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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13/02/2026

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/01/2026

Free them all

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princess bubblegum 🏳️‍⚧️ @vvv.gay · 25/01/2026

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If you're asking how state and local actors should respond to ICE... well the first thing to watch out for is what's happening in blue states where the response is in Dem hands.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I’m so sick of people throwing their hands up and saying abolishing ICE isn’t possible right now. Abolishing ICE is extremely popular and calls to do so will only continue to grow, meanwhile conservatives manage to do incredibly unpopular things all the time because nobody stops them

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Everyone protesting in Minnesota has been risking being murdered. The rest of us Americans can make some fucking phone calls. That goes for those with Repub senators as well as those of us with Dem senators. All of them.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*

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Stephen Owens @stephenjowens.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Ran some numbers for work on the school closures in Atlanta Public Schools. Here's the comparison between the schools and the rest of the district. Race Closed Schools: 94% Black, 4% Hispanic, >1% white APS total: 71% Black, 8% Hispanic, 16% white Economically Disadvantaged Closed: 99% APS: 69%

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 22/11/2025

One woman chewed through her umbilical cord after giving birth in jail — another delivered into a cell toilet 'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies are dying in jail

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

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Clara T Green @claratgreen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

WFP knocked on over 60K doors in Georgia. Fund the work.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/11/2025

i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

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How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/10/2025

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

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Julia Gelatt @juliagelatt.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08

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They watched ICE detain their dad. Now D.C. neighbors escort them to school.

Immigrant neighborhoods across the District have organized “walking school buses” to shuttle kids to classes during President Donald Trump’s federalization of D.C. police.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This was Cuomo’s only playbook. Spend a fuckton of money on ads (including mail), coast on name ID and fear mongering from centrist scolds, and do nothing to organize or coalition build.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 25/06/2025

Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."

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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

it is unfathomable to some people that a person can have a good life and go "damn it'd be cool if other people also had good lives we should make that happen"

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Schumer stopped the Senate to announce that this happened, in the middle of debate on a bill where Democrats were collaborating with Republicans on crypto legislation. How you can compartmentalize these two things is beyond me.

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.

Yet if the movement is leaderless and anarchic, it isn't chaotic. It has guiding principles that allow participants to self- regulate even as the movement constantly reinvents itself. Among those principles is ("do not split"). Protesters use the expression to say that no one in the movement should condemn or obstruct the actions of fellow protesters they disagree with. People who oppose a given action should sit it out, but not try to prevent it.

The use of force, in particular, is a divisive issue. Some insist on the necessity of keeping the protests peaceful, so that they will seem morally legitimate and may gain sympathy from the broader public. Others — especially younger protesters or protesters who consider that the lengthy sit-ins of the Umbrella Movement failed — believe that some measure of force has become necessary; otherwise, the government will simply ignore them.

The “do not split” idea acts as a bridge between these two factions by promoting mutual respect for diverging views within the protest movement.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/05/2025

Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.

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Nonprofit Killer Provision Quietly Disappears From Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”

The infamous “nonprofit killer” provision quietly disappeared from Donald Trump’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" as it winds its way through Congress.

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The Appeal @theappeal.org · 15/05/2025

🚨 Our newsroom is in crisis. Without urgent donations, The Appeal may not be able to keep publishing.

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Kristin DeMarco Wagner @kcdemarcowagner.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This is also one reason they attack the department of education-if you end up NEEDING to homeschool children because their education has been gutted and left in tatters it gets those pesky moms out of the work force and back to fully unpaid labor.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 11/05/2025

A new Florida law creates new felony charges for people who volunteer for ballot initiatives. People subjected to those charges could be disenfranchised themselves. “Here you are, trying to keep democracy going, and you can lose your right to vote." boltsmag.org/florida...

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A New Crackdown on Ballot Initiatives Unnerves Florida Organizers

The new Republican law threatens volunteers with more investigations and criminal punishment, even as Ron DeSantis faces allegations of illegally meddling in ballot measures.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 09/05/2025

Good morning! I am in an office tower in midtown Atlanta where the marta board and senior leadership is having a "retreat". They will be discussing the draft operating and capital budgets for the first time, and also receive briefings on federal grants. Follow me and @thexylom.com for more updates:

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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

are you an early career journalist in the South who is working to inform your community about safety - what actually threatens it, how it can be protected, and what truly keeps people safe? if so, please apply for this cohort! a little more info in this thread: justjournalism.org/page/better-...

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Building a Better Beat: Fall 2025 Cohort

Fall 2025 Cohort

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/05/2025

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Given Trump’s massive proposed cuts to affordable housing programs revealed in the last couple years of days, I am reupping my brief piece on how affordable housing impacts all sorts of things. Such cuts will greatly worsen so many problems.

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HOUSING IMPACTS EVERYTHING: Ammunition from the Research Literature for Fighting Federal Cuts to Affordable Housing

...and for seeking increased support from state, local, and philanthropic sources

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Clara T Green @claratgreen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Absolutely disgusting. theatlantaobjective.substack.com/p/cop-city-i...

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

"Many people don’t understand that 40% of households in Atlanta are a week away from homelessness, and that a disruption to any stabilizing program could be catastrophic."

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Federal layoffs stymie local efforts to combat homelessness

Trump administration cuts are putting pressure on housing-focused nonprofits.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The free speech website where the owner (who believes in free speech) will throttle your access if you criticize him - even if you support all the far-right conspiracy theories and bigotry he supports. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed. (Gift Article)

Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.

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Clara T Green @claratgreen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Beyond excited for this book! Pre-order pre-order pre-order!!!

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Nobody involved in social movements / direct action / social work / legal aid ever uses the word “felon” as a pejorative. This is a fundamental disconnect between moderates who love to dunk on Trump and those who work and organize every day on the front lines of injustice.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Say - abduct, abductions, abducting, disappear, disappearing. Don't say - deport, deportations, deporting - unless that is the accurate term. Don't say - arrest as this conjures for people the person did something wrong.

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ATL Council (Parody) @atlcouncil.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Every time a citizen has input for the city budget, we ask ourselves, “What would the police union think of this?”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Like I said, I was, for a time, this guys staff who oversaw housing. He doesn’t care and he isn’t smart.

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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I wrote about the lawsuit against the Atlanta Police Foundation, and why you should care about it no matter where you live: private actors are increasingly exercising public power while avoiding public accountability, at the same time that open records laws are being gutted slate.com/news-and-pol...