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Paul Moses

@paulbmoses.bsky.social
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Reporter, author, professor emeritus.

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A few months back @thecityreporter.nyc reported on ICE officer Brenden Cuni who was named in several lawsuits involving immigrants who described violent arrests. He's the agent spotted at the Marble Hill ICE shooting yesterday w/ a long gun. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/09/b...
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ICE Supervisor at Center of NYC Shooting Named in Multiple Lawsuits Alleging Violent, Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, who was seen brandishing an assault rifle at the scene of Thursday’s shooting, was previously accused of beating up and tasing immigrants during arrests.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On the 800th anniversary of his death, I wish all a happy feast of Saint Francis.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In NY and NJ immigration courts, the average bond amount that judges set increased 118% from 2024 to this year. The cumulative rate of inflation was 6.4%. documentedny.com/2026/09/25/i...
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‘Rubber Stamp’ Immigration Judges Flout Federal Court Orders, Again and Again
In scores of cases reviewed by Documented, federal courts found flawed proceedings, disregarded instructions and other problems in hearings determining whether ICE detainees could go free.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes, I did. But that hasn't stopped your emails.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.commonwealmagazine.org/symposium-is... @commonwealmagazine.org has published a very interesting collection of articles on the 60th anniversary of Time magazine's famous cover story, "Is God Dead?" Worthy reading.
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Still Not Dead
This symposium reconsiders 'Time' magazine's landmark cover on the "death of God," sixty years later.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good work, Will.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good q. The use of disappearing messages via Signal is troubling (for historians, especially!). Beyond whether it's legal, It leads to questions about the content of the messages, and whether it crosses the line into political campaigning.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Worth reading about the Mamdani influencers from the source. Serious ethical problems revealed, starting with lack of transparency, which conceals if city $ is being used for political purposes in violation of the city ethics code. ipdcolumbia.org/wp-content/u...
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 06/09/2026
"If there is to be this 'infinite scroll' of 'content,' someone has to venture forth to find out what is actually happening—that’s called reporting." @paulbmoses.bsky.social: Does America's press history offer a blueprint for saving journalism today? www.commonwealmagazine.org/copy-and-paste
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Copy and Paste
America's nineteenth-century country editors are fun to read about, but they shouldn’t be regarded as a foundation for solving today’s crisis in local news coverage.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Excellent story. I'm glad to see the city hospital system getting coverage.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
From Nicholas DeMarzio, retired bishop of Brooklyn: "we have returned to the racist policies of 1924, when our country closed the door to certain immigrants, namely Southern and Eastern Europeans." thetablet.org/are-there-de...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is an attack on the priciple of an informed public, a subject on which I wrote my dissertation in 1986. pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch... "Truth Social’s Early-Access Scheme Is Indefensible." www.nationalreview.com/2026/08/trut...
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NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Discover more: buff.ly/oylyk4k We're honored to have published this work in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. @ushmm.bsky.social
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Meaning that he'll be looking for national political money.
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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Docketed this morning with EFT number in E. Jean Carroll case.... Trump Verdict book: www.amazon.com/Trump-Trial-...
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Yep, congrats to Rosa.
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 06/07/2026
Accepting the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal, Pope Leo explored the relationship between political freedom and care for the vulnerable. @regmunch.bsky.social: 'An American Pope on American Freedom'
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An American Pope on American Freedom
Accepting the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal, Pope Leo explored the relationship between political freedom and care for the vulnerable.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Yeah, I didn't know what to make of that, either. But at least the line at Starbucks moved fast.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Pope Leo on US 250th: "Defending human life also includes welcoming, protecting and assisting immigrants, whose hopes sacrifices and contributions have formed part of the history of this country from its very beginning" and "have helped to shape the nation's character." www.usccb.org/resources/48...
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Pastor at Catholic parish in Brooklyn speaks out for Haitian congregation. Fine article from @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2026/07/03/h...
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Amidst TPS Uncertainty, Haitian Immigrants Find Solace and Hope at St. Jerome's
The Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding Temporary Protected Status has left New York's Haitian immigrants in limbo. At St. Jerome's parish, pastors are urging faith over fear.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.
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A Venezuelan man was accused of attempting to choke an ICE officer to death in Bellevue. Bystander video tells a different story
Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco was referred to by DHS as a “criminal illegal alien” and a “known Tren de Aragua terrorist.” The agency said he “violently attacked an ICE agent” by slamming her head into the ...
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Unexpected appellate win for ICE detainees: "It is part of the historic majesty of this long-ago founding charter that it makes no exceptions in providing basic rights to those within our boundaries, including a right to be heard when personal liberty is taken." www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
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Appeals court sharply limits ICE’s massive expansion of detention
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' 2-1 ruling concluded that detainees awaiting the outcome of their deportation proceedings must be afforded a bond hearing within 90 days.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I keep getting mail asking that I re-elect him as a Democratic district leader. Doesn't mention any of this stuff that Hell Gate (and only Hell Gate) has been covering: hellgatenyc.com/seddio-on-th...
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Seddio on the Stand
Brooklyn Democratic Party powerbroker Frank Seddio finally took the witness stand Tuesday in a sanctions hearing related to his handling of a case involving $2 million in missing escrow money. It did ...
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
There's lots of commentary around on Pope Leo's encyclical. Here's a piece I'd recommend, from historian John McGreevey in @commonwealmagazine.org. www.commonwealmagazine.org/mcgreevy-pop...
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Coming Clean
Why did Pope Leo apologize for the Church's role in slavery in an encyclical about artificial intelligence?
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Also agree!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
For many years, there were allegations that ICE would “release” critically ill people in hospitals so that their deaths wouldn’t be recorded as in ICE custody. To fix this, in 2021 the Biden admin required ICE to report deaths occurring up to 30 days after release. Now that rule has been dropped.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Tim Healy and I found yet another way ICE is systematically violating the constitutional rights of the people it detains.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
One more way courts find that ICE systematically violates its detainees' constitutional rights: holding them for deportation to a third country when it doesn't actually have a country to send them to. Latest article, with Tim Healy. documentedny.com/2026/05/26/d...
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ICE Kept Immigrants Illegally Detained for Months as It Searched for Countries to Deport Them To, Judges Rule -
A Documented analysis found ICE deported at least 1,670 people to countries that were not their own since Trump took office in 2025. Some are being held long-term while the government searches for cou...
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The word of the day: collusion.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
@gibsonwrites.bsky.social takes aim at the "MAGA, si. Magistra, no!" version of Catholicism in @commonwealmagazine.org . Good read! www.commonwealmagazine.org/leo-gibson-d...
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Leo vs. the Americanists
The clashes between Leo and the Trump administration underscore how U.S. Catholics have come to behave as though they are religious authorities unto themselves.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Despite a “ceasefire,” Israeli forces carried out widespread airstrikes and artillery shelling across southern Lebanon on Friday and Saturday, killing dozens. Over the past 24 hours, Israel has killed 41 people — bringing the total killed by Israeli attacks across Lebanon since March 2 to 2,659.
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Lebanon death toll in two months of Israeli attacks reaches 2,659

Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health has provided the latest casualty figures since the start of Israeli attacks on Lebanon exactly two months ago.

Between March 2 and May 2, Israeli attacks across Lebanon killed 2,659 people and wounded 8,183, the ministry said.

It added 41 people were killed and 11 others wounded in Israeli raids over the past 24-hour reporting period.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
That explains it.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Important ruling--should mean that at least in NY, Connecticut and Vermont, ICE can't routinely deny many detained immigrants the right to a bond determination. 3-0 decision, written by a Trump appointee to 2nd Circuit.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
They might want to focus on the many corporate tax breaks the city has authority over. Nothing wrong with trying to get help from Albany--every mayor does. But if the city cuts back its own tax breaks for the wealthy, it would be in a better position to argue the state should, too.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Joni Mitchell.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
liturgyandtruth.substack.com/p/tearing-th...
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Tearing the Seamless Garment: USAID as a Pro-Life Reckoning for American Catholics
On the dismantling of American humanitarian aid, the consistent ethic of life, and the Catholic conscience that looked away.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Well done!
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
In the spirit of Archbishop John Hughes.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Who gave Trump the idea that he's the Anointed One? Well, maybe a certain former papal nuncio to the U.S. Archbishop Vigano told him he was an "instrument of Divine Providence." insidethevatican.com/news/newsfla...
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Letter #32, Friday, October 30, 2020: Viganò to Trump - Inside The Vatican
“I am writing to you in the midst of the silence of both civil and religious authorities. May you accept these words of mine as the 'voice of one crying out in the desert'” (Jn 1:23).—Italian Archbish...
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Thanks, Mollie.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This isn't the first time a pope has pushed a US president to stop a purposeless war. www.commonwealmagazine.org/vatican-dipl...
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Vatican Diplomacy & the Iraq War
In 2003, Pope John Paul II sent an envoy to persuade George W. Bush not to invade Iraq. As tensions with Iran continue to mount, it’s a story worth revisiting.
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 21/03/2026
"Homan offers a uniformed-services, God-and-country conservatism that many American Catholics can identify with." @paulbmoses.bsky.social on the Catholic faith of Trump's 'border czar':
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The Gospel According to Tom Homan
Trump-appointed border czar, Tom Homan, is a life-long Catholic, but does his zero-tolerance immigration policies align with Church teaching?
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 20/03/2026
"The bishops’ support for immigrants began long before Homan took up his Catechism as a schoolboy." @paulbmoses.bsky.social: 'The Gospel According to Tom Homan'
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The Gospel According to Tom Homan
Trump-appointed border czar, Tom Homan, is a life-long Catholic, but does his zero-tolerance immigration policies align with Church teaching?
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It's quite a book.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
It's the mushroom-growing PR strategy: keep 'em in the dark and feed them plenty of manure.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Was there ever a year when the Council's revenue estimate was below a mayor's?
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Pax Christi USA @paxchristiusa.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Read our statement on the immoral and illegal bombing of Iran. These attacks by the US and Israel are catastrophic – they will profoundly undermine any attempt at diplomacy and peacebuilding. We pray for an end to the violence, a cessation of the bombing, and for an embrace of nonviolent solutions.
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Pax Christi USA response to military strikes on Iran
March 1, 2026 — Pax Christi USA, the national Catholic peace movement, condemns the horrific bombing of Iran by the US and Israel, and we urge our nation’s leaders to stop the violence. As we recall the words from the daily readings of February 28, when the gospel reminds us to love our enemies (Matthew 5:43-48), our hearts break for the loss of life and the extraordinary damage being inflicted not only on the people of Iran but also communities throughout the region who are affected by retaliatory strikes.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/03/2026
“President Trump has launched a war that offers opportunities to the Middle East and threatens constitutional freedom at home,” @davidfrum.bsky.social argues.
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The Paradox of Trump’s Iran Attack
When his fantasies unravel, Trump has a habit of abusing power to force his will upon an uncooperative world.
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