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Connie Walker

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Pulitzer Prize + Peabody award-winning journalist instagram.com/_connie_walker Nehiyaw from Okanese

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 17h
today at the brick works, event/launch of project (Protecting Indian Residential School Records). hearing from Connie Walker, Murray, Marie Wilson & Stephen Kakfwi on the pending destruction of Survivors’ records and what’s at stake @miskoaki.bsky.social @conniewalker.bsky.social
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“A YELLOWHEAD FIRE X IRSR EVENT
The Right to Truth Protecting Indian Residential School Records

What is at stake if we lose
Survivor records?”



background are exposed brick walls with graffiti one person at the podium with three co-panelists seated on the right, with exposed brick walls with graffiti and tropical plants behind them five people seated on stage with exposed brick walls with graffiti and tropical plants behind them
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Named by my late aunt Ruth Seesequasis.
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
35) Stella Mike, 36) Clara Bird, 37) Edna Sauve, 38) Victoria Baldhead, 39) Gladys Meechett, 40) Alice Gamble, 41) Philomene Ichmakew, 42) Marie Therese Reentach, 43) Mary Anne Seeyapussum, 44) Marie Therese Paul, 45) Irene Prosper
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On #OrangeShirtDay paying respect to generations of my family and kin who went to St. Michael’s Residential School ~ 1931. Duck Lake, Sask ~ 1) Maggie Bird, 2) Mary Rose Naytowhow (My Kokum), 3) Ada Wolfe, 4) Philomene Peeteetuce, 5) Dorothy Eyahpaise, 6) Mary Anne Seesequasis, 7) Veronique
On #OrangeShirtDay paying respect to generations of my family and kin who went to St. Michael’s Residential School ~ 1931. Duck Lake, Sask ~ 1) Maggie Bird, 2) Mary Rose Naytowhow (My Kokum), 3) Ada Wolfe, 4) Philomene Peeteetuce, 5) Dorothy Eyahpaise, 6) Mary Anne Seesequasis, 7) Veronique Morrisette, 😎 Elizabeth Constant, 9) Irene Dunn, 10) Helen Ledous, 11) Anais Prosper, 12) Henritte Napope, 13) Florence Peeteetuce, 14) Jospehine Ledoux, 15) Florence Bird, 16) Mary Rose Seeseequasis, 17) Alice McDonald, 18) Nancy Gardipy, 19) Victoria Dunn, 20) Cecile Redwing, 21) Madeline Sutherland, 22) Grace Seesequasis, 23) - Badger, 24) --, 25) Mary Josephine Greyeyes, 26) Flora Greyeyes, 27) Helen Peeteetuce, 28) Antoinette Arcand, 29) Clemenie Arcand, 30) Francoise Wichikan, 31) Marie Redwing, 32) Gertrude Greyeyes, 33) Esther Greyeyes, 34) Annie Bear, 35) Stella Mike, 36) Clara Bird, 37) Edna Sauve, 38) Victoria Baldhead, 39) Gladys Meechett, 40) Alice Gamble, 41) Philomene Ichmakew, 42) Marie Therese Reentach, 43) Mary Anne Seeyapussum, 44) Marie Therese Paul, 45) Irene Prosper
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Substack @substack.com · 30/09/2026
As Canada marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award winning journalist @conniewalker.bsky.social shares her work digging into survivor testimonies—records that face the threat of imminent destruction contactingconnie.substack.com/p/who-is-pro...
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Who is protected by the destruction of Indian Residential School records?
“There’s not a single Indigenous person in Canada, who has not been touched by the legacy of Residential Schools.” - Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When we finished our podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's in 2022, I knew that I wasn’t done with the story. Even though we had spent a year investigating my dad's experience at the St. Michael's Indian Residential School and uncovered a staggering level of abuse, the story felt unfinished.
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Who is protected by the destruction of Indian Residential School records?
“There’s not a single Indigenous person in Canada, who has not been touched by the legacy of Residential Schools.” - Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"We will not be intimidated," said Casimir. "This is not going to deter us from gathering, reflecting, or honouring our survivors and the children who returned home," she said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C. politicians, leaders condemn reported white nationalist gathering on First Nation reserve | CBC News
B.C. politicians and leaders are denouncing an apparent gathering of white nationalists on the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc reserve near Kamloops, B.C. Kúkpi7 Rosanne Casimir says the nation received report...
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Judge won’t jail Ontario billionaire Frank Stronach for sexual offence — ‘I’m not going to order custody for a man who is 94’ www.thestar.com/news/gta/bil...
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Did you know that in one year, the biggest archive of Survivor testimony is set to be destroyed by order of the Supreme Court of Canada? What is at stake when we lose Survivor records? Please join us for this important discussion.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Kevin O'Leary's AI data centre dreams for Alberta have taken a hit after an Edmonton judge ruled Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation's request for a judicial review can go ahead. The Nation wants the review because it says it wasn't consulted.
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Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation wins first victory against AI data centre
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation's application for a judicial review in the granting of a water license for a massive AI data centre will go ahead.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
FIRST AMERICA would not have been possible without the incredible team that helped put it together. It has been a tremendous effort, and we wouldn't be here without the talent and dedication of everyone involved. I am so grateful.
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Large datacenters, some the size of small towns, can require up to 5m gallons of water a day, equivalent to the water use of up to 50,000 people, in order to provide cooling to arrays of humming networked computers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land
Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 29/05/2026
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PEI family sues province over ‘forever chemicals’ found in their drinking water
The home outside Charlottetown’s well water contained PFAS levels 20 times above Health Canada’s threshold
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
A CBC investigation into Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous identity claims uncovered a birth certificate showing Sainte-Marie was born in Massachusetts to Italian-American parents, contradicting decades of biographies & press describing her as Algonquin, Mi’kmaw and later Cree. pagesix.com/2026/05/15/c...
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Oscar-winning folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie stripped of honorary degree after faking Indigenous ancestry
The University of Toronto announced it has rescinded the singer-songwriter’s honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Breaking: U.S. health officials are monitoring 16 additional people across the country for symptoms of hantavirus whom the CDC has not previously mentioned. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/h...
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16 More People in the U.S. Are Being Monitored for Hantavirus, C.D.C. Says
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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 14/05/2026
In May's Show & Tell, @craigsilverman.bsky.social and I are joined by Amnesty International's Barbara Marcolini. Barbara spoke about her role as a journalist in a human rights org. and walked us through how she documented the Israeli military's destruction of civilian infrastructure in Lebanon.
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How an OSINT Investigator Documented the Israeli Army’s Destruction of Southern Lebanon
YouTube video by Indicator
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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"Irresponsible use [of AI in journalism] needs to be treated as seriously as any other act of fabrication. If it isn’t, it’s a tacit admission that these professional ethics are meaningless." - @michellecyca.com on 🔥 about the NYT's not-small AI hallucination whoopsie thewalrus.ca/the-new-york...
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The New York Times Got Caught Using AI Hallucinations in Its Reporting | The Walrus
Despite how the newspaper downplayed it, this is—in fact—a big deal
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Trump Says Americans’ Economic Pain Is Not a Consideration for the Iran War www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...
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Trump Says Americans’ Economic Pain Is Not a Consideration for the Iran War
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/04/2026
In 2025, @hannarosin.bsky.social spoke with Stacey Abrams and Vann Newkirk to examine what an era without the Voting Rights Act could mean for Black voters, democracy, and control of Congress. Revisit this episode of "Radio Atlantic":
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If the Voting Rights Act Falls
The Supreme Court appears ready to hobble the landmark civil-rights law. What does that mean for Black voters, democracy, and control of Congress?
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late. Connie Walker to get help from law and journalism students to gather and preserve records. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen... via @cbcnews.ca @conniewalker.bsky.social #reconciliation #journalism
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Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News
A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.
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Toronto Mike @torontomike.com · 13/04/2026
I have questions regarding Rogers's dismissal of Tina Yazdani
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/04/2026
Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.
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CDC delays publishing report showing covid vaccine benefits
The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan wants answers from the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations after the recent forensic audit was completed by the federal government and the KPMG Accounting Firm.
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Cree Nation wants answers from Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations after audit | APTN News
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Dean Beeby @deanbeeby.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Ford gov't in Ont moves to shield politicians from scrutiny. Here are secrets the new law would have kept under wraps. (From TorStar) thestar.com/news/ontario... #cdnfoi #ontfoi #ontpoli
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The Doug Ford government is moving to shield politicians from scrutiny. Here are secrets the new law would have kept under wraps
The Star has for decades used freedom of information legislation to hold governments to account.
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 02/04/2026
Jesse Brown insists he’s done nothing wrong Banned from Reddit and accused of phishing critics, Canadaland’s founder is leading a chaotic 'investigation' into an army of sockpuppet accounts
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Jesse Brown Insists He’s Done Nothing Wrong
Banned from Reddit and accused of phishing critics, Canadaland’s founder is leading a chaotic 'investigation' into an army of sockpuppet accounts
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 30/03/2026
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NDP Leader Avi Lewis vows to move party to the left and stop oil industry expansion
Provincial counterparts in Alberta and Saskatchewan distance themselves
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/03/2026
NEW: Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
NEW: On the first day of the war with Iran, the United States used a new ballistic missile. It was untested in combat. Our analysis shows it struck a sports hall, an elementary school, and residential areas — killing at least 21 people, including children. w/ @johnismay.bsky.social
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Edmonton Journal @edmontonjournal.com · 21/03/2026
An Edmonton-born man has spent the last four months in a U.S. ICE detention centre. He now faces deportation edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonto...
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An Edmonton-born man has spent the last four months in a U.S. ICE detention centre. He now faces deportation
An Edmonton man was detained by ICE in November after coming back to his home in Texas from a work trip in Mexico. He now faces deportation.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/03/2026
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent. Her lawyer believes that her case should be studied as a “playbook” for D.H.S. violence. “She’s one of the few people who has survived the bullets and can speak out,” he said. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/j0manC
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The Preschool Teaching Assistant Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist”
When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, with it, a sense of reality.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/03/2026
Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils and paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Petition calls on Parliament to save files on residential school abuse before they're destroyed - Petition has over 11,000 signatures asking government to save residential school files www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Petition calls on Parliament to save files on residential school abuse before they're destroyed | CBC News
An attempt to preserve files documenting some of the worst harms caused by Indian Residential Schools could soon head to Parliament.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/03/2026
In January, we went inside the Dilley detention center. Children shared letters describing the anguish of being ripped from their lives: propub.li/4cUHm8L After publishing that story, we learned about Edison, a 13-year-old from Chicago detained for 2+ months. Listen to Edison in his own words 👇
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
It appears a hospital in Teheran has now been hit. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/02/2026
We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/02/2026
Breaking news: Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of this academic year because of his connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Read more:
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Lawrence Summers resigns from teaching at Harvard over ties to Jeffrey Epstein
The former U.S. treasury secretary and former Harvard University president’s decision follows a review of documents that showed the nature of his relationship with the disgraced financier.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/02/2026
“I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long,” wrote 9-year-old Susej, who said she had been held at Dilley detention center for more than 50 days.
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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NPR @npr.org · 24/02/2026
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/02/2026
We found the Trump administration kept about 300 kids at the Dilley detention center for more than a month, despite a long-standing legal settlement that generally limits the time children can be held in detention to 20 days.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Mother says son, 11, bullied, beaten for being Indigenous www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Mother says son, 11, bullied, beaten for being Indigenous
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Ranking member of House judiciary panel said ‘mysterious redactions’ in files obscured names of abusers www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Jamie Raskin accuses DoJ of cover-up after viewing unredacted Epstein files
Ranking member of House judiciary panel said ‘mysterious redactions’ in files obscured names of abusers
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Alix Spiegel @alixspiegel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
💔https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/climate/endangerment-finding.html
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Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/02/2026
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
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Dean Beeby @deanbeeby.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
List of suspected Nazi war criminals welcomed in Canada should stay secret, information watchdog rules By Marie Woolf theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... #cdnfoi #cdnpoli
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List of suspected Nazi war criminals welcomed in Canada should stay secret, information watchdog rules
Commissioner accepts argument that releasing names could damage relations with a foreign power
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/02/2026
Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican superstar, accepted the best música urbána album at the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday with a direct response to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Follow our live coverage here. nyti.ms/4a7BQgd
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Bad Bunny with a powerful anti-ICE speech at the Grammys 🔥🔥🔥🔥 "Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ‘ICE out.’ We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans."
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Clay Masters @claymasters.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Liam’s mother, Erika Ramos, spoke to MPR News about what she witnessed that day. She also discussed her phone conversations with her son and her husband and the pain she has experienced. @mprnews.org www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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‘Mommy, why don’t you pick us up?’: Mother of Liam Conejo Ramos shares her story from hiding
Liam and his father are currently being held by federal authorities in the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, an hour plus drive southwest of San Antonio.
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“What message are we sending about who gets to report and who gets silenced? A free press, not a penalized one, is essential to democracy; especially, when coverage intersects with contentious public issues.” nabjonline.org/blog/nabjout...
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NABJ OUTRAGED AT ARRESTS OF DON LEMON, GEORGIA FORT ‘THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS NOT OPTIONAL’
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is outraged and deeply alarmed by the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort by federal agents, and […]
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Read a Witness Statement on the Pretti Shooting www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read a Witness Statement on the Pretti Shooting
A doctor described in a sworn court filing how agents initially hesitated when the doctor tried to approach and render aid to Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday.
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