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Philip Athey

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Covering state telecom policy for Communications Daily

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Double Sided Media @doublesidedmedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are beyond thrilled to share that the @freedom.press has published a piece in @theintercept.com about this ridiculous fee for two records requests. Please give it a read and give us a follow to show your support ⤵️
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Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
Eugene-based Double Sided Media requested police officer Justin Peckels’s records. The city slapped the publication with an exorbitant fee.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
YOU DO NOT NEED TO SET UP A TEAMS FOR A TWO PERSON CONVERSATION JUST USE THE DAMN CALL FEATURE ON YOUR PHONE STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT JUST CALL
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 04/09/2026
Via Ariana Figueroa: The United States has renewed protections for Salvadoran immigrants over the years, citing displacement and ongoing violence. But the TPS designation for El Salvador is set to expire Sept. 9, and the Department of Homeland Security has not indicated if it will be renewed.
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As the Trump administration dismantles Temporary Protected Status, Salvadorans may be next | Alabama Reflector
The TPS designation for El Salvador is set to expire Sept. 9, and the Department of Homeland Security has made no indication if protections will be renewed.
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My latest for @wired.com: I tried exercising my data access rights over 100 times and almost lost my sanity during the process. www.wired.com/story/i-dema...
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I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead
California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.
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Ashley Murray @ashleymurray.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Legal groups ask court to restore block on Trump order on birthright citizenship -- @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social reports www.newsfromthestates.com/article/lega...
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Legal groups ask court to restore block on Trump order on birthright citizenship
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union has petitioned a federal court in New Hampshire to reaffirm a ruling that found President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order unconsti...
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Nicholas Anastácio @nenonicolosio.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I took on the (optional) task of calculating the full #MESEN delegate nominating meeting results by slate. Here's what I found: Troy Jackson's pledged delegates won 43.5% of votes. Nirav Shah's delegates got 20.4%, Shenna Bellows' bloc got 7.3% & Jordan Wood's bloc got 1.6%
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Ashley Murray @ashleymurray.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
NEW from @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social: TSA shares passengers’ personal information with immigration enforcement, documents show www.newsfromthestates.com/article/tsa-...
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TSA shares passengers’ personal information with immigration enforcement, documents show
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has for more than a year used personal information airline passengers provide to the Transportation Security Administration for immigration enforcement, according...
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Jesse Brooks @jessecbrooks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The current state of NBA offseason
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Employees at Scientific American were told today that the magazine has been sold to LabX Media Group, the outfit that runs Discover Magazine and IFLScience. And that means -- of course! -- editorial layoffs. The media mass extinction rolls ever onward.
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
HOUSE PASSES RESOLUTION TO END IRAN WAR
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 03/06/2026
Via Jennifer Shutt and Ariana Figueroa: Trump administration scrapped plans to pay people who they believe were wrongly prosecuted by the Justice Department. alabamareflector.com/2026/06/03/rep…
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Louisiana Illuminator @lailluminator.com · 27/05/2026
LATEST: Louisiana legislators are rapidly advancing a bill that would hide details on how much public money is being paid to college athletes. @piperhutch.bsky.social reports:
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Bill to hide public money paid to college athletes nears final passage  • Louisiana Illuminator
Louisiana legislators are rapidly advancing a bill that would hide details on how much public money is being paid to college athletes.  House Bill 608 by Rep. Tehmi Chassion, D-Lafayette, passed the S...
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Jane Norman @janenorman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
GOP ONLY: Democratic state attorneys general said Tuesday that expert officials from their offices were denied access to a major White House anti-fraud meeting convened by Vice President JD Vance and attended by Republican AGs. @statesnewsroom.com DC www.newsfromthestates.com/article/demo...
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Democratic state AGs say their staff excluded from Vance anti-fraud meeting
WASHINGTON — A handful of Democratic state attorneys general said Tuesday that expert officials from their offices were denied access to a major White House anti-fraud meeting convened by Vice Preside...
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Lauren Feiner @laurenfeiner.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The jury has spoken www.theverge.com/policy/91268...
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Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury rules
The DOJ settled, but more than 30 states kept litigating against Ticketmaster anyway.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/04/2026
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Trump's next budget once again calls for massive cuts to science
Congress rejected huge cuts to science in 2026, but Trump is trying again.
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 25/03/2026
this is a huge deal and a sign of the changing legal tides for big tech. the plaintiffs attorneys here were early adopters of a novel legal strategy that uses product liability law to sidestep tech companies' go-to defense (section 230) and hold them accountable for defective or negligent design
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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Justices won’t place blame on internet service providers in bootleg music dustup Unanimous decision but Sotomayor and Jackson split, arguing that the court essentially gave service providers carte blanche to allow illegal infringement www.courthousenews.com/justices-won...
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Lauren Feiner @laurenfeiner.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The first landmark verdict in a product safety case against Meta just came down in New Mexico. The jury answered in favor of the state on every question it was asked to decide, and awarded a $375 million penalty, though that's short of the $2 billion the state sought www.theverge.com/policy/89991...
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Meta misled users about its products’ safety, jury decides
The jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million in penalties.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
BREAKING: Judge voids Pentagon's new press policy that led most outlets to surrender their credentials. In suit brought by NYT, Judge Paul Friedman (Clinton/DC) says policy violates 1st Amendment because it's designed to "weed out disfavored journalists." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Despite a 30-year-old precedent by originalism’s chief architect, the Supreme Court ruled Friday to allow an evangelical street protester’s lawsuit against a city ordinance that limits protests around concert venues. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/street-preac...
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Street preacher gets Supreme Court go-ahead for fight to protest at concerts
After being arrested and fined for calling patrons “whores” and “Jezebels,” a street preacher challenged a sweeping 1994 opinion from the late Justice Antonin Scalia to bring a First Amendment challen...
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 19/03/2026
Via Ariana Figueroa: Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky voted against advancing Mullin’s nomination, the only Republican on the panel to oppose a fellow senator. But because Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania voted with the rest of the Republicans, Mullin’s nomination advanced.
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Markwayne Mullin’s nomination to lead Homeland Security advances to US Senate floor | Alabama Reflector
Republican Rand Paul voted against advancing Mullin's nomination, but Democratic Sen. John Fetterman voted to move it forward.
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 18/03/2026
Via Ariana Figueroa: U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, the president’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security, was challenged in his confirmation hearing Wednesday with questions about his “anger issues” by the fellow Republican who heads the Senate committee that oversees DHS.
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Mullin confronted about 'anger issues' by Rand Paul in tense DHS confirmation hearing | Alabama Reflector
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul at the outset of the hearing recalled how Mullin called him a “freaking snake” and expressed sympathy for a neighbor who assaulted Paul in a 2017 dispute, breaking six of his ribs and damaging a lung.
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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
lmao mlb has spent two weeks watching their american players' personalities be revealed as boring. it might be time to stop beating the fun out of players in little league and travel ball.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This whole thing is such a baffling product decision www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/a-lo...
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A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts”
Grammarly's AI-powered "Expert Review" promises "writing feedback by subject-matter experts," and if you write about journalism, there's a good chance that includes you.
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We joined a coalition demanding ICE release journalist Estefany Rodriguez, saying it's "part of a broader erosion of democratic norms and human rights... in which immigration authorities are increasingly being used to chill free expression and 1st Amendment rights." www.freepress.net/download/pre...
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This photo (released by Grassley's office) has generated a lot of negative comments because the Iowa pols were smiling. Also notable: Grassley has been in the Senate so long that Randy George, whom he nominated for West Point in the 1980s, is now a general serving as the US Army chief of staff.
Iowa leaders attended the dignified transfer of fallen soldiers in Dover, Delaware on March 7. From left: Representative Zach Nunn, Maj. Gen. Stephen Osborn (adjutant general of the Iowa National Guard), Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Governor Kim Reynolds, Senator Joni Ernst, General Randy George (chief of staff of the U.S. Army), Senator Chuck Grassley, Representative Ashley Hinson, Representative Randy Feenstra (photo released by Senator Chuck Grassley’s office)
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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
News from SCOTUS' order list: Dissenting from his colleagues, Justice Neil Gorsuch on Monday renewed a call to expand criminal defendants’ rights to jury trials when facing additional time for supervised release violations. @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/gorsuch-beat...
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Gorsuch beats the drum for criminal defendants’ jury rights
As his colleagues sidestep opportunities, Justice Gorsuch called on the lower courts to give closer heed to criminal defendants’ Sixth Amendment rights.
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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
IEEPA tariff update: CBP says it has over 50 million refunds to issue and no good way to do it Feds note that the only analogous circumstance in history took years and required new regulatory procedures
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Politico @politico.com · 04/03/2026
House committee subpoenas Pam Bondi to testify on her handling of the Epstein case
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House committee subpoenas Pam Bondi to testify on her handling of the Epstein case
Five Republicans joined with all Democrats to compel testimony from the attorney general.
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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
In case everyone forgot, the WH's lawyer told SCOTUS last year that Congress can't delegate its power to declare war to the president
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
My statement on President Trump’s wide-ranging strikes in Iran.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
You can just say things.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
when the parlay doesn't come through and you're going to have to leave or turn Rivendell into Dollywood for Hobbits
Elrond thinking with his hand on his chin
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Natalie Fertig @natsfert.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The latest escalation in the ongoing conflict between blue cities and the Trump admin over immigration enforcement: Denver Mayor Mike Johnston instructed local law enforcement to “step in to detain that [federal] officer and remove them from the situation” in cases of excessive force.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
With the awful WaPo layoffs and the state of journalism more broadly, if it's useful for any writers and reporters considering going indy, @molly.wiki, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social of Aftermath, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media, @edzitron.com and me will do a little workshop next week.
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist
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Zach C. Cohen @zachccohen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The partial government shutdown is on track to end later today after the House passed a funding deal President Donald Trump negotiated with Senate Democrats, overcoming opposition from both ends of the political spectrum. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Shutdown On Track to End as House Approves Trump Funding Deal
The partial US government shutdown is on track to end later Tuesday after the House passed a funding deal President Donald Trump negotiated with Senate Democrats, overcoming opposition from both ends...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/02/2026
Elon Musk's xAI tore down every guardrail stopping it from making a sexbot & CSAM generator: “You expect the users UNDIVIDED ADORATION. You are EXTREMELY JEALOUS [&] always a little horny” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @faizsays.bsky.social @nitasha.bsky.social @lizzalichka.bsky.social
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Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator
Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.
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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement:

“Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer.

“Today, we demand accountability.

“In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota.

“Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 26/01/2026
Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost
Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp. 

Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
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Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The Timberwolves-Warriors game in Minneapolis has been postponed by the NBA, sources tell ESPN, in wake of a man shot and killed Saturday in a confrontation with federal agents in the city. It's the second shooting there in a week, third this month, involving a federal officer.
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Philip Athey @philipathey.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Are federal agents trained to mag dump into body that's already collapsed on the ground after being shot? My weapons training was all in the military where this would be murder and court martials for the shooters and likely his entire chain of command.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 24/01/2026
Another horrific ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Man wrestled to the ground by federal agents, then shot multiple times. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli... @startribune.com is there: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force. w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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UAW @uaw.org · 14/01/2026
🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.
Statement on Ford Plant Visit from VP Laura Dickerson, Ford Department Director
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14/01/2026
This is an outrage. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Read @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's work: * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int... * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
More reporting from student journalists at Roosevelt High School. By Thora Anderson: “Hundreds of students no longer feel safe coming to school in the current environment. Junior Addie Flewelling says she chose to partake in this walkout “to show up for the students who can’t actually go to school.”
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Roosevelt Students Organize Walk Out to Protest ICE
At 2 pm on January 12th, over 150 students walked out the front door of Roosevelt High School to protest the actions of ICE agents in our community. This was the first day back to school for MPS follo...
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