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Emily Flitter

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Bloomberg News reporter writing about inequality in finance, housing and corporate America. Author: THE WHITE WALL, ‘22. Bird-noticer, Floridian, Rangers hockey fan forever.

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 09/10/2026
A review by The City Reporter of federal court records show Cuni participated in a number of warrantless arrests around NYC that federal judges later deemed illegal. In one of those cases, a judge ruled Cuni lied in sworn documents submitted in court.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 09/10/2026
Read more on ICE street arrests in NYC here: projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a...
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ICE Targeted NY Metro Latinos With 93% of Known Street Arrests
An investigation by The City Reporter, based on a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits, shows that ICE agents in the field have seized Latinos in numbers that far exceed their share of the undocumente...
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 09/10/2026
While he was on the ground, the lawsuit alleges, Cuni began using a Taser on his legs. Unable to stand, officers carried his body into the van. Later he overheard the officers laughing as Cuni called him a “maldito Mexicano” or “fucking Mexican,” he said.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 09/10/2026
Cuni was named in multiple lawsuits where immigrants said they were beaten up and shot with stun guns. One of those arrests involved a 21-year-old in The Bronx; the lawsuit alleges an agent tripped him, and he fell to the ground, breaking a tooth.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 09/10/2026
The ICE agent at the center of the shooting in Marble Hill on Thursday is a familiar face to those closely following the Trump administration’s ICE crackdown in NYC. The City Reporter wrote about Brenden Cuni in May. 🧵
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Here’s an interview with Navi Pillay published in a UN-focused media outlet called Pass Blue in which she describes how she ended up documenting the torture of people in South Africa’s apartheid prisons in a way that got groundbreaking legal and political recognition passblue.com/2022/09/12/b...
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Born Under Apartheid, Navi Pillay Has Climbed to Global Heights in Promoting Human-Rights Law - PassBlue
Born Under Apartheid, Navi Pillay Has Climbed to Global Heights in Promoting Human-Rights Law - PassBlue
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
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Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 08/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Federal officers have shot a man in New York City.
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Federal Officers Shoot Man in The Bronx, NYPD Says
The person was being conscious and being treated at a nearby hospital, police said.
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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The IHRA’s working definition of Holocaust denial & distortion was written by & for us…the standard by which the Jewish world measures every attempt to deny, minimize, or distort what was done to us. It was drawn to our own wound…So let us hold the deniers to it.” jewschool.com/when-jews-de...
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When Jews Deny Genocide · Jewschool
“Keep far from a false charge; do not bring death on those who are innocent and in the right, for I will not acquit the
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56. Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“.. There aren’t any more inventories to drain in the West,” Russell Hardy, chief executive officer of Vitol Group, said at the Energy Intelligence Forum in London on Tuesday. “We drained the available inventory.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
".. Going forward, 'alpha from buying AI capex beneficiaries and selling white-collar consumption themes may be harder fought,' she said." @bloomberg.com #Savita www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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BofA Sees the End of ‘Easy Money’ Made From the AI-Spending Trade
Investors are likely to find it increasingly hard to make “easy money” by betting on outsized returns from artificial intelligence-linked capital expenditures compared with consumer-driven spending, a...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 06/10/2026
“How is somebody supposed to survive?” Heating bills in Maine have soared about 80%, giving Democrats an opening to unseat Susan Collins in a race crucial to control of the Senate.
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Record $1,500 Heating Bills in Maine Upend a Key Race for Senate Control
Nazi symbols, sexual assault allegations and months of internal Democratic conflict have churned through the US Senate race in Maine. But with the election four weeks away, it’s the explosion in housing costs and record-breaking heating bills that Mainers can’t stop talking about.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“His friend Yola Lamarre remembered Bel as her adopted little brother, and recalled how hard he worked at soccer practice and ROTC, how he wanted to be a doctor to help people and eventually to build a hospital in Haiti.” www.wyso.org/news/2026-10...
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Pierre Damas Bel memorial: Haitian student 'deserves to be remembered for more than the tragedy'
A memorial in Springfield honored Pierre Damas Bel, a Haitian student who died by suicide after losing his TPS status and being required to wear an ankle monitor.
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Congratulations. Just saw the trailer for this in the theater and it looks awesome — can’t wait to see it!
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/10/2026
ICE arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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ICE Is Everywhere and Acting with Impunity
ICE arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pour one out for a real one. His oral history at USHMM talks about the youth movements finding places for Jews to hide and bringing them food, and becoming masters at forging Nazi documentation so pristine that the national French Resistance used them too. collections.ushmm.org/search/catal...
how the youth movements were the first to recognize the imminent peril and initiated rescue operations to save and arm the Jews; how during the mass arrests the youth movements provided food on a daily basis for those in hiding, identified host families or institutions for Jewish children, and produced forged documents; recalls the various techniques to produce forged documents and the evolving coded vocabulary: "les bifs" for the more artisanal identity cards and "les synthés" (les synthétiques) for the more perfect forgeries; how the youth movements' forgery laboratories were so proficient that the national French Resistance used their services and, in particular, the expertise of Maurice Loebenberg (Cachoud);
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Casey Seiler @caseyseiler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Chris Churchill looks at the legacy of the corruption indictments that rocked the Cuomo administration a decade ago. The continued wobbliness of federal anti-corruption statutes, he notes, remains a feature and not a bug of the system for the elected officials who could fix it.
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Churchill: Indictments that rocked Cuomo and Albany aged poorly
The Supreme Court made Preet Bharara look less like a crusader for justice and more like an overzealous prosecutor.
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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SO much going on here about parenting and living in America: medical insurance, employment, grief, depression, online mobs, baseball.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/09/2026
A Post analysis found that immigration judges have ordered more than 440,000 asylum seekers removed during President Trump’s first 19 months back in office — more than during the previous eight years combined. wapo.st/4yZlKjy
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the second time this week I’ll be on @kcbsradio.bsky.social at 12:30PT/3:30ET — this afternoon it’s to talk about the surprising jump in middle-income people missing rent payments. Please tune in!
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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Breaking: CNN, MS Now, Politico have moved for an emergency hearing before Judge Kelly, noting reporters for their orgs were turned away from WH this morning
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Politico says one of its reporters was barred from the White House after a court ruling restored access www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
> @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SCOOP: Justifying its ban of Politico, the White House said the news outlet used anonymous quotes from a "senior administration official." But those quotes were provided to Politico and other outlets by the White House during a background briefing. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The White House cited anonymous quotes in Politico ban. It was the source.
In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026
A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of not receiving proper care for his diabetes is the third detainee in less than six months to die at a U.S.
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Costa Rican man complained of lack of care for diabetes before his death in ICE custody, family says
A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of not receiving proper care for his diabetes is the third detainee in less than six months to die at a U.S.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2006 sex crime in New York.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
".. The 30-year mortgage rate was last above 7% in late January 2025, days into Trump's second term." @reuters.com $XHB www.reuters.com/business/us-...
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US 30-year mortgage rate tops 7%, hits 2-year high
The rate on the most popular US home loan rose last week to its highest in more ‌than two years and pierced the 7% level for the first time since the first week of President Donald Trump's term, after...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad
Stanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement.
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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WAPO EXCLUSIVE -- Sources: Architect McCrery "withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures." @Blaskey_S @jocwapo www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was led to believe that this administration was concerned about debanking?
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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As per usual, I'm jealous of a story Emily wrote.
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: The Trump administration has been trying to squeeze undocumented people out of the banking system. There are signs that it’s working (gift link) ⬇️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Changing How Undocumented People Bank
In the months since the Trump administration embarked on America’s most sweeping immigration crackdown in decades, the connections between immigrant families and lenders are coming loose, according to...
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
WHY NOT RYAN DONT YOU BELIEVE THAT THE VOICE OF FATE HAS A DISTINCTIVE SOUND TO IT THAT YOU SHOULD JUST LEARN TO LOVE THE WAY EVERYONE AROUND YOU DOES BECAUSE YOU CANT CHANGE IT AND ALSO GOD WANTS IT THAT WAY?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
WaPo statement: @washingtonpost.com
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.” www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21/09/2026
As many of the articles on this point out, there's a reverse precedent here. Back in 2009, when the Obama White House sought to exclude Fox from a group of interviews with then-TARP administrator, the TV networks revolted in solidarity. This is that solidarity coming full circle.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Empty pews, growing needs: Haitian pastors in Miami face fallout after end of TPs www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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Empty pews, growing needs: Haitian pastors in Miami face fallout after end of TPS
As TPS crisis continues, Haitian pastors see falling membership, loss of morale among congregants
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#Florida man goes back to work at 93. Like a lot of seniors, he's facing financial fragility in retirement amid soaring housing, food, utility and medical costs. www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/l...
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At 93, this Sarasota man went back to work. Here's why. | Exclusive
Stewart Ogilby, 93, of Sarasota is like millions of seniors across the country who are facing financial fragility in retirement amid raging inflation.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21/09/2026
Fascinating explainer from the NYTimes today — and not just because it cites RNS (thanks!). Tucked in here is one of the most succinct assessments* of mainline Protestantism's historic US political role I've seen this cycle — an important this for folks to grasp. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/m...
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Can Democrats Reclaim the Christian Moral High Ground?
A surprising number of pastors are running as Democrats this year, challenging Americans’ assumptions about politics and faith.
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