After a federal appeals board barred most detained immigrants from seeking bond, filings challenging their confinement surged in Wisconsin and nationwide. Wisconsin judges have ruled for detainees more than half the time. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/03/wisc... (@wisconsinwatch.org)
Lawmakers want to expand the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, which for three decades has rewarded companies that hire people with barriers to employment.
But research shows it doesn’t work, @wisconsinwatch.org reports. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/03/wisc...
Whether students have access to career/ tech courses depends on whether their school district can pay for them.
Wisconsin is one of just five states that don’t dedicate state funding to these programs in public schools, @mirandadunlap.bsky.social reports. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/03/wisc...
How Wisconsin can slap down efforts to silence speech.
Lawmakers have a chance to shield Wisconsinites from meritless defamation claims designed to drain time and resources. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/03/wisc...
As federal trappers remove thousands of beavers each year — including from prized trout streams — Wisconsin regulators face calls to weigh the critter’s flood-control benefits against long-standing views of them as a nuisance. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/03/wisc... (via @bennetgoldstein.bsky.social)
"Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Rohingya refugee from Burma, was nearly blind and spoke no English. He was dropped off by agents in Buffalo on the other side of town from his home. His family was not notified of his release." www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
Take time to read the obits.You’ll often find sprinkles of joy.
“His last words in his daily journal, on Day 9,165 of retirement, were “‘It was a great, great run!!’” www.jsonline.com/obituaries/p...
The Wisconsin Assembly is done legislating for the year. Here’s what lawmakers did and what’s unfinished. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/02/wisc... (via @wisconsinwatch.org)
What if instead of Wisconsin it was wisprosin and instead of the badgers we were the goodgers?
Branding solutions.
Who you gonna call? Wisconsin 911 dispatchers discuss fixes to national, statewide shortage wisconsinwatch.org/2026/02/who-... (via @wisconsinwatch.org)
Air Wisconsin turns to ICE.
The Appleton-based airline now plays a role in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, flying between detention centers. Explore how its flight patterns have changed since its sale. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/02/air-...
And they put up 10 hits. The Platteville first baseman went 3-4 with a walk!
Screenshot of two Iowa baseball players and boxscore showing a 34-5 Iowa victory over UW-Platteville. Text says "Hawkeyes plate school record 34 runs."
But why did Iowa play UW-Platteville??
J.I.B.C. is 19-years-old and has pending applications for Special Immigrant Juvenile status and asylum. (J.I.B.C. Decl. ¶ 1.) On January 13, 2026, he was leaving TMobile when another car struck his own. (Id. ¶¶ 3–4.) Agents surrounded him, opened the car doors, and wrenched him out. (Id. ¶ 4.) J.I.B.C. offered to show the agents his immigration documents, but the agents said they did not need to see them. (Id. ¶ 6.) When he pulled out his cell phone, the agents
threw him to the ground. (Id. ¶ 5.) The immigration documents were left inside his car. (Id. ¶ 6.) Several hours after arriving at Whipple, J.I.B.C. was allowed one phone call. (Id. ¶¶ 8, 12.) There was no privacy—it was a shared phone, located in a hallway between cells with agents nearby. (Id. ¶ 12.) J.I.B.C. told his girlfriend he had been detained; she said she would find a lawyer. (Id. ¶ 13.) Agents told J.I.B.C. to tell her that he was going to El Paso, Texas. (Id.) That day, J.I.B.C. was transferred to Texas. (Id. ¶ 15.) During his weeklong detention, he was allowed only two calls. (Id. ¶ 22.) Officers pressured people to sign voluntary self-deportation papers; many did. (Id. ¶ 23.) Agents told J.I.B.C. that he would be detained longer if he fought his case. (Id.)
ICE agents crashed directly into a 19-year-old refugee's car, pulled him out from the wreck, threw him on the ground, then rushed him off to detention before he could locate the immigration papers in his car that proved he's here lawfully. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
“Michigan spent $1.1M probing tribal boarding schools, then buried the results” bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...
“Minneapolis officials say the federal immigration crackdown over the past 11 weeks has caused more than $203 million in damage to the city’s economy.” www.startribune.com/economic-imp...
“Ms. Ruemmler, in addition to being Goldman’s general counsel since 2021, was a partner and vice chair of its reputational risk committee.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...
People recovering from addiction have a difficult time finding stable employment and keeping it. Apricity Contract Packaging in Appleton and Milwaukee offers “a safe environment” where every worker is pursuing sobriety. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/02/wisc...
“C.B.P. officials thought they were firing on a cartel drone, the people said, but it turned out to be a party balloon.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
This is a follow up to @addiecostello.bsky.social's series Forgotten Homes, which examines the promise and perils of manufactured homes as a path to affordable home ownership. wisconsinwatch.org/forgotten-ho...
Democratic lawmakers are proposing to limit rent increases in Wisconsin’s manufactured home communities as residents voice concerns over steep rent hikes and the growing influence of large, out-of-state owners. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/02/wisc...
As Wisconsin weighs who should pay, another possible billion-dollar data center emerges wisconsinwatch.org/2026/02/wisc...
A surge in data center proposals is putting Public Service Commission decisions under new scrutiny.
Here's what the agency does.
wisconsinwatch.org/2026/02/wisc...
This year was shaping up to be another costly state Court of Appeals race, but one of the candidates filed improper paperwork and was kicked off the ballot.
wisconsinwatch.org/2026/02/wisc...
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
The Faroese see themselves as survivors in a tough land. Many trace their lineage back to Vikings who waded ashore more than 1,000 years ago. Their homeland is one of Europe’s rainiest places, and winds there routinely reach 30 to 40 miles per hour. But the Faroese do not cower. As they say: “There’s no bad weather. Just bad clothes.”
Gonna start using this during Wisconsin winters. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/w...
Gerard, a standard poodle from Wisconsin, always leaves his dog shows with a ribbon. “Everyone has their different goals for agility and dog training in their dog sports,” said Gerard’s breeder, owner and trainer John Pittman. “I always want my dogs to win.” Pittman and his agile pup just won their biggest competition yet on Saturday at the 150th Westminster Dog Show in New York City.
Sounds like an above-standard poodle to me! www.wpr.org/animals/pets...
NEW: The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today.
"I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..."
Law Dork:
The Wisconsin Elections Commission challenges Madison’s argument that it should not be financially liable for 193 uncounted ballots in the 2024 presidential election because of a state law that calls absentee voting a privilege, not a right. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/02/wisc... (@votebeat.org)
