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Amazing how much the same social-emotional health disciplines we teach to children are still so extremely applicable to us as adults.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 11h

The Co-chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Immigration Task Force was *this* close to being a target of a hate crime mass shooting a week after Chris Rufo did a podcast on "The Indian Question"

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13h

One of the hardest things I've had to come to terms with is that there really is no punishment for being a terrible person, as long as being terrible leads to professional success. We simply aren't coordinated enough to sanction them. Got to be good just for the fun of it.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13h

My library is now cutting Sunday hours because budget constraints mean they can't fill open positions and that means they aren't able to staff Sunday shifts. Municipal budgets are in dire straits right now, and libraries are being hit hard.

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 14h

Amazing how much the same social-emotional health disciplines we teach to children are still so extremely applicable to us as adults.

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe this will help you feel a little better if you have had a bad day today, too.

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15h

Had a terrible, no good, very bad day today. Going to meditate on this because I'm feeling quite distraught. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7...

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May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

YouTube video by Road Less Marveled

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 15h

As always, h/t to @adamjst.bsky.social + the @relevantresearch.bsky.social team for making it very easy to pull up these facility profiles on Detention Reports. detentionreports.com

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ICE Detention Facilities - Directory

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 15h

Another illustrative account of how highway traffic enforcement works as a means of 'top of funnel' intake into ICE. "Nearly all of the arrests happened in Indiana, a state known as America’s crossroads that’s traversed by 13 interstate highways."

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Indiana State Police help drive Trump’s crackdown on immigrant truckers, records show

Records show commercial truckers arrested by ISP then detained by ICE in Kentucky.

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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 18h

(4/4) 3rd country nationals sent to Sierra Leone have been refouled to their countries of origin, despite being granted protection by US immigration judges from being returned to their home countries due to likely persecution or torture. www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org/sierra-leone

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 18h

Just unquestionably true and not just for political media.

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Lindsay Dusard @lindsaydusard.bsky.social · 22h

new blog out on the compounding effects of recent federal policy changes on refugees’ and other humanitarian immigrants’ eligibility for Medicaid/CHIP www.urban.org/urban-wire/g...

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Green Card Processing Delays Could Leave Refugees Waiting Indefinitely to Become Eligible for Medicaid

As of October 1, many refugees are no longer eligible for Medicaid until they obtain a green card.

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

One in a series about the stonewalling at 1500 Marilla, from the comms staff that refuses to communicate, the (expensive!) records requests that go to the AG's office (or litigation) and the mayor and city manager who think doing interviews is doing us a favor. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

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Wilonsky: Ask a question, and Dallas City Hall’s as transparent as concrete

City officials will tell you what they want you to know when they want you to know it, and you’ll like it, OK?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

While we don’t have a smoking gun yet, there is reason to believe that earlier this year the Trump admin ordered USCIS to arbitrarily cap the number of immigrants who can become citizens each month. Backlogs in the naturalization process are now skyrocketing.

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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Monthly naturalization approvals fell sharply from an average of 70,000 per month in 2024–2025 to roughly 22,000 per month. USCIS reported a pending backlog exceeding 742,000 naturalization cases. www.npr.org/2026/10/13/n...

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Naturalization in the U.S. is on the decline

The number of naturalization ceremonies for would-be American citizens is on the decline. This year, ceremonies have been canceled and citizenship applications face increased scrutiny and delays.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Brazil is firmly in the crosshairs of the Trump administration and Big Tech, who are trying to destroy its democracy via their preferred presidential candidate. In response, millions are taking to the streets in support of President Lula. One of the most inspiring efforts I have seen in many years.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 15/10/2026

people say they're tired of the horserace and want policy. so you give them policy. and then the numbers come back and show the audience is, by far, most interested in 2028 horserace. 🤪

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Yeah. Creative new words ("Impact Fee" 🧐) to describe very old financial arrangements.

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

adamjsawyer.com/detentioncha...

A bar graph showing the population detained by ICE at Diamondback Corr Facility.

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm grateful to see this coverage of Diamondback. It only opened in January and yet it's quietly become one of the largest ICE facilities in the country.

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Yes. Horserace coverage can be placed alongside rapid inflation and xenophobia in a category called "things that we're realizing are chemically toxic for democracy but we're still trying to look for an antidote"

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"Every month, CoreCivic has agreed to pay the City of Watonga $1 per day for each immigrant detained in Diamondback."

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The Frontier @readfrontier.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

After sitting idle for over a decade, a for-profit prison in rural Western Oklahoma is now a key hub in the Trump Administration’s plan to carry out the largest mass-deportation effort in U.S. history.

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Detention for Dollars

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The Frontier @readfrontier.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Diamondback has rapidly become one of the largest immigration detention centers in the nation since reopening late last year. Data provided by the city of Watonga indicates that Diamondback held an average of 1,923 detainees per day in August.

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Oklahoma helped fast-track a massive immigration detention center. Now questions are mounting over conditions inside

The state Department of Corrections earns millions to monitor operations at the privately run Diamondback Correctional Facility for compliance with ICE standards and to “perform other administrative f...

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

That's a meaningful indicator imo

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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 15/10/2026

I appreciate Jake Bauers talking about how the need for health insurance affected his career choices. [The Fox Sports guys all laugh again.] But the story is a lot less funny for most Americans who must work in less sexy jobs than pro sports because it’s their only pathway to having insurance.

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Still an Avalanche win 5-4 in aggregate, shootout gimmicks notwithstanding.

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

Brewers like “Ope, lemme just scoot past you there” to the Dodgers.

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

lol the way this site lit up after those b2b dingers

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is such a strong statement.

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Nayna Gupta @naynagupta.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Shocker..... .....

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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

baseball is good because it’s a sport of scheming viziers. what is a head coach but a king. and what is an assistant but a guy who says shit like “most excellent, my liege”

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

For a number of reasons, the public has memory-holed the effort that went into ensuring housing, food, and employment for hundreds of thousands of people during those years. Much of the work was done by normies living in cities like Chicago, Denver, and Philadelphia.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Theres evidently just a large number of refugee children in Germany named Angela Merkel

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Damon Lindelof is good at what he does.

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's basketball season so I'm thinking about this again. bsky.app/profile/adam...

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

ok i was waiting for the Pfeiffer connection you got me

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

One of my first posts on this website. bsky.app/profile/adam...

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

One of my first posts on this website. bsky.app/profile/adam...

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Admittedly, it wasn't always perfect. Mistakes were made. It was patchwork and hard, but people in host cities were trying.

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

We have very recent tradition of supporting people from other countries. It's just at the city level.

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

One way to do this is to go back and reflect upon all the good work that was done between 2022-2024 at the city level for parolees and asylum seekers.

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