Notices by Bruno J. Navarro (bruno_j_navarro@mastodon.social)

The only thing more stunning than the size of the Trump corruption scandal is the relative silence this has generated. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-cryptocurrency-scandal-corruption-billions-20250529.html

Detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was allowed to hold his one-month-old son for the first time Thursday after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to keep the father and infant separated by a plexiglass barrier. https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-louisiana-immigration-406c341b8edf1f92dc44695cefcd8f8c

To treat his cancer, our reporter David Armstrong takes a drug that costs nearly $1,000 per pill.

The price of the drug, Revlimid, has gone up 26 times since 2006 — yet according to a deposition Armstrong found, a top executive admitted it has always cost just 25 cents to make.

https://propub.li/43JrUGD

Lisa Anderson, a US-born physician from Cromwell, Connecticut, told NBC Connecticut on Wednesday that she recently received a letter from the Department of Homeland Security telling her, “It is time for you to leave the United States."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doctor-email-immigration-leave-country-rcna201698

Shabat told CPJ in October that he was not a member of Hamas. “We convey the truth on Al Jazeera Mubasher, and we move within the areas classified by Israel as safe,” Shabat said. “We are citizens, and we convey their voices. Our only crime is that we convey the image and the truth.”

https://cpj.org/2025/03/cpj-denounces-israels-killing-of-2-more-gaza-journalists-in-return-to-war/

A federal court order that would have halted the immediate deportation of a Rhode Island doctor was issued Friday evening while the doctor’s departing plane sat on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport, said a family friend and colleague. https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2025/03/15/rhode-island-doctor-rasha-alawieh-deported-despite-federal-court-order/82441360007/

EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying

“I will not compromise my ethics and my duty to uphold the law. I will not cower to bullying and intimidation.” https://apnews.com/article/eeoc-pushback-karen-ortiz-transgender-6ebc3cfb90298ae06f46d0ed4898733d

A positive case of measles was reported in a Maryland resident who recently traveled internationally, the Maryland Department of Health confirmed on Sunday.

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/one-case-of-measles-confirmed-in-maryland-resident-after-international-travel/

Members of the so-called Five Eyes spy alliance, as well as Israeli and Saudi officials, fear the identities of foreign assets could inadvertently be shared with Moscow. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-pivots-russia-allies-weigh-sharing-less-intel-us-rcna194420

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) requested in a meeting on Tuesday that managers present him with a plan for a 50 percent reduction in staff, a mass firing that could affect tens of thousands of employees across the country.

https://prospect.org/health/social-security-administration-could-cut-half-its-workforce/

“If there is an evil intent to punish perceived enemies, someone could erase your earnings record, making it impossible to collect the Social Security and Medicare benefits you have earned.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/politics/social-security-head-steps-down-doge-access/index.html

This isn't a spontaneous coup—it's the culmination of a dangerous ideology that has been meticulously developed since the 2008 financial crisis, one that sees democracy itself as obsolete technology ready to be “disrupted.” https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america

Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-chopra-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-47b6b39d0eff05ea0c9bca4eacf55b79

Atlanta leaders are reconsidering how they dismantle homeless camps after a man was crushed inside a tent as a bulldozer destroyed makeshift homes in preparation for Martin Luther King Jr. holiday events.

https://apnews.com/article/homeless-atlanta-ebenezer-mlk-ff421e31ebc13dc53919190074931c42

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?” https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/12/18/judith-butler-interview-el-pais-gender-trans/

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed his first lawsuit against an out-of-state abortion provider, alleging that a New York physician prescribed abortion-inducing pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine. https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/12/13/ken-paxton-texas-attorney-general-first-interstate-abortion-pill-lawsuit/76967237007/

Social media influencers need “urgent” help to check their facts before they broadcast to their followers, in order to reduce the spread of misinformation online, Unesco has warned. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/26/online-influencers-need-urgent-fact-checking-training-warns-unesco

“I have yet to see a single video that’s pounding the drum of ‘we have to find him,’ and that is unique,” said Michael McWhorter, better known as TizzyEnt on TikTok, where he posts true crime and viral news content for his 6.7 million followers. “And in other situations of some kind of blatant violence, I would absolutely be seeing that.” https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/internet-sleuths-say-wont-help-find-unitedhealthcare-ceo-suspect-rcna183228

Several British police forces have largely withdrawn from Elon Musk's X social media platform as concerns over its role in promoting violence and extreme content persist, a Reuters survey of forces' social media output showed.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/uk-police-forces-quietly-withdraw-x-platform-amid-content-concerns-2024-11-26/