Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Did an interview for this and I really appreciate NPR for continuing to cover the surreal situation facing observers and commuters here in Minneapolis, even as the attention of the world moves on. 111112231
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 319120756917
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/02/2026As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders? 21056271589
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/02/2026NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure. Her whereabouts & health are now unknown. The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza. 11885468
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialZack Bornstein @zackbornstein.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time 10999981739
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 29/01/2026Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...pbump.netICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifestedThere have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty. 459119704472
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Israeli forces have begun demolishing the headquarters of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, in occupied East Jerusalem. 33396276
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 17/01/2026mondoweiss.net/2026/01/isra...mondoweiss.netIsrael is attempting to block both aid and solidarity through its new ban on international organizationsNew Israeli rules will ban organizations like mine from Gaza, ending aid and cutting vital solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues. 21611
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 11/01/2026 Despite 969 Israeli violations over 80 days, including the killing of 420 Palestinians, the wounding of 1,141 and allowing only 40% of the aid trucks mandated by the truce into Gaza, Trump declared last week that Israel is “100% in compliance” with the ceasefire. 27348196
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it" 13850531819
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/12/2025The genocide will continue until morale improves. 341243348
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Meanwhile, Israel’s security cabinet has approved 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank in its latest breach of international law. It brings the number of new settlements approved by Israel over the last three years to 69. 31303169
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 22/12/2025This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?! 1693565659
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialShibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 20/12/2025With all the relentless assaults on colleges, keep your eyes on the data, not the noise: College-educated Americans are more likely to hold favorable views of Jews and Judaism, and of Muslims and Islam, than those without college education. Our in-depth UMD study: sadat.umd.edu/feature/tren... 097
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialBob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 12/12/2025To the New York Times, a constitutional provision is just something that's "traditional." 81448332
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 07/12/2025A CNN investigation found that the IDF gunned down starving Palestinians trying to collect flour in Gaza. Then they bulldozed the corpses into unmarked graves, where they were left to rot and be scavenged by ravenous dogs. 43492314
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/12/2025BASH: The vast majority of Somalis in Minnesota are US citizens or legal residents. So why send ICE there? HOMAN: There's a large illegal Somali community there. There's a large illegal alien community there. If you're a US citizen, you have nothing to fear. 8192041524
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/11/2025They're not even bothering to disguise their real aims any longer. 37741179
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialLauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period. 445181837729
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21/11/2025"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends." The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...mediaite.comThe Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern MediaOlivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics. 2531968434
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Did you say “peril”?? How many journalists will understand the significance of that? Summers is still teaching? 34483121
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialAaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it. 13005948336339
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/11/2025The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell. 8046901282
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/11/2025the condescending smugness of NYT opinion, like— Hey Zohran, so yeah, we did our best to slime you, son & to keep you out & the shittiest & corrupts in control, but ok, you get one shot now, so listen close boy, here’s how & how not to do your thing y'hear seriously www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...nytimes.comOpinion | How Mayor Mamdani Can Write New York’s Next Chapter 2448264
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialJimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 17/10/2025Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18 580119344971
nancimartin.bsky.social @nancimartin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025After receiving too many text messages from Janet Mills (Maine) asking for money (close to a dozen), I donated to @grahamformaine.bsky.social 000
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialJoshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 11/10/2025In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans. 50475893691
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11/10/2025'Irresponsible both-sidesism' can become motto for US politics coverage. 'All the news that's fit to print' elsewhere. (Reminder: Stories themselves are usually clear-eyed. But most people see only the headline and subhead—'hed and dek' in the parlance—and hed and dek are too often like this.) 1620754
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/10/2025lol this is crazy i mean this guys the president 1621973335
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialmleroi.bsky.social @mleroi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025www.instagram.com/reel/DPhI2u5... 9240101
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Did...did Disney buy the NYT overnight? 861186200
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Jews in Vienna forced to scrub streets watched by SS & SA men 513977
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialLydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025I wrote about a glimmer of hope that elite Democrats are starting to change their minds about supporting Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...nytimes.comOpinion | She’s a Democratic Bellwether, and She’s Changing Her Position on Israel 911021
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialNeil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 19/05/2025If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war. 1163333258597
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialShibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 17/05/2025In flood of chilling Gaza news, I found this one particularly chilling: the boasting about routinizing the killing of a hundred Gazans a day to the point that you feel you now have a free hand to continue the slaughter because the world has gotten used to it and will look away. 0116
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Read this. 15139921795
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025You would think Democrats would not vote to confirm Christopher Landau, who supports the destruction of US AID, as Deputy of Sec of State, but these Dems just did: Bennet Coons Cortez Masto Hassan Hickenlooper Kaine King Klobuchar Rosen Shaheen 60496176
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Even as he sits in a cell 1400 miles away from his home and his due-any-day-now pregnant wife, Mahmoud Khalil is thinking about the plight of others: 101009347
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Tragic and heinous 731544486
nancimartin.bsky.social @nancimartin.bsky.social · 15/03/2025snyder.substack.com"Antisemitism" and AntisemitismThe abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon 020
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialKate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 15/03/2025They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...providencejournal.comShe saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation.Dr. Rasha Alawieh flew into Logan Airport Thursday after visiting family in Lebanon. She's being detained now at Logan without legal counsel. 19776924202
Reposted by @nancimartin.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/03/2025The 2028 Democratic standard bearer is once again showing feckless members of his party, in & outside of Congress, how it’s done 411316
