At the end of October, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement staffer emailed nine of its partner law enforcement agencies in Lancaster and York counties to coordinate federal immigration removal operations.
At the end of October, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement staffer emailed nine of its partner law enforcement agencies in Lancaster and York counties to coordinate federal immigration removal operations.
A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.
A sticker spotted on the back of a street sign in Lancaster, Pa. It's a circular, maroon-colored sticker with 5 words in white all-caps letters. The words are: "My other hat is tinfoil."
Spotted in Lancaster, Pa.
“In Pennsylvania, the leader of a network of election deniers is now the head of election integrity in the federal Department of Homeland Security.
For years, that official, Heather Honey, directed an effort to challenge the state’s 2020 results.”
Happy birthday to John McPhee -- 95 years young.
"Her bank records, which are in the files, showed that Noel received thousands of dollars in cash and Zelle payments in the months before Epstein died." Wow.
It took 6.5 years for this info to come out ...
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The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Sunday, March 8, 2026:
The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Sunday, March 8, 2026:
One of the first lessons a journalist learns is the importance of identifying, owning and fixing mistakes.
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Manor Township resident Bruce Imel and his daughter, Kaitlyn, were wrapping up a ride on a sight-seeing bus in Dubai on Feb. 28 when they heard a boom. They looked over to see a cloud of smoke.
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“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
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Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act.
We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy.
New from me at @brennancenter.org:
a set of graphs of US jobs data
NEW US JOBS DATA:
Non-farm Payrolls: -92k
Unemployment Rate: 4.4% (+0.1%)
Prime Age (25-54) Employment-Population Ratio: 80.7% (-0.1%)
Average Hourly Earnings: +0.4%
Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
Sounds a lot like what Murdoch said to the Bancroft family 2 decades ago...
Some gubernatorial CF takeaways? Stacy Garrity would need 7,000 more donors than she's had over her entire career giving $250 to match one Mike Bloomberg check to Josh Shapiro. And Shapiro dropped $84k on "presidential-level service in private aviation."
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PA VOTER FRAUD PROVEN only it's a Trump supporter who voted by mail in Bucks County *and* in person in Florida (after moving) in the 2020 presidential election.
Matthew Laiss had unsuccessfully argued that Trump's pardon of persons accused of fraud around presidential electors covered him too.
⛽️ Pittsburgh-area gas prices rose 17 cents yesterday with more increases likely on the way because of the Iran war. www.axios.com/local/pittsb...
The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Thursday, March 5, 2026.
The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Thursday, March 5, 2026:
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
WWLD ... what would Locutus do?
The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Tuesday, March 3, 2026:
The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Tuesday, March 3, 2026:
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, so I’m nattering again. As always the newsletter is free and almost worth it.
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this is a Black Mirror, season 1 episode
The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Monday, March 2, 2026:
The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Monday, March 2, 2026: