Leavenworth officials approve permit for CoreCivic to reopen prison after βagonizingβ yearlong fight
LEAVENWORTH β CoreCivic will reopen its private prison in Leavenworth to house immigration detainees after city commissioners approved the companyβs special use permit on Tuesday, the result of aβ¦
More than 115 people signed up to speak during the meeting, but because public comment was limited to one hour, only about 45 people got the chance. Many were passionate about how CoreCivic and ICEβs presence would change Leavenworth.
via @kansasreflector.com
11.03.2026 16:00
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Today at noon I'll be on a panel with the great @nateraymond.bsky.social about how we cover federal courts today. It'll be followed by a panel on state courts and then a panel of judges! Should be a great eventβanyone can sign up here and submit questions: tinyurl.com/covering-cou...
11.03.2026 13:52
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Former Portage Mayor James Snyder sentenced to 3 years on probation for federal IRS charge
Former Portage Mayor James Snyder was sentenced to three years probation Tuesday on his federal conviction for obstructing the IRS.
Former Portage, Indiana Mayor James Snyder has been sentenced to probation for tax fraud β the latest in a decadelong legal saga that landed before the Supreme Court and helped redefine a key federal bribery statute
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/10/f...
11.03.2026 03:15
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Duterteβs drug war faces judgement at the ICC
Victims of the Philippinesβ drug war finally see a path to justice in The Hague.
As world institutions wobble, The Hague has unexpectedly become the stage for a reckoning long denied in the Philippines. My take in @AJEnglish on the recent hearing at the International Criminal Court in the case of ex-president Rodrigo Duterte www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
11.03.2026 04:25
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Ellen Powell Thompson: How Womenβs Suffrage Benefitted from the Work of a Botanist in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Ellen Powell Thompsonβs life illustrates how environmental exploration and womenβs reform were deeply interconnected.
π πWe have your weekend reading (and listening)!
The new season of our podcast is accompanied by a series of pieces published in partnership with KCET.
Today's is by Erika Bsumek at UT Austin about the work of botanist and suffragist Ellen Powell Thompson.
www.pbssocal.org/ellen-powell...
06.03.2026 19:58
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βThe Middle East supplies a huge amount of the worldβs fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.β
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This is not my image, nor was it my camera. My hats off to whoever took this beautiful picture. It shows that life will allow more than one species to benefit from one thing at once. Even Bees and Hummingbirds can share water or nectar.
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So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
05.03.2026 17:31
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The reason we have βstupid rules of engagementβ is to make sure we donβt bomb elementary schools.
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Why ?
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Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and itβs good sheβs gone.
But this doesnβt change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
05.03.2026 19:38
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It's almost mushroom season here.
Here's a pair of yellow boletes from last spring.
06.03.2026 01:52
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ICE detains reporter Estefany RodrΓguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner
Reporter Estefany RodrΓguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. Sheβs married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
Theyβve already sent her to Louisiana.
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Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?
Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy.
Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists?
Noem: My condolences to their families
Raskin: You lied about them.
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Uncertainties of enhanced rock weathering for climate-change mitigation - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategy that converts atmospheric CO2 to stable carbonates by applying minerals to agricultural land. This Perspective discusses the p...
Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) on agricultural soils is being considered as a carbon dioxide removal strategy. However, uncertainties remain regarding feedstock availability, plant-soil impacts, CDR efficiency, and socio-economic considerations, limiting large-scale deployment. π§ͺ
04.03.2026 17:03
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Justice Department rescinds Biden-era βno-knockβ warrant policy
Policy launched after the police killing of Breonna Taylor restricted when law enforcement could burst into a home without knocking.
Trump's Deputy Attorney General has rescinded the Biden Justice Department's policy that tightly restricted when law enforcement agents executing a search could take the exceptional step of bursting into a home without knocking first β known as no-knock warrants. www.ms.now/news/justice...
04.03.2026 00:50
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Going to try to be super brave and go to a book club at a bookstore Iβve never been to full of people Iβve never met this week just because theyβre reading a book thats been on my TBR
01.03.2026 14:48
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A bunch of pale yellow primroses and their green leaves against a background of dried leaves, twigs and rotted bark at the bottom of my London garden.
Iβm usually away at this time of year, invariably missing the moment when the primroses start blooming at the bottom of the garden. It is difficult to think of a plant that carries the hope and freshness of spring the way a primrose does. Worth staying home for.
01.03.2026 17:26
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debate among friends wrt the strike targets is whether or not the targeting of a school was on purpose.
it doesn't matter, bc they're not trying to pretend to distinguish military and civilian lives.
it would be woke and soy to care about dead children to these people.
28.02.2026 20:04
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"The Executive Branch is the branch most prone to war, therefore, the Constitution, with studied care, delegated the war power to the legislature." β James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 1798
01.03.2026 22:25
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Isnβt it! Nature continuing quietly and beautifully
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