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Dina Demetrius

@dinademetrius.bsky.social
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Emmy & LA Press Club Award-winning TV journalist/producer; investigative reporter; MI native; correspondent for CBS Newspath and Matter of Fact w Soledad O’Brien. Signal: artemis25.46 www.matteroffact.tv/category/video/…

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Thank you so much @dinademetrius.bsky.social for having me on your podcast to talk about my book YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION! The Compass is a ✍️ Substack + 🎙️ vid/podcast examining public policy and cultural crossroads. Dina's a fantastic journalist so give her Substack a follow!
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"You Must Take Part in Revolution"
Watch now | My conversation with international journalist Melissa Chan has everything: a dystopian futurist story, Iran protests, trickster authoritarianism, and inflatable dinosaurs as mascots for de...
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
What a fantastic and in-depth conversation with @melissakchan.bsky.social about her graphic novel and global politics. Check out our talk, it’s truly enlightening and actually hopeful for freedom.
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
How do you think Hungarian journalists broke through to the public to turn the tide?
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Paramount makes big promises about how great it is they’ll take over WBD. At an illuminating @capitolforum.bsky.social conference on #Hollywood I got to speak with #antitrust and #entertainment experts about the real impacts. Read my deep dive on my latest Substack: open.substack.com/pub/dinademe...
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
While using these trucks for raids is probably not illegal, it flies in the face of the latest 9th Circuit order to stop making arrests without probable cause. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Federal agents use Penske rental truck as 'Trojan Horse' to raid Los Angeles Home Depot
Border Patrol agents reportedly arrested 16 people at a Home Depot in Westlake on Wednesday. They utilized Penske trucks to carry out the arrests.
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
A life-saving miracle of science, developed over decades, is being scrapped by HHS.
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LA QuakeBot @earthquakesla.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
#Earthquake Update: A magnitude 4.5 earthquake took place 6 km N of Fontana, California at 9:32:24 AM. #light For details from the USGS and to report shaking:
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M 4.5 - 6 km N of Fontana, California | 1753979540
2025-07-31 16:07:24 (UTC) | -117.424°N 34.153°W | 9.0 km depth
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
#earthquake in SoCal, 4.5 near Fontana. Had slight shaking in the SF Valley.
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Not surprising because so many economists predicted this: www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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California's economy is already getting hit by immigration raids
The number of people reporting to work in the private sector in California has decreased by 3.1% — a downturn only recently matched by the COVID-19 lockdown.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 21/07/2025
BREAKING: We’re suing to block the Trump-Vance admin’s unlawful restrictions on funding for programs focused on domestic violence, sexual assault, housing, youth & homelessness. This is the latest in a series of attempts by this admin to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda.
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Trump’s National Guard Troops Are Questioning Their Mission in L.A. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
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Trump’s National Guard Troops Are Questioning Their Mission in L.A.
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
In January a masked man identifying himself as a bounty hunter in WA reported to a city council that ICE is recruiting their squads to capture “illegals” at $1000/person. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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'Who are these people?' Masked immigration agents challenge local police, sow fear in L.A.
Local police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place. In some cases, local cops have been mistaken for federal agents, eroding years of work to have immig...
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"Immigration is also helping drive the strongest period of economic growth since Spain’s construction boom in the mid-2000s. Between 2022 and 2024, average GDP per capita increased 2.9 percent — the strongest of the E.U.’s four largest economies." wapo.st/4kSg2t7
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As Trump shuts out migrants, Spain opens its doors and fuels economic growth
Defying the anti-immigrant trend in the U.S., Spain is reaping economic benefits by granting citizenship to tens of thousands of newly-arrived workers.
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Hmm: former NBCU chief Jeff Shell “anointed as the new CBS chief if the deal gets done. He is likely to downsize the organization and, according to sources, address the alleged political biases in its news programming that are at the center of the Trump lawsuit.”
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
#breaking Kennedy and Oz will announce news on Monday about Medicare. #healthcare
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
They’re keeping tabs on even relatively under-the-radar journalists…and deporting them: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australian deported from US says he was ‘targeted’ due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests
Alistair Kitchen says he was detained and questioned about views on Israel and Palestine before being deported from LA to Melbourne
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Maca Iglesias @rotterdamvvg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Pope Leo is sending Trump a clear message about how he intends to lead. The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants to immigration court on June 20th, which also marks International Refugee Day. Thank you, Pope Leo. #OnYourSide
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
What framing—this woman at the right shoulder of Cardinal Blase Cupich like an angel as he delivers a sermon against othering our neighbors and the ICE raids. #popeleomass #chicago
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/06/2025
ICE agents are making arrests inside Chicago's immigration court hallways again this morning. Reportedly three people detained so far after exiting their hearings.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
House votes to claw back $1.1 billion from public media www.npr.org/2025/06/12/g...
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House votes to claw back $1.1 billion from public media
The U.S. House voted Thursday on a rescission bill to claw back money for foreign aid programs, along with two years of funding for the public media system. The measure now goes to the Senate.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is the most straightforward thing they've said so far. They're using the military to "liberate" Los Angeles from its mayor and governor.
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Breaking: Statement from LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn on @padilla.senate.gov being shoved, expelled and handcuffed today.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Both statements are from last night. Note difference between how Trump characterizes conditions in LA ("RIOTS AND LOOTERS"), vs how the LAPD does ("Peaceful Protests")
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Latest from L. A. Mayor Bass.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 08/06/2025
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The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment's notice.
We are in close coordination with the city and county, and there is currently no unmet need.
The Guard has been admirably serving LA throughout recovery.
This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
In her just-released statement, LA County supervisor @hildasolis.bsky.social reminds LA residents to contact the county’s immigrant affairs office for support during this Fed action: oia.lacounty.gov/about-us/
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About Us - Office of Immigrant Affairs
Contact the LA County Office of Immigrant Affairs at 1-800-593-8222. East Los Angeles County Hall, 4801 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
There are two pathways to what Trump is doing: 1) He is federalizing 2000 National Guard troops; or 2) He is deploying 2000 members of another state’s National Guard with the permission of *that* state’s governor. These posts walk through the relevant authorities—and the questions they raise:
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
For the love of god plz SOMEONE in the White House pool report on the legal authority invoked in this memorandum
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement.

Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 08/06/2025
This seems like a good time to recommend @radleybalko.bsky.social Rise of the Warrior Cop and @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Bring the War Home bookshop.org/p/books/rise... bookshop.org/p/books/brin...
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
The Militarization of America's Police Forces
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 08/06/2025
#AltCitizen 🖕✊️
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Video from about an hour ago as less than lethal rounds are being used against protesters in Southern California
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
It looks like protesters at a freeway exit and near the Home Depot stopped what was meant as a significant raid: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Crowd ordered to disperse as protesters confront immigration agents in fiery clash in Paramount
An hours-long standoff between protesters and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents erupted Saturday morning near a Home Depot in Paramount.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
BREAKING: Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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Trump border czar says National Guard will head to LA to fight anti-ICE protests
Tense confrontations between police and demonstrators in L.A. continued for a second day on Saturday, in response to operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Think broader: Higher Ed is America's premier example where we have a dominant trade surplus with the world & Trump's intent on destroying it.
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
“The retaliatory investigation against Ms. Lau is one example of how Alex Villanueva used the LASD to target and harass his political opponents,” www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Former Times reporter sues Villanueva, L.A County, alleging 1st Amendment violation
Former Times reporter Maya Lau has filed a lawsuit claiming Los Angeles County and former Sheriff Alex Villanueva violated her 1st Amendment rights.
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Politico @politico.com · 27/05/2025
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to bar government scientists from publishing in major medical journals, saying on a podcast that three top journals were “corrupt” and influenced by pharmaceutical companies.
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RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals
The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
All universities are now being Harvard’ed: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
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State Department Halts Interviews for Student and Exchange Visas
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I’ve posted this before—the majority of deportations in the 1930s (more than 1 million ppl) were U.S.-born citizens. Same playbook.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
If they mandate this, people are going to die.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 25/05/2025
Police reform and civil rights activists joined thousands of ordinary people Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder at religious services, concerts and vigils nationwide and decry the Trump administration for setting their efforts back decades.
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5th anniversary of George Floyd's murder marked with nationwide remembrances
Police reform and civil rights activists joined thousands of ordinary people Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder at religious services, concerts and vigils nationwide and…
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
They’re infiltrating the Greek church too. They’re laughed at…but they’re still infiltrating. 🙁
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Exclusive | Judges Weigh Taking Control of Their Own Security Amid Threats
U.S. marshals, sworn to protect federal judges, ultimately answer to President Trump, who has ramped up criticism of the judiciary.
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Immigrants following the government’s rules for asylum and due process get rounded up: apple.news/ARFDf0tNrQoi...
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Father ripped from family as agents target immigration courts, arresting people after cases dismissed — Los Angeles Times
The Department of Homeland Security is asking to dismiss its own deportation cases, after which agents arrest immigrants as they leave the courtroom and pursue expedited removals, which require no hea...
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
As @swin24.bsky.social , the author of this piece, just said on MSNBC, this orgy of corruption can’t be impressed too much in the public consciousness.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Trump's Tax Bill Would Decimate the Affordable Care Act
Donald Trump isn’t trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but his tax bill would quietly fulfill the GOP’s long-term plan to gut the health plan.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This is a massive redistribution of wealth — from poor people, to defense contractors and private prison execs. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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House GOP budget adds $150 billion for Trump’s immigration enforcement
House Republicans are committed to an extraordinary influx of funding to ramp up the president’s deportation agenda and border enforcement.
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Dina Demetrius @dinademetrius.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Senate votes to overturn California's landmark ban on new gas-only car sales - Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Senate votes to overturn California's landmark ban on new gas-only car sales
The Republican-majority Senate's decision to revoke California's planned ban on vehicles that run on fossil fuels defies congressional norms, and threatens the state's climate adaptation goals.
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Senator Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov · 21/05/2025
Yesterday, Republicans in the Senate tried to jam through the SAVE Act –– which would lead to the disenfranchisement of millions of eligible American citizens if passed. I blocked it.
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