The Fall of Goma (January 2025)

• 2025 Goma offensive - Wikipedia
• Fall of DRC's Goma: Urgent Action Needed - International Crisis Group
• What is happening in and around Goma? - ACLED

Current Status (2025-2026)

• The M23 Offensive: Elusive Peace - Crisis Group, Dec 2025
• Congo War Security Review - Critical Threats, Jan 2026
• Trump's Peace Deal Means Nothing - Foreign Policy, Jan 2026

Minerals & Economics

• M23 Leverages Taxes and Minerals - Jamestown Foundation
• Rubaya coltan mine at heart of M23 financing - The Africa Report
• Coltan miners struggle to feed world's tech - Al Jazeera

Smuggling & Traceability

• The ITSCI Laundromat - Global Witness
• EU trader Traxys buys conflict minerals - Global Witness
• Mineral smuggling at 'unprecedented levels' - MINING.COM

Legal & Political

• Belgium investigates Apple - Business & Human Rights Centre
• DRC files complaint against Apple - Euronews
• MEPs want to suspend EU-Rwanda deal - European Parliament
• EU's Rwanda deal — profits before lives - EUobserver

Immigration & Enrollment

• FL enrollment dropped 46,455 below projections due to "chilling effects" from immigration policy - WUSF
• Fear of ICE reducing FL school enrollment - Fresh Take Florida
• Immigration enforcement effects on schools - Journalist's Resource

ICE Detention Data

• 930% increase in ICE detainees with no local charges - Click Orlando
• Immigration arrests surge in Central Florida - Orlando Sentinel

School Closures

• Orange County closing 7 schools - Orlando Sentinel
• Broward facing $94M deficit, closing schools - WLRN

SB 2510 & Schools of Hope

• Lobbyists for Griffin and Success Academy pushed FL lawmakers - Seeking Rents
• DeSantis signs Schools of Hope expansion - Orlando Sentinel
• Charter schools push to expand across FL - Spectrum News 13

Ken Griffin & Success Academy

• Griffin donates $50M to Success Academy - Bloomberg
• Success Academy coming to Miami - WLRN

Voucher Program

• Voucher funding jumped from 12% to 24% of state education budget - FL Policy Institute
• 69% of new voucher users already in private school - Orlando Sentinel

Sources

ACA Subsidy Expiration & Farmer Insurance

• KFF: ACA Enhanced Premium Tax Credit Calculator
• CBS News: 2026 price hikes hit ACA health insurance
• NPR: Farmers are about to pay a lot more for health insurance

Farm Financial Crisis

• Investigate Midwest: US farmers face $44 billion in losses
• American Farm Bureau: Farm losses persist despite federal assistance
• Southern Ag Today: Chapter 12 bankruptcy trends

Farmer Mental Health & Suicide

• National Rural Health Association: Addressing farmer suicide
• PMC: Characteristics of suicide among farmers and ranchers
• Rural Health Info Hub: Farmer mental health overview

Mental Health Provider Shortage

• Commonwealth Fund: Understanding the behavioral health workforce shortage

1980s Crisis Parallels & History

• Wikipedia: Farmers' suicides in the United States

FRSAN & Support Programs

• NIFA: Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network
• NSAC: FRSAN funding history

Ted Matthews Profile

• Star Tribune: Meet the Minnesota psychologist who provides free help to farmers
• MN Dept. of Agriculture: Ted Matthews retirement

Meta Hyperion Data Center

• The power play behind Hyperion - Sherwood News
• Meta forms $27bn joint venture with Blue Owl - Data Center Dynamics
• Meta's datacenter is wreaking havoc on a Louisiana town - Futurism

Tax Incentives

• States are opening a Pandora's Box of data centers - ITEP
• Power for data centers could come at 'staggering' cost - Louisiana Illuminator

Water Consumption

• The Dalles agrees to reveal Google's water usage - RCFP
• States push to end secrecy over data center water use - E&E News

Grid Reliability

• PJM capacity auction falls short of reliability target - Utility Dive
• Data centers were 40% of PJM capacity costs - Utility Dive
• For the first time, PJM fails to procure necessary power - NRDC

Carbon Emissions

• AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft - NPR
• Microsoft's emissions jump 23.4% - GeekWire

xAI Memphis

• Inside Memphis' battle against Elon Musk's xAI - TIME
• NAACP files intent to sue xAI - PBS

Community Opposition

• Local pushback, canceled data centers surged in 2025 - Heatmap News
• $64 billion in projects blocked or delayed - Data Center Watch

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