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Jennifer M. Morton

@jennifermmorton.bsky.social
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philosophy professor @Penn, author of Moving Up Without Losing Your Way, jennifermmorton.com

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Social media doesn't just feed you bad information. It trains you in how to treat information: who to trust, how much evidence is enough, what counts as a good explanation. And it trains you for a world that doesn't exist. New @PPR (yay!) and free here: philpapers.org/rec/FLOBMS
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Beyond Misinformation: Social Media and the Sculpting of Epistemic Agency
The dominant account of social media's epistemic harms focuses on the spread of misinformation and the production of false beliefs at scale. This paper argues that the misinformation narrative, whate...
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A fantastic piece by my colleague @sukaina.bsky.social about the Odyssey and the academic hot takes. Read it!
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I enjoyed the Odyssey as a movie, but I do agree with Wilson (on at least this) bring earplugs if you don't have a tub of wax laying around. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19/07/2026
Over the past month, New York has welcomed the world. From neighborhood watch parties to the stadium, we’ve celebrated the communities that make our city the global capital of the beautiful game. Today, we close out a historic World Cup, proud of how New Yorkers showed up every step of the way.
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Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning last week. I addressed the widespread anxiety about how we should adapt as AI capabilities increase. I was thrilled by the talk’s reception, so I have made my slides available www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/tal...
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What will be left for us to work on?
ICML 2026 invited keynote — slides and edited transcript, presented click-by-click as delivered. Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This is classic Philly because he's saying something very touching and poignant but he sounds like he's about to fight the crowd. He's like: "I'm angry at how passionate this friggin' bell makes me and I need all of you to be too!"
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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The Declaration of Independence: Then and now | Penn Today
Penn Today spoke with historian Daniel Richter, philosopher Jennifer Morton, and democratic governance expert Claire Finkelstein about the Declaration’s historical context, political ideas, and evolvi...
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Received the Chinese Translation of Moving Up without Losing Your Way today! So exciting to have my work be accessible to so many more people.
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Sure your home, car, insurance, and daycare are more expensive, but appreciate those airbags and crappy netflix shows! www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
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Opinion | Why Everything Feels More Expensive
Middle-class Americans have more income than they did 50 years ago, but the squeeze is real.
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"While district councilmembers and community groups often present themselves as speaking for everyone, they pick and choose which perspectives count. Those who agree with them are treated as the vox populi, while voices that don’t are labeled as ..outsiders. " www.inquirer.com/opinion/coun...
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From bike lanes to zoning codes, the needs of the few sometimes outweigh the common good | Shackamaxon
Plus: Councilmember Curtis Jones Jr. says the quiet part out loud as he faces an election challenge.
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I was on Why? Radio philosophyinpubliclife.org/2026/03/19/w...
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Why? Radio – “What are the ethical costs of upward mobility?” with guest Jennifer M. Morton
Most of us strive for a better life. We want to have more money, more opportunities, and more recognition. We want to find new and exciting places to live. But what and who do we leave behind when we ...
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
What can happen when an energy supply that is not adequately diversified is disrupted: Peru has gone to virtual work/school because a natural gas pipeline pooped out & the war has made gasoline prohibitively expensive. Not a great time to pull back on wind/solar www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Peru's pipeline disruption tests industrial resilience; businesses blanch at remote work order
Peru's business groups are clashing with the new interim government over sweeping emergency measures imposed after a rupture in the country's ​main natural‑gas pipeline triggered the worst energy cris...
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 06/02/2026
“We must be willing to say that the hedge fund managers have no clothes and their parading about is an unpleasant sight for us all,” Oren Cass writes. “Your daughter has taken a job at Blackstone? My condolences.”
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Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.
Regulating the industry is useful. Shaming it is crucial.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
“the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others, that are in the same danger with himself” globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
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Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
❄️❤️ CRITERION CHANNEL WINTER SALE ❄️❤️ Now through February 2, save 20% on new annual Criterion Channel subscriptions — that’s less than $7 a month for a year of great cinema! Sign up with promo code NEWYEAR26 today at criterionchannel.com!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
If you trust a big tech company to do right by citizens in this political climate then I have two Brooklyn bridges to sell you for the price of one.
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C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It’s book release day! I’m back on social media! I feel slightly awkward about it because part of the book is about how social media transforms your motivations for communication! But honestly writing a book is lonely, weird basement-work, and now I want to talk to people about this weird jank.
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Before AI takes your job, it's going to bankrupt you to fuel its speculation. www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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America’s Biggest Power Grid Operator Has an AI Problem—Too Many Data Centers
Increasing demand from the tech industry threatens to max out generation capacity in a 13-state region. Consumers are furious about rate increases.
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"There is sometimes in a Common-wealth, a Disease, which resembleth the Pleurisie; and that is, when the Treasure of the Common-wealth, flowing out of its due course, is gathered together in too much abundance, in one, or a few private men, by Monopolies..."
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/11/2025
"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
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Brian Weatherson @bweatherson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Congrats Maria!
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Our very own gilded age tale. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/n...
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A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19/10/2025
Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/8Yv660RN
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Manon Garcia @manongarcia.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Hi anglo friends! Living with men came out in the UK this weekend! I went to talk about it on BBC Woman’s Hour (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...) and on ABC Late night if you want to listen, otherwise you can read this wonderful interview ⬇️ I hope it’ll make you want to read the book!
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The corrupt anti-democratic self-dealing of this group of anti-bike "activists" is disgusting. As a member of the SHCA and a biker I'm enraged. www.inquirer.com/transportati...
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Society Hill civic association wants to pay $25,000 to prevent new bike protections on Pine and Spruce Streets
A proposal calls for donating money to pay lawyers helping the Friends of Pine & Spruce, which is opposed to added bike lane protections.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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The Elite-University Presidents Who Despise One Another
Inside the civil war between the Ivy League and the South
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Sometimes finishing a book is the saddest feeling in the world.
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"The problem with liberal education in today’s academy does not lie with our students. The real threat to liberal learning is from an administrative class that is content to offer students far less than their own humanity calls for — and deserves." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
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Barry Lam @hiphination.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Inspired by @jennifermmorton.bsky.social piece in the @nytimes.com, I wrote about Viewpoint Diversity and the one time I interviewed the psychiatrist who the Catholic Church hires to investigate reporting of demon possessions. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...
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Viewpoint Diversity and Overton Windows in Academia
Maybe academics should be explicit about our boundaries
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 15/07/2025
“I want to talk about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument… the very specific work involved in infusing your writing with energy and life” — C. Thi Nguyen (@add-hawk.bsky.social) at Daily Nous on the creative craft of writing philosophy.
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Beyond Argument: The Creative Craft of Philosophy Writing (guest post) - Daily Nous
"I want to talk about the part about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument part: the bit where you work on expressing your idea clearly, delicately, even personally. I want to t...
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
In this op-ed, I argue that hiring for viewpoint diversity undermines the openness to intellectual transformation we ought to cultivate in the University. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...
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Opinion | Why Hiring Professors With Conservative Views Could Backfire on Conservatives
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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How Penn caved to authoritarianism | Opinion
In April the Trump administration warned Penn that it risked losing federal funding if it didn’t strip swimmer Lia Thomas of her records. On Tuesday, we caved, writes Jonathan Zimmerman
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"The Justice Department is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship...At least one person has already been denaturalized...June 13, a judge ordered the revocation of the citizenship of Elliott Duke, who uses they/them pronouns." www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...
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DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship
Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Fantastic piece by Allison Pugh. aeon.co/essays/our-c...
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Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays
Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being
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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
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Shelley Lynn Tremain she/her/they @shelleytremain.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Check out this month's fabulous Dialogues on Disability interview with the wonderful Vanessa Wills biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/05/21/d... Image: photo of Vanessa, a Black woman who has short hair and is wearing a cowl-neck sweater and dangling earrings @jowolff.bsky.social
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Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Vanessa Wills
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-second instalment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled ph…
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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The New Urban Order: A Family Zoning Plan
How Philadelphia, San Francisco and other cities could allow more small apartment buildings with family zoning
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/05/2025
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
New at The Watch: A Texas attorney gave some free legal advice to an undocumented family. Then two law enforcement officers showed up at his door. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
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The courage to be decent
The Trump administration wants to make us afraid to look out for one another. Don't let them.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
what story is missing from this page?
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/04/2025
UVA professor Siva Vaidhyanathan makes the case for sticking by America—and fighting for it. "My family chose this country in the late twentieth century, so to abandon it when it is most in need would betray my father’s dreams and hopes. We love this country deeply because we chose it."
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In the Academy and the Legal World, It’s Time to Stay and Fight
Stay or run? Let’s not presume this is a simple question or that everyone’s situation is the same. But I know who my heroes are.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/03/2025
White House acknowledges several top Trump officials plotted Yemen strikes in unclassified group chat that included Atlantic editor. The group chat appeared to involve key national security figures, including Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to the Atlantic.
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White House acknowledges ‘inadvertent’ leak involving top Trump officials
The Atlantic reported that its top editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally added to a group chat where Trump’s national security team plotted attacking Yemen.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues
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Trump administration freezes $175 million in federal funding to Penn
According to a White House tweet, Wednesday's decision is a result of Penn's
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Jennifer M. Morton @jennifermmorton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"Universities are now under attack from the right; in the future, left-leaning politicians may demand that universities do their bidding. Under such circumstances, the safest appointments may be the blandest ones—and brilliant scholars, those whom the world most needs, are rarely bland."
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The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
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Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel
One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...
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New Hampshire Public Radio @nhpr.org · 14/03/2025
A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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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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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I have lived in authoritarianism before, and participated in a popular movement against it. My political voice was born in it. I was just talking to a friend - this moment is *triggering* because it feels like so few people are reacting on the magnitude of what I know is coming.
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