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Maggie Mitchell Salem

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“America runs on Dunkin’ & immigrants.” CT Atty General William Tong 🇺🇸 Secure our borders AND enact humane immigration policies. ExecDir of IRISCT.org 💜4 grown kids 6 🐶 2🙀

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lajump @lajump.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Nice shout-out for @irisct.org from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social who’s doing extraordinary work on behalf of all Americans! @magsmitchell.bsky.social
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
BREAKING: The United States is officially in multiple trade wars. I break down all the developments, discuss what products will be impacted, and preview what's to come. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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The United States Is In Multiple Trade Wars | Everything You Need To Know
The United States is now in multiple trade wars and here is everything you need to know.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 02/02/2025
Stating the obvious: tariffs are a regressive tax on the poorest Americans. A company pays the tariff, and raises their prices to get that money. That price is paid by the consumer. Duh
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
"I want to speak directly to Americans," says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. "This is a choice that will harm Canadians...but will have real consequences for you."
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Dafna Linzer @dafna.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The premier of British Columbia, whose province is home to nearly 6 million people, huge ports of Vancouver and Victoria, and the highway connecting Washington State to Alaska.
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American Immigration Council @immcouncil.org · 28/01/2025
WATCH 📺: "What Are The Costs of Trump's Immigration Crackdown?" @jeremyrobbins.bsky.social discusses the aftermath in-studio today with CBS News and Major Garrett: immcouncil.co/42w1okR
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Maggie Mitchell Salem @magsmitchell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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a black and white skunk is standing in a field of flowers .
ALT: a black and white skunk is standing in a field of flowers .
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Quote Of The Day, Connecticut 🌎 @qotdct.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
#QuoteOfTheDay / #QOTD, 1/27/2025 #Quote by: @magsmitchell.bsky.social, executive director of IRIS, speaking to Emma Wulfhorst for Fox 61's "The Real Story" #ImmigrantsWelcome
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Maggie Mitchell Salem @magsmitchell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Many great orgs cited including mine, irisct.org Also, IRC & Inspiritus www.csmonitor.com/USA/2025/011... #refugees #immigrants
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Trump cut the refugee program before. Refugee groups prepare for Round 2.
Refugee groups are preparing for funding cuts and a lowered refugee admissions cap during President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/01/2025
The argument over H-1B visas exposes a fissure in the MAGA alliance that helped elect Trump. @hannarosin.bsky.social speaks with @alibreland.bsky.social and Rogé Karma about the growing rift between the nativist right and Silicon Valley:
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Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Coalition Starts to Fracture
The nativist right and Silicon Valley are already at war.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/01/2025
Former President Jimmy Carter was remembered on Thursday as a humanitarian who put service to others above his own ambitions during a state funeral in Washington. His coffin is being flown to Georgia, where he will be buried next to his wife, Rosalynn. nyti.ms/3DL1R8m
President Biden is walking alongside former president Jimmy Carter's coffin, which is draped with an American flag. Photo by Erin Schaff/The New York Times.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/01/2025
On the tens of millions of American Christians who are embracing a charismatic movement which seeks to destroy the secular state www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows
Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/01/2025
After months of delay, President-elect Donald Trump is set to become the first U.S. president to be criminally sentenced. Follow live updates.
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Trump to Face Sentencing in N.Y. Hush Money Case: Live Updates
The proceedings are set to begin at 9:30 a.m. in Manhattan. Though the president-elect is expected to avoid jail time, his sentencing on 34 counts will formalize his status as a felon and make him the...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/01/2025
Shiu Ka-chun, a former social worker and pro-democracy lawmaker in Hong Kong who devoted his last years to helping protesters imprisoned after a crackdown on dissent, died Friday in Hong Kong. He was 55.
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Shui Ka-chun, Hong Kong Activist, Dies
A social worker and teacher imprisoned for his activism, he later wrote about the toll of incarceration and worked to help others behind bars.
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Maggie Mitchell Salem @magsmitchell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
What an #immigration conversation!! Drama-, hysteria-free. #factsmatter podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Beyond the Hype: Navigating the Complexities of Immigration
Podcast Episode · The Space In Between Podcast · 01/08/2025 · 51m
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, Jason Carter, tells a story about his grandfather when he first got a cell phone. So funny and so relatable! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/12/2024
What happens to the Alawite community now, Hussein Ibish writes, will say a great deal about whether post-Assad Syria will cohere into a stable, pluralistic nation—or descend into further sectarian chaos.
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How Russia Could Maintain a Foothold in Syria
Moscow can seek to preserve its most important assets in Syria through cooperation with an Alawite autonomous zone—if that community moves quickly to establish one.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
NEW Nearly half of the 1.4 million people in the U.S. immigration system with final deportation orders cannot be sent back to their home countries, according to internal ICE data. It’s one of several obstacles Trump’s mass removal plan will face www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Many targeted for removal by Trump can’t be deported, ICE data shows
Some would-be deportees’s home countries won’t take them or limit cooperation with ICE. Others have received reprieves or deferrals from immigration judges.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/12/2024
The House “cannot collude with the president to deprive the Senate of its constitutional power to advise and consent on appointments. That would make a mockery of the Constitution’s text,” Akhil Reed Amar, Josh Chafetz, and Thomas P. Schmidt write: theatln.tc/qmOHkWFK
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No, Trump Can’t Just ‘Dismiss’ the Senate
The threat from House Republicans should be seen and called out for what it is: an autocratic move that is not just unlawful but contemptuous of constitutionalism.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/12/2024
A company controlled by Goldman Sachs has made millions of dollars from sewage sludge sold to use as fertilizer, which has been linked to “forever chemicals.” Now the company is part of a major lobbying effort to limit the ability of farmers to sue to clean up fields polluted by the fertilizer.
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Their Fertilizer Poisons Farmland. Now, They Want Protection From Lawsuits.
A company controlled by Goldman Sachs is helping to lead a lobbying effort by makers of fertilizer linked to “forever chemicals.”
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Wow that was fast
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Syria rebels declare Damascus ‘free,’ claim Assad has fled the capital | CNN
Syria’s rebel alliance is edging closer to the capital Damascus, after anti-regime forces swept across the country in a lightning offensive. Follow the latest live news updates here.
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Maggie Mitchell Salem @magsmitchell.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Freedom from Assad at last. Real peace & security to follow? One Syria, or many parts? Many questions. And yes, joy as Assad’s political prisoners are freed & families are reunited. 14 years of horror. Half a country of 24M people dead, disappeared, or displaced. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
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Here are the latest developments.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
HTS leader Ahmad Al-Sharaa (Jolani) gives a glimpse of what the opposition is planning for Syria in the aftermath of Assad's collapse. Has also ordered troops to protect all Syrians no matter their ethnicity, sect, or religion. Says regime troops that stay, surrender, or defect will be safe.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/12/2024
Our institutions don’t defend themselves, we do. Don't be distracted by Trump's chaotic appointee picks, focus because there's a long fight ahead.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Rebels are within 6km from Assad's palace. Locals are tearing down Assad images & signs 15 minutes from the Palace. Russia is fleeing Tartus port and Iran is evacuating forces. An emergency meeting to be held between Turkey, Iran, Russia, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. #freeSyria
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Maggie Mitchell Salem @magsmitchell.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
City Prepares For Trump II Deportations Source: New Haven Independent — IRIS hosted. “Frankly, as a community, we’re gonna have to make some difficult decisions,” Mayor Elicker said. ​“There will be an intentional push to divide our values. That will be something we have to go through together.”
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Maggie Mitchell Salem @magsmitchell.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“You may not be aware that …according to data from your country’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP), encounters at the Mexico-United States border have decreased by 75% between Dec 2023 and Nov 2024.” Mexico’s Pres Claudia Sheinbaum Rightly 👉 our drug consumption fueling crossings & violence.
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Through my activism, I’ve realized it’s organizing, not public protesting, that forces lawmakers to act. So I’m not alarmed that people aren’t in the streets (yet). The most effective resistance isn’t en masse, but underground—and it starts in communities.
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Small groups of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world
The most effective resistance to the Trump administration won’t be en masse, but underground—and it will start in small communities
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"To one tariff will come another in response. Let them know Mexicans, we are a great country, there is no subordination here." - Mexico President Sheinbaum to Trump.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2024
Instead of brownshirts, the 21st century has internet mobs edition.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...
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Elon Musk publicized the names of government employees he wants to cut. It’s terrifying federal workers | CNN Business
When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on ...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/11/2024
Documents leaked from an industry group show how some of the world’s largest petrochemical and plastics companies have been pushing back against a “tide of anti-plastic sentiment” — especially among young people concerned about the environment.
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Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds
Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a “tide of anti-plastic sentiment.”
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/11/2024
Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it, the sociologist Matthew Desmond told Annie Lowrey last year. theatln.tc/oc1NTW54
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Maggie Mitchell Salem @magsmitchell.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Me too 🙌
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2024
People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
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Maggie Mitchell Salem @magsmitchell.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#Nostalgic #PeteButtigieg
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/11/2024
Economist books of the year (including AUTOCRACY INC) www.economist.com/culture/2024...
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The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist
Readers will never think the same way again about games, horses and spies
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/11/2024
President-elect Trump promised voters that he would cut energy and electricity prices in half within 18 months of taking office. But energy industry experts noted that a president has limited influence on how much Americans pay at the pump, and even less leverage when it comes to electricity prices.
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Trump Promised to Halve Energy Costs in 18 Months. Experts Have Doubts.
A president has little control over global oil markets, economists say.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/11/2024
After enduring election conspiracy claims in recent years, Ada County, Idaho, believes it has found a way to restore confidence in the vote-counting system. All 271,186 ballots cast in the county in the Nov. 5 election will be published online, along with details of exactly how each was tabulated.
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A County in Idaho Wants to Publish Every Ballot to Build Election Trust
After enduring a host of election conspiracy claims in recent years, Ada County believes it has found a way to restore confidence in the vote-counting system.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/11/2024
A 35-year-old Tennessee man who was among the first wave of rioters to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on Wednesday of separate charges of plotting to kill the FBI agents who investigated his role in the attack.
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Man Convicted of Plotting to Kill Agents Who Investigated His Role in Jan. 6
Edward Kelley was found guilty of conspiring to murder the agents two weeks after he was convicted at a separate trial of assault and other charges related to the Capitol attack.
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The Century Foundation @tcfdotorg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
TCF's higher education team runs through the ways the Trump–Vance administration plans to roll back consumer protections for students, deeply cut funds that help students and families access higher education, and jack up costs for those looking to get an education.
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Trump’s Election Poses New Risks to Higher Education
The next four years will be tumultuous for students and colleges. President-elect Trump is expected to aggressively reorient the federal role in higher
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/11/2024
The first Trump presidency spawned the largest protests the U.S. had seen in half a century. But not everyone wants to participate in another four years of mass movement work.
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‘Get Somebody Else to Do It’: Trump Resistance Encounters Fatigue
Donald J. Trump’s grass-roots opponents search for a new playbook as they reckon with how little they accomplished during his first term.
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/11/2024
54% of Americans read below a 6th grade level and guns are the leading cause of death for American children and I don’t know where I’m going with this I’m just super sad.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence. More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop. Now.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/11/2024
Speaker Mike Johnson said single-sex facilities in the U.S. Capitol and House office buildings would be available only to those of that biological sex, backing a move from Representative Nancy Mace to target Representative-elect Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.
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Speaker Mike Johnson Says He Will Ban Transgender Women From Capitol Bathrooms
The G.O.P. speaker sided with hard-right members of his conference who called for blocking Representative-elect Sarah McBride, the first transgender member of Congress, from using Capitol women’s room...
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Maggie Mitchell Salem @magsmitchell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Immigration makes sense. Yes, comprehensive humane immigration reform is needed. This isn’t the first time that we’ve turned on immigrants. Anti-“other”-ness is an all-too familiar and tragic narrative spanning centuries. And each wave of hate has been confronted. It’s our turn now. 🇺🇸
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/11/2024
Republicans in Congress are eyeing cuts to Medicaid, which could threaten health coverage for tens of millions of poor Americans.
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Medicaid May Face Big Cuts and Work Requirements
Republicans in Congress are eyeing cuts to Medicaid, which could threaten health coverage for tens of millions of poor Americans.
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