Democrats to train tens of thousands to monitor polls amid election interference fears

Project will prepare volunteers across US to monitor polls, encourage early voting and respond to disinformation…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/14/democratic-poll-monitors-prevent-republican-election-interference

 

Australia doesn’t want to be AI’s landlord - POLITICO

Canberra wants clean energy, local training and a bigger share of the AI economy...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/18/australia-doesnt-want-to-be-ais-landlord-01039921

 

“That’s a Lie” ICE Whistleblower Slams Agency’s Violent Tactics

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mExAqVWIkFw

 

Michigan considering requiring literacy training for elementary school teachers

Gives educators tools to implement effective reading and spelling instruction supported by scientifically-based research…

https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-03-12/michigan-considering-requiring-literacy-training-for-elementary-school-teachers 

 

Trump Scheme UNMASKED by WHISTLEBLOWER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb9nimxsiu4

 

“No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office — ProPublica

"Abandoning our societal cynicism toward religion would strengthen our commitment to liberty. It would do much to strengthen our country to regain the vision of our founders that celebrated the role of religion in our lives, public and private," Dys said in an email to the Report. 

But under the establishment clause, government entities shouldn't impose religious laws or policies, said Tyler, the Christians Against Christian Nationalism organizer. Laws should "serve and support a pluralistic society," she said. 

"If our goal in engaging in partisan politics is to impose our own interpretation of the Bible, our own religious views on other people, that will lead to harm for people in our communities that are not of the same religious views," Tyler said...

https://fortworthreport.org/2025/11/10/fort-worth-mercy-culture-trains-candidates-campaign-university/ 

 

Illinois Gov calls for Tr*mp to be removed from office.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5nrtYXwzteg

 

We Regret to Inform You (Reveal podcast)

When police kill someone, they have to notify the family. Some officers are using that moment for something else.

Bruce Praet is a well-known name in law enforcement, especially in California. He co-founded a company called Lexipol that contracts with more than 95 percent of police departments in the state and offers its clients trainings and ready-made policies.

In one of Praet’s online training webinars, he offers a piece of advice that policing experts have called inhumane. It’s aimed at protecting officers and their departments from lawsuits.

After police kill someone, they are supposed to notify the family. Instead of delivering the news immediately, Praet advises officers to first ask about the person who was killed to get as much unflattering information as possible.

Reporter Brian Howey started looking into this advice when he was with the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. This week on Reveal, he delves into his finding that officers have been using this tactic across California. He also finds that the information families disclosed before they knew their relative was killed later affected their lawsuits against law enforcement departments.
Interview: 

https://revealnews.org/podcast/police-death-notifications-lexipol-bruce-praet/

Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event | Far right (US) | The Guardian

The Trump administration's security posture on the far right is to downplay its significance. Yet experts unanimously agree: it is the top domestic terrorism threat facing the country. Instead, Patel, the FBI's director, has gone about removing agents from pursuing the far right, while one of Trump's first actions in his second term was to provide unconditional pardons, en masse, to all of the January 6 insurrectionists...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/07/the-base-neo-nazi-group-paramilitary-training

 

Kentucky cops are paying Christian ministries to train their dogs at Ark Encounter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyYsEEyuADw

 

Project 2025 Private Training Video: Left-Wing Code Words and Language

ProPublica and Documented obtained more than 14 hours of never-before-published videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy, which are intended to train the next conservative administration's political appointees “to be ready on day one.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob2nmb97OkY

Baltimore Police training officers with an emphasis on emotional regulation, empathy | PBS NewsHour

The Baltimore Police Department recently started requiring its members to complete a program on emotional regulation that uses video as a learning tool and teaches them the basics of brain science by examining the relationship between thoughts, feelings and actions. It's a far cry from traditional police training…

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/baltimore-police-training-officers-with-an-emphasis-on-emotional-regulation-empathy

Why police training in the US falls short compared to the rest of the world: Report - ABC News

According to the report, titled "Transforming Police Recruit Training: 40 Guiding Principles," training standards for the more than 18,000 police agencies in the U.S. are outdated and inconsistent, and often provide training that is too brief -- with an emphasis on weapons and tactics and too little focus on decision-making, communications and other critical thinking skills that officers use every day.

"Almost every major aspect of policing has fundamentally changed in recent decades, except for one: how we train officers," the report states.

Police training in the U.S. is most often measured in weeks, while in many other countries it is measured in months or years…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-police-training-in-the-us-falls-short-compared-to-the-rest-of-the-world-report/ar-AA16RQZO

What Disabled Workers Told Us About Sheltered Workshops — ProPublica

Missouri, however, does little to help sheltered workshop employees make that move — even though getting disabled workers ready for the regular workforce is the goal behind the federal law authorizing subminimum wages. What's more, state officials told me that they would be unconcerned if sheltered workshop employees in Missouri do not "graduate" to the regular workforce for years, or even decades, because they view the state's sheltered workshops as employment programs rather than stepping stones to regular jobs. 

 Ultimately, we decided that there was a story to tell about sheltered workshops in Missouri: The seemingly widespread support among sheltered workshop employees and their families masked the failure of the state to provide them with meaningful employment options...

https://www.propublica.org/article/what-disability-community-told-us-about-sheltered-workshops

Michigan county hires ‘Stop the Steal’ ringleader to recruit poll workers - POLITICO

According to a Jan. 6 evidence gallery crowdsourced by citizen journalists, Peters arrived with friends with a portable stage and loudspeakers at the west side of the Capitol, eventually telling the crowd "we have breached the Capitol" and that "there is no better cause" for being arrested than standing up for then-President Donald Trump. Speaking from her platform, Peters likened the moment to "our 1776," or America's revolution against British rule. "We have breached the Capitol," said Peters. "Move forward," she said. 

A day later, local news station WXYZ played a portion of the same footage, describing her as "firing up" the crowd, even as she said she didn't "condone" a rioter who occupied House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office desk. WXYZ reportedPeters had previously led "Stop the Steal" rallies in Detroit and Lansing… 

That Peters is playing a pivotal role in Macomb's elections office illustrates how successfully some Trump loyalists and election deniers have found their way into official party and government roles. Macomb is Michigan's third-most populous county. Before voting for Trump by wide margins in 2016 and 2020, Macomb had for decades served as a national barometer for the national political landscape. In 2008, Barack Obama won Macomb by the largest margin for any Democrat since 1964…

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/12/michigan-county-hires-stop-the-steal-ringleader-to-recruit-poll-workers-00061564

Michigan Senate passes resolution condemning LGBTQ+ teacher trainings – The Hill

The videos, part of a training for the 2021-2022 school year from the Michigan Department of Education's (MDE) LGBTQ+ Students Project, drew sharp criticism from state officials and parents after clips were shared online by conservative writer Christopher Rufo, who denounced them as "radical gender theory" and accused MDE of using state resources to "push a destructive ideology onto public-school children."…

… Peter Tchoryk, the parent of a transgender student in Dexter, Michigan, said in the news release that his son feels safe and respected at school because of welcoming educators. "His school is filled with compassion," Tchoryk said. "In addition, staff members have knowledge, resources, and confidence to support him. They have been equipped with the tools they need to support our son, so that he may flourish academically, socially, and emotionally."…

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/3654692-michigan-senate-passes-resolution-condemning-lgbtq-teacher-trainings/

Michigan GOP leaders encourage rule breaking at poll worker training session - CNNPolitics

During the Wayne County training call, obtained by CNN, the presumption that Democrats cheat -- thus justifying Republican rule-breaking -- permeated the discussion…

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/politics/michigan-gop-poll-worker-training-invs/index.html

CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach interrogators torture techniques

"Ammar fabricated the information he provided when undergoing EITs," it said. "He later admitted to his interrogators/debriefers that he was terrified and lied to get agency officers to stop the measures … Ammar also explained that he was afraid to tell a lie and was afraid to tell the truth because he did not know how either would be received."…

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/14/cia-black-site-detainee-training-prop-torture-techniques

UC-led research first to show benefits of police de-escalation training | EurekAlert!

…"The results were impressive, to say the least," says PERF executive director Chuck Wexler. The research, Wexler says, "found that training officers in ICAT was associated with 28% fewer use-of-force incidents, 26% fewer injuries to community members and 36% fewer injuries to police officers."…

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/941887

Apple opens its first US Developer Academy in Detroit - 9to5Mac

… According to Apple, the Detroit Academy is made up of a group of 100 learners between the ages of 18 and 60. Each will receive 10 months of training on app development for Apple's platforms and also entrepreneurship classes. The academy is located in the First National Building in downtown Detroit…

https://9to5mac.com/2021/10/07/apple-opens-its-first-us-developer-academy-in-detroit/