curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Christopher Hale:
Pope Leo XIV Meets the Chicago Catholics Who Sued Trump to Minister to ICE Detainees
The Chicago delegation carried a banner quoting his call for a “holy rebellion” and handed him letters from detainees. Leo has now cast his own midterm ballot, and the dignity of immigrants is on it.
Bryce Newberry @ KPRC:
Harris County grand jury indicts ICE agent in crash that injured man
Edgar Sandoval @ NY Times:
Houston Grand Jury Indicts ICE Agent on Charges of Ramming Man in Chase
The agent is facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The immigrant who was struck is recovering from severe leg injuries.
Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – October 30, 2026
Not much from me tonight, but I do want to call out the political signs reading “Stop Fraud: Vote Republican” I saw today as I left Maine. They seemed especially audacious in light of today’s news from Ernesto Londoño of the New York Times that last summer the Department of Homeland Security paid more than $495 million for a 1,600-bed prison the state of Minnesota declined to purchase a year ago for the asking price of $75 million—or even “a fraction of that price.”
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Richard Luscombe @ Guardian:
RFK Jr assailed over ‘wildly racist tirade’ about Arabs at Michigan campaign stopUS health secretary falsely claims at Mike Rogers rally that Arabs have never won major prizes in science or literature
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“There’s 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don’t produce science, they don’t win the Nobel prize, they don’t win the Fields prize, they don’t win the Wolf prize, they don’t produce literature,” Kennedy said.A factcheck published on Tuesday by the Associated Press showed that Arabs have won, or been shortlisted, for all those awards in recent years.
Omar M. Yaghi – Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar:
The Government Really Is Here to Help
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Malcolm Ferguson @ TNR:
Ken Paxton’s Office Sues Over Efforts to Get People of Color to VoteThe Republican attorney general—and Senate candidate—is upset as Texas’s biggest county shatters early voting records.
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Jason Easley:
The US Attorney for Alaska was asked what the DOJ is investigating in the Alaska Senate election, whether a crime had been committed, and to refer to a statute that was violated. He couldn’t do it.
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Haley Fuller @ Military.com:
Hegseth’s Firing of Pentagon War Planner Over Alleged Leaks Follows His Own Signal Scandal
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James Eagle:
SpaceX outlaunches all governments
(James Eagle more…)
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Matt Mullenweg:
Nasdaq Composite % Change 10 years After Netscape vs @ChatGPT
(Matt Mullenweg more…)
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Benjamin Skuse @ IEEE Spectrum:
I Used AI to Fake a Scientific PaperMy experiment with an IEEE journal revealed AI’s threats to scholarly publishing
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Ann-Marie Corvin @ cybernews:
China-linked hackers exploit PHP2Shell to breach US government networkIonut Arghire @ Security Week:
PHP2Shell Attacks Root Palo Alto Firewalls but Fail Against WordPressVittoria Elliott @ Wired:
A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System
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
- October 17: Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias
- September 18: Carlos Josue Marchena Marchena
- August 31: Pierre Damas Bel
- 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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