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TSA says PreCheck still operational after previous announcement of suspension
It was not immediately clear whether Global Entry, another airport service, would be affected. PreCheck and Global Entry are designed to help speed registered travelers through security lines, and suspensions would likely cause headaches and delays.
NPR
What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis
The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.
The Bulwark
In Gorsuch’s Homage to Legislative Power, a Subtle Reproach of a Neutered Congress
In his concurrence to the ruling invalidating President Trump’s tariffs, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch made a forceful case for the sanctity of the legislative process — and an implicit critique of its current dysfunction.
The New York Times
Age verification vendor Persona left frontend exposed, researchers say
To demonstrate the privacy implications, researchers took a closer look and found a publicly exposed Persona frontend on a US government–authorized server, with 2,456 accessible files.
You read that right. According to researcher “Celeste” the exposed code, which has now been removed, sat at a US government-authorized endpoint that appears to have been isolated from its regular work environment.
Malwarebytes Labs
Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: ‘We are Americans after all’
On a recent morning Eric Taylor, city manager for a small Georgia town of about 5,000 residents called Social Circle, was contacted by a staffer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the federal government recently purchased for $128m, with plans to use it for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation plan.
“I told them I’m not going to do it,” Taylor said. “Not until they come and talk to me.”
The Guardian
Trump aides struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on military
The White House budget chief was among those who internally objected to the defense secretary’s plan to increase military spending by roughly 50 percent, sources say.
The Washington Post
Biohackers and wellness influencers are pushing nicotine as part of their ‘stacks’
The stimulant that makes cigarettes so addictive is getting a reputational makeover
Stat News
The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents
“This is not a debate about rejecting technology,” Horvath wrote. “It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works. Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them.”
Fortune
N.J. Democrats Send Coarse but Clear Message to ICE With New Bill
Named the Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered act, the legislation, known by its blunt acronym, would expand residents’ rights under state law to sue immigration officials for unconstitutional conduct.
The New York Times
Only a fraction of House seats are competitive. Redistricting is driving that lower
“Right now, we only rate 18 out of 435 races as toss ups, which means that less than 5% of Americans will truly be deciding who’s in control of the House,” David Wasserman, senior elections analyst for the Cook Political Report, told NPR.
NPR
Decline in remote jobs risks shutting disabled people out of work, study finds
Research project warns fall in homeworking roles could undermine efforts to reduce unemployment
The Guardian
When judges have to cite Orwell in their rulings, our descent into dystopia is self-evident
This worry, on an otherwise bright February week in east central Kansas when snow and ice was just a memory, was yet another example of dystopia at the doorstep. This “show me your papers” strategy is one long favored by authoritarian regimes, past and present. The goal is to discourage voting by making it as difficult, or as risky, as possible. Also, the SAVE Act neatly folds into the Trumpian obsession with who is and who isn’t American, a centerpiece of his tinpot regime from the beginning of his second term. The Supreme Court will hear challenges to his executive order to end birthright citizenship on April 1. This is so mind-numbing I don’t even have a joke for the date. Words and reason appear poised to fail us, given the current bench.
Florida Phoenix
I’m a philosopher who tries to see the best in others – but I know there are limits
My field, philosophy, offers a tried-and-true answer to what we need to do in order to understand people and texts from very different backgrounds and cultural assumptions than our own. We need to be charitable.
The Conversation
Ghosts in the machine: Congressional watchdog finds significant gaps in federal health care and disability data
By not collecting data from disabled people regarding health care accessibility, the GAO writes that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “may not adequately track its progress or be held accountable for meeting its own strategic goals.”
Prism
The Constitutionality of the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management’s latest rule calls into question the constitutionality of tenure protections for federal employees.
Lawfare
Q&A: Richard A. Freeman Jr. on building a national dance career and his D.C. roots
The Duke Ellington School of the Arts graduate was recently named artistic director of the country’s fourth-largest Black dance company.
The 51st
We Need to Talk About the Right’s New Voter Suppression Target: Women
The SAVE Act would make it harder for married women in particular to vote, and that is just one part of the MAGA right’s misogynist project.
LiberalCurrents
“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.
Even counting people flagged in error, the first bulk searches using SAVE haven’t validated the president’s claims that voting by noncitizens is widespread. At least seven states with a total of about 35 million registered voters have publicly reported the results of running their voter rolls through the system. Those searches have identified roughly 4,200 people — about 0.01% of registered voters — as noncitizens. This aligns with previous findings that noncitizens rarely register to vote.
ProPublica
Inside the Philanthropy of Jennifer Pritzker, the First Openly Transgender Billionaire
From her last name you may have picked up on her rich family history. The Pritzker family is known for founding the Hyatt Hotel corporation which has set up over 1450 hotels and all-inclusive properties in 80 countries as of early 2026.
But Jennifer’s story is one of complex identities — as a veteran, business leader, parent, and trans advocate — and her philanthropic journey helps illustrate how charitable giving can reflect both personal experience and broader social impact.
Smiley Movement
The Olympics Is Still Going
How cheap Chinese phones catapulted Kenya into the global digital economy
In his new book “Silicon Elsewhere: Nairobi, Global China, and the Promise of Techno-Capital,” writer Andrea Pollio charts the growth of Chinese investment and companies in the Kenyan capital.
Rest of World
The Former Prince Andrew Arrested on Suspicion of Misconduct in Public Office Over Ties to Epstein
While Andrew has consistently denied any wrongdoing in connection with his friendship with Epstein, concerns about Mountbatten-Windsor’s links to the late financier have dogged the royal family for more than a decade. But the arrest of a brother of a monarch was an extraordinary development with no precedent in modern times that will no doubt put more pressure on the crown.
Mississippi Free Press
‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen has no criminal record. She is a grandmother who spent eight years working as an admin assistant at a primary school before her retirement. “I don’t even have parking tickets in the background anywhere,” she says. “I am not a dangerous criminal. I didn’t enter the country illegally and I had everything I needed to be there.”
So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.
The Guardian
US-led Board of Peace a ‘colonialist operation,’ Cardinal Pizzaballa says
“What do I think of the Board of Peace? I think it is a colonialist operation: others deciding for the Palestinians,” Pizzaballa said, according to a report by Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.
NCR
Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Island Known For Migrant Crossings
Pope Leo expressed a desire to visit Lampedusa in a video message sent to volunteers there last year, in which he said they “have shown … the smile and the attention of a human face to people who have survived in a desperate journey of hope.”
Time
For its 400th anniversary, St. Peter’s Basilica embraces AI and structural surveillance
Four centuries after its consecration, St. Peter’s Basilica is turning to artificial intelligence and advanced monitoring technology to safeguard its future.
Religion News Network
Danish military evacuates U.S. submariner who needed urgent medical care off Greenland
The Danish Joint Arctic Command, on its Facebook page, said the crew member was evacuated on Saturday some 7 nautical miles (8 miles; 13 kilometers) off Nuuk — the capital of the vast, ice-covered territory — and transferred to a hospital in the city. The crew member was retrieved by a Danish Seahawk helicopter that had been deployed on an inspection ship.
NPR
Temu’s global rise runs into a regulatory wall
Raids, fines, and consumer backlash are challenging the ultracheap model that powered China’s fastest-growing e-commerce export.
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