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Alice Herman

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Investigative reporter @suncosearchlight.bsky.social‬ Signal: @aliceherman.22 Email: alice@suncoastsearchlight.org

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...
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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The State Department’s Office of Remigration is taking a concept celebrated by neo-Nazis and embedding it in U.S. policy. “Remigration, touted by neo-Nazis, and now our own government, is nothing more than an ethnic cleansing plan,” said @wendyvia.bsky.social. More from @davidgilbert.bsky.social:
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The State Department Really Doesn’t Want to Talk About the Office of Remigration
The office was created a year ago and seemingly named for a far right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations. It now works, a source says, with little to no oversight.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Sharyn Alfonsi releases the following statement on CBS News essentially ghosting her: "This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom."
"Over the weekend, my contract with CBS News expired, drawing to a close nearly twenty years with the network, including more than a decade at 60 Minutes.

Following an intense editorial dispute over our CECOT story, repeated attempts by my representation to establish a path forward were met with absolute silence from network executives. The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over.

In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like "modernization" and “restructuring” to explain away my departure. Don't be misled.  This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom.

Fearless, independent reporting has always been the defining standard at 60 Minutes.   Today, CBS management is abandoning that mission, choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it. 

The wall between editorial independence and corporate interest at CBS is being methodically torn down.  Journalists willing to challenge authority are being pushed aside in favor of those who will not.   If this continues, the result will be a broadcast that looks like 60 Minutes but lacks the courage and character to produce journalism that matters. 

To my colleagues, who became family - working beside you has been the privilege of a lifetime. You are second to none. I’ve learned exactly what it costs to hold the line right now. Hold it anyway.   Viewers and the people who trust us with their stories deserve nothing less."
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Alice Herman @aliceherman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“The time I find hardest of all is at night, when the house falls still, and there is nothing left to do and no one left to call. This was our time, when we talked without haste, when we discussed anything and everything” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/o...
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Opinion | My Wife Disappeared Into El Salvador’s Prison System. When Will She Come Home?
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Alice Herman @aliceherman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
ProPublica has set the industry standard for rigorous investigative journalism, & it will too for the adoption of AI in newsrooms, for better or for worse. As journalists, we should be watching their union's contract negotiations closely and offering our colleagues there our full support
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 11/05/2026
We asked @propublica.org's board to agree to a fair contract. Chair Paul Sagan replied that they support management, whose last offer includes weak job security, minimal guardrails on AI & wages that don’t keep up w/ rising costs. We know you stand with us. Tell Mr. Sagan: shorturl.at/MkUbQ
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Tell ProPublica’s board that you stand with its workers
We asked ProPublica’s board to agree to a fair contract, but Chair Paul Sagan replied that they support management, whose latest offer includes weak job security, minimal guardrails on AI and wages th...
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
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Prince Andrew's Arrest
Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
As ICE and CBP testify in Congress, we have updated our tracker of deaths at the hands of immigration enforcers. 25 have been killed with another 18 seriously injured, and there have also been 44 deaths in ICE/CBP custody. Wondering if this will come up at the hearing. prospect.org/2026/01/29/i...
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A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect
ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Here's the original investigation that brought light to this scheme, from @aliceherman.bsky.social and @skirchy.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Major Trump donors who complained of immigrant ‘invasion’ used Mexican workers illegally, sources allege
Exclusive: Experts believe the alleged ‘shuttle support’ program used by Uline – a company owned by billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein – is likely illegal and exploitative of workers
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Uline – a company owned a MAGA mega-donor – brought in workers from Mexico who earned per day about the same as their US counterparts were paid by the hour... Now one worker from Mexico who was badly hurt on the job has spoken to the Guardian about his experience working for the company.
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Alice Herman @aliceherman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
was locked out of bluesky and am now back...not sure if this is a good thing
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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A month ago, NYT columnist David Brooks wrote a column decrying the media and political fixation on the Epstein story. This afternoon, House Democrats released a new tranche of photos of an event that Brooks attended with Epstein.
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Alice Herman @aliceherman.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
New College was quick to signal support for Trump's higher ed "compact," which dozens of schools (incl conservative ones) rejected as an attack on academic freedom. Just weeks later, NCF moved to raise tuition - apparently contradicting the agreement: suncoastsearchlight.org/new-college-...
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New College tuition hike may contradict Trump ‘compact’ - Suncoast Searchlight
The planned hike, which would take effect in fall 2026, raises questions about whether New College would still qualify for the ideologically driven agreement.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
"The records the Times/Herald have been able to obtain show that to pay for ads, DeSantis officials repeatedly tapped into money meant to help vulnerable Floridians. The money came from federal grants...By spending public money on a political effort, several agencies bent the rules."
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Joan Greve @joanegreve.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The election conspiracy group Defend Florida has lost sway with lawmakers, but their message still spreads, @aliceherman.bsky.social reports. “There are some very powerful amplifiers of election lies, including the president," @beckerdavidj.bsky.social said. suncoastsearchlight.org/defend-flori...
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Florida election skeptics lose power in Tallahassee, but their message still spreads - Suncoast Searchlight
The mood was grim on Defend Florida’s mid-November Zoom call. Members of the Sarasota-founded election conspiracy theory group traded frustrations over Florida Republicans who no longer seemed intere...
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ITYSL memes 💦🥩 @ityslmemes.com · 27/11/2025
thinking of her today
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
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Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
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Alice Herman @aliceherman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A look at how sheriffs in FL are joining Trump's immigration crackdown -- and the regional role the Sarasota sheriff has taken on: suncoastsearchlight.org/sarasota-she...
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Sarasota Sheriff cashes in on ICE crackdown - Suncoast Searchlight
Sarasota County stands in sharp contrast to neighboring agencies, which have neither participated as extensively nor benefited as much from partnering with ICE.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
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ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.
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Barton Gellman @bartongellman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I have never heard of a reservation being "cancelled" (for no stated reason) after a person checks in a receives a boarding pass. Highly suspicious and disconcerting. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
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Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
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Alice Herman @aliceherman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"No single experience can fully contain the agony of Gaza, the near-obliteration of a society and a place." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them. (Gift Article)
We kept wondering: Did they find their missing relatives? Were they even still alive?
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2025
Mario had the right to work and report in the U.S. at the time he was arrested for livestreaming a protest in June. He was held for over 100 days in ICE detention, and he did not have the chance to say goodbye to his family in person before being deported.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2025
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 30/09/2025
OMG! Mychal did it. Anyone who first caught this wonderful human gaining an audience on TikTok knew there was something special happening. What an incredible journey and story. Promoting reading and libraries is so damn important right now, and I can't think of a better ambassador.
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Reading Rainbow Returns With New Host and Celebrity Guest Stars
Reading Rainbow is back after almost 20 years! The beloved children's TV program — which ran for 26 years before wrapping in 2006 — is celebrated for fostering childhood reading and literacy.
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 30/09/2025
4/ Some ICE officers on the scene reacted emotionally to the incident. One said: “What the fuck?” Another told me: “This is a real problem.“
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 30/09/2025
3/ An agent then appeared to shove people away from the elevator entrance, which led to Elibol falling to the ground, as footage captured by photographer Stephanie Keith shows.
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 30/09/2025
2/ Journalist L. Vural Elibol and other photographers apparently wanted to understand why ICE agents were following a woman into a public elevator. As they tried to enter the elevator, a supervisor from the ICE team at the New York Field Office shouted, “Get out the fucking elevator!”
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 30/09/2025
1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
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Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny to headline 2026 Super Bowl half-time show
Latin trap and reggaeton artist to lead NFL half-time celebration on 8 February, following Kendrick Lamar’s record-breaking 2025 show
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Alice Herman @aliceherman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Short thread 🧵 1/ In Florida (and nationwide) under Trump's 2nd admin, ICE has expanded its use of "detainers," the controversial and longstanding practice of holding people in jail -- many on minor charges -- past their release date to turn them over to ICE custody for possible deportation.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Aug. 26: Stephen Miller says "the Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization." Sept. 25: Miller put in charge of coordinating a federal campaign to prosecute "domestic terrorist organizations."
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Swimmers returned to the Chicago River for the first time in a century today, marking the river's transformation from a formerly polluted and hazardous waterway. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/21/s...
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Swimmers Return To Chicago River For 1st Time In A Century: 'The River Is So Clean'
Hundreds of swimmers dove into the Chicago River Sunday to raise money for ALS research and highlight the river's rebound after years of pollution and unsafe conditions.
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Alice Herman @aliceherman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
In Florida, routine arrests, often stemming from minor charges, like driving without a license, are a direct gateway into ICE custody — and the most frequent method of immigration arrests in the state.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
“I was threatened with being referred to the FBI... They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn’t give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."
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Vermont school superintendent detained after trip to Nicaragua
Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of the Winooski School District, was held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection while returning to the country after visiting family.
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Alice Herman @aliceherman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
"The farm worker who died from injuries he sustained after falling from a greenhouse roof during an Ice raid of a California cannabis farm was a 'hard-working, innocent farmer' and the sole provider for his wife and daughter, his family says." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Manuelita Beck @litabeck.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Arbella Rodriguez Marquez has leukemia and has been detained by ICE for five months. A legal U.S. resident, Yari was detained at the border after visiting Mexico. Her friends are calling for her release so she can receive medical treatment. www.abc15.com/she-is-not-d...
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'She is not doing good': ICE detains Phoenix woman with leukemia at Eloy Detention Center
A Phoenix woman with leukemia who is a legal resident is being detained at Eloy Detention Center. Her best friend says she has lost 55 pounds while in custody.
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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 04/07/2025
About 23 girls at Camp Mystic remained unaccounted for Friday after deadly flooding from the Guadalupe River caused “destructive” floods at the private Christian summer camp in Hunt, Texas, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said.
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Some children missing from Kerr County summer camp after 'catastrophic' floods
An unknown number of girls remain missing after deadly flooding caused “catastrophic level” floods at Camp Mystic, a private camp in Hunt, Texas.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Back in 2021, as mayor of Maury County Tennessee, Andy Ogles was upset when an annual "Mule Day" event was canceled due to COVID. He organized and marched in his own parade that featured men dressed as Confederate soldiers and a truck waving the rebel flag.
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Alice Herman @aliceherman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
DOGE firings & sweeping proposed cuts to NOAA could imperil FL's fishing industry: suncoastsearchlight.org/noaa-cuts-fl...
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NOAA cuts could harm Southwest Florida fishing economy, threaten red tide research - Suncoast Searchlight
Sweeping cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could imperil Florida’s multibillion-dollar fishing industry and coastal economy, industry leaders and scientists warn — a dire pro...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The scale of the alleged corruption is staggering - here is the total value of the most serious alleged direct benefit to past presidents or family members as compiled by o3.
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Tim Muth @timmuth.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
El Faro, the leading investigative journalism site in El Salvador, reports that authorities are preparing to arrest its journalists after they published interviews revealing how Nayib Bukele negotiated with the country's gangs.
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Alice Herman @aliceherman.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
A horse named *sovereignty* outran a horse named *journalism*?!!!! Also who is naming these horses?
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“I think in each country, scientists are opposed to autocratic government." - Kseniia Petrova. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...
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She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Sotomayor, YESTERDAY: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also [US] citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal."
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Matthew D. Taylor @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
NEWSFLASH: At least 12 members of Congress are flying Appeal to Heaven flags outside their offices. Great reporting from @marabim.bsky.social tracking Congress & January 6th symbolism. The ATH flag is a symbol of Christian supremacy & political-spiritual warfare. baptistnews.com/article/a-vi...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing 1st Amendment.
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Alice Herman @aliceherman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
CNN has a ticker up saying that they're having technical issues, so I wasn't hallucinating. Gannett pages are still unreachable for me
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