Imagine being created by Jim Henson precisely just so that Grover can always fuck your order up. That is the hell this man lives in.

Social Security’s projected insolvency could trigger automatic benefit cuts of more than 20%, impacting over 60 million Americans. More on The Center Square Daily.

The federal government gave about $2.5 million in two years to a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that says it aims to be a “trusted bipartisan source of expertise and insight” on banking and financial technology regulations. But the nonprofit’s mission has expanded into social and public policy issues, like gender bias and climate change, according to an investigation by The Center Square. Read more: thecentersquare.com/national…

BTS footage of Siskel & Ebert recording a tv spot for an upcoming episode 😂 The petty annoyance between these two is really what made them so special

Decatur, Ga., Police Department policy says officers must activate their body-worn cameras on "all calls for service." Yet bodycam footage from a police welfare check on the dying brother of the city's Municipal Court chief judge is nowhere to be found, @thecentersquare reports today. The head of the group Concerned Citizens for Effective Government calls for a GBI probe. The welfare check was done at the judge's home, as her brother lay on his deathbed there. And on the same day a disputed will is dated that made Judge Rhathelia Stroud executor of her brother's estate – something the judge is now battling with her niece over in Probate Court. The niece claims the will is a "forgery" and that her father, 12 days from death of colon cancer, was too incapacitated to execute a will. Legal expert: "The bodycam would be critical, for either side."

Decatur Police Chief Scott Richards cited the department's purge policy, telling @thecentersquare the bodycam video only had to be stored until March 4. But when both @thecentersquare and the judge's niece requested bodycam footage in early February, the department said 𝙉𝙊 𝙑𝙄𝘿𝙀𝙊 𝙀𝙓𝙄𝙎𝙏𝙀𝘿. Both a government watchdog and a former DeKalb County district attorney are calling for outside investigations. thecentersquare.com/georgia/…

Atlanta gave Muslim activists $35k; didn’t track how it got spent @CityofAtlanta @JohnnyEdwardsX #gapol jamesmagazinega.com/2026/06/…

Questions are growing over whether public funds were used to influence voters through government mailers and digital campaigns in California. More on The Center Square Daily.

Local government agencies in California are legally barred from advocating for or against local tax initiatives, yet those same agencies stand to gain millions—or billions—if voters say yes. Political consultants have turned that conflict into a business, collecting taxpayer dollars to help governments run secret campaigns under the guise of "neutral" public education, an investigation by The Center Square found. Read more: thecentersquare.com/californ…

Here’s one reason why big government in Cali just gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Reporting by @adamherbets of @thecentersquare thecentersquare.com/californ…

“This is exactly why we are holding states accountable, enforcing the rules of the road, and cracking down on drivers who can’t speak English … If you can’t be properly trained, read our road signs, or communicate with law enforcement, you have no business driving a bus.” - Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy thecentersquare.com/national…

Does Bernie Sanders’ anti-oligarchy message match the spending behind the tour? New records are raising questions. Watch on The Center Square Daily.

"Even as Bernie Sanders' movement is funded from below, it travels from above. His campaign committee's spending reveals more than his own affluence. It shows the contradictions within his anti-elite movement: a national populist campaign that increasingly borrows tactics and infrastructure from the elites it condemns." -Reporting by @MarkStricherz of @thecentersquare

It's such a bummer when you're in the mood for Waffle House, you find a Waffle House, you park and walk into the Waffle House, then immediately realize this one is having *issues* and you're going to have to find someplace else ...

Atlanta's city government gave a Muslim activist group that raised money for Gaza a $35k donation – on top of $250k in federal grants to care for unhoused immigrants, a continuing investigation by @thecentersquare has found. The Center Square has raised questions about payments to the Inner-City Muslim Action Network because, at the time, @imancentral was itself raising money for a "Benefit Concert for Gaza" held in Chicago, which benefitted another NGO that has been accused by Israeli watchdogs of aiding Hamas. The $35K donation came from taxpayer funds in 2023, and required annual reports on how the money got spent. Those reports are nowhere to be found in @CityofAtlanta's files. thecentersquare.com/georgia/…

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