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In case you missed it, here is the ProPublica investigation the Commish was responding to:

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The NYPD Commissioner Responded to Our Story That Revealed He’s Burying Police Brutality Cases. We Fact-Check Him. Commissioner Caban identified no inaccuracies in our investigation but instead argued it was unfair and that he’s “in compliance” with the guidelines. Our reporting shows otherwise.

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“Paxton’s decision to sue Annunciation House came against the backdrop of a yearslong effort by right-wing Christian groups and figures to paint immigrants as part of a Democratic plot to undermine American Christianity — despite a large percentage of migrants being Christian.”

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Judge Denies Texas Attorney General’s Efforts to Use Consumer Protection Law to Shut Down a Migrant Shelter Annunciation House is one of more than a dozen organizations Ken Paxton has investigated using the state’s powerful consumer protection laws.

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The NYPD restored more than 2,000 missing discipline records to its public database of uniformed officers, weeks after ProPublica revealed data reliability issues. But it also removed case numbers, making future oversight more difficult.

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The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system.

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The Failure to Track Data on Stillbirths Undermines Efforts to Prevent Them

Fetal death records are often missing cause of death, race and other crucial information. ProPublica found that the problem is only getting worse.

www.propublica.org/article/stil...

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If you're looking for some digestible (if infuriating) background on how the right wing corrupted the US judicial system, I recommend @propublica.bsky.social's podcast "We Don't Talk About Leonard."

Hate to say it, but climate activists now need to care a whole lot about reforming the courts.

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The Failure to Track Data on Stillbirths Undermines Efforts to Prevent Them

Fetal death records are often missing cause of death, race and other crucial information. ProPublica found that the problem is only getting worse.

www.propublica.org/article/stil...

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Conservatives Go to War — Against Each Other — Over School Vouchers School choice advocates are intent on expanding the availability of vouchers to fund private education at the expense of public schools, but rural residents of these targeted states are putting up some of the strongest resistance.

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"Yet private schools face almost none of the accountability that public schools do regarding how the money is spent and what outcomes it achieves."

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Conservatives Go to War — Against Each Other — Over School Vouchers School choice advocates are intent on expanding the availability of vouchers to fund private education at the expense of public schools, but rural residents of these targeted states are putting up some of the strongest resistance.

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Julia Kane's avatar Julia Kane @juliakane.bsky.social
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Orphaned wells are a climate and public health nightmare. The oil industry continues to dump *billions* in cleanup costs onto taxpayers and is fighting reform efforts.

Fantastic reporting by Mark Olalde for @propublica.bsky.social on an issue that rarely gets the attention it deserves:

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"But when the two sides can’t agree, they go to battle in a system created by the CMS and other government agencies. There, an independent arbiter weighs various factors and determines the final payment amount. This arbitration is at the heart of many of the law’s unintended consequences."

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NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban has prevented the cases of 54 officers from going to trial in his roughly one year in office — far more than any other commissioner, according to an analysis of Civilian Complaint Review Board data.

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New York City’s Police Commissioner Edward Caban has repeatedly used a little-known authority called “retention” to prevent officers accused of misconduct from facing public disciplinary trials. Victims are never told their cases have been buried.

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An NYPD officer grabbed Brianna Villafane by the hair and pulled her to the ground.

The agency that examines police abuse allegations concluded that the officer’s conduct could constitute a crime.

Then the police commissioner intervened.

www.propublica.org/article/nypd...

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This is such an important story on plastics recycling. I wanted to echo Lisa's description of the games being played with "mass balance" and "free attribution" methods — the means by which the plastics industry makes weak claims about recycled plastic content — as similar to offsets.

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"Federal laws and agency rules require that tribes be able to weigh in on decisions that affect their treaty lands. But in practice, consultation procedures sometimes force tribes to reveal information that makes them more vulnerable, without offering any guaranteed benefit."

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In a Push for Green Energy, One Federal Agency Made Tribes an Offer They Had to Refuse The Yakama Nation wanted to consult on the development of a project on sacred land. But when the tribal nation refused to disclose confidential information, the agency moved forward without tribal input.

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"The documents reveal that the government’s 1950s era of dam building on the Columbia was marked not by a failure to consider tribal impacts, but rather by a well-informed and intentional disregard for Native people."

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“But here’s what’s not in the report: The injuries to Native people were not just an unforeseen byproduct of federal dam building. They were, in fact, taken into account at the time. And federal leaders considered that damage a good thing.[…] government documents from the 1940s and 1950s ….”👇🏽

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The Federal Government Just Acknowledged the Harm Its Dams Have Caused Tribes. Here’s What It Left Out.

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These Researchers Study the Legacy of the Segregation Academies They Grew Up Around Three young academics in Alabama are examining these mostly white private schools through the lenses of economics, education and history to better understand the persistent division of schools in the South.

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The Federal Government Just Acknowledged the Harm Its Dams Have Caused Tribes. Here’s What It Left Out.

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These Researchers Study the Legacy of the Segregation Academies They Grew Up Around Three young academics in Alabama are examining these mostly white private schools through the lenses of economics, education and history to better understand the persistent division of schools in the South.

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Michael Squires's avatar Michael Squires @mgsquires.bsky.social
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As states seek to require drillers to set aside more money to plug aging wells, they have invited the industry to help write regulations. This dynamic combined with industry lobbying have weakened or killed proposals in state after state. t.co/4ABYKcL3Tj

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If you haven't had the time to read our new investigation into Microsoft's cybersecurity failings, a full audio version of the story is now available for you to listen to 🎧
www.propublica.org/article/micr...

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has campaigned against members of his own party who do not support school voucher programs. This fall, he may finally get the votes needed to pass a bill that would be a win for the Christian conservative donors who have spent decades lobbying for it.

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Per person? "Tuition for residential students is $316,400 this school year. Many students require a dedicated aide for 16 hours a day, bringing the total to $573,200."

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How does a plastic product that only contains 10% recycled material get to claim that it actually contains 33% recycled material? The industry's creative accounting, explained ⤵️

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has campaigned against members of his own party who do not support school voucher programs. This fall, he may finally get the votes needed to pass a bill that would be a win for the Christian conservative donors who have spent decades lobbying for it.

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The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled.

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What's punching me in my limbic system's gut right now is...just three states.

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