I'm not in Bloomington, so everything is from what I've been seeing online. I have no first hand knowledge.
There are reports ICE is running amok in the city.
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Key Texas county votes to cut polling sites ahead of the midterms
Officials in Tarrant County, the third most populous in Texas, approved a plan to reduce the number of polling locations by 92 compared with the 2022 elections.
Tony Greenstein won his case by choosing to tell the jury its context (his barrister could be punished for doing so).
Once given a chance to hear all the facts, the jury accepted his arguments, incl that the UK judiciary were readily conniving in the state's growing authoritarianism.
Tellingly, Greenstein’s victory was almost entirely ignored by the msm.
The speech
https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-08-30/britain-rigs-trials-genocide-opponents/
#UKPol #EUPol #GreensteinCase #GazaGenocide #palestine #news #Democracy .
Top USPS officials expressed concerns that new mail voting rules could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms, but the rules moved forward anyway, ProPublica has learned.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mail-voting-usps-officials-concerns-disenfranchisement?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #USPS #MailVoting #Voting #Vote #Election #Midterms #Democracy #Trump
NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #ICE #Immigration #Law #Legal #News #DOJ
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Report: "The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs the trials of genocide opponents".
The state rigged the trial of Jewish peace activist Tony Greenstein to get him jailed for up to 14 years for so-called “inviting support for Hamas”.
Greenstein spoke directly to the jury, demolishing the sham charges & exposing the political show trial.
The jury unanimously acquitted him.
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-08-30/britain-rigs-trials-genocide-opponents/
#USPol #EUPol #UKPol #GazaGenocide #Gaza #palestine #news #TonyGreenstein .
Maybe if Trump tells the world America has bone spurs he can get out of Iran in the same way he got out of going to Vietnam.
#trump #republicans #MAGA #epstein #iran #israel #middleeast #war #politics #news #worldnews
ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY WEEKEND!
#AureFreePress #News #laborday
"It is easy to publish things on the internet. It’s a little more time-consuming to report, write, edit and fact-check things." —Sara Rubin, #MontereyCountyNow
#AI #news #AIslop #media #journalism #integrity #plagiarism #ethics
This is the big LG television surveillance documentary story GN have been working on for a couple of months, and that they previewed a few days ago.
The complete pervasiveness of spying upon not just you and what you watch but _every person and every device around every set_ is genuinely staggering. And it gets worse if you use their apps, particularly the LG TV "network":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA
Having an old set DOES NOT HELP YOU; they've been adding these spying functions in firmware updates.
So DO NOT BUY ANYTHING LG. Certainly not anything "smart."
#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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A new audit by the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays.
Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterms.
https://www.propublica.org/article/postal-service-audit-primary-election-ballots?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #USPS #Vote #Voting #Election #Midterms #Democracy #USPolitics
NEW: As delegates gather at NATO headquarters to discuss reducing civilian harm during combat, the Trump administration's absence from a group the U.S. co-founded is being dubbed "humiliating" and “dangerous” by current and former officials.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hegseth-dod-nato-civilian-harm-reduction-absent?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #PeteHegseth #Defense #Pentagon #DOD #NATO #Politics
“It was one of the worst dress codes we've seen in terms of singling out transgender students directly.”
New at The Barbed Wire: Meet "Emma Doe"! With the help of the ACLU of Texas, she forced her school district to adopt a gender-neutral dress code, and was able to graduate in her favorite dress.
https://www.thebarbedwire.com/trans-teen-from-rural-texas-forces-high-school-to-change-transphobic-dress-code/
#LGBTQIA #news #Texas #education #LGBTQ #transgender #trans #rural
#GifsArtidote art café opening soon on my estate. first time i am attempting anything like this, so if any fellow artists have any tips on how to get ppl going, i'd be much obliged.
#press #Teesside #Middlesbrough #art #CommunityBuilding #MentalHealth #loneliness #MutualAid #SelfCare #news
»Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'« https://www.404media.co/wordpress-automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-put-on-leave-of-absence/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News