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Odette Yousef

@oyousef.bsky.social
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Domestic Extremism Correspondent at NPR.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#BREAKING U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Luis Uribe, accused of a series of sexual assaults in 2022, has been convicted. The verdict is still being read.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Suddenly feeling deeply invested in the succession fight over the throne of a country I only learned about like a month ago. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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Emergence of secret heir stokes succession crisis in grieving African kingdom
A committee of elders has announced a successor to the late king of Tooro. His family says he had a son who should succeed him.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
On the WNBA/violent extremism nexus. www.npr.org/2026/08/29/n...
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Why is one WNBA team calling in national security experts?
The WNBA's popularity has risen in recent years, but so have threats and abuse directed at its players. One team is taking a novel approach to this, by partnering with national security specialists.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you're looking to immerse yourself in a masterful audio experience that properly recognizes the musical genius, adept businesswoman and gracious human that Dolly Parton was, this one's for you: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
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Dolly Parton's America
Music History Podcast · Series · In this intensely divided moment, one of the few things everyone still seems to agree on is Dolly Parton—but why? That simple question leads to a deeply personal, hist...
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
OMG. I am so sad about Dolly Parton 😔
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“For months… federal agents secretly made recordings of meetings held at churches, libraries, restaurants and schools around the Twin Cities. They infiltrated private group chats… and gathered information on community members who had not been accused of any crimes.”
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“One agent had a Jerusalem cross sticker on the back of his phone, a Christian symbol dating to the Crusades that more recently has been associated with white supremacy.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Federal agents crash into car while detaining man in Albany Park
It unfolded around 8:07 a.m. near Lawrence and Kedzie avenues as a black SUV began chasing a shirtless man before a different black SUV pulled out of a grocery parking lot and hit a woman’s car as tha...
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Well, if ever there was a film that your streaming services owned by media conglomerates don’t want you to see… it’s this one. Highly recommend. stealthisstory.org
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.
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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just casually reading "The White Nationalist Manifesto" (published 2018) this morning. Here's an excerpt relevant to today's news: "To understand how it is possible to restore white homelands in a gradual, orderly, and humane manner, we need to make some distinctions... (1/5)
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This story was so interesting!
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This story needs to be circulated widely. www.wabe.org/woman-charge...
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Woman charged with attempted murder under Georgia abortion law
A 31-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Kingsland has been charged with attempted murder, the first time that a mother has been charged under Georgia’s restrictive abortion law.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"The senior vice president of the pro-Israel political nonprofit J Street, Ilan Goldenberg, said Kent's warnings of an Israeli conspiracy to deceive the U.S. 'plays on the worst antisemitic tropes.'" Joe Kent's resignation letter is... something. www.npr.org/2026/03/17/n...
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Joe Kent, a top counterterrorism official, resigns citing Iran war
Kent said he "cannot in good conscience" back the Iran war. In his resignation letter, he says Iran "posed no imminent threat to our nation."
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This was also a nightly observation in Chicago during Operation Midway Blitz. I’m so glad some reporting is out on it now.
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Ian Johnson @mrianjohnson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Reverend Jesse Jackson spent his life advancing equality and respect for diversity. He said: "Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth." #jessejackson #equality #dei #inclusion
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 17/02/2026
Lawful extremism breaks containment w/ @oyousef.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/02/16/n...
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Extremist rhetoric is often found in government messaging. Who's the target?
In a rare move, the White House took down a racist post last week from one of President Trump's social media accounts. But extremism researchers say it fits a pattern of mainstreaming extremist ideas.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Someone grab Kim up. The way she reports and tells stories is masterful. She is also the most generous of people and an insanely talented DIYer.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Stunning details in testimony submitted by @vermontgmg.bsky.social to the Illinois Accountability Commission. It concerns the history, record and culture of CBP and Border Patrol. Worth a read, from beginning to end. drive.google.com/file/d/1y0im...
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IAC-Testimony.withlinks.pdf
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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
For the last few months, I kept a document where every time I saw reports of fed immigration agents shooting or pointing their gun at someone, I made a note. The list grew and grew. It now includes 4 deaths. Here is what I noticed keeping that list. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...
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Before ICE Shooting, Immigration Agents Repeatedly Used Deadly Force
The killing of a Minneapolis woman is latest by ICE and Border Patrol officers in recent months. Others have been wounded or threatened with guns.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I’ve been waiting for this kind of profile on Greg Bovino. Some stunning (and some… just weird?) details in here. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"They have radicalized a set of people through their own actions," Gonzalez said, "and that'll be a generation before that goes away." www.npr.org/2025/11/20/n...
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As Trump's immigration raids hit New Orleans, a Chicago group shares resistance tips
A neighborhood network in Chicago has been helping other cities that face immigration enforcement raids.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
On this Giving Tuesday, don't be the nonprofit sending e-mails with this subject line 😆
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 20/11/2025
Notorious neo-Nazi websites go offline after NewsChannel 5 exposes targeting of children www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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Notorious neo-Nazi websites go offline after NewsChannel 5 exposes targeting of children
Two notorious neo-Nazi websites have been taken offline following an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation that revealed how they have been used to target children.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Eight years ago, I happened to cover the first public training a Chicago group held for neighbors to resist ICE enforcement. That groundwork, it turned out, was invaluable this fall. First of two stories here. The second airs on All Things Considered this afternoon. www.npr.org/2025/11/19/n...
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Grassroots resistance swells in the wake of the immigration crackdown in Chicago
Chicago is no longer the main focus of the federal immigration crackdown. For one neighborhood group, the intense enforcement activity was a test of resistance tactics they developed eight years ago.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
For those who are here, it’s felt clear that the administration is using Chicago as testing ground for how immigration removal tactics could be applied across the nation. And now, this is even clearer. If you’ve not followed closely, it’s time to catch up. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/think-ice-...
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Think ICE Is Bad Now? Today the Border Patrol Is Taking It Over
How Gregory Bovino Proudly Became Trump’s #1 Immigration Stormtrooper
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Looking for any current/former GOP members who are speaking publicly (or willing to) with concern about an apparent uptake in pro-Nazi sentiment among a certain strand of younger generation within their party. Plenty of reporting lately that points to this. Feel free to DM me. TIA.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A study found that in the first half of 2025, the number of left-wing terrorist incidents surpassed those from the right. It "has ignited a firestorm of debate within the field of counterterrorism and extremism research." www.npr.org/2025/10/25/n...
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A report claims left-wing terrorism is rising. The data paints a complicated picture
The report's claim comes with caveats. Its critics say it does more to reveal issues around collecting and analyzing domestic terrorism data than it does to clarify the current state of the problem.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A lucid breakdown of all the ways in which the "We've been here before" argument just doesn't stand up. I always find Scot Nakagawa to have insightful - and actionable - takes. open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...
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We Haven't Been Here Before
It is often said that the U.S.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
"Days before the raid, the man who sheltered the mother and her daughter saw someone he believed to be a worker from the building taking pictures of the units “where the Venezuelans lived.” (1/2)
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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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NPR @npr.org · 10/10/2025
ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.
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White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.
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Leigh Kunkel @leighkunkel.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I was asked to speak at the Journalism Is Not A Crime rally yesterday to share some of what journalists have experienced in Chicago while covering the Broadview ICE processing facility. To be honest, I am pretty uneasy with all the attention! 1/
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"When I talk about it, I get one of two reactions. One is, 'That can never happen to us because we have parental controls, the screen time [limits]... Or two, 'I had no idea that something like this could happen. Please tell me more.’” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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How some online networks target and radicalize kids
Podcast Episode · Consider This from NPR · 08/07/2025 · 13m
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Today, Brandon Russell was sentenced to 20 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for his involvement in a plot to destroy Baltimore area power plants. He encouraged others to do the same through a loose, violent neo-Nazi network, Terrorgram Read my coverage of his trial from earlier:
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"The whole time period that he was into these things online, it was like he was taken hostage and brainwashed," she said. www.npr.org/2025/08/06/n...
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Nihilistic online networks groom minors to commit harm. Her son was one of them
When Dana's son was hospitalized last year, it led her to a path of discovery about predatory online networks that groom children into harming themselves and others. Their reach is global and growing.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
When interviewed a regional leader of Identity Evropa a few years ago, I asked how he thought the U.S. would become a white ethnostate without violence. He said he figured non-whites would "remigrate."
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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“The Federal Government Is Gone”: Under Trump, the Fight Against Extremist Violence Is Left Up to the States
As the White House redirects counterterrorism personnel and funds toward mass deportations, a state-level scramble is on to preserve efforts once supported by Washington. The result is a patchwork app...
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Paul Djupe @pauldjupe.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
After reading excellent reporting from @oyousef.bsky.social on NPR about the violent gender ideology behind the anti-abortion movement, we (@brooklynwalker.bsky.social + I) had to dig into our data to see whether this exists in the mass (Christian) public. 1/2 religioninpublic.blog/2025/05/16/t...
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The Gender Ideology Behind Christian Nationalism and the Anti-Abortion Movement
By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker [Image credit: Tennessee Lookout] A recent story from NPR helps make the connections between extraordinarily restrictive anti-abortion policies and a broader mo…
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Hardline anti-abortion movement leans into 'manhood' debate to broaden appeal. www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...
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Hardline anti-abortion movement leans into 'manhood' debate to broaden appeal
A small network of anti-abortion rights activists has been making progress pushing for bills that would classify people who get abortions as criminals.
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NPR @npr.org · 08/05/2025
Most Americans balk at the idea of charging women who get abortions with homicide, but post-Roe, militant anti-abortion activists are finding state lawmakers are increasingly open to it. By @oyousef.bsky.social
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Once-fringe activists are fighting to be the voice of the anti-abortion movement
Most Americans balk at the idea of charging women who get abortions with homicide, but post-Roe, militant anti-abortion activists are finding state lawmakers are increasingly open to it.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The State Department is changing its mind about human rights www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
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The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights
The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
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Jackie Llanos @llanosjackie.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Springfield, OH is suing the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe for its alleged role in intimidating, harassing and inciting violence in that city during the run-up to the presidential election.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Fun fact to bring to your next cocktail party: The Minnesota state capitol building prohibits the carrying of signs on sticks. But fine to bring in a firearm.
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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The work is varied, and sometimes involves the reading of graphic novels.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Caffeinated from a late night drive and freaked out by *how* bad the coverage of Trump Sec Def Pete Hegseth is, I decided to start reading his new book, The War on Warriors. A thread. The new Pentagon chief begins by bragging he was pushed out for being an "extremist"... 1/
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