2025 12 09 CNN
Senate to vote on GOP health care bill that does not extend expiring Obamacare tax credits
Category: Articles of Note
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State of Maine
2025 12 22, Maine Public Radio
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration’s policy changes for homeless services2025 05 06, The American Journal News
Paul LePage, a Medicaid critic, launches congressional bid in Maine2021 11 21, The Portland Press Herald
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Trump Administration
2025 12 15, The Washington Post
Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’2025 12 12, Associated Press
Justice Department sues 4 more states for access to detailed voter data2025 12 12, CNN
24 hours that showed the limits of Trump’s power2025 12 09, The Dallas Express
War Department Launches New GenAI.mil Platform With Google’s Gemini For Government2025 11 12, The Washington Post
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols2025 11 11, The Washington Post
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols2025 11 06, The New York Times
I.R.S. Halts Free Online Offering for Filing Taxes Directly2025 09 30 Military Times
Trump suggests using US cities as ‘training grounds’ for military2025 09 30, The New Republic
Hegseth Summoned Military Leaders to Say “FAFO” in Disturbing Speech2025 06 10, Associated Press
Army restores the names of seven bases that lost their Confederate-linked names under Biden
2025 05 20, National Public Radio
DHS secretary misstates meaning of habeas corpus under Senate scrutiny2025 05 09, Associated Press
Pentagon directs military to pull library books that address diversity, anti-racism, gender issues
2024 07 04, Politico
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ICE & the Occupation of American Cities
2025 12 17, Wired
Border Patrol Bets on Small Drones to Expand US Surveillance Reach2025 11 08, NPR
Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people2025 11 07, The Intercept
Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising2025 10 30, Futurism
ICE Is Now Wandering the Streets, Scanning People’s Faces to Check If They’re Citizens2025 07 12, New York Times (gift)
ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New FundsLos Angeles:
2025 12 10, Associated Press
Judge orders Trump to end California National Guard troop deployment in Los Angeles2025 07 21, Associated Press
Pentagon pulls back more National Guard troops and leaves behind 250 in Los Angeles2025 06 11, Associated Press
About 500 National Guard troops in LA are trained to accompany agents on immigration raids2025 06 09, Associated Press
Pentagon draws up rules on possible use of force by Marines deployed to LA protestsChicago:
U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino walks with agents after detaining a person while conducting an immigration enforcement operation in Little Village on Dec. 16, 2025. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) 2025 12 16, The Chicago Tribune
Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and agents return to Chicago in show of force across city and suburbs2025 11 19, New York Times (gift)
Appeals Court Blocks Limits on Federal Agents’ Use of Force in Chicago Area2025 11 17, Associated Press
Hundreds of National Guard troops deployed to Portland and Chicago are being sent home2025 10 06,The Economist (gift)
What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism2025 10 29, The Economist (gift)
Tear gas and Halloween costumes in America’s third-largest cityPortland:
2025 11 17, Associated Press
Hundreds of National Guard troops deployed to Portland and Chicago are being sent home2027 11 07, Associated Press
Judge rules Trump administration failed to meet legal requirements for deploying troops to Portland2027 11 02, Associated Press
Judge again bars Trump administration from deploying troops to Portland
Jack Dickinson wears a chicken suit to protest in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday. Dickinson says he has been either protesting or doing advocacy work since March, including helping immigrants with peer support and know-your-rights information. (Casey Parks/The Washington Post) 2025 09 28, Washington Post
Is Portland ‘War ravaged’ as Trump claims? Here’s what residents say.Charlotte:
2025 11 15, NBC News
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NYT: ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds
After the passage of President Trump’s domestic policy law, the Department of Homeland Security is poised to hire thousands of new immigration agents and double detention space.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz
Reporting from Washington
- Published July 12, 2025 Updated July 13, 2025
Thousands of new deportation agents deployed into American cities. A doubling of detention space to hold tens of thousands of immigrants before they are expelled. Miles of new border wall, along with surveillance towers equipped with artificial intelligence.
That is the expansive plan that President Trump’s top immigration officials now intend to enact after months of struggling to overcome staffing shortages and logistical hurdles that have stymied his pledge to record the most deportations in American history.
After weeks of pressuring members of Congress into supporting his signature domestic policy legislation, Mr. Trump has secured an extraordinary injection of funding for his immigration agenda — $170 billion, the vast majority of which will go to the Department of Homeland Security over four years.
The annual budget of Immigration and Customs Enforcement alone will spike from about $8 billion to roughly $28 billion, making it the highest funded law enforcement agency in the federal government.
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BDN: Cruelty is becoming a defining quality of America
Updated Cruel.
There’s no other way to describe the priorities and policies of the Trump administration and the Republicans who support them.
The so-called Big Beautiful Bill Act (the ridiculous name given to a tax, spend and social services cut package to echo what President Donald Trump called the bill) that passed the Republican-controlled House and Senate this week will result in nearly 12 million people losing their health care over the next decade. More than 50,000 people are predicted to die unnecessarily each year because of provisions in the bill. Millions of Americans, many of them children, will see their food aid cut.
Support for clean energy, which will help address rising utility bills and avert pollution that is worsening climate change, will be eliminated.
At the same time, the richest Americans will get huge tax breaks and spending on immigrant round ups and deportations will increase more than three-fold. Funding for immigration detention facilities increased 13-fold…..
