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Akoto Ofori-Atta

@akoto.bsky.social
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
ICE will no longer publicly report the deaths of immigrants recently released from detention. ICE frames this as "common sense," when in fact, it's an effort to obscure the true number of people who die as a result of being detained—especially now as in-custody deaths surge.
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ICE will no longer report deaths of detainees who have recently been released from custody
The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE could not avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody.
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adam mahoney (he/him) @adamlmahoney.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
NEW investigation: Georgia families are being outbid by Wall Street for starter homes. Lawmakers promised to help. Instead, key bills keep dying. One reason why? We found that nearly 40% of Georgia state lawmakers are invested in the real estate industry capitalbnews.org/georgia-lawm...
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Georgia Lawmakers With Real Estate Ties Are Writing the State’s Housing Laws
As corporate investors snap up Atlanta homes and drive up prices, nearly two-fifths of state legislators meant to regulate them are personally invested in the state’s housing market.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The Free State of Florida, where women who don’t want a C-Section will be dragged into a court proceeding *while in labor* to defend their choice.
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Jesse Jackson died Tuesday at the age of 84. The civil rights icon always held America to account—and never stopped fighting to preserve what he knew could be taken away. I wrote about how he saw our future so well.
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Jesse Jackson Knew Better Than to Forget
The civil rights icon always held America to account—and never stopped fighting to preserve what he knew could be taken away
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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend" "Beers on me"
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WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston @wcvb5.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face
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ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face
Global Entry and Precheck revoked three days after incident, court filing says.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Important story from @alibreland.bsky.social about how the us government now speaks in the voice of an incel groyper www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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The Trump Administration Is Publishing a Stream of Nazi Propaganda
Government social-media managers have transformed official feeds.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Thank you @BaltimoreBeat baltimorebeat.com/how-baltimor...
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How Baltimore organizers are preparing to fight back against ICE
As social media and news coverage is flooded with a relentless stream of images showing immigrants being rounded up, masked federal agents shooting rapid responders, and government officials defending...
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NPR @npr.org · 29/01/2026
The company announced it was ending production of its higher-end Model S and Model Y, and turning that production space over to making humanoid robots. n.pr/4c4Qzea
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Tesla profits slumped 46% last year, as it lost its crown as the top EV seller
The company announced it was ending production of its higher-end Model S and Model Y, and turning that production space over to making humanoid robots.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/01/2026
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‘They killed her little by little’: Parents speak out after daughter died in border patrol custody | CNN
CNN’s Rosa Flores speaks to the parents of the 8-year-old who died in the custody of US immigration authorities in Texas in May, 2023 after the family made repeated requests for medial care for the gi...
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“The shooting of Porter, who leaves behind daughters aged 10 and 20, was not caught on camera” How convenient for ICE
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Family of man killed by off-duty ICE agent in LA demands charges: ‘The ache will never go away’
After Renee Good’s killing in Minneapolis, calls grow for accountability in the shooting of Keith Porter Jr on New Year’s Eve
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Paul Robeson died 50 years ago today. Can you imagine being the most famous Black person in the world at one point, only to die in near obscurity? The American government made sure no one would remember one of the greatest Americans to ever live. He was 77
Inside of April 1976 Ebony article:

Paul Robeson
Farewell to a FighterCover of April 1976 Ebony Magazine with headline:

Paul Robeson - Farewell To A Fighter 

on top right cornerVarious works on Paul Robeson, including a biography of his wife Eslanda Robeson and a book by his son Paul Robeson Jr
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
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ariel @aritalks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

By Douglas MacMillan
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the Jan. 3 death of detainee Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp, the agency said “staff observed him in distress,” and it gave no cause of death.

An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner told Lunas Campos’s daughter this week that, subject to results of a toxicology report, the office is likely to classify the death as a homicide, according to a recording of the conversation.

In the recording, which the daughter shared with The Washington Post, the employee said a doctor there “is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression,” which means Lunas Campos did not get enough oxygen because of pressure on his neck and chest. Pending the results of a toxicology report, the staffer said on the recording, “our doctor is believing that we’re going to be listing the manner of death as homicide.”In an interview with The Post, Santos Jesus Flores, a man who says he was detained in the segregation unit the day Lunas Campos died, said he saw at least five guards struggling with Lunas Campos after he refused to enter the segregation unit, complaining that he didn’t have his medications. Flores said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, “No puedo respirar” — Spanish for “I can’t breathe.” Medical staff tried to resuscitate him for an hour, after which they took his body away, Flores said.

“He said, ‘I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe.’ After that, we don’t hear his voice anymore and that’s it,” said Flores, who had contacted a family member of Lunas Campos, who in turn put him in touch with a Post reporter. The Post confirmed Flores was in Camp East Montana through ICE’s detainee locator.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15/01/2026
"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'" They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
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The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, with Perkins among those witnessing the signing (third from right)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
“.. Federal agents grab a woman to drag her away from her car, days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.” @reuters.com
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 13/01/2026
"After George Floyd's murder by a police officer 6 years ago [..] police departments and federal agencies banned chokeholds." "ProPublica found more than 40 cases over the past year of immigration agents using these life-threatening maneuvers." #USA #Media #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
There is a federal ban on chokeholds and similar tactics. But there is no sign of punishment for officers who've used them.
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
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Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
How much has ICE officer training deteriorated under Trump? New deportation officers at ICE used to receive about 5 months of training; Academy training has now been shortened to just 47 days, a number "picked because Trump is the 47th president." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Fast Times at Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Flush with cash and soaring with hubris, Trump appointees are supersizing ICE.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
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Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/01/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
@adamlmahoney.bsky.social and @capitalb.bsky.social have consistently been doing some of the best reporting on data centers and environmental racism, btw. If you want to support independent journalism, throw them a couple of dollars if you can
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Elon Musk promised a lot of things by 2025 - colonists arriving on Mars - xAI achieving AGI - Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S. - completely driverless robotaxis - a Tesla Roadster demo - DOGE cutting trillions none of them happened mashable.com/article/elon-mus...
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Everything Elon Musk promised in 2025, but didn't deliver
Musk is now infamous for his false promises, but even this is excessive.
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Akoto Ofori-Atta @akoto.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
@laurenwilliams.bsky.social says it all here. I'll add that a thriving Black press helps our country better understand itself, and better serve the people in it. To do more of this work in 2026, help us raise $6K before midnight: capitalbnews.org/donate
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 18/12/2025
Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.   ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 18/12/2025
@akoto.bsky.social: “Big Tech was one lever to get our journalism to the people it was meant for, but it was never the only one.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
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Alecia 🌻 @aleciareports.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
In light of the shootings at Brown and Kentucky State, my reporting on HBCUs investing grant dollars in safety and mental health hits close to home. I spoke with students and admins about preparing for terrorist threats. Thank you to @opencampus.org for the collab! capitalbnews.org/hbcu-bomb-th...
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Black Colleges Enhance Security in Response to Bomb Threats
In wake of past and recent threats, HBCUs are investing in cameras, technology and mental health counseling.
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SiriusXM Urban View @urbanviewradio.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Support Capital B Today @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social @akoto.bsky.social @capitalb.bsky.social #LDFShow capitalbnews.fundjournalism.org/donate/?camp...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/12/2025
Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
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Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
“BG3 players exploit children.”
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Akoto Ofori-Atta @akoto.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This video shows what @capitalb.bsky.social does best: reporting that changes lives. Our ATL housing investigation helped 23 families get safer homes. We believe journalism should do more than inform — it should make life better. Agree? Support us: capitalbnews.fundjournalism.org/donate/?camp...
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 02/12/2025
My favorite thing about Jagged Edge... four people singing a two part harmony
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/11/2025
very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
Laura Loomer, the far-right political activist known for her virulently anti-Muslim views, was quick to speculate about the shooter’s background on X, where she has 1.8 million followers.
“Communist, Muslim, Trans terrorist, Furry, or ANTIFA?” she asked.
Loomer also posted a photo of a bearded man being carried into an ambulance, though The Washington Post could not immediately verify that the image came from Wednesday’s crime scene.
“I’m just going to say. That’s a very Mohammedan looking beard,” she wrote. “I’ll wait for more details. But the beard with no mustache the night before a Western holiday is not lost on me.”
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Jessica Cale @dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Elephant seals are top ocean predators, and they serve as an important “ocean fertilizer,” Uhart adds, spreading nutrients from their feces as they swim across the water. “No other species can replace elephant seals in the ocean."
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Bird Flu Wiped Out Nearly Half of the Females in the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Drone Images Suggest
Scientists recorded a 47 percent drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird flu hit. Scaled to the whole island, that’s a potential loss of more than 5...
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 25/11/2025
Racism is so powerful in America it’s our greatest intellectual export
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Ence Morse @ence.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
No notes theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
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Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.
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