ NY Times:
Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s BallotJames FitzGerald, Kayla Epstein @ BBC:
Alaska governor orders probe into Democratic campaign’s alleged links to same-name candidateMarkie Martin, Caroline Jaime @ NewsNation:
Alaska governor calls for investigation into Democratic Senate candidate
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Marisa Kabas:
I talked to Tom, the viral ‘Jonestown’ Trump rally guyHe planned to make good trouble. But he didn’t expect to be handed a Fox News mic.
(Marisa Kabas more…)
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Marcy Wheeler:
The SPLC Breakup Gone Wrong Went REALLY REALLY Wrong
The January 6Memory Project
ICE Detention Expansion Tracker
A field guide to claims
Last Days in Two Nations
Climate.us
formerly Climate.gov
Climate Solutions Explorer
Have I Been Flocked?
Cleanview Data Center Traker
Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting
resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak
Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
Mourning Those Who Have Died in ICE Custody
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
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- July 14: Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran
- July 13: Joan Sebastian Guerrero
- July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
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- 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
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- 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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