Semafor • Oct 10, 2025
Senate passes defense bill, shutdown or no shutdown
The defense authorization bill contains language to lift sanctions on Syria, revamp housing regulations, and scrutinize investments in China.
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Mother Jones • Oct 9, 2025
The Vast, Terrifying Scale of Trump’s Detention State
For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here. When Congress passed […]
Mother Jones • Oct 9, 2025
American Gulag
An army of masked ICE agents snatching people when they show up to work, to church, to their child’s day care, to immigration court. A return of family separations. That deportation flight ASMR video the White House posted on X. Kristi Noem posing in front of tattooed detainees at El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. When […]
Mother Jones • Oct 9, 2025
Inside the Hell of Alligator Alcatraz
For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here. When the Alligator […]
Mother Jones • Oct 9, 2025
“Fired for No Reason”: Former Immigration Judges Speak Out Against Trump’s Assault on the Courts
On a Friday afternoon in early September, Anam Rahman Petit sat in the Annandale immigration court in Virginia, ready to announce an oral decision on a complex family asylum case. Then, she got an email. It was a notice from the director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)—the Department of Justice’s agency that […]
Semafor • Oct 9, 2025
Americans sour on government agencies like FEMA: Poll
The rating for the Department of Homeland Security has improved, however, driven by Republican satisfaction.
Semafor • Oct 9, 2025
Europe’s AI rules slow tech startups while US speeds ahead, report finds
Nearly 60% of European tech startups said they’ve experienced delays in product development due to regulations, compared to 44% of small US companies, The App Association found.
Semafor • Oct 9, 2025
US government shutdown may last into next week
The Senate may head home for the weekend.
Semafor • Oct 8, 2025
Europe restricts language used to describe non-meat products
A growing backlash from meat producers is influencing politicians worldwide.
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ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − accused of violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th amendment rights − are testing whether the Constitution can survive
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Congress has exercised minimal oversight over ICE, but that might change
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Medicare is experimenting with having AI review claims – a cost-saving measure that could risk denying needed care
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Kristi Noem’s Throttling of FEMA Funds Constitutes a Preventable Disaster
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American Reich: Kristi Noem’s DHS is the Department of Homeland Subjugation
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Federal power meets local resistance in Minneapolis – a case study in how federalism staves off authoritarianism
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Report: Education Department’s “Efficiency” Layoffs Cost At Least $28 Million
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Trump Goes Public With Plan to “Take Over” Elections
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Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working moms
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