Judge Kathleen Ryan of Oakland County, Michigan (in the Detroit area) has been removed from the bench for racist comments caught on tape. “If you’re an American Black person, you’re a f***ing lazy piece of s***.” “I’m not systematically racist. I’m a new racist.”

Ghost network: when insurance companies put forth a list of in-network providers that don’t actually take their insurance. They are a real thing and they can have devastating consequences. A wrenching story by Max Blau propublica.org/article/ambett…

Prepare to feel your blood pressure spike. Max Blau obtained the recordings of one depressed young man’s battle to find an appropriate therapist his insurer actually covered. Instead he/his mom found a ghost network. Imagine getting this e-mail sign off propublica.org/article/ambett…

ProPublica and FRONTLINE have been investigating Telegram’s role in a string of recent alleged far-right acts of sabotage and murder, and how the company’s inaction has allowed extremists to plan and even advertise their crimes. propublica.org/article/telegr…

Moscow's attempts to interfere in U.S. and other elections are nothing new, though their tactics and strategy are constantly evolving. An investigative journalist uncovered Russian operations to sow doubt and chaos using artificial intelligence. to.pbs.org/3AQVPSl

MacKenzie Scott donates $10 million to Georgia community lender ajc.com/news/business/…

BOMBSHELL: The Telegraph reports that Kamala Harris is preparing for Tuesday night's debate with a stand-in Trump played by Lee Strasberg*, the famed method acting coach. *Strasberg died 42 years ago.

"If the Democratic Party had a family talk about the cognitive abilities of Joe Biden, then it's long past time that the Republican Party confront the same thing about Donald Trump because something's going on there," Kimberly Atkins Stohr says. to.pbs.org/3Zgm66x

NEW: Hospitals around the US are using inaccurate pee-in-a-cup drug tests to report new mothers to child protective services, prompting investigations and even the removal of newborns from their families over false positive results. My latest: themarshallproject.org/2024/09/09/dru…

A great Atlanta Press Club panel this morning with four bipartisan leaders united to bolster confidence in the state’s election system after years of damage from false claims and discredited conspiracy theories about widespread voting fraud in 2020. #gapol

❗️Friends, this is important. I ask for shares and spreading information, especially by my followers from Canada. This can set a precedent. The Russians at War film by Russian director Anastasia Trofimova will be shown in Canada at the Toronto International Film Festival. The

Federal prosecutors in California unsealed an indictment Monday charging two people with leading an online group of white supremacists that maintained a list of high-profile targets to assassinate and urging group members to commit hate crimes. cbsn.ws/3MAEpfr

Hard to overstate the significance of the newly unsealed indictment against key figures in the “Terrorgram” collective, one of the most prominent vectors for accelerationist radicalization and violence in recent years.

NEW: Imagine eating a poppy seed salad from Costco the night before giving birth — only to test positive for opiates at the hospital, prompting child protective services to take your newborn away. This happened to one woman in CA. And she's not alone. themarshallproject.org/2024/09/09/dru…

NEW: DOJ announces "new guidance  addressing limits on when and how jurisdictions may remove voters from their voter lists." It appears at points to be all-but-explicitly addressing the Georgia portal. documentcloud.org/documents/2510…

BREAKING: Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has decertified #Amendment3, the ballot initative that could lift the state's ban on abortions. This comes as the Missouri Supreme Court is set to hear the case for the ballot initative Tuesday morning.

>Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock calls for a fresh “serious bipartisan conversation” about compromise gun safety legislation after the Apalachee shootings. “Are we going to turn the whole country into a fort just so 14-year-olds can have AR-15s?” #gapol

"If you believe that your name has been improperly removed from the list of registered voters, please file an online complaint with the Civil Rights Division, or call us at 1-800-253-3931. civilrights.justice.gov

I am thrilled to be joining the eight-reporter investigative team of Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Atlanta-Journal Constitution as an investigative editor working with Managing Editor Shawn McIntosh and fellow editors Lois Norder Lois Norder and Brad Schrade. An exciting time to join the AJC.

The two produced and shared a 24-minute documentary called "White Terror" that celebrated 105 white supremacist attacks that took place between 1968 and 2021, court filings said.