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Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign.

The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers.

Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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State officials say an agency tasked with election security has become less equipped to help states fight cyber threats.

Some leaders have filled gaps with their own resources. But some services, like intel on foreign actors, can’t be replicated.
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A week after ProPublica published an investigation that found $470 million in SNAP benefits were stolen from Americans last year alone, the Trump administration announced a new rule to add microchips, which are more secure, to EBT cards.
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The Trump administration is buying a stake in a private oil firm, and investors in the company could receive enormous wealth from the arrangement.

The role of the Venezuelan government and the potential benefits to its people are largely absent from the text of the deal.
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Wildfires in the American West present a secondary threat that has received far less attention: flooding.

A tourist town knew recent fires could worsen flash floods, but officials chided residents who posted warnings on social media.
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Officer Jaron Alexander says he didn’t come back to Ingram, Texas, to help deport his neighbors.

But one year after joining ICE’s 287(g) program, his department has handed over the equivalent of 10% of the town.
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New: Citation Oil & Gas is named more often than any other company in Oklahoma’s database of oil field pollution incidents and violations — listed more than 1,000 times over the past decade. The state’s oil regulator has never punished the company. https://t.co/KQwUamRzQY

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Nearly a decade after a law was passed to help Hanford employees receive workers’ compensation, the DOE continues to fight appeals.

Not even death ends the cycle, with the families of more than 76 dead workers still fighting for survivor’s benefits.
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As state senator, Brent Taylor repeatedly undermined local officials’ power:
• He helped authorize the state to review every decision made by the Shelby County DA
• He co-sponsored a law voiding Memphis’ ban on police stops for minor traffic infractions
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When bird flu broke out on his mink farm, Chad Fenn said he wasn’t worried, having been told there wasn’t much risk to humans.

"My guys wear masks every day. They have glasses they can wear. Me? I don’t wear it at all. Never have, never will.”
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In response to ProPublica's reporting, Clyburn's communications director wrote: "Whatever a donor may think or say, a donation would never cause Congressman Clyburn to increase his support for the donor's request."

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In exchange for promising Navatek ~$10M in gov. funding, Rep. Jim Clyburn asked CEO Martin Kao for a $100,000 campaign donation, Kao told the FBI.

The FBI tallied $20,000 in contributions Kao and his family made to Clyburn only days after their meeting.
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The Trump administration has drained CISA, a federal agency tasked with protecting election systems, of its staff and resources.

Some state authorities said they no longer trusted the administration enough to share information with the agency.
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West Virginia has been part of a nationwide push, partially funded by billionaire-backed political groups, to use taxpayer dollars to fund private schools.

Among the proponents are the Koch family network and Pennsylvania billionaire Jeffrey Yass.
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[Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg]

A must read thread that accompanies a subtle and beautifully reported story about how local police working as ICE agents has torn apart a small Texas town - by my colleagues @FrancescaDnunz and @McKenzieFunk

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Backed by a GOP supermajority, TN state senator Brent Taylor pushed through half a dozen laws that superseded the priorities & power of local politicians & voters.

Now he's running to represent many of them in Congress.

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Without legislation, Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández said, immigration agents “will continue to violate the law, to violate their own policy, and to violate the Constitution without any consequences.”
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The U.S. oil deal could be a financial windfall for stakeholders of the private Venezuelan firm the Trump administration is buying a large stake in.

But the investors in the enterprise are anonymous, shielded behind a holding company in Barbados.
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NEW: In a newly drawn congressional district including Memphis, Black voters may get a representative who spent years stripping away local
control. https://t.co/iup0DX5Aui by @wendi_c_thomas @MLK50Memphis

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ProPublica consulted seven emergency response experts to understand what went wrong after flooding killed three in Ruidoso, New Mexico.

The tragedy “should be a clarion call” for officials to reevaluate how rescuers are deployed, one expert said.
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[Jen Fifield @JenAFifield]

guys that means like.... now.