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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This city is getting homes built twice as fast & others want to copy it. Should every new house require a new permit for its design? Claremore, OK, does not think so. The city has a catalogue of 29 preapproved architectural plans for houses, duplexes www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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This city is getting homes built twice as fast — and others want to copy it

Should every new house require a new permit for its design? Claremore, Oklahoma, does not think so.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

D.C. has a commission on poverty but it hasn’t been funded, leaving its leaders struggling to produce results. The commission is likely to go unfunded for a 2nd year From @streetsensedc.bsky.social streetsensemedia.org/article/d-c-...

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D.C. Commission on Poverty is likely to go unfunded for the second year - Street Sense Media

The D.C. Commission on Poverty will likely receive no funding in the District’s budget for the second year in a row.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 19/06/2026

A reminder, this #Juneteenth: The criminal legal system controls more than 5.5 million people. Incarceration is just one piece of the puzzle – there are millions of people who are left stripped of complete freedom even after release.

Pie chart showing that in the U.S. 3 million people are on probation, 2 million are in correctional facilities, and 649,000 are on paorle.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Trump’s war on immigrants Future generations will ask how we permitted this systematic purging of millions from the United States to happen. Gift link: wapo.st/4voy1wz

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Trump’s war on immigrants

Future generations will ask how we permitted this systematic purging of millions from the United States to happen.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Americans are reaching a financial breaking point the particularly unchecked brand of capitalism we have here in the US has worked to extract the maximum from working people while returning the barest minimum, fueling the rise of inequality Gift link: wapo.st/4fXrgwL

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Americans are reaching a financial breaking point

The majority of Americans are actively stressed about money. The rich have never been richer. No wonder we’re so mad.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Father’s Day in an ICE detention center As we talk with detained men, they emphasize a personal story. Gift link: wapo.st/4vYnzLZ

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Father’s Day in an ICE detention center

As we talk with detained men, they emphasize a personal story.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Geo Group, which oversees more than a dozen ICE detention facilities, has faced lawsuits in three states alleging it violates minimum-wage laws by paying some immigrant detainees $1 a day to work. The company maintains that the work is voluntary

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/06/2026

Daphy Michel, a Haitian asylum seeker with untreated mental health issues, died of hypothermia after being released by ICE. Security footage shows Michel sitting on a bus stop bench for days in cold temperatures. Her death has been ruled a homicide.

washingtonpost.com

Death of woman released by ICE on a winter day is now ruled a homicide

Security footage shows Daphy Michel, a 31-year-old asylum seeker from Haiti, sitting on a bus stop bench for days in cold temperatures.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

New filings from the "Broadview Six" defense attorneys tonight. The first reveals the feds decided to "not contest that defendants are entitled to their legal fees," though they have "not yet committed to the amount of legal fees" they will pay. Full filing: cst.brightspotcdn.com/0c/07/4afee6...

On June 5, 2026, counsel for the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office
emailed defense counsel that the government had decided it would not contest that
Defendants are entitled to their legal fees, albeit “without admitting or conceding to
the fact.” The government asked defense counsel to provide information contemplated
by local rules to engage in good faith discussions on the amount of fees and related
expenses. Defense counsel fully intend to provide this information and to engage in
those good faith discussions to reach agreement on the amount. However, as

noteworthy and rare as it is, the government’s acknowledgment that Defendants are
entitled to recover their legal fees does not end the issue of discovery that is
authorized under the Hyde Amendment. If anything, the government’s recognition
that Defendants are entitled to their legal fees supports the need for fuller discovery.
Indeed, while counsel for Defendants appreciate and accept the government’s
commitment that they are entitled to recover legal fees, the government has not yet
committed to the amount of legal fees it will pay. While defense counsel do not
question government civil counsel’s intentions to engage in good faith discussions,
both parties should have the same questions that can be answered through the
proposed discovery requests that are on file. For example, it is meaningful
information for both sides to know if the prosecutors or anyone else in the U.S.
Attorney’s office had any contact or communications with Main Justice or White
House officials about this case and the Defendants.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The DOJ also brought conspiracy charges against the Broadview 6 in Chicago and against protestors in Spokane--where 3 people were convicted (they said they'll appeal) Those looked like test cases & now the DOJ has charged 15 people in MN

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 16/06/2026

Federal officials are targeting members of Signal group chats who tracked the movements and actions of agents during Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, a person familiar with the arrests said.

startribune.com

Live: Federal prosecutors to announce charges against anti-ICE demonstrators

Members of two so-called ‘antifa’ groups are set to be charged, according to federal officials.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Trump officials planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, whistleblower says A former Social Security executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure immigrants to leave the country. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.com

Trump officials planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, whistleblower says

A former Social Security executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure immigrants to leave the country.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Fewer than 61,000 were resolved during the year, leaving more than 40,000 unresolved heading into 2026. Criminal felony backlogs worsened sharply, growing from 2,198 pending felony cases at the beginning of 2025 to 3,438 by year’s end.

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The 51st @51st.news · 28/05/2026

NEW: D.C.’s court system is buckling under a crushing backlog of criminal and civil cases, as more than a quarter of judicial seats remain vacant. Felony trials now being pushed years into the future, Stacy M. Brown of @washingtoninformer.com reports:

51st.news

DC has a mounting backlog of felony court cases

With more than a quarter of judicial seats open, the court system is being stretched to its limits.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Has anyone installed a bat box at their place? I'm thinking about doing this at mine

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The 51st @51st.news · 30/05/2026

“I’ll lose my family, my friends, everything I’ve built, I’ll lose it all in the blink of an eye, all for nothing.” Read the story of Alexander Esquivel, one of the more than 1,000 people who were detained by ICE in D.C. last summer 51st.news/ice-detentio...

51st.news

ICE detained over 1,000 people in DC. Here's one man's story

Alexander Esquivel spent two months in immigration detention. His family is still living with the consequences.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets Executives are scrambling to track returns on AI investments as the bill for massive computing needs comes due www.wsj.com/tech/ai/corp... via @wsj.com

wsj.com

Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets

Executives are scrambling to track returns on AI investments as the bill for massive computing needs comes due.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The Record Divide Between Corporate Profits and Worker Pay To understand why people are so miserable about the economy, look no further than Thursday’s report on GDP www.wsj.com/finance/stoc... via @wsj.com

wsj.com

The Record Divide Between Corporate Profits and Worker Pay

Labor’s share of economic output just hit an all-time low, while the profit share neared a record. It helps explain why consumers feel so glum.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

What happens when jails and prisons make phone calls free? Research shows what Rice and her family know firsthand: Family contact is crucial for people on both sides of the prison walls. www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/2026/...

washingtonpost.com

What happens when jails and prisons make phone calls free?

Opinions from across America, powered by the Washington Post

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

D.C. spent $67 million cleaning up after January's snowstorm Critics say the big spending was "obscene" and avoidable. 51st.news/dc-spent-67-... From @maustermuhle.bsky.social @51st.news

51st.news

D.C. spent $67 million cleaning up after January's snowstorm

Critics say the big spending was "obscene" and avoidable.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Why Two Big Companies Just Cut Paid Family Leave The U.S. is the only industrialized nation not to have paid family leave as a federal benefit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

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Why Two Big Companies Just Cut Paid Family Leave

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Corporate America Is Minting Money—and Not Just in Tech and Finance Profits grow for many companies in the face of war, rising oil prices and inflation; ‘it’s extremely polarized’ From 4/27, gift link: www.wsj.com/business/ear...

wsj.com

Corporate America Is Minting Money—and Not Just in Tech and Finance

Profits grow for many companies in the face of war, rising oil prices and inflation; “it’s extremely polarized.”

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This is an extremely tragic story about a mother picked up as a result of a 287(g) cooperation agreement between a local sheriff & ICE. Wendy Hernandez Reyes' son Orlin died after she was deported without him. Then ICE blamed her for his killing.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Sharing for the headline: The Chip Craze Is Turning a Glass Company and a Toilet Maker Into AI Stocks Investors are driving big gains in companies making components vital to AI infrastructure www.wsj.com/finance/stoc... via @wsj.com

wsj.com

The Chip Craze Is Turning a Glass Company and a Toilet Maker Into AI Stocks

Investors are driving big gains in companies making components vital to AI infrastructure.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Why DC’s Metro Wants to Automate its Trains Driverless transit is increasingly common globally, but the plan to remove human operators from Washington, DC’s Red Line trains would be a US first. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.com

Why DC’s Metro Wants to Automate its Trains

Driverless transit is increasingly common globally, but the plan to remove human operators from Washington, DC’s Red Line trains would be a US first.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I don't usually read graphic novels but this was really powerful with the visuals:

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 08/05/2026

Bloomberg News has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for “trAPPed” a graphic novel depicting the trials of a woman in India held under “digital arrest” as part of a widespread and ruinous scam

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Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel

No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Do you ever think about how Trump's posting was this wild new thing in 2015 and now it's just background noise in politics? I think about this a lot. So I read all his posts this year and analyzed them because THE PRESIDENT IS SAYING A LOT OF STUFF YOU AREN'T READING. www.npr.org/2026/05/08/n...

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Trump's Truth Social lays bare narrow obsessions of an extremely online president

The bulk of the president's social media posts don't make news. But taken together they show what's on his mind as he leads the nation through war and domestic turmoil.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

U.S. Conducts Third Boat Strike in 5 Days, Killing 2 and Leaving a Survivor Of the 57 attacks in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific against boats accused of drug trafficking, there have rarely been survivors. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

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U.S. Conducts Third Boat Strike in 5 Days, Killing 2 and Leaving a Survivor

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/05/2026

ICE is preparing to return to a longer training program for new deportation officers, officials said, restoring previous standards. The reduced training period drew criticism about whether recruits were being rushed onto the job.

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ICE plans to scrap shortened training program for new immigration officers

The reduced training period drew criticism from Democrats and former law enforcement officials, who asked whether new recruits were being rushed on to the job

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👻 Spooky Cat War 👻 @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

reminder that DHS considers detention as “non-punitive”

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Internal ICE records reveal widespread use of force in detention centers The reports detail how guards have increasingly used chemical agents and physical tactics on detainees, including groups demanding adequate water, food and medical care. Gift link: wapo.st/4tdgBRA

wapo.st

Internal ICE records reveal widespread use of force in detention centers

The reports detail how guards have increasingly used chemical agents and physical tactics on detainees, including groups demanding adequate water, food and medical care.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Walking near a D.C. school raises the chance of being hit by a car, data shows Pedestrians in DC who are near schools, especially children and teens, are more likely to be hit by a car or other vehicles than anywhere else in the city Gift link: wapo.st/4d8ahG8

wapo.st

Walking near a D.C. school raises the chance of being hit by a car, data shows

A Washington Post analysis of accident data shows pedestrians near schools are 24 percent more likely to be hit than elsewhere in the city.

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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 24/04/2026

The Justice Department program that accredits nonprofit organizations to help provide legal aid to low-income immigrants has failed to approve a single new application since March — after its attorneys were quietly reassigned to other offices, sources tell CBS News.

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Work inside a small DOJ office that helps indigent immigrants get legal aid stalls after personnel shuffle

Attorneys for a DOJ program that accredits nonprofits to help provide legal help to immigrants were transferred last month, creating setbacks for a number of legal aid groups.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Why Democrats are failing to reach young voters like me "as a young voter, I’ve scrolled past lifeless Democratic content, noticing how much more engaging posts from conservatives feel" Gift link: wapo.st/4vJHuit [I'm posting this on X & the blue site for a reason!]

wapo.st

Opinion | Why Democrats are failing to reach young voters like me

Some in the party don’t understand the attention economy or how to communicate.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

DC’s highly qualified workers can’t find jobs: ‘What is happening?’ Washington DC has the highest unemployment rate in the US From 4/7 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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DC’s highly qualified workers can’t find jobs: ‘What is happening?’

Washington DC has the highest unemployment rate in the US

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Mitch Ryals @mitchryals.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Brooke Pinto posted her campaign's entire 67-page opposition file on Robert White: washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7811...

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A Running Tally of All the Times Robert White and Brooke Pinto Have Dunked on Each Other

Updated semi-regularly.

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Mitch Ryals @mitchryals.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The Board of Zoning Adjustment hasn't been able to establish a quorum for more than a month, bringing housing renovations and development to a screeching halt. Suzie Amanuel spoke to an elderly couple who are caught in the middle: washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7838...

washingtoncitypaper.com

The Board of Zoning Adjustment Hasn’t Had a Quorum For More Than a Month, Snarling Housing Renovation and Development

A series of recent departures and a yearlong vacancy have effectively halted crucial zoning decisions. Cases have been pushed back to June—at the earliest.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This is the DC agency that grants permits for many development & renovation projects--it hasn't met in 3 months & says it can't convene until June Approximately 40 projects across the District have been stalled as the BZA is effectively shut down without a quorum via @51st.news

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Washington City Paper @wcp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A series of departures and a yearlong vacancy have effectively shut down D.C.'s Board of Zoning Adjustment. Meanwhile, one couple’s home sits half-built while they live in a temporary apartment, waiting for a hearing that could be delayed indefinitely. Contributor Suzie Amanuel has the story:

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The Board of Zoning Adjustment Hasn’t Had a Quorum For More Than a Month, Snarling Housing Renovation and Development

A series of recent departures and a yearlong vacancy have effectively halted crucial zoning decisions. Cases have been pushed back to June—at the earliest.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Homeland Security Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets The contract for five planes doubles the Department of Homeland Security’s fleet of jets to expel immigrants, and includes two Gulfstream planes, according to documents and interviews. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...

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Homeland Security Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

House defies Trump on immigration with move to shield Haitians The vote to advance a bill extending protections for Haitians marks the first time Republican lawmakers have voted this term to oppose Trump’s immigration policy. Gift link: wapo.st/42ebzsM

wapo.st

House defies Trump on immigration with move to shield Haitians

The vote to advance a bill extending protections for Haitians marks the first time Republican lawmakers have voted this term to oppose Trump’s immigration policy.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Very glad to see this @motherjones.com feature from @lauracmorel.bsky.social looking at how immigrants are tragically being ripped off by scammers as they face deportation proceedings--I worry that this problem has really increased due to Trump's deportation push, & TikTok & Instagram

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/04/2026

In her latest investigation, @lauracmorel.bsky.social dives into the world of scams that are profiting off of Trump's immigration crackdown. Read it at the link below. ⬇️

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The scammers profiting off Trump's immigration crackdown

Fake judges. Fake lawyers. Real deportations.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/04/2026

Scammers have taken advantage of the desperate positions many immigrants find themselves in today as the Trump administration ramps up deportation efforts. This population is much less likely to feel comfortable reporting a crime when ICE and law enforcement are working together more than ever.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/04/2026

In one New York case, scammers used Facebook to contact victims, fabricated documents using symbols from the federal government, and even organized sham court hearings via videoconference with fraudsters impersonating judges.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/04/2026

Certainly, these kinds of grifts are not new in the legal world. But representatives from several legal groups and private attorneys told @lauracmorel.bsky.social that today’s scams are more sophisticated and harder to detect thanks to the proliferation of AI and social media.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/04/2026

In the last year, the country’s most prominent legal organizations—such as the American Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association— have warned that scams targeting immigrants and attorneys have increased to an alarming level.

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