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Emmanuel Dzotsi

@emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social
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Reporter telling stories at This American Life. Used to host Reply All and once upon a time, Serial.

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Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Hi, my name is Alex Goldman and I host the @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social I used to host the Reply All podcast, and I have found that so many people who liked Reply All have no idea Hyperfixed exists. It's super frustrating because I have no idea how to reach those people.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I get almost as many comments about how ugly or fat I am on my workout posts as I did on my posts before I started lifting. I’m not asking for sympathy. I just want to remind Black women that the point isn’t if we are pretty or skinny or not. The point is they want us to not exist.🙄
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Emmanuel Dzotsi @emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Arsenal really love being what people think we are. I dunno what to do with that 😂😂😭😭😭
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/01/2026
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/01/2026
Claudette Colvin, who at 15 refused to give her seat on the bus to a white woman in Alabama, has died at 86.
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Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86
Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
LeMonde said, not on our watch
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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This entire weekend
in the pit
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The neighborhoods won by Sliwa sound like Stardew Valley locations.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The West has Fallen. The Mayor of New York City is an Arsenal fan.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 02/11/2025
After we uncovered a pattern of altered data, CCRB officials confirmed the police watchdog is deliberately miscategorizing some NYPD misconduct allegations in public data to protect officers' reputations, at the request of unnamed "stakeholders."
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The City's Police Watchdog Is Burying Allegations That Cops Lied, at the Request of Unnamed 'Stakeholders'
Board officials confirmed that the practice, which had not been publicly disclosed until Hell Gate revealed it earlier this month, is meant to protect NYPD officers' reputations.
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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
it's crazy they trying to run the 80s black welfare mother narrative on snap benefits rn with a constituency in need that has already run up on a government building once
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Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Hi, I’m Alex goldman. I used to host a podcast called Reply All that some people liked. For the past year I have been making a show called @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social. We now have 25 episodes (50 if you count premium episodes). You might enjoy it! Listen if you liked reply all
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.
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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. 

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
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Emmanuel Dzotsi @emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I have a small thing on the show this week about me and my dad. Have a listen!
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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
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Emmanuel Dzotsi @emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Why doesn’t anybody in the movies driving a getaway car ever just drive a black Toyota Corolla? They’d never find you!
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.
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Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Emmanuel Dzotsi @emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
not these commentators trying to make out like Partey is being booed rn because he's a former arsenal player. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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Thomas Partey: Why is he playing against Spurs before rape charge court appearance?
Thomas Partey is
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2025
very funny that some of the same people who spent years calling anyone sympathetic to BLM a “racial essentialist” are now up in arms that a ugandan-born south asian man would describe himself as african and asian because, of course, you can only choose one
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Emmanuel Dzotsi @emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I’m guest hosting the show this week! 😎
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 31/05/2025
At this point Arsenal can simply do nothing, let the contract expire & live with this stain on the club’s history. Or they can make it much much worse.
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The player we can’t write about and football’s ‘systemic failure’ to deal with sexual violence
A Premier League player is representing his club despite facing accusations of sexual violence. And nobody can talk or do anything about it.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 09/04/2025
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
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Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
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Emmanuel Dzotsi @emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Have a small thing on the radio this week, and a rather large piece of concrete on my desk.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
lots of you said "good vibes only" but the vibes are pretty bad...how do you account for that....explain yourself
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
NEW: Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil filed their amended and significantly expanded habeas petition tonight seeking his release. Among the most significant additions is a challenge to Sec. Rubio's "determination" about Khalil. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
Mahmoud KHALIL,
Petitioner,
v.
Donald J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as
President of the United States; William P. JOYCE,
in his official capacity as Acting Field Office
Director of New York, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement; Caleb VITELLO, Acting Director,
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Kristi
NOEM, in her official capacity as Secretary of the
United States Department of Homeland Security;
Marco RUBIO, in his official capacity as Secretary of
State; and Pamela BONDI, in her official capacity
as Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice,
Respondents.
Case No. 25-cv-01935
AMENDED
PETITION FOR
WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
AND COMPLAINT
INTRODUCTION
1. This case concerns the government’s targeted, retaliatory detention and
attempted removal of a student protestor because of his constitutionally protected speech.
Petitioner Mahmoud Khalil is Palestinian, a lawful permanent resident of the United
States, and a recent graduate student at Columbia University. Over the last year and a
half, Mr. Khalil has been a mediator, an active participant in, and at times the public face
of, student protests on Columbia’s campus related to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
The Trump administration has made no secret of its opposition to those protests and has
repeatedly threatened to weaponize immigration law to punish noncitizens who have
participated.PRAYER FOR RELIEF
WHEREFORE, Petitioner respectfully requests that this Court:
Assume jurisdiction over this matter;
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Vacate and set aside Respondents' unlawful Policy of targeting noncitizens
for removal based on First Amendment protected speech advocating for
Palestinian rights;
Vacate and set aside the Rubio Determination;
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Enjoin Respondents from transferring the Petitioner from the jurisdiction
of this
District pending these proceedings;
Order the immediate release of Petitioner pending these proceedings;
Order the release of Petitioner;
Declare that Respondents' actions to arrest and detain Petitioner violate the
First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment;
Award reasonable attorneys' fees and costs for this action; and
Grant such further relief as the Court deems just and proper.
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Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/03/2025
“trump and white house officials have been telling GOP holdouts that they will take their constitutional power to make spending decisions”
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Pope Francis in critical condition, messy Cardinals on high alert
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Mallory Yu @malloryyu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“I knew someone on AA5432.” That was the subject of an email NPR host Adrian Ma sent to newsroom leaders in the hours after the DC plane crash. He trusted us with sharing his story — and her contagious energy. www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...
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NPR host Adrian Ma remembers his girlfriend who died in D.C. plane crash
NPR host Adrian Ma's girlfriend, Kiah Duggins, was aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River. He spoke to NPR about that night and about his late girlfriend.
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Emmanuel Dzotsi @emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Arsenal reportedly brought in over 600 million pounds last season. This deal with Rwanda is only worth roughly 10 million a year. Blood on their hands AND they’re not really making that much money. A real choice.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/02/2025
Companies that just one year ago celebrated Black History Month and stocked Pride products on their shelves are in a new phase — what some lawyers refer to as "rainbow-hushing," meaning dropping or quietly rebranding their DEI programs.
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After Trump’s DEI Order, Companies Navigate a Legal Minefield
Companies navigate a legal minefield as President Trump wages war on diversity programs, but they still have to guard against complaints of bias.
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Emmanuel Dzotsi @emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Turns out that the ads in this corporate hellscape are bad!
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Emmanuel Dzotsi @emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Somewhere in my soul these three are always playing over and over
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Jesus Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1670, 📸 by @Stuart_PhotoAFC
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Emmanuel Dzotsi @emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I want the record to show that I was in the club when the news about the AD - Doncic trade broke and the men’s bathroom was a shambles.
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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 28/01/2025
I think “walkie talkie” is the most unserious name we’ve ever given anything
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Emmanuel Dzotsi @emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I am finally writing this story and it is legitimately so funny and so dark all at the same time
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ⓢⓗ🥞ⓡⓣⓢⓣⓐⓒⓚ @hishortstack.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
me and the boys just seen a cool star out west so we’re packing up some myrrh and heading over there
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Emmanuel Dzotsi @emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I’m sorry but now that I’m bald I will not be wearing turtlenecks. I WILL be beating the frozone allegations
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Emmanuel Dzotsi @emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This OSU team are so unserious my lord
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 27/11/2024
Another woman has died because of a heinous abortion ban
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A third woman has died under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors reach for riskier miscarriage treatments
Porsha Ngumezi bled to death as she was miscarrying after her doctor opted against an emergency procedure used to end pregnancies.
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